Sarah, the Duchess of York tried to “put the moves” on Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed.

Maxwell, a socialite who was convicted in 2021 of helping lure teenage girls to be abused by Epstein, was interviewed over the course of two days last month by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche at a courthouse in Florida.

Donald Trump’s administration has now released the transcript of that July interview in which Maxwell denied she was the one who introduced the Duke of York to Epstein and said, the Duchess of York, who was the Duke’s wife at the time, encouraged the friendship.

Maxwell said she never would have thought to introduce Prince Andrew and Epstein because they were like “two chalk and cheeses”. She claimed that Prince Andrew’s now ex-wife tried to “put the moves” on Epstein.

“I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey, if I’m being honest, and I thought the whole thing was annoying and I was p—d off.”

“I think Sarah is the one that pushed that. And they met and hung out, I want to say two or three times that had nothing to do with me,” she said.

“I wasn’t communicating with Andrew, I wasn’t in touch with him. And I know this because I was annoyed and I felt left out, and I felt disrespected and I was like, this is weird. I couldn’t even imagine Epstein and Andrew together.”