article_snippet.sent: Virginia Roberts had hoped to join a lawsuit involving Prince Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile and sex offender.
article_snippet.sent: Virginia Roberts photographed with Prince Andrew in early 2001.
article_snippet.sent: Virginia Roberts claims Virginia Roberts was forced to sleep with Prince Andrew have now been struck from the court record .
article_snippet.sent: Virginia Roberts, referred to as ‘Jane Doe 3’ in court papers, and another woman were hoping to join two other alleged victims of Epstein in suing the U.S. government over a plea deal prosecutors struck with the financier.
article_snippet.sent: Epstein allegedly kept Virginia Roberts as a 'sex slave'
article_snippet.sent: However, in late January he briefly referred to the allegations at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying he wanted to ‘reiterate and reaffirm’ palace statements that insisted he never had any sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts.
article_snippet.sent: Virginia Roberts has repeatedly claimed Virginia Roberts had sex three times with Andrew when Virginia Roberts was 17 – a claim Andrew emphatically denies – and served papers on Andrew via the British Embassy in Washington DC.
article_snippet.sent: papers on the Duke accused Andrew of abusing Virginia Roberts when Virginia Roberts was 17.
article_snippet.sent: Virginia Roberts claimed that under the orders of paedophile Epstein Virginia Roberts was ‘forced’ to have sex with the prince three times in 2001 – in London, New York and on Epstein’s Caribbean island.
article_snippet.sent: In June 2008, Epstein began serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to soliciting a girl, 14, for prostitution.