Key figure in case against Prince Andrew is former student who claims she met him at Epstein mansion – Daily Mail
This is the American hair salon owner who could hold the key to Virginia Roberts’s hotly disputed sex claims against the Duke of York.
As a college student 20 years ago, Johanna Sjoberg was lured by Ghislaine Maxwell into Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pyramid of sexual abuse’ and says that within days she met Prince Andrew at the tycoon’s Manhattan mansion.
Now 41, she alleges it was there that the Que…….
This is the American hair salon owner who could hold the key to Virginia Roberts’s hotly disputed sex claims against the Duke of York.
As a college student 20 years ago, Johanna Sjoberg was lured by Ghislaine Maxwell into Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pyramid of sexual abuse’ and says that within days she met Prince Andrew at the tycoon’s Manhattan mansion.
Now 41, she alleges it was there that the Queen’s second son groped her in an incident during which a latex Spitting Image puppet of the duke was used to abuse Miss Roberts, then 17, with Maxwell in attendance.
According to legal documents, the alleged inappropriate conduct did not end there. Miss Roberts, now 37 and a mother of three who uses her married name Giuffre, claims that after the Spitting Image incident, she and Andrew slept together in a massage room at Epstein’s house dubbed ‘the dungeon’.
Andrew vehemently denies her assertions and says he cannot recall meeting Miss Roberts, despite a notorious picture of them together at Maxwell’s London home in March 2001.
Miss Sjoberg’s salon is a few miles from the site of Epstein’s now-demolished ‘House of Sin’ in Palm Beach.
The hairdresser was photographed by the Mail in the Florida town this week.
What she could potentially say about the alleged encounter in Manhattan may have a vital bearing on the outcome of Miss Roberts’s rape lawsuit against the duke.
She could help corroborate Miss Roberts’s story or give evidence that aids the prince’s case.
Joanna Sjoberg, one of the Maxwell victims, and friend of Virginia Giuffre (nee Roberts) who was allegedly groped by Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew leaves sex offender Jeffrey Epsteins home and go for a stroll together through New York’s Central Park. Taken in 2011
Johanna Sjoberg, who worked for paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein for four years, pictured in 2007
Next week Andrew’s legal team will try to get Miss Roberts’s legal action against him thrown out at a New York court. The showdown will come days after Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of sex trafficking children for her paedophile boyfriend Epstein to sexually abuse.
The verdicts were seen as a blow to Andrew’s hopes of stopping the action in its tracks and left him with more questions to answer. His team have been locked in discussions, with Maxwell’s fate thought to be high on the agenda.
Attorney Lisa Bloom, who represents a number of Epstein victims, …….
