The family of Virginia Giuffre praised the stripping away of Prince Andrew’s titles over his alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“This normal girl from a normal family has taken down a prince,” Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s brother, said on “BBC Newsnight” on Thursday. “We are so proud of her.”
Roberts said his sister, who died by suicide earlier this year and frequently spoke out for victims of Epstein, “is celebrating from the heavens now saying ‘I did it’.”
“She’d be so proud,” Roberts added. “He’s just Andrew.”
But Roberts said the loss of the royal title was not sufficient punishment for Andrew — King Charles III’s younger brother who is now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor — and called for an investigation into Andrew, declaring the former prince “needs to be behind bars.”
Giuffre’s sister-in-law, Amanda Roberts, told the BBC that she “broke down” when she heard the news.
“Everything she fought for was not in vain,” she added.
Charles stripped Andrew of his titles Thursday. In a statement from Buckingham Palace, it was announced Andrew, 65, will move from his Royal Lodge residence in Windsor into a “private accommodation.”
“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegation against him,” the statement continued. “Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain, with the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) both praised the king’s actions. The bipartisan duo filed a discharge petition in September for a bill that would require the Justice Department to publicly disclose all files and information related to Epstein.
The petition is one signature shy of the 218 required to force a House floor vote on that bill. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has said she will be the consequential final signee, but Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has yet to swear her in. Johnson sides with President Trump, who has been accused of being associated with Epstein, in opposing the bill, previously calling it “totally superfluous.” Trump has denied the allegations, referring to the push to release the Epstein files a ‘Democrat hoax.’
“The U.S. government hold the key to the larger scope of the Jeffrey Epstein case,” Roberts told the BBC. “The U.K. is setting an example for what the U.S. should be doing right now.”
