“I was terrified”: Ann Fisher says she was sexually assaulted by Epstein in May 2001, as ITV News US Correspondent Dan Rivers reports
Words by ITV News US Correspondent Dan Rivers and Washington News Editor Jonathan Wald
A survivor of the serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has given her first on-the-record interview, telling ITV News the disgraced financier tried to lure her to a dinner with a member of the British royal family.
Ann Fisher says she was sexually assaulted by Epstein in May 2001, when he groped her at his Upper East Side mansion in New York, having gone to what she thought was a business meeting.
After talking for some three hours, he invited her to an upcoming dinner with a member of the royal family, where he said she would fit in well as Fisher is half-English and, according to Epstein, resembled the late Princess Diana.
Epstein then attacked her.
He later offered her a cheque, which she refused.
In the subsequent days, one of Epstein’s assistants repeatedly called her, on her mobile phone, her work phone and her home phone, pestering her to attend the dinner.
She understood the royal was Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Official records show Mountbatter-Windsor was in New York that October.
Ann never met the then-prince, ignoring the repeated requests, but she did, by coincidence, meet his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, at around the same time in America, backstage at a Rolling Stones concert.
Recently, Sarah Ferguson was dropped by a number of charities for an email to Epstein in which she referred to him as a “supreme friend”.
Ann’s assault by Epstein took place about a month after Virginia Giuffre claimed she was raped by Andrew in the building on East 71st Street, New York.
Mountbatten-Windsor has strenuously denied ever meeting Giuffre or having done anything wrong.
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One of Ann Fisher’s friends — both now and at the time — is Rina Oh, who was also abused by Epstein for years.
In an interview with ITV News, she called on Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before the Congressional Oversight Committee, claiming the royal family has been “tainted” by its association with Epstein.
Both women remain profoundly affected to this day by the abuse they suffered and want answers about who else was involved in Epstein’s abuse ring.
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