. , » Prince Andrew and girl, 17, who sex offender friend flew to Britain to meet him | Mail... Page 13 of 17 monthly payment, a percentage of his income.’ This, finally, was a wake-up call to Virginia and she began to see the way in which she had been groomed. ‘It was a smack in the face,’ she says. ‘I finally realised this wasn’t ever going to be a real relationship but | knew if | refused, I’d be thrown back on the streets. So | said, “I’m too young. | want to get my massage credentials, then maybe we'll do it”.’ The tycoon took her at her word and, for her 19th birthday in August 2002, flew her to Thailand where he enrolled her in a massage course. Shortly after arriving there, she met an Australian martial arts expert called Robert. They fell in love and, just ten days later, married in a Buddhist ceremony. ‘| called Jeffrey and told him I'd fallen madly in love,’ Virginia says. ‘I was hoping he’d be delighted. But he said, “Have a nice life,” and hung up on me.’ The couple now have two sons, aged five and four, and a daughter who recently turned one. ‘The first few months after | married Robert were the worst,’ she says. ‘I couldn’t bring myself to tell him much. No man wants to know his wife has been traded out. | | ‘| felt very alone. | was having panic attacks and seeing a psychiatrist and was on anti-depressants. | | ’ Virginia was beginning to put her Epstein days behind her when, three years ago, she was phoned by | the FBI. | ‘They said they had found photos of me at Jeffrey’s Palm Beach house,’ she says. ‘[Epstein had] hidden cameras watching me the entire time even when | was in the bathroom. | was so embarrassed. ‘| told the FBI that my true purpose was sexual. They told me everything he did was illegal because | was under age.’ (The age of consent in Florida is 18). ‘They said that if it had to go to trial, they’d need me because I’d lived with him and that made me a key witness. | was very afraid, because he had so much power, but eventuall