Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre feared she might be killed “like Diana” after having sex with Prince Andrew, an ex-boyfriend has revealed.
The “terrified” then-17-year-old Giuffre rang her boyfriend just hours after she was allegedly trafficked to the British royal in London for the first time in March 2001.
“I remember that call clearly. She was terrified. Her voice was shaking the whole time,” Tony Figueroa, 43, told the Sun on Sunday from his home in Atlanta, Ga.
Giuffre, who took her own life in April at age 41, told her former high-school sweetheart that she “didn’t want to” sleep with Andrew but felt she had no choice, he said.
“I was also absolutely terrified something would happen to her. We talked about the death of [Princess] Diana. This man was so powerful, he was literally a prince,” Figueroa said.
Wild unsubstantiated conspiracy theories were circulating at the time that Prince Harry and William’s mother Diana had been murdered in Paris in 1997 on the orders of the royal family.
Figueroa has now called on disgraced Prince Andrew to accept that he played a part in Giuffre’s suicide.
“Those were the times she was most scared,” the ex said of Giuffre’s interactions with Andrew.
Andrew, the son of late Queen Elizabeth II, was forced to drop his royal titles earlier this month in the wake of fresh damaging revelations about his relationship with Epstein, a 66-year-old millionaire financier and convicted pedophile who killed himself in jail awaiting sex-trafficking charges.
It was alleged that Andrew’s ties to Epstein continued years after he claimed to have cut himself off from the Wall Street powerhouse.
Andrew has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing, and even insisted that the infamous photo of him with his arm around Giuffre at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home could be a fake.
Figueroa poured scorn on Andrew’s claims and said he was with Giuffre when she collected the print — taken on her Kodak FunSaver camera — from a one-hour kiosk near their Palm Beach, Fla., home.
“I held the photograph in my hands. She was going through all the pictures, and she showed it to me. It was just in there with the rest,” he said, adding that Andrew’s royal exile was not a serious enough punishment for him.
“So he’s not a duke anymore? Wow, is that it? Where is she at right now? Yeah, that’s not any kind of … justice,” Figueroa said.
“It’s just slaps on the wrist.”
Figueroa and Giuffre were dating when the teenager began working as a masseuse for Epstein. She said she was then trafficked for sex with powerful men at Epstein’s behest.
She detailed the abuse in her memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” which was released posthumously last week.
Figueroa said he was even taken by Giuffre to meet Epstein at his Palm Beach mansion.
“She introduced us. I was 18 years old, and my perspective was that this guy had everything. I was awestruck. I would get invited to talk to him in his office. He came across just like a normal dude,” he said.
Soon, Figueroa was on Epstein’s payroll himself, bringing girls from his school to the sex offender’s home in return for $200 a victim.
“I have nightmares. I have a son just a couple of years younger than I was when all this has happened. He’s just a kid,” he said, adding that Epstein was funding their entire lifestyle.
“I didn’t want to believe anything that would tarnish what I thought of Virginia. Epstein was paying for our car, our apartment. Why would I question that?” he said.
When Giuffre told him the full story of what was happening, Figueroa urged her to leave, but she felt trapped and scared, he said.
Epstein and Maxwell asked Giuffre to carry their child while she and Figueroa were trying for a baby of her own, he said.
At one point, Giuffre went to Thailand on Epstein’s orders to train as a masseuse, and for a while, she and Figueroa spoke every day.
“Then one day she stopped answering my calls,” he said, describing the time when Giuffre met her future husband, Robert Giuffre.
“I tried to get in touch with her. I asked someone to pass along a message, but I never heard back,” Figueroa said.
Buckingham Palace did not respond immediately to Post requests for comment. Prince Andrew could not be reached for comment.
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