November 20, 2019 | 8:28am | Updated November 20, 2019 | 9:28am
Prince Andrew’s socialite ex on Wednesday compared Jeffrey Epstein’s accused madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, to a James Bond character — and predicted she will never be found.
Lady Victoria Hervey, 43, revealed on UK TV that fellow socialite Maxwell had first introduced her to the royal in 1999, sparking a brief romance.
The friendship also led her into Epstein’s world, with her staying at the pedophile’s Manhattan mansion — and even attending an “intimate dinner” with Andrew, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, she said.
Hervey told ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” that she was in “disbelief” at hearing that her 57-year-old longtime friend had been accused of procuring young girls for the moneyman’s sex ring.
But she predicted failure in the hunt for Maxwell, which on Wednesday even saw The Sun newspaper offering a “reward” of almost $13,000 for information on her whereabouts.
“Ghislaine is like a James Bond character — she is quite a unique person,” Hervey told the show, according to The Sun.
“I just don’t believe that anyone is going to find her.”
Hervey said she had last seen Maxwell in September last year, predicting, “She’s gone far, far away.”
Maxwell and Epstein had great “teamwork” together, Hervey recalled on the show. “He had the finance, she had the black book,” she said. “They were a great pair together — together, they were taking over the world.”
Most amazingly, it led to the party in 2000 with now-rivals Clinton and Trump joining Epstein’s friends, including Andrew, which she called “a very intimate dinner, and very relaxed,” according to The Sun.
“He was a very well-liked guy, you could see that,” she said of Epstein.
“There was chemistry between him and all these powerful people.”
However, she insisted that Epstein’s mansion “didn’t feel right,” saying, “I remember feeling like there were cameras in the room spying on me, that I was being watched. I just felt it in my gut.”
However, Hervey stood by her ex Andrew, insisting the Duke of York would never have given his widely panned BBC interview if he had been guilty of having sex with an Epstein accuser.
“There is no way if he is guilty that he would go onto television and do an interview like that. There’s no way,” she said.
“I think he didn’t do it because there’s no way he would go onto television and put himself in that situation.”
Ghislaine Maxwell (right) and designer Shizue Nobuta
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Prince Andrew (center)
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