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Epstein accuser allegedly forced into sex with Prince Andrew in ‘blackmail’ bid

A Jeffrey Epstein accuser says she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew and “report back on him” in the dead financier’s larger bid to “ingratiate” and get “blackmail information” on powerful people, newly unsealed court papers allege.

The 66-year-old dead hedge-funder made the victim — referred to as Jane Doe #3 but who is identified in other court papers in the same case as high-profile accuser Virginia Giuffre — “available for sex to politically-connected and financially-powerful people,” court papers filed by Giuffre’s lawyer in 2015 allege.

The documents were part of Jane Doe #3 and #4’s effort to join a lawsuit against the government claiming their rights as victims were violated when Epstein was given a secret sweat-heart plea deal for sex with minors without their knowledge or input.

The purpose of “lending” Giuffre and other young girls out “to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information,” read the court papers — from Giuffre’s since-settled defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell, which were released Thursday.

“One such powerful individual Epstein forced Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with was a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew,” the same court documents allege, claiming Giuffre was forced into sex with the Duke of York on three occasions — in London, New York and on Epstein’s private island during an orgy with other under-aged girls.

The royal has vigorously denied having sex with Giuffre.

“Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse,” the filing went on.

And the 58-year-old British socialite, Maxwell, “facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse by acting as a ‘madame’ for Epstein” the same papers allege.

The trove of unsealed documents also revealed that the royal was accused of lobbying federal prosecutors to help Epstein — who killed himself in August while jailed on sex-trafficking charges — get a “more favorable” plea deal in his 2007 prostitution case. A friend of the Duke of York told The Post on Thursday: “This allegation is a straightforward untruth. No ifs, no buts.”

As further potential evidence of Epstein palling around with powerful people to gain favors, Giuffre testified in 2011 — in documents also unsealed Thursday — that she was surprised to once see former President Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.

“I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here kind of thing, and he laughed it off and said well he owes me a favor,” Giuffre said at the time, according to the court papers.

A rep for Clinton on Thursday denied ever visiting the island.

The 2015 documents allege she was “trafficked for sexual purposes to many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders” and then described the events “so that he could potentially blackmail them.”

In Giuffre’s 2016 deposition in her defamation case, she listed some of the politically connected and financially powerful people that Maxwell allegedly told her to have sex with including another prince — whose name she couldn’t remember — the owner of a hotel chain, lawyer Alan Dershowitz and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

Dershowitz and Richardson have also denied having sex with Giuffre.

Maxwell was arrested July 2 on federal criminal charges accusing her of lying in Giuffre’s defamation case and of grooming young girls for sex. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.