Now Lady Victoria Hervey says war in UKRAINE is a conspiracy theory! Prince Andrew’s ex goes on bizarre rant claiming the country is ‘bombing itself’ and unnamed ‘totalitarians’ are using Russia as ‘fear tool’
- Lady Victoria Hervey, 44, has hit headlines in recent weeks with bizarre claims
- Has now claimed war in Ukraine is a conspiracy and said it is ‘bombing itself’
- Posted several rants on her Instagram page with claims and debunked videos
- Comes after she claimed photo of Andrew and Virginia Giuffre is fake
Lady Victoria Hervey has claimed the Ukraine is ‘bombing itself’ in a series of bizarre Instagram posts – shared weeks after her bizarre social media rants about the now notorious photo of Prince Andrew with accuser Virginia Giuffre.
The 44-year-old socialite, who previously dated the royal in the ’90s, shared a number of posts on her Instagram page yesterday with allegations about a conspiracy theory and the war in Ukraine.
She posted one story featuring a tweet which read: ‘Truth bomb MSM. Journalist and war correspondent Anne-Laure Bonnell, who is in the Ukraine, shocks everyone: ‘I do not defend Putin, but the truth is, I am close to civilians. What I say is that the Ukranian army is bombing its own people.’
The quote was attributed to Anne-Laure Bonnell, who lives in Donbass but has denied being a journalist. She made the comments during an appearance on French news channel C News last week.
Lady Victoria’s latest comments come weeks after she caused a social media frenzy with unfounded claims that the now notorious photo of Prince Andrew with sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre may have been edited.
Lady Victoria Hervey, 44, who lives in Los Angeles, has claimed the Ukraine is ‘bombing itself’ in a series of bizarre Instagram posts
The 44-year-old socialite made the bizarre claim on Instagram as war continues to rage amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The clip of Anne-Laure was first broadcast at the start of the month and in it, she claimed she was denouncing the ‘conflict hat had been going on for eight years.’
While appearing on French news channel C News she claimed: ‘It is something serious, which has obviously escaped [the Europeans]: the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass has been targeted by its own government…was bombed by the Kiev government.
‘[…] Today, on the side where I am, the abuses are Ukrainian. […] On the Donbass side, near the front line, it is the Ukrainian army. […]
‘The film I made in 2015 is proof of these crimes against humanity […].’
The 44-year-old socialite, who previously dated the royal in the ’90s, shared a number of posts on her Instagram page yesterday with allegations about a conspiracy theory and the war in Ukraine
She then claimed there had been 13,000 deaths since 2014.
The view presented by the commentator is very similar to the line held by Russian authorities and their supporters.
Moscow-backed separatists have controlled the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, known collectively as Donbas, for almost eight years.
It is an area of Eastern Ukraine where misinformation and Russian propaganda is rife.
According to Liberation.fr, in 2020 she said she ‘refused to be called a journalist’ , since she had gone to the Donbass to report, because ‘extremely disappointed by the profession’ and ‘ashamed of the media coverage of this conflict’.
In a second Instagram post, Lady Victoria wrote: ‘Getting back to Ukraine. Sorry if I’m jumping. If in fact that local journalist is correct, then who do you think is providing these soldiers with weapons to bomb their own country.’
In a third post, she added: ‘Thoughts: The totalitarians have switched to a new fear tool, the Russians. They have moved the Cult of Covid members seamlessly into the Cult of Russia like they just flipped a switch inside their heads.
‘My Cult of Covid members on Facebook changed their ‘I’m vaccinated’ monikers to ‘I support Ukraine’ while I was watching.
Lady Victoria went on to share a debunked video which she claimed was ‘another slip up’ which claimed to show a reporter in front of moving ‘corpses’ in Ukraine. In fact, the video is of a German journalist reporting from a climate change protest
The socialite went on to make two further posts about Ukraine, suggesting ‘totalitarians’ had ‘switched to a new fear tool’ after Covid
‘It is amazing to watch.’
Lady Victoria went on to share a debunked video which she claimed was ‘another slip up’ which claimed to show a reporter in front of moving ‘corpses’ in Ukraine.
During the clip, which has been widely shared online, one of the bodies, wrapped in black plastic, was spotted moving.
However the video is not from Ukraine but of a protest held last month on 4 February in Vienna.
The person in front of the camera was a Germany-based reporter, Marvin Bergauer, who reported for the news channel OE24.TV.
Lady Victoria recently left many of her 130,000 Instagram followers shocked after taking to the platform to rail against Virginia Giuffre.
She wrongly accused her of lying about when she attended Naomi Campbell’s birthday party, and even contradicted herself by claiming photos of the event could be ‘fake’.
The 44-year-old socialite and former ‘It Girl’, who is the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol, has made a series of outlandish allegations in the last few weeks, including stating the notorious image of the Duke of York and Virginia, which was reportedly taken in March 2001 at Ghislaine Maxwell‘s London apartment, was faked.
Lady Victoria has claimed in recent weeks it was pieced together using a photo taken at Naomi Campbell’s birthday party on board a yacht in St Tropez in May 2001, in which Virginia can be seen wearing the same white tank top with colourful patterned jeans.
However taking to Instagram last week, Victoria appeared to contradict herself by questioning the validity of those photos, saying: ‘At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if these photos are also fake because they only surfaced in 2019.’
In a separate story posted to Lady Victoria’s page, the socialite wrote: ‘Nothing adds up at all. It’s the LIE that keeps on giving.’
Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey has now claimed photographs from Naomi Campbell’s birthday party were ‘faked’ after previously saying they were used to create the notorious image of Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre (pictured)
The notorious snap with the Duke of York, which was reportedly taken in March 2001 at Ghislaine Maxwell ‘s London apartment, has been reproduced countless times around the world after Ms Giuffre – known before her marriage as Virginia Roberts – shared it with The Mail on Sunday in February 2011
In a series of Instagram stories posted to her page yesterday, the socialite said ‘nothing added up’ in the story of Prince Andrew and Virginia
Her comments were sparked after she claimed to have caught Virginia in another lie by claiming she had said she went to the opening of Nikki Beach in St Tropez where she met Naomi Campbell in 2001, when the club didn’t open until 2002.
Posting a screengrab of a Google search for the year the club opened online, Victoria wrote: ‘Not as Virginia stated she was there in 2001! As I was there and went to Naomi’s birthday in 2002.’
She posted a second selfie video, saying into the camera: ‘How is one at the opening of Nikki Beach in May 2001 when it didn’t open until May 2002?’
However it appears Lady Victoria is mistaken with her dates. Virginia wrote about another encounter with Miss Campbell in a manuscript of her memoir, which was included in court documents, stating she met the model in 2002. They all attended the grand opening of the Nikki Beach Club in St Tropez where Miss Campbell was hosting her birthday in 2002.
Describing that evening’s party, Virginia – then known by her maiden name Miss Roberts – said Miss Campbell was wearing a Dolce & Gabbana bikini top and a miniskirt.
Miss Roberts wrote: ‘Ghislaine and Jeffrey kissed her cheeks and wished her a happy birthday and then I was introduced.’ Later that night they went to the main birthday party where Miss Roberts was ‘introduced to model after model and the rich men that followed around’.
Her latest comments were sparked after she claimed to have caught Virginia in another lie by claiming she had said she went to the opening of Nikki Beach in St Tropez where she met Naomi Campbell in 2001, when the club didn’t open until 2002 (left and right, her Instagram stories)
Miss Roberts wrote: ‘It was a fun bash, the entire crowd sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to Naomi and by the time we got back in the car to retreat for the night I was giddy from drinking and dancing all evening.’ After that party Miss Roberts claimed that Epstein told her to have sex with a wealthy American businessman.
She claimed that she performed a sex act on that businessman ‘just to shut him up’ and that it lasted for ‘two horrible minutes’.
Earlier this month, Lady Victoria repeated claims that the notorious photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre was fake and identified the set of images from Naomi’s party which she says were used to create the doctored photo.
Lady Victoria does not have a copy of the exact Virginia photo from St Tropez which she claims was used to fake the Prince Andrew image, and it has never been seen publicly. However, she did share a bizarre painted reproduction of the alleged image to Instagram earlier this month.
She added to her baffling claims by saying that an ‘Irish guy’ who was dating one of Epstein’s victims in 2001 and also attended the boat party was used as a ‘body double’ for Prince Andrew in the ‘fake’ image.
It is unclear what she means by her latest claims, or whether she still maintains the images taken that night were later used to doctor the photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia.
Lady Victoria has been vocal about her thoughts on the case in recent weeks, and yesterday blasted Virginia as a ‘scam artist’ hours after it emerged Andrew and his accuser had reached out-of-court settlement in New York.
Lady Victoria had claimed in recent weeks photos taken at Naomi Campbell’s birthday party on board a yacht in St Tropez in May 2001, in which Virginia can be seen wearing the same white tank top with colourful patterned jeans, were used to create the notorious photo
In recent weeks, the 44-year-old socialite has sensationally claimed that the notorious photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia was faked
Taking to Instagram last week, the 44-year-old socialite and former ‘It Girl’, who is the daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol, posted: ‘She suddenly wanted to settle very fast when all the truth was coming out. Her lawyers must have panicked!’
Elsewhere on her Instagram page, Victoria wrote: ‘The only thing she deserves is a prison cell full of rats.’
‘Time to investigate her and that missing Thai kid called JoJo.’
It’s unclear who Lady Victoria was referring to.
Meanwhile she cruelly posted a photograph of Virginia alongside the words ‘scam artist’, writing: ‘If I aged like that I would probably want to sue GOD.’
Over the past few weeks, Lady Victoria has made a series of sensational claims about Virginia.
Her comments came after Virginia claimed to have lost the original print of the famous photo of her and Prince Andrew, which could have furthered the disgraced royal’s argument that the image was doctored (pictured, Virginia in Perth, Australia, last week on February 8)
It was reported this week the Queen is to foot part of the bill for Prince Andrew’s sexual abuse lawsuit, which could end up costing some £12 million (pictured, Andrew in Windsor last year)
THE TIMELINE OF THE INFAMOUS VIRGINIA GIUFFRE AND PRINCE ANDREW PHOTOGRAPH
March 2001 – Infamous photograph of Virginia, Ghislaine and Prince Andrew is reportedly taken at Ghislaine’s home in London
May 2001 – Naomi Campbell hosted a boat party in the French Riviera with Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia, Ghislaine Maxwell all attending
February 2011 – Virginia is approached by the Mail On Sunday while she was living a quiet life with her family on Australia’s Central Coast.
She had been traced by journalist Sharon Churcher, who was investigating reports that the FBI was planning to reopen an investigation into the sexual exploitation of teenagers by Epstein.
At first she was reluctant to talk, not least because she harboured fears that Epstein might try to kill her.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday at the time, she produced the picture of Andrew from a white envelope containing a collection of photos chronicling her teenage years and travels with Epstein to New Mexico and Paris.
She explained that the picture with Andrew was taken at Ms Maxwell’s home after a visit to Tramp nightclub – a claim the Duke disputes.
She claimed the photograph was taken in March 2001, two months before the boat party in St Tropez.
She told Churcher at the meeting that she had sex with Andrew three times while a teenager, but for legal reasons the MoS could not publish her claims, which the Duke denies.
The photographs are published by the Mail On Sunday
November 2019 – Andrew hinted that the hand around her waist may not be his.
Prince Andrew told BBC Newsnight: ‘You can’t prove whether or not that photograph is faked because it’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.’
‘It’s very difficult to be able to prove it but I don’t remember that photograph being taken…
‘That’s me but whether that’s my hand…I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.’
December 2019 – Virginia told BBC Panorama that the photo is genuine and she gave the original to the FBI in 2011
February 2022 – Lady Victoria Hervey says victims of Epstein have told her the image was photoshopped by Virginia and Maria Farmer
In an exclusive interview earlier this month, Lady Victoria told FEMAIL she has spoken to several victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who said they believe the image was edited by Virginia and Maria Farmer, another victim who worked as an ‘artist-in-residence’ for Epstein.
She said other victims had ‘seen’ Virginia and Maria photoshopping the image, before being ‘bullied and silenced’ by Virginia.
Lady Victoria said the pair had been in ‘cahoots’ for 20 years because they ‘wanted to bring down the monarchy using Prince Andrew’, adding that this was Epstein’s intention too.
‘I know this sounds pretty wild – Epstein told one survivor that he basically wanted to bring down the monarchy,’ she said.
Meanwhile the socialite said she had passed on all of her findings to a member of Prince Andrew’s legal team, adding: ‘She’s got everything, she’s got it all. She’s got recordings and screenshots and everything.’
Virginia claims she was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell and forced to have sex with the royal on three occasions when she was 17, claims Prince Andrew has strenuously denied.
Virginia has previously described in legal documents how she attended the party in St Tropez to celebrate Miss Campbell’s 31st birthday in 2001.
Images from the party show Virginia in an off-white, strappy top which exposed her midriff and distinctive, multi-coloured trousers.
Meanwhile photographs also show Ghislaine from the night of the party wearing a blue knitted jumper with a knitted white and sequin skirt.
Lady Victoria Hervey had said that an image taken at Naomi Campbell’s birthday in 2001 in St Tropez was used to ‘fake’ the Prince Andrew photo, pointing out that Virginia is wearing the same outfit in both (pictured)
Lady Victoria had claimed the women had edited Ghislaine’s outfit to change the colour of her knitted top and to remove the sleeves (pictured, her outfit the night of the party)
Lady Victoria claimed a photograph of this unnamed man, who she said is Irish and was dating one of Epstein’s victims at the time, was used as a body double for Prince Andrew
Lady Victoria originally claimed the image of Virginia was taken at the birthday boat party. The image has never been seen publicly but another of Epstein’s victims has allegedly painted an image of what the original photograph would have looked like (pictured)
Lady Victoria said a photograph taken at the party shows Virginia leaning against the boat and holding her coat in one hand, and this is the image that was used to fake the photo with Prince Andrew.
HOW LADY VICTORIA HERVEY CLAIMED VIRGINIA AND MARIA PHOTOSHOPPED THE INFAMOUS IMAGE
Lady Victoria claimed the photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia was actually four images edited together by Virginia and Maria Farmer.
She said ‘four or five’ victims watched as the two women edited the photograph
Here FEMAIL breaks down her accusations…
BACKGROUND
Lady Victoria claimed the image was taken of an empty hallway at the Belgravia home of Andrew’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell.
VIRGINIA GIUFFRE
Lady Victoria claimed the image of Virginia was taken at Naomi Campbell’s 2001 birthday boat party.
She said the original photograph showed Virginia leaning against the side of the boat while holding her coat in her right hand.
She also pointed to evidence of this as Virginia’s left hand as ‘looking weird’ in the photograph.
BOAT PARTY – Images show Virginia wearing an off-white, strappy top which exposed her midriff and distinctive, multi-coloured trousers.
THE PHOTO – The photograph shows Virginia wearing the same outfit, with her arm around Prince Andrew.
Lady Victoria said the image has been edited so that Prince Andrew is in front of Virginia’s arm holding her coat.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL
BOAT PARTY – Images show Ghislaine wearing a baby blue knitted jumper with short sleeves and a high roll neck, a sequin skirt.
THE PHOTO – The photograph show Ghislaine wearing a white knitted jumper vest with no sleeves with dark bottoms on.
PRINCE ANDREW
Lady Virginia claimed an ‘Irish body double’ was used in place of Prince Andrew in the photograph.
She said the man was in a relationship with one of Epstein’s victims at the time, and he was at the boat party as well.
However she said she does not know if the image was taken at the boat party, or whether the unnamed Irish man was aware of the plot by Virginia.
Having edited the man’s body into the photograph with Virginia and Ghislaine, she then said Maria and Virginia had edited Prince Andrew’s face onto his.
She pointed to the man’s hands as evidence it was not Prince Andrew.
She believes one of the clearest signs that it has been edited is Virginia’s hand, and she said it looks slightly odd because she was actually leaning against the side of the boat in the original photo
However, she does not have a copy of the alleged picture and it has never been seen publicly.
However, Lady Victoria went on to claim that an Epstein victim who ‘saw’ the alleged photo and witnessed it being edited by Virginia and Maria has recreated it.
She said: ‘One of the girls is an artist and she drew a painting of the original photograph of Virginia on the boat holding her coat.’
It was this image that Lady Victoria shared to social media earlier this month, causing a stir with her bizarre claims.
Another victim of Epstein, Maria was the ‘artist-in-residence’ and receptionist at Epstein’s New York office in 1995 after graduating from the New York Academy of Arts and handpicked by Epstein to work for him, who was also a college donor.
She was then abused by Epstein and Maxwell on his mentor, billionaire Les Wexner’s estate in Ohio, and also ogled at by President Donald Trump, whom she claims visited Epstein at least three times while she worked there.
Lady Victoria said she was told be Epstein survivors that Ghislaine had taught Maria and Virginia how to photoshop images.
She said the victims then saw the duo editing the infamous photograph of the Duke with Virginia using images from the birthday party.
She said: ‘The girls were there, I guess they all lived together you know.
‘Everyone was aware – four or five of the survivors know that they [Maria and Virginia] did it and saw it.’
She said while the duo took a photograph of Ghislaine’s empty home, editing in the image of Victoria holding her coat on the boat.
Lady Victoria claimed they then edited Ghislaine into the image, altering her outfit by changing the colour of her top and removing the sleeves.
Meanwhile she said Maria and Virginia used the body of an Irish man who had been dating one of the other victims at the time to act as a double for Prince Andrew.
She said the unnamed Irish man was in a relationship with one of Epstein’s victims at the time, and he was at the boat party as well.
However she said she does not know if the image was taken at the boat party, or whether the unnamed Irish man was aware of the plot by Virginia.
Having edited the man’s body into the photograph with Virginia and Ghislaine, she then said Maria and Virginia had edited Prince Andrew’s face onto his.
She pointed to both Virginia and Andrew’s hands as evidence the image had been doctored, adding: ‘Her hand and his hand looked so freaking weird.’
She continued: ‘They learnt how to do all of this editing by Ghislaine – I don’t know if Ghislaine and Jeffrey were in on the fake photo.’
Meanwhile Lady Victoria also said there had ‘never been a physical photo of that shot, it’s all digital’ and accused Virginia of telling ‘different stories’ about whether there was a copy.
When asked about why Virginia and Maria might have been motivated to edit the photograph, Lady Victoria referred to another message from a survivor.
She said: ‘Another girl sent [me] this: ‘I’m the one that saw Virginia had the photo of Andrew photoshopped by Maria.
‘They were conspiring to bring the monarchy down using Andrew.’
Lady Victoria did not reveal which year the photograph had been edited in.
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