Koo Stark Speaks After 32 Years To Rebut 'Sex Slave' Charges Against Prince Andrew

This American lady, Koo Stark, was Prince Andrew's 26-year-old girlfriend when he came back after the Falklands War in 1982. They stayed together for 18 months, but then he went on to marry Sarah Ferguson in 1986.

Stark spoke against the sex charges slapped on Prince Andrew in a US lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts, calling it an "assassination of his character" by Ms Roberts, also known in the courts as Jane Doe No 3. Roberts said that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 by his financier friend Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, according to theindependent.co.

Prince Andrew, 54, had denounced all the charges against him. Buckingham Palace has called it "false and without foundation".

Stark expressed her feelings in the Mail on Sunday: "My first reaction was fury, then disbelief, at the lurid allegations being made against a man I have known well for more than 30 years. He was being accused of the very worst kind of behaviour. The stain on his reputation is spilling across his life like blood from a new wound."

The 58-year-old woman, involved in a court case connected with a £40,000 painting in 2013, went on: "I know too much about the media and the law courts to allow the disgrace of an innocent man. That is why I have decided to now reveal some of the details of my relationship with Andrew. Most people in this country have formed their own impression of him - either good or ill. My view is clear: I believe him to be a good man.

"I firmly believe I can help rebut, with authority, the allegations against him. I will use those details to challenge Virginia Roberts' description of a man which does not tally with the person I have known for more than half my lifetime."

According to mailonline, Ms Stark has the following points to explain in her detailed write-up on Sunday:

In her extraordinary account, she reveals, among other things, that:

• His character and behaviour is not in the least like the figure described by Ms Roberts.

• That he was 'tender, loving and caring' and 'very attractive to women' and asks: 'What need would he have for any women to be supplied for "forced sex"?'

• When Andrew first asked her to 'BP' for lunch, she thought he was inviting her to a petrol station, rather than Buckingham Palace... and how she headbutted Prince Charles when she mistakenly curtseyed before kissing him.

Of Ms Robers, she wrote: "I believe she and her lawyers are waging a war through the American courts and invoking his name by way of heavy artillery. American-style litigation takes no prisoners."

There has been no official comment from Buckingham Palace about Ms Stark's statement. Palace protocol does not allow anyone from the Royal Family to speak out publicly

Last month, a letter asking Prince Andrew to come forward for a two-hour interview was filed in a Florida court by Ms Roberts' lawyers.

In June 2013, Stark avoided going to trial that had been filed by a former partner, Warren Walker, making an allegation that she had stolen an Anthonie van Borssom oil painting from his flat. He was the father of her daughter Tatiana.

The prosecution and defence reached an agreement that she could return the oil painting showing a moonlit coastal landscape.

Stark's lawyers defended that she believed the painting was hers when she took it.