A Spitting Image puppet of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor that was allegedly used to ‘grope’ Virginia Giuffre features in the newly released Epstein Files.

The infamous latex puppet can be seen propped up on a sofa in the background of a photograph showing convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell posing in the New York mansion of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell was jailed for 20 years in 2022 for helping Epstein abuse young girls, and wears a flight suit in the newly released photo.

The picture is part of a trove of 300,000 documents released on Friday, which also includes depraved scenes from the vile tycoon’s mansions and countless images of naked young women.

It is alleged that Andrew, who was stripped of his royal titles this year, used the puppet to grope Ms Giuffre, then aged 17, as well as Johanna Sjoberg, then 21, in the study of Epstein’s £60million Manhattan home.

Ms Giuffre, who claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions, wrote in her book that ‘when Andrew cupped my breast with a doll made in his image, I only giggled away’.

Ms Sjoberg, another former victim of Epstein, testified to the alleged incident in a 2016 legal deposition, where she described how Andrew and Ms Giuffre were sitting on a couch with the puppet.

‘And so then I sat on Andrew’s lap – and I believe on my own volition – and they took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine,’ she said.

Andrew has strenuously and repeatedly denied having sex with Ms Giuffre and any other wrongdoing.