In a bombshell interview from behind bars, the disgraced socialite - jailed in the US for 20-years after being found guilty of being paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator - described the Duke of York as a 'dear friend'. Prince Andrew needs the backing of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell like he needs a 'hole in the head', friends of the royal have reportedly said.

'I feel so bad for him,' said the disgraced former socialite, who has known Andrew since she was a student at Oxford University in the 1980s. But in her MoS interview, Maxwell spoke in glowing terms of her friendship with the Duke.

SHANGHAI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Chinese shares seen with links to "Metaverse", a virtual shared space based on virtual reality technologies, slumped on Thursday after their recent surge raised regulatory eyebrows and prompted state media to warn against investing in them.

Shenzhen Zhongqingbao Interaction Network, whose shares surged over 60% this week after the company publicly posted an article about Metaverse, said in an exchange filing on Wednesday that it is still in initial stages to explore the business, and cautioned investors against risks.

While chaos ensued around the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic, the influencer fled the havoc with her famous family, including Cristiano Jr, 12, Mateo, five, Eva Maria, five and Alana Martina, five.

As his tutoring career developed, he moved from this entry-level work to more high-pressured jobs, working with families from all around the world who wanted to get their children into competitive private schools.

She is now in a cell measuring 10ft by 8ft that is too small for her and her three cellmates to all stand up in. 'It's very far from a cushy country club,' she said. Maxwell said the food at the MDC was 'truly terrible' and she was once so hungry she ate Vaseline.

In June 2017, the then-Real Madrid star surprised fans with the news he'd welcomed twins Eva and Mateo through a surrogate, and just one month later he and Georgina announced they were expecting their first child together.

The commentary came a day after the Shenzhen Stock Exchange sent a letter to Zhejiang Jinke Culture Industry Co, urging the mobile Internet firm to substantiate its claim that it has the customer base to develop Metaverse products.

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Her remarks come as the MoS reveals a new photograph today of the disgraced former socialite taken at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in New York this year before she was moved to a prison in Florida to serve her 20-year sentence.

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It was surreal because there were speakers playing panpipe [music], there was a disco light rotating, and we were both wearing these felt caps that you wear to keep your heads cool. 'He was showing me who's boss.

In a bombshell interview from behind bars, the disgraced socialite - jailed in the US for 20-years after being found guilty of being paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator asvab for success - described the Duke of York as a 'dear friend'.

She dismissed a photograph, first revealed by this newspaper, of the Prince with his arm around Ms Roberts at Maxwell's home in Belgravia, Central London, in March 2001, saying: 'I don't recognise that picture and I don't believe it is a real picture. There's so many things wrong with it. There is no original and there isn't a true picture and there are that many other things besides that I cannot hardly get into… I don't know how many points there are, but there are over 50 problems with the picture.'

The Indiana Jones star, 80, will make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: New World Order, set for release on May 23, 2024, before starring in the standalone Thunderbolts movie, which will debut July 26, 2024, sources confirmed to .

Asked about press reports that they were 'like a couple, an item', Maxwell said she would not address such speculation until after the appeal against her conviction. 'I have read and seen and heard and had reported to me so many monstrous inaccuracies that I can't start to pick apart all of them. If I pick apart one and then don't address all the others, it's going to say, 'Well, she said no to this, what about all those others?' I'm not going to discuss anything of that nature until after the appeal.'