By Sara Nathan For Dailymail. The year was and Prince Andrew was having fun. By his side, with her arm draped around the Queen's son, was his close friend, Ghislaine Maxwell, dressed for the proceedings with a bleach blonde wig, midriff-baring top and gold pants.
Despite wearing a somber black suit and sipping water from a bottle, Prince Andrew soon seemed to loosen up, greeting hostess Klum - the model dressed in a body-skimming black PVC catsuit with her embonpoint on show - and posing with an attractive blonde whose face was covered up by a feathered mask. All the while, Maxwell remained a constant, protective presence, sandwiched in between the prince and the supermodel, seemingly pleased with her illustrious fellow guest.
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It was, of course, a social highlight: bringing a member of the British royal family to one of New York's most coveted events. But 15 years later Maxwell is fighting for her reputation, embroiled in a devastating sleaze scandal involving the Prince and her former lover, a convicted pedophile.
Months after the Halloween party, it is alleged, the Prince had sex with underage Virginia Roberts, who claims she was introduced to him by Maxwell. Scroll down for video. Mysterious: Prince Andrew raises a slight smirk as he poses next to a mysterious blonde clad in a feather headdress and mask.
Roberts' allegations have cast a pall on what should be a purple patch for Maxwell. The brunette's New York life has never been overshadowed by her disgraced newspaper tycoon father Robert Maxwell, whose death - falling from the yacht named after her - threatened to engulf her whole family in shame. But she is now caught up in a scandal involving two of her closest friends: Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier she once dated; and Prince Andrew. The allegations are eye-popping.
