Dershowitz says he has nothing to hide, no reason for a BBC apology<\/b>
\nThe BBC issued an apology Thursday after having lawyer Alan Dershowitz on air to speak about the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict, considering his connection to people involved in the case, including the defendant and her former partner, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cThe interview with Alan Dershowitz after the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict did not meet the BBC\u2019s editorial standards, as Mr Dershowitz was not a suitable person to interview as an impartial analyst, and we did not make the relevant background clear to our audience,\u201d the BBC said in a statement. \u201cWe will look into how this happened.\u201d Vocal Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre, who did not testify at Maxwell\u2019s trial, claimed that as a teenager, she\u2019d been sex trafficked to several prominent figures, including Dershowitz. The former Harvard professor, who worked as Epstein\u2019s lawyer, denies that claim. According to Dershowitz, there\u2019s no mystery behind his being booked by the BBC, either. \u201cThe BBC called me and asked me to do it,\u201d he told the Daily News. \u201cI agreed and, I immediately said in the interview that I was accused. I didn\u2019t try to hide anything.\u201d On Wednesday\u2019s BBC newscast, Dershowitz was introduced simply as a \u201cconstitutional lawyer.\u201d \u201cThe most important thing for British viewers is that the government was very careful who it used as witnesses,\u201d the 83-year-old attorney said. \u201cIt did not use, as a witness, the woman who accused Prince Andrew, who accused me, who accused many other people, because the government didn\u2019t believe she was telling the truth.\u201d It\u2019s unclear why prosecutors did not call Giuffre to testify, though they were successful in making their case without putting her on the stand. The defense could have called witnesses to question the 38-year-old mom, who lives in California. Dershowitz told The News that he welcomed appearing on the BBC because Giuffre\u2019s claims that she was also trafficked to Prince Andrew made the entire Maxwell-Epstein saga of great interest to a British audience. He also believes that the fact Giuffre didn\u2019t testify in Maxwell\u2019s conviction indicates prosecutors didn\u2019t feel confident a jury would believe her claims about the prince. The jury heard about the powerful figures who Maxwell and Epstein considered friends, during the month-long trial, including former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew has also \u201c categorically \u201d denied having an improper relationship with Giuffre. Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew for alleged sex assault. Maxwell,60, was convicted Wednesday by a jury in Manhattan Federal Court on five counts tied to the grooming of girls for Epstein to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004. She faces up to 65 years in prison.<\/p>\n