Newly released paperwork from Jeffrey Epstein’s property have as soon as once more raised questions over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of his friendship with the late intercourse offender and his denials of the allegations of his accuser Virginia Giuffre.
The former prince told Epstein and convicted baby intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “I can’t take any more of this” when knowledgeable 14 years in the past {that a} British newspaper was going to publish a narrative in regards to the trio.
A recent tranche of paperwork supplied by Epstein’s property, some of which additionally mentioned US President Donald Trump, was released by the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
Among the hundreds of paperwork was the e-mail dialog from March 2011 by which Andrew repeatedly pleaded with the couple to make it clear that he had no involvement within the alleged actions.
“Please make sure that every statement or legal letter states clearly that I am NOT involved and that I knew and know NOTHING about any of these allegations,” Andrew wrote to Epstein. “I can’t take any more of this my end.”
The messages have been despatched months after Andrew claimed to have severed all ties with the convicted pedophile in December 2010. NCS has reached out to Andrew for remark following the most recent launch of materials from the House committee.
In what seems to be a separate e-mail chain between the previous Duke of York and Maxwell on the identical day, discussing a response to the press enquiry from the Mail on Sunday newspaper, he wrote: “Hey there! What’s all this? I don’t know anything about this! You must SAY so please. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take any more of this.”
Andrew despatched his messages after he was forwarded a right-to-reply e-mail by Epstein from the newspaper, by which, he featured in a number of claims. The e-mail alleged {that a} lady, whose title has been redacted within the released paperwork, labored as a masseuse for Epstein and met and had intercourse with Andrew at Maxwell’s London residence in 2001.
It alleged that the masseuse met Andrew once more at Epstein’s New York residence the place she and one other lady have been directed by Maxwell to sit down on his knee, and he groped them earlier than Maxwell directed the ladies to have intercourse with him.
It additionally alleged that the girl was later directed to stage an orgy for Andrew and Epstein on the financier’s non-public Caribbean island, Little St. James.
The emails seem like referring to the claims of Virginia Giuffre, who has spoken extensively about her years of being sexually trafficked, allegedly by the hands of Epstein and Maxwell. Maxwell was convicted of intercourse trafficking in 2022 and is serving a 20-year sentence.
Giuffre, a distinguished accuser of Epstein who died by suicide in April, repeatedly claimed that she was compelled to have intercourse with Andrew whereas underage on three events – in London, New York and on Little St. James.
She alleged that third encounter was “an orgy” on Epstein’s island with the financier and “approximately eight other girls” who “appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English,” as detailed in her posthumous memoir.
She claimed that the-then prince was aware she was underage within the US after they have been launched.
Andrew has all the time denied all allegations towards him.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,” Andrew told the BBC in a tv interview in 2019. He mentioned in the identical sit-down that visiting Epstein in 2010 was the “wrong decision” and that he regretted appearing in a fashion that was “unbecoming.”
Epstein confirms Andrew picture
In one other e-mail alternate with a journalist in July 2011, Epstein additionally appeared to debate Giuffre and the now notorious {photograph} of Andrew along with his arm across the then-17-year-old. The now former royal has repeatedly mentioned that he has no recollection of the photograph being taken and has prompt the picture may very well be pretend.
“Yes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have,” Epstein wrote.
The disgraced financier additionally appeared to ask the journalist to research Giuffre.
“I never misled you, this girl is a total liar,” Epstein wrote within the e-mail.
“Maybe your paper should jump on and show that (redacted)’s allegations re andrew (sic) are the same, she also accused numnerous (sic) people of having sex with her,” he added.
Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022 after she filed a civil swimsuit towards him in New York. While he didn’t admit wrongdoing, Andrew did acknowledge Giuffre’s struggling as a sufferer of intercourse trafficking.
Earlier this month, after Giuffre’s memoir reignited public consideration on Andrew’s hyperlinks to Epstein, he was formally stripped of his titles in a rare transfer by his brother, King Charles III.
Meanwhile final week, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee requested Andrew answer questions as half of the panel’s investigation into Epstein and his accomplices. Congressman Suhas Subramanyam told the BBC that he has not responded but to the committee’s invitation to testify.
The new cache of paperwork from the House committee additionally appear to shed additional mild on the extent of the contact between Epstein and Peter Mandelson, who was recently fired as British ambassador to the United States over his ties to Epstein.
Emails show that the pair have been in touch as late as 2016 when Mandelson appeared to reference Epstein’s birthday two weeks earlier. “63 years old. You made it,” he wrote.
Their alternate additionally seems to recommend that Mandelson had cautioned Epstein to keep away from Mountbatten-Windsor, with the disgraced financier writing that “you were right about staying away from Andrew.”
Mandelson responds, “Yes, without Andrew it would not have gone nuclear.”
It’s unclear precisely what the 2 males are referring to. NCS has tried to succeed in out to Mandelson for remark.
Mandelson was fired as Britain’s ambassador to the US in September after Bloomberg revealed a trove of emails between him and Epstein which revealed the depth of their friendship.
Those emails had proven that Mandelson had despatched Epstein messages of assist till 2010 – even after the intercourse offender was convicted of soliciting prostitution with a minor in Florida two years prior.
Mandelson’s ties to Epstein have been recognized previous to his appointment to the put up in Washington in 2024. But the September emails sparked a disaster for Britain’s Labour authorities and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with many questioning why he appointed Mandelson regardless of issues about his previous.
Britain’s Foreign Office told NCS on the time that the emails confirmed that “the depth and extent” of the now-ex-ambassador’s relationship with Epstein is “materially different from that known at the time of his appointment.”
Following his dismissal two months in the past, Mandelson mentioned in a letter to embassy workers reported by the BBC that he continued “to feel utterly awful about my association with Epstein 20 years ago and the plight of his victims.”