Emails say Prince Andrew met with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while the financier was still under house arrest… contradicting what the royal told Newsnight
- Court reports have allegedly revealed that the couple met more than once in 2010.
Prince Andrew is facing new questions about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after emails surfaced saying he met the pedophile under house arrest despite his promises on BBC Newsnight.
Court documents allegedly revealed that the Duke met the late billionaire pedophile while he was under house arrest for a sex offense at his Florida home.
Speaking to the BBC’s Emily Maitlis in 2019, Andrew, 63, said he cut off contact with Epstein after visiting him just once after his release from jail in New York in December 2010.
He asked: ‘Did you see him or did you speak to him again?’ The Duke said: ‘No.’
But in an email sent on June 14 of that year, Epstein told then-JP Morgan CEO Jes Staley that he had lunched with the royals and they had kept in touch, adding: “Andrew sat next to me at dinner.”
Andrew said he cut off contact with Jeffrey Epstein after visiting him in New York in December 2010. But an email suggests they met in June of that year.
Speaking to the BBC’s Emily Maitlis in 2019, Andrew, 63, said he cut off contact with Epstein after visiting him in 2010.
Court documents state: “On April 15, 2010, Epstein wrote to Prince Andrew, Duke of York. [redacted word] “jes staley will be in london thursday the 22nd. i think you should meet if you’re in town.”
“Prince Andrew responds that he is not available but will look to visit New York in the near future,” according to Mirror.
It comes as a message written by the billionaire pedophile and published as part of a US court case last month showed that he was pitching Andrew as a potential investor in 2011, despite the royals claiming to have ended all contact in 2010.
Epstein’s victims then asked the prince to speak to the FBI, which he has so far refused to do. It is not known if Andrew knew that Epstein had mentioned him in the email exchange.
The victims’ representative, US Attorney Spencer Kuvin, said mirror: “It sounds like either Epstein was greatly exaggerating his relationship with Prince Andrew or the duke may not have been entirely candid about when their friendship ended.”
One victim, who was awarded compensation under Epstein’s victim compensation program, said: “The emails raise serious questions. Why would Jeffrey praise him as an investor if he was no longer in touch?
An email written by Epstein to JP Morgan on August 31, 2011 suggested Andrew as a possible investment partner because “he is now allowed to make money.”
It was disclosed as part of a lawsuit against the bank by the US Virgin Islands that claims it was ‘accomplice in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein’.
In a countersuit, JP Morgan accuses the territory’s officials of accepting money and favors from Epstein in exchange for turning a blind eye while he abused women on the island.
Andrew imagined saying goodbye to a friend at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home in 2010.
Epstein served nearly 13 months in jail in 2008 after he was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.
Epstein served nearly 13 months in jail in 2008 after he was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.
But Prince Andrew continued his friendship with the offender after he was released.
In 2019, he told the BBC that his relationship with Epstein and the opportunities they had provided him were “very helpful” and said he did not remember the photo of him with his arm around Virginia Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, “that had never been taken”.
Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in jail in 2019.
Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was also friends with Andrew and appears in the background of the photo of him and Giuffre, is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
MailOnline has approached Prince Andrew for comment.
