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Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex offender unsealed
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Jeffrey Epstein list: New documents reveal paedophile’s responses to sex trafficking claims
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Who are named in Jeffrey Epstein documents? Big names like Bill Clinton, Naomi Campbell, Alan Dershowitz confirmed
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Tennessee Senator: 'American people have the right to know who flew on Epstein's plane'
WASHINGTON (WZTV) — Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has issued a release touting her bipartisan efforts to reveal those who took part in the alleged sex trafficking ring conducted by financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell while also calling for a full release of names in the duo's contact list.
In a media release on the matter, Sen. Blackburn says the recent decision by a judge to release documents revealing part of Epstein's client list is a step "in the right direction" but is "just the first step."
Sen. Blackburn says she has repeatedly requested a subpoena for the flight logs and an unredacted version of the "little black book" of contacts and addresses related to the allegations against Epstein and Maxwell. "The American people have the right to know who flew on Epstein’s plane, who witnessed these crimes, and who potentially participated in his international sex trafficking ring," Sen. Blackburn writes.
RELATED: 5th batch of Jeffrey Epstein docs further detail allegations against prominent figures
The veteran senator also shares bipartisan legislation she is co-sponsoring, such as the SAVE Girls Act with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn), SALONS Stories Act with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill), and the REPORT Act with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA).
Sen. Blackburn also pointed to trafficking in her state, noting Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) data showing sex trafficking of minors in the state grew from 66 in 2016 to nearly 700 as of November 2023.
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Jeffrey Epstein boasted of spurious celebrity connections, documents show
Court document released Wednesday confirmed some celebrity connections but also showed late sex offender’s flimsy braggadocio
While Jeffrey Epstein counted many rich and powerful men among his associates –including Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew – a court document released on Wednesday suggests the late financier so craved proximity to celebrity that he made spurious boasts about relationships with Hollywood A-listers.
Johanna Sjoberg, an accuser of the late sex offender and financier, claimed in a deposition that he liked to talk about knowing movie stars, such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, and that these statements appeared to come across as flimsy braggadocio.
A lawyer asked Sjoberg: “I saw one press report that said you had met Cate Blanchett or Leonardo DiCaprio?”
“I did not meet them, no,” she replied. “When I spoke about them, it was when I was massaging him [Epstein], and he would get off – he would be on the phone a lot at that time, and one time he said: ‘Oh, that was Leonardo,’ or, ‘That was Cate Blanchett, or Bruce Willis.’ That kind of thing.”
“So name-dropping?” the lawyer pressed.
Sjoberg replied: “Yes.”
“So you had not met Cate Blanchett or Leonardo DiCaprio?”
“I have not,” Sjoberg said under further questioning.
“Would you remember if you had?”
“I would hope I would remember,” she said.
“What about Cameron Diaz?” the lawyer pressed.
“No.”
A representative for Leonardo DiCaprio denied any calls between him and Epstein. A representative for Diaz said: “Cameron never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor was she ever in the same place as him or had any association with him whatsoever, regardless of the fact he may or may not have mentioned her name or implied that he knew her.” A representative for Blanchett said that she had never met nor had any calls with Epstein. Representatives for Willis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The deposition was part of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking related to abuse of young girls by Epstein. Maxwell met Epstein in summer 1991, after she moved to New York around the time her father purchased the New York Daily News.
Sjoberg said that the British publishing heiress lured her into Epstein’s dark web.
While Giuffre settled her lawsuit against Maxwell in 2017, tranches of long-sealed documents in the case have been unsealed over the past several years. Their release stemmed from the Miami Herald and other media organizations’ efforts to make public the filings.
The documents’ discussion of Epstein’s ties to high-profile figures largely reiterate what has already been reported about his cronies, and shed some light on how he wanted to leverage connections. In one document, Epstein told Maxwell to invoke some prominent figures as a defense against Giuffre’s allegations of wrongdoing.
Epstein suggested that an interaction with the late, famous British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking could help clear her, for example. Hawking went to dinner on Epstein’s private isle in the US Virgin Islands in 2006, after participating in a conference on a neighboring island, per prior reports.
“You can issue a reward to any of virginias friends acquaionts family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false the strongest is the clinton dinner, and the new version in the virgin isalnds that stven hawking partica-ted in an underage orgy [sic],” Epstein said in an email to Maxwell.
While Epstein’s proclamations about some celebrities appear questionable, he did associate with numerous entertainers. Sjoberg’s deposition claimed that the late pop star Michael Jackson was at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, and that she met the famed illusionist David Copperfield at one of Epstein’s homes.
“Did you ever meet anybody famous when you were with Jeffrey? Sjoberg was asked. “I met Michael Jackson … at [Epstein’s] house in Palm Beach,” she responded, according to the court documents, referring to Epstein’s estate in the exclusive south Florida city.
Sjoberg said “I did not” when asked whether she gave Jackson a massage. Sjoberg said that Copperfield attended dinner and “did some magic tricks”.
“Did you observe David Copperfield to be a friend of Jeffrey Epstein’s?” she was asked. Sjoberg replied in the affirmative.
“Did Copperfield ever discuss Jeffrey’s involvement with young girls with you?” she was also asked.
“He questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls,” Sjoberg said.
Copperfield, she said in the deposition, didn’t tell her anything more specific related to that matter. “Did he say whether they were teenagers or anything along those lines?” she was also asked.
“He did not,” she said.
Reports predating the documents’ release indicate that the actors Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker traveled with Epstein on his private plane during a tour of Africa.
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The Post reports:
“Despite being the most high-profile prisoner in the US, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on August 10, 2019.
The financier, awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking underage girls, was found in his cell just after 6:30 a.m., having apparently used a length of orange bedsheet tied to the cell’s bunk bed to hang himself.
Throughout the previous night, cameras in the Secure Housing Unit where Epstein was being held weren’t recording, prison guards slept and Epstein was left without a cellmate despite prison psychologists’ direct orders.
Then-Attorney General Bill Barr would later call the situation a perfect storm of screw-ups.’
Within a week, a medical examiner had ruled the death a suicide, meaning no further investigation was required. Eventually, a 128-page report was produced by the Department of Justice which concluded prison staff made errors and blamed ‘long-standing operational challenges’ for Epstein’s death.
However, some have consistently challenged the official version of events, including Epstein’s brother, Mark, 69, who is campaigning for more information to be made public — including video from the cell block.
‘I only want to look at facts, but when we consider the facts available, we get more questions,’ the property developer told The Post.
‘There appears to have been no investigation once it was ruled a suicide, they saw no reason to dig deeper.’
‘It seems like a cover-up. Why can’t I find his pre-hospital care report and why can’t I get the 911 call?’
The following is a compilation of publicly available information about Epstein’s death as well as findings from Mark’s four-year investigation:
The autopsy
Two medical examiners were present for Epstein’s autopsy, Dr. Kristin Roman and Dr. Michael Baden. The latter was sent by Mark to independently oversee the procedure.
They agreed to list the manner of death as “pending,” saying further investigation was required.
That was overruled a week later by New York Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Samson, who changed it to suicide.
Samson said she had seen ‘additional evidence,’ but has never said what that evidence was. Baden said Epstein had two breaks on each side of his thyroid cartilage near his Adam’s apple, and one above it on the left side of his hyoid bone, which were ‘extremely unusual in suicidal hangings’ and ‘could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.’
Baden added: ‘I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case.’
In addition, no photo was taken of the position of Epstein’s body when he was found — which multiple medical examiners have agreed is a key piece of evidence in determining exactly how he died.
Autopsy photos show the marks on Epstein’s throat from the ligature were in the middle to lower portion of the neck, and straight, not raised and pointing toward the side and back of the throat in a way more consistent with hanging.
Epstein’s cell
The Department of Justice’s investigation into Epstein’s death says he was found “suspended from the top bunk in a near-seated position, with his buttocks approximately 1 inch to 1 inch and a half off the floor” and his legs in front of him.
This means most of his bodyweight was hanging on the ligature around his neck.
The guard who found him, Michael Thomas, claimed both that he ripped the sheet and that he cut it, then began chest compressions until prison medics arrived.
Two nooses were found in the cell, according to the CBS show “60 Minutes.”
The noose taken as evidence was not the one the prison guard ripped or cut from Epstein’s body.
The submitted and photographed noose was a whole piece of cloth with a hemmed edge and no staining or fluids, despite allegedly being around Epstein’s neck when he died.
In photos of Epstein’s cell, his sleep apnea machine can be seen — which Mark points out has an electrical cord that would have been easier to use to hang himself than a sheet.
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who attended the scene were not interviewed, which is standard protocol in such cases.
Especially in high-profile cases, EMTs and hospital staff are interviewed by police, but in this case, none were. In addition, a pre-hospital care report for Epstein “can’t be found,” according to hospital staff.
The autopsy showed Epstein was dead for at least two hours before he was found, and possibly up to six hours.
However, despite clearly being deceased, he was transferred to a hospital and placed in a hospital gown on a gurney.
Meanwhile, the 911 call made from the prison and its contents have also never been released.
Inmates and evidence
On July 23, while Epstein was in jail, guards were called to the cell he shared with former cop and now-convicted killer of four Nicholas Tartaglione due to an incident in which he had sustained neck injuries.
Following the incident, Epstein told prison staff he had been attacked by his cellmate. He later said he “did not remember” how he got the injuries and refused to speak further about it.
After the incident, on July 30, the prison psychology department said Epstein must have a cellmate at all times and was to be monitored.
The new cellmate, Efrain “Stone” Reyes, was assigned but transferred out of MCC to another facility less than 24 hours before Epstein’s death.
Reyes told his family Epstein seemed “depressed” and “didn’t want to live anymore,” according to the New York Daily News, which also quoted another inmate who said Epstein “was saying he’s going to kill himself because the government is trying to kill him anyway.”
Video evidence from the night of Epstein’s death was “limited.”
According to the Department for Justice’s investigation, “Recorded video evidence for Aug. 9 and 10 for the SHU area where Epstein was housed was only available from one prison security camera due to a malfunction of MCC New York’s Digital Video Recorder system.”
However, it also notes that “between approximately 10:40 p.m. on August 9 and about 6:30 a.m. on August 10, no one was seen entering Epstein’s cell tier from the SHU common area.”
Despite Freedom of Information Act requests being filed, the footage from the working camera, particularly showing when Epstein’s body was removed from the tier in the morning, has never been released to the public.
Sleeping guards
Prison guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were stationed 15 feet from Epstein’s cell.
However, they fell asleep and did not check on prisoners in the Secure Housing Unit at all on August 9, the night Epstein died.
They later admitted to falsifying records that said they had completed the checks. Both were federally indicted, but struck a deal whereby, in exchange for admitting their guilt and cooperating with the federal probe into Epstein’s death, the charges were dropped.
Neither has ever spoken publicly about Epstein or what happened that night.
The indictment against the officers also lists the presence of two other prison guards, “Officer-1” and “Officer-2,” who were also on duty during at least part of their shift and were supposed to accompany Noel on her rounds. Their identities have never been released.
Mark says he has nothing to gain from his brother’s death, was not a part of his will and has incurred legal fees and had to spend money to protect his family since 2019.
‘They had a hearing which was coming up a few days after his death to appeal the bail restrictions … why would Jeffrey kill himself a few days before that hearing? Because if he got bail, he’d be out of jail, awaiting trial in his house with an ankle monitor,’ he told investigative journalist Declan Hill on his “Crimewaves” podcast.
‘Why kill yourself then? If bail was denied again, then I could understand it.’
‘Believe me, it would have been easier if [the pathologists] had come out and said, ‘It looks like a suicide,’ then I could put this whole issue behind me,’ he added.” Safe to say, this controversy is not going away any time soon
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In third batch of Epstein documents, a call from Harvey Weinstein, more famous men and disquieting details
The third round of documents from a lawsuit connected to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile who died in jail before he could face trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, was publicly released Friday.#Epstein #EpsteinList #Epsteinadasi #EpsteinClientList EpsteinIsland EpsteinFiles EpsteinDocs
Friday’s release included over thirteen hundred pages as of mid-afternoon, and it follows hundreds of pages of documents already unsealed on Wednesday and Thursday, with more expected.
The unsealed documents are part of a 2015 civil defamation suit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an American woman who claimed Epstein sexually abused her as a minor and that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend, aided in the abuse. The unsealing this week stems from a December 18 court order from the judge overseeing the lawsuit, a response to media’s legal efforts to publicly release the documents.
The documents in total, including material yet to be unsealed, are expected to include nearly 200 names, including some of Epstein’s accusers, prominent businesspeople, politicians and potentially more.
CNN is reviewing the documents.
Famous friends and acquaintances
A former Jeffrey Epstein employee recounted a litany of famous and influential people, including two former presidents, in Epstein’s orbit during a 2009 deposition unsealed on Friday.
Juan Alessi told attorneys that he had dinner with former president Donald Trump in the kitchen of Epstein’s Palm Beach home and met former president Bill Clinton on Epstein’s plane. He also said he met Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, at the Palm Beach home, according to the deposition.
Alessi also said he met foreign beauty queens and an unnamed winner of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, according to the document.
When asked on Wednesday about the appearance of Clinton’s name in an earlier batch of unsealed documents, a Clinton spokesman reiterated a 2019 statement that Clinton had flown on Epstein’s private plane but said Clinton knew nothing of the financier’s “terrible crimes.”
The spokesman said that it has now “been nearly 20 years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein.” Clinton has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing related to Epstein.
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Trump has also not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing with regard to Epstein. When asked earlier this week about Trump’s name appearing in the newly unsealed documents, a Trump spokesman reacted by attacking the media.
Alessi also spoke about the young women who came to the house to give Epstein massages.
Alessi answered questions about one female whom he understood to be under the age of 18. Her name was still redacted from the unsealed documents. Alessi said her mother would occasionally accompany her to Epstein’s home.
In terms of payment, “everybody got $100 an hour,” Alessi said.
Famed magician and illusionist David Copperfield is also among the high-profile men identified as a friend to Epstein.
Copperfield’s name is mentioned during deposition testimony released Friday of one of Epstein’s then-employees, Sarah Kellen. A lawyer for the plaintiffs asked about Epstein’s relationship with the illusionist and whether they recruit girls for each other. The lawyer questioned if Copperfield gives tickets to Epstein for young women when he is performing shows and if the girls are invited backstage after the shows.
To all questions, Kellen asserts her Fifth Amendment right and refuses to answer the question.
Copperfield is also named in a 2016 deposition released Wednesday by a woman who massaged Epstein for years in the early 2000s. She said she met the illusionist at a dinner at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence and testified it was her observation the two were friends.
Johanna Sjoberg testified in the deposition that Copperfield performed magic tricks while he was at the Palm Beach House and asked her what she knew about Epstein’s methods for procuring girls to work for him.
“He questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls,” Sjoberg said.
Copperfield didn’t elaborate at the time, Sjoberg said.
She also said there was another girl at the house that “seemed young” at a dinner that included Copperfield. She recalled thinking at the time that the girl could have been in high school.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Copperfield for comment.
The name of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein appears in a 2005 handwritten note left for Epstein as well.
An unsealed legal document in a civil case related to Jeffrey Epstein shows a handwritten phone message saying Harvey Weinstein called. A close-up of that message is seen here.From Exhibit in Epstein-related litigation
Brad Edwards, Giuffre’s lawyer at one point, wrote a book titled “Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein,” released in 2020, in which he discusses Weinstein’s involvement in Epstein’s world. Edwards wrote that Epstein told a victim he would introduce her to Weinstein. In another excerpt, Edwards wrote Epstein ended his relationship with Weinstein after he acted too aggressively with one of his “favorite girls.”
There is no implication of wrongdoing by Weinstein in connection to Epstein in the documents.
CNN has reached out to an attorney for Weinstein.
Weinstein, 71, remains in prison after being convicted on sex crimes charges in New York and California linked to allegations that he used his influence to lure women into private meetings, assault them and then silence any accusations.
Disquieting documents
Some of the documents are unsettling.
In a newly unsealed excerpt from a deposition of Nadia Marcinkova, an Epstein assistant who was accused in civil lawsuits of having perpetrated abuse alongside Epstein, an attorney asked her: “Were you with Jeffrey Epstein on his birthday when one of his friends sent to him 12 – sorry, three 12-year-olds for the purposes of Jeffrey Epstein sexually abusing them?”
He then asks if “these three 12-year-olds were from France. Were they sent to him on his birthday by Jean Luc Brunel or by somebody else?”
Marcinkova invoked the Fifth Amendment to that question and throughout her deposition, which includes multiple still-redacted names.
Brunel, a French modeling scout, died in a jail cell in 2022 while under investigation by French authorities for his ties to Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre has also recounted the story of 12-year-olds being sent to Epstein in her own court depositions.
Previous document releases included information about Epstein’s associates and accusers, though much of the information had previously been reported on by various media outlets or released through other court proceedings.
Giuffre and Maxwell settled their civil suit in 2017, but some court documents remained sealed until now.
Most of the documents from the suit were unsealed in 2019 – one day before Epstein died by suicide in jail.
Epstein was indicted in 2019 on federal charges of operating a sex trafficking ring in which he allegedly sexually abused dozens of underage girls.
Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial. Prosecutors in New York indicted Maxwell on sex trafficking charges involving multiple victims. She was convicted in 2021.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
Contributing: CNN’s Riley Gutiérrez McDermid, Kara Scannell and Curt Devine.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the lawyer questioning Nadia Marcinkova, as well as Marcinkova’s relationship to Epstein. She was an Epstein assistant.
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Names in Jeffrey Epstein court documents unsealed
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Dozens more Jeffrey Epstein documents are now public. Here’s what we know so far
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Will We Ever Know How Many Girls Jeffrey Epstein Abused
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Records show Jeffrey Epstein’s requests for multiple passports, travels to Africa and Middle East
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Virginia Giuffre Claimed Jeffery Epstein Paid Her $15,000 to Have Sex with Prince Andrew
Virginia Giuffre previously alleged she had sex with the Duke of York three times between 1999 and 2002 in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island #Epstein #EpsteinList #Epsteinadasi #EpsteinClientList EpsteinIsland EpsteinFiles EpsteinDocs
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Updated on January 10, 2024 04:36PM EST
Virginia Giuffre claimed that she was paid thousands of dollars by convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew, according to court documents unsealed in New York City on Tuesday.
Giuffre made the allegation during a videotaped January 2016 deposition in Florida court as part of a lawsuit against former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. She spoke as a non-party in a lawsuit filed against Dershowitz, Epstein’s former attorney, by her lawyers Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassell.
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Giuffre was asked if she was “paid 10 to $15,000 by or on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein for having sex with Prince Andrew?” in a time frame identified as 2011.
“Yes, I did receive $15,000. I don't know what equivalent that is to pounds. I received it in American dollars,” she replied, referring to the difference in British and American currency.
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Giuffre was then asked if she paid taxes on the money, and she said no.
Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Giuffre, now 40, has previously said her first experience with Prince Andrew took place at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell when she was 17. Maxwell has denied the allegations and is currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for her role in sex trafficking girls alongside Epstein. The disgraced financier died while awaiting trial on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges in 2019.
(FILES) In this file undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location and released on August 9, 2021 by the United States District Couty for the Southern District of New York shows (L-R) Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photo. - Disgraced former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed in a jailhouse interview with a UK broadcaster that a decades-old photograph of Prince Andrew with his arm around his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre's waist and Maxwell standing next to them -- said to have been taken in London in 2001 -- is "fake". Maxwell, is imprisoned in a Florida penitentiary after her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls. (Photo by Handout / US District Court - Southern District of New York (SDNY) / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/US District Court - Southern Dis/AFP via Getty Images)
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Giuffre previously alleged she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three times between 1999 and 2002 in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein. It was not clear which instance she referred to regarding the $15,000 payment.
Elsewhere in the deposition, she talked about an undated visit to Club Tramp with Prince Andrew, where he ordered them “clear drinks” from the bar and said that her drink contained alcohol. The Telegraph identified the hub as a members-only club in London.
Giuffre’s deposition is part of the final round of documents released relating to a defamation lawsuit she filed against Maxwell in 2015, which was settled in 2017, the Associated Press reported. The release of the documents, which began last week, was ordered on Dec. 18, 2023, and “did not contain the explosive revelations or new identities of abusers that some had predicted,” the AP said.
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Prince Andrew at Ascot Racecourse in July 2019: Jeffrey Epstein in May 2005. MAX MUMBY/INDIGO/GETTY; NEIL RASMUS/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY
U.K. Police Say There's No Investigation as Prince Andrew Named in Epstein Files
Prince Andrew stepped back from his royal role in 2019 following his bombshell interview with the BBC about his ties to convicted sex offender Epstein and was stripped of his military titles and patronages by his mother Queen Elizabeth in January 2022 after Giuffre filed a civil sexual assault lawsuit. He settled with Giuffre out of court for an undisclosed amount in February 2022.
While calls for an investigation into King Charles' younger brother intensified after he was named in the court filings linked to Epstein unsealed last week, British police say there are no plans for a probe at this time. Last Friday, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement, "We are aware of the release of court documents in relation to Jeffrey Epstein. As with any matter, should new and relevant information be brought to our attention we will assess it. No investigation has been launched," according to Sky News.
Prince Andrew, 63, previously admitted to knowing Epstein but has denied any wrongdoing.
In 2019, the Duke of York sat for an interview with the BBC, where he also said he had “no recollection of ever meeting" Giuffre. When journalist Emily Maitlis raised the issue of a photo showing the royal with his arm around Giuffre's waist, he claimed, "I have absolutely no memory of that photograph ever being taken."
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Andrew, Duke of York watch a flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The Colour, the Queen's annual birthday parade, on June 8, 2019
Then-Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour in June 2019. MAX MUMBY/INDIGO/GETTY
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Following the interview (which has inspired the upcoming Netflix film Scoop and Amazon limited series A Very Royal Scandal, per Variety), Prince Andrew announced his decision to "step back from public duties."
“It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family’s work and the valuable work going on in the many organisations and charities that I am proud to support,” he said in the statement at the time. “Therefore, I have asked Her Majesty if I may step back from public duties for the foreseeable future, and she has given her permission.”
“I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. His suicide has left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure. I can only hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives. Of course, I am willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required."
Prince Andrew retained his title as the Duke of York and place in the line of succession to the throne, which is currently eighth behind Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's two children. However, he no longer uses the style "His Royal Highness" in any official capacity.
Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York attends the Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk.
Prince Andrew attends the Christmas service in Sandringham on Dec. 25, 2023. SAMIR HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE
He recently stepped out for the royal family’s annual Christmas Day church outing to St. Mary Magdalene near Sandringham House in Norfolk, where he asked a group of well-wishers why they were filming and said they should see what it’s like on “this side.” The footage obtained by the Daily Mail captured the awkward conversation with Prince Andrew on camera.
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