Friday, November 14, 2025 - Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have once again raised questions over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of his friendship with the late sex offender and his denials of the allegations of his accuser Virginia Giuffre.
The former UK prince told Epstein and convicted child sex
trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “I can’t take any more of this” when informed 14
years ago that a British newspaper was going to publish a story about the trio.
A fresh tranche of documents provided by Epstein’s estate,
some of which also mentioned US President Donald Trump, was released by the US
House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
Among the thousands of documents was the email conversation
from March 2011 in which Andrew repeatedly pleaded with the couple to make it
clear that he had no involvement in the alleged activities.
“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 were sent months after Andrew claimed to have
severed all ties with the convicted pedophile in December 2010.
In what appears to be a separate email chain between
the former Duke of York and Maxwell on the same 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 sent his messages after he was forwarded a
right-to-reply email by Epstein from the newspaper, in which, he featured in
several claims.
The email alleged that a woman, whose name has been redacted
in the released documents, worked as a masseuse for Epstein and met and had sex
with Andrew at Maxwell’s London home in 2001.
It alleged that the masseuse met Andrew again at Epstein’s
New York residence where she and another girl were directed by Maxwell to sit
on his knee, and he groped them before Maxwell directed the girls to have sex
with him.
It also alleged that the woman was later directed to stage
an orgy for Andrew and Epstein on the financier’s private Caribbean island,
Little St. James.
The emails appear to be referring to the claims of Virginia
Giuffre, who has spoken extensively about her years of being sexually
trafficked, allegedly at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell. Maxwell was
convicted of sex trafficking in 2022 and is serving a 20-year sentence.
Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Epstein who died by suicide
in April, repeatedly claimed that she was forced to have sex with Andrew while
underage on three occasions – in London, New York and on Little St. James.
She alleged that the 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
in the US when they were introduced.
Andrew has always denied all allegations against him.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none
whatsoever,” Andrew told the BBC in a television interview in 2019. He said in
the same sit-down that visiting Epstein in 2010 was the “wrong decision” and
that he regretted acting in a manner that was “unbecoming.”
In another email exchange with a journalist in July 2011,
Epstein also appeared to discuss Giuffre and the now infamous photograph of
Andrew with his arm around the then-17-year-old. The now former royal has
repeatedly said that he has no recollection of the photograph being taken and
has suggested the image could be fake.
“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 also appeared to ask the journalist
to investigate Giuffre.
“I never misled you, this girl is a total liar,” Epstein
wrote in the email.
“Maybe your paper should jump on and show that (redacted)’s
allegations re andrew (sic) are the same, she also accused numerous (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 suit against him in New York. While he didn’t
admit wrongdoing, Andrew did acknowledge Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex
trafficking.
Earlier this month, after Giuffre’s memoir reignited public
attention on Andrew’s links to Epstein, he was officially stripped of his
titles in an extraordinary move by his brother, King Charles III.
Meanwhile last week, Democrats on the House Oversight
Committee requested Andrew answer questions as part of the panel’s
investigation into Epstein and his accomplices. Congressman Suhas Subramanyam
said he has not responded yet to the committee’s invitation to testify.
The new cache of documents from the House committee also
seem to shed further light 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 were in contact as late as 2016
when Mandelson appeared to reference Epstein’s birthday two weeks earlier. “63
years old. You made it,” he wrote.
Their exchange also appears to suggest that Mandelson had
cautioned Epstein to avoid 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 exactly what the two men are referring to.
Mandelson was fired as Britain’s ambassador to the US in
September after Bloomberg published a trove of emails between him and Epstein
which revealed the depth of their friendship.
Those emails had shown that Mandelson had sent Epstein
messages of support until 2010 – even after the sex offender was convicted of
soliciting prostitution with a minor in Florida two years prior.
Mandelson’s ties to Epstein were known prior to his
appointment to the post in Washington in 2024. But the September emails sparked
a crisis for Britain’s Labour government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with
many questionings why he appointed Mandelson despite concerns about his past.
Britain’s Foreign Office said at the time that the emails
showed 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 ago, Mandelson said in a
letter to embassy staff 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.”
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