Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor invited Epstein to Buckingham Palace and promised ‘privacy’
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor invited Jeffrey Epstein to Buckingham Palace, according to newly released files.
The US Justice Department today released more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and some 180,000 images relating to the disgraced financier.
Among the files was a 2010 email exchange between Andrew and Epstein, in which the businessman asks: ‘What time would you like me and [redacted]?
‘We will also need/have private time.’
In a response, an email signed off by ‘A’ suggested: ‘Alternatively, we should have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy.’
This was around a month after the paedophile business had been released from house arrest.
Andrew has repeatedly and ‘vigorously’ denied allegations of wrongdoing.
Another email, sent in 2011, shows Epstein organising a ‘fascial’ for a man referred to as ‘The Duke’.
When accessing the new dataset, users are asked to confirm they are 18 or over.
US President Donald Trump is mentioned some 3,200 times in the new Epstein file release, according to The New York Times.
Some are Epstein simply discussing the New York real estate mogul, or tips called into investigators.
Being mentioned in the files is not a sign of wrongdoing – Trump has denied all accusations.
Ghislaine Maxwell had a helicopter called ‘Air Ghislaine’
Many of the files concern Epstein’s confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Among the files is a PDF copy of her police booking intake form
The 2020 document lists her alias as ‘Max G’ and includes a photograph of her in what appears to be an orange prison jumpsuit.
Another file is of Maxwell’s US naturalisation certificate, which lists Epstein as her ‘manager’ and her home address as his island, Little St James.
She also owned two helicopters, nicknamed ‘Air Ghislaine 1’ and ‘Air Ghislaine 2’, according to an email exchange with an FBI agent.
One file notes an anonymous Instagram account under Maxwell’s name, which has just 21 followers.
Other documents include FBI tips, call logs, wire transfer confirmations, private jet itineraries and paperwork about children’s school enrolment.
The White House had ‘nothing to do’ with the review, including ‘what to redact or not redact’, Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.
Anything that could identify the victims or depict child sexual abuse has been removed.
Today’s trance, the largest released so far, was disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Records previously released include flight logs showing that Donald Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet in the 1990s, before they had a falling out, and several photographs of former President Bill Clinton.
Neither Trump, a Republican, nor Clinton, a Democrat, has been publicly accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Both have said they had no knowledge that he was abusing underage girls.
Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
In 2008 and 2009, he served jail time in Florida after pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18.
A federal jury in New York convicted Maxwell in 2021 of sex trafficking for helping recruit some of his underage victims.
She is serving a 20-year prison sentence at a prison camp in Texas. She denies any wrongdoing.
US prosecutors never charged anyone else in connection with Epstein’s abuse of girls.
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