Prince Andrew emailed Jeffrey Epstein in glowing phrases months after he had supposedly visited him to finish their friendship, it’s claimed.
He’s mentioned to have written to him the day after the notorious photograph of him together with his arm round Virginia Giuffre in London, taken by Epstein, was printed within the Mail on Sunday.
The message learn: ‘I’m simply as involved for you! Don’t fear about me! It could appear we’re on this collectively and should rise above it.’
Regardless of claiming he had visited the paedophile billionaire in New York to sever ties, he informed Epstein to ‘maintain in shut contact’ and added: ‘We’ll play some extra quickly!!!!’
The e-mail made no point out of the photograph of the Prince with a teenaged Ms Giuffre allegedly being falsified, one thing which has been instructed on different events.
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Ms Giuffre, who killed herself earlier this yr, has alleged she was flown to London with Epstein as his ‘intercourse slave’ aged 17, and brought to Ghislaine Maxwell’s townhouse the place she was knowledgeable she can be assembly the prince.
In courtroom paperwork, Giuffre mentioned she was the sufferer of intercourse trafficking and abuse by Epstein from the age of 16.
A part of the abuse concerned being lent out to different highly effective males – together with Prince Andrew, she alleges.
Ms Giuffre says the duke sexually assaulted her on three events when she was beneath the age of 18, the primary time being in 2001 in London.
The royal has denied Giuffre’s allegations. In 2022, they reached an out-of-court settlement after she sued him for sexual assault – simply days earlier than the civil trial was anticipated to start.
Prince Andrew has since been been unable to shake off the scandal, regardless of attempting to publicly distance himself from Epstein.
Throughout an interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019, the Duke claimed he had not had any contact with him after being photographed strolling in a park with him in New York in December 2010, saying he had solely gone there to tell him in person who he wished to finish the friendship.
However the electronic mail claiming ‘we’re on this collectively’ was despatched on Februry 28, 2011, the Solar reported, a number of months after their contact was mentioned to have ceased.
This isn’t the primary time that this electronic mail has been in headlines.
It was revealed in courtroom after former Barclays boss Jes Staley was banned from holding high monetary roles within the UK due to his hyperlinks to convicted intercourse offender Epstein, together with working as his personal banker.
Mr Staley appealed in opposition to the choice to ban him by the Monetary Conduct Authority, and as a part of the case, the e-mail was referred to.
An excerpt was quoted in authorized filings, mentioned to be from ‘a member of the British Royal Household’, nonetheless particulars about its sender and full contents weren’t confirmed on the time.
Final month, Prince Andrew’s ex spouse Sarah Ferguson was fired from her place as patron for a youngsters’s hospice after calling Epstein a ‘supreme pal’ in an electronic mail months after publicly distancing herself from him.
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