British police say they have found no evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked one of his bodyguards to investigate Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.<\/p>\n
London\u2019s Metropolitan Police in October said it was looking into media reports that the former Prince Andrew in 2011 sought information to smear Giuffre by asking a police bodyguard to find out if she had a criminal record. <\/p>\n
The Mail on Sunday newspaper claimed the then-prince passed Giuffre\u2019s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Saturday (London time), the force said its assessment \u201chas not revealed any additional evidence of criminal acts or misconduct,\u201d and it would not open a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n
Victoria Arbiter said the king’s action was “bold and decisive” but necessary in light of mounting pressure. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Met remains committed to thoroughly assessing any new information that could assist in this matter,\u201d said police Central Specialist Crime Commander Ella Marriott. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo date, we have not received any additional evidence that would support reopening the investigation. In the absence of any further information, we will be taking no further action.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts will always be with Ms Giuffre\u2019s family and friends following her death,\u201d Marriott said.<\/p>\n
Calls continue for the allegations around the former Duke of York to be investigated. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Giuffre’s family said they were \u201cdeeply disappointed\u201d by the decision, adding that \u201cjustice has not been served.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giuffre, who committed suicide in April, alleged that in the early 2000s, when she was a teenager, she was caught up in Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking ring and exploited by Andrew and other influential men.<\/p>\n
King Charles III formally stripped his younger brother of his royal title last month after new details emerged of Andrew\u2019s relationship with Epstein and Giuffre\u2019s posthumous memoir refocused attention on her allegations.<\/p>\n
King Charles serves his brother with his latest censures as \u201cdeemed necessary\u201d. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Mountbatten-Windsor reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022 after she filed a civil suit against him in New York. While he did not admit wrongdoing, he did acknowledge Giuffre\u2019s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British police say they have found no evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked one of his bodyguards to investigate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,6747,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-182387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-royalty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}