Newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails have cast further doubt on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s account of when he cut ties with the child sex offender and his denials about meeting his accuser Virginia Giuffre.<\/p>\n
In March 2011, four months after he later claimed to have ended his relationship with Epstein, the former prince told him and the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: \u201cI can\u2019t take any more of this,\u201d in response to allegations put to him by the Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Another email from Epstein in 2011 appears to confirm the veracity of a photograph of the then Prince Andrew holding a then 17-year-old Giuffre by the waist in 2001.<\/p>\n
In the email Esptein said: \u201cYes, she was on my plane and yes, she had her photo taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mountbatten-Windsor, who denies any wrongdoing, suggested in a 2019 BBC Newsnight interview that the photograph may have been doctored and that he had \u201cabsolutely no memory\u201d of it being taken.<\/p>\n
In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with the former prince three times \u2013 once at Maxwell\u2019s home in London, once at Epstein\u2019s address in Manhattan, and once on the disgraced financier\u2019s private island, Little St James.<\/p>\n
The latest emails were among thousands of documents from Epstein\u2019s estate published by the US House oversight committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
One email shows Mountbatten-Windsor asking Epstein how he planned to respond to the Mail on Sunday\u2019s inquiry. Epstein said: \u201cIm [sic] not sure how to respond, the only person she didn\u2019t have sex with was Elvis.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former prince appeared to take up the issue with Maxwell in a separate chain, saying: \u201cHey there! What\u2019s all this? I don\u2019t know anything about this! You must SAY so please. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can\u2019t take any more of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another email from Mountbatten-Windsor about the press query said: \u201cPlease 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Epstein appeared keen to ask a journalist to investigate \u201cAndrew\u2019s accuser\u201d because Buckingham Palace would \u201clove it\u201d. In an email in July 2011, he said: \u201cSend a reporter or reporters to investigate \u2026 the palace would love it, the girl in the photo, was nothing more than a telephone answerer, she was never 15, according to her version she worked for trump [sic], first at that age, at Mar-a-Lago. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an exchange with a different journalist in 2011, Epstein appeared to discuss Giuffre and her photograph with Andrew. Epstein wrote: \u201cTotal horseshit, the daily mail [sic] paid her money, they admitted it, with the statement that it took money to coax out the truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never misled you, this girl is a total liar, they [sic] authorities should check her australian [sic] immigration form, you could talk to dershowitz [sic]. I will ask if they will cooperate \u2013 Prince people.\u201d<\/p>\n