Prince Andrew

Introduction

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, full name Andrew Albert Christian Edward, was born February 19, 1960. He is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne.

Prince Andrew served in the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot and as the captain of a warship. During the Falklands War, the English occupation of the Malvinas in Argentina, he flew on multiple missions which he used to gain public favor, with the media dubbing him a ‘hero’. In 1986, Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson and was created Duke of York and they had two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Their tumultuous marriage was often subject to media attention and culminated in a separation in 1992, and a divorce in 1996.

Prince Andrew, Epstein, and Andrew

In 1999, Prince Andrew was introduced to child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein’s girlfriend and accomplice at the time. The extent of Epstein’s relationship with Andrew or other members of the royal family is mostly hidden but images of the relationship go back as far as the year 2000.

In February 2000, Donald Trump, then dating Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump), hosted a pro-am tennis tournament at Mar-A-Lago, which Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell attended. According to reports, “Even when Trump announced England’s Prince Andrew, many in the crowd doubted his presence. For one, he stayed in the background, introducing himself as Andrew York, and for two, he’s recently shed 20 pounds, making him a possible double for actor Rupert Everett.” Donald Trump was pictured with Melania and Prince Andrew while Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were photographed with Michael Bolton at the same event.

In October 2000, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump), Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew ‘The Duke Of York’ attended a ‘Hookers and Pimps’ themed Halloween party hosted by former Elite model Heidi Klum at Hudson Bar, New York. Witnesses confirm “Prince Andrew was with Ghislaine and they were greeted by Heidi Klum,”…” While Andrew was chatting with Heidi, Ghislaine went over to speak with Donald Trump.”…” Donald and Ghislaine were chatting for about 15 or 20 minutes.”…”It seemed clear they already knew each other. ” Donald Trump made the comments to People magazine after the party where he claimed Prince Andrew ‘The Duke of York’ was “a lot of fun to be with” and that “He’s not pretentious,”.

In 2015, Donald Trump was questioned by U.S. media about his links to the Jeffrey Epstein rape network and the crimes that took place on Little St James, Epstein’s private Caribbean island. According to the Telegraph, Trump replied: ‘That island was really a cesspool, there’s no question about it, just ask Prince Andrew – he’ll tell you about it,’ adding, ‘The island was an absolute cesspool.’ In 2018, then U.S. President Donald Trump and Prince Andrew ‘The Duke of York attended multiple events together, including a breakfast meeting and a service at Westminster Abbey where they were photographed greeting each other effusively. Others at the event included Melania Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and various members of the UK Royal family. In 2019, Donald Trump claimed he did not know Prince Andrew, “I don’t know Prince Andrew, but it’s a tough story, it’s a very tough story.”

Prince Andrew Blackmailed By Epstein

In 2001, Prince Andrew holidayed with Jeffrey Epstein in Thailand and was photographed surrounded by topless females (age unknown) on a yacht. Juan Alessi who spent 11 years working for Jeffrey Epstein claimed Prince Andrew often had massages when he was a guest at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. Alessi said Prince Andrew enjoyed daily massages from young women and often emerged “smiling” after rub-downs. The massages were carried out in a private part of the mansion only Epstein and “selected” guests were allowed to access. Alessi also witnessed parties at the mansion where Prince Andrew was present while very young girls frolicked nude. Court papers filed against Jeffrey Epstein revealed that he recorded sordid orgies he threw for VIPs at his luxury homes using cameras hidden in the walls of guest bedrooms. According to Alessi, ‘Andrew was with security. He had his two bodyguards from Scotland Yard. I can remember their names.’The bodyguards were off duty and they slept in one of the guest bedrooms.’ Royal protection officers are very well paid, some get up to £80,000 a year which is double their basic pay – because of overtime and special allowances. Challenging a royal about their conduct, or the people they are mixing with, can result in removal from a very lucrative job.

UK Security sources suggest that Prince Andrew’s travels with Jeffrey Epstein cost taxpayers well over £500,000 of public money. Prince Andrew spent several weeks at Epstein’s Florida mansion and also visited his property in New York and shared holidays with him in Thailand, New Mexico, and the Caribbean. In 2015, Scotland Yard declined to comment when asked whether royalty protection officers had raised concerns about Prince Andrew’s conduct with Epstein or about his visits to Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion. Scotland Yard said: ‘We do not discuss matters of security and protection.’ A prominent child abuse charity urged the Scotland Yard to investigate Prince Andrew and his Royal protection bodyguards over their involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein network. The police response was: “Our current activity does not constitute an investigation.”

Prince Andrew asks the U.S. to go easy on Epstein

In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for child rape trafficking for the first time, Epstein was accused of paying children hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then raping them at various locations, including homes in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York from 2002 through 2005. Instead of possible life sentences over human trafficking charges, which included claims he shared child rape slaves with his wealthy and powerful friends, Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to a far lesser state charge that sent him to “home arrest” for just 13 months. While under “home arrest” he was allowed to travel extensively and “work”. In 2015, Four women who were Jeffrey Epstein’s rape slaves sued the U.S. federal prosecutors for not conferring with them before reaching “a secret non-prosecution agreement” with Epstein. The lawsuit stated that Jeffrey Epstein “used his significant social and political connections to lobby the Justice Department to obtain a more favorable plea deal.” One of those “political connections” who lobbied the U.S. government was Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, according to a document filed in federal court in Miami in 2015. The complaint “seeks documents regarding Epstein’s lobbying efforts to persuade the Government to give him a more favorable plea arrangement and/or non-prosecution agreement, including efforts on his behalf by Prince Andrew and former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.”

Prince Andrew evades justice

Court documents filed in the U.S. state of Florida showed the extent to which the FBI and victims’ lawyers were obstructed in their attempts to investigate the extent of Epstein’s crimes and the claims against Prince Andrew. Nadia Marcinkova, one of Epstein’s top rape slaves and alleged recruiter, invoked her right not to incriminate herself, protected by the US constitution’s Fifth Amendment, when she was asked about Prince Andrew. When asked by a lawyer: “Have you ever been made to perform sexually on Prince Andrew?” she replied: “Fifth.” As well as having a lawyer provided by Jeffrey Epstein, she was “harassed and pressured” by not to cooperate. Sarah Kellen, Epstein’s executive assistant and alleged recruiter, whose legal fees were also said to have been paid by Jeffrey Epstein, was asked: “Would you agree with me that Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein used to share under-age girls for sexual relations?” She replied: “On the instruction of my lawyer, I must invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege.” Sarah Kellen was also “threatened” by Jeffrey Epstein to prevent her from co-operating. Adriana Ross, a former model who worked as Epstein’s diary organizer, also refused to answer the question: “Has Prince Andrew ever been involved with under-age minor females to your knowledge?” Jeffrey Epstein himself, questioned under oath, refused to answer the questions regarding Prince Andrew: “Did you provide any under-aged girls for sex to Prince Andrew?” and: “Did you fly with Prince Andrew on your plane, or planes, with any under-aged girls, girls under the age of 18?

A Jeffrey Epstein rape network victim stated that she was rape trafficked to Prince Andrew on at least three occasions between 2001 and 2002, in London, New York, and the US Virgin Islands. She said she first met Prince Andrew when the financier took her to Europe and North Africa in 2001. She was forced to tell Jeffrey Epstein all about her sexual encounters so he could use the information to “blackmail” Prince Andrew. In court documents from a civil suit that were released from a seal in 2019, she named several others that she claims Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to, including hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, attorney Alan Dershowitz, politician Bill Richardson, MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, lawyer George J. Mitchell, and MC2 modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel. One of the victim’s first encounters with Prince Andrew is alleged to have taken place at an orgy ­involving other underage girls on Epstein’s private island. According to the victim, she “couldn’t comprehend how in the highest level of the government powerful people were allowing this to happen. Not just allowing but participating in it.”

Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein were both also photographed walking together in Central Park in 2010, several years after Epstein was convicted for child rape trafficking. Shortly Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew’s ex-wife who was also close to Epstein, accepted an estimated £20,000 from Jeffrey Epstein to clear her debts. In 2005, U.S. police discovered communications between the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. At the time Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew were divorced and living separately. In a statement released in 2015, Prince Andrew shared that he had stayed at several of Epstein’s properties, but that he “saw him infrequently and probably no more than only once or twice a year.” Buckingham Palace also stifled UK Media in an attempt to cover up the story. It wrote to editors reminding them of their responsibilities under the Independent Press Standards Organisation code and the law. Palace lawyers were also said to be closely reviewing coverage and “assessing the legal position”.

The lawyers for five women who have accused Epstein of abusing them have called upon Prince Andrew to give evidence about what he knows, they argue he could have important information about the Epstein trafficking network. Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations, which Buckingham Palace said were “false and without foundation” and described as “lurid and deeply personal”. Even though the UK Royal family claims the allegations are baseless, Prince Andrew is being socially shunned amid ongoing calls for him to speak to the FBI. French investigators also want to quiz Prince Andrew as part of their probe into the Jeffrey Epstein child rape network after the arrest of Jean-Luc Brunel. And Met Police has offered to assist US authorities investigating Prince Andrew’s Epstein links in the United States. In 2020, the U.S. attorney Audrey Strauss for the SDNY said: “I’m not going to comment on anyone’s status in this investigation but I will say that we would welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk with us, we would like to have the benefit of his statement.” The FBI claims that Prince Andrew has refused to approach them or co-operate.

In 2011, Prince Andrew stepped down as an official government trade envoy after his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed.

Prince Andrew and Peter Nygard

In 2000, Prince Andrew and his ex-wife the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson reportedly visited child trafficker Peter Nygard at Nygard Cay, with their two daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice. In 2003 Queen Elizabeth II awarded her Golden Jubilee medal, to Peter Nygard as someone who, during her reign “helped create the Canada of today, and to recognize Mr. Nygard for outstanding and exemplary achievement to Canada as a whole”. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Peter Nygard for a second time with her Diamond Jubilee Medal “in recognition for his philanthropic work raising money and awareness for cancer research and his outstanding contributions to Canada and the Commonwealth.” According to the U.S. attorney’s office, Peter Nygard specifically targeted women and girls who came from disadvantaged backgrounds and who had a history of abuse. “He controlled his victims through threats, false promises of modelling opportunities and other career advancements, financial support, and by other coercive means, including constant surveillance, restrictions of movement, and physical isolation,” According to a former Peter Nygard employee Victoria Sarne, originally from London, during her time working as his former PA in the 1990s she saw “countless” girls arriving at his offices in Toronto, LA, and the Bahamas before they were taken to his private quarters. “He’d attach his homes to his offices, often with a glass elevator. His private spaces were all fitted with mirrors. There were no door handles. They seemed ­impossible to get out of.” “Peter monitored everything with close circuit TV. Everyone could be watched. It didn’t matter who you were… a Hollywood star, a sporting icon or from the Royal Family, Peter could see and record their every move.” “He was sleazy. Like Epstein, he courted anyone in power or who had great fame. They may as well have been brothers.”

Prince Andrew Pay For Access

Prince Andrew was married to Sarah Ferguson, who was one of the biggest pay-for-access dealers in recent history. In 2010, The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson was caught on tape running a pay-for-access racket in which she charged thousands of dollars for interviews with Prince Andrew. Sarah Ferguson was caught during a stint by an undercover journalist posing as a businessman who filmed the negotiation. Sarah Ferguson confirmed Prince Andrew knew about the arrangement and was okay with it. After the pay-for-access story went public the prince’s office also released a statement in which he “categorically denied” any knowledge of the duchess’ meeting.

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