Prince Andrew speaks publicly about his relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a ‘no holds barred, no questions vetted’ Buckingham Palace interview with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis
- Newsnight special with Andrew will be broadcast on BBC 2 at 9pm on Saturday.
Prince Andrew is finally going to break his silence on his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a BBC special to be broadcast tomorrow night.
The Duke of York has been interviewed by Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis and will be broadcast on BBC 2 at 9pm on Saturday.
The BBC has not released any details about what was said, but Ms Maitlis said it was a ‘no holds barred interview – no questions vetted’.
The Duke of York has been interviewed by Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis and will be broadcast on BBC 2 at 8pm on Saturday.
Prince Andrew (left on September 9) is dogged by his links to Jeffrey Epstein (right), a billionaire paedophile accused of enslaving young girls and forcing them to have sex with his friends
Virginia Roberts (pictured) alleges she was coerced by paedophile US businessman Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of the Duke, into having sex with Andrew on three occasions
The Duke of York was rocked by Jeffrey Epstein’s unexpected death in a New York prison in August – with questions raised about whether it was suicide or murder.
And in the chaos that followed, Victoria Roberts Giuffre appeared on American television repeating her allegations against the Duke of York.
The 36-year-old alleges she was coerced by paedophile US businessman Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of the Duke, into having sex with Andrew on three occasions.
Miss Giufre said that Andrew was a ‘participant’, adding that even though the duke may deny it ‘he knows the truth and I know the truth’.
She said: ‘I know their faces and I know what they’ve done to me.’
Miss Giuffre claimed that she once had sex with the prince in a bathroom — and that he had said ‘thank you’ afterwards.
The 35-year-old was a teenager when she appeared in a now notorious photograph with Andrew’s arm around her waist, alongside Epstein’s friend, the British socialite and daughter of Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, now 57.
She also alleged that beforehand she was told by Miss Maxwell: ‘I want you to do for him what you do for [Jeffrey] Epstein.’
The prince has always denied any inappropriate behaviour or being aware of any such behaviour from Epstein, and in 2015 her allegations about Andrew were thrown out by a US judge who ordered them struck out as ‘immaterial and impertinent’.
Virginia Roberts photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in early 2001. Maxwell was
She repeated her claim that she was loaned out to Andrew for sex in March 2001 when she was 17 after Epstein flew her to the London townhouse owned by Miss Maxwell.
At the time, Miss Roberts had been in Epstein’s orbit for months and was being paid to have sex with him at his command. She claimed in court documents that she was loaned out to his friends.
Now a 36-year-old married mother-of-three she said: ‘That first time in London I was so young. Ghislaine woke me up in the morning and said you’re going to meet a prince today. I didn’t know at that point I was going to be trafficked to that prince.
‘That night Prince Andrew came to her house and we went out to Club Tramp. Prince Andrew got me alcohol, it was in the VIP section, I’m pretty sure it was vodka. Prince Andrew was like let’s dance together, I was like OK.
‘We leave Club Tramp and Ghislaine said he’s coming back to the house and I want you to do for him what you do for Epstein. I couldn’t believe it’. Miss Roberts, who wiped away tears during the interview, said that after sex in the bathroom ‘he wasn’t rude or anything, he said thank you and some kind of soft sentiments like that and left’.
She said: ‘I just couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe that even royalty were involved.’ Miss Roberts has also claimed that Andrew had sex with her in New York and on Epstein’s private island in the Carribean. She said: ‘He denies that it ever happened but he knows the truth and I know the truth’.
Mark Epstein fears that he and his children will be murdered like he claims his brother Jeffrey was after ‘sham suicide probe’
A defiant Mark Epstein is lashing out at federal officials in the wake of his brother Jeffrey’s death.
In a rare interview with Julie Brown of the Miami Herald, Mark says that the investigation into his brother’s suicide was both incomplete and inconclusive, making it impossible to determine his cause of death.
Mark also reveals that even he has seen no evidence to support the New York City Medical Examiner’s conclusion that his brother committed suicide, and cannot think of a single reason why the pedophile would have taken his own life.
He now says that he fears he or his family members could be targeted by the same individuals who may have wanted Jeffrey dead, and implores those who so quickly labeled the death a suicide to take another look at the case.
‘It’s all very suspicious, too much to be a coincidence,’ says Mark.
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Murder he wrote: Mark Epstein (above in August) says that his life and the life of his family members could be at risk in an interview with Julie Brown for the Miami Herald
In the interview, Mark makes it clear that he cannot accept the idea that his brother would want to take his own life.
‘I could see if he got a life sentence, I could then see him taking himself out, but he had a bail hearing coming up,’ explains Mark.
He later goes into more detail, arguing: ‘He had a bail hearing in two days. He agreed to be on house arrest. He was going to hire armed guards to keep an eye on him at his own expense.’
Mark then adds: ‘He was the most recognizable person on the planet. Where is he going to run and hide?’
At the same time, it is unclear how he would be able to make that determination given his own description of the relationship he had with Jeffrey prior to his death.
‘Jeffrey and I were not that close, we shared brother stuff, but I was not involved in what he was doing,’ reveals Mark.
‘When he first got in trouble he called me. We were very straight with each other. I wasn’t going to lecture him.’
Mark, as well as the man he hired to attend his brother’s autopsy, also express their frustrations about the manner in which the cause of death was determined and the lack of evidence that was provided to them in support of that conclusion.
Dr. Michael Baden, the man hired by Mark, believed that the cause of death was most likely strangulation after observing medical examiner Kristin Roman perform Jeffrey’s autopsy.
He was not positive however, and claims Roman was similarly unsure, so both determined that they should note the results were pending further investigation.
Dr Baden explains that he was then shocked to hear New York City Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson declare the death a suicide just five days later, despite the fact that key players in the case had not been interviewed and there was no evidence.
‘Everything we have is from two guards, who immediately lawyered up and refused to say anything,’ points out Dr. Baden.
Dr Baden also claims that he determined further investigation was needed
‘We have one photograph that shows the ligature laid out on the ground, which, if that’s the way it was found, it looks like it was a planted kind of scene because that’s not the way it would have been found if the guards had cut it.’
That suggests that the investigation was launched with a predetermined conclusion says the forensic pathologist, who also served as the medical examiner for New York City.
‘Once you decide that it’s a suicide, you don’t do the same kind of evidence collection that you would if you considered it a suspicious death,’ explains Dr Baden, who is one of if not the most noted medical examiners in the country.
‘It is amazing how much information you can get by interviewing the prisoners in the nearby cell. Would the FBI have interviewed them if they thought it was a suicide?’
And while a lawyer for the former cellmate who allegedly attacked Jeffrey weeks before his death vehemently denies rumors that his client might have been involved in a plot to kill the pedophile, even he notes that officials did not conduct a proper probe.
‘I don’t know how they did a thorough investigation when they haven’t interviewed my client,’ notes Bruce A. Barket, the attorney for Nicholas Tartaglione.
Three months after his death, officials have still not released any details at all about the case, and what little has been revealed has come from Dr Baden and not the medical examiner’s office.
This has left Mark concerned that he and his children could suffer a fate similar to Jeffrey’s at the hands of a person or persons that officials have no interest in trying to identify.
‘Jeffrey knew a lot of stuff about a lot of people,’ notes Mark.
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