The brother of the King of Great Britain was staying with a sex offender
On both sides of the Atlantic, a sex crime scandal involving the notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein and his VIP friends continues to unfold. Britain's Prince Andrew received «daily massages» while visiting Epstein's estate, a source said. Newly unsealed court documents contain numerous references to the Duke of York, whose friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is coming under new scrutiny.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Photo: Wikipedia.org.
Prince Andrew received daily massages while he spent «weeks» at Jeffrey Epstein's Florida home, according to a former employee of the billionaire, according to court documents.
According to Sky News, the newly released documents include a transcript of a video interview with Juan Alessi, who worked at the pedophile financier's Palm Beach residence.
The unsealing of the first batch of documents caused the court's website to crash earlier this week. but much of the content repeats information that was already in the public domain.
In a videotaped interview under oath in 2009, Juan Alessi was asked questions about Epstein's relationships with the Duke of York and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
Juan Alessi said he believed the Duchess of York visited the Florida estate «only once and for a short time» but identified Andrew as the man who «spent weeks with us.»
When asked if he would «get massages a lot», Juan Alessi replied: «I would say daily massages.»
Prince Andrew has retreated from public life amid the furor over his friendship with Epstein in November 2019, recalls Sky News.
The Duke of York was then exiled from the working sphere of the British monarchy and stripped of his HRH title when Virginia Giuffre accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. Andrew himself has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
The third and fourth batches of documents detailing Epstein's sexual abuse of teenage girls include a total of 73 pieces of evidence.
The third part consists of 411 pages, and the fourth — of 649, notes Sky News.
These documents became part of a lawsuit filed by Miss Giuffre against Epstein's former girlfriend and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The lawsuit was settled in 2017.
The documents are littered with names of celebrities and politicians who communicated or worked with pedophile financier Epstein in the years before allegations against him became public.
The third set of documents includes photocopies of an Epstein assistant's notebook revealing Harvey Weinstein, who was exposed as a sex predator in October 2017 and who was once called a pedophile financier.
He also received calls from the wife of the former Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner «to talk about something personal,» the documents say.
The documents also show that lawyers searching Maxwell's computer for information searched for words such as «Prince» and «Andrew.» as well as the terms «masturbate» and «nipple».
However, Prince Andrew was again in the spotlight as the second issue featured testimony from a woman who claimed he touched her breasts while lying on the sofa at Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001.
Buckingham Palace previously said the allegations were «categorically untrue,» Sky News noted.
Other notable names mentioned include Stephen Hawking, Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton, but their inclusion in the documents does not mean they are accused of wrongdoing.
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