The U.S. authorities has requested Andrew Mountbatten Windsor undergo questioning about his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein following his title loss.
Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee despatched Andrew, 65, a letter on Thursday, November 6, asking for his “cooperation” of their investigation into Epstein's “intercourse trafficking operations,” in accordance with the doc obtained by Us Weekly.
“The Committee is searching for to uncover the identities of Mr. Epstein's co-conspirators and enablers and to grasp the complete extent of his legal operations,” the letter started. “Properly-documented allegations in opposition to you, alongside together with your long-standing friendship with Mr. Epstein, point out that you could be possess data of his actions related to our investigation.”
Andrew was stripped of his royal titles by brother King Charles III final month due to his former affiliation with the convicted intercourse offender. Though Epstein died in jail in 2019 whereas awaiting federal intercourse trafficking fees, the investigation into his co-conspirators remains to be ongoing.
“Within the curiosity of justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, we request that you simply cooperate with the Committee's investigation by sitting for a transcribed interview with the Committee,” the letter continued.
The Committee identified that it's been “publicly reported” that Andrew's friendship with Epstein started in 1999 they usually “remained shut” following his 2008 conviction for “procuring minors for prostitution.”
The letter requested that Andrew reply to the Committee's request by Thursday, November 20, as a result of “urgency and gravity of this matter.”
Us Weekly has reached out to a spokesperson for Andrew for remark.
Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch desires to listen to from Prince Andrew as the USA Home Oversight Committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein continues. “We might be extraordinarily concerned about listening to from Prince Andrew relating to his involvement in all of this, sure,” Lynch, 70, mentioned throughout a Tuesday, October 21, look on BBC's Newsnight, noting that he's […]
Andrew, who up till final month was often known as Prince Andrew, was launched to Epstein through the Nineteen Nineties by his companion Ghislaine Maxwell. (Maxwell is at present serving a 20 sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors, together with youngsters as younger as 14 years of age.)
Two years after Epstein pleaded responsible to fees of kid prostitution and soliciting a prostitute in 2008 — and served 13 months behind bars — Andrew visited Epstein in New York Metropolis. The pair had been photographed collectively in Central Park, bringing Andrew again into the limelight in a unfavorable approach.
Years later, Epstein was taken into custody on federal fees of intercourse trafficking minors in July 2019 and died by suicide the next month in jail. Andrew's alleged connection to Epstein's scandals, nevertheless, continued to hang-out him.
Buckingham Palace may have the brand new allegations made in opposition to Prince Andrew totally investigated following the relinquishment of his royal titles. After a number of shops reported on Sunday, October 19, that Andrew, 65, is being investigated for allegedly asking his taxpayer-funded safety element to uncover details about late accuser Virginia Giuffre in 2011, simply hours earlier than the […]
The then-prince introduced in November 2019 that he was stepping again from his royal duties amid the controversy.
The step again got here after Andrew was accused in 2019 of sexually assaulting Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 years outdated in 2001. The pair had been allegedly related by way of Maxwell. Andrew denied the allegations and after Giuffre introduced a lawsuit in opposition to him in 2021, they settled for an undisclosed quantity the next 12 months. (Giuffre died by suicide in April on the age of 41.)
Andrew was thrust again into the highlight after Andrew Lownie's tell-all e book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Home of York, got here out earlier this 12 months and his alleged e mail exchanges with Epstein resurfaced.
One other e mail between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein has surfaced. A number of U.Okay. shops obtained the obvious correspondence, dated February 2011, from the disgraced royal member of the family to the late billionaire intercourse offender. “I'm simply as involved for you! Don't fear about me!” the alleged e mail learn. “It could appear we're on this collectively and […]
As public scrutiny grew, Andrew introduced in October that he would quit his royal title after discussing it with the king. Charles, 76, started the “formal” course of to take away his “kinds, titles and honors” that very same month.
On the subject of the U.S. authorities's curiosity in Andrew, Home democrats are asking for cooperation.
“Wealthy and highly effective males have evaded justice for a lot too lengthy,” Committee member Rep. Robert Garcia mentioned in a press release to People on Thursday. “Now, former Prince Andrew has the chance to come back clear and supply justice for the survivors. Oversight Democrats is not going to cease preventing for accountability and transparency for survivors of Epstein and his gang of co-conspirators.”
