Prince Andrew could be ‘destroyed’ by a cache of more than 100 secret emails contained in the Epstein Files, The Mail on Sunday has been told.

Multiple well-placed sources have revealed that potentially ‘incriminating’ emails between the Duke of York and the convicted paedophile are contained in hundreds of thousands of documents currently being reviewed by the US Congress before they are made public.

One source said: ‘If you think what’s happened to Peter Mandelson is bad then you have no idea what will happen when the Andrew emails are released. They are embarrassing and incriminating and he could be destroyed.’

Lord Mandelson was fired as British ambassador to Washington last week after a string of embarrassing emails between himself and Epstein were released. 

In one, ‘Petie’ urged the billionaire to fight back against his conviction for soliciting a child for prostitution. 

David Boies, the high-powered lawyer who represented Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre, says he believes there is enough evidence to open a criminal investigation into the prince.

Andrew vehemently and consistently denied Ms Giuffre’s claims that she was sex-trafficked to him by Epstein. 

In 2022, the duke reached a reported £12 million civil settlement with Ms Giuffre – who committed suicide earlier this year – with no admission of guilt.

The well-known photograph showing the Duke of York next to Virginia Giuffre in 2001

The Epstein files are currently being reviewed by the US Congress before they are made public 

Several embarrassing emails between Andrew and Epstein have already been revealed in legal papers over the years, including one in which the prince said: ‘Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!’

That email, from February 2011, was unearthed in court documents from a case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority against Epstein’s personal banker Jes Staley.

Legal documents said the email was sent ‘by a member of the British Royal Family’, which the BBC and others widely reported was Prince Andrew.

When Ms Giuffre, previously known as Virginia Roberts, first made claims against the duke he fired off an email to his close friend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was subsequently jailed for her role as a child sex trafficker for Epstein. 

In the message, sent on January 3, 2015, he said: ‘Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts.’

Maxwell replied: ‘Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.’

The MoS understands that there are ‘at least’ 100 emails involving Andrew contained within the Epstein files. 

Some come from an account with Pipex, one of the UK’s first commercial internet providers. That email address is listed alongside multiple phone numbers for the duke found in Epstein’s infamous ‘little black book’.

The Duke of York photographed walking through New York’s Central Park with Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein pictured in New York with disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in March 2005

Lord Mandelson in a fluffy white dressing gown enjoying a chat with Jeffrey Epstein

Mandelson and a friend enjoy a boat ride together as guests of Epstein 

Mandelson’s message in the ‘birthday book’ said Epstein was ‘my best pal!’

Another source said: ‘There are potentially incriminating emails between Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell which haven’t come out yet. Andrew was in regular contact with Maxwell by email and Epstein used email to coordinate trafficking of his victims.

‘If I were Andrew I’d be very worried. Look what the emails did to Mandelson.’

Meanwhile, Giuffre’s lawyer Mr Boies told Piers Morgan on his YouTube show that ‘there are between ten and 20 men that we have enough information on that should entail a serious prosecutorial investigation.’

When Mr Morgan asked, ‘Is one of them Prince Andrew?’, the lawyer replied: ‘Yes.’

Urging Andrew to ‘come clean’, Mr Boies added: ‘One of the things that has frustrated us is that in both the UK and the United States he was basically given a pass.’

Both Lord Mandelson and the Duke of York may be ‘invited’ to testify before the House Oversight Committee, the Congressional committee which is reviewing hundreds of thousands of Epstein-related documents. 

A source said: ‘As UK citizens, they cannot be subpoenaed to testify but they can be invited, which is a polite word for Congress demanding they appear. They can refuse to appear but it wouldn’t be a good look for either of them.’

The Oversight Committee last week released Epstein’s 50th birthday book which contained a ten-page tribute from Mandelson describing Epstein as his ‘best pal’ and showing the disgraced diplomat enjoying holidays on the paedophile’s private island.

Andrew vehemently and consistently denied Ms Giuffre’s claims that she was sex-trafficked to him by Epstein 

Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies (pictured) said ‘there are between ten and 20 men that we have enough information on that should entail a serious prosecutorial investigation’

Democrat congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, who sits on the committee, said: ‘We are currently working on a list of additional documents, witnesses and others associated with these crimes that the committee intends to move a vote for subpoenaing.’

She said anyone who contributed to Epstein’s birthday book – which includes Lord Mandelson and former President Bill Clinton – ‘are likely to be called to explain their actions.’ 

Donald Trump has claimed a cartoon of a naked woman with his ‘signature’ as the pubic hair in the book is ‘fake’.

Former US Attorney General Alexander Acosta, who negotiated Epstein’s 2008 ‘sweetheart deal’ which saw him spend just 13 months in jail after pleading guilty to just two charges of prostitution involving a minor, will appear before the committee on Friday.

British socialite Maxwell, 63, is currently serving 20 years in jail after being found guilty on child sex trafficking charges. She is due to appear before the committee next month.

Another member of the committee, Democratic Californian congressman Ro Khanna said: ‘Rich and powerful men who covered for Epstein must be held accountable. Mandelson is an example. He’s on the Left, so it’s not political.’

A source said: ‘Andrew is mistaken if he thinks this matter is going away.’

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