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The U.S. House Oversight Committee has unveiled a trove of over 23,000 documents from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. This extensive collection, part of an ongoing release initiative by U.S. lawmakers, contains a variety of records including emails, logs, letters, subpoenas, travel documents, legal notes, and interview summaries, chronicling events over several decades.
Among the notable names found in these documents is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the disgraced royal. However, he is not alone; the files list around 30 prominent figures, resembling a who’s who of British elite. The documents mention royalty, former prime ministers, rock legends, cultural icons, and political influencers.
It’s crucial to remember that appearing in these documents does not necessarily imply involvement in any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, the prominence of British names within the records has caused a stir in Westminster. Let’s delve into the list of notable Britons entangled in this high-profile scandal.
Leading the list with the most mentions is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who appears a remarkable 173 times. The former Duke of York faced intense scrutiny after his controversial 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, where he discussed his relationships with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the latter of whom is currently serving a prison sentence.
The former Duke of York came under fire following his infamous BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis in 2019. In the one-on-one interview, he discussed his links to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving time in prison.
Andrew used the interview to emphatically deny having sex with the 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, claiming he was in Pizza Express in Woking on the day the encounter was meant to have taken place.
As more and more details about the scandal have unfolded, Andrew has been stripped of his royal titles and has stepped back from royal duties entirely.
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Sarah Ferguson was mentioned nine times in the extensive files, which span multiple decades. The ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor also found herself caught up in the Epstein scandal after an email from 2011 revealed that she called the disgraced sex offender her “supreme friend” and appeared to apologise for her public criticism of him.
The Mail on Sunday and The Sun newspapers published a 2011 email from the duchess to Epstein, which appears to have been sent after she had publicly claimed to have broken off contact with him. In the email, she appeared to privately apologise for her public rejection of Epstein.
It read: “You have always been a steadfast, generous, and supreme friend to me and my family.” Meanwhile, the duchess said she would “have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again” only for the later email to say she “humbly apologised” to him and “know you fell hellaciously let down by me.”
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