“I have a friend I think you might enjoy having dinner with,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Prince Andrew of Britain in 2010. In a later email, Mr. Epstein added that the “friend” was 26 years old, Russian, clever, beautiful and trustworthy.
The prince replied that he would be “delighted” to meet the woman. A few hours later, he wrote Mr. Epstein again, asking, “What have you told her about me and have you given her my email as well?”
The email exchange, among the three million files related to the Epstein investigation released by the Department of Justice on Friday, adds new details to what has been publicly known about the long friendship between Mr. Epstein, the convicted sex offender, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. In October, the prince was stripped of his royal titles after other new disclosures showed the extent of his closeness with Mr. Epstein.
Around 2001, Mr. Epstein trafficked a teenage girl to Prince Andrew, who had sex with her multiple times, according to legal filings later made by the woman, Virginia Roberts Guiffre. Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied Ms. Guiffre’s accusations and any wrongdoing in relation to his friendship with Mr. Epstein.
The newly released emails between the two men were written about a decade later. Mr. Epstein named the prince “The Duke” in his email contacts. The Duke signed his replies “HRH The Duke of York KG,” using abbreviations for “His Royal Highness” and his knighthood, Knight of the Garter.
Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor was also invoked in other emails related to the Epstein investigation released by Congress in December. In those messages, a sender referred to as “A,” who notes he is staying at a British royal residence, wrote Mr. Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, asking: “Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?”
The former prince’s office did not respond to requests for comment about the new emails, or the ones released in December.
Debra Kamin is an investigative reporter for The Times who covers wealth and power in New York.
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