Prince Andrew Implicated in Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Unsealed Docs Reveal ties
Prince Andrew has been named amonged the prominent figures connected with sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein
The shocking revelation was made on Wednesday, following a federal judge's December ruling that the Hundreds of pages of unsealed documents from a lawsuit connected to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on his offence, be made public.
This is in tandem with a civil defamation lawsuit first filed in 2015 against the British socialite and Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed she was a victim of sex trafficking and abuse. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
According to a transcript of her deposition, Giuffre said at different times that she was directed to have sex with Prince Andrew, another prince, who is a billionaire hedge fund manager and the unnamed owner of a large hotel chain and Glenn Dubin.
The files also included references to Johanna Sjoberg, who has claimed that Prince Andrew groped her breast while sitting on a couch inside Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001.
Although an immediate response was not gotten from Prince Andrew, he previously denied the claim through a spokesperson for Dubin in 2019 and once again, he has described these claims as unsubstantiated statements.
Although former US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were also named in the documents, neither of them has been accused of illegality.
According to the records, Ms Sjoberg testified that Epstein once told her that Mr Clinton "likes them young". Clinton's spokesman, however, referred to a statement from 2019 that said he had not spoken to Epstein in over a decade and was unaware of any criminal activity at that time.
Trump also did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, although he has previously said he had not been in touch with Epstein for 15 years before his death.
However, more documents in the case are expected to be released in the coming days.
While some of the names listed are accused of wrongdoing, are making allegations or are potential witnesses.
