Prince Andrew had day by day massages when he spent “weeks” at Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida house in accordance with the billionaire’s former housekeeper, courtroom paperwork have revealed.
The newly-released paperwork embrace the transcript of a video interview with Juan Alessi, who labored on the paedophile financier’s Palm Beach residence.
The unsealing of the primary batch of papers brought on the courtroom’s web site to crash earlier this week, however a lot of the content material repeats info that was already within the public area.
In a video-taped interview beneath oath in 2009, Mr Alessi confronted questions on Epstein’s relationship with the Duke of York and his former spouse, Sarah Ferguson.
Mr Alessi mentioned he believes the Duchess of York visited the Florida property “only once and for a short time” however recognized Andrew as somebody who “spent weeks with us”.
When requested if he would “frequently have massages”, Mr Alessi replied: “I would say, daily massages.”
Andrew stepped again from public life amid a furore over his friendship with Epstein in November 2019.
He was then solid out of the working monarchy and stripped of his HRH title when Virginia Giuffre accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. He strenuously denies any wrongdoing.
The third and fourth batches of paperwork with particulars on Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage women features a whole of 73 displays.
The third tranche consists of 411 pages and the fourth totals 649.
The papers had been a part of a lawsuit filed by Ms Giuffre towards Epstein‘s former girlfriend and long-time affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell. The lawsuit was settled in 2017.
The paperwork are sprinkled with the names of celebrities and politicians who socialised or labored with paedophile financier Epstein within the years earlier than accusations towards him grew to become public.
The third set of paperwork embrace photocopies of Epstein’s assistant’s notepad, revealing Harvey Weinstein – who was uncovered as a sexual predator in October 2017 – as soon as referred to as the paedophile financier.
He additionally acquired a name from the spouse of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner “to talk about something private”, the paperwork reveal.
They additionally present that legal professionals looking for info on Maxwell’s laptop looked for phrases together with “Prince” and “Andrew” in addition to the phrases “masturbate” and “nipple”.
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Andrew has discovered himself again within the highlight although, because the second launch included testimony from a lady who claimed he touched her breast whereas on a sofa at Epstein’s Manhattan condominium in 2001.
Buckingham Palace has beforehand mentioned the allegations are “categorically untrue”.
Other notable names talked about are Stephen Hawking, Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton however their inclusion doesn’t imply they’re accused of wrongdoing.
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