Epstein files latest: Andrew told disgraced paedophile he wanted to be his ‘pet’ in damning email

Read our report on how the new Epstein files has contradicted Andrew’s claims in his infamous Newsnight interview in 2019

The latest email cache tears to shreds Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s claims on Newsnight that he cut off all contact with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

From arranging a ‘good time’ for his goddaughter visiting Buckingham Palace, to fixing a dinner date with a ‘beautiful’ 26-year-old Russian, the pair were in touch frequently, the latest files reveal.

They show that the-then Duke of York’s story to Emily Maitlis in 2019 was packed with untruths about his friendship with the convicted child sex predator.

He claimed in the now-infamous interview filmed in Buckingham Palace: ‘I ceased contact with him…in 2006 and I wasn’t in touch with him again until 2010.’

Newly released emails explode that claim as untrue. It was in 2010 that the pair were photographed meeting in Central Park, on December 5.

With a straight face, Andrew insisted to BBC viewers: ‘To this day, I never had any contact with him from that day forward’. His claims have now been exposed as blatant lies.

Prince Edward has become the first members of the Royal Family to speak out about Jeffrey Epstein, saying that it was ‘really important always to remember the victims’.

The Duke of Edinburgh was asked ‘how are you coping’ when questioned during the World Governments Summit in Dubai today about the latest release of files.

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Prince Edward has declared ‘remember the victims’ as he was asked about the fallout from the latest release of the Epstein files which has heaped further humiliation on his older brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

The Duke of Edinburgh was speaking to CNN’s Eleni Giokos at the World Governments Summit in Dubai when she asked him for his thoughts on the Epstein scandal following more damaging disclosures last week.

Asked how he was coping with the fallout which has so far led to his brother being stripped of his royal titles, Edward said:

Well, with the best will in the world. I’m not sure this is the audience that is probably the least bit interested in that.

They all came here to listen to education, solving the future, but no, I think it’s all really important always to remember the victims and and who are the victims in all this?

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Hundreds of readers have reacted to our live coverage of the Epstein files this morning as more damaging disclosures emerge involving members of the Royal Family and Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly the Duke of York, said he wanted to be Epstein’s ‘pet’, while his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson said no women has ‘ever left the Royal family with her head’.

Here’s how our readers have reacted:

Only half of the Epstein files have been shared and they are all heavily redacted. A few sacrificial lambs will be thrown to the slaughter to make us think something is been done about the horrendous crimes. But there will be no accountability and no justice.

It’s like living in a parallel Universe. The depths of depravity amongst our “Elite” knows no boundaries.

Andrew deserves what he gets, but why is everything quiet on the other so called elites? We all know Andrew is an expendable fool, but I imagine those elites who are less expendable are still getting away.

They are beginning to make me feel sick, it just gets worse and worse. l fear for the future of the Royal Family.

Jeffrey Epstein is the story dominating Westminster today.

MPs are calling on Keir Starmer to strip Peter Mandelson of his peerage over emails he sent the paedophile financier as the Liberal Democrats demand a full public inquiry.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is also looking to crank up the pressure by examining Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Mandelson the UK’s ambassador to the US in December 2024.

Here’s a reminder of what our US colleagues reported last night in a dramatic development concerning the Epstein files

Bill and Hillary Clinton have said they will testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Their decision reverses their long-standing refusal just days before lawmakers were set to vote on holding them in criminal contempt of Congress.

The former president and former secretary of state had spent months rejecting subpoenas issued by Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the committee’s Republican chairman.

The Clintons had argued that his demands were not legally valid and accused him of using the investigation as a political weapon at the direction of President Trump.

But their position shifted after several Democrats on the committee joined Republicans in supporting a recommendation to refer the Clintons to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.

Now we can bring you another shocking disclosure from the latest Epstein files release courtesy of our Foreign reporters

A victim of Jeffrey Epstein had a baby fathered by the paedophile snatched away ten minutes after birth, according to the latest tranche of files released by the US Department of Justice.

Buried in the three million documents is a diary entry of one of Epstein’s victims, who alleges to have given birth to a baby girl in about 2002 when she would have been 16 or 17 years old.

The victim expresses discomfort at what she says was Epstein’s goal to create a ‘superior gene pool’ by having a baby with her – a concept she likens to Nazi ideology.

‘Why me? It makes no sense. Why my hair and eye colour?’ she wrote in the diary entry.

The New York Times previously reported in 2019 that the disgraced financier confided in scientists about a scheme to seed the human race with his DNA, by impregnating women at his New Mexico ranch.

In another email released in the tranche, Sarah Ferguson congratulated the paedophile on the birth of a ‘baby boy’ after he was released from jail in 2011.

Peter Mandelson branded Jeffrey Epstein a ‘master manipulator’ in an interview with The Times – the first time he has spoken since three million Epstein files were released by the US Department of Justice.

The architect of New Labour insists the period of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14 was a blur.

Here’s what he said:

• On accepting Epstein’s money for his husband’s osteopathy course:

Epstein told Reinaldo that he had an educational foundation which gave bursaries or scholarships and offered one for an osteopathy course. I saw this as kindness, nothing more. It was a great help to Reinaldo and I thanked him.

• On alleged $75,000 payments he received from Epstein:

[I have] absolutely no recollection or records of receiving his money and I think I would remember such a large sum.

• On the photo of him in his underpants:

[I have] no idea what I am doing in this photograph or who the woman was. It looks as though she came in and showed me something on an iPad.

• On what people thought they knew of Epstein when he was alive compared to now:

He was a master manipulator. I can see that now. But the point is that his victims certainly did know what he was doing.

• On whether he should now retire:

Hiding under a rock would be a disproportionate response to a handful of misguided historical emails, which I deeply regret sending. If it hadn’t been for the emails, I’d still be in Washington. Emails sent all those years ago didn’t change the relationship that I had with this monster.

• On whether he will attend Congress:

There is nothing I can tell Congress about Epstein they don’t already know. I had no exposure to the criminal aspects of his life.

• On what he thinks of Epstein now:

[He is like] muck that you can’t get off your shoe… Like dog muck, the smell never goes away.

Lord Mandelson joked he was hoping for a ‘well hung young man’ in an email to Jeffrey Epstein on the day of the general election in 2010, it has emerged.

Sky News has reported another email exchange between Mandelson and Epstein as the former Government minister faces a police probe into whether he leaked sensitive information to the paedophile financier.

In response to an email sent by Epstein on May 6, 2010 – the date of the general election, Mandelson said: ‘We are praying for a hung parliament. Alternatively, a well hung young man.’

This footage shows Jeffrey Epstein chasing young women around the kitchen of his home on Little Saint James, the private Caribbean island at the centre of his abuse scandal.

Released as part of the tranche of new files relating to the paedophile financier, the video shows Epstein laughing as he runs after two young women inside his property.

At one point, Epstein, who is dressed in a white polo shirt, joggers and slippers, is shown jumping up onto a kitchen counter as he appears to lunge towards one of the women, while continuing to laugh.

The women’s faces have been blurred to protect their identities. It is not clear when the footage was filmed or who recorded it.

The emergence of the video comes after the Department of Justice released millions of newly unsealed documents related to Epstein on Friday.

Last night we reported Sarah Ferguson’s charity announced it will ‘regretfully’ close for the ‘foreseeable future’.

It comes just days after revelations came to light about the former duchess’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Newly released emails suggested Ms Ferguson had taken Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie to see the paedophile in July 2009, less than a week after he was freed from a Florida jail.

Ms Ferguson’s charity, Sarah’s Trust, has now confirmed it will be shutting its doors – following ‘months’ of apparent deliberation.

Ms Ferguson’s charity links were already coming to an end last September – as she was dropped by a string of organisations in the UK including Teenage Cancer Trust and British Heart Foundation.

Here’s our latest story on Sarah Ferguson who has also faced intense scrutiny over her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

In July 2010, the former Duchess of York sent an email to Epstein claiming that ‘no woman has ever left the Royal family with her head’ and that she was being ‘1000 per cent hung out to dry’ after appearing to accept cash for access to her ex-husband.

Ms Ferguson said was ‘totally on my own now’ and was about to be ‘exterminated’ in the UK due to a series of personal scandals.

The Palace couldn’t ‘behead’ her so ‘will discredit me – totally to obliteration’, she said in a nod to the executions of Henry VIII’s wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

Ms Ferguson had written to the paedophile financier in the weeks after she was caught in a tabloid sting appearing to accept $500,000 in return for her securing access to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then a UK trade envoy.