Jeffery Epstein’s infamous ‘Pleasure Palace’, was home to a photo of Andrew grinning. He was being accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls.
The photo was placed beside a frame photograph of Epstein, a billionaire paedophile, at Epstein’s Florida retreat. This picture shows Andrew, smiling, in an apparently military uniform, in his younger years.
The Duke of York (61), had denied ever making frequent trips to Epstein’s Florida residence, although Juan Alessi, his former housekeeper, claimed that Andrew used the home for ‘weeks’ when he was there working.
Sources warn that Epstein would be extremely hurt by the news of his picture prominently displayed in his residence.
Sun, one: Epstein was known for his powerful friendships and would take pictures of them around each home.
This is very damaging for Prince Andrew as it shows Jeffrey’s high regard for his friendship and closeness with the senior members of Royal Family. Jeffrey displayed his picture like a trophy in Jeffrey’s house.
The Duke of York (61), had denied ever making frequent trips to Epstein’s Florida property, although Juan Alessi claimed Andrew was there for ‘weeks’ when he was there. Pictured: Andrew and Epstein at Central Park, New York.
Friday was the latest in Epstein’s story. Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed a US lawsuit against Duke of York alleging she was forced by Andrew to have sex. He has vigorously refuted all allegations.
Sources said that the scandal-stricken royal is now under more scrutiny from the public as the pictures emerge.
According to the source, Andrew’s reputation suffers every time something similar happens – and Andrew is facing yet another year of lurid headlines.
Prince Andrew acknowledged that he visited Epstein’s Florida residence in his 2019 Newsnight interview but denies making repeated visits.
He said, “I didn’t visit his Palm Beach home three to four times per year. He visited his Palm Beach house four times per year during my time with him.
“In fact that may have been the location that he…if I understand correctly, he spent more time in this house there than in any other…in any other place I was. It was because I was traveling…I was going to and from somewhere else, so it was only a day.
The financier was also seen in another photo, wearing a kilt while posing with Ghislaine Maxiwell. Maxwell is shown riding a motorcycle near Scotland’s Skibo Castle.
Friday marked the latest development in the Epstein saga, as the Duke of York faces a US lawsuit from Virginia Roberts Giuffre who claims she was forced to have sex with Andrew.
The Duke of York also faced a fresh headache this week when campaigners and experts warned his finances should be investigated by MPs and tax authorities.
Prince Andrew stepped back from frontline royal duties in 2019 after further allegations came to light. Epstein (pictured) died in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges
Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, dubbed ‘Pleasure Palace’, was sold to a Florida developer for a reported $18 million
The millionaire financier bought the property in 1990 for $2.5 million, according to records
Demolition crews pulled down the notorious Florida mansion where sex offender and financier Jeffery Epstein sexually assaulted young girls in April 2021
Prince Andrew faced mounting scrutiny on Tuesday over whether he broke the Royal Family’s conduct rules by accepting a £1.5million off-shore payment from Tory donor and long-term friend David Rowland.
The Queen’s scandal-hit second son received the payment days before he paid off a loan from the financier’s own Luxembourg bank.
Buckingham Palace conduct rules state that royals should ‘never accept gifts of money, or money equivalent, in connection with an official engagement or duty’.
The Duke of York has previously been accused of attending naked pool parties and receiving massages by Epstein’s former butler Juan Alessi, 70.
Alessi, who started working for Epstein in 1991, has previously been interviewed by the FBI, police and victims’ lawyers and said the Prince stayed for ‘weeks at a time’ in a sworn statement to Palm Beach police in 2005.
Prince Andrew has consistently denied all sexual allegations made against him.
Friday was the latest in Epstein’s story. Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed a lawsuit against the Duke. She claims that she was forced by Andrew to have sex. The Duke has always denied any sexual allegations against him
Epstein (66) committed suicide at a Manhattan federal jail while awaiting trial for sex-trafficking charges. The allegations against him included that he had abused girls and women younger than 18 on his Florida estate, and in Manhattan.
According to prosecutors, the property was his hub where he sexually assaulted young girls and women underage as part of an extensive sex trading scheme.
In 2005, the first reports of crimes leading to Mr. Smith’s downfall came from this house.
Epstein was recruiting girls underage to be’massages’ at Palm Beach High School. One girl eventually admitted to it to her mother, who went to police.
Epstein hired girls in underwear to massage the women. The massages often progressed into sexual touch as Epstein used vibrators to massage the girls.
They were paid hundreds of dollars each, with $200 more going to schoolgirls who recruited them for the El Brillo Way mansion in Palm Beach.
Dozens upon thousands of girls from underprivileged middle school and high schools were victims of recruitment in Palm Beach County, Florida between 1998-2006.
The notorious Palm Beach house where the financier had sexually assaulted young women was demolished by demolition crews earlier in the year.
The property, which had stood since 1952 and was bought by Epstein in 1990 for around £2million, included a main house, a pool cabana building and another staff house – all of which were demolished.
Developer Todd Michael Glaser purchased the sprawling Palm Beach estate for $18.5million (£13.7m) and he sighed ‘finally’ as the first bulldozers began raising the house of horrors to the ground on April 18.
Glaser has stated previously that tearing down the mansion would satisfy him personally due to its horrible history. However, he said that he will replace it with an Art Moderne 14,000-square foot home.