Newly revealed pictures showing a grinning Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell astride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle were once proudly showed off inside sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein’s lair.
The image, which sat next to a framed photograph of billionaire paedophile Epstein at his Florida retreat dubbed ‘Pleasure Palace’ in Palm Beach, shows a smiling Andrew in his younger years.
Another of the financier’s prized pictures shows a beaming Maxwell, baring a snake tattoo on her lower back, as she sits astride the classic American motorcycle.
Although the Duke of York (61) had denied frequent visits to Epstein’s Florida residence, Juan Alessi, the ex-housekeeper, claimed that Andrew used the home for ‘weeks’ when he was there working.
Sources said Epstein was being warned by sources that the public display of the picture at his home could prove to be ‘incredibly harmful’.
Sun reporter One said: “Epstein had powerful friends, and would display them in photos around his houses.
“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.
MailOnline reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment but they did not reply.
The smiling image of Prince Andrew sitting next to the framed photo of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire paedophile, at Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida resort, ‘Pleasure Palace,’ in Palm Beach shows his youthful years.
One of the most prized photos shows Ghislaine Maxwell beaming, sporting a tattoo of a snake on her lower back as she rides the Harley-Davidson classic American motorcycle brand.
The financier was also seen in another photo, wearing a kilt while posing with Ghislaine Maxill (above), as well as riding a motorbike close to Scotland’s Skibo Castle.
Sources said that the scandal-hit royal is now under more scrutiny from the public as the story about the photo emerged.
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, in his 2019 Newsnight interview admitted that he had been to Epstein’s Florida house, but denied having made repeated visits.
He stated that he did not go to his Palm Beach residence more than three or four times each year. He visited his Palm Beach house four times per year during my time with him.
Maxwell has been repeatedly criticized by Maxwell’s legal team for her mistreatment behind bars. Her earlier imprisonment photos show her with a ‘black eye’
“In fact, probably that was where…if you understand what I mean. He was more likely to be in that house than any other…in other locations that I was at.” However, it was often because I was moving…I was going through somewhere else so it wasn’t a daily thing.
Another photo of the financier in a kilt was released. He is seen riding his motorbike next to Scotland’s Skibo Castle.
Maxwell will be facing six weeks in Federal Court in New York. She is being tried for abuse, procuring young women, and other trafficking offenses dating back many decades. If convicted of all the charges, Maxwell could spend more than 80 years behind bars.
The lawyer for Epstein will argue that she is being penalized by proxy because someone has to pay.
In a world exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday after her $28million (£21M) bail application was denied for the fourth time, Maxwell claimed negative media coverage while she has been in custody and the deliberate withholding of evidence have made it ‘impossible’ for her to receive a fair trial.
The pictures were proudly displayed at Epstein’s £13.7m Palm Beach home (pictured) that was dubbed ‘Pleasure Palace’
From her 10ft by 12-ft cell in New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center where she’s spent the last 16 months, she spoke out, stating that she was overwhelmed by sadness and shock at the untrue and gross narratives. They are completely fabricated and have no relation to real life.
Despite the fact that I am confident my innocence will be proven, I’m afraid of the overwhelming negative coverage.
“I am looking forward to my court appearance to show that I did not participate in Epstein’s crimes.” I am innocent.’
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.
The Duke of York, 61, had previously denied making frequent visits to Epstein’s Florida home, despite the former housekeeper Juan Alessi claiming Andrew spent ‘weeks at a time’ at the property when he worked there. Pictured: Andrew with Epstein in Central Park, New York in 201
In a world exclusive published in The Mail on Sunday, Ghislaine Maxwell spoke of the hell of her life in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, saying that conditions are so bad a rat would sit beside an open sewer in her cell as she went to the toilet (Pictured: Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein at an event in New York in 1995)
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.
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
Alessi, who started working for Epstein in 1991, has previously been interviewed by the FBI, police and victims’ lawyers and claimed 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.
Epstein, 66, killed himself in a Manhattan federal jail in August 2019 while he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges that alleged he abused women and girls under the age 18 at the Florida estate and his Manhattan mansion in the early 2000s.
The waterfront property became the epicentre where he groomed and sexually assaulted underage girls and women as part of a sprawling sex trafficking scheme, prosecutors said.
The house was where the crimes that would eventually lead to his downfall were first reported in 2005.
Epstein had been recruiting underage girls for ‘massages’ from Palm Beach high school and one eventually confessed to her mother what was going on, who then went to the police.
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
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. All sexual accusations against the Duke of York have been repeatedly denied by him
Epstein would hire girls to massage him in his underwear, or completely naked. 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.
Many of the victims were middle- and high-school girls from underprivileged backgrounds who were recruited around Palm Beach County in 1998 to 2006.
Crews demolished the Palm Beach home where the wealthy financier had sexually assaulted teenage girls earlier this 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 he would like to take down the mansion because of its horrible history. However, he said that he will replace it with an 14,000-square foot ‘Art Moderne’ home.