Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had a rub down at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house, an uncovered email suggests.
A message sent to the disgraced royal by the convicted sex offender refers to keeping quiet about the massage he enjoyed at Maxwell’s Belgravia townhouse.
In the email, sent to Jeffrey Epstein in January 2015, Maxwell expresses her intention to both distance herself from the paedophile and deny any knowledge of Andrew’s massage.
‘And they need me to say I was not aware of massage w/andrew in my house’, she wrote.
Epstein’s reply said he was ‘getting an answer’ for Maxwell from an attorney.
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More than 20,000 documents an emails were released this week in the US.
A source told the Sun that the revelation would ‘heap further pressure’ on Andrew, just weeks after he was stripped of his royal titles.
The former Duke of York is also due to move out of Royal Lodge in Windsor in the new year.
In his infamous car crash 2019 interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew denied he had had sex with Virginia Giuffre at Maxwell’s London flat in 2001.
Ms Giuffre, who took her own life earlier this year, received a reported £12million settlement from the former prince, on no admission by him of liability.
Andrew insisted he had ‘no recollection’ of meeting Ms Giuffre, and that pictures of him with his arm around her had been doctored.
It comes as other files released in the trove revealed Epstein was advised by a PR firm to severe ties with Andrew, warning his association with the royal was damaging his reputation.
The memo from Osbourne & Partners was sent just days after the pair were pictured walking around New York’s Central Park in December 2010.
It warned Epstein it would be ‘disastrous’ for him to be seen to assist Andrew with his ‘well documented issues’.
Furthermore, in order to clear up Epstein’s reputation, the firm said it had hired a team to improve search engine results for the now deceased financier, removing references to his charges and connections with the disgraced prince.
Andrew himself has also faced questions over his personal history, including during his stint as the UK’s trade envoy in the 2000s.
Historian and author Andrew Lownie revealed in his biography of Andrew that the royal had as many as 40 prostitutes taken to his room at five-star Bangkok hotel within just four days, while on an official visit.
Mr Windsor reportedly insisted on staying at five-star properties rather than at the British embassy in the Thai capital, and exploited his taxpayer-funded trips to further his business connections.
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