The Seawolf wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:50 pm
Prince Andrew, alcoholic sexual deviant, might get subpoenad for the Epstein case.
You live in hope.
'Boorish and self-centred': little love for Prince Andrew over Epstein links
Duke denies any wrongdoing but revelations continue to make uncomfortable reading
Caroline Davies
Fri 23 Aug 2019 15.09 BST
Randy Andy, Air Miles Andy, and now the Duke of Hazard: headline writers have always found evocative ways to shorthand the Queen’s second son at different stages in his royal career.
As the Duke of York, 59, is spotted teeing off at the Real Club Valderrama, the exclusive golf club in Sotogrande, southern Spain, coverage of his controversial former friendship with the disgraced billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein continues to make uncomfortable reading for Buckingham Palace.
Once the pilot prince, photographed with a rose clamped between his teeth at a hero’s homecoming following the Falklands war, his public image is now a disaster. The latest optics are grainy video of him at Epstein’s New York mansion, amid reports of royal foot massages dispensed by young women.
The duke, first named in US court documents in 2015, has issued outright denials over allegations he had sexual encounters in 2001 with Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, when she was a 17 -year-old masseuse for Epstein. The claims were struck from the US court record by a judge who described them as “immaterial and impertinent”. Also vehemently denied are allegations, in recently released court papers of the Guiffre case, made by Johanna Sjoberg that Andrew touched her breast while sitting on a couch at Epstein’s home in 2001.
When the video footage of Andrew waving off a young woman from the convicted paedophile’s residence emerged this month, an equally strong statement, through Buckingham Palace, said the duke was “appalled” by the recent sexual abuse claims levelled at Epstein, 66, who killed himself in jail on 10 August while facing sex trafficking charges.
“His Royal Highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent,” it said.
There can be no denial, however, about Andrew’s crass lack of judgment. That video, and a photograph of him walking with Epstein in New York’s Central Park, were taken in 2010 – two years after the billionaire was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution and was a registered sex offender.
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