DOJ Releases Prince Andrew-Epstein Emails Post-2008 Plea

Newly released documents from the U.S. Department of Justice have revealed extensive email exchanges between Britain's Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, showing the former royal's continued contact with the convicted sex offender well after his 2008 guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

The files, totaling more than three million pages along with thousands of videos and images, were made public on Friday. They include communications from 2002 through 2010 that highlight Andrew's interactions with Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting underage girls for Epstein. Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

One exchange from August 2010 shows Epstein offering to arrange a dinner in London for Andrew with a 26-year-old Russian woman he described as "clever, beautiful and trustworthy." Writing from an email address associated with Andrew and signed "HRH The Duke of York KG," the prince replied that he would be "delighted to see her" and asked Epstein to provide his contact details. The woman, whose name was redacted in...