The reminder of Prince Andrew’s dealings with the late convicted sex trafficker is the kind of Christmas present the royal could live without.
Ahead of the documents’ release,misinformation about their contents ran rampant on social media.
The sex trafficker socialised with Wall Street titans,royalty and celebrities before pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008.
The people whose names are to be disclosed include sex abuse victims,litigation witnesses,Epstein’s employees and even some with just a passing connection to the scandal.
The decision means papers relating to Prince Andrew will not be available for public scrutiny in his lifetime,unless he lives to be 105.
Court papers dispute claims made by the Duke of York in a 2019 BBC interview that he only met the disgraced financier once following his 2008 conviction.
Staff at the US prison where the accused sex trafficker was held falsified reports and failed to fix faulty security cameras,allowing him to stockpile dangerous items.
The paedophile financier said he could introduce the Wall Street banker to the president of Columbia University at Davos to secure his daughter a place,according to a previously confidential report.
When it comes to JPMorgan Chase’s nearly 15-year business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,Jamie Dimon,the bank’s longtime CEO,claims to have little first-hand knowledge about the disgraced financier.
Convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein wanted the Microsoft co-founder to support a charity he had set up and threatened to expose the affair unless he co-operated.
Goldman Sachs partners swapped incredulous messages,traded theories and fielded queries from puzzled clients after the revelation of its top lawyer’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein.