Prince Andrew said he was "appalled" by the charges of sexual abuse in the Jeffrey Epstein case, after the broadcast of a video that would show him in 2010 at the home of the financier sued for raping minors and found died in prison on August 10 in New York.
A compromising video
"His Royal Highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and imply that he could endorse, participate in or support such practices is abominable," said Buckingham Palace in a statement repeated by the local press association Press Association . The Daily Mail has posted a video showing the Prince, son of Queen Elizabeth II, greeting a woman leaving Epstein's home in New York City in 2010.
The shadow of Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexual assault on minors, was arrested and charged in early July for organizing for several years, a network of dozens of girls under his control, some college girls, with whom he had sex in his many properties, including Manhattan and Florida. He was found dead on August 10 in his New York cell, the results of the autopsy confirming a suicide by hanging.
This member of the American jet-set whose entourage counted a time Bill Clinton, Donald Trump or Prince Andrew regularly solicited "massages" that, according to the US survey, could turn to forced sex. Virginia Giuffre, one of the alleged victims, said in 2016 that she had sex with the prince while she was a minor. Buckingham Palace repeatedly denied any inappropriate behavior of the prince.