Will Prince Andrew face investigation over Jeffrey Epstein list 'underage orgy' ... trends now
The bombshell claim that Prince Andrew participated in an 'underage orgy' on Jeffrey Epstein's private island has prompted questions of whether he will now face another US law enforcement investigation.
Andrew - who has always denied wrongdoing - is among those named in newly unredacted court documents released by the Southern District Court of New York yesterday.
His association with Epstein and claims he slept with Virginia Giuffre are not new, but her claim that he took part in an 'orgy' with 'other underage girls' at Epstein's home in the US Virgin Islands is among the most serious new allegations.
The FBI declined to comment when asked if the 'orgy' claim would be investigated.
Prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands, where the apparent incident took place, have not yet publicly addressed it.
Prince Andrew at Sandringham on Christmas Day, 2023. He is said to have avoided prosecutors questions in 2019 despite publicly vowing to assist with the investigation into Epstein
The palace has not commented on the allegation, citing a policy that it does not comment on non-working royals. Andrew stepped down from official duties in 2019 after his association with Epstein was pored over in the wake of the pedophile's death.
A 2019 investigation into Epstein's network put Andrew in its sights, but prosecutors say he was uncooperative and their work led nowhere.
In a 2022 memoir about the probe, former prosecutor Geoffrey Berman said his office got nowhere in trying to compel the UK to cooperate with the investigation.
Berman declined to comment on the orgy allegation when contacted by DailyMail.com today.
'Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, was friends with both Epstein and Maxwell. He had been at the New York mansion and on the island. He stated publicly that he would cooperate in the investigation, and we intended to give him a chance to make good on his word.
'I did not normally mention anyone's name in relation to an ongoing investigation. Prince Andrew was the exception because he kept publicly saying that he was cooperating in the Epstein investigation, which was not true.
'It started in November 2019, when Prince Andrew, following a disastrous televised interview about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, issued a press release stating that he would be willing to help in our investigation.
Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell at Maxwell's London home
'Of course I am willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required'.
'I asked our team to reach out to his lawyers to set up an interview. Alex Rossmiller and Ted Diskant spent about two weeks just trying to find out who his lawyers were. We tried calling
