2 hours agoShareSaveSean Dilley,North America Correspondent, Ed Campbell,BBC News Investigations and Chris GrahamShareSaveIndigo / Getty ImagesAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor told Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell “I can’t take any more of this”, when he was first alerted 14 years ago that a British newspaper was about to run a report about the trio.His email conversation with the US-based pair was among documents from the estate of the convicted sex offender Epstein that were released on Wednesday, including some mentioning Donald Trump. The former prince’s response came after he was forwarded a right-of-reply email that the Mail on Sunday had sent Maxwell in March 2011, which made numerous claims about Andrew.According to files released on Wednesday, Andrew’s reply reads: “What’s all this? I don’t know anything about this! You must SAY so please. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take any more of this.”The latest release comes after Andrew was requested by Democrats in US Congress to answer questions as part of its investigation into Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking offences.Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, told BBC Two’s Newsnight that Andrew had not yet responded to the Committee’s invitation to testify before the committee. He said the former prince “doesn’t have to get on a plane to testify, he can do it remotely”. Virginia Giuffre – a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein – alleged Andrew had sex with her three times as a teenager. Andrew, who has denied the allegations, reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022 which contained no admission of liability or apology.He was stripped of all his titles earlier this month after Giuffre’s posthumous memoir threw new focus on Andrew’s ties to Epstein and Maxwell.Trump mentioned in emailsThree emails from the Epstein estate, released by Democrats on the Congressional House Oversight Committee, indicate that Trump was mentioned several times by Epstein in emails exchanged with Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking. They also released emails between Epstein and the author Michael Wolff, who has written numerous books about Trump.One email from Epstein to Maxwell, sent in April 2011, claims that Trump spent hours at Epstein’s house with a person whose name was redacted.Epstein wrote: “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him.”The White House later said the unnamed “victim” referenced was Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year. In a statement, the White House said Giuffre “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions”.Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition that she never saw Trump participate in any abuse. And in a memoir released this year, she did not accuse the president of any wrongdoing.Within hours, House Republicans then released thousands more documents to counter what they said was a Democratic effort to “cherry-pick” documents. They also said it had been an attempt to “create a fake narrative to slander President Trump”.Hours after the latest publication of emails, the newly-sworn in Democratic Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva signed a petition, meaning it now has sufficient numbers to force a House vote that could require the US Department of Justice to release all the Epstein files.The office of House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said the House would hold that vote next week.Epstein on Andrew photoPA MediaThe latest files shed further light on the relationship between Andrew and Epstein, with one email appearing to confirm a photograph of Andrew with his arm around a 17-year-old Giuffre was real. In an exchange with a journalist in July 2011, Epstein appeared to discuss Giuffre and her photograph with Andrew. “Yes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have,” he wrote. Andrew said in his 2019 Newsnight interview that he had no recol …
