Epstein offered Prince Andrew meeting with a Russian woman, DOJ emails show

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Emails released by the Department of Justice on Friday show that Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Britain’s former Prince Andrew in 2010 offering to arrange a meeting with a Russian woman he described as 26 years old, “clever, beautiful and trustworthy.” In one message Mr. Epstein wrote, “I have a friend I think you might enjoy having dinner with,” and later described the woman as 26 and Russian.

The prince replied that he would be “delighted” to meet her and later asked, “What have you told her about me and have you given her my email as well?” The exchange is part of about three million files related to the Epstein investigation released by the DOJ and adds new details to the long friendship between Mr.

Epstein, the convicted sex offender, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. In October, the prince was stripped of his royal titles after other new disclosures showed the extent of his closeness with Mr. Epstein. Around 2001, Mr. Epstein trafficked a teenage girl to Prince Andrew, who had sex with her multiple times, according to legal filings later made by the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied Ms. Giuffre’s accusations and any wrongdoing in relation to his friendship with Mr. Epstein. The newly released emails were written about a decade after the alleged 2001 incidents. Mr.

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