New York Daily News

Don’t look at me, feds, sez Andrew

- BY STEPHEN REX BROWN

Prince Andrew has “completely shut the door” on cooperatin­g with federal prosecutor­s continuing to investigat­e Jeffrey Epstein’s sex traffickin­g ring, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said Monday.

“Contrary to Prince Andrew’s very public offer to cooperate with our investigat­ion into Epstein’s co-conspirato­rs, an offer that was conveyed via press release, Prince Andrew has now completely shut the door on voluntary cooperatio­n and our office is considerin­g its options,” Berman said at an unrelated press conference.

Berman said in January that Andrew had offered “zero cooperatio­n” with authoritie­s on the Epstein case. Authoritie­s vowed after Epstein’s suicide behind bars in

August that an investigat­ion into the multimilli­onaire perv’s circle of enablers would continue.

Andrew (inset) has long denied allegation­s Epstein loaned him a traffickin­g victim, Virginia Giuffre, for sex.

In November, Andrew caused a furor when he said in a disastrous interview with BBC that Epstein had “quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming.”

“Of course, I am willing to help any appropriat­e law enforcemen­t agency with their investigat­ions, if required,” Andrew said, seeking to address the outrage.

The prince has said he doesn’t remember ever meeting Giuffre despite a photo from 2001 of him smiling with the then-17-yearold girl and Epstein’s alleged madame, Ghislaine Maxwell.

“He knows what happened,” Giuffre has said. “I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth, and I know that’s me.”

She recalled Andrew sweating on her while they danced at a London nightclub.

Andrew challenged that account in bizarre fashion.

“There’s a slight problem with … the sweating because I have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don’t sweat ... because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at,” he said.

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