Don’t look at me, feds, sez Andrew
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.