Prince ‘was given foot massage by 2 Russian women at Epstein mansion’
PRINCE Andrew was seen inside the New York apartment of Jeffrey Epstein being given a foot massage by two young Russian women, according to a report in the US.
Literary agent John Brockman said he walked into the Upper East Side mansion to find a middle-aged Englishman being given the massage.
The man, who wore a suit and braces, was introduced to Mr Brockman, an influential agent representing leading science writers, as ‘Andy’.
It was only when ‘Andy’ started to complain bitterly that, unlike him, Prince Albert of Monaco could misbehave as he liked in private and get away with it that his identity dawned on Mr Brockman.
‘At that point I realised that the recipient of Irina’s foot massage was His Royal Highsex
‘If I do it I’m in big trouble’
ness, Prince Andrew, Duke of York,’ he told a client in an email exchange published in a US magazine.
The incident, which appears to date from early 2011 following Epstein’s release from prison on a child sex conviction, provides further potentially compromising evidence of the Duke’s relationship with the alleged paedophile and sex trafficker.
Although Buckingham Palace refused to comment yesterday on Mr Brockman’s account, it will put further pressure on Prince Andrew to explain his involvement with Epstein.
The financier was found hanged in his jail cell on August 10 while awaiting trial on trafficking charges. Commenting on behalf of the prince, a Palace spokesman said last night: ‘We would reiterate our earlier statement, “Any suggestion of impropriety with under-age minors is categorically untrue”.’
Mr Brockman’s description of his brief encounter with Andrew – which a Palace insider insisted was ‘not an account we recognise’ – would roughly tally with a reported four-day stay he had at Epstein’s home over Christmas in 2010.
The prince was guest of honour at a ‘welcome home’ party for Epstein, recently released from a Florida prison. During his stay, a string of attractive young women were pictured coming and going. In a recently released video, the Duke was seen furtively waving goodbye to one, later identified as former Australian prime minister Paul Keating’s daughter Katherine.
Mr Brockman has now shed light on what might have been going on behind the front door of Epstein’s palatial 71st Street home.
Others who mixed with Epstein have also recounted how his royal friend was referred to simply as ‘Andy’ and how they didn’t immediately realise who he was.
Mr Brockman’s meeting with the prince was revealed by science writer Evgeny Morozov, who Mr Brockman had urged to meet Epstein, a generous donor to scientific projects. In an email exchange dated September 2013, Mr Brockman wrote: ‘Last time I visited his house (the largest private residence in NYC), I walked in to find him in a sweatsuit and a British guy in a suit with suspenders [braces], getting foot massages from two young well-dressed Russian women.
‘After grilling me for a while about cyber security, the Brit, named Andy, was commenting on the Swedish authorities and the charges against Julian Assange. “We think they’re liberal in Sweden, but it’s more like Northern England as opposed to Southern Europe,” he said.’
The Duke, said Mr Brockman, added: ‘In Monaco, Albert works 12 hours a day but at 9pm, when he goes out, he does whatever he wants, and nobody cares. But if I do it, I’m in big trouble.’
Mr Brockman said he only then realised who he was talking to. He said that a week later, the New York Post ran a picture of Andrew and Epstein walking in Central Park under the headline ‘The Prince and the Perv’. In the ensuing furore, the Duke gave up his role as UK trade ambassador.
Mr Morozov said Mr Brockman was clearly ‘acting as Epstein’s PR man’, vaguely mentioning his controversial history in the email by saying ‘he got into trouble and spent a year in jail in Florida’.
The prince said last week that he was ‘appalled’ by the reports of Epstein’s ‘alleged crimes’.