Lawyers tell FBI: Release Epstein’s home movies found at Palm Beach orgy mansion

A SECRET cache of videotapes locked in an FBI vault could provide dramatic new evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, it emerged last night.

Lawyers for Virginia Roberts, who claims she was Andrew’s underage ‘sex slave’, believe the footage seized by police at the paedophile billionaire’s mansion in 2005 could contain sordid images backing up her account.

The Mail on Sunday has seen a list of property confiscated by the Palm Beach police and sheriff’s departments at Epstein’s Florida mansion, including at least 35 video tapes, fourteen 8mm video tapes, 23 audio tapes, a computer and two hard drives.

The 89-page police dossier, unearthed by lawyers for Epstein’s victims, was passed to our journalists.

Epstein, 61, was convicted of soliciting sex with a minor in 2008, and is said to have had a network of covert video cameras in his palatial properties in Palm Beach, New York and the Virgin Islands, where he secretly filmed his abuse of underage girls.

In legal papers, Ms Roberts, now 31, claims she was ‘forced to have sex’ with Prince Andrew in 2001 when she was aged 17 in New York, London and on Epstein’s Caribbean island.

As all evidence in the case was ‘sealed’ under the terms of a controversial plea bargain and immunity agreement in 2008, which saw Epstein serve just 13 months, only a few investigators know the true nature of what is contained on the seized items.

But that may change, as lawyers for Epstein’s victims have mounted a legal challenge to the so-called ‘sweetheart deal’.

If the highly unusual deal is overturned, anyone else connected to Epstein’s crime would be open to criminal prosecution, and the sealed tapes would be open to inspection.