Epstein ‘took Romanian model for dinner with Andrew at Buckingham Palace’
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had ‘great fun’ with a young Romanian model at a private Buckingham Palace dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, the latest files suggest.
The former Prince hosted the paedophile financier and four women at the Palace while the Queen was away in Balmoral.
Epstein described the Romanian woman, who was in her early 20s, as ‘very cute’ and told her she had been ‘perfect’.
The revelations have sparked calls for the Metropolitan Police to launch a criminal investigation into Andrew, with questions unanswered as to how much courtiers knew of Epstein’s activities in royal residences.
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Details of the dinner, published by the US Department of Justice last weekend and uncovered by the Mail on Sunday, suggest Andrew first organised an intimate dinner with Epstein and three women, named only as Sarah, Sue, and Vera.
Epstein then added a fourth woman to the guest list on the night of the dinner, which was held just over a year after he was released from an 18-month jail term for soliciting a minor.
The financier wrote to Andrew at 6.41pm on September 27, 2010, telling the then Duke to ‘add one more’.
He added: ‘Romanian, very cute.’
The model met Epstein at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in Belgravia before being driven to Buckingham Palace.
What happened inside Buckingham Palace that night is not known, but the following morning, the unnamed model thanked Epstein for a ‘once-in-a-lifetime experience.’
Epstein replied: ‘You were not going to go because of you didn’t like your jeans [sic] and Andrew thought beautiful.
‘No man looks at your clothes, they see through them.’
Minutes later, Epstein emailed Andrew saying: ‘Great fun, more later.’
Andrew then replied: ‘Yes please!’
The woman has not responded when asked if she was a victim of Epstein. Buckingham Palace declined to comment and Andrew did not respond.
The new details have sparked calls for police officers to open a new investigation into the ex-Prince.
Royal author Andrew Lownie said: ‘We have lots of stories now of women being taken to Andrew and I think there are strong grounds for the Met to reopen their case.
‘The Palace does have visitor logs and it needs to launch its own investigation into security at Royal palaces and whether the law was broken.
‘It should be passing this information to law enforcement.’
The model seems to have entered Epstein’s cirlces when she was a student in Bucharest in 2008.
Emails appear to suggest she visited Florida and Paris and that the paedophile covered her rent and dental bills.
The Mail on Sunday reports that Epstein helped her get a job through multimillionaire British businessman Lyndon Lea.
Epstein told Mr Lea she was a ‘good friend, former high fashion model from Romania, business school degree, anxious to start a real job… I’m sure she will excel’.
Mr Lea, who helps lead an anti-trafficking charity, later told Epstein he had arranged a paid internship in London.
The MoS said the businessman did not reply to a request for a comment.
Merely being mentioned or featuring in the material released in the Epstein case is not evidence of any wrongdoing.
Epstein later referenced the dinner at Buckingham Palace as he lambasted the Romanian model.
In an email from October 2010, the paedophile told her: ‘I have been there for you for over two years.
‘You have followed [your] own path, in contrast to my strong suggestions.
‘Like our night at the Palace, it was easy, you were perfect and no one cared about your clothes. I will help you AFTER and only AFTER you start helping yourself.’
Andrew is also the subject of another police probe after Thames Valley Police said they will review an allegation that Epstein sent a woman to the UK to have sex with Andrew at Royal Lodge.
It is the first time an Epstein victim has claimed a sexual encounter took place in a royal residence. Andre has denied any wrongdoing.
Virginia Giuffre alleged that she had sex with Andrew at Ghislaine Maxwell’s pad in Belgravia in 2001 – a claim he strongly denies.
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