: Nigel Cawthorne
: Prince Andrew Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace - 'Excruciating'
: Gibson Square
: 9781783341771
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: CHF 10.80
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: Biographien, Autobiographien
: English
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 'Excruciating.&ap s; Sunday Times The arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sparked a Prince Andrew world-media frenzy. But few know the palace intrigue behind their long-standing triangular relationship. Going behind the headlines, documentaries and mini-series, PRINCE ANDREW exposes for the first time the unknown details of the Epstein scandal behind secretive palace gates and how it impacted on the power struggle between Andrew and his older brother Prince Charles. Rife with machinations and plots, it paints a rare and riveting, insider picture of vice and rarified daily life at the royal court. It is an unbelievable story how a boy from Coney Island befriended the world's foremost royal family. PRINCE ANDREW casts a truly eye-watering light on one of the dirtiest stories of our time, giving the reader much-needed forensic insight into all the facts, allegations and counter-allegations.  

Nigel Cawthorne started his career as a journalist at the Financial Times and has since written bestselling books on Prince Philip, Princess Diana, and the history of the royal family, as well as provided royal news comment on national and international broadcasters.

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The first warning sign of a hurricane aiming for Buckingham Palace came on 6 July 2019 when billionaire businessman Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal charges related to sex trafficking. Twelve years earlier he had pleaded guilty to Florida State charges of soliciting girls as young as thirteen for prostitution and served nearly thirteen months in low-security Palm Beach County Jail. The sixty six year old now faced as much as forty-three years in a federal jail. Though guards were supposed to check on him every thirty minutes, he was found hanged in his cell on 10 August. Verdict: suicide.
Most of Epstein’s influential friends, including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, distanced themselves from him after his first fall from grace. However, for another friend—Prince Andrew—it was too late.
The US Appeals Court in New York City released two thousand pages of papers from a defamation suit by Virginia Roberts Giuffre that included her claim that Epstein had used her as a sex slave while underage and had forced her to have sex with Andrew on three occasions. Even before these allegations, a photograph had surfaced of the prince with his arm around the seventeen year old’s naked midriff.
Also in the picture was Andrew’s close friend Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend and daughter of disgraced media mogul Robert Maxwell, who died under mysterious circumstances after he went missing from his yacht Lady Ghislaine off the Canary Islands in 1991. In a lawsuit, Giuffre claimed Maxwell had procured her when she was fifteen for Epstein and worked at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for $9 an hour, and that Maxwell was Epstein’s accomplice in trafficking her to Andrew and others. Maxwell denied the allegations outright when she was deposed under oath and called Giuffre a liar, leading Giuffre to sue for defamation. An attempt to get the prince to testify under oath in the defamation case failed. When Giuffre’s law suit was settled in May 2017, its court papers were sealed, only to be released in part by the New York Court of Appeals the day before Epstein died.



Case 18-2868 unsealed papers, US District Court, Southern District of New York

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