In 2014, the late Virginia Giuffre became the first woman to publicly accuse Mountbatten-Windsor of similar encounters.
She alleged that as a 17-year-old she was trafficked by Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and forced to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor – a claim he continues to deny.
Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit in the US against him in 2021, settling the case in February 2022 for an estimated £12m. She took her own life last year.
Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to Epstein are facing greater scrutiny with the release of millions of pages of documents and images by the US Department of Justice.
A recent tranche of files relating to the financier includes pictures appearing to show Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling on all fours over a woman lying on the ground.
A number of email exchanges between Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor – which came in the years after the US billionaire pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor – were also published in the files.
According to one set of emails in the latest release, Mountbatten-Windsor and his police protection officers were given a temporary security code to “get in and out” Epstein’s New York home for a stay in December 2010.
The emails show arrangements being made for Mountbatten-Windsor’s December 2010 stay with the convicted sex offender, who had finished serving a prison sentence less than five months earlier.
The pair were photographed walking in New York’s Central Park on 9 December 2010.
The former prince told BBC Newsnight in 2019 that the visit was “with the sole purpose of saying to him that because he had been convicted, it was inappropriate for us to be seen together”.
The BBC has contacted Mountbatten-Windsor and the Metropolitan Police for comment.
The former prince is facing mounting pressure to testify before the US Congress over his dealings with Epstein.
Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: “In terms of testifying I have always said anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that.
“You can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that.”
Palace sources have claimed: “Providing testimony is now a matter for Andrew and his conscience.”
Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Wednesday, Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips said Mountbatten-Windsor testifying “would be everything”.
Epstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
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