The move followed revelations in a drip-feed of documents, the latest tranche of which was published on Friday, that proved Mr Mountbatten-Windsor had lied to the public over claims that he had cut ties with Epstein.
The former prince claimed in the 2019 Newsnight interview that he ended his friendship with the financier in 2010 following Epstein’s conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
A recently surfaced email showed the former duke continued to pursue their friendship beyond this, writing to Epstein in 2011: “We are in this together.”
Epstein died by suicide in a federal jail in Manhattan, New York, as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. He had previously pleaded guilty to child sex offences in 2008. Maxwell was convicted of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2021.
Maxwell found Epstein’s friendship ‘immediately rewarding’
The first account of how he met Maxwell has resurfaced in the documents released by the US department of justice.
A biography of the financier contained within the disclosures claims that he saved Maxwell from falling into a “deep depression” after her father’s death.
The British socialite had moved to New York in 1991, months before Robert Maxwell fell to his death from his yacht, Lady Ghislaine, in an apparent suicide aged 68. She met Epstein shortly after her father’s death.
The typed account (below), which is written in the third person, describes how Epstein and Maxwell met through “mutual friends”, and claims she found the friendship “immediately rewarding”.
The account, which is recorded as being Epstein’s “personal history”, appears to have been drafted as part of his defence after he was charged in Florida in 2006 with solicitation of a minor.
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