Rep. Ro Khanna urges British royals to compensate Epstein victims

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) believes the British royal family should compensate the victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid scrutiny over ties to the former Prince Andrew.

Khanna, citing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s purported role in Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking ring, told The i Paper the royal family “should be compensating each of the working class girls who were victims of the Epstein class.”

“The Royal Family should be ashamed and horrified,” he added. 

The California progressive co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed through Congress with near unanimous support and was signed into law by President Trump — who previously dismissed the congressional push to release the Epstein files as a “hoax.” 

Khanna later reiterated his claim Saturday, saying on the social platform X that the royal family “should personally compensate Epstein’s victims.”

The Golden State lawmaker’s comments come after the latest batch of documents related to the Epstein case released by the Department of Justice last Tuesday highlighted Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with the disgraced financier. 

The latest files show the department had evidence that Mountbatten-Windsor “engaged in sexual conduct involving one of Epstein’s victims,” prosecutors alleged in 2020.

Prior to her suicide in April, Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, accused Mountbatten-Windsor of sexually exploiting her as a teenager. 

The former British royal has denied wrongdoing in regard to his relationship with Epstein. King Charles III, however, stripped his brother’s title and evicted him from his Royal Lodge mansion near Windsor Castle in October. 

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee also called on the former Prince Andrew to testify as part of the committee’s probe into the Epstein case last month. Mountbatten-Windsor has not responded to the request.