{"id":2100410,"date":"2025-10-18T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2100410"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:18:29","slug":"prince-andrews-six-year-downfall-over-jeffrey-epstein-ties-comes-to-a-dramatic-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-andrews-six-year-downfall-over-jeffrey-epstein-ties-comes-to-a-dramatic-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew’s six-year downfall over Jeffrey Epstein ties comes to a dramatic conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The family of one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sexual abuse<\/a> has welcomed Prince Andrew\u2019s announcement that he will stop using his royal titles, including the Duke of York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrince Andrew\u2019s decision to give up his titles is vindication for our sister and survivors everywhere,\u201d the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre<\/a>, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A flow of stories about Prince Andrew\u2019s association with Epstein has dogged King Charles III\u2019s younger brother<\/a> for six years, with the scandal becoming one of the most damaging in recent British royal history.<\/p>\n

Giuffre had alleged that Epstein trafficked her to his powerful friends, including Andrew, against whom she filed a lawsuit in 2021 alleging that Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17.<\/p>\n

Andrew, who denies having had sex with Giuffre and any wrongdoing connected to Epstein,\u00a0stepped back from active royal duties in 2019 as controversy around his association with Epstein swirled. He agreed to settle the suit with Giuffre for an undisclosed amount in 2022 with no admission of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s announcement came after the Mail on Sunday and the Sun on Sunday newspapers published an email, not verified by NBC News, reported to have been sent by Andrew to Epstein in 2011, after a photograph was published showing Andrew with his arm around Giuffre, accompanied by Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/a><\/p>\n

The palace did not comment on the reported email, which the newspapers say told Epstein \u201cwe are in this together\u201d and concluded \u201cplay some more soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The email was especially damaging because it appeared to contradict his previous comments in a 2019 interview with the BBC, in which he said he had stopped communicating with Epstein after visiting him in New York in 2010, the year before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the real last nail in the coffin for Andrew because it makes him look, in black and white, like a liar,\u201d said NBC News royal commentator Daisy McAndrew.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is now persona non grata,\u201d said McAndrew. \u201cHe won\u2019t be welcome at any royal events, and he will have to keep an even lower profile than he has done so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew did not respond to requests for comment on the email, but has previously repeatedly denied that the photo of him with Giuffre is real.<\/p>\n

In their statement, Guiffre\u2019s family urged King Charles to \u201cremove the title of prince.\u201d<\/p>\n

McAndrew said stripping Andrew of his princely title would require a legal change that is \u201chighly unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s decision to stop using his titles was taken \u201cin discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family,\u201d he said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me,\u201d Andrew said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nbcnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The family of one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sexual abuse has welcomed Prince Andrew\u2019s announcement that he will stop using his royal titles, including the Duke of York. \u201cPrince Andrew\u2019s decision to give up his titles is vindication for our sister and survivors everywhere,\u201d the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2100411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prince-Andrews-six-year-downfall-over-Jeffrey-Epstein-ties-comes-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100412,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100410\/revisions\/2100412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}