{"id":2101842,"date":"2025-10-19T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2101842"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:54:14","slug":"police-look-into-reports-prince-andrew-sought-to-dig-up-info-on-accuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/police-look-into-reports-prince-andrew-sought-to-dig-up-info-on-accuser\/","title":{"rendered":"Police look into reports Prince Andrew sought to dig up info on accuser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s Metropolitan Police are \u201cactively looking into\u201d reports that Prince Andrew tried to obtain personal information about his accuser Virginia Giuffre<\/a>, a spokesperson for the force told NBC News on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41, had alleged that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to his powerful friends, including Andrew, against whom she filed a lawsuit in 2021 alleging that he sexually abused her when she was 17.<\/p>\n

British newspaper the Mail on Sunday reported that Andrew asked his police protection officer to investigate Giuffre <\/strong>before a photo was published in February 2011, showing Andrew with his arm around Giuffre. The newspaper cited an email reportedly containing a request from Andrew, not seen by NBC News.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Sunday Telegraph also claimed that Andrew \u201csought to dig up dirt\u201d on Giuffre.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for London’s Metropolitan Police said: “We are aware of media reporting and are actively looking into the claims made.”<\/p>\n

Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied that the photo of him with Giuffre is real, and denies any wrongdoing connected with Epstein. He has not commented on the newspaper reports and did not immediately respond to NBC News\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

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

The reports came two days after Andrew announced he would stop using his royal titles<\/a>, including the Duke of York, after facing fresh questions over his friendship with Epstein.<\/p>\n

The decision was taken \u201cin discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family,\u201d he said in a statement, after concluding that \u201cthe continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

His former wife, Sarah Ferguson, will no longer be known as the Duchess of York.<\/p>\n

Andrew stepped back from active royal duties in 2019 as controversy around his association with Epstein swirled. He reached a settlement with Giuffre for an undisclosed amount in 2022 with no admission of wrongdoing.<\/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":"

LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s Metropolitan Police are \u201cactively looking into\u201d reports that Prince Andrew tried to obtain personal information about his accuser Virginia Giuffre, a spokesperson for the force told NBC News on Sunday. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41, had alleged that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2101843,"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-2101842","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\/Police-look-into-reports-Prince-Andrew-sought-to-dig-up.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101842","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=2101842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101844,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101842\/revisions\/2101844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}