(US Department of Justice)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nHe has strenuously denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
Andrew first stepped down from his royal duties in 2019 following a disastrous Newsnight interview in which he denied maintaining a friendship with Epstein. However, the two were pictured together in New York in December 2010, in a meeting Andrew claimed was to break off their friendship.<\/p>\n
The publication of Ms Giuffre\u2019s memoir following her death by suicide put fresh pressure on the royal family to cut ties with Andrew.<\/p>\n
He has also faced calls to give evidence to a House Oversight Committee in connection with his \u201clong-standing friendship\u201d with Epstein. <\/p>\n
The committee on oversight and government reform, which is investigating the late financier\u2019s sex trafficking operations and the US government\u2019s handling of the case, said it had identified \u201cfinancial records containing notations such as \u2018massage for Andrew\u2019 that raise serious questions\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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