Prince Andrew met Jeffrey Epstein while Epstein was under house arrest for sex offenses, newly unearthed emails suggest—despite Andrew’s insistence that he had met Epstein only once after his release from jail, when the royal had traveled to New York in December 2010 to reportedly break off their friendship.
Thereports that in an email sent on June 14 that year, Epstein told a banker: “Andrew just sat next to me at dinner. We will try to connect this week…” In his infamous 2019 BBCinterview, Andrew said he had “ceased contact” with Epstein when it was revealed he was “under investigation” for soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, for which Epstein was convicted and subsequently jailed in 2008 for 13 months.