Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor pictured mendacity throughout 5 individuals in new Epstein recordsdata picture | EUROtoday

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been pictured mendacity throughout the legs of 5 individuals in a picture launched in an enormous dump of recordsdata associated to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

In the undated photograph, convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell seems to see down and smile on the former prince, who’s smiling together with his eyes closed and his head close to a girl’s lap.

Maxwell – the previous girlfriend of Epstein, who’s at the moment serving 20 years in jail for her function in a decade-long scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor ladies with him – may be seen standing beside one other girl.

All six individuals other than Maxwell and the previous Duke of York have had their faces redacted within the picture, which is {a photograph} of an image in a photograph body.

Andrew was stripped of his royal titles in November by the King following controversy over his hyperlinks to Epstein. He strenuously denies any wrongdoing. In a beforehand issued assertion, he stated: “At no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction.”

A trove of paperwork, together with court docket information, footage and pictures, was uploaded on Friday night time to the US Department of Justice web site, which held customers in a queue because it skilled an “extremely high volume of search requests”.

Former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson additionally featured within the newly launched recordsdata. In one photograph, she is seen sitting on a settee subsequent to a girl whose identification has been redacted. In one other picture, she seems smiling on the digital camera whereas posing on a avenue, once more with a girl whose identification has been shielded.

In the newest paperwork, there are additionally a number of photographs of former President Bill Clinton lounging in a scorching tub, in addition to Epstein with a bunch of celebrities and high-profile figures, together with Michael Jackson, Richard Branson and Lord Peter Mandelson. Mick Jagger additionally seems within the newly launched recordsdata.

Being featured within the Epstein recordsdata doesn’t imply there’s any suggestion of wrongdoing.

The information dump got here after US deputy lawyer basic Todd Blanche stated “several hundred thousand” paperwork from the so-called “Epstein files” could be launched forward of a authorized deadline.

He stated the necessity to defend the victims of intercourse offender Epstein meant 1000’s extra could be launched over the approaching weeks.

The US Department of Justice are legally obligated to make all recordsdata associated to the investigation into Epstein public by midnight on Friday following the passing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The paedophile financier was discovered lifeless in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan, New York, in August 2019 whereas he awaited trial on intercourse trafficking fees. His dying was dominated a suicide.

Among the tons of of photographs included within the recordsdata are additionally undated photographs of Maxwell standing exterior the door of 10 Downing Street and posing with former US president Bill Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey.

Many of the photographs and paperwork are closely redacted, prompting criticism from US lawmakers and attorneys for Epstein’s victims.

Congressman Thomas Massie, a Republican who pressed for the regulation forcing the disclosure, stated: “Unfortunately, today’s document release by AG Pam Bondi and DAG Todd Blanche grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law that Donald Trump signed just 30 days ago.”

Andrew has confronted allegations, which he strenuously denies, that he sexually assaulted a teenage Virginia Giuffre after she was trafficked by Epstein. He paid thousands and thousands to Ms Giuffre, a girl he has claimed by no means to have met, to settle a civil sexual assault declare in 2022.

Tens of 1000’s of information regarding Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ms Maxwell, have already been launched by civil and felony instances within the US.

It comes after a recent batch of photographs from Epstein’s property have been launched on Thursday by the Democrats.

A complete of 68 photographs have been revealed on-line on Thursday, together with billionaire businessman Bill Gates posing with ladies whose faces have been redacted, and distinguished thinker Noam Chomsky on board Epstein’s non-public jet.

The newest batch follows others from Epstein’s property posted final week, together with one in every of Andrew standing subsequent to Microsoft magnate Mr Gates.

Andrew stepped down from royal duties in 2019 after his disastrous Newsnight interview, however the publication of Ms Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, and the US authorities’s launch of paperwork from Epstein’s property, introduced extra scrutiny over his relationship with the financier.

It led to the King formally stripping his disgraced brother of each his HRH fashion and his prince title.

US politicians have criticised him for his “silence” after he missed a deadline final month to answer their request to sit down for an interview about Epstein.