Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein had young female models pose to be turned into hand-crafted pieces for a chessboard that featured him as the king.
The women – who were referred to as the ‘queens’ – reportedly told staff at a New York photography studio in 2016 that they were part of a chess club and came into the shop over several months posing for pictures in stylish outfits, TMZ reports.
Using their images, staff then made 3D sculptures of every piece needed for a chess set, except for the two kings.
Epstein, who killed himself in his prison cell in 2019, came in at the end of the process to have his photos taken so that he could then be turned into a figurine of the king.
Another piece was modelled after a different man who came in with the women.
A series of images show Epstein dressed in a black and white robe, as he sports a golden bejeweled crown on his head.
The unknown women also appear dressed in high heels and stylish outfits as they pose to be his queens and pawns.
The financier sex offender is understood to have paid $5,000 for 36 chess pieces that were carved from a sandstone material.
Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein had young female models pose to be turned into hand-crafted pieces for a chessboard that featured him as the king. Pictured: Epstein dressed in a white robe posing as a king for his chessboard
The women who had their photographs taken were then turned into figurines for Epstein’s chessboard
The financier sex offender is understood to have paid $5,000 for 36 chess pieces
It comes after new revelations emerged yesterday about the Duchess of York’s contact with Epstein.
The Mail On Sunday uncovered how Sarah Ferguson, also known as ‘Fergie’, wrote to Epstein to apologise for disavowing him in a public statement following his conviction for child sexual abuse offences.
In the newly published correspondence, Sarah issued a grovelling apology to Epstein for publicly disassociating herself from ‘her supreme friend’ when it emerged he had bailed her out financially – and she insisted she had only done so to save her career as a children’s author.
The bombshell leaked email shows Sarah wrote to the convicted sex offender to ‘humbly apologise’ in 2011 just weeks after telling the press she had cut all ties with him.
In an earlier interview that year, she described her involvement with Epstein, who had served time for soliciting prostitution from a minor, as a ‘gigantic error of judgment’.
A spokesperson for Sarah has now said the email was sent to counter an aggressive threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.
The Duke of York has already been forced to relinquish all his public duties and offices as a result of his association with Epstein and is barred from attending official royal events.
Sarah Ferguson is believed to have first met Epstein in the 1990s having been introduced by American British businesswoman Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the widow of banking tycoon Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, once one of Britain’s richest men.
In a testimony published last month, Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite jailed for 20 years for sex trafficking, described the Duchess as a ‘frenemy’ who lusted after Epstein.
Maxwell said of the Duchess: ‘She had a thing for him… and I thought that Sarah was trying to put the moves on Jeffrey.’
Epstein accuser Ms Giuffre died by suicide, aged 41, at her farm home near Perth in Australia.
She had previously told how Epstein and Maxwell kept her as a sex slave while flying her around the world and offering her to their powerful associates ‘like a platter of fruit’.
She alleged they trafficked her to the Duke of York when she was 17 and was three times sexually assaulted by him – a claim which Prince Andrew has denied.
The prince reached an out-of-court settlement with her in 2022.
Andrew has denied her allegations and said he could not recall ever meeting her.
A photograph has been widely shared of them together in a London townhouse, his arm around her bare midriff, and was included in Ms Giuffre’s lawsuit against him.
Epstein killed himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges involving dozens of teenage girls and young women, some as young as 14.
