NEW documents appear to show Jeffrey Epstein wanted Andrew’s help with contacts in China as he ‘sought business opportunities’ with the former Prince.
In previously unseen emails released as part of the Epstein Files, the disgraced paedophile financier told an associate the ex-Duke could help them grow business in China.
A trove of more than 1,000 messages show Epstein had provided advice to Jes Staley, the former head of Barclays.
Staley previously worked for JPMorgan Chase and was chief executive officer of Barclays from December 2015 to 2021.
He resigned after the UK bank’s probe into his relationship with Epstein, which also saw £22 million worth of bonuses for Staley frozen.
There are 11 references to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor in Epstein’s emails and texts to Staley between June 2009 and February 2011.
They appear to show how Epstein believed the disgraced Duke could be a business asset in deals China.
In March 2010, Epstein wrote to Staley: “The English papers want andrews[sic] head, , tomorow[sic] they will say the fbi investigation wants to talk to him,, its all bull,, but it sells.”
Then a few months later, in May, Epstein sent an email to Andrew before a meeting between the royal and Staley.
In it, the financier wrote: “I know you are seeing Jes Staley this morning, he is like family, and can be trusted. 100%.”
Meanwhile, on September 2, 2010, Staley suggested he had arranged another meeting with Andrew after sitting down with Wang Qishan.
He emailed Epstein: “And I just had the most senior meeting [JP Morgan Chase] has had save for Jamie [Dimon, JP Morgan Chase chief executive] meeting with Wang Qishan.
“I spent almost 2 hours with Minister Li Yuanchao of the Organization Department. He will be in the Standing Committee in the next Government.
“I will tell u what he offered/asked when we meet. Very cool. I’m seeing the Prince this afternoon.”
The “Prince” is understood to be a reference to Andrew.
In one correspondence to Staley on September 28, 2010, Epstein also wrote: “Prince Andrew would like much more to represent casanov in china than tim Collins.”
By the end of 2010, Epstein was forwarding emails to Staley from the former Prince about a £150million oil deal.
The emails, prepared as evidence in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell who is currently serving 20 years behind bars for helping recruit and traffic underage girls for sex, read: “Since the company is based in the US Prince Andrew appeared to suggest Epstein connect them with a US bank.”
Andrew is still mentioned as late as February 28, 2011 which further suggests the ex-duke had not cut ties with the paedophile as he said he did in 2010.
Epstein wrote to Staley to say “andrew asked for your london schedule”.
This comes as newly released Epstein files also showed Andrew grinning in photos of his lying across women and hunting with the paedo at Balmoral.
A trove of 300,000 Epstein documents, including court records, footage and images, also included new photos of Andrew at Balmoral and Ascot with Epstein and Maxwell.
Thousands of PDF links lead to pictures showing other famous figures – such as former president Bill Clinton who can be seen in one image relaxing with Epstein and a mystery woman in a hot tub.
Another picture shows Clinton and pop star Michael Jackson posing alongside an unidentified woman.
One of the images also shows a topless Epstein pictured at his notorious paedo island home with what appears to be a toddler’s foot.
The files also contain a chilling masseuse list – featuring 254 redacted names.
Among the thousands of pictures released, one shows Andrew, 65, at a black-tie event with Ghislaine Maxwell.
The humiliated ex-royal was pictured lying across the lap of five women, whose faces have all been redacted.
Dressed in a suit and bow tie, Andrew appears to be smiling with his eyes closed and his head nearly resting on a woman’s lap.
The undated image is a photograph of a picture in a photo frame but it remains unclear when or where the original photo was taken, or who took it.
According to Sky News, the picture was taken in front of the fireplace in the saloon room at Sandringham – the Norfolk estate where King Charles and members of his family will spend Christmas.
Other photographs show Epstein and Maxwell enjoying hunting trips at the late Queen’s Balmoral residence in Scotland with Andrew, and in the Royal Box at Ascot.
They were known to have been guests of the former prince during Ladies’ Day in 2000, which was attended by Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother.
Chilling new images also show a sinister massage room, pictures of naked women and hidden cameras in Epstein’s $77million Manhattan lair where Andrew stayed.
Andrew was seen waving goodbye to a young woman from the doorstep of the home in footage captured in 2010 – two years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14.
There is no suggestion that the images released by the DOJ suggest misconduct.
Many of the individuals shown – including Andrew – have denied any involvement in wrongdoing connected to Epstein.
Epstein was jailed in 2019 on sex trafficking charges but took his own life in prison before he could go to trial.
A decade earlier he had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor this meant he was placed on the sex offenders’ register.
Epstein has also been accused of trafficking underage victims as young as 11 years old, sickening court documents and testimony claim.
His victims were made up of mostly minors – including Virginia Giuffre who was 16 at the time of her first being approached by the paedo.
Andrew, who lost his Duke and Prince titles while also being stripped of his Knight of the Order of the Garter, was brought to his knees by the Epstein scandal.
While he repeatedly claimed to have cut ties with the convicted sex offender, The Sun on Sunday revealed he emailed Jeffrey several months after he claimed he had cut off contact.
The shamed royal was also stripped of his Duke of York and Prince title before agreeing to leave Royal Lodge, his home in Windsor, due to mounting pressure swirling around sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre.
