Jeffery Epstein secretly paid for young women to stay at a luxury London flat right up until he died, records show.
The paedophile financier is believed to have flown more than 180 women on his fleet of private jets, one of which was known as the Lolita Express.
Records among the three million pages of documents and images released by the US Department of Justice suggest teenage girls were among those trafficked around the world.
Epstein had links to the UK, including through the former Duke of York, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and Labour grandee Peter Mandelson, and is believed to have visited Buckingham Palace.
He died in prison in 2019 after being found hanged in his cell while awaiting trial for child-trafficking offences.
Documents sent to the FBI by its UK equivalent, the National Crime Agency, suggest Epstein still had an active interest in the UK at this time, including a property in west London, worth millions.
Other files published recently show how Epstein was conversing about the property with an unnamed female five days before he was arrested in July 2019.
The female wrote: ‘Thank you so much for London apt!!!’, and added: ‘Oh wow!!! It’s in Chelsea!!!! Wow!!!! Looks lovely on Google map. So, she doesn’t need it anymore?’ Epstein replied: ‘Is it far from school?’
The Epstein files suggest he may have paid for women to be enrolled at the Frances King School of English, less than half a mile from the flat in Manson Place.
Paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have trafficked over 180 women on his private jet, known as the Lolita Express, to a luxury London flat
Files show Epstein messaging a schoolgirl about coming to a flat in Chelsea
Files released by the DoJ suggest that teenage girls were among those trafficked around the world and that he exploited them till the day he died in 2019
In April 2019, an unidentified individual asked Epstein to ‘pay for the school’, before sending him a payment link from a third party that references ‘Frances King’, according to The Sunday Times. Around the same time, Epstein is said to have told a London-based woman that he was happy to pay for another female to travel to the capital.
There is also the suggestion of trying to obtain a visa for the female. A separate analysis of flight records over a 20-year period reveals unidentified women being flown between
destinations including the UK, Paris, Morocco, the United States and the US Virgin Islands.
Those on board arriving into the UK included socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, jailed for aiding Epstein’s crimes, and Virginia Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew in 2001 at Maxwell’s home in Belgravia, central London.
The former prince has always denied these claims.
Ten British police forces are studying the Epstein files for allegations of any wrongdoing.
