Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein urged a business associate to meet up with the former Duke of York while in Switzerland because ‘he’s great fun’, newly-released emails have revealed.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was officially at Davos, where the annual gathering of global leaders was taking place at the World Economic Forum, to promote British interests when the email exchange between Epstein and Boris Nikolic took place in January 2010.
The email was sent to Nikolic, a former adviser to Bill Gates, just six months after Epstein was released from jail in Florida, having been convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution.
In the email, Epstein asks Nikolic if he’s had ‘any fun’ at Davos so far, to which he replies: ‘Different kind of fun… Met your friend Bill Clinton yesterday, followed up with [Nicholas] Sarkozy. Later in the day meeting your other friend Prince Andrew as he has some questions re Microsoft.’
The former Duke of York was in Davos in his capacity as UK special representative for international trade and investment at the time. He stepped down in 2011.
Epstein writes back: ‘You can tell Andrew we are friends.’
When he is told by Nikolic that he does not ‘need anything from him’, Epstein responds: ‘Yes you do. You need to laugh and have fun. He is good at that… He’s great fun.’
Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein urged a business associate to meet up with the former Duke of York (pictured) while in Switzerland
Pictured: Jes Staley, Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and Boris Nikolic
Nikolic, who was name an an executor of Epstein’s will after he died in 2019, replied and said he had heard that Andrew ‘is not that fun, but I trust your judgement.’
He added that ‘it would be blast that you are here. I was just flirting with 22 years old hot blond blue eyes mexican chick.
‘It turns out she is with her husband. Did not have chance to check him out. But as we concluded, anything good is rented.’
He added a winking face emoji to the end of his email.
And after meeting with Andrew, Nikolic reported back to Epstein, writing: ‘He is great… I think I would trade Davos for a good fashion week. Much more fun.’
Nikolic has previously said he was ‘shocked’ to be named a back-up executor on Epstein’s will and has said he would not fulfil his duties if he was called upon to do so.
The email chain, which was released by the US Congress last week, was amid more than 20,000 documents obtained by the House oversight committee from the Epstein estate.
The documents also shed light on Epstein’s connections, with one email to Jes Stalety, former bank boss at Barclays, suggesting that the former financier helped to arrange a meeting in Davos in 2010 between Staley, Lord Mandelson and Alistair Darling, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time.
The email, written by Epstein, reads: ‘I’ve set up you and Peter to meet in Davos with Darling.’
American financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in prison in 2019
The correspondence also shows that Lord Mandelson (pictured) took relationship advice from the paedophile and urged him to steer clear of Andrew
Andrew faced further pressure to appear in front of US politicians after Epstein was revealed to have confirmed the infamous photo of him with a teenage Virginia Giuffre is real
Lord Mandelson resigned as the UK ambassador to Washington earlier this year after he was found to have previously referred to Epstein as ‘my best pal’.
He has said felt ‘utterly awful about my association with Epstein 20 years ago’.
But messages showed he was still in contact with Epstein as late as 2016 – years after his conviction.
The correspondence shows that Mandelson took relationship advice from the Epstein and urged him to steer clear of Andrew.
In one email from Epstein to Mandelson on 6 November 2016, he writes ’63 years old. You made it’ not long after his birthday.
Mandelson replies within hours saying: ‘Just. I have decided to extend my life by spending more of it in the US’ before Epstein replies ‘in the Donald White House’ referring to the US presidential election due later that week.
Epstein goes on to say ‘you were right about staying away from Andrew. I was right in your staying with Rinaldo [sic]’, seemingly a reference to Mandelson’s partner Reinaldo Avilda da Silva.
Another email shows the 72-year-old advising Epstein not to speak to Radio 4’s Today programme after he was approach about an ‘interview’ over his relationship with Andrew.
When Epstein forwarded him the BBC’s letter, Lord Mandelson replies ‘No!!’
The publication of the emails comes amid a congressional inquiry into why Epstein, who died in a New York prison while awaiting trial for multiple sex trafficking offences, was not brought to justice at federal level.
Congress is expected to vote on a motion which would demand the release of all the Epstein files held by the US Department of Justice in the coming weeks.
Andrew and Charles at Westminster Cathedral in September after the Duchess of Kent’s funeral
Andrew’s links to Epstein have led to the King to strip him of his titles – ending his public life
It comes as Andrew faced further pressure to appear in front of US politicians after Epstein was revealed to have confirmed the infamous photo of him with a teenage Virginia Giuffre is real amid other messages released this week.
The messages, in a bombshell cache of emails dating back to 2011, showed Epstein urged a journalist to investigate Ms Giuffre while admitting: ‘Yes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have.’
The picture was unearthed by The Mail on Sunday that same year as Ms Giuffre claimed she slept with Andrew during a stay in London, claims the disgraced ex-prince has vehemently denied.
Epstein took the photo on a disposable camera before the group, along with socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, headed out for dinner and then to a nightclub, Ms Giuffre said.
Andrew’s links to Epstein have led to the King to strip him of his titles – putting an end to his public life. He will also soon be evicted from his 30-room mansion, Royal Lodge, in Windsor.
He and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, have occupied the property on the Windsor estate for over two decades.
Andrew is now under pressure to explain the full nature of his relationship with Epstein with members of the US Congress demanded he appear before them to ‘come clean and provide justice for the survivors’.
Suhas Subramanyam, Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme earlier this week that Andrew had not yet responded to its invitation to testify in the US.
He added that the former prince ‘doesn’t have to get on a plane to testify, he can do it remotely’.
Other messages released this week document an exchange between Andrew, Epstein and convicted sex trafficker Maxwell – months after the former duke said he broke off all contact with the convicted paedophile.
As the MoS sought comment for its world exclusive story, Andrew emailed Epstein and Maxwell begging them to clear his name, saying: ‘I can’t take any more of this.’
Epstein died in a New York prison while awaiting trial for multiple sex trafficking offences
Andrew has previously claimed that the image might have been doctored
Pictured: Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park where Andrew and Fergie have lived for decades
In the email chain from March 2011, Maxwell initially forwarded the Daily Mail’s press inquiry to Epstein who in turn sent it to someone listed as ‘the Duke’.
The Duke, believed to be Andrew, appears to respond: ‘What? I don’t know any of this. How are you responding?’
Epstein told him: ‘Just got it two minutes ago. I’ve asked g (sic) lawyers to send a letter.
‘Not sure… it’s so salcisous (sic) and ridiculous, im (sic) not sure how to respond, the only person she didn’t have sex with was Elvis.’
An exasperated Andrew then appears to reply to Epstein, saying: ‘Please make sure that every statement or legal letter states clearly that I am NOT involved and that I knew and know NOTHING about any of these allegations. I can’t take any more of this my end.’
Just months later in July 2011, Epstein appears to actively lobby journalists to turn the tables on Ms Giuffre, who sued Andrew in a civil sex assault case in 2021, with the pair settling for a reported £12million out-of-court but no admission of wrong-doing on the royal’s behalf.
In one email, Epstein tells a reporter that Buckingham Palace would ‘love it’ if Andrew’s accuser was ‘proven to be a liar’.
The email reads: ‘…Andrew’s accuser, criminal record, total liar.
‘I think Buckingham Palace would love it. You should task someone to investigate the girl Virginia Roberts, that has caused the Queen’s son all this agro (sic).
‘I promise you she is a fraud. You and I will be able to go to ascot (sic) for the rest of our lives.’
Pictured: Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor at Royal Ascot in 2019
Sarah Ferguson (pictured in July 28) has been delivered another devastating blow after her children’s book is axed amid Prince Andrew’s controversy over his links with Jeffrey Epstein
When the journalist expressed some interest in the story, a further email from Epstein on the same day claimed that her story has ‘no credibility’ and it was ‘total horses****’.
It continues: ‘…she was never 15 years old working for me, her story made it seem like she first worked for trump (sic) at that age and was met by ghislaine maxwell (sic).’
He concludes: ‘I will ask if they will cooperate – Prince people.’
Andrew and his allies have long questioned the authenticity of the damning picture taken by Epstein of the then prince and Ms Giuffre at Maxwell’s London home in 2001.
The image has become the enduring symbol of Ms Giuffre’s shocking allegations before she took her own life in April this year.
Andrew, in his disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview, denied ever meeting Ms Giuffre in London and claimed the image might have been doctored.
Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison for facilitating the crimes of Epstein, also dismissed the image as fake in a recent interview from prison, while Andew’s allies insisted his fingers were ‘chubbier’ and he was taller than depicted.
The scandal has also impacted Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, whose children’s book has been axed amid the controversy.
Andrew, in his disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview, denied ever meeting Ms Giuffre in London and claimed the image might have been doctored
The former Duchess of York was due to release her book, Flora and Fern: Kindness Along The Way on October 9
The former Duchess of York was due to release her book, Flora and Fern: Kindness Along The Way on October 9, a press release in Bookseller stated.
And at the beginning of last week, the children’s book was listed as being available for purchase from November 20. Now, it is no longer available on the website at all.
The book has since been marked as ‘withdrawn from sale’ at the request of the publisher, NielsonIQ Book Data confirmed to the BBC.
Waterstones ‘moved’ the release of the book last month, but had no new concrete date for publication.
At the time, a spokesperson for the bookseller said it had received no further communication with the publisher since.
No reason has been given for the book withdrawal, however an industry source has told the BBC it ‘makes total sense commercially.’
It comes as 66-year-old Fergie has been mired in controversy after emails emerged showing she and her ex-husband had been in touch with Epstein, despite publicly denouncing him.
Meanwhile Mr Trump’s links to Epstein were brought back into the spotlight after Democrats released emails in which Epstein referred to Mr Trump in correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff.
President Trump said the documents were a way to ‘deflect’ from the US government shutdown, where thousands of workers have been furloughed in a dispute over federal funding’
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997
Mr Trump’s Republican party later published more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate.
The Democrats had redacted the victim’s name, including in a 2011 email Epstein sent to Maxwell which claimed ‘[Virginia] spent hours at my house with him’ while another sent by Epstein in August 2018 said: ‘I know how dirty Donald is.’
Ms Leavitt confirmed the victim referred to in the emails is Ms Giuffre.
She called the email release a politically motivated ‘smear’ campaign and repeated earlier comments from Ms Giuffre, who took her own life in April, about Mr Trump in which she absolved him of wrongdoing.
‘The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,’ Ms Leavitt said.
‘The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.’
In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Trump said the documents were a way to ‘deflect’ from the US government shutdown, where thousands of workers have been furloughed in a dispute over federal funding.
‘The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the shutdown,’ he said.
‘There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats.’
Mr Trump did not send or receive any of the emails released and has not been charged with any crime relating to Epstein or Maxwell.
