Prince Andrew’s legal team is apparently stunned after prosecutors in New York said they would like the Duke of York to speak to them following the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein’s confidant Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges.
The late financier’s former girlfriend and accused madam was taken into custody at 8:30 a.m. in Bradford, N. H., the FBI confirmed to Fox News. The 58-year-old was arrested on charges she allegedly helped recruit three girls – one as young as 14 – to be sexually abused by Epstein, who was accused of assaulting dozens of girls and women over many years.
Audrey Strauss, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said she “would welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk with us."
“We would like to have the benefit of his statement,” said Strauss, adding their doors remain open.
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Sources close to Andrew’s working group insisted to Fox News the British royal has attempted to reach out and offer his assistance.
“The Duke’s team remains bewildered given that we have twice communicated with the DOJ in the last month, and to date, we have no response,” claimed the source.
The 60-year-old's legal team told Fox News they had no comment regarding Maxwell’s arrest.
Epstein, 66, killed himself in a federal detention center in New York last summer while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
For years, Maxwell, a British socialite, has been accused by many women of recruiting them to give Epstein massages, during which they were pressured to have sex. However those accusations, until now, have never resulted in criminal charges.
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The FBI said they were keeping tabs on Maxwell before her arrest.
“More recently we learned she had slithered away to a gorgeous property in New Hampshire, continuing to live a life of privilege while her victims live with the trauma inflicted upon them years ago,” William Sweeney, head of the FBI’s New York office, said in a news conference on Thursday.
The indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, included counts of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and perjury.... (Read more)
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