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(NewsNation) — Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee will have to keep on waiting if they expect a reply from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor regarding their request to have his cooperation into an investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking her, claimed before she died by suicide earlier this year, that she was forced to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor on at least three occasions.
It was these allegations — and a disastrous interview with the BBC that eventually led King Charles to rescind all of Andrew’s royal titles last month.
”Andrew will not respond or testify in front of Congress,” Andrew Lownie, the royal biographer and historian told me. Lownie is the author of “Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.”
”He — or his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson — will never travel to the United Sates again. Neither want to be arrested or forced to testify in front of Congress about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein,” he said.
“Both of them were much friendlier with Epstein than people imagine,” Lownie said, adding more leaks are soon to come out “that their friendship with Epstein began much earlier than previously thought and that it lasted much longer than people say.”
Sarah Ferguson ‘borrowed’ money from Jeffrey Epstein
Other allegations coming down the pipeline are that “we’re going to get other names of people who were trafficked to Andrew, particularly girls younger than Virginia. We are also going to get a stronger sense of the sort of monies that were exchanged and paid to Sarah Ferguson.”
While Ferguson only claims to have “borrowed” $15,000 from Epstein, Lownie claims the figure is much higher.
”The total (amount given to Ferguson by Epstein over the years) was $2 million,” Lownie said. “He felt it was a good investment as (the Yorks) would introduce him to other royals.”
But others also gave the former Duke and Duchess large amounts of cash under the guise of “loans”.
“There were lots of other people giving them money, including Michael David Tang; I think Richard Branston was giving them money… as well as Lily, the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough. There were lots of these people who gave them money because they wanted to keep in with them. And they thought that she would pay them back, which of course she never did. I think the interesting thing about the money is she didn’t pay it back.”
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