Prince Andrew is among the many high-profile figures named within the newly unsealed courtroom paperwork associated to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Amid the controversy, Princess Beatrice, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, was seen driving herself to her father’s Windsor residence, the Telegraph reported. The 35-year-old was seen smiling as she entered the gates of the Duke of York’s 30-room mansion the place he lives together with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. Though the couple has been divorced for years, they proceed to stay collectively on the property. Nonetheless, his non-public safety funding is in danger, and he could also be compelled out of the mansion as a result of revived scandal.

In the meantime, the Princess’s go to is seen as a gesture of help for her father, who has been holding a low profile on the property this week.

Within the paperwork, Prince Andrew has been accused of collaborating in an orgy with “quite a few under-aged women” on intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public island. He’s additionally accused of groping Johanna Sjoberg, an Epstein worker, on the billionaire financier’s New York residence in 2001, when she was 20.

The paperwork additionally declare Epstein advised one in all his alleged intercourse slaves, generally known as Jane Doe 3 to “give the Prince no matter he demanded”. Additional, the recordsdata allege Jane Doe 3 was “compelled to have sexual relations with this Prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical places”.

Notably, dozens of girls have accused Jeffrey Epstein of forcing them to supply sexual providers to him and his visitors at his non-public Caribbean island and houses he owned in New York, Florida, and New Mexico. The names of greater than 150 individuals talked about in a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, one in all Epstein’s most distinguished accusers, have been saved beneath seal for years till a federal choose dominated final month that there was no authorized justification to maintain them non-public.

Andrew withdrew from frontline royal duties in late 2019 after public outrage at a BBC tv interview wherein he defended his friendship with Epstein. In February 2022 settled a US civil case introduced by Ms Giuffre, who claimed he sexually assaulted her when she was 17.

Andrew’s mom, the late Queen Elizabeth II, stripped him of his honorary army titles and patronages quickly afterward, successfully shutting him out of royal life. He has persistently denied sexual assault and even assembly Ms Giuffre.

Jeffrey Epstein socialized with Wall Avenue titans, royalty, and celebrities earlier than pleading responsible to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. He took his personal life in 2019 at age 66 whereas awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking costs.