By Marisa Laudadio
9:53am PST, Feb 16, 2026
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been caught in another lie concerning his relationship with predator Jeffrey Epstein, documents released by the Justice Department show.
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In a headline-making 2019 interview with the BBC's Newsnight, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — then known as Prince Andrew, the Duke of York — said he'd cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein nearly a decade earlier in 2010. In 2008, Epstein had pleaded guilty to solicitation charges in Florida and had recently finished serving a 13-month jail sentence as part of a plea deal. Mountbatten-Windsor suggested he visited Epstein for four days, making the trip so he could end their friendship in person as he "felt it was the honorable and right thing to do," he told Newsnight, adding, "My judgment was probably colored by my tendency to be too honorable…" But newly uncovered emails appear to tell a different story.
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Among the documents in the materials recently released by the Justice Department as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files are emails indicating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stayed with the predator at Epstein's mansion on New York City's Upper East Side for nine days in late November and early December 2010, during which the royal attended a slew of events. A report in the U.K.'s
Daily Express noted that emails sent by Epstein during that time included messages about someone who said they will "come after school" and a message from Epstein asking his accountant to "bring 5k cash." An analysis of messages by
DailyMail.com seemed to indicate Epstein also arranged for Mountbatten-Windsor to have a "facial" cosmetic treatment and "a car and driver for your use for the week."
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While Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor enjoyed Jeffrey Epstein's hospitality during his 2010 stay in New York City, a number of young women were seen coming and going from Epstein's seven-story Upper East Side townhouse, DailyMail.com reported, allegedly including a 26-year-old Russian woman Epstein had allegedly arranged for the royal to have dinner with months earlier. The royal also attended a dinner party at the mansion, though he previously denied it was meant to be a celebration of Epstein's release from jail at which Mountbatten-Windsor was the guest of honor. "It was a small dinner party, there were only eight or 10 of us, I think, at the dinner," the former Duke of York told the BBC's Newsnight in 2019. Mountbatten-Windsor has long denied any wrongdoing amid his association with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on trafficking charges.
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According to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's 2019 comments on Newsnight, he wanted to end his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein in person. "I felt that doing it over the telephone was the chicken's way of doing it. I had to go and see him and talk to him. And I went to see him and I was doing a number of other things in New York at the time…" he said. Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein were photographed talking while walking together in the city during the 2010 visit. "I said to him, I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact,'" the royal recalled, "and by mutual agreement during that walk in the park we decided that we would part company and I left, I think it was the next day and to this day I never had any contact with him from that day forward." Other emails and documents released as part of the Justice Department's Epstein files include correspondence confirming the financier and Mountbatten-Windsor continued their relationship well past 2010.
