Ex-Prince Andrew ghosting Oversight Committees questions on Epstein, top Dem reveals
WASHINGTON — Disgraced ex-Duke of York Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been ghosting the powerful House Oversight Committee amid the panel’s probe into ties between him and late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, according to its top Democrat.Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) praised the United Kingdom’s reckoning over Epstein, but revealed that the scandal-scarred younger brother of King Charles III has not gotten back to the panel.“We have not.And we absolutely have sent letters.
We want to actually talk to Prince Andrew,” Garcia told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday when asked if Democrats have heard back from him.“What’s happening now over in the UK is pretty stunning, and it’s actually a show of what happens when the government listens to the public,” he continued.“There are actually things happening to those that have been involved.”Garcia pointed to the reckoning in the United Kingdom over Epstein as a model for what “needs to happen in our country.”Mountbatten-Windsor, who had been born second in the line of succession to the British throne, was stripped of his titles and honors last year in response to his ties to Epstein.
Late Epstein whistleblower Virginia Giuffre alleged over a decade ago that Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked her to Mountbatten-Windsor.Giuffre died of suicide in April of last year.While he denied wrongdoing, Mountbatten-Windsor settled with her in 2022, shelling out millions of pounds.The two have been pictured together in the early 2000s.Since then, a steady stream of accusations and details about Mountbatten-Windsor’s behavior around Epstein have emerged.
Just last week, British police revealed that they are “assessing” accusations that Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential trade files with Epstein during his time as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment between 2001 and 2011.Material in the Epstein files ind...