Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.) stated the British royal household ought to compensate victims of convicted intercourse abuser Jeffrey Epstein after the discharge of paperwork associated to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, previously Prince Andrew.
“The Royal Household needs to be ashamed and horrified. They need to be compensating every of the working class ladies who had been victims of the Epstein class,” Khanna instructed U.Ok information outlet The I Paper.
The Division of Justice has launched 1000’s of information related to Epstein’s case following the passing of the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, a legislation spearheaded by Khanna and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.).
Among the many information had been emails and pictures which have drawn scrutiny to the royal household, together with a picture exhibiting Mountbatten-Windsor mendacity on the laps of ladies alongside Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The DOJ additionally launched an e-mail despatched to Maxwell in August 2001 from an unidentified sender who stated they had been “up right here at Balmoral Summer season Camp for the Royal Household,” a possible reference to Balmoral Fortress in Scotland. The sender requested Maxwell, “Have you ever discovered me some new inappropriate mates?” and signed off “A xxx.”
Reporting by the BBC linked the e-mail handle to a different handle listed in Epstein’s telephone guide because the “Duke of York,” Mountbatten-Windsor’s former title. He has not publicly commented on the e-mail. Buckingham Palace introduced in October that it was stripping him of all royal titles in mild of allegations about ties to Epstein.
Buckingham Palace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning Khanna’s suggestion.
The newest batches of Epstein’s case information seem to assist claims made in a lawsuit filed by the intercourse abuser’s most distinguished accuser, the late Virginia Giuffre, towards Mountbatten-Windsor in 2021. On the time, Giuffre accused the previous prince of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, however the two reached an out-of-court settlement.
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