Prince Andrew, reportedly, met three women that Jeffrey Epstein arranged for him at his mansion in New York. A former model, who was part of the criminal sex offender's inner circle, revealed what really happened when the Duke of York went to the tycoon's £60-million home.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, the woman revealed that all girls that Prince Andrew met at the time were in their early 20s. They were all told to "dress up beautifully" as they were about to meet a prince. So, what happened from here?
A woman who was there at the Upper East Side townhouse at the same time as Sarah Ferguson's husband revealed he received a foot massage while comfortably watching The King's Speech. "Whenever Epstein watched a movie, he requested girls to give him and his guests a foot massage," the source said.
It's highly likely that the father-of-two received the same treatment, as it's quite rare that they watched movies alone without a massage. Literary agent John Brockman earlier claimed that he saw the duke receiving a massage from two Russian women, too.
Allegedly, there were, at least, two meetings that happened when the 60-year-old royal stayed with the pedophile in December 2010. What he believed to be a fun six-day trip with the American financier turned out to hunt him and even led to his resignation as a senior royal.
In his controversial Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis last year, Prince Andrew revealed that the primary purpose of his visit was to cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein. A lot of people didn't believe this claim, questioning why he had to stay for six days. The comings and goings of different women and celebrities also imposed a lot of questions.
According to Mirror Online, when the offender took his own life in August last year while awaiting trial on the charges of sex-trafficking minors, Prince Andrew started to defend the reason of his stay in New York. However, an anonymous source revealed that it was Jeffrey Epstein who invited Andrew, and the girls came to meet him specifically.
One of the three women that he met was the Latvian model Lana Zakocela, who Jeffrey Epstein met through her agent. She said she barely knew Epstein. So, when her agency sent her to him, she started to have "weird" feelings and later decided to quit the agency.
There were reports that Jeffrey Epstein only used Prince Andrew to improve his public image. As he just got out of jail at the time, Andrew came out to be the perfect person to raise his social capital.