Prince Andrew ‘felt at home’ on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, ‘flirted’ with Ghislaine Maxwell
A married couple who worked for Jeffrey Epstein have revealed just how close Prince Andrew was to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Prince Andrew reportedly “made himself at home” on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous Caribbean island with his “close” friend Ghislaine Maxwell, the late paedophile billionaire’s former housekeeper has claimed.
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and the royal would allegedly flirt with each other when they spent time together on the island of Little St James, which is located in the US Virgin Islands.
According to a report in The Sun, Prince Andrew has denied visiting the island, described by a lawyer for Epstein’s victims as a “sex-trafficking palace”.
He has also denied that he had a close friendship with Maxwell, who was sentenced on Tuesday local time to 20 years in prison for recruiting and trafficking underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.
However, speaking for the first time on camera, Epstein’s former employees Miles and Cathy Alexander appear to have thrown Prince Andrew claims into doubt.
The Alexanders appear in an upcoming British documentary, Ghislaine Maxwell: Making of a Monster, to discuss their time working on Epstein’s island.
The married couple, who worked as island manager and housekeeping manager respectively, first began working for Epstein in 1999.
The pair said they saw Prince Andrew visit the island three times – the first time by himself, and twice with Maxwell.
In an exclusive preview seen by The Sun Online, Cathy Alexander said of Prince Andrew and Maxwell: “They were very good friends, you could see that.”
Miles Alexander added: “They had an absolute ball, they used to laugh and enjoy themselves.”
Cathy Alexander also said the two would go swimming together and go for rides on Epstein’s jet skis.
Some of their interactions seemed to have a flirtatious edge, the couple alleged.
“Their relationship was very close,” Miles Alexander said.
He said the pair would “tease each other” loudly, and that the Duke of York seemed to treat the island as his home away from home.
“Andrew was so relaxed, he would open the door to the kitchen where I was and say, ‘Right, what can we eat?’” Cathy Alexander revealed.
“It was like his home in many ways.”
The couple said they had no recollection whether Prince Andrew received any massages when he visited the island.
Earlier this year, the royal denied being a close friend of Maxwell, following claims by Epstein survivor, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
Roberts Giuffre has also accused Maxwell of trafficking her to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, once in Epstein’s New York Upper East Side mansion, once on his Caribbean island, and once at Maxwell’s London home.
One of the most damning pieces of evidence against the Duke of York – who denies ever even meeting Roberts Giuffre – is a picture of him with his arm around the then-teenager’s bare waist, which was reportedly taken at Maxwell’s London home as she looks on, smiling.
His lawyers said in the same court documents submitted in the US that they didn’t have enough information to admit or deny the existence of the photo.
However, in March, Prince Andrew settled out of court with Roberts Giuffre, preventing the civil case from going to trial.
Now, with further eyewitness testimony placing the royal on Epstein’s island on at least three occasions, his denials appear even weaker.
Later in the same docuseries, which premieres on July 5, another former acquaintance of Maxwell gives further clues as to her obsession with Prince Andrew around this time.
Max Maloney, the Maxwell family’s former photographer who worked for media baron Robert Maxwell at the Daily Mirror, had known Maxwell all her life.
In June 2000, he was at the royal enclosure at Ascot when he saw Maxwell with Prince Andrew.
“I called over, nothing, complete blank,” he said. “She was so focused on Prince Andrew that nobody else mattered.”
Maloney, an experienced photojournalist of many decades, said it was as if Maxwell was “deferring” to Prince Andrew, looking at him “as though he was the most important person there”.
He added that he believed Maxwell had decided in that moment that “there were bigger fish in her pond than in my little pond. So she decided to ignore me”.
For Maloney, who used to look after Maxwell as a little girl, he admitted that the snub left him “disappointed”.
Miles and Cathy Alexander, who have been married 30 years, said Maxwell told them when they started the job that there would always be a lot of women around.
She described it as like “bees around the honey pot,” according to Miles Alexander, but insisted: “I’m the queen bee. Never forget that.”
On one occasion, Miles Alexander was asked to serve tea at the pool.
When he came down, “there were lots of models lying around naked. I told my wife she could deliver the tea from now on”.
They called Maxwell a “demanding employer,” and dubbed her “Hurricane Maxwell”.
Although the pair are adamant they never saw any abuse take place, they say people would leave the island “suddenly”.
On one occasion, they saw one person come out crying after a massage and asking to go home.
Maxwell has denied all the charges against her and insists she was manipulated by Epstein into committing the abuse.
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