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Epstein files: Housekeeper claims Prince Andrew ‘spent weeks’ at disgraced financier’s Florida mansion and had ‘daily massages’

Prince Andrew “spent weeks” at Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion and received “daily massages”, according to the disgraced financier’s latest batch of bombshell court documents.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s former housekeeper claimed Prince Andrew “spent weeks” at the late disgraced financier’s Florida home where he would receive “daily massages”.

And Juan Alessi, who worked for Epstein from 1991 to 2002, also named the prince’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in a 2009 deposition as some of the celebrities who visited the home.

The claims were detailed in the latest batch of Epstein’s bombshell court documents unsealed in the US.

The documents reveal that Alessi was asked whether the pair had massages when they were staying at Epstein’s home.

“Prince Andrew did,” said Alessi in the documents.

“I think Sarah was there only once and for a short time. I don’t think she slept in there. I cannot remember. I think she was visiting Wellington and she came to the house and we met her.

“But Prince Andrew, yes, Prince Andrew spent weeks with us.”

Alessi said Prince Andrew would have “daily massages” during his stay, and was asked whether he sometimes had more than one a day,

“I can’t remember if he had more than one, but I think it was just a massage for him,” he said.

The latest revelations came as the UK’s Met Police responded to calls for an investigation into Prince Andrew after bombshell allegations were revealed in the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s court documents.

After Prince Andrew was alleged to have had “sexual relations” with a minor in London, an “underage orgy” on a private island in the Caribbean, and groped a girl in New York, the Duke was reported to police by the antimonarchy advocacy group, Republic.

Prince Andrew has strenuously denied claims of any wrongdoing and Buckingham Palace has previously called allegations against him “categorically untrue”.

In a statement responding to the calls for an investigation, the Met said they are “aware of the release of court documents in relation to Jeffrey Epstein”.

“As with any matter, should new and relevant information be brought to our attention we will assess it,” the statement said.

“No investigation has been launched.”

It comes after Republic’s chief executive Graham Smith called on King Charles III to make a public statement on the claims against his brother.

“The document is clear that while in London, an individual was forced to have sexual relations with Andrew when she was a minor,” Smith said in the statement.

Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in London in 2001. Picture: Supplied
Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured in London in 2001. Picture: Supplied

“The royals should not be above the law. Accusations of criminality should always be investigated thoroughly.”

According to testimony released in the unsealed court documents, accuser “Jane Doe #3” claimed she was made a “sex slave” of Epstein and was “forced” to have “sexual relations” with the Duke of York at Ghislaine Maxwell’s apartment in London, as well as in New York.

“And on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls),” the documents said.

“Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the Prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse.”

The Met announced in 2021 it would take no action after its investigation into claims made by Virginia Giuffre during a US civil suit that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her as minor. But they said they would continue to “liaise with other law enforcement agencies who lead the investigation into matters related to Jeffrey Epstein”.

Allegations in the newly-released documents go on to claim Epstein abused Jane Doe #3 in West Palm Beach, New Mexico and in international airspace on his private plane, among other places, from 1999 to 2002.

“Epstein also trafficked Jane Doe #3 for sexual purposes to many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders,” the documents allege.

“Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to describe the events that she had with these men so that he could potentially blackmail them.”

The abuse ended when Jane Doe #3 “managed to escape to a foreign country and hide out from Epstein and his co-conspirators for years”, the documents allege.

A separate accuser, Johanna Sjoberg, claimed in her 2015 deposition that Ghislaine Maxwell lured her with a puppet of Prince Andrew.

“They told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia [Giuffre] sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap,” she recalled.

“And so then I sat on Andrew’s lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.”

Originally published as Epstein files: Housekeeper claims Prince Andrew ‘spent weeks’ at disgraced financier’s Florida mansion and had ‘daily massages’

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