Prince Andrew's grim 'catch up' email to paedo Jeffrey Epstein months after prison release

A newly released email reveals Andrew telling Jeffrey Epstein that it would be "good to catch up in person" months after the sex offender was released from prison for child prostitution

21:44, 31 Oct 2025Updated 21:49, 31 Oct 2025

A newly released grim email saw Andrew ask Jeffrey Epstein to "catch up" just months after the paedophile was released from prison for prostituting children.

The shocking message comes just hours after King Charles started the process of removing all royal titles from his disgraced brother - including 'prince' - and booting him out of his Royal Lodge mansion. In an email on April 15, 2010, Andrew told the convicted sex offender he would try to "drop by" New York later in the year and that it would be "good to catch up in person", court documents released on Friday show.

The pair were pictured together in Central Park, in New York City, just eight months after this email. Andrew claimed, in his 2019 Newsnight interview, that this meeting was to break off their friendship. Andrew has denied all allegations against him.

The bombshell email was released in unsealed court documents from a 2023 legal battle between the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned a private island, and JP Morgan over its alleged dealings with the financier - which the bank settled.

In the exchange, Epstein, who had been released from prison in July 2009, suggested Andrew should meet former JP Morgan executive Jes Staley in London on April 22, 2010.

Andrew replied: "I would love to but sadly heading into the stans today and back via Kiev next Fri/Sat, so will miss him. But I will make sure I meet him soon on another trip.

"Also I have no immediate plans to drop by New York but I think I should at some stage soon. I'll look and see if I can make a couple of days before the summer. It would be good to catch up in person."

Epstein then forwarded the email to Staley, who was subsequently banned from holding senior roles in the financial sector in 2023, after it was found he misled the Financial Conduct Authority over his relationship with Epstein.

In the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, the former prince claimed his visit to New York to see Epstein was the "wrong decision" but he wanted to end their friendship in person.

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He said: "I wanted to make sure that if I was going to go and see him, I had to make sure that there was enough time between his release because it wasn't something that I was going into in a hurry but I had to go and see him, I had to go and see him, I had to talk."

Andrew's relationship with Epstein has put the Royals under huge pressure, as well as allegations by Virginia Giuffre that the royal has sex with her three times when she was just 17. He has strenuously denied the allegations.

The disgraced royal will now effectively have the status of a commoner and be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. He has also been kicked out of Royal Lodge and is understood to be moving to a private residence on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.