Prince Andrew 'given a pass' as Virginia Giuffre lawyer makes fresh call for Epstein probe

Virginia Giuffre's lawyer has made fresh calls for an investigation into the dozens of high-profile figures, including Prince Andrew, and their links to Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier this summer, the FBI ceased its investigation into the Duke of York's links to the American financier and convicted paedophile.

One of Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide last April, alleged that Epstein forced her to have sex with Andrew three times when she was 17 - in New York, London, and the US Virgin Islands. Prince Andrew has repeatedly and vehemently denied any claims against him but later settled a lawsuit against Ms Giuffre for an undisclosed sum, without accepting any liability.

But now Ms Giuffre's lawyer David Boies, who represented her in her civil case against the royal, said Andrew was "basically given a pass" in the US and the UK and alleged that there is enough evidence to warrant an investigation into the disgraced Duke, whose links to Epstein led to his downfall in 2019, when he stepped down as a senior working royal.

Mr Boies said on : "I think there are between 10 and 20 men that we have enough information on, that should entail a prosecutorial investigation.

"I think we know enough to know that there are more than a dozen men who the Government has enough information on that would justify at least a prosecutorial investigation, a serious prosecutorial investigation, and that hasn't happened."

Asked whether one of these dozens of men included Prince Andrew, the lawyer replied: "Yes."

Mr Morgan then quipped: "You believe you've seen enough evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution of Prince Andrew?"

Mr Boies said: "Not a prosecution, but certainly an investigation. I would be cautious about saying who should be prosecuted and who should not be prosecuted.

"But one of the things that has frustrated us, as you and I have spoken about before, is that both in the UK and the United States, he was basically given a pass.

"And I think there's enough on the record that we have that there should have been a prosecutorial investigation. And if there had been, either there would have been a prosecution, or they could have said that they had determined that there should not be.

"Now we're in this situation in which, in some senses, from a reputational standpoint, it's almost worse, because you don't have a finding, you have all of the implications."

Last July, a new memo from the FBI and the US Department of Justice, obtained by Axios and ABC News, indicated there would be no further charges against anyone.

Investigators said there was "no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals" and no "evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties".