Epstein's Royal Emails Exposed in New Doc Dump

For years, the Epstein scandal raised. questions about power and. accountability. Now, a sweeping [music]. release of Justice Department records is. raising them again. This time about. former Prince Andrew, Andrew Mountbatten. Windsor and newly released records. referencing continued contact after. [music] Epstein's conviction. And this, as the Tempame's Valley Police confirm, they are assessing a complaint over the. possible sharing of confidential [music]. trade information with Jeffrey Epstein. We are breaking down what the documents. show, how the [music] royal connection.

evolved, and why the scrutiny is. escalating now. Welcome to Sidebar, presented by Law and Crime. I'm Jesse. Weber. Now, by the way, if you're putting. things out on social media, if you're. into content creation, if you're. wondering how we put so many of these. clips out there so quickly, we use. something called Opus Clip. This is an. all-in-one AI editor that makes it so. easy to cut, create, and upload videos. across any platform through AI. Opus. Clip generates B-roll. It refframes. footage. And it even cleans up audio. It.

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And one of those secrets has centered. around the royals, the UK. We hear a lot. about it, right? For more than a decade, the name Jeffrey Epstein has been. synonymous with one of the most. disturbing abuse scandals in modern. history. A case that touched. politicians, financiers, royalty, and in. the United Kingdom. That is what we got. to talk about because no name has loomed. larger in this shadow than former Prince. Andrew, the brother of the king. That is. what we want to focus on right now.

because there is so much talk about. Andrew and what came out and the fallout. and the royal family that we thought, let's make sense of it all, right? Because you hear a lot about it, it's. confusing. And with this sweeping. release of documents which we have been. dissecting almost every day. Thousands. of pages of emails, photographs, internal communications, all now in. public view, it raises a lot of. questions and we are seeing the fallout. But here's one we want to focus on. How. did a convicted sex offender maintain.

what appears to have been an ongoing. maybe even advisory relationship with a. senior member of the British royal. family after his conviction? Why do some. of these documents seemingly reference. communications that touch on sensitive. government matters? And why are these. questions being asked seriously now? Oh, and by the way, with all this coming out. about Andrew, in another stunning. development, the palace has now. responded. King Charles III has issued a. statement, a move that marks a notable. shift in tone and strategy. So, that's.

what we want to get into, and we're. going to get into it right now. So for. decades, it was clear from all of the. materials and evidence so far that. Jeffrey Epstein moved easily through. elite circles, hosting lavish. gatherings, cultivating influential. relationships, presenting himself as a. man of extraordinary access. But in. 2008, that facade cracked. That is when. Epste plead guilty to Florida state. charges. One count of soliciting. prostitution and one count of soliciting. prostitution from someone under the age. of 18. And as part of this sweetheart.

deal that you hear so much about, he. served just 13 months, he was able to. avoid federal charges. It was a work. release program, remember that? And. again, very, very controversial. And it. seems that even after that happened, even after what he was accused of, even. after what he plead guilty to, yes, there were people who severed ties with. him. We can see that, but not everybody. One of the figures who did not publicly. distance himself was Prince Andrew. Andrew's association with Epste dated. back to at least the 1990s, introduced.

through Epstein's longtime associate. Gain Maxwell, who as we know was already. convicted of her own sex trafficking. charges, sentenced to 20 years in. prison. But there was documentation. between Epstein and Andrew. For example, there was a photograph of the two of. them walking together in Central Park, reports of Andrew staying at Epstein's. Manhattan mansion, accounts of Epstein. visiting royal property. For years, this. relationship was framed as a serious. lapse in judgment and embarrassment, but. ultimately just a personal mistake. That. seemed to change a little bit in 2015. Why? Because it was that year that.

Virginia, this apparent survivor of. Jeffrey Epstein, went public with a. civil lawsuit. And she alleged that. Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her and. that she was forced to have sex with. Andrew on three occasions, including. when she was 17. And her allegations. were detailed. They were specific. Now, to be clear, Andrew categorically denied. them, denying not only the allegations, but even ever meeting Juay. It's. complicated by the fact that there was a. photograph of apparently the two of them. together that has been widely. circulated, although he seemed to.

suggest per the BBC that he thought that. photo might have been doctorred or fake. in some way. But again, he was never. brought up on any kind of criminal. charges with respect to this or anything. to do with Epstein. You fast forward to. 2019. Andrew attempted to counter the. narrative publicly in a now infamous BBC. News Night interview. Instead, I would. just say probably proved to be a little. more problematic than he thought it. would be. His explanations came under a. lot of scrutiny, like the claim that, "Hey, I couldn't have done anything with. Jupy because I was at a Pizza Express. that evening at a children's party." Or.

remember when he tried to refute Ju's. claim that he was sweating heavily. dancing at a bar with her because he. said he has this or he had this obscure. medical condition or he didn't sweat. Yeah. So, what happens? Queen Elizabeth. forced her son to step back from public. duties. his charities, military. affiliations, they were ultimately. stripped away. The damage was severe and. the story escalated again because in. July of 2019, Epstein was arrested on. federal sex trafficking charges in New. York. One month later, he died in his. jail cell. But that wasn't the end of.

it. No, the legal reckoning didn't end. with his death. 2021, Virginia filed a. civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew, then Prince Andrew, in US federal court. And facing the prospect of a very public. trial, Andrew reportedly settled the. case in 2022 for an undisclosed sum. directed to Jupy's charity. Now, the. settlement included apparently no. admission of liability, but it did. cement Andrew's isolation. He seemingly. withdrew almost entirely from public. life, seemingly was living a quiet life. at Royal Lodge in Windsor. And for a.

time, it appeared the story maybe. reached its conclusion. Not quite. For. years, the US Department of Justice, the. DOJ, held an enormous cache of. investigative material from the Epstein. case. Victim statements, flight logs, tens of thousands of communications. And. in late 2025, the Epstein Files. Transparency Act forced the DOJ to begin. releasing those records. Again, all the. Epstein investigated materials in their. possession. Something that we've been. covering religiously here on Sidebar.

And the release was staggering, millions. of pages. This wasn't interpretation. This wasn't rumor. It was raw material. to be examined. And as we looked at. these files, there was one set of. documents that stood out. These email. communications between Epstein and a. contact identified as the Duke. messages. dated 2010 after again Epstein's. conviction discussing dinner plans, introductions, and most strikingly emails in which. Andrew allegedly appeared to forward.

official visit reports from a government. trade mission in Southeast Asia directly. to Epstein because at one point Andrew. was the UK trade envoy. So this shifted. the story fundamentally because these. were timestamp records suggesting an. ongoing functional relationship between. this convicted sex offender and a senior. royal. So the consequences followed. quickly in October of 2025 as Dupre's. memoir renewed scrutiny and pressure. mounted King Charles took unprecedented.

action. He initiated the formal process. to strip his brother of his remaining. style titles honors. Andrew Mountbatton. Windsor was no longer a prince, no. longer a duke. He was removed from Royal. Lodge, relocated to a smaller residence. on the Sandringham estate. And then came. the legal shock wave. The disclosure of. the Trade Mission documents prompted a. formal complaint to British authorities. alleging a potential breach of the. Official Secrets Act, legislation. designed to protect sensitive government. information. And the Tames Valley Police. has now confirmed that they are.

assessing the materials. So for the. first time, Andrew was not simply. confronting public disgrace or civil. litigation. He was facing the. possibility of much more serious legal. scrutiny potentially. Are we talking a. crime? And that is where the story. stands now. So what began as a. controversial friendship evolved into a. public reckoning, a legal settlement, the loss of royal status, and now a. police assessment triggered not by. rumor, but by seemingly documentary. evidence emerging from a US. court-ordered release. And the ground.

has shifted completely. So with the. police now assessing this, what does. that actually mean? More importantly, what are they looking for? This isn't. about relitigating Virginia Drey's. allegations. That was a civil lawsuit. It's been settled. This is something. different. This is about documents that. we haven't really talked about before. Andrew's official role. So in 2010, when. many of those emails were sent, Andrew. wasn't just the Duke of York. He was. appointed the UK special representative. for international trade and investment. And this complaint that sparked this. police assessment focuses on emails. where he appears to send confidential.

visit reports from official trips to. Epstein. And that moves the issue from. personal conduct to alleged potential. misconduct in public office. So to. understand the stakes, to understand. what we're talking about, you got to. understand what we're talking about. here. The Official Secrets Act. Think of. it kind of as the UK's main law against. government leaks. for someone in. Andrew's position at the time. It can be. a crime to make a damaging disclosure of. protected information without. authorization. What counts as protected. information? Things like security.

secrets, defense plans. Crucially here, international relations. Those trade. reports from Southeast Asia, they're all. about diplomacy and international deals. That's the international relations. category that seemingly we're talking. about. So, the core question for police. now is this. Could sharing or allegedly. sharing those official documents with a. private foreign citizen, especially one. with Jeffrey Epstein's background and. connections, can that be seen as a. damaging disclosure that harm the UK's. interests? That's the legal question. That's what they're assessing. So, it is.

critical to kind of be precise about. what is happening here, right? So, the. police statement says that they are. quote assessing the information. This. isn't an abstract concept. The same. document dump triggered a separate. active police investigation into former. British ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandlesson, over similar. allegations of sharing sensitive. information with Epstein on top of the. fact that he just had apparently weird. communications with the guy. But the. precedent is being set. Okay, so I want. to dive into this. I want to get into. the emails and we're going to coin these.

the invisible man emails because the. document release contains a separate set. of emails from the early 2000s involving. an individual using the email signature. the invisible man. Now the messages span. roughly 2001 to 2002. They're addressed. primarily to Gla Maxwell. The identity. of the sender is not explicitly stated. in the release files. However, contextual references within the emails. include mentions of royal residences,

official schedules, travel that is. consistent with Andrew's movements. during that period. So, for example, in. one August 2001 email, the invisible. man, again, let's presume it's Andrew, we don't know for sure, the invisible. man writes to Maxwell from what appears. to be a royal setting, describing being. eporal and referring to the royal family. and the girls, okay, in the context of. daily activities. And in that message, the sender writes, quote, I am up here. at about moral summer camp for the royal. family. Activities take place all day,

and I am totally exhausted at the end of. each day. The girls are completely. shattered, and I will have to give them. an early night today as it is getting. tiring splitting them up all the time. How's LA? Have you found me some new. inappropriate friends? Let me know when. you are coming over as I am free from. the 25th of August until the 2nd of. September and want to go somewhere hot. and sunny with some fun people before. having to put my nose firmly to the. grindstoneone for the fall. Any idea is. greatly received. See you a xxx. And.

remember when we talk about girls, Prince Andrew has two daughters. Okay. In a separate August 2001 exchange, Maxwell tells the same sender that she. has only been able to find appropriate. friends, writing, "So sorry to. disappoint you. However, the truth must. be told. I have only been able to find. appropriate friends. We'll let you know. about some church meetings on those. dates. Kisses GX." And the sender. responds, "Distraught. You probably. wouldn't know, but I lost my valet on. Thursday. He died in his sleep. He had. been with me since I was two. I'm a.

little off balance as not only has my. office been restructured, I have left. the RN and now my whole life is in. turmoil as I have no one to look after. me. He was a real rock and almost a part. of the family. If you have any good. ideas as to how to get my mind back on. track, I'd be grateful for advice. See. you real soon. I hope if you are coming. over a xxx got another email from. February 2002. to the same sender. discusses apparent travel plans to Peru. and writes, "As far as girls, well, I. leave that entirely to you and Juan.

Estabban." And that message appears in a. longer thread that includes a third. party, Juan Esteban Gnoza, who writes to. Maxwell discussing sightseeing and. activities and social arrangements and. asks about the girls, "How old is he? I. doubt it that he will find someone, but. we can try." In a further email from. March of 2002, Maxwell writes to the. same address, stating, "I just gave. Andrew your telephone number. He is. interested in seeing the Nazca lines. He. can ride, but it is not his favorite.

sport, i.e. pass on the horses. Some. sightseeing, some two-legged. sightseeing, read intelligent pretty fun. and from good families. And he will be. very happy. I know I can rely on you to. show him a wonderful time and that you. will only introduce him to friends that. you can trust and rely on to be friendly. and discreet and fun. He does not want. to read about any trip in the papers. whom or what he saw. Call me if you have. any questions. Otherwise, you can expect. a very English sounding gentleman on the. phone to call up and say hi. I told him. it would be best if he made his plans.

directly with you. The only part that. I'm jealous about is that he will get to. see you and that he will be in Peru and. have you as his tour guide for a day. Basos GX. So those emails don't include. explicit descriptions of illegal. activity per se and the release doesn't. identify the sender by name. Kind of see. why it's questionable, right? And the. documents also don't establish whether. any of those plans were carried out. But. again, little strange because what they. do provide is kind of this. contemporaneous written communication. showing Maxwell discussing introductions.

and travel and you know discreet social. arrangements potentially involving. Andrew during the same period that were. referenced in later allegations. Now you. go back to 2010, okay, August 2010. So. this is about 2 years after Epstein. plead guilty, right? 2008. And the. Epstein emails contact identified as the. Duke. He writes, "I have a friend who I. think you might enjoy having dinner. with. She will be in London 2024." The. next morning, the Duke replies, "Of. course. I am in Geneva until the morning.

of the 22nd, but would be delighted to. see her. Will she be bringing a message. from you? Please give her my contact. details to get in touch." Month later, in late September 2010, the email thread. continues again between Epstein and the. same the Duke address. And in that. exchange, Epstein writes, "Already in. London. What time would you like me? And. redacted name, we will also need to have. private time. The Duke appears to. respond, Alternatively, we could have. dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of.

privacy. Epstein replies, BP, please. Epstein then adds, I want private time. with you. However, I am here with. redacted and redacted. Should I bring. them all so as to add some life? The. Duke responds, yes, plenty of space here. for chat. Bring them. December 2010. There's another message from the Duke to. Epstein framed as a holiday note with an. attachment. And the text includes, "It. was great to spend time with my US. family. Looking forward to joining you. all again soon. I'll call you tomorrow.

as I am moving the family up to. Sandringham during the day." Now, around. the same time period, there is another. email from the Duke to Epstein that. includes this line. Jay, Kate has agreed. to a deal in London. It's down to bring. you over the line. God, it's cold and. dank here. Wish I was still a pet in. your family. Also dated November 3rd, 2010, the release includes an email sent. to Andrew by his special adviser, Amit. Patel, and it reads, "Sir, please find. attached the visit reports for Vietnam,

Singapore, Hong Kong, and Chenzen in. relation to your recent visit to. Southeast Asia." And that email is. relevant because it references official. trip materials that were generated. during Andrew's tenure as the UK special. representative for international trade. and investment. So, you go to October of. 2013 and Epstein emails or appears to. email Andrew's aid, David Stern, and the. email reads, "I have a very beautiful. friend coming to London on Tuesday. Andrew might want to have her for a. dinner." So, the record here reflects. communications about introductions and.

dinner plans continuing after Epstein's. conviction. And we don't know if these. who these people are, the ages, anything. like that, but again, see why it doesn't. look right. Then you go to April 2017. and Epstein emails a business contact. with an offer that seems to reference. Windsor Castle. Do you want a dinner. invite at Windsor Castle with the top. Chinese biz people? May 26. So that. email on its face shows that Epstein is. presenting himself as somebody able to.

extend access to that setting. That same. release also includes photographs, and. you've probably seen these here, described in reporting on showing Andrew. on the floor with an unidentified. person. The images are undated. The. release doesn't provide captions or. context. Reporting is noted that the. images and the email messages do not by. themselves establish wrongdoing, although it is very strange to see this. And we're going to keep that standard. here as well, but again, strange. Now. the reason these documents are being. examined now is not only the social.

contact but it's also Andrew's role at. the time because in 2010 he held that. position right the special. representative and again this role. connected to official government travel. and meetings. In this document set there. are references to what I mentioned. before visit reports and trip materials. that appear to have been forwarded to. Epstein. That is the core of the. complaint that has led the Tempames. Valley Police to say they're assessing. the information. And the document. release also includes material from 2015. which directly relates to again that. long disputed claim by Virginia Duprey.

that she met Andrew and was photographed. with him in London in 2001. So you have. one document. It is a draft statement. sent in January of 2015 from an email. address identified as Galain Maxwell to. Epstein and the email is labeled draft. statement and it includes the following. passage. quote, "In 2001, I was in. London when Redacted met a number of. friends of mine, including Prince. Andrew. A photograph was taken as I. imagined she wanted to show it to. friends and family. I never asked. Redacted to give him a massage." So,

Jafrey is alleged that she was the. person in that photograph. And then you. have a separate email from the same. period where Maxwell appears to write. Epstein, "I have to distance myself from. you in statement two and they need me to. say I was not aware of massage with. Andrew in my house." So the release also. and the release also includes a 2011. internal draft response that was. forwarded by Andrew or allegedly by. Andrew to his staff which states quote. there are two competing issues to deal. with. One is to clearly state that this.

is fabrication and two to distance me. from any of this if you can. Now Andrew. has consistently denied Jafrey's. allegations as I mentioned denied ever. meeting her. In that 2019 BBC interview, he questioned the authenticity of that. photograph. In 2022, he settles that. lawsuit. And just this as an aside to. all this, the document release also. includes email exchanges involving Peter. Mendelson. I mentioned him before in the. senior UK politician. And this is in. correspondence with Jeffrey Epste. So.

you have one email dated July 22nd, 2009. So this is the same day that. Epstein was apparently released from. prison following his 2008 conviction. And in that exchange, Mendelson writes. to Epstein from a Blackberry device, "How is freedom feeling?" Epste replies. earlier the same day, "She feels fresh, firm, and creamy." Later that day, Mandles sends a follow-up message, "Naughty boy." So the release files. include also later communications in.

which Mandles appears to forward or. reference government related material to. Jeffrey Epstein, including a message. describing as an interesting note that. had gone to the prime minister. This is. the allegation. Now the documents do not. on their face establish any kind of. criminal conduct. However, these. communications are referenced in. reporting as the basis for a separate. police investigation into Mandlesen. concerning potential misconduct in. public office. So, we just walk through. the timeline, right? We've seen the.

invisible man emails from the early. 2000s, inappropriate friends. We've read. the invite to Buckingham Palace for. private time. We've seen the reference. to being a pet in Epstein's family. We've seen the 2013 request for a dinner. intro, the 2017 offer of a Windsor. Castle dinner, and crucially, we've seen. the paper trail around Andrew's official. role, right? The visit reports, the. itineraries. This is the evidence that. the Tempame's Valley Police are now. assessing, or it looks like they are, not as gossip, but as a potential.

serious violation. And I want to bring. it back to the official secrets act. Remember the core question, damaging. disclosure. So looking at these. documents through that legal lens. changes the framing. It's not just was. it wrong for a prince to be friends with. Epstein, right? The question becomes did. a crown servant, the UK special. representative for international trade, improperly share protected government. information, information about. international relations with a private. foreign citizen. This is also why. Mandlesson's parallel is so critical. because the allegations are strikingly.

similar. Senior government figure. allegedly sharing information with the. same private individual. So facing all. of this, the royal family began to voice. its position. First, you had Prince. William and Princess Kate spokesperson. say, "I can confirm the Prince and. Princess of Wales have been deeply. concerned by the continued revelations. Their thoughts remain focused on the. victims." Then, Prince Edward gave a. similar statement, also expressing that. the family was quote deeply concerned. and that their thoughts and sympathies. have been and remain with the victims. But these were expressions of sympathy.

and personal dismay. They were not. addressing the new legal dimension. And. with the legal pressure building and the. documentary evidence now public, King. Charles broke the family's official. silence on behalf of the monarchy. itself. In a statement issued by. Buckingham Palace, the king said, and. I'm quoting here, "The king has made. clear in words and through unprecedented. actions his profound concern at. allegations which continue to come to. light in respect of Mr. Mountbatten. Windsor's conduct. While the specific. claims in question are for Mr. Mount.

Batton Windsor to address. If we are. approached by Temp's Valley Police, we. stand ready to support them as you would. expect. Major statement there. That's. all we have for you right now here on. Sidebar. Everybody, thank you so much. for joining us. And as always, please. subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcast, [music] Spotify, wherever you get your. podcast. You can also follow us on NBC's. Peacock. We got Sidebar episodes up. there, too. [music] If you want to. follow me, X Instagram, my NewsNation. show, Jesse Weber live, Monday through. Friday, 11:00 p.m. Eastern. I'll see you.

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