Humiliation is being heaped on Prince Andrew as his ties with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell continue to haunt him (Picture: Reuters/AP)
Ghislaine Maxwell was ordered to search for any messages with Prince Andrew’s name along with the words ‘sex toy’, documents have revealed.
Andrew, the banished second son of Queen Elizabeth II, has drawn global infamy since he was accused of rape and sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre in 2021.
Adding to this, he was among those named in recently unsealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and registered sex offender.
According to the papers, Maxwell’s lawyers dug through her electronic devices for the words: ‘Prince’, ‘Andrew’, ‘Duke’, York’, ‘Royal’, ‘underage’, ‘massage’, ‘sex’, ‘slave’, ‘nipple’, ‘dildo’ and ‘erotic’.
Within the sordid details of Epstein’s affairs and the wealthy men within his circles, the documents also claimed the prince took part in an orgy with underage girls on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.
The 130 papers were part of a 2015 defamation case filed by Giuffre against Maxwell, a longtime Epstein associate convicted in 2021 of conspiring with him to recruit, groom and abuse underage girls.
The Duke of York has repeatedly denied accusations that he raped Virginia Giuffre (Picture: AFP)
Jeffrey Epstein (Picture: Patrick McMullan/Getty Image)
A source close to Andrew told the Mail on Sunday that the shamed royal ‘doesn’t have the emotional bandwidth’ to deal with the fallout.
‘He has locked himself away in a room and has no idea how to respond,’ the insider claimed. ‘He’s devastated.’
The newspaper reported that one of Giuffre’s lawyers, Meredith Schultz, asked for Maxwell’s phones, tablets, computers and iCloud account to be searched for mentions of 368 words as part of the defamation suit.
‘Masturbate’, ‘servitude’, ‘juvenile’, ‘schoolgirl’, and ‘paedophile’ were also part of the list.
Maxwell’s lawyer Laura Menninger objected to the ‘vast number’ of words needing to be searched, stressing at the time it would take ‘more than a week’.
To comply with the court order, 110 words were searched for (including Andrew’s name) with 9,000 documents and correspondence being brought up.
Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre, aged 17, pictured at Maxwell’s townhouse in London in 2001 (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)
Whether Andrew was explicitly named in this search is unknown.
Giuffre filed a separate, since-settled lawsuit claiming Andrew raped her when she was a teenage victim of Epstein in 2001.
In her 2021 lawsuit, Giuffre claimed Andrew sexually abused her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and on his private island, Little St James, in the US Virgin Islands.
She also alleged Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell forced Giuffre to have sexual relations with the prince at the British socialite’s home in London. Such acts caused her severe and long-lasting damage, the suit said.
The Duke of York has repeatedly and strenuously denied the accusations. He has never faced criminal charges throughout the saga and insisted he has ‘no recollection’ of meeting Giuffre.
Just a day after a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that a civil case related to the sexual abuse accusations could proceed in 2022, Buckingham Palace ‘took the trash out’.
Epstein and Maxwell (Picture: Getty)
The Queen stripped Andrew of his military titles and royal patronages – he can no longer use the title of ‘His Royal Highness,’ for example.
However, Andrew remains eighth in line for the throne.
Royal insiders told The Sun on Sunday that King Charles remains ‘resolute’ that he will never allow his brother to return to royal duties.
‘Charles found it very difficult. It was the hardest decision, as it’s his brother and he cares for him,’ the source told the tabloid.
‘But he knew it was the right thing to do. Someone had to take out the trash.’
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