The latest tranche of Epstein files released by the United States Department of Justice has thrust Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor back into the spotlight (in the worst way) with a set of unsettling photographs.
The images, part of over 180,000 pictures in the massive document drop, show the former Prince Andrew on all fours or kneeling over an unidentified woman lying prone on a striped carpet floor in what appears to be a hotel banquet room or similar venue.
In two of the photos, Andrew touches the woman's stomach while looking directly at the camera in one. The woman's face has been blacked out by federal officials to protect her identity, but the fully clothed scene still carries an air of creepy intimacy and power imbalance.
Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing with Epstein, but these photos tell a different story. They show the twisted, sexualized “games” that were business as usual for Epstein and his circle of predators.
Epstein's network was notorious for luring powerful men into compromising situations involving manipulation, underage girls, and perverse activities disguised as parties or massages.
Andrew being there only raises more questions about what else happened behind closed doors, with elites who saw women as nothing more than toys for their amusement.
This isn't Andrew's first brush with scandal. Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused him in 2014 of sexually assaulting her three times when she was 17 years old, trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre detailed encounters in London, New York, and on Epstein's private island, Little St. James, where Andrew participated in orgies and exploited young victims.
Virginia Giuffre died by "suicide" on April 25, 2025, at the age of 41. She was supposed to have millions in her bank account from the settlement with Andrew, but when she suddenly died, the inheritors found her accounts to have a tiny fraction of what should've been there.
Andrew vehemently denied the claims but settled the civil lawsuit in February 2022 for an estimated $12M without admitting guilt. That payout, reportedly funded in part by his mother Queen Elizabeth II, effectively silenced the case but did nothing to erase the stench of corruption.
Johanna Sjoberg testified in a 2016 deposition that Andrew groped her breast while posing for a photo with a puppet of himself at Epstein's New York mansion in 2001, with Giuffre present. Sjoberg also described Epstein's "massage" sessions as code for sexual encounters.
Andrew's repeated visits to Epstein's properties, including stays at the Palm Beach home, Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, and the infamous island, despite Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting underage prostitution, show a man who ignored red flags for years.
Elites like Andrew and Epstein survive because they can buy their way out of trouble, every single time.
Settlements, hush money, and royal privilege protect these people from real consequences, while their victims are left with scars for life. Epstein's so-called suicide in 2019 ended his trial at just the right moment for the powerful, but these files keep showing how these predators used and manipulated everyone around them for power, money, and their own sick pleasure.
They trafficked girls as young as 13 (that we know of; it could be even worse), hosted "parties" with the powerful, and used blackmail to maintain influence.
These new photos demand action. Past cases against Andrew must be reopened, regardless of any settlement or expired statutes.
New evidence like this overrides hush money deals. Law enforcement in the United States and the United Kingdom should investigate fully, strip away any remaining protections, and hold him (and all the others) accountable for the child molesting, trafficking, and perversion he enabled.
True justice means no one, not even ex-royals, gets to buy freedom while preying on the innocent.
The Epstein saga proves the system is rigged for the elite.