‘ATTERSON de girls whom he believed were of his former employer’s home, ver was engaging in sexual conand had viewed pornographic n computers in his employer’s eleased from custody for further ez had attempted to sell to the viewed by an agent familiar with vestigation. As Rodriguez had ned information material to the t would have been extremely useosecuting the case, including the ation of material witnesses and those items been produced in the state law enforcement officers their contents would have been nd jury. redo Rodriguez was arrested again. ne 18, 2010, facing charges of cornd documents. Dressed in a blue pologized for his crimes and asked eighteen months. ient that Jeffrey Epstein had gotten stein, Alfredo Rodriguez served his did not ask for, or receive, permis- 220 CHAPTER 58 Prince Andrew: 2011 P rince Andrew also fares poorly in the wake of Epstein’s imprisonment. The two men are old friends. They have been ever since Ghislaine Maxwell introduced the prince to her then-beau, sometime in the 1990s. In 2000, Epstein had been invited to Windsor Castle to celebrate the queen’s birthday. Six months later, Epstein flew to Sandringham, the queen’s estate in Norfolk, England, for a party Prince Andrew threw for Ghislaine’s thirty-ninth birthday. The prince had also visited Epstein on several occasions, in Palm Beach as well as in New York. And if allegations Virginia Roberts made in her 2015 declaration are to be believed, Epstein asked her to give the prince whatever he required, then report back with the details. According to the Guardian, Epstein and the prince had partied together at Windsor Castle, in Saint-Tropez, and in Thailand, 221 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009302¶
JAMES PATTERSON FIL where “Andrew was pictured on a yacht surrounded by topless women. According to Roberts’s lawsuit, Epstein had forced her into the prince’s bed on Little Saint Jeff’s. After Epstein’s conviction, the British press were using another name for Little Saint Jeff’s: Sex Island. The Guardian reported that the manager of two Virgin Islands-based corporations owned by Epstein happened to be the wife of the governor of the Virgin Islands. There were allegations involving a million-dollar donation that Epstein had made to the governor’s reelection campaign. And then there was Roberts’s claim that she had been forced to have sex with the prince on the island as well as in New York and in London. Invariably, the photograph of Prince Andrew with his arm around the bare midriff of a very young-looking Virginia Roberts ran with stories that appeared in the tabloids. “It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship” with Roberts, Buckingham Palace spokespersons would say. “The allegations made are false and without any foundation.” The prince’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, while on a skiing trip with the prince and their daughter Eugenie in Switzerland, told reporters, “He is the greatest man there is. It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married him. He is a great man, the best in the world.” “I won’t stand by-because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you-and not support him so publicly because they are just shockingly accusatory allegations, 222 which I don’t think is right,” s viewed by Today host Matt La and as a great father and a h work he does for Britain I w character defamed to this leve But at the same time, a c good man’s fall from grace, a out of the woodwork to dish t “I’ve seen him treat his st said a former aide to the prince personal protection officers, ground and demanding they graces at all. Sure, if you’re a la then I bet he’s utterly charming Despite all this, the prince had a photo, frequently trotted out ! strolling in Central Park. Some few months before it businessman had secretly tape five hundred thousand pounds “If you want to meet him ir “look after me, and he’ll look aft “Once again,” she said aft pounded and rebounded and als most in the world: the Duke.” Prince Andrew had had his real estate deals, sticky romanment dumps (courtesy of Juliar 22 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009303¶