Claims that Prince Andrew kept in touch with the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, five years longer than he said, would be the “nail in the coffin” to making a comeback as a working member of the Royal Family, claims an expert.
The Duke of York insisted he had not spoken to Epstein since visiting his New York mansion in December 2010. It has already emerged that he had asked Epstein to “keep in touch” and vowed to “play some more soon” months later, in February 2011.
Yet the Epstein-Barak correspondence indicates that the pair possibly stayed in contact even longer. It is yet another challenge to Andrew’s narrative around his relationship with Epstein.
Messages in December 2015 between Epstein and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak name Andrew as the source of information about a business opportunity in China, as reported in the Times.
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Author Phil Dampier told The Sun: “I believe Andrew thought he could make a comeback. But this is the nail in the coffin.”
The emails were in Mr Barak’s hacked inbox, put online by file sharing site Distributed Denial of Secrets. The Sunday Times separately verified dozens of contact details such as addresses and phone numbers.
The email correspondence was first reported on by Reason, an American magazine, last week. It had obtained a copy of Barak’s inbox, which, its reporter Matthew Petti said, had been “quietly posted” online by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), a file-sharing website similar to Wikileaks, in May this year.
The Sunday Times has obtained a copy of the inbox from DDoS and independently verified dozens of details such as email addresses, phone numbers and official addresses belonging to those named in the correspondence.
In December 2015, Epstein emailed Barak, Israel’s leader between 1999 and 2001, with whom he had just invested millions in a security start-up. The paedophile wrote: “Weathy [sic] Chines [sic] looking for to start personel [sic] protection co in Beijing.” He added that “kidnapping has begun”. Barak then replied, “Where did you see it?”.
Epstein then responded, “andrew”. Barak said: “The Prince?”. Epstein then sent a one word email: “yes”.
The correspondence took place shortly after Andrew played a leading role in welcoming President Xi to the UK during a state visit.
In December 2014, Andrew was first accused of sexual misconduct by Virginia Giuffre, a former masseuse to Epstein, who filed an anonymous motion in a Florida court. Weeks later, she waived her anonymity to accuse both men of abuse. Prince Andrew vehemently denied all allegations made against him.
In November 2019, Andrew gave an interview to BBC Newsnight in an attempt to address his association with Jeffrey Epstein who, months earlier, committed suicide while awaiting trial. The middle son of the late Queen Elizabeth II previously said in his bombshell interview for Newsnight with Emily Maitlis that he cut contact with Epstein in December 2010.
The revelations made in the interview caused global controversy. Prince Andrew was subsequently forced to step back from public life and suspend all duties as a working royal. He later reached an out-of-court settlement with his accuser, Giuffre, which is estimated to have been worth up to £12 million, in which he did not admit liability for any wrongdoing. Ms Giuffre died by suicide aged 41 in April 2025.
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