Kat Gale’s Reviews > Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York > Status Update

[BBC producer Laura] Burns’s credit was removed from the [Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal] interview broadcast; there was no mention of her crucial role in the BAFTA submission, in the press or in any of the subsequent books or films. The single mother who had made the interview coup possible had been written out of the script.

As a result of [Virginia Roberts Giuffre's interview] being suppressed, Epstein had been able to groom, traffic, and abuse young girls for another 3yrs. [ABC news anchor] Robach believed Epstein had been killed in prison: Do I think he was killed? 100% Yes, I do … He made his whole living blackmailing people … Yup, there were a lot of men in those planes. A lot of men who visited that island, a lot of powerful men.

Jeffrey Epstein had sixteen phone numbers for Prince Andrew in his infamous address book, including a line to the duke’s computer modem, and eighteen for his ex-wife.

[Journalist] Day concluded that it was totally beyond him [Andrew] to understand ‘what life might be like for someone else; for someone less privileged, less fortunate, more vulnerable...I can imagine him being as self-centred as a child, not giving any thought as to the impact his behaviour might have on anyone else. I can imagine him being baffled & outraged that he is now being asked to account for his actions.’

International model scout Jean-Luc Brunel, who supplied many of the girls to Epstein, had introduced Prince Andrew to Alana, a Ukrainian model, in 2004 when she was nineteen. She felt Andrew ‘looks at women as just being his mission to conquer. Once he succeeds, he always moves on to the next step. He lives a hedonistic, nihilistic lifestyle with a mission only to please himself.’

After Epstein had been arrested in 2008, Prince Andrew had lobbied on his behalf to avoid prosecution and to obtain a lesser sentence, & that Epstein had cleared Sarah Ferguson’s debts...The release of the flight logs of Epstein’s jet showed how Epstein flew to meet Sarah Ferguson & her daughters as far back as 1998 and recorded flights of the duke in February 1999 to Little Saint James & in May 2000 to Palm Beach.

Andrew was one of several prominent figures, including ‘a former Prime Minister’, to have participated in sexual activities with a minor, later identified as Virginia Giuffre...'The 3rd time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island..Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18...It was disgusting.'

[Epstein's] intelligence links saved him from more serious charges and allowed him to serve his term in under a work-release program, permitting him to go to his office each day, taken by his personal driver...enabling him to fly to his residences in New York, the US Virgin Islands and for the purposes of ‘exercise’ to walk around Palm Beach. Numerous young girls were abused during this period.

Andrew picked out Virginia Roberts from several pictures emailed to him by Ghislaine, as if ordering from a catalogue...She was told to ‘be “smiley” and “bubbly” because he was the Queen’s son’...'I asked Jeffrey to snap a picture of me with the prince,’ Roberts said. ‘I wanted something to show my mom.’ The picture, which was to remain unknown for a decade, would prove Andrew’s downfall.

In December 2000, Epstein, Ghislaine, Tom Pritzker, Kelly Spamm, & an unnamed ‘female' landed at RAF Marham for a two-day shooting party at Sandringham – Epstein in L.L.Bean hunting boots and thousand-dollar leather parka – where Andrew threw a surprise 39th birthday party for Ghislaine. The arrangement to allow the plane to land at the base was described as ‘unusual’ by civil aviation sources.