The ongoing scandal surrounding the late financier and convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein’s emails has escalated after public release on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, by the United States House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The Epstein emails, which appear to confirm that U.S. President Donald Trump knew the late sex offender, have also thrown new revelations about the authenticity of the infamous 2011 photograph of former Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre.
The release of the Epstein emails challenges the ex-royal’s long-standing claims.
The newly released documents contain exchanges that appear to show Epstein discussing the photograph, which showed the then-Prince with his arm around a teenage Giuffre, with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background, after it first surfaced in the media.
This exchange is key because it seems to confirm that Epstein acknowledged the picture was real, directly contradicting Andrew’s past claims that he had no recollection of the photo being taken or that it could have been doctored.
Recall also that Virginia Giuffre accused Andrew of allegedly sexually abusing her on three separate occasions in 2001 when she was a teenager after she was trafficked by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew, who was recently stripped of his royal titles, has consistently denied Giuffre’s allegations and claimed he has no memory of meeting her.
Meanwhile, in one of the leaked emails that Epstein sent to a journalist, he seemed to contradict a suggestion made by Andrew during the interview that a now-infamous photo showing the former prince with an underage Giuffre was fake.
In the newly released correspondence, which was sent in July 2011, Epstein appeared to confirm the image’s authenticity and claimed “many” of his employees also took photos with Andrew.
Epstein wrote: “The girl has fled the country with an outstanding arrest warrant. The da (sic) after she accused others, said in writing that she has no credibility, she was never 15 years old working for me, her story made it seem like she first worked for Trump at that age and was met by Ghislaine Maxwell.”
“Total horses—, the daily mail paid her money, they admitted it, with the statement that it took money to coax out the truth.”
“Yes, she was on my plane, and yes, she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have.”
“I have never misled you. This girl is a total liar; the authorities should check her Australian immigration form… I will ask if they will cooperate – Prince people.”
In another 2011 email, Andrew appeared to express distress over the mounting public and media scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein and Giuffre’s allegations.
Andrew appeared to reply directly to Maxwell after the email was forwarded to him, writing, “Hey there! What’s all this? I don’t know anything about this. You must SAY [sic] so please. This has NOTHING To do with me.”
“I can’t take any more of this.”
Epstein then responded to Andrew in a separate email chain.
“Just got it two minutes ago. I’ve asked g [sic] lawyers to send a letter,” Epstein wrote.
“Not sure… It’s so salacious [sic] and ridiculous, I’m not sure how to respond, the only person she didn’t have sex with was Elvis,” he added.
Epstein also sent an email to his publicist in July 2011 in which he wrote of Giuffre, “The girl who accused Prince Andrew can also easily be proven to be a liar.”
“I think Buckingham Palace would love it. You should task someone to investigate the girl Virginia Roberts, who has caused the Queen’s son all this agro (sic)”
“I promise you she is a fraud. You and I will be able to go to Ascot (sic) for the rest of our lives.”
This latest revelation sheds more light on a 2015 federal lawsuit filed by Giuffre against Maxwell, where she claimed that she met and was recruited by the socialite in the summer of 2000 when she was 16 and working as a spa attendant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
In her posthumous memoir “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” Giuffre, who died by suicide at the age of 41 earlier this year, provided further details about meeting Maxwell and how events unfolded afterward.
After leaving Jeffrey Epstein’s circle, Giuffre moved to Australia in 2002 and married Robert Giuffre. After her marriage, she gave up her maiden name of Roberts and took her husband’s last name.
Recall also during an interview with the BBC in November 2019, the former prince, while addressing the infamous image, said. “I have absolutely no memory of that photograph ever being taken.”
“Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don’t recollect that photograph ever being taken,” Andrew continued.
“From the investigations that we’ve done, you can’t prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph,” he added.
Andrew also questioned his attire and the hand placement in the photo. He pointed out that he was wearing “travelling clothes,” which he said he wouldn’t have worn for the occasion. In addition, he queried whether the hand on the waist was his own and raised the possibility of photo editing.
Recently, King Charles III officially stripped Andrew of the title of Prince and the style HRH, over the scandal involving Virginia Giuffre.
Also, Epstein died in prison in August 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.
