In the days when Jeffrey Epstein held court like a Jay Gatsby from hell, his connection could facilitate a business venture, or show the way to tax relief – but evidence that arose after his death demonstrate that he could also set the rich and powerful with something else: sex-trafficked young girls – sometimes underage.
Of the many friends-clients gravitating around Epstein, probably no one has suffered worse reputational damage than the Duke of York, Prince Andrew – with the notable exception of modeling executive and alleged serial rapist Jean Luc Brunel, who fell in disgrace, was arrested and died in La Santé prison in Paris, in another one of those suspicious death ruled as a ‘suicide’.