Emails Show Prince Andrew Planned 2010 Epstein Meeting

Newly unsealed court documents show an April 15, 2010 email in which Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein it "would be good to catch up in person" after Epstein’s July 2009 release, following Epstein’s suggestion that Andrew meet former JPMorgan banker Jes Staley. Epstein forwarded the exchange to Staley, who was later banned by the UK Financial Conduct Authority in 2023 for misleading the regulator about his relationship with Epstein. Andrew and Epstein were later pictured together in Central Park in December 2010 — an encounter Andrew has called the "wrong decision" and said he intended to use to end the friendship; Andrew has denied Virginia Giuffre’s allegations, which were settled in 2021. The emails were released as part of documents unsealed from a 2023 lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JPMorgan Chase, and separate records show JPMorgan filed a Sept. 26, 2019 suspicious activity report flagging more than $1 billion in Epstein-related transactions. The disclosures have intensified calls for further investigation and contributed to King Charles stripping Andrew of his royal titles and public duties.