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For nearly 15 years<\/a>, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/strong>\u2019s relationship with financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein has been a matter of public scrutiny. But during that period, only one woman\u2014Virginia Roberts Giuffre\u2014came forward to say that the former Prince Andrew had allegedly assaulted her. Now, as new files from the Epstein investigations<\/a> come out, the former prince has been included in further disconcerting emails and photographs\u2014and the BBC reports<\/a> that another victim has come forward with claims that Epstein sent her to the UK for \u201ca sexual encounter\u201d with Mountbatten-Windsor. Her lawyer, Brad Edwards,<\/strong> told the outlet that the woman, who is not British, was in her 20s at the time. (Mountbatten-Windsor couldn\u2019t be reached.)<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew,\u201d Edwards told the outlet. \u201cShe even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace.\u201d The BBC said it did not independently corroborate that the victim visited the palace. (Vanity Fair<\/em> has contacted Edwards and Buckingham Palace for comment.)<\/p>\n In October, Andrew was stripped of his princely title, his dukedom, and a number of awards and honorifics. Soon thereafter, he was asked to vacate Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion on Windsor Great Park where he had lived since 2004. At the time, Buckingham Palace commented that King Charles<\/strong> and Queen Camilla<\/strong> wanted to express compassion for all victims of abuse, though Mountbatten-Windsor still denied the allegations.<\/p>\n \u201cThese censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,\u201d Charles and Camilla\u2019s statement read<\/a>. \u201cTheir Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n Edwards told the BBC that he had been communicating with Mountbatten-Windsor through \u201ccertain legal counsel,\u201d but that communication stopped abruptly in the fall after the former prince had \u201cseemingly been disconnected from his lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n Edwards, who represents more than 200 Epstein victims, served as counsel for Giuffre before she died by suicide in April 2025. Her story about an alleged 2001 encounter<\/a> with Andrew first became public in 2011. In 2021, Giuffre sued Mountbatten-Windsor under the New York Child Victims Act in a US court; the following year, he settled<\/a> with Giuffre for a reported 12 million British pounds (about $16.4 million). The former prince has continued to deny Giuffre\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n In her posthumous memoir, Nobody\u2019s Girl,<\/em> Giuffre described the years she spent with Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell,<\/strong> who was convicted in 2021 of five charges of aiding Epstein\u2019s abuse<\/a>. \u201cMy job: to do whatever they asked whenever they asked it,\u201d Giuffre wrote in an excerpt<\/a> that appeared in VF.<\/em> \u201cThere were no bars on the windows or locks on the doors. But I was a prisoner trapped in an invisible cage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n