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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.
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In this episode we're going to pick up where we left off with the Daily Mail article
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about Prince Andrew getting stripped.
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And once again the authors of this article are Eleanor Mann and John Brady.
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Sky Roberts, the brother of Virginia Roberts, who claimed to have been traffic to Andrew,
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for sex as a teenager, has warned that there could be more trouble for Andrew as his family's
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fight for justice was not over yet. No, look, this is just beginning. Now how far it's
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going to go? That's anyone's guess. But this fool losing his titles really opens the door
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for a police probe. And I'm not the only one saying it, that's coming from people like Andrew
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Lowney, who is a royal biographer. So things are in motion where it goes again, that's anybody's
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guess. But the trouble for Prince Andrew is only just beginning.
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He told BBC Newsnight, it's not enough. We have to have some kind of investigation that goes
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further into this. He's still walking around the free man. I commend the king. I think he's doing
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an amazing job as a world leader, setting a precedent. But we need to take this one step further.
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He, Andrew, needs to be behind bars. Well, look, I'll say that we definitely need an investigation,
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100% and let's see where the chips fall. Andrew says he's innocent. I'm here to tell you I don't
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believe him. And I think the evidence is on my side. But I'm more than willing to give Prince Andrew
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or should I say the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew a chance to defend himself. Everybody
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deserves a chance to defend themselves. The problem is this piece of shit has avoided doing so for
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years. So it's not like people don't want to hear what he has to say. He refuses to talk.
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So like usual Prince Andrew has created problems for himself. Nobody's creating these problems
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for him. Nobody's out to get him. As I've said time and time again, every problem Prince Andrew has,
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he created for himself. He could have lived a great life doing whatever you wanted with whoever
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you wanted, whenever you wanted to do it. And if that meant kinky ass sex with women or whatever,
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plenty of people that are down to do it, plenty of people that'll do it consensually. And
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furthermore, he could have claimed that he was being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein at any point.
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He didn't do that. He went down with the ship, right? We're going to rise above this together.
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We're going to do this. We're going to do that. So spare me the bullshit.
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Amanda Roberts, Virginia sister-in-law, also told newsnight that she supported the notion
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of a joint U.S. UK investigation. I think both countries need to look at collaborating here.
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The U.S. government holds the key to the larger scope of the Jeffrey Epstein case she said.
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The UK is setting an example for what the U.S. should be doing right now.
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And I would ask that your leaders put that pressure on our leaders to do the right thing.
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Well, let's be clear. There have been plenty of people who lost their jobs and their livelihoods
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here in America over their ties to Epstein as well. The problem is there hasn't been any kind of
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prosecution. People like Glenn Dubin, Leon Black, Les Wexner. They've all lost their
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positions because of their relationship with Epstein. But I agree that that's not far enough.
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And when I call for an investigation, I mean a thorough investigation into the financial side of
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things too, because even if you weren't involved in what Epstein was doing when it comes to
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physically abusing people, you mean to tell me that these people that were around them,
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that had their finances intertwined with his, had no idea that he was engaging in a whole host
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of financial crimes they knew, and just like what the abuse they didn't care because they were
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benefiting. Mr. Dimbley has suggested that the king would be unlikely to step in if a request was
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made by the U.S. to extradite to the U.S. in order to face questions over his alleged behavior.
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If there is an extradition, it will not have to do with the king himself. He told BBC.
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One of the proper things to do now is to have it made clear that the ex prince, his brother,
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is beyond the pill. So look, they're doing the whole entire, you've been voted off the island
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routine, huh? Long time coming for Prince Andrew, and he's lucky this is happening now.
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In the old days, his fool would have been sent to a leper colony or something. When contacted by
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the Daily Mail, the Metropolitan Police did not rule out a possible prosecution.
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Andrew's daughter is Beatrice and Eugenie, fled Britain. In the days before their father's final
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humiliation, that finally season kicked out a royal lodge where he was said to have a cast iron.
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75 year lease, the pair who were retained their titles were pictured abroad, Beatrice,
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at an investment conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Eugenie snapping selfies with friends
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in Paris, all while moves began to evict their father back home. Now look, I try not to
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drag the kids into it. Not really, you know, a sin to their father kind of guy.
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But there's no doubt that Eugenie and Beatrice have benefited from their father's largesse,
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but I think it's a step too far to try and blame them for what happened with, you know,
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Virginia or Epstein or anything like that. So I think that all of the anger, all of the
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iron should be focused directly where it is, Prince Andrew. It's been suggested that Andrew was
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pressured by Prince William into giving up the residence under threat of having his daughter's
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titles taken away. Well, hey, the king is the king, right? Lucky, I'm not the king.
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I take everything you owned. Anything with a Windsor family crest on it, gone. Anything I bought
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you, gone. Anything that you got from the crown, gone. I'd have homey driving a fucking cab.
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Imagine you get off the plane at Heathrow and Prince Andrews in the cab as your driver.
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While Andrew has all been cast out from royal life with no titles, purages, or even the right to
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call himself a prince, a royal expert is questioned while he remains eighth in line to the throne.
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Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine said this morning, I'm sure at some point
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quite soon, somebody will ask if they have not already done so. Why hasn't been moved from the line
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of succession? Clearly, it would take a catastrophe for him to become king, giving all those people
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that are ahead of him. So might it not have been tidier to withdraw his name from the line of
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succession? I mean, that's a legit point. He can't be in the line of succession if he's not
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considered a royal anymore. If he has no titles, no honorifics. So maybe it's just an oversight.
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And my guess is, they'll be addressing that too. Andrew is a counselor of state who can
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effectively stand in for the king, but his role has previously been described as an active.
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Mr. Little suggested it may have been tidier to remove that role from Andrews portfolio too.
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Yesterday, the Anti-Monarchy Campaign Group Republic said it had instructed lawyers
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to investigate Andrew, and if appropriate, press ahead with a private prosecution.
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The Daily Mail understands the allegations it's focusing on relate to accusations
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he sexually assaulted Roberts, that he asked a royal protection officer to look into
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her background and impropriety when he served as an official UK trade envoy. Oh, there's plenty of
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that. And if an investigation's launched into Prince Andrew over impropriety and stealing money
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or misappropriating it, I think that's a surefire way to get them on something because I have zero
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doubt that he was misappropriating money. I have zero doubt. He was taking money that he wasn't
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declaring. So tax evasion, you name it, whatever the equivalent is over in the UK. Republic said
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it's mounting its own bid to take him to court because the legal and political response to the claims
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has been weak and inadequate to date. If not us, then who? As Graham Smith, the group CEO,
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it's a devastating indictment on the UK's criminal justice system, police and politicians,
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not to mention the king and heir, that we must resort to private prosecution.
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Last night, the group said that Andrews punishment was nowhere near enough, adding that he will be
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an ordinary person, ordinary people don't get away with being accused of sexual abuse. And that's
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really what it comes down to for me too. He should be treated like any one of us would be treated.
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No special favors, no special hookups, nobody stepping in for him. Time to answer some questions
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Dickhead. Andrews royal biographer Andrew Lowney, whose forensic biography of the disgraced Duke of
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York entitled was released last week, has promised that there will be more revelations to come
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in a new book in the summer. Lowney told the mail on Sunday that friends of Andrew have come
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forward in droves to say they are now willing to paint the full picture about his past.
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And there is a lot of that going on. I've certainly heard some rumors about people that are
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now willing to talk a lot more about what Prince Andrew was allegedly up to. So we'll see if that
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comes to fruition. Many are formally loyal associates who had originally declined to be involved
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in the book, but have been involved in to come forward since its publication.
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And so many have now offered to contribute that the historian who spent four years working on
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entitled and interviewed hundreds of people for his research had been invited by his publisher
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to produce an updated version. The amazing and astonishing thing that's happened since
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entitled came out is that people have come forward in droves with more stories to tell about
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Prince Andrew, he said. A lot of respectable people who declined to be involved in the book
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are now coming forward, keen to unload the secrets they've been keeping for all these years.
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And when that damn breaks, boy, does it break? There's going to be people coming out of the
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woodwork with stories about Prince Andrew, mark my words. The palace said that the censures were
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deemed necessary amid the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The pedophile financier who Andrew
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lied about cutting ties with. It comes after the mail-on Sunday, exclusively revealed
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scandalous correspondence where the shun prince, told Epstein, were in this together. A day after the
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infamous picture of the royal, with his alleged then teenage sex victim Virginia Roberts was released.
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As Andrew's links to the disgraced financier continued to bring shame to the royals,
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last night he finally agreed to surrender, his wins or lease, where he resided with his ex-wife,
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Sarah Ferguson, for over two decades, paying a peppercorn rent.
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Sources revealed the former Duchess of York, who has also been embroiled in scandals relating
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to sex offending Epstein, will make her own arrangements when it comes to her future.
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Well, wouldn't you know it? Being an adult is fun stuff, isn't it?
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And let's not act like she's moving in the budget suites. Her daughters are loaded,
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they're married to rich people. I'm sure that Fergie's going to be fine.
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Plenty of toes suck in coming your way, Fergie's. Don't worry.
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His Majesty's younger brother will now be banished to a private property on the monarch
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Sandringham estate Norfolk, but no further details have been shared. It's understood Prince William
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and the royal family fully support the king's decision.
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Any farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein's earliest accusers, who testified in the trial,
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that resulted in the conviction of his longtime aide, Golan Maxwell, told the BBC,
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longtime aide, he mean co-conspirator, right? Fellow all-around scumbag,
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child abuser, and the rest of it, that's what you mean, right?
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Virginia did what most thought impossible. She showed the world that even the most powerful
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predators can be held accountable. 100%, 100%, and save the bullshit. I don't want to hear it.
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If Andrew was innocent, he would have defended himself. He didn't do any of that.
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A real man would have stood up and said, you know what? Not me. You got the wrong ass guy.
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And here's why. But, Prince Andrew, he went and hid behind mummy skirts, went and hid behind
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the walls of Buckingham Palace and avoided any kind of responsibility or even answering any questions.
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Asked by investigators or people that were working on the case. So yeah,
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Prince Andrew, straight up coward, always has been, always will be.
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Andrew Lowney believes the recent fallout doesn't mark the end of controversy for the shunned
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royal. I don't think it's the end of it. I think there are many more disclosures to come.
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But at least they're taking some decisive action. So I don't think it's all over for him.
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He told him here. When queried, if he believed the police probe and the Andrew was more likely
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following yesterday's announcement, he remarked that the ex-duke was being thrown under the bus.
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100% that's happening. That's actually a legit criticism. He's definitely getting thrown
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under the bus. But guess what? He earned it. He earned the position he's in. Nobody to blame,
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but himself, not the king, not the queen, not the pope, not the grandmuffee, nobody but himself.
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Yes, I've been saying for some time, the royal family is going to throw Andrew under the bus
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to save themselves. And this is the first indication of that. He added, well, nobody's bigger than
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the firm, right? Nobody's bigger than the monarchy. And certainly not this goofball prince Andrew.
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The palace is thought to have been spooked by the detailed allegations laid out in the memoir
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from Prince Andrew's sex abuser for junior Roberts, who took her own life this year, age 41.
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Miss Roberts, explosive book, nobody's girl, a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice
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was released in this month, with the manuscript having been completed before she died.
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Inside, she detailed her years that she spent as a sex slave to Epstein and his British
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madam, Glaine Maxwell, amid claims that she had been trafficked to the ex-duke three times
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whom she called entitled, and viewed sex as his birthright. Within the 400-page autobiography,
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she also alleged the ex-duke said thank you in a clip British accent after their alleged first
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encounter when she was 17. She also recalled Maxwell, praised her following the encounter saying
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you did well, the prince had fun. Andrew denied ever meeting Miss Roberts. In 2022, he settled the US
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civil case. She lodged for a reported 12 million pounds, reportedly receiving money from his mother
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Queen Elizabeth II to help meet the cost. The settlement came with no admission of liability.
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Yeah, I think the settlement itself was liability, right? I mean, come on.
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I don't want to beat this dead horse, but nobody settling for that kind of dough,
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if they're not guilty. I'm sorry, I don't believe it. I just don't believe it.
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Because at the end of the day, the embarrassment was still going to come. All this information was
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still out there. The only thing you can do when you have this kind of allegation, you know,
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made against you is stand up to it. If you're innocent, you stand up. You don't go
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meekly into the night. So your daughter's look at you as a rapist. So your family looks at you
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as some kind of degenerate. So the world looks at you as a scumbag. That's what you want to do.
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And then you have the audacity to cry. You didn't have a chance to defend yourself. You had a chance.
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You chose to buy your way out instead because you didn't want your dirty laundry aired. That's
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what it comes down to. So anybody who thinks that prince Andrew just paid out some dough to try
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and make this go away is either being dishonest or they're stupid. Because there's no way in hell
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that this was going away, even after the settlement. And now these allegations this story hasn't
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just come back. It's exploded like a nuclear bomb. And now we're seeing the after effects with
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this mushroom cloud. That's appeared over Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace. And now in order
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to mitigate that fallout, they've decided that they have to cut ties completely with Prince Andrew.
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But the question is, is it too little too late? All right folks, we're going to wrap up this
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episode right here. And in the next episode, we're going to pick up where we left off.
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