Lownie: Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s intimate secrets to foreign governments

For years, people have known that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell absolutely had a “client list.” Which is why it’s so bizarre that the Trump administration claims that the client list doesn’t exist. The actual debate (to my mind) is who actually ran the operation, because from what we’ve heard from the survivors of the Epstein-Maxwell trafficking scheme, it was Maxwell telling the girls where to go and what to do with high-profile or wealthy men. But I believe Epstein was the one who kept the kompromat, the videos and actual receipts, and he might have been the one passing on intelligence gleaned from his “clients.” Well, in Andrew Lowne’s new book about Prince Andrew, Lowne’s sources claim that Epstein actually did sell Andrew’s secrets to the Israeli, Libyan and Saudi governments.

Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s “most intimate secrets” to foreign intelligence agencies around the world, a new book has claimed. Compromising material on the Duke of York is alleged to have been passed to Israel’s Mossad, the Saudi Arabian authorities and the Libyan intelligence services under Colonel Gaddafi.

Details of the claims are made in a new book on the prince, by author Andrew Lownie, which describes how the royal was easy prey for a “rattlesnake” like Epstein. Victims of the US billionaire, who took his own life in 2019, have claimed for years that Epstein kept video recordings of his high-profile friends having sex with women. No proof of any recordings has ever been made public.

Lownie, in his new book, credits a documentary by the Canadian journalist Ian Halperin as the source of allegations that Epstein sold Andrew’s secrets to foreign agencies in the Middle East and Libya. The claims were “confirmed” to Halperin by “many in Andrew’s circle”, Lownie wrote. Halperin wrote about Epstein in his own book, Controversy: Sex, Lies and Dirty Money by the World’s Powerful Elite, which was published on Amazon in 2020. In his book, Halperin claims that he spoke to Epstein in 2001 and quotes the financier at length as he discussed the Duke of York and the rest of the royal family. Epstein is quoted as telling Halperin that he had met Queen Elizabeth and introduced Princess Diana to Dodi Fayed, among other eyebrow-raising claims.

Lownie told The Times that he didn’t “buy everything” in Halperin’s Epstein book, but added that the information he had put into his own book had been “verified”. He said: “The claim about the kompromat, I’ve got it from other sources.”

In his book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, Lownie wrote that “other sources” alleged Epstein had Kremlin connections and may have been an “agent of influence” for Vladimir Putin. Epstein played Andrew, Lownie said. He wrote in his book: “The prince was a useful idiot who gave him respectability, access to political leaders and business opportunities. He found him easy to exploit.”

The book also quotes US businessman, and convicted fraudster, Steven Hoffenberg, who knew Epstein, as saying that Andrew was his “Super Bowl trophy” and Epstein planned to sell Andrew’s secrets to Mossad. Hoffenberg said: “Andrew had a weakness for the girls and fast life, Epstein provided that fantasy. Andrew would then give intelligence that Epstein would give to Israel. Andrew didn’t understand that he was being used.”

[From The Times]

Sure. As I’ve said before, I have no problem believing the worst of Prince Andrew and, for that matter, Epstein and Maxwell. This has long been the gossip/conspiracy about Epstein’s operation: that he provided girls to powerful men and gathered kompromat. That’s the conspiracy around Epstein and Trump’s relationship too, that Epstein and Trump shared the same proclivities and that Epstein had intelligence and evidence of Trump’s depravity, which he passed along/sold to foreign intelligence agencies. It would honestly explain a lot. And yes, I also believe that Andrew was a “useful idiot” being “run” by multiple governments and intelligence agencies. Epstein wasn’t the first nor the last to use Andrew’s oafish narcissism and depravity for his own means.

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