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  • Former protection officer claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor violated security, ‘secretly’ let women into Buckingham Palace

    Former protection officer claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor violated security, ‘secretly’ let women into Buckingham Palace

    Former Royal Protection Officer Alleges Security Breaches for Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace

    A former royal protection officer has claimed that Prince Andrew, the former Duke of York, was allowed to bring multiple women into Buckingham Palace without standard security checks during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Paul Page, who served at the royal residence for six years, alleges that security protocols were relaxed between 1997 and 2004, enabling visitors to bypass the official log books.

    FBI Dossier Details Alleged Procedure Violations

    According to The Times, Page contacted U.S. authorities after stating he received no response from Thames Valley Police regarding their investigation. In a dossier obtained by the publication, Page told the FBI that he “observed circumstances concerning female visitors to Prince Andrew and the way protection personnel were required to deal with those visitors.”

    He further alleged: “I have publicly described circumstances in which I believed ordinary Palace visitor-security procedures were not applied in the same way to certain visitors associated with Prince Andrew.”

    Ghislaine Maxwell Named Among Visitors

    The former officer specifically identified Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted of child sex trafficking in 2021, as one of the alleged visitors. Page stated that Maxwell’s “presence and access were sufficiently unusual to become a matter of interest to protection personnel.”

    Speaking to The Telegraph, Page said he documented “first-hand information” in his statement to the FBI and considered he had “fulfilled my responsibility as a potential witness.”

    Ongoing Police Investigations and Arrest

    The allegations emerge amid renewed legal scrutiny for the former royal. Andrew was arrested at Wood Farm Cottage in February, on his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his tenure as the United Kingdom’s special trade envoy. He was held in custody for 11 hours.

    In May, Sky News reported that Thames Valley Police are investigating the former Duke of York over potential sex crimes. Detectives reportedly hope to speak with a woman who claims she was taken to Andrew’s Windsor home “for sexual purposes.”

    Fallout from Epstein Connections

    Andrew has faced intensified public scrutiny over his association with convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein. The former Duke of York was stripped of his military titles and royal patronages, and subsequently evicted from Royal Lodge. Since February, he has been residing on the Sandringham Estate.

  • Each superstar named up to now in Epstein recordsdata as Jay-Z and Pusha T talked about in newest launch



    Right here is each superstar that has featured within the Epstein recordsdata up to now, as Pusha T and Jay-Z are named within the newest launch.

    On Friday (30 January), the US Division of Justice (DOJ) dropped three million recordsdata, together with 2,000 movies and 180,000 photos, referring to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

    Former royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was pictured thrice within the newest batch, showing to ‘kneel over a girl’ on the bottom. He has persistently denied all allegations towards him in relation to Epstein.

    Within the new drop, there was additionally an e-mail trade between Epstein and an individual named ‘A’, in addition to the declare that Invoice Gates contracted a ‘sexually transmitted illness’, which the Microsoft founder has since slammed as ‘completely absurd’ and ‘fully false’.

    The DOJ additionally issued a press release after one doc contained plenty of alleged suggestions obtained by the FBI about Donald Trump, together with allegations {that a} 13 or 14-year-old woman was ‘pressured to carry out oral intercourse’ on the US president a few years in the past.

    The DOJ has launched plenty of batches pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation (Kypros/Getty Photos)

    “Among the paperwork include unfaithful and sensationalist claims towards President Trump that have been submitted to the FBI proper earlier than the 2020 election,” the DOJ mentioned.

    “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they’ve a shred of credibility, they definitely would have been weaponised towards President Trump already.”

    Trump himself has addressed the paperwork, telling reporters on Saturday (31 January): “I did not see it myself, however I used to be advised by some essential folks that not solely does it absolve me, it is the alternative of what folks have been hoping, you understand, the unconventional left.”

    And now, one nameless sufferer named acclaimed rappers Jay-Z and Pusha T in an FBI disaster consumption report from 2019.

    The sufferer claimed she was drugged and sexually abused all through the years and that Pusha T was one in all her alleged ‘handlers’.

    Jay-Z and Pusha T have been talked about within the Epstein recordsdata (Kevin Mazur/Getty Photos for Roc Nation)

    Additionally within the report, she mentioned she as soon as awakened in a room with Jay-Z and Harvey Weinstein, who, in 2023, was sentenced to 16 years in jail following a conviction for rape and sexual assault in 2022.

    It acknowledged that she ‘attributed the drugging as incessantly carried out by individuals assigned as handlers, whom she described as individuals who established friendships with the victims’.

    The tip doesn’t suggest that these people have been ever investigated or that they’re responsible of the accusations made. Being talked about within the Epstein recordsdata doesn’t point out wrongdoing.

    LADbible Group has contacted representatives of Jay-Z and Pusha T for remark.

    Final 12 months, the primary spherical of paperwork was publicly launched, with most of the photographs proven missing any wider context or details about when and the place they have been taken.

    Each superstar talked about within the Epstein recordsdata

    Invoice Clinton

    Bill Clinton, who featured in several images, seemed to hint in his statement about being a 'scapegoat' (DOJ)

    Mick Jagger

    Mick Jagger was pictured in the files (DOJ)

    Michael Jackson

    Jackson died a year after Epstein's guilty plea (DOJ)

    Diana Ross

    Ross was also included in the files (DOJ)

    Kevin Spacey

    Kevin Spacey has been calling for the release of the files (DOJ)

    Brett Ratner

    Brett Ratner was also pictured (DOJ)

    Chris Tucker

    Chris Tucker explained that he traveled to Africa in 2002 for a humanitarian mission (DOJ)

    Richard Branson

    Billionaire Richard Branson's spokesperson previously called Epstein's actions 'abhorrent' (DOJ)

    Prince Andrew

    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has continiously denied all the allegations against him in relation to Epstein (DOJ)

    Sarah Ferguson

    The previous Duchess of York seems within the recordsdata (DOJ)

  • Ghislaine Maxwell ‘quizzed in jail over Prince Andrew and thriller Brits allegedly concerned with Jeffrey Epstein’



    Convicted intercourse offender Ghislaine Maxwell has been questioned in jail about Prince Andrew and three thriller British folks in reference to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

    The previous socialite, who’s at the moment in jail for intercourse trafficking of a minor amongst different counts, was interviewed by authorities legal professionals close to to the Tallahassee Federal Jail in Florida the place she was serving her sentence.

    The interview occurred previous to her latest transfer to a low-risk jail in Texas this week, with the relocation motivated by Maxwell receiving dying threats from rapists and murderers accusing her of being a ‘snitch’, according to the Day by day Mail.

    Within the interview, Maxwell was reportedly requested about former buddy Prince Andrew. The Duke at all times denied claims by Virginia Giuffre that she was sex-trafficked to him by Epstein when she was simply 17.

    Maxwell was additionally questioned about different Brits within the deceased financier’s shut circle.

    Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein maintained a detailed relationship for 3 many years. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan by way of Getty Pictures)

    Whereas the identities of the folks allegedly in cahoots with Epstein and Maxwell weren’t revealed, one is believed to be a ‘high-profile public determine’ who had a long-running friendship with Epstein.

    One other is alleged to have spent a number of time at Epstein’s numerous properties, together with his personal Caribbean island, his townhouse in Manhattan and his New Mexico ranch (via Day by day Mail).

    Two of the Brits talked about are additionally believed to have flown on Epstein’s personal jet, Lolita Specific, a number of instances, whereas the third attended a number of dinners hosted by the late intercourse offender in New York and Palm Seaside.

    That is the primary time that Maxwell has been formally questioned about Prince Andrew, although the content material of the interview with Deputy US Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche hasn’t been disclosed.

    Maxwell is at the moment serving a 20-year sentence for youngster trafficking and different counts (Metropolitan Detention Heart)

    The interview reportedly lasted 9 hours, throughout which Maxwell was additionally quizzed in regards to the likes of Invoice Clinton, Invoice Gates, and ‘a number of billionaires’.

    This comes after CCTV jail footage of the night time Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in 2019 was launched to the general public by the US Justice Division (DOJ).

    Conspiracy theorists have been alerted by the absence of 60 seconds from the video, with the ‘lacking minute’ initially attributed to a CCTV digital camera glitch by US Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi. Extra not too long ago, nevertheless, it was prompt that the tape may have been a display screen recording slightly than the unique footage, with the looks of a determine in what appears to be an orange inmate uniform additionally elevating extra questions because it was initially recognized as a jail officer.