Prince Andrew should testify to US lawmakers under oath over his ties to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, says top lawyer
Famed lawyer Gloria Allred, 84, said the Duke of York should volunteer to speak under oath before Congress.
The 65-year-old has maintained his denial of ever sleeping with Virginia Giuffre, the Epstein victim Andrew was pictured with when she was 17, with the pair standing next to jailed predator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew's lawyers have denied that he has refused to cooperate with US Epstein investigators.
Allred told The Daily Mirror: 'Now more than ever, he should come forward. He could volunteer to testify publicly.
'Is he willing to testify before Congress? Is he willing to give more information to the Justice Department? And if not, why not?
'His silence is a statement that he's not willing to help for some reason.'
It came as a bombshell book called Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, by Andrew Lownie, revealed Jeffrey Epstein said of Prince Andrew: 'We are both serial sex addicts. He's the only person I have met who is more obsessed with p***y than me.
'From the reports I've got back from the women we've shared, he's the most perverted animal in the bedroom. He likes to engage in stuff that's even kinky to me – and I'm the king of kink!'
The book, which the Duke and Duchess of York tried to ban, explores how the couple 'fell from grace because of the flaws in their own characters and how they were allowed to leverage their privileged position as royals for personal gain with the connivance of the institution itself.'
The book also details claims of Prince Andrew's infidelity and bedroom antics - from sleeping with scores of women while on ambassador trips to making lewd comments to women he met during everyday life as the late Queen's favourite son.
It said the nickname 'Randy Andy' was given to Prince Andrew while he was at Gordonstoun public school.
He allegedly earned the name because he was already sexually experienced, good looking and girls were attracted to him.
While he has never had trouble picking up women, a family friend said: 'He's not a hunter of women. He rather expects them to come to him. But when they do, he shows himself to be bone idle and not very socially adept at chatting them up.'
The Duke of York has long faced criticism for his friendship with Epstein (pictured in 2011), which carried on even after the socialite's imprisonment for sex offences in 2008
One woman he propositioned said: 'He's about as subtle as a hand grenade. His favourite trick is to rub your knee under the table. It's pathetic.'
At a wedding he was said to have asked a woman he'd not met before for a dance. When she declined, he responded, 'I suppose a b*** j** is out of the question, then?'
Another of his lovers said: 'He is not a Casanova. In the bedroom department he is a bit of a let-down. He has been dumped by most of the girls linked to him because he is a bore.'
Andrew is also said to have certain juvenile characteristics, such as taking advantage of his position to humiliate others who may not be able to respond.
At a society event in 1992 he reportedly unzipped broadcaster Tania Bryer's evening dress the full length of her back.
Then at a dinner party he allegedly sniffed the pâté served as a first course and turned to his right, saying, 'This pâté smells. What do you think?'
His female companion leaned forward to smell it and he promptly pushed her face into the dish.
One of his dates recalled how he always introduced himself to her friends as the Duke of York, 'even when we were dancing on tables at two in the morning at Momo.'
After a house party in Dorset, one young woman complained: 'One minute you're having your bum pinched and the next minute he's reminding you he's Your Royal Highness.'
The controversial prince even left an impression on former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Andrew asked to have lunch with Johnson when he was Mayor of London, turning up with a list of things he wanted to talk about.
He wanted to redesign traffic lights with 'fewer red lights', thought the whole of Battersea Power Station should be demolished, including the listed towers and felt the Queen Elizabeth II Centre was too small and not fit for purpose.
Johnson responded: 'Well, if it's too small, it's your mum's fault.' Andrew reportedly stuck his tongue out.
Afterwards, Boris said: 'I'm the last person to be a republican but, f***, if I ever have to spend another lunch like that, I soon will be.'
Before her death by suicide in April, Virginia Giuffre said she was approached by Maxwell in 2000 and eventually was hired by her as a masseuse for Epstein, who took his own life in prison aged 66 in 2019.
But the couple effectively made her a sexual servant, she said, pressuring her into gratifying not only Epstein but his friends and associates.
Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000
Giuffre said she was flown around the world for appointments with men including Prince Andrew while she was 17 and 18 years old.
The men, including Andrew, denied that and questioned Giuffre's credibility.
The prince settled with Giuffre in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a 'substantial donation' to her survivors' organisation.
While Andrew has long been criticised on both sides of the Atlantic, Allred, the attorney for some of Epstein's victims, also said she believes Andrew's name appears in files on Epstein held by the US government that many are asking to be made public.
President Trump, who was close friends with Epstein for decades, suggested while campaigning for the last election that he would release the files.
His campaign team wrote on X: 'President Trump says he will DECLASSIFY the 9/11 Files, JFK Files, and Epstein Files.'
However, since his election he has backtracked. His former pal Elon Musk has criticised the Trump administration for not releasing the files.
This year, Trump claimed the files were a 'hoax' and a 'scam' by Democrats who had peddled 'bulls***' to former MAGA supporters.
Musk responded on X by saying: 'Wow, amazing that Epstein '' killed himself'' and Ghislaine is in federal prison for a hoax.'
Then on July 15, Trump said: 'It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring, and I don't understand why it keeps going.
'I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.'
He later admitted the US attorney general had not told him the files were a hoax, but said he (Trump) 'knew' it was.
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