Duke of York said in Newsnight interview that he had severed contact with convicted sex offender
The Duke of York had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein at a time when Prince Andrew has suggested they were no longer in contact, according to an email the billionaire financier sent to a friend.
The Duke, 62, indicated during his 2019 Newsnight interview that he had only met the billionaire financier once following his June 2008 conviction for soliciting and procuring an underage girl for prostitution.
That meeting took place in December 2010, when the two men were photographed strolling through Central Park in New York during a visit the Duke said he had organised “to show leadership” and solely to break off the friendship, only staying at his mansion for several days because “it was a convenient place to stay”.
However, court papers suggest the pair had lunch in June that year while Epstein was under a 12-month house arrest order at his Florida mansion and that they had kept in regular touch.