PRINCE Andrew used Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet to fly to Scotland two months after the paedophile financier was arrested for having sex with under-age girls, new flight logs have revealed.
Flight records released in the US show that the prince flew into Edinburgh airport with Ghislaine Maxwell and two other passengers for a private wedding in September 2006.
Epstein was arrested in July 2006 on a count of soliciting prostitution from a minor after a family reported that their 14-year-old daughter had been molested at his mansion.
In total, records showed Andrew used Epstein’s private jets on four occasions – including in May 2000 with Epstein, Maxwell, the celebrity chef Adam Perry Lang, a bodyguard and three others.
Two flights in 1999 also had Prince Andrew as a named passenger.
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The flight logs were revealed after the US House oversight committee published hundreds more documents from Epstein’s estate on Friday, hours after Andrew announced that he would stop using his titles and honours.
Pressure is growing on the royal family to go further by backing a move to formally strip Andrew of his dukedom through parliamentary legislation.
His sex accuser, Virginia Giuffre, in her posthumous book Nobody’s Girl which is being published on Tuesday, described how he hid behind “the well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle, making it difficult for her lawyers to serve him with papers.
Giuffre alleged, which Andrew vehemently denies, that she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein.
Andrew paid millions to Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault case, despite claiming never to have met her.
She wrote of her 2022 legal settlement with Andrew: “After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me — the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well.”
She added: “We would never get a confession, of course. That’s what settlements are designed to avoid. But we were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgment of what I’d been through.”
