Court told Ghislaine Maxwell to search emails for words ‘Andrew’, ‘toy’, and ‘erotic’

Prince Andrew’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell continue to haunt him. New court documents reveal that Maxwell was ordered to search for messages containing Andrew’s name and the words ‘toy’.

Andrew has gained global notoriety since he was accused of rape and sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre in 2021. He was also named in recently unsealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The court documents revealed that Maxwell’s lawyers were asked by a US court to dig through her electronic devices for any mention of the Duke of York and a list of hundreds of words. These included ‘Prince’, ‘Andrew’, ‘Duke’, ‘York’, ‘Royal’, ‘underage’, ‘massage’, ‘SE’, ‘slave’, ‘. The documents also claimed that the prince took part in an orgy with underage girls on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

The 130 papers were part of a 2015 defamation case filed by Giuffre against Maxwell, a long-time Epstein associate convicted in 2021 of conspiring with him to recruit, groom, and abuse underage girls. To comply with the court order, 110 words were searched for (including Andrew’s name), with 9,000 documents and correspondence being brought up. Whether Andrew was explicitly named in this search is unknown.

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Giuffre filed a separate, since-settled lawsuit claiming Andrew raped her when she was a teenage victim of Epstein in 2001. In her 2021 lawsuit, Giuffre claimed Andrew sexually abused her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and on his private island, Little St James, in the US Virgin Islands. She also alleged that Andrew, Epstein, and Maxwell forced Giuffre to have sexual relations with the prince at the British socialite’s home in London.

The Duke of York has repeatedly and strenuously denied the accusations. He has never faced criminal charges throughout the saga and insisted he has ‘no recollection’ of meeting Giuffre.

Just a day after a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that a civil case related to the sexual abuse accusations could proceed in 2022, Buckingham Palace ‘took the trash out’. The Queen stripped Andrew of his military titles and royal patronages – he can no longer use the title of ‘His Royal Highness,’ for example. However, Andrew remains eighth in line for the throne.

King Charles remains ‘resolute’ that he will never allow his brother to return to royal duties. Royal insiders told The Sun on Sunday that Charles found it very difficult to make the decision, as it’s his brother and he cares for him, but he knew it was the right thing to do.

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