Inside the Investigation Into Whether Ex-Prince Andrew Shared U.K. Trade Secrets With Jeffrey Epstein

The National Enquirer was the first to reveal pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his sex trafficking sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell latched on to Andrew while the former prince was a globe-trotting Special Representative for International Trade and Investment between 2001 to 2011. Epstein’s suspected goal? To cozy up to the royal’s big-bucks buddies turned potential investors and clients — while Andrew would receive a commission in return.

“He was rewarded handsomely,” financier Steven Hoffenberg told the Enquirer in 2021, just one year before turning up dead after blowing the whistle on former business partner Epstein’s flesh-peddling business.

The latest batch of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files has sparked several wide-ranging investigations into the ex-Duke of York sharing U.K. trade secrets with Epstein and setting up a kickback scheme with him when Andrew was supposed to be promoting British business interests abroad.

Royal expert Hilary Fordwich believes Andrew’s charmed life may be coming to an end because of alleged treason — not his illicit sexual activities with girls.

“Andrew has done all these ghastly things, and the irony of it is it’s finally being taken very seriously [by the U.K. government] because he’s revealing state secrets,” Fordwich tells the Enquirer. “So basically, he was betraying his country, he was betraying the taxpayers, he was betraying his mother, he was betraying his family by being a greedy prince.”

During his trade envoy days, Andrew was rubbing shoulders with Kazakhstan’s dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev and his son-in-law, Timur Kulibayev, who bought the former duke’s Sunninghill Park home for $20 million — $4 million over the asking price.

Further, dozens of emails between Epstein and Andrew’s pal David Stern show an ongoing discussion between 2010 and 2018 where the trio discussed investment opportunities in Asia using a variety of business names such as Green Park, Serpentine Group, Asia Gateway and Witan Holdings.

Even though Andrew’s past post has a duty of confidentiality, an October 2010 email shows he shared secret government reports about his then-upcoming trip to Singapore, Vietnam and China with Epstein — just minutes after receiving the information himself. Andrew allegedly also gave Epstein secret reports about gold and uranium investment opportunities in Afghanistan.

Amid calls by the U.S. House Oversight Committee for his testimony, the British government is also now probing Andrew, who was ceremoniously stripped of his titles by his brother King Charles and ordered to move out of the crown-owned Royal Lodge.

Warns Liam Byrne, the chair of Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee: “I can guarantee you that MPs [members of Parliament] are not in the market for letting anything slip through the cracks.”