Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, appears to have emailed Ghislaine Maxwell asking if she could set him up with “some new inappropriate friends,” according to documents included in the third release of the Justice Department's Jeffrey Epstein files.
The email exchange began in August 2001 and began with a message from an address labeled “The Invisible Man,” according to records released Tuesday. The sender is not identified in the records but states that he is at “Balmoral Summer Camp”, likely referring to Balmoral Castle, the royal family's estate in Scotland, and signs the email with the letter “A”.
Mountbatten-Windsor did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent by NBC News to an email address associated with the Duke of York's office. Buckingham Palace also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“Have you found me new inappropriate friends?” states the email to Maxwell. “Let me know when you're coming as I'm free from August 25th to September 2nd and want to go somewhere hot and sunny with fun people before I have to put my nose firmly to the grindstone in the fall.”
“Any ideas are greatly appreciated!” the message continues. “See you, XXX.”
Records show Maxwell responded several hours later.
“I’m very sorry to disappoint you, but the truth must be told. I only managed to find the right friends,” she said. “I will inform you about some church meetings these days. Kisses Gx.”
Two days later, the original sender responds to the message, writing “Distraught!”
“You probably don’t know, but I lost my valet on Thursday. He died in his sleep. He has been with me since I was two years old,” the sender wrote. “I'm a little thrown off balance because not only has my office been restructured, I've quit my job as an RN and now my whole life is in turmoil because I have no one to look after me. He was a real rock and almost part of the family.”
“RN” appears to refer to the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Mountbatten-Windsor, 65, formerly known as Prince Andrew, retired from the Royal Navy in July 2001, about a month before the emails were exchanged. King Charles stripped his younger brother of his royal titles in November over his ties to Epstein.
For years, Mountbatten-Windsor has been in the spotlight for his links to convicted sex offender Epstein and his accomplice Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
In 2022, Mountbatten-Windsor settled a civil lawsuit with an Epstein survivor. Virginia Roberts Giuffre who accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old. While he did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, he acknowledged Giuffre's suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.
Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied ever meeting Giuffre and claimed that a widely circulated photo of the two of them was not real. He also denies any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and Maxwell and has never faced criminal charges. The Justice Department said nothing in Epstein's publicly released files warrants an investigation or prosecution of any third parties.
Giuffre committed suicide in April. She released posthumous memoirs, detailing allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor in October. She wrote that she had sex with him three times, including an “orgy” involving “eight other young girls” who “appeared to be under 18 and did not actually speak English.”
King Charles stripped his younger brother of his royal titlesn a few weeks after the memoir was published. King Charles also forced him to move from his home at Royal Lodge near Windsor Castle. Mountbatten-Windsor's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were able to retain their titles.
