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Former Prince Andrew Arrested in Britain Over Epstein Ties (Live Updates) (www.nytimes.com)
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Dated: 2026-02-19. Added: 2026-02-19.

Image caption “A photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre in 2001, in Ms. Giuffre’s book. She said in a civil case that she was forced to have sex with him when he was a prince. Credit...Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images”.

Image caption from Nobodyʼs Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (2025) by Estate of Viginia Roberts Giuffre: “Prince Andrew, me, and Maxwell in Maxwell’s London townhouse in March 2001. I asked Epstein to take our picture with my disposable camera. Hours later, I was forced to have sex with the prince.”

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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What I'm bitter about is that this asshole never had any power to begin with, he's just some non-heir piece of shit royal.

By all means, lock him away, but start doing the same to the men who have actually been powerful in their lives.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I highly doubt he doesn't have any evidence on others...

This is how these rings should be treated.

If you got enough to take one down, do it. And pressure them to snitch as much as possible.

Then get the next, and keep going cleaning out everyone you can.

What was happening is they'd find a monster, pressure for info, then let them continue as intelligence assets.

And it just continued to grow until so many powerful people were in on it as "informants" that it was essentially state condoned. If everyone is "informing" and no one is getting prosecuted, then it's actively harmful.

Ex-prince Andrew being prosecuted by his own government is huge. And likely to result in a lot more prosecutions in addition to him being held accountable.

Quick edit:

It's like Elvis getting a DEA badge so he could fly with drugs and guns.

It's legal and technically he's supposed to fighting crime, but he just got rubber stamped on some paperwork so he could flagrantly break the law.

There's a non zero chance part of Epstein's services included getting people designated as informants to avoid prosecution. Then they really could get away with anything.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Andrew doesn't seem very smart, so they'd have a pretty good chance of tripping him up in questioning and getting him to incriminate others. But he has been arrested for handing over sensitive information (basically spying, or being a useful idiot for spies), so the questioning may not be about other things that went on with Epstein.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

I highly doubt that if he has any evidence that he'd blab.

He's seen what happened to Epstein

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The guy had a ton of connections and wealth. That's plenty of power.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I feel like the above is a perfect example of moving the goalposts to avoid ever being happy.

"God, just a prince? When are they going to arrest someone with real power?"

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Considering the scope of what we're learning about Epstein and his circles, yes, I am Indeed not happy at all with "just a prince".

The system still protects its own, I can't help but feel Andrew is arrested not for raping children as much as for not being well liked and/or powerful enough to have friends in high places to protect him.

It's gonna take a hell of a lot more than this before I'm even remotely happy.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

RIP Virginia, wish you'd stuck around to see that bastard in cuffs.

[–] Rippin_Farts_And_Or_Breaking_Hearts@lemmy.org 19 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I love this for the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

Happened on his birthday.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Rapist formerly known as a prince.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

why did the queen used £12million to pay that girl in the picture, whom has never met Prince Andrew (also in the picture).