The lawyer of Virginia Giuffre, David Boies has told Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor that he has an obligation to travel to the United States and provide testimony regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Boies argued that the former prince has a duty to disclose any knowledge about the convicted paedophile financier.
“He’s got an obligation to tell what he knows,” Mr Boies stated. “Now, I also think that if he’s afraid of being arrested in the United States, we ought to give him safe passage to come to the United States to testify, because we don’t want there to be any excuse for him not coming and telling what he knows.”
The lawyer’s intervention follows Hillary Clinton’s recent statement that all individuals requested to testify on Epstein should appear before a congressional committee.
David Boies has claimed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is obliged to reveal what he knows about Jeffrey Epstein
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Mr Boies expressed his view that the recently released Epstein files contain sufficient evidence to justify investigating 20 individuals, Andrew among them, for potential wrongdoing.
“I think that it certainly is something that justifies an investigation, what he knew and when he knew it, what he knew about her age, what he knew about the extent to which she was coerced,” he said.
The lawyer asserted that Andrew was aware Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were engaged in trafficking young women.
“He clearly knew that Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell were trafficking these girls,” Mr Boies stated on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
“Now, whether he knew that they were under age, whether he knew that there was force and coercion involved, that is something that is state of mind that I think, before I made a judgment on that I’d want to see more evidence. But it’s certainly something that’s worth investigating.”
The pressure on Andrew continues to intensify from multiple directions. On Tuesday, the chairman of the cross-party Business and Trade Committee indicated that MPs may launch an inquiry into his activities during his decade-long tenure as trade envoy.
Andrew has previously vehemently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein
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GETTYDocuments released as part of the Epstein files reportedly show the former duke, who held the trade envoy position from 2001 to 2011, forwarding reports from official visits to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore to the convicted financier.
Thames Valley Police have confirmed they held consultations with Crown Prosecution Service specialists regarding allegations that Andrew passed on confidential reports.
Mr Boies acknowledged that the full extent of Andrew’s knowledge remains unclear, noting that legal proceedings against him were abandoned shortly before his deposition was scheduled to take place.
When asked about Lord Peter Mandelson, the former US ambassador who faces comparable demands to give evidence, Mr Boies maintained that the peer shares the same duty to testify as Andrew. He reassured both men they need not worry that American authorities would “seize them at the border”.
However, Mr Boies was emphatic in his opposition to any potential clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell. Following the convicted Epstein associate’s refusal to answer questions before the House Oversight Committee last week, her lawyer indicated on X that she would cooperate if President Trump granted her clemency.
“There is no basis, none, for clemency,” Mr Boies responded, describing such a move as “a travesty” given Maxwell’s role in victimising “dozens, hundreds of young girls”.
Andrew has consistently and strongly denied any wrongdoing.