by A lawyer representing Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has urged the FBI to release CCTV footage he claims could show Prince Andrew at the pedophile’s mansion.
Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who represented nine of Epstein’s victims, is urging US law enforcement to release the footage from home surveillance cameras following newly released records detailing Andrew’s ties to the convicted sex offender.
In the files, Johanna Sjoberg, who worked as a massage therapist for Epstein, claimed that the Prince groped her breasts while sitting on a couch inside Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2001, an allegation the Duke of York denied.
Juan Alessi, Epstein’s former housekeeper, also alleged that Andrew had daily massages when he spent “weeks” at the disgraced financier’s Florida home, according to court papers released this week.
Mr Alessi said he believed the Duchess of York visited the Florida estate “only once and for a short time”, but identified Andrew as someone she said “spent weeks with us”.
When asked if he would have a massage “often”, Mr Alessi replied: “I would say, a daily massage.”
Kuvin, along with other victims and former employees of Epstein, insisted that every room in his homes had operational security cameras.
The Florida-based attorney claimed that senior FBI officials seized the hard drives and stored videos and wants the bureau to now allow the public to see the content of those videos.
“I can tell you one thing,” he told Fox 11 LA’s TMZ Live. “I personally walked through Jeffrey Epstein’s house after the search warrant was executed and I identified many cameras and computer hard drives that were missing and the FBI seized a lot of that information, not only in Palm Beach but also in the Virgin Islands and Manhattan.
“Where are the videos? That is what the population needs to see.”
Discussing the newly released US court papers detailing Epstein’s connections, Kuvin, Goldlaw’s chief legal officer in Palm Beach, said they provided “context” as to why high-profile figures were involved with Epstein.
“The biggest names like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew are individuals that everyone knows or has heard of in the past.
“These documents only validate what everyone has been discussing. What is important to understand now is the context in which they were identified.
“For example, this deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, which was previously sealed, gives some context to exactly what Jeffrey Epstein was doing with Prince Andrew and several young girls who were there at the time.
“I think the community does [have] right to get some answers from those people.”
He added: “The biggest problem with most of the individuals who socialized with Jeffrey Epstein is that they were part of the normalization of his behavior implicitly.
“I don’t care if you socialized with the guy or if your bank gave him a loan or if you just happened to fly on his plane and be friendly with him. Whatever you were doing with Epstein, normalized a sexual predator so he could get access to more money and more victims.
There is no suggestion that Mr Clinton engaged in illegal activity, and a spokesman has said he was unaware of Mr Epstein’s crimes. Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, or being aware of Epstein’s behavior.
Gloria Allred, another lawyer who has represented Epstein’s victims, said on Saturday that Prince Andrew has “a lot of explaining to do” and should talk to US law enforcement about his interactions with the pedophile financier.
Allred said that until Royal cooperates with the police, the FBI and other authorities, there will be “a cloud that follows him wherever he goes. It’s a dark cloud” that asks if Andrew “told the truth” about his relationship with Epstein in his Newsnight interview.
“It’s very unusual that law enforcement has publicly said they want to speak to Prince Andrew and he hasn’t,” she said.
“Usually they would contact their attorney privately and that would be it. Law enforcement wouldn’t say something publicly. As far as I know Prince Andrew has not yet interviewed them.
“He’s back in the news now, as they would say in the southern US, ‘I think he’s got a lot of explaining to do’.”
She said: “The only question is why isn’t he willing to do that?”
Allred said Andrew couldn’t claim he couldn’t do anything to help the investigation because “it wasn’t for him to decide” what was relevant.
“He is allowed to stay as a visitor and guest at the Epstein mansion in New York. There seems to be some allegation that he was in Florida as well.
“So he’s got information. If he stayed there even for several days, he has knowledge. What were young girls doing there?
“If he knows. Maybe it doesn’t? Should he say what he knows or what he doesn’t? He can’t be forced to talk to authorities if he doesn’t want to talk to them.”
She then questioned his decision to speak to Newsnight to clear his name, but then ducked official legal investigators.
“He didn’t seem to have any problem talking to the BBC, but that wasn’t under oath…He’s under no legal obligation to tell the truth when he’s on the BBC.
“One assumes that people will tell the truth when they speak to the press, but they are under no legal obligation to do so.”
