https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-journalist-escorted-diana-new-book-1645754
Jeffrey Epstein Told Journalist He 'Escorted' Princess Diana
Jeffrey Epstein told journalist Michael Wolff he "escorted" Princess Diana "on occasion," according to a new book.
The New York financier was friends with Prince Andrew through his former lover Ghislaine Maxwell.
And Wolff wrote in his new book Too Famous that Epstein once told him he knew the princess.
However, no photographic evidence has ever been made public of the pair meeting.
Epstein's account to Wolff is intriguing because Prince Andrew says he only met the financier for the first time in 1999 through Maxwell.
Princess Diana died in a 1997 Paris car crash meaning that, if the account is correct, Epstein had contact with royalty prior to the point the Duke of York says they were introduced.
Maxwell also contradicted the royal's account in a court deposition saying that she did not introduce the pair, adding to an existing mystery surrounding how the two men met.
A letter to The Times written in an official capacity by Andrew's private secretary, Alastair Watson, in March 2011 suggested their first encounter took place in the early 1990s.
The newspaper reported in 2019: "That date has been corroborated by a friend who knows both Ms. Maxwell and the duke."
Maxwell also described contact with Princess Diana, according to one alleged Epstein victim, Maria Farmer.
The artist, one of the interviewees on Netflix show Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, was the first woman to make a complaint against Epstein to the New York Police in 1996.
Quoted by The Sun in April 2020, she said: "Ghislaine's like, 'Look, there we made her (Diana) cry, isn't that funny? We hated Diana.'
"That's what she said. I was like, 'Oh my god, that's horrible.' They were very mean to her, like abusive, but they thought it was really funny. Very, very sick."
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