“It is the joy of every man to see the mighty made common.” – – Pete Hamill, The New York Post
The beginning of the end came early Thursday in the pristine British countryside.
Cops from the Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, on misconduct in public life.
Quite frankly, it would have been a delight to behold even though the bucolic setting was contradictory to the sleazy life led by the dirtbag formerly known as prince.
Mountbatten-Windsor is now in custody, the scalp the FBI and the public has been demanding — and they didn’t even have to piss off the world’s billionaires to get there.
Andrew has long been orbiting planet slime. For years he was the U.K.’s trade representative and became cozy with some of the world’s most bloodthirsty despots and dirtiest businessmen. British tabloids called him “Air Miles Andy” and there was little doubt that those jaunts to the Middle East and western Asia were lining his pockets.
And apparently, those of his close friend billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The mysterious financier killed himself in August 2019 in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking underage girls to his coterie of wealthy pals.
It is now alleged Andrew was directing highly secret government documents to the child molester.
Andrew and Epstein on radar since 2000
My old friend Annette Witheridge was the tabloid grand dame of New York City and probably the sharpest reporter I’ve ever met. She told me in 2020 that as far back as 2000 Andrew and his relationship with Epstein were on the radar.
“In 2000, Larry Schwartzwald (a New York paparazzi I knew well) snapped a photo of Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew at Nello’s, which was the spot to be if you wanted the paparazzi to snap your photo,” Witheridge said. “It was floated that Andrew and Ghislaine were an item — they were age appropriate, so maybe.”
Andrew was never known as the sharpest knife in the drawer. Vain, entitled, spoiled and gullible. Nello’s was chosen for a reason, Witheridge added.
“She played him and in the background pulling the strings was this Gatsby-esque character called Jeffrey Epstein,” she said.
Maxwell introduced the two men and they discovered they both had a penchant for younger flesh. Witheridge noted that previously Andrew stayed at the British consulate. Not this time. He crashed at the largest private mansion in Manhattan.
Epstein’s place.
As it was, those who worked in New York’s British consulate hated visits from the spoiled prince. As for Maxwell, Witheridge said she was “scary.” Andrew was a moron.
That 2010 break-up walk in Central Park with Epstein? The idiot prince had been told there was a pack of tabloid reporters waiting outside. The photo of Andy and the pedophile strolling in the park went around the world and is a key piece of evidence in disputing the royale with sleaze’s troubling timelines.
Epstein collected people and there was a nice spot for the toff who called himself prince on his shelf. He didn’t go through the line and pick you and me: Business moguls, former and future presidents, and one morally questionable prince.
The pedophile provided underage girls for his fellow travellers. One victim, a poor blond from Florida named Virginia Roberts, was just 15 when she was sucked into the Epstein web by his groomer, Ghislaine Maxwell.
For years, Roberts (later Giuffre) was sex trafficked and raped by Epstein, Maxwell and allegedly Andrew, among others. She claimed she was sexually assaulted by Andrew when she was 17. He denied it. What about that picture? Fake. Never met the girl.
In the end, Queen Elizabeth provided her idiot son with $20 million to pay off Giuffre.
Death of queen sparked end for Andrew
Another old pal of mine, former National Enquirer editor and Pulitzer Prize nominee Barry Levine, said once the queen was dead, the pretentious prince was done like dinner.
“It can’t be any worse for Andrew with the ‘let’s play’ emails between him and Epstein. He claimed he had cut off all contact and communication, denying he had ever met Giuffre … and he was caught lying again and again,” Levine said.
The famed tabloid reporter noted that three months after the alleged end of their friendship, Andrew was emailing Epstein, claiming they’d “get through this together.”
“Andrew is joking about having ‘fun together’ with a pedophile who raped hundreds of underage girls. He was accused of having sex with Virginia three times when she was just 17,” Levine said.
“He’s despicable. Not only is he a liar but he didn’t seem to think he had done anything terribly wrong. He was close friends with a pedophile and didn’t think anything of it.”
Levine added in our December chat: “I wrote that Andrew had negative charisma. Despite believing he was James Bond, this smooth, debonair international man of mystery who was irresistible to women, he is a perverted Walter Mitty who deserves worse.
“The irony is that women who came into contact with him were repulsed and turned off by him. Now, he will spend the rest of his life shunned and alone and in utter disgrace.”
This time, there will be no Epstein, Maxwell, mommy, dodgy sheiks, or despots to save him, only his broke-ass ex-wife Sarah Ferguson — who might be joining him sooner rather than later.
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