Prince Andrew wrote email to Jeffrey Epstein telling him to 'keep in close touch' AFTER date he claimed he'd cut him off

Prince Andrew faces caller unit aft it emerged helium promised Jeffrey Epstein they would 'play immoderate much soon!' weeks aft supposedly cutting ties with the paedophile.

The Duke of York sent a bombshell email pledging to 'keep successful adjacent touch', contempt claiming helium had ceased each interaction with the American financier weeks earlier, it has emerged.

The caller grounds suggests Andrew whitethorn person lied successful his infamous Newsnight interview. He insisted to Emily Maitlis successful the disastrous 2019 grilling astatine Buckingham Palace that helium had stopped seeing Epstein successful aboriginal December 2010, erstwhile they were photographed walking done New York's Central Park. 

The Duke said: 'I ne'er had immoderate interaction with him from that time forward.'

Yet sickening emails person emerged demolishing this claim, showing that successful February 2011 Andrew wrote to his paedophile friend: 'Keep successful adjacent interaction and we'll play immoderate much soon!!!!'

Last nighttime 1 of Epstein's victims, Marijke Chartouni, said: 'This solidifies the information that Andrew has selective amnesia erstwhile it comes to his relationship with Epstein, conscionable similar different almighty men who knew him.'

Spencer Kuvin, a Florida lawyer who represents respective Epstein victims, told the Mail: 'The 2011 email intelligibly contradicts Andrew's erstwhile claims helium stopped contacting Epstein successful 2010. There should beryllium further investigation.

'The remark of 'play immoderate much soon' – they're not tennis partners, the lone happening they were doing was partying together.'

It is the latest calamity for Prince Andrew, 64, already a royal pariah aft being forced to measurement backmost from palace duties following the fallout from the Epstein scandal, and past the Chinese spy saga that sent shockwaves done the Government and the Palace.

There was different humiliating twist yesterday arsenic it emerged an adjutant to the Duke told the alleged Chinese spy that the Newsnight interrogation had been 'hugely ill-advised'.

Across the Atlantic, determination was adjacent much uncomfortable quality for the Prince arsenic Donald Trump's prime to caput the FBI pledged to exposure much astir Epstein's network.

Kash Patel told senators: 'I volition bash everything, if confirmed arsenic FBI director, to marque definite the American nationalist knows the afloat value of what happened successful the past.'

He agreed to a senator's demands to unfastened up records 'of who flew connected Epstein's level and who helped him physique an planetary quality trafficking, enactment trafficking ring'.

There is nary proposition that Andrew – who did alert connected the financier's backstage pitchy – was an accomplice of Epstein, who was facing proceedings for moving a child-sex trafficking ringing erstwhile helium was found hanged successful his compartment successful August 2019.

The caller emails person emerged from ineligible filings successful London involving the lawsuit of Jes Staley, the erstwhile brag of Barclays Bank. 

American Mr Staley, 68, is appealing against a determination by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which slapped a prohibition and a £1.8 cardinal good connected him for making 2 allegedly misleading statements implicit his adjacent relationship to Epstein.

In opposing the appeal, the FCA has disclosed emails said to show Epstein and Mr Staley were 'most cherished' friends, and immoderate of the emails impact what the FCA refers to arsenic 'a subordinate of the British Royal Family', understood to beryllium Andrew.

On June 15, 2010, Epstein – precocious released from a US situation – emailed Andrew asking him: 'If you tin find clip to amusement Jes astir that would beryllium fun.' 

The Duke replied to accidental helium had seen Mr Staley successful Harry's Bar, and was having 'dinner with Jes time evening'. Andrew was a regular diner astatine Harry's Bar successful Mayfair.

In December that year, Andrew was pictured successful New York with Epstein. He had flown determination 'with the sole purpose' of ending their relationship, and during their locomotion successful Central Park they had agreed to portion company, the Duke told the Newsnight interview, stating: 'And to this time I ne'er had immoderate interaction with him from that time forward.'

Yet 1 of the FCA emails explodes that assertion arsenic an evident lie. The notorious Central Park photographs were published successful the News of the World, followed a week aboriginal by the photograph of Andrew, past 41, with his manus astir the waist of teen Virginia Roberts, present Giuffre, successful socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's mews location successful Mayfair.

A time aft this, connected February 28, 2011, Andrew emailed Epstein and discussed the property articles earlier writing: 'Keep successful adjacent interaction and we'll play immoderate much soon!!!!', according to the emails.

The astonishingly crass remark flies successful the look of the Duke's communicative to Newsnight, erstwhile helium repeatedly insisted helium had chopped disconnected each interaction with Epstein. 

He promised determination was 'no contact', and erstwhile she pressed him, helium doubled down. 

Asked wherefore helium had gone to enactment with a convicted enactment offender, the Duke said helium felt it was 'the close happening to do' to conscionable him successful idiosyncratic to accidental 'terribly sorry... I can't spot you [any more]'. 

Andrew said: 'We had an accidental to spell for a locomotion successful the park... I said to him, I said, 'Look, due to the fact that of what has happened, I don't deliberation it is due that we should stay successful contact'.'

In 2022, Andrew paid Mrs Giuffre an undisclosed sum, reported to beryllium £12 million, to settle her civilian assertion for enactment battle without immoderate admittance of wrongdoing.

Maxwell, 63, was jailed for 20 years successful the aforesaid twelvemonth for finding girls for Epstein to abuse.

A spokesperson for the Duke was approached for comment.