The emails, first reported by Bloomberg, were disclosed in a filing by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which is defending an appeal by James Edward “Jes” Staley, the former Barclays Bank boss.
Staley was fined £1.8 million ($3.96m) and banned from holding a senior management position in financial services in 2023 for making two misleading statements about his relationship with Epstein and their last contact.
Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein with Melania Trump and Gwendolyn Beck at Donald Trump’s Florida home in 2000. Photo / Getty Images
Email exchanges show Epstein invited Andrew out with Staley, then a senior executive at JP Morgan bank, in June 2010.
It emerged in 2023 that in February 2011, Epstein wrote to Staley saying, “Andrew asked for your London schedule.”
This exchange suggests the Duke may have had further contact with the financier to enquire about meeting with JP Morgan’s former head of private banking.
He told her his visit to see the disgraced financier was to inform him they could no longer be friends, saying: “By mutual agreement during that walk in the park, we decided that we would part company and I left – I think it was the next day – and to this day, I [have] never had any contact with him from that day forward.”
The Duke has been previously criticised for staying with Epstein in his £60m ($132m) Manhattan home during the trip.
In the Newsnight interview, the Duke said he had “always questioned” himself as to why he decided to travel to New York to end their friendship.
Prince Andrew was interviewed by Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight. Photo / BBC
“I took the judgement call that because this was serious, and I felt that doing it over the telephone was the chicken’s way of doing it,” he said.
“I had to go and see him and talk to him.”
The FCA document refers to Prince Andrew as “a member of the British royal family”.
The court filings show on February 27, 2011, Epstein emailed the Duke to say: “Jes staley will be in London on next tue afternoon, if you have time [sic]”.
