Prince Andrew allegedly got ‘daily’ massages while staying
for ‘weeks’ at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion: docs
Prince Andrew “spent weeks” at Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida mansion, where the disgraced royal would receive “daily” massages, the late financier’s butler claimed in newly unsealed court documents.
Juan Alessi, who worked as Epstein’s Florida housekeeper from 1991 to 2002, named Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson in a 2009 deposition as some of the celebrity “friends” of Epstein and his convicted madam Ghislaine Maxwell who visited the home.
The Duke of York — who was fired from royal duties in 2019 over his ties to the pedophile — was a frequent guest, stayed in the “main guest bedroom” and regularly got massages, Alessi testified.
“I would say, daily massages. They have a daily massage,” Alessi said, according to the transcript of the deposition.
“Prince Andrew spent weeks with us.”
Andrew would later be accused of having sex with Epstein’s self-described “sex slave” Virginia Giuffre in London, New York, and on his private island when she was 17.
Although he denied the claims, he settled the matter with her out of court in the US.
Alessi said he believes Ferguson only visited Epstein’s Florida property once and “for a short period of time.”
Alessi said he couldn’t remember whether Andrew had more than one massage per day, and noted he didn’t know the nature of the closed-door moments.
“I think it was just a massage for him,” Alessi testified.
The massage allegations are just one of many lodged against Prince Andrew since the avalanche of court documents related to Epstein began being slowly released Wednesday.
This week’s highly anticipated document dump stems from a since-settled 2015 defamation case that accuser Giuffre brought against Maxwell, 61.
A girl, identified as Jane Doe 3, accused the royal of engaging in an “orgy” with underage girls during one of his stays on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.
The filing also claims Epstein told the “sex slave” to “give the Prince whatever he demanded.”
Another Epstein accuser, Johanna Sjoberg, said in her own deposition that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they were posing for a photo on a couch at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001.
In that same photo, Sjoberg testified the royal also groped Giuffre’s breast with a puppet that looked like him.
Prince Andrew was fired from his royal duties over his ties to Epstein in 2019.
In the wake of the documents’ revelations, the anti-monarchy group Republic reported Prince Andrew to London’s Metropolitan Police and demanded a renewed investigation.
“It’s simple — the royals should not be above the law. Accusations of criminality should always be investigated thoroughly. THAT’S WHY THE MET MUST ACT,” the group posted on X. The Met has not commented on the request.
Both Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace have repeatedly denied all allegations against him.
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Jeffrey Epstein victim feared talking to police
over threats she heard pedophile make to others:
‘You’re going to die’
One victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was afraid to talk to police about him because she’d overheard him threaten others, according to court documents.
The victim — who was around “16 or 17” years old when she first met Epstein — was asked about her 2005 statement to Palm Beach police, in which she admitted she didn’t feel safe speaking about the twisted financier because she had overheard him tell others things like, “You’re going to die; you’re going to break your legs.”
The threats came to light in a 2016 deposition the woman gave in a defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.
The document is one of 191 court filings made public this week in the long settled case.
A lawyer, citing the then-teen’s statement to cops, said she confirmed Epstein was known to make threats — but the victim said she couldn’t recall specifics, because she was intentionally trying to put the traumatic experience behind her.
“I do remember hostile conversations where he was upset with people, and I assumed that it was business and none of my business,” said the victim, who was not publicly named in the document.
A schoolmate swayed her to go to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion to give him massages, and when she got there, “all of a sudden, something horrible happened to me,” she said, records showed.
In other documents released Friday, another alleged victim, Sarah Ransome, fretted to one of the billionaire’s supposed recruiters about a recent fight she had with Epstein.
“Had a bit of a fight with Jeffrey. Oh well what can you do?!” she emailed a woman named Natalie, most likely Natalya Malyshev, who introduced a 22-year-old Ransome to Epstein the year before.
The anxious note came as Ransome begged Epstein and his staff for help with applying to the Fashion Institute of Technology while she was traveling in South Africa, according to the emails.
“Please can you ask Jeffery what the plan of action is as l cant [sic] apply on line and need to apply asap otherwise I definitely wont be able to study,” she emailed Epstein’s executive assistant, Laura Groff.
Ransome has previously claimed that Epstein promised he would use his influence to get her admitted to FIT, but according to the messages, the billionaire bizarrely pressed her to lose weight in order to attend the New York City school.
“Could you…please tell Jeffery to phone me on the number I gave ASAP as l am not prepared to go under 56kg [123 lbs] in order to study at FIT,” she wrote to Groff.
Meanwhile, in an unsealed excerpt from a 2016 deposition, a Palm Beach detective described the “trash pulls” performed by law enforcement which ultimately helped authorities identify victims’ of Epstein and Maxwell’s abuses.
Palm Beach detective Joseph Recarey said when sifting through Epstein’s trash, he and other officers unearthed message slips listing girls’ names and numbers.
“We would do our best to identify who that person was,” said Recarey, who died in 2018, adding the slips ultimately helped them identify a number of Epstein’s victims.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and grooming underage girls for the child sex abuser.
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Top model who jumped to her death from her
Wall St. apartment building had flown
on Epstein’s jet as a teen: court docs
A top model who jumped to her death from her Wall Street apartment building had previously been one of the teen girls flown to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, newly unsealed court documents show.
Ruslana Korshunova — who featured in ads for Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Vera Wang, and Nina Ricci perfume — was just 18 when she was a passenger on the since-deceased pedophile’s so-called Lolita Express on June 7, 2006, previously released flight logs show.
The trip to Epstein’s Little St. James was almost exactly two years before the Kazakh-Russian IMG model leaped to her death from her ninth-floor balcony.
Her ex-boyfriend told The Post at the time that the model had problems that she kept “bottled up.”
Korshunova’s trip to Epstein’s island was just weeks before the moneyman was arrested in 2006 and later convicted of sex with underage girls.
He was listed as being with her on the flight, along with three of his staffers — bodyguard Igor Zinoviev, personal chef Lance Calloway, and longtime assistant Sarah Kellen.
There was also a woman identified as Stephanie Tidwell — and an unidentified former UFC fighter.
It is unclear what happened when Korshunova arrived on the island, where Epstein was known to sexually exploit underage girls — allegedly at times with some big-name friends.
Several years after her tragic death, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s attorney emailed her asking whether she knew Korshunova, the latest documents unsealed Thursday show.
But Giuffre replied: “I am sorry to hear the news of Ruslana, and my condolences are with her family and friends.
“I can say that I have never had any meetings with her, sorry not to be of any help there.”
Korshunova died at the age of 20, after cutting a hole in construction mesh covering her ninth-floor balcony, squeezing through it, and jumping.
“I heard what sounded like a gunshot or a bomb or an explosion,” said a stunned Con Ed worker talking to a cop nearby.
“I looked down the street, and I say to the cop, ‘Did that person just get hit by a car?’ ” said the worker, who identified himself only as Patrick, of Brooklyn.
The two men raced over. “Her arms were crushed,” Patrick said. “Her head was on the left side and blood was coming out in a pool.”
It was later revealed that Korshunova left long messages describing how she missed her home and family and talked about problems with her love life.
She had also lost a lot of weight in the month before her death and had trouble balancing her personal life and her demanding work schedule, her ex-boyfriend told The Post at the time.
“I think she just gave up,” said Artem Perchenok, who was with the model on the last night of her short life.
He added that Korshunova kept her problems “bottled up.”
“When a job would go bad, she’d take it out on herself.”
She had recently told her manager “she didn’t know what to do with her life,” Perchenok said.
Korshunova, a green-eyed beauty known as “The Russian Rapunzel” for her long, flowing chestnut locks, was discovered in 2003 when a booker from London-based Models 1, Debbie Jones, noticed her in a feature about the model’s hometown of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
“She looked like something out of a fairytale!” Jones told British Vogue. Soon after, the 17-year-old beauty was hailed as the next big thing, gracing runways at Fashion Week wearing Jill Stuart, Betsey Johnson, and other designers.
She was working with elite modeling agency IMG, which boasts clients like Heidi Klum and Kate Moss, at the time of her death.
It is unclear how or when she met Epstein, but the year she got on board the pervert’s private jet marked the peak of her career — that winter, she would be the cover star of the New York Times Style magazine.
It is also unclear what, if any, effect the trip may have had on the model.
But a 2014 book by author and academic Peter Pomerantsev noted that Korshunova decided to join a controversial “self-help group” which its critics have called a cult.
Pomerantsev wrote in his book, “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia,” that Korshunova was driven to the Rose of the World after her modeling career took a hit.
At the time, Pomerantsev said, Korshunova was also left broken-hearted after an oligarch — who was only identified in the book as “Alexander” — dumped her.
She then returned to New York, where she fell in love with a Russian luxury car dealer — but he too left her.
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