Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother shows support for former Prince Andrew following his arrest – The Mercury News
Ghislaine Maxwell’s older brother Ian is speaking out in support of former Prince Andrew after he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office linked to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his royal titles, the former prince was arrested on Thursday, his 66th birthday, at his new home on the Sandringham Estate.
Speaking to The Telegraph in an interview published on Friday, Ian Maxwell said he sympathized with Andrew because, unlike Ghislaine – whose family stood by him as he served 20 years in prison for Epstein’s sex-trafficking charges – the former prince was clearly abandoned.
Amid continuing revelations about Andrew’s connection to Epstein, King Charles III announced last fall that he would remove his younger brother from the royal household where he would remain for more than 20 years. Andrew officially left the crown estate earlier this month.
“Here he was, kicked out of his home, completely alone,” Ian said. “Even his daughters [Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie] they’re six and seven years old about what to do.”
Ian reiterated that although Andrew may have partaken in “the meal [and] blasphemy” with different women, he has not been charged with sex.
“And the police will be looking really hard to find evidence,” said Ian, appearing to indicate that there is no evidence that any sexual misconduct took place.
Andrew’s arrest appears to stem from allegations that he passed commercial information to Epstein while serving as Britain’s special envoy for international trade in 2010. Letters between the two men that appear to show more were released by the US Department of Justice late last month.
The allegations being investigated are separate from those made by the late Virginia Giuffre, who said she was trafficked by Epstein to sleep with the prince in 2001, when she was 17.
Giuffre died by suicide last April, six months before republishing her memoir after her death, which named Andrew as one of her abusers while calling Ghislaine a “great rapist” who trained her to be used by Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein’s accuser Virginia Giuffre alleges she was intimate with Prince Andrew at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home.
Ian referred to Giuffre elsewhere in his interview with The Telegraph.
“I know who this monster is here and it’s not my sister, it’s Virginia Giuffre and her lies that have had devastating effects on Ghislaine,” he said. “I didn’t cry when he died.”
Ian maintains his sister’s innocence, saying she is “a scapegoat for the heinous crimes of Jeffrey Epstein,” who committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.
“I honestly believe that if Epstein was alive, he would be arrested and he would be free,” Ian said.
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