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Prince Andrew...Jeffrey Epstein's Useful Idiot
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly regarded Prince Andrew as useful precisely because Andrew’s royal status opened doors that Epstein could not have opened as easily on his own. Royal biographer Tina Brown wrote that Epstein confided to a friend that he viewed Andrew as an “idiot,” but a useful one, because traveling with the Duke of York gave Epstein access to governments, political leaders and business figures who were effectively obliged to receive a senior British royal. Brown said Epstein would accompany Andrew on foreign trips as an investment adviser, using the prince as a kind of frontman…
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