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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: You said, take off your clothes. I had these little
- 0:10Speaker 2: girl undies on, like little hearts on them, I remember,
- 0:13Speaker 2: and they were laughing at that because they liked that.
- 0:16Speaker 2: The younger you look, the better it is. It turned,
- 0:19Speaker 2: it turned very sexual and it was abuse straight away
- 0:24Speaker 2: from both of them.
- 0:27Speaker 3: Virginia Gifrey, your voice was heard right now as we
- 0:31Speaker 3: go to air. Prince Andrew arrested. That sound from our
- 0:36Speaker 3: friends at Lifetime. That's right, Andrew, Prince Andrew behind bars
- 0:45Speaker 3: straight after, Rob Shooter joining us fellow Britt host of
- 0:49Speaker 3: Naughty but Nice, author of a brand new novel climbing
- 0:53Speaker 3: the charts on Amazon.
- 0:54Speaker 1: It started with a whisper. You can find them at
- 0:56Speaker 1: a substack, Rob Shooter. What happened?
- 1:00Speaker 4: Absolute breaking news. My phone has been blowing up. Set
- 1:03Speaker 4: at eight am in the morning. Eight am in the morning,
- 1:06Speaker 4: the police, unmarked police cars, unmarked officers. They arrested the
- 1:11Speaker 4: former Prince Andrew Andrew Mantbatton, Windsor. He was staying in Norfolk.
- 1:17Speaker 4: So he has been kicked out of the Royal Lodge,
- 1:20Speaker 4: which is his home on the estate of Windsor Castle.
- 1:24Speaker 4: He has moved to a smaller house up in Norfolk
- 1:27Speaker 4: while his big house was being renovated. It's his sixty
- 1:31Speaker 4: sixth birthday. I'm told from my insiders he was not
- 1:35Speaker 4: even out of bed. Eight am his time. He got
- 1:39Speaker 4: woken up by the police who arrested him and he
- 1:43Speaker 4: was taken into custody. Groundbreaking, you know.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Right now a convoy police searching the former Prince Andrew's home.
- 1:55Speaker 1: He is now. He's been behind bars now.
- 1:58Speaker 3: For multiple hours, apparently rob shooter. The Royals were quote
- 2:04Speaker 3: blindsided by a surprise raid.
- 2:09Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, Nancy. Nobody knew about this. I've spoke
- 2:12Speaker 4: to my sources within the police force in London, the
- 2:15Speaker 4: Thames Police, and they kept this really really private. I
- 2:19Speaker 4: asked them why, and they said they just don't trust anybody.
- 2:22Speaker 4: Andrew is potentially a flight risk. He has made some
- 2:26Speaker 4: indications that he would like to move full time to
- 2:28Speaker 4: the Middle East. Just last week his daughter was in
- 2:31Speaker 4: the Middle East with his ex wife, Sarah Ferguson, and
- 2:35Speaker 4: so they didn't want anybody to know here, so they
- 2:39Speaker 4: did not tell the King. They kept it very very
- 2:42Speaker 4: private within the police force. They didn't want him to
- 2:44Speaker 4: be tipped off. And I'm not saying they didn't trust
- 2:47Speaker 4: his brother. This is how the police operate. It's not
- 2:50Speaker 4: on a trust level here, this is procedure. They just
- 2:54Speaker 4: do not let people know. And let's remember too, Andrew
- 2:57Speaker 4: now is a private citizen. He's not a member of
- 2:59Speaker 4: the royal fam He has been treated like you and
- 3:02Speaker 4: I and everybody else. So nobody had the heads up
- 3:06Speaker 4: that this was going to happen, including the King of England.
- 3:11Speaker 1: See that photo right there.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, that footage earlier was the train
- 3:15Speaker 3: wreck interview that Andrew formerly Prince Andrew did and it
- 3:20Speaker 3: brought on more questions than answers from our friends at BBC.
- 3:23Speaker 3: This photo, this photo, that's Virginia Giffrey as a teen girl,
- 3:29Speaker 3: and that's Prince Andrew with his paw wrapped around the girl.
- 3:35Speaker 5: I don't believe it's a picture of me in London
- 3:37Speaker 5: because when I were going out to when I go
- 3:38Speaker 5: out in London, I wear a suit and a tie.
- 3:43Speaker 5: That's what I would describe as those are my traveling clothes.
- 3:46Speaker 4: That's me.
- 3:47Speaker 5: But whether that's my hand or whether that's the position,
- 3:52Speaker 5: but I don't. I have simply no recollection of a
- 3:56Speaker 5: photograph ever being.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Taken what is he saying that from our friends at
- 4:04Speaker 3: BBC and it goes on. It's just like there, he
- 4:08Speaker 3: just couldn't stop. It got worse and worse and worse.
- 4:12Speaker 3: Do you remember that interview where he goes, oh, yeah,
- 4:14Speaker 3: that's me, but isn't my hand?
- 4:16Speaker 1: What are traveling clothes? What is he talking about?
- 4:20Speaker 4: His talking absolute nonsense. In fact, it now turns out
- 4:24Speaker 4: that pretty much everything he said in that twenty nineteen
- 4:27Speaker 4: interview to the BBC was all lies. He also claimed
- 4:31Speaker 4: in the interview that he ties with Jeffrey Epstein after
- 4:34Speaker 4: he found out about who he was. We now know
- 4:38Speaker 4: from emails that is absolutely not the truth. So Andrew
- 4:42Speaker 4: is now a proven liar. I don't use that word likely,
- 4:46Speaker 4: but pretty much everything he said in the interview that
- 4:49Speaker 4: the Royal family did not want him to do. He
- 4:52Speaker 4: was so arrogant, he was so full of himself. He
- 4:55Speaker 4: thought that he could go on national TV and make
- 4:58Speaker 4: this all go away. That interview is going to be
- 5:01Speaker 4: used against him, and pretty much everything he told us
- 5:04Speaker 4: in that interview turned out not to be true.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Joining me now, Sidney Summer's Crime Stories investigative reporter Sydney
- 5:12Speaker 3: he is actually not under arrest for what he did
- 5:16Speaker 3: allegedly to Virginia Jeffrey and allegedly.
- 5:20Speaker 1: To others other young girls. That's not why he's been
- 5:24Speaker 1: taken into custody.
- 5:25Speaker 3: And the three of us have discussed this many times, me, you, Shooter,
- 5:31Speaker 3: about how and what charge would actually stick. And it's
- 5:36Speaker 3: amazingly not claims of child abuse.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Tell me, Sydney.
- 5:41Speaker 6: Improper conduct in office. Misconduct in office. That's what has
- 5:48Speaker 6: Andrew mount Batten Windsor behind bars today. They allege that
- 5:53Speaker 6: emails revealed in the latest tranche of Epstein documents show
- 5:57Speaker 6: that Andrew shared confident reports regarding investment opportunities in the
- 6:04Speaker 6: Middle East, and that is what they have picked him
- 6:07Speaker 6: up on this morning.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Okay, let me understand now, this is a hypothetical.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Okay, Shooter, this.
- 6:15Speaker 3: Is the way you know, and I would argue to
- 6:17Speaker 3: juries I.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Very rarely well, I had to state the law.
- 6:20Speaker 3: But I try to give an example, which is a
- 6:22Speaker 3: lot easier to understand. For instance, let's just pretend Andrew
- 6:28Speaker 3: calls that state who writes it like a big idiot.
- 6:30Speaker 3: If you don't want it in page six, don't write it.
- 6:34Speaker 3: Don't anyway, he puts in an email example, Hey, the
- 6:39Speaker 3: Saudis are going to build the London Eye. They've got
- 6:43Speaker 3: the contract invest Now, that would be an example of
- 6:48Speaker 3: sharing delicate business information in his capacity as a trade
- 6:55Speaker 3: envoy for Great Britain for someone else to capitalize and
- 7:02Speaker 3: use illegally for their own pecuniary interest, their own monetary gain.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Is that the way you understand the charges. Not the
- 7:10Speaker 1: London Eye. That didn't happen. The artists didn't build it.
- 7:13Speaker 3: But that's an example of tipping somebody off with insider information,
- 7:17Speaker 3: so to speak, and they make money off of it.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Yeah, this is why Martha Stewart went to jail here
- 7:23Speaker 4: in America. He had access to information that nobody else
- 7:27Speaker 4: would have, very few people would have. He was a
- 7:29Speaker 4: trade envoy in Britain for a decade. It was not
- 7:32Speaker 4: a job that the Foreign Office wanted him to have.
- 7:36Speaker 4: His mother, Queen Elizabeth, pressured them into giving him this
- 7:39Speaker 4: job and for a decade he swamed around the world
- 7:43Speaker 4: on a private plane meeting people trying to encourage trade
- 7:47Speaker 4: in Britain. Because of that job, for a decade, he
- 7:50Speaker 4: had access to private information where other countries other people
- 7:55Speaker 4: could not only make money, but they also would be
- 7:57Speaker 4: given secrets, state seeks. It's stuff that just shouldn't have
- 8:02Speaker 4: been shared. Now it looks it's alleged as if he
- 8:06Speaker 4: gave that information to Jeffrey Epstein, and goodness knows what
- 8:10Speaker 4: he did with it, but that's what he's been called
- 8:12Speaker 4: upon here. I think when we hear Epstein, we think
- 8:15Speaker 4: it's sex, we think it's young girls. All of that
- 8:17Speaker 4: may have happened, but that was not why he was
- 8:20Speaker 4: arrested this morning. He was arrested because he was a
- 8:24Speaker 4: special Trade Envoy to Britain within the Foreign Office. They
- 8:29Speaker 4: complained about him, they called him a buffoon. For a
- 8:32Speaker 4: decade he went around the world meeting some really really
- 8:35Speaker 4: unscrupulous people, strong men, dictators, and that is what ultimately
- 8:41Speaker 4: has got him arrested.
- 8:44Speaker 3: Put up shooter, my star shooter. The way he just
- 8:49Speaker 3: said that, it's very sobering to think that any state
- 8:55Speaker 3: secret was interested to Andrew. Andrew, who couldn't even pull
- 9:02Speaker 3: off the BBC interview.
- 9:04Speaker 1: It was horrible. It was his undoing.
- 9:07Speaker 3: So just think that through follow that course of reasoning,
- 9:13Speaker 3: what did he know that he shared with foreign Let
- 9:20Speaker 3: me just say business people. They certainly wouldn't be dignitaries.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all ilk the Saudis, the Russians, the Chinese.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Remember the spy Can you jog our memory about the
- 9:36Speaker 3: spy fraternizing with Andrew.
- 9:40Speaker 4: Andrew had access to pretty much everybody that trades with Britain.
- 9:45Speaker 4: He chose to focus on some of the most most dangerous,
- 9:51Speaker 4: most most unscrupulous people in the world, so much so
- 9:56Speaker 4: that the Foreign Office sent the Prime Minister a letter
- 9:59Speaker 4: say they were absolutely horrified with what he was doing,
- 10:04Speaker 4: who he was meeting with. Also, to these people, he
- 10:07Speaker 4: wasn't just sharing secrets. He was trading favors. We now
- 10:11Speaker 4: know through the emails with Epstein, he was giving private
- 10:15Speaker 4: tours of Buckingham Palace. He was setting up meetings when
- 10:19Speaker 4: foreign dignitaries were in Britain, some of which the Royal
- 10:23Speaker 4: family would never ever meet with publicly. Epstein, through the
- 10:27Speaker 4: emails that we have seen, set up meetings with Andrew
- 10:30Speaker 4: with his wife's his ex wife, Sarah Ferguson, and so
- 10:34Speaker 4: Andrew here is up to his neck in this in
- 10:39Speaker 4: this kind of case that feels like espionage. We do
- 10:42Speaker 4: not know what secrets he gave, but we don't need
- 10:46Speaker 4: to know the details of that. That stuff should never
- 10:48Speaker 4: come out. I think the damage has already been done.
- 10:51Speaker 4: But what we do know, or at least what is
- 10:53Speaker 4: alleged through the new emails to Jeffrey Epstein, is that
- 10:57Speaker 4: Andrew was leaking stuff to Jeffrey, who then was passing
- 11:01Speaker 4: it on to different governments, different powerful people, different enemies
- 11:05Speaker 4: around the world.
- 11:08Speaker 3: The alleged Chinese spy to whom I am referring is
- 11:12Speaker 3: Yang Tangho, who of course denies that he is a spy.
- 11:16Speaker 1: He obviously had an unusual degree.
- 11:20Speaker 3: Of trust with Andrew, and he was previously known only
- 11:27Speaker 3: as H six due to anonymity orders protecting his ID
- 11:34Speaker 3: that was uncovered. What in the world is Andrew doing
- 11:40Speaker 3: with an alleged Chinese spy?
- 11:43Speaker 1: This is where I'm going with this.
- 11:46Speaker 3: Do you believe that there is a chance, not a
- 11:49Speaker 3: remote chance, but a very good chance that this is
- 11:52Speaker 3: just the tip of the iceberg of what Prince Andrew
- 11:58Speaker 3: was gabbing to other foreign entities, most likely for it.
- 12:07Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that You're right, Nancy. This is all
- 12:10Speaker 4: that we know about today, but the story is moving
- 12:12Speaker 4: very quickly. We know more today than we know yesterday,
- 12:16Speaker 4: and we're going to know more tomorrow than we know
- 12:18Speaker 4: today if Andrew is capable of doing this, and he
- 12:21Speaker 4: did it, it looks like for ten years, if he's
- 12:23Speaker 4: capable of doing this, a lot is going to come
- 12:25Speaker 4: out a decade, Nancy, this wasn't ten weeks, this wasn't
- 12:28Speaker 4: ten months. For ten years, he had this really privileged position.
- 12:32Speaker 4: He had no qualifications for it. He just happened to
- 12:35Speaker 4: be Queen Elizabeth's son and he had nothing to do.
- 12:38Speaker 4: He had no job, very very few formal qualifications, and
- 12:42Speaker 4: he was given a job that we would not be given.
- 12:45Speaker 4: And then he kept the job even though there were
- 12:48Speaker 4: so many red flags. There was red flags for the
- 12:51Speaker 4: last ten years, and nobody did anything. And now the
- 12:55Speaker 4: big question in Britain is what did people know? When
- 12:58Speaker 4: did they know it? What did the know? What did
- 13:00Speaker 4: his mommy know? He got a job, he kept a
- 13:03Speaker 4: job he wasn't qualified to do. And even worse than that, Nancy,
- 13:07Speaker 4: he used this job to help himself. Long learn about Andrew?
- 13:12Speaker 4: Next thing.
- 13:19Speaker 1: To come out?
- 13:23Speaker 3: Do you hear the heckler yelling how long did you
- 13:26Speaker 3: know about Andrew and Epstein. That's from our friends at
- 13:28Speaker 3: Sky News. So you're absolutely right, Rob Shooter. This is
- 13:33Speaker 3: opening up a huge can of worms.
- 13:35Speaker 1: For the royals. I would like to think that they
- 13:39Speaker 1: knew nothing.
- 13:41Speaker 3: I assume they knew nothing, because if they had, they
- 13:45Speaker 3: don't want a scandal at all.
- 13:48Speaker 1: They're trying to preserve the monarchy.
- 13:51Speaker 2: What now what?
- 13:53Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, I'm told for my sources that there are
- 13:57Speaker 4: emergency meetings now happening inside the palace. William is the
- 14:01Speaker 4: one that pushed all this for a long time, his
- 14:04Speaker 4: brother Andrew's brother, King Charles, really handled Andrew with kit gloves.
- 14:09Speaker 4: Queen Elizabeth brushed this under the carpet, so they might
- 14:12Speaker 4: have known it was happening a long time. There was
- 14:14Speaker 4: a lot of red flags, but they did nothing. That
- 14:17Speaker 4: has changed today there are emergency meetings. My insiders tell
- 14:21Speaker 4: me that the king has no intention of stepping down.
- 14:24Speaker 4: There have been some reports in Britain that the King
- 14:27Speaker 4: might abdicate and give the throne to his son Williams.
- 14:31Speaker 4: They can have a fresh start. I'm told the family
- 14:33Speaker 4: has met.
- 14:33Speaker 1: She please start, Please start with the abdication.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Every time there's a crisis, everyone says, oh, they're going
- 14:40Speaker 3: to advocate.
- 14:41Speaker 1: Nobody's abdicating.
- 14:42Speaker 3: That's not happening, all right, So just what I want
- 14:46Speaker 3: to find out is what all can be proved on Andrew,
- 14:51Speaker 3: and you and I have discussed many times on and
- 14:54Speaker 3: off camera that it wouldn't be the charmlore stations which
- 14:58Speaker 3: I believe happened. I believe Virginia for Jeffrey and that
- 15:02Speaker 3: photo we keep showing. I'm going to go back to
- 15:05Speaker 3: Sydney on what is that photo of Andrew hanging over
- 15:09Speaker 3: a young girl lying on a floor on the floor
- 15:11Speaker 3: that but shooter day one, you and I agreed that
- 15:16Speaker 3: the statute of limitations had run on many of the
- 15:19Speaker 3: molestation cases Virginia. Giffrey passed away, as have many people
- 15:26Speaker 3: connected to Epstein.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Many Now, we've.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Always agreed that it was going to be a charge
- 15:34Speaker 3: relating to miss use of his position, either intimidating police
- 15:41Speaker 3: into covering something up or investigating Geffrey something to do
- 15:45Speaker 3: with his trade on void position. And that's exactly what's happened,
- 15:50Speaker 3: because that can be proven. No statute of limitations has
- 15:54Speaker 3: run on that, right.
- 15:56Speaker 4: Shooter's absolutely right. Nancy al cape and went to jail
- 16:00Speaker 4: under tax charges here in America. That's how they got
- 16:03Speaker 4: him so often to the way that they managed to
- 16:06Speaker 4: capture you, the way they men managed to arrest you
- 16:09Speaker 4: is for an adjacent crime. It is very, very difficult
- 16:12Speaker 4: to prove the Virginia Duk case. It has been settled.
- 16:16Speaker 4: He paid twelve million pounds to settle that interesting, a
- 16:21Speaker 4: million of which came from his brother, the King, and
- 16:23Speaker 4: so he knew a little bit more about this than
- 16:26Speaker 4: we think. But these are crimes now that are easier
- 16:30Speaker 4: to prove. Emails, texts, phone records now, documents that were
- 16:35Speaker 4: exchanged that shouldn't have been and that's what they're looking
- 16:38Speaker 4: into now. Multiple homes were raided this morning at eight
- 16:42Speaker 4: a m. When they arrested Andrew. What they're looking for
- 16:45Speaker 4: is laptops and documentation that's going to help them prove
- 16:49Speaker 4: this case.
- 16:52Speaker 3: And also they'll be looking at the same documentation on
- 16:55Speaker 3: the other end, like a powderkeg. Was Epstein's emails and
- 17:00Speaker 3: in Epstein's emails, which some of them.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Have been released, not all of the Epstein files.
- 17:06Speaker 3: Of course, these emails were found from Andrew back to Sydney.
- 17:12Speaker 3: Sumner tell me about the raid, and the actual charges
- 17:18Speaker 3: are relating to allegations of using his position to pass
- 17:22Speaker 3: on government trade secrets. He has not been formally charged
- 17:26Speaker 3: as in an indictment. But he has been arrested on
- 17:30Speaker 3: these charges, and is it true he faces a potential
- 17:34Speaker 3: life sentence?
- 17:36Speaker 1: And what are those photos we keep showing?
- 17:40Speaker 6: Well, that's a lot, but we do know yes, those
- 17:43Speaker 6: charges do carry a possible lifetime sentence. So even though
- 17:48Speaker 6: it's not directly for what happened with Virginia Jeffrey, this
- 17:53Speaker 6: could put Andrew behind bars for the rest of his life.
- 17:57Speaker 6: And yes, these charges relate to miss use of his position,
- 18:02Speaker 6: his power, exchanging these documents just minutes after he received them,
- 18:08Speaker 6: private confidential reports on these trade end boys that went
- 18:13Speaker 6: straight to Epstein immediately after he received them. And these photos, Nancy,
- 18:18Speaker 6: that we're seeing, this is from the latest tranch of
- 18:21Speaker 6: Epstein documents released and there is absolutely no context as
- 18:25Speaker 6: to what is going on here when they were taken
- 18:29Speaker 6: where they were taken. We can only recognize that that
- 18:33Speaker 6: is Andrew once again over what looks to be a
- 18:37Speaker 6: young woman touching her on all fours. In what circumstance
- 18:42Speaker 6: would this happen in a playful manner that is not
- 18:45Speaker 6: inappropriate in some way, shape.
- 18:47Speaker 3: Or form, no universe. Very quickly, Rob Sheeter, what are
- 18:52Speaker 3: the royals? What about King Charles and William. What are
- 18:55Speaker 3: they saying to this.
- 18:58Speaker 4: King Charles has put out of statements we have to
- 19:00Speaker 4: follow the law here. What's really interesting to his hours
- 19:04Speaker 4: after his brother's arrest that he did not know what's happening.
- 19:07Speaker 4: They did not tip him off. He did something very
- 19:09Speaker 4: very unusual. King Charles attended a fashion show in London
- 19:13Speaker 4: for the first time. He's never been to Fashion Week
- 19:15Speaker 4: in London, but he clearly wants to get out there
- 19:17Speaker 4: proof that he's got nothing to hide, that he's not hiding.
- 19:21Speaker 4: William and Kate have been slower to put out a
- 19:24Speaker 4: statement here as of right now that there hasn't been one,
- 19:27Speaker 4: but we do know that William is the force behind this.
- 19:31Speaker 4: William has been pushing from day one to make sure
- 19:35Speaker 4: there was a reckoning and accountability here. Charles was much
- 19:38Speaker 4: slower to get there, but now they are there and
- 19:41Speaker 4: also to the Prime Minister has put out a statement
- 19:43Speaker 4: saying nobody is above the law.
- 19:49Speaker 3: Right now, the brother of the King of England has
- 19:54Speaker 3: been arrested and I firmly believe it has to do
- 20:00Speaker 3: with Epstein and the release of the Epstein files. What
- 20:03Speaker 3: was in the Epstein files goaded law enforcement in Great
- 20:08Speaker 3: Britain to act. But it's not just about molestation, which
- 20:12Speaker 3: could be very hard to prove at this juncture for
- 20:15Speaker 3: various legal reasons. This is about allegations he passed on
- 20:21Speaker 3: British trade secrets to other foreign entities. And for what
- 20:29Speaker 3: a private plain ride ten grand Who knows for what,
- 20:33Speaker 3: but I guarantee you we'll find out. Thank you, Sidney Sumner,
- 20:38Speaker 3: Thank you Rob Shooter, Thank you for being with us.
- 20:43Speaker 1: This gives many of us.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Great faith that even the great and powerful will be
- 20:50Speaker 3: subjected to the rule of law.
- 20:53Speaker 1: Nancy Gray signing off, goodbye friend,