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The fall from grace gets more shocking when you look back... Join us as we examine the most unsettling moments involving the former royal that seem even worse with hindsight! From controversial friendships to questionable decisions, these incidents have raised serious concerns about his judgment and character over the years.
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00:00Some very strange and unpleasant activities have been going on.
00:06Welcome to Mizmojo and today we're discussing some of the most unsettling moments from the life of the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
00:14Yeah, this was at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment. Apparently Epstein took the photo.
00:19Giving a tour of Buckingham Palace in 2002.
00:22At one point she took in Kevin Spacey and the two of them sat on thrones and had their pictures taken.
00:30No one else had that access apart from members of the royal family.
00:34Andrew isn't the only person in his old friendship group who has fallen from grace.
00:39Public perceptions of the once acclaimed actor Kevin Spacey became overwhelmingly negative after a scandal a few years ago.
00:46Andrew was also an infamous friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his wife Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:51Myself and my colleagues were under the perception that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell were in an intimate relationship.
00:56Back in 2002, Andrew gave a tour to all three of these individuals, plus former President Bill Clinton.
01:04Only a few photos have been released from the visit, but it feels highly cursed to look back at it with hindsight.
01:10The fact that Andrew was such a good friend to these three contentious individuals is pretty disturbing.
01:15Former President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew are two of Jeffrey Epstein's most high-profile associates, publicly named in the more than 900 pages of mostly unredacted documents released Wednesday.
01:29Epstein's butler.
01:30Juan Alessi was the house manager for more than a decade.
01:33He told the jury Ghislaine Maxwell was the lady of the house and slept in Epstein's bedroom.
01:39It's common knowledge now that Jeffrey Epstein had his own private island, where it's generally believed a bunch of nefarious activities happened.
01:46On the island, Juan Alessi worked for Epstein as a sort of butler or house manager.
01:51He worked there between 1990 and 2002 and claimed he was told never to look in his boss's eyes.
01:57Hundreds of women passed through the home while he worked there, most of them in their 20s, he said.
02:02While at the pool, Alessi testified at least 75% were topless.
02:07One of his many dark stories claimed Andrew was a regular at the island.
02:11Apparently, he spent weeks there, where he would receive massages daily.
02:15Also in a Florida court legal deposition said that you visited the Palm Beach residence around four times a year, you got a daily massage.
02:23Four times a year?
02:24That was what he said in a Florida court legal deposition?
02:27No.
02:28The former partner of Virginia Dufresne, Tony Figueroa, was asked whether the women providing these massages were legitimate masseuses.
02:35According to him, none of them were.
02:37Prince Andrew of the royal family had a very close relationship to Epstein.
02:43And he knows some crucial information to help bring other people down.
02:50Walk in the park with Epstein.
02:51The Duke of York generating a new wave of questions in what has become a sea of speculation surrounding his ties to Epstein.
02:58While Andrew could argue he was ignorant of Epstein's dark tendencies, this argument doesn't make sense following his public conviction in 2008.
03:07Two years later, Andrew and Epstein were pictured having a stroll in Central Park, New York.
03:12Supposedly, Andrew was staying at Epstein's fancy townhouse rather than a hotel.
03:17You've been on his private plane?
03:19Yes.
03:20You've been to stay on his private island?
03:22Yes.
03:23You've stayed at his home in Palm Beach?
03:26Yes.
03:27This moment was considered disturbing all the way back in 2011, as it was public knowledge that Epstein was a criminal.
03:34It's only gotten worse with time, as people have begun to realise the true extent of Epstein's deranged behaviour.
03:40I wasn't aware, when the invitation was issued, what was going on in the United States.
03:46And I wasn't aware until the media picked up on it, because he never said anything about it.
03:50He never discussed with you the fact that an arrest warrant had been issued?
03:54Epstein paying off Ferguson's debts.
03:56Several charities have cut ties with Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
04:02This is because of an email she reportedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, calling him a supreme friend.
04:08Andrew's former wife, Sarah Ferguson, has also become associated with the criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
04:14In a 2011 interview, she admitted that her ex-husband had helped her out by convincing Epstein to pay off her debts.
04:21Roughly £15,000 was paid off by him.
04:24Ferguson apologised and said she regretted getting involved with the individuals.
04:29Telling NBC News in a statement,
04:30She also called him a certain word that upset him, which Epstein supposedly wanted to sue her over.
04:44It's unlikely he would have had much of a case if he'd continued, as he had been convicted of the crime she was accusing him of.
04:52Dorset released a statement saying it would be inappropriate for the Duchess of York to carry on as their patron.
04:58And then what happened was an absolute cascade of big name charities dumping her.
05:03Ties to gun smugglers.
05:05Andrew was employed by UK Trade and Investment, or UKTI, between 2001 and 2011.
05:11It's a big success.
05:12My girls.
05:13You know, Granny calls me the palace entrepreneur.
05:17I've got big plans.
05:18He eventually stepped down after the sheer quantity of controversial connections he made.
05:23Andrew was claimed to be a close friend of Libyan dictator Gaddafi.
05:27Alongside this, he had links to Turek Khatuni, an infamous Libyan gun smuggler.
05:33We know this for certain because there are pictures of the smuggler at Princess Eugenie's wedding.
05:38Khatuni also said in an interview with a newspaper it was a nice wedding.
05:42Princess Beatrice is finally ready to share her wedding day plans after months of tension following her father, Prince Andrew's scandal.
05:49There's also evidence to suggest Khatuni gave Princess Beatrice an £18,000 diamond necklace.
05:55A few months later, Andrew lobbied a certain company in the smuggler's favor.
06:00Why would people not believe that you were there?
06:04I'm sorry, why would...
06:05Endorsing the Bahraini dictatorship.
06:07I would like to welcome His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
06:14Bahrain is a small island nation located in the Persian Gulf.
06:18For years, it has been criticized for its numerous human rights abuses.
06:22Human Rights Watch said they had a dismal record.
06:25They say that they've been targeted by thugs wanting revenge for the violence by the military during its crackdown on the Pearl Roundabout protesters.
06:33It began earning this reputation roughly in 2010, when the Arab Spring spread to their island.
06:39The government retaliated with extreme violence.
06:42This made it massively controversial when Andrew went there in 2014 as part of a delegation.
06:48This was widely seen as an endorsement of Bahrain's dictatorship.
06:51There will be some, though, who say, why is Britain going into partnership with a country that has been heavily criticized in the past for its human rights record,
07:00where there still isn't anything like democracy here.
07:02With how negatively the public views him now, some believe he could run away to Bahrain to escape the public eye.
07:09Air Miles Andy and subsequent cover-up.
07:11Andrew has had a fair few nicknames in his lifetime.
07:14An unfluttering example is Air Miles Andy, which is what the press called him when he was still employed by UKTI.
07:20I was cannon fodder, basically.
07:24And there was no way that I did not give an instruction to anybody.
07:30I was purely there to be instructed and to get on with it.
07:32He wasn't paid for the job, but he went on a bunch of expenses paid delegations.
07:37Andrew was also accused of going on holiday using taxpayer money.
07:40It's disappointing because you think that for years, has he been squandering taxpayers' money?
07:47One newspaper said he spent £626,000 in 2010 as the trade envoy.
07:53If you want to know the full extent of his trips between 2001 and 2011, you'll need to wait until 2065,
07:59which is when the Foreign Office will declassify those documents.
08:02When it comes to looking at the lease and comes to looking at how Prince Andrew has been able to live the life of a prince
08:08at the taxpayer's expense when he's embarrassed the king
08:11and when his behaviour has gone completely contrary to British values.
08:15Controversial friends during the UKTI era.
08:18And I believe that very, very strongly, that we have a sense of duty and a sense of responsibility.
08:23I've taken on the business community in this country as a champion for them.
08:28We've already covered his ties to controversial Libyans,
08:30but during his UKTI career, he made a ton of questionable friends.
08:35Of course, there was Epstein, but he also became buddies with Ilham Aliyev,
08:40who has been the president of Azerbaijan since 2003.
08:43We'll cover a great many issues.
08:45There'll be some political issues that are quite definitely at the top of the agenda.
08:50But there are other issues.
08:51There's water, there's food, there's leadership.
08:55This is another nation which is regularly criticised for human rights abuses.
08:59This is not hearsay. This was witnessed and filmed by the BBC.
09:03I doubt this witness.
09:06Some sources claim the pair met at least a dozen times by 2014.
09:10Additionally, Andrew once hosted a lunch for Saka El-Materi,
09:14who was a member of the old Tunisian government.
09:17That was until the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, which forced Materi to flee the country.
09:23Randy Andy interview.
09:24Long before Andrew was ever tied to Jeffrey Epstein, he'd earned himself the horrific nickname,
09:29Randy Andy.
09:30Because you were perceived by the public as being the party prince.
09:34Was that something you shared?
09:35Well, I think that's also a bit of a stretch.
09:38This was brought up in an old interview from the 80s on a talk show.
09:42The young prince gets uncomfortably flirty with the interviewer,
09:45which is especially nauseating to watch today.
09:47He claimed to have had this nickname since he was a teenager.
09:50When Emily Maitlis asked him in that famous interview about being considered the party prince,
09:56he expressed confusion at this sentiment.
09:59I never have really partied.
10:02I was single for quite a long time, in the early 80s.
10:07It's a total 180 from how his younger self responded,
10:10who seemed delighted to be called Randy Andy.
10:13Randy Andy.
10:13Don't. Don't.
10:14What?
10:15No, I just don't like thinking of him that way.
10:17Oh, it's just a stupid nickname.
10:18I know, it's so cringe.
10:20Remember him telling us how girls used to scream his name in the streets?
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10:42Inviting Epstein and Maxwell to Princess Beatrice's birthday.
10:46Prince Andrew hosted the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as well as Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein at the Royal Lodge,
10:52the publicly-owned home where he effectively lives rent-free after he paid for its renovations.
10:58Well, this image shows them all at birthday celebrations at the mansion in 2006.
11:03An arrest warrant was issued to Epstein in 2006.
11:07Two months later, he turned up at the 18th birthday party of Princess Beatrice, Andrew's daughter.
11:13In July, he was invited to Windsor Castle to your daughter, Princess Beatrice's 18th birthday.
11:21Why would you do that?
11:22Because I was asking Ghislaine.
11:24Not only this, but also in attendance were Ghislaine Maxwell, plus the widely hated Harvey Weinstein.
11:30Andrew defended himself by saying he had no clue Epstein was a criminal when he invited him.
11:34He never discussed with you the fact that an arrest warrant had been issued?
11:40So he came to that party knowing police were investigating him?
11:45It would be easier to forgive him for this mistake if he hadn't kept hanging out with him after his 2008 conviction.
11:51This makes us believe that either Andrew is an appalling judge of character, or he's not a nice guy himself.
11:56Yes, I think there are one or two things that, I mean, one thinks, oops, perhaps I shouldn't have done that.
12:02And perhaps, you know, in years to come, one will look back on them and say, I learned from that.
12:08Were there any particularly disturbing moments we forgot to mention?
12:11Let us know in the comments below.
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