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TTERSON ce sold the home, which he and their 1986 wedding. He got into hat the buyer, a Kazakh billion- had paid three million pounds ce n announced that she was mov- id ski chalet in Switzerland. ig, sometimes sordid story of the iot the end of the scandals that ound the prince. la Roberts's allegations about her -and the photo of him with his -appeared in the press. Prince ta skiing holiday to confer with issue a statement denying Rob- was widely seen as being without royal family. JVorld Economic Forum in Davos, xin forced to “reiterate and to real- de by Buckingham Palace that he ionship with Roberts, who had. the start of the year that Prince ~ in feet.” Prince Andrew said at the time. you be making a statement?” the” : oberts signed a sworn statement1 ing exual contact with him as ] have: Siven what he knows and has seé a, th abo i G aply voluntarily tell the tru ‘ Barry Krischer said in 2016 when contacted via telephone and asked about Jeffrey Epstein. Fittuy Ricu everything. 1 hope my attorneys can interview Prince Andrew under oath about the contacts and that he will tell the truth.” According to several reports, Roberts’s lawyers had written to the prince, asking him to respond to her allegations in court. Reportedly, Buckingham Palace refused delivery of the letter. “I knew he was a member of the British royal family, but I just called him ‘Andy,” Roberts had said in her statement. “I got news from Maxwell that I would be meeting a prince. Later that day, Epstein told me I was meeting a ‘major prince.’ Epstein told me ‘to exceed’ everything I had been taught. He emphasized that whatever Prince Andrew wanted, I was to make sure he got.” Signing her name to the document, Roberts wrote, “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.” That spring, Prince Andrew got a rare break: a federal judge in South Florida ordered that the allegations Roberts made be stricken from civil-court records. “At this juncture in the pro- ceedings, these lurid details are unnecessary,” the judge con- cluded. Once again, Buckingham Palace vehemently denied the prince’s involvement in any activities, sexual or otherwise, per- taining to Roberts. But that same year, reports leaked that the BBC program Panorama was working on an in-depth investiga- tion into the prince’s dealings with Epstein and Roberts. As of this writing, the investigation has yet to air. Barry Krischer “‘Lhave no intention of being dragged into that conversation,” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022174