A photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is among the latest release of images from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Nineteen pictures were shared on Friday by Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee. They are separate from documents held in case files by the Department of Justice.
Featured in the batch is an image of a suited former prince standing in a room next to Microsoft magnate Bill Gates, as well as a photo of Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson on a beach with Epstein and another man.
No captions or context have been provided for any of the images.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has made headlines in recent months over his association with Epstein, with the King officially stripping his disgraced brother of both his HRH style and his prince title.
The former duke has for many years faced allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage Virginia Giuffre after she was trafficked by Epstein. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor strenuously denies the accusations.
He paid millions to Ms Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault claim in 2022.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor stepped down from royal duties in 2019 after his disastrous Newsnight interview, but the publication of Ms Giuffre’s posthumous memoirs and the US government’s release of documents from Epstein’s estate have brought fresh focus on him recently.
American politicians have criticised the former prince for his “silence” after he missed a deadline last month to respond to their request to sit for an interview about Epstein.
Claims about Sir Richard have also linked him to Epstein previously.
Last year, Sarah Ransome, a victim of Epstein who claimed the paedophile financier made sex tapes of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor and Sir Richard, repeated her allegation that “there are videos that exist”.
At the time, a Virgin Group spokesperson said on behalf of Sir Richard: “In a New Yorker report published in 2019, Ransome admitted that she had ‘invented’ the tapes. We can confirm that Sarah Ransome’s claims are baseless and unfounded.”
In the 2019 New Yorker article, author Connie Bruck says: “Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behaviour, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me’.”
The Press Association has contacted representatives of both Mr Mountbatten-Windsor and Sir Richard.
Donald Trump also featured in the latest release of images, with one black-and-white photo showing him standing with a group of six women whose faces are blacked out. The US president has distanced himself from Epstein and has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
One photo shows Mr Trump with six women, whose faces have been blurred out by the committee. A grinning Mr Trump is sporting a suit while the women are wearing leis around their necks.
Another image shows packets of condoms wrapped in a caricature of Mr Trump’s face above the phrase: “I’m HUUUUGE!”
House Oversight Committee Democrats wrote in a social media post: “These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!”
But Republicans on the panel have called the batch of photos “cherry-picked”.
“Once again, Oversight Democrats are chasing headlines by releasing a handful of selectively censored and cherry-picked photos from the Epstein Estate. Democrats’ hoax against President Trump has been completely debunked,” the GOP-led committee responded.
The new tranche also includes an image of Trump ally Steve Bannon meeting with Epstein, as well as a photo signed by former president Bill Clinton — capturing him linking arms with Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein. Mr Clinton has vehemently denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, has never visited Epstein’s island, and said in 2019, when Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges, that he hadn’t spoken to the disgraced financier “in well over a decade.”
Maxwell, 63, is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in a sex trafficking scheme to abuse girls with Epstein.
Mr Gates has denied having a personal relationship with Epstein, clarifying that he met with the disgraced financier to discuss philanthropy.
Epstein was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan, New York, in August 2019 while he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.
The new batch of photos comes weeks after the committee released thousands of documents, including shocking emails sent by Epstein to several powerful figures from 2011 to 2019. Those figures included attorneys, journalists, author Michael Wolff, former Treasury secretary Larry Summers and Deepak Chopra, among many others.
In the messages, Epstein claimed that Mr Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours at my house” with a victim of sex trafficking. “I know how dirty donald is,” Epstein wrote in another email.
Mr Trump did not send or receive any of the emails.
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