In just a matter of hours on Thursday, Prince Andrew was cut loose from the royal family, stripped of his status and henceforth to be called Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His abruptly-formed new life, without titles and banished to the King’s Norfolk home, is a dramatic contrast to the position he was born into as the favorite son of the late Queen – and with his shocking years-long public downfall now finally complete, he will reportedly be in “hell”.This is all from unproven rumors about Jeffrey Epstein.
I hear people refer to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, but it is just as bad today. The evidence against Epstein was extremely thin.
Yes, he would get massages from teenaged girls, and sometimes paid for prostitution. That can be illegal and embarrassing, but not a big deal.
What makes the Epstein story a major scandal are sensationalist allegations of pedophilia, blackmail, foreign intelligence covert operations, trafficking underage girls, systematically providing prostitutes and maybe underage girls to the rich and famous, and a DoJ report of 1000+ victims.
As far as I can tell, none of this is true. Yes, Epstein got convicted of a minor offense that was strangely federalized, and his girlfriend G. Maxwell also got convicted.
I question her guilt. She was supposed to get immunity as part of a plea deal. At her trial, a couple of women told unverified stories about events 20 years earlier. One of the them was an admitted schizophrenic who was obeying voices she said she heard in her head.
The women telling stories all got paid $3M+ for telling them.
Some say where there is smoke there is fire. I say that if there were really 1000 victimes, someone would be able to find at least one credible one. No one has.
I don't know why British royalty would go along with this nonsense. Prince Andrews says he is innocent, and no one has any evidence against him that would hold up in court. Even if he did visit a prostitute, the royal family surely has a long history of extramarital affairs.
The Pizzagate conspiracy theory made more sense.
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I feel that Prince Andrew has been very badly treated. All accusations against him are unproven and are hearsay. Yes , he mixed with allegedly undesirable people , so what, not all my friends are those you would take home to meet mother. He may not be a pleasant man but again, so what. His brother the King has cut him loose to try and limit any further damage that may be done to the Family. There have been many scandals in the past but this one is compounded by the fact everyone with internet access is piling on.
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