Britain's Prince Andrew, under scrutiny for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, says he's 'appalled' by abuse claims

Prince Andrew inside a car.
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Buckingham Palace released a statement on Sunday saying Prince Andrew is "appalled" by the accusations made against his late former friend, financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide earlier this month.

Video was recently released that shows him inside Epstein's New York City mansion, The Guardian reports, with the footage believed to have been shot on Dec. 6, 2010. In 2015, a woman who said she was one of Epstein's sex slaves attested in court documents that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew multiple times in the early 2000s, when she was 17 years old. At the time, Buckingham Palace denied the allegations, calling them "false and without any foundation."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.