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Mega Edition: Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell And The Massages (6/17/26)

40 min · 17 de jun de 2026
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Prince Andrew’s enthusiasm for massages bore an unmistakable resemblance to the routine Jeffrey Epstein built around himself. Juan Alessi, the manager of Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, testified under oath that Andrew sometimes remained at the property for weeks and received massages on a daily basis. That detail matters because massages were not incidental within Epstein’s household; they were the central ritual through which he gained private access to girls and young women and around which much of his abuse operation was organized. Andrew’s repeated participation in that culture makes it difficult to portray him as a distant acquaintance who merely attended an occasional dinner. He was reportedly enjoying the same personalized service, inside the same residences, provided through the same tightly controlled network of women and staff that served Epstein. Andrew has denied wrongdoing connected to Epstein, but the documented pattern shows how comfortably he accepted the privileges of Epstein’s world. Ghislaine Maxwell appears to have played a direct role in supplying Andrew with that service on more than one occasion, functioning as the social facilitator who could locate a masseuse, make the introduction and arrange private access to the prince. Masseuse Monique Giannelloni said Maxwell recommended her to Andrew and arranged a June 2000 appointment inside Buckingham Palace, where Andrew allegedly emerged from the bathroom completely naked before the massage; Giannelloni said the encounter embarrassed her, although she did not accuse him of making an overt sexual advance. Reporting has also described other massage appointments connected to Maxwell’s circle, reinforcing the picture of Maxwell providing Andrew with the same kind of carefully arranged female companionship she helped organize around Epstein. The significance is not that every massage was necessarily criminal, but that Andrew repeatedly benefited from a system in which Maxwell acted as gatekeeper and provider, selecting women and placing them in intimate, private settings with powerful men. That similarity is difficult to dismiss: Epstein demanded a constant supply of masseuses, Maxwell helped furnish them, and Andrew appears to have developed a comparable expectation that such women would be made available whenever he desired. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

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