WASHINGTON — Disgraced ex-Duke of York Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been ghosting the powerful House Oversight Committee amid the panel’s probe into ties between him and late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, according to its top Democrat.
Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) praised the United Kingdom’s reckoning over Epstein, but revealed that the scandal-scarred younger brother of King Charles III has not gotten back to the panel.
“We have not. And we absolutely have sent letters. We want to actually talk to Prince Andrew,” Garcia told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday when asked if Democrats have heard back from him.
“What’s happening now over in the UK is pretty stunning, and it’s actually a show of what happens when the government listens to the public,” he continued. “There are actually things happening to those that have been involved.”
Garcia pointed to the reckoning in the United Kingdom over Epstein as a model for what “needs to happen in our country.”
Mountbatten-Windsor, who had been born second in the line of succession to the British throne, was stripped of his titles and honors last year in response to his ties to Epstein.
Late Epstein whistleblower Virginia Giuffre alleged over a decade ago that Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked her to Mountbatten-Windsor.
Giuffre died of suicide in April of last year.
While he denied wrongdoing, Mountbatten-Windsor settled with her in 2022, shelling out millions of pounds. The two have been pictured together in the early 2000s.
Since then, a steady stream of accusations and details about Mountbatten-Windsor’s behavior around Epstein have emerged.
Just last week, British police revealed that they are “assessing” accusations that Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential trade files with Epstein during his time as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment between 2001 and 2011.
Material in the Epstein files indicated that Mountbatten-Windsor sent the late sex predator key reports about his trips to Vietnam and Singapore in 2010.
Another email disclosure showed Mountbatten-Windsor asking Epstein, shortly after the latter’s release from jail in 2009 after pleading guilty to sex offenses, to stay in his apartment in Paris for a private weekend jaunt.
The scandal-battered British royal scion was also pictured crouched on all fours over an unknown woman, whose face was redacted, in a creepy photo recently released in the Epstein files.
On Saturday, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche inked a letter to the top lawmakers on the House and Senate Judiciary Committee claiming to have released all the Epstein files that they were required to divulge.
Garcia argued that the Trump administration has not yet met its obligations to the Oversight panel when it comes to documentation on Epstein. The Oversight Committee has been probing the matter for months.
“Release all the files today, and last thing, they keep claiming that, ‘Oh, well, there is a, you know, there’s attorney-client privilege, or there’s interagency communication we can’t put out to the public,’” Garcia said.
“That might be true in the Epstein Transparency Act, but it’s not true in the subpoena that asked for the exact same documents that was passed last July and August. And so there is no reason why Congress shouldn’t have all of the documents in front of us right now.”
Garcia had formally requested testimony from Mountbatten-Windsor last year.
