Among the millions of documents released this week from the Justice Department’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, there are photos of the man formerly known as Prince Andrew on his hands and knees, hovering over an unidentified woman on the floor. In one of the images, the former prince — now known only as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — has his hand placed on the woman’s stomach. In others, he can be smiling directly into the camera as the woman, whose face is redacted, remains unmoved. In the background, another unknown person can be seen sitting with their feet propped on a table, which also has a stack of towels on it. It’s not clear when or where the photos were taken. The documents also contain an email exchange between Mountbatten-Windsor and Epstein, who was arrested in 2019 and found dead in his cell at a jail in New York City just five weeks later. The medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death to be a suicide by hanging, sparking conspiracy theories suggesting he was actually murdered to keep him from spilling secrets about his rich and powerful friends. This March 28, 2017 photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File) In an email exchange from August 2010, the disgraced financier invites Mountbatten-Windsor to meet a “friend” for dinner in London. The ex-royal replies that he would be “delighted to see her,” then asks Epstein to pass along his contact information. Epstein also provides a description of the woman, including that she’s a 26-year-old Russian who is “clevere (sic) beautiful, trustworthy.” Just more than a month later, the pair again make plans to get together in London, this time for dinner at Buckingham Palace, where they would have “lots of privacy,” Mountbatten-Windsor wrote. The emails were sent more than a year after Epstein was released from jail after pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor. The ex-prince has long been dogged by his apparent friendship with Epstein. In 2011, the late Virginia Giuffre alleged that she had been trafficked by Epstein and was forced to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor when she was 17. US-NEWS-MAXWELL-2-MCTHANDOUTFILE - Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, center, alleges that she was intimate with Prince Andrew, left, at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, right. Giuffre, then 17, is shown with Prince Andrew and Maxwell at Maxwell's London townhouse in 2001. The former prince has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and he claimed that he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which Epstein had been accused. His ties to the disgraced financier returned to the headlines last fall amid the release of Giuffre’s memoir, published six months after her death by suicide. The renewed allegations resulted in King Charles stripping his brother of his royal titles, including that of prince, and evicting him from his royal residence. The Justice Department released the massive trove of documents on Friday, six weeks after its congressional deadline to do so. With News Wire Services ...read more read less