“Because they’re old friends and I assumed if he was staying anywhere he would be staying with Ghislaine,” says Witheridge. They raced after her, hoping that Prince Andrew would be with her or eventually join her.
“She stepped out in a tiny skirt, a tiny jacket and boots and got into a waiting car.” “I learned that night the true meaning of the word socialite because Ghislaine’s schedule was remarkable,” Witheridge told The Independent in 2019. “Putting Jeffrey Epstein with Prince Andrew was like putting a rattlesnake in an aquarium with a mouse.” Mahmood alerted her to Prince Andrew’s visit and asked her to alert him of anything she found. We just had a tip-off that Andrew was in town,” says Annette Witheridge, a former News of the World reporter then freelancing in New York. Mahmood surely hoped to catch Randy Andy doing something naughty. We weren’t called News of the Screws for nothing.” “Something on Prince Andrew would have made Maz salivate-especially if it had any kind of kinky sex, which was super for circulation. “The royals were such a lucrative source of salacious stories, always shagging various people who weren’t husbands or wives and getting divorced in that period,” says Paul McMullan.
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In late November or December 2010, the tip that would rock the House of Windsor is believed to have come directly to Mahmood: Prince Andrew, Duke of York-known in the tabloids as “Randy Andy” and “the Royal Lout-About Town,” thanks to his serial dating and practical joking-was in America, embarking upon an unofficial four-day trip to New York City. Mahmood would go on to be sentenced to 15 months in prison for tampering with police evidence in his drug sting of a British pop star. By then, the News of the World had crashed and closed. “During my career at the paper I was responsible for over 250 criminal prosecutions, including of pedophiles, people traffickers, drug dealers, pimps and even a doctor who took me on as a hitman to murder his former mistress and was jailed for attempted murder,” he would later tell the 2011 public inquiry occasioned by the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. Best known as the Fake Sheik, he costumed himself in Arabic robes and an array of other disguises and guises to entrap the rich, royal, and reprehensible into doing naughty things on his hidden cameras. Photograph by Jae Donnelly.Ī sex, sin, and scandal machine the likes of which the world had never known, the fiery London-based tabloid had 5 million readers, 30 hotly competitive bloodhound reporters, and one true superstar: Mazher “Maz” Mahmood. Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, photographed together in Central Park by Jae Donnelly on December 5, 2010.
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