"Now, still not," the prince said. "And the reason being is that the people that I met, and Online Cigarettes Store USA the opportunities that I was given to learn, either by him or because of him, were actually very useful."
The prince added: "We weren't that close."
The rare interview, broadcast in prime time Saturday in Britain, was the result of a months-long negotiation that Newport Cigarettes Shop ultimately had to be approved by the queen herself before it was recorded earlier in the week, Maitlis said.For nearly a decade, the prince has been under scrutiny for his association with Epstein, a multi-millionaire financier and the subject of state and federal investigations since the mid-2000s for allegedly recruiting underage girls for illicit massages and sex.
Epstein ultimately avoided federal charges involving allegations of abuse against nearly three dozen girls by agreeing to plead guilty two comparatively minor charges in Florida state court. He served just 13 months of an 18-month term in a county jail.
He was charged again, in July of this year, in a two-count federal indictment for child sex-trafficking and conspiracy for alleged crimes in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005. He died in prison on Aug. 10 from an apparent suicide.
Prince Andrew, who said he'd met Epstein in 1999, first became embroiled in the controversy in late Newport box 100s cigarettes 2010 when he was photographed walking with the convicted sex offender through New York's Central Park shortly after Epstein's sentence ended in Florida.