THE PRINCE AND THE PEDOPHILE

While “Randy Andy’s” antics with wannabe “It Girls” have long been the stuff of prurient tabloid fodder, it is his cretinously ill-advised choice of associates that is causing the present rumpus. The Prince has been a frequent guest at the Florida residence of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire who received an 18-month conviction for soliciting minors as prostitutes after Virginia Roberts, a masseuse, reported that he had exploited her for sex when she was just 17 years old.

The British Mail on Sunday reports the FBI is re-opening the Epstein case. Though no allegations of direct impropriety have been made against him, the duke did receive a massage at Epstein’s home 10 years ago, and was photographed with him as recently as December 2010. His impecunious ex-wife, Sarah Duchess of York, who was recently caught out in a cash-for-meetings scandal when she claimed she could broker encounters with her former husband for a fee, accepted £15,000 from Epstein to pay off debts, apparently at the duke’s instigation.