Epstein joked that he wanted to ‘adopt’ Andrew, his victim says

Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein joked to women he was abusing that he wanted to ‘adopt’ Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘into our family’, it was sensationally claimed last night.

One of Epstein’s victims, who was in his orbit for more than five years, told the MoS that Andrew ‘fit in so well’ when he visited the sex offender at his £60 million New York mansion.

Former Russian model Mia (not her real name) was at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in December 2010 when Andrew visited for a week and, along with a number of other women, even accompanied the two men on their now famous walk through Central Park.

She said women surrounding Epstein, many of whom were later to be revealed as victims of his abuse, were allowed to dress informally in ‘sportswear’ when Andrew came to stay.

In contrast, they were ordered to wear white blouses and knee-length skirts or tailored trousers when Bill Gates, another powerful associate of Epstein’s, visited.

‘With Andrew it was very informal, like family,’ she said.

‘JE [Epstein] even used to say: “We should adopt Andrew into our family.” He (Andrew) was so nice, he fit in so well. But everything felt very family-like.’

Andrew’s 2010 visit came only five months after Epstein was released from house arrest following his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child. 

Mia, who received a payout as one of Epstein’s victims, questioned why Andrew was not apparently suspicious of the fact that Epstein was surrounded by a retinue of young women.

‘Everyone thought I was a teenager altogether; I look very young,’ she said.

‘So, what were we all doing there? And if he [Andrew] didn’t have any such questions, that’s strange.

‘At the time, he [Andrew] seemed just so cool, so pleasant, but in fact, people of his level legitimised someone like Jeffrey Epstein.

‘And if a British prince is a guest at such a person’s house, and you’re like a girl from nowhere…who am I to judge someone like JE, when the British prince himself visits his house, jokes around?’

Mia said she and several other women were invited along on Epstein and Andrew’s walk through Central Park on December 5 2010.

Photographer Jae Donnelly captured a picture of the two men strolling together – an image that has haunted Andrew for more than 15 years.

Mia, who was in her mid-twenties at the time, believes the decision to go for a walk was ‘spontaneous’ and does not believe Epstein wanted to attract any press attention.

‘We were walking behind them,’ she said.

‘I remember I didn’t have warm clothes at the time. I borrowed someone’s jacket from the house. It was this huge, ugly jacket. It was very cold.’

Mia also shed new light on extraordinary photographs disclosed in the vast Epstein Files of Andrew on all fours, leaning over a young woman, which are believed to have been taken in the mansion’s dining room at some point during the New York trip.

She said Epstein often asked women to lie down and he would supposedly help them relieve any tension they had in their back.

‘He [Epstein] had this trick when he met women; one of the first things he’d say: “You’ve got such tension in your back, I’ll do an adjustment for you”

‘And he’d do these things, lay them on the floor and all the bones would crack.

‘Maybe Andrew did the same, maybe JE taught him to do it? Because otherwise why lie on the floor?’