WASHINGTON — Rep. Ro Khanna publicly demanded Tuesday that disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — formerly known as Prince Andrew, Duke of York — testify before the powerful House Oversight Committee about his relationship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Prince Andrew needs to come and testify before our Oversight Committee,” Khanna (D-Calif.) declared during a press conference with survivors outside the Capitol ahead of a House vote to compel the Justice Department to release all materials on the notorious case.
Democrats on the powerful investigative panel invited Mountbatten-Windsor to voluntarily answer questions in a Nov. 6 letter that gave the disgraced royal two weeks to respond.
Virginia Giuffre claimed that Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked her in the early 2000s to Andrew, with whom she had sex three times at the age of 17. There have also been accusations that Andrew sicced his taxpayer-funded security dig up dirt on Giuffre after she went public in late 2014.
Last month, Mountbatten-Windsor’s older brother, King Charles III, began the formal process of stripping Andrew’s titles in response to the growing scandal over his ties to Epstein.
“There’s becoming a reckoning in Britain that needs to happen in the United States,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Tuesday.
“We need to see those same kind of consequences here.”
Giuffre’s younger brother, Sky Roberts, joined other Epstein survivors and paid tribute to his sister, who took her own life this past April.
“Virginia’s story is one that should have been full of promise and survival,” Roberts said. “This isn’t just the story of one girl; it’s a story about the insidious nature of power and abuse, a dark chapter in a society.”
“Sissie, you didn’t make a small dent,” he said through tears. “You made a monumental impact, a resounding statement that echoed across the world. You build an unbreakable wall, a barrier that will protect future generations and the horde of abuse.”
Khanna and Massie had teamed up to use a parliamentary tool known as a discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, bypassing GOP leadership and the committee process.
The measure would compel the Justice Department to publicly divulge “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials” pertaining to Epstein.
Initially, President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) expressed opposition to the measure but have since come around in support of it.
“I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this political. It’s not about you, President Trump,” Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones said during the press conference.
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“You are our president — please start acting like it. Show some class. Show some real leadership. Show that you actually care about people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment.”
Jones held up a photo of her as a teenager, and said Epstein “stole a lot from me at 14.”
“Far too long, survivors like me have been dismissed, silenced, are told that our pain was exaggerated or fabricated,” fellow survivor Sharlene Rochard lamented. “Let me be clear. This is not a hoax.”
Annie Farmer, who alleges she was just 16 and her sister, Marie, was 22 when Epstein abused them, recounted the decades-long pursuit of justice against the late sex predator.
“This year, after campaigning on a pledge to finally release the files under Trump’s second presidency, the DOJ announced they were closing the investigation and then transferred Ghislaine Maxwell into a prison camp where it’s well documented that she is receiving special treatment,” she said.
“This is not an issue of a few corrupt Democrats or a few corrupt Republicans. This is the case of institutional betrayal.”
