Ghislaine Maxwell's London townhouse is up for sale, drawing fresh attention to the British royal family's ties to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The roughly $4 million home is where Prince Andrew was infamously photographed wrapping his arm around the waist of an Epstein accuser.
Prince Andrew stepped back from his public duties after Epstein's sex trafficking trial and shocking jailhouse death put his powerful associates under a microscope.
Andrew has always denied wrongdoing, but the royal's reputation has been damaged by his links with Epstein and Maxwell.
In 2022, Andrews settled a U.S. civil case brought by accuser Virginia Giuffre, who claimed Andrew assaulted her at Maxwell's London home, Epstein's New York mansion and Epstein's notorious island.
Giuffre claimed that she met Andrew at a nightclub in London before Andrew forced her to have sex with him at Maxwell's home. In an infamous 2001 photograph, Andrew is seen with one hand on Giuffre's waist as Maxwell looms in the background.
The picture was taken at Maxwell's former residence in London's wealthy Belgravia neighborhood.
Maxwell, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Britain, is serving a federal prison sentence in Florida for her key role in trafficking underage girls to Epstein.
She sold the London home to help pay for her legal defense in America as she battled criminal charges.
Maxwell has claimed the picture of Andrew and Giuffre is a fake, and Andrew, in a 2019 BBC interview, also cast doubt on the picture's authenticity.
“I’m terribly sorry, but if I, as a member of the royal family, and I have a photograph taken — and I take very, very few photographs — I am not one to, um, as it were, hug,” he said.
“Public displays of affection are not something that, that I do. So. That’s the best explanation I can give you.”
Epstein died in a New York prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. His death was ruled a suicide but led to conspiracy theories about an assassination by powerful clients.
“I deplore the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in, or encourage any such behavior” Prince Andrew said of Epstein at the time, adding, “it was a mistake and an error to see him after his release in 2010.”
“His suicide has left many unanswered questions and I acknowledge and sympathize with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure.”
Maxwell's appeal of her conviction was rejected last year.
