(CNN)Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, never saw anything that struck him as suspicious when he was around the now-disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the prince told the BBC.
“At the time there was no indication to me or anybody else that that was what he was doing,” he said in an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis that aired Saturday. “And certainly, when I saw him in the United States… or when I was staying in his houses in the United States, there was no indication, absolutely no indication.”
Prince Andrew faces allegations stemming from his relationship with Epstein, who died by apparent suicide in August while awaiting trial on federal charges that he sexually abused underage girls and ran a sex trafficking ring. Epstein had pleaded not guilty.
