Overview

• A leaked two-page FBI memo states investigators found no evidence to predicate investigations against Prince Andrew or any other high-profile associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
• The probe was paused last year after the US Department of Justice submitted a mutual legal assistance request to the UK, a mechanism typically used in criminal investigations.
• Since 2019 the Duke of York has lived at Royal Lodge in Windsor under a self-imposed ban on leaving the country over fears of arrest.
• He settled a civil suit with Virginia Giuffre in 2022 for £12 million without admitting wrongdoing, and Giuffre died in Australia in April 2025.
• Friends say Andrew now feels safe to plan trips abroad and could soon resume international engagements.