A Lawyer Tried to Blackmail Epstein and Prince Andrew on Behalf of an 'Unpaid Stripper', Demanding a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Stay Silent

A letter released in the Epstein files shows that an unethical lawyer tried to squeeze $250,000 from Epstein over his sex worker client's unsubstantiated claim that the pair had failed to pay her.

An allegation involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein, contained in a lawyer’s letter released in the latest tranche of Epstein-related documents, remains unsubstantiated and was never tested in court.

The claim appears in a March 2011 letter written by lawyers acting for an unnamed woman, an exotic dancer, who alleged she was hired to perform at Epstein’s Florida home in 2006. The letter asserts that Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor asked her to engage in sexual activity after she danced for them, but failed to pay her for her ‘services’.

No corroborating evidence has been produced, and neither man was charged or sued in relation to the claim.

The letter itself makes clear that the woman’s legal representatives were seeking money in exchange for silence. They state that she would agree to keep the allegation confidential if paid $250,000, a demand made despite acknowledging that she had never previously reported the incident to police or pursued any legal action.

Revealingly, the letter was sent in 2011, shortly after Virginia Giuffre first made her since-debunked claims against Prince Andrew, making thousands of dollars by selling her story to the press.

According to the letter, the woman was allegedly offered $10,000 to dance, but was paid only $2,000. After the performance, the lawyers claim, Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor requested a threesome, which she initially refused. The letter then alleges that she later engaged in sexual acts after being told she would be paid. These assertions remain unsupported by independent testimony, documentation, or contemporaneous complaints.

The correspondence further alleges that other dancers were transported from Rachel’s Strip Club in West Palm Beach. This claim is also unverified and is not accompanied by evidence or witness statements.

Crucially, the letter does not seek a criminal investigation or civil remedy through the courts. Instead, it proposes a private financial settlement in return for confidentiality, a structure that legal experts have previously described as characteristic of extortionary or blackmail-style demands, rather than bona fide litigation.

The letter was sent by the law firm Gruenbeck Voegeler to attorney Robert Critton Jr, whom they mistakenly believed was still representing Epstein.

Critton forwarded the letter on to Epstein’s lawyers, accompanied by a cover letter in which he wrote: “It seems to me this letter is a shake down/extortion Good Luck.”

Gruenbeck Voegeler was later implicated in an alleged PPE fraud during the Covid pandemic.

Mountbatten-Winsor has consistently and unequivocally denied all wrongdoing. No settlement arising from the letter has been confirmed, and there is no indication that the allegation was ever pursued beyond the demand for payment.