Jeffrey Epstein Hot Mic Scandal Goes Viral as Names Released

Amy Robach was recorded on a hot mic saying ABC News spiked a Jeffrey Epstein investigation because "we were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview" Kate Middleton and Prince William.

The presenter was recorded shortly after Jeffrey Epstein's death in August 2019 giving an impromptu speech declaring she "100 percent" believed the convicted sex offender was "killed." The medical examiner recorded his death, in prison while facing trafficking charges, as a suicide.

A clip of Robach's dramatic comments resurfaced on X, formerly Twitter, more than four years later after documents relating to the Epstein scandal were unsealed by a New York federal court.

The legal papers re-iterated allegations from Virginia Giuffre that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her in London, New York and the U.S Virgin Islands in the early 2000s.

In a video viewed around 120,000 times, Robach said: "I've had the story for three years. I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air.

"First of all I was told, 'Who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is, this is, this is a stupid story.'

"Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.

"We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview Kate and Will, that had also quashed the story.

"And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated because of the planes. [Virginia Giuffre] told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years, we convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us.

"It was unbelievable what we had. [Bill] Clinton. We had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it's all coming out and it's like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it.

"I'm so pissed right now, like every day I get more and more pissed cause I'm just like, oh my god, what we had was unreal."

Andrew, Clinton and Alan Dershowitz have all vigorously denied knowing about Epstein criminal sex trafficking and abuse. Dershowitz was involved in a libel lawsuit with Giuffre, which she settled in November 2022, acknowledging she "may have made a mistake" in accusing him.

Robach said they had an interview with Brad Edwards, an attorney credited with helping bring down Epstein. She said he had told her: "There will come a time when we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known."

"So do I think he was killed?" she continued. "100 percent, yes, I do, because he made his whole living blackmailing people. There were a lot of men in those planes. A lot of men who visited that Island, a lot of powerful men who came into that apartment."

Giuffre responded at the time, posting on X, formerly Twitter: "It's infuriating that we could have put an end to Epstein's abuse years ago—but I wasn't believed. I am sick of BS media "scrambling around" for more evidence. It's there in black and white. If this was a murder case you would have all the evidence needed."

In 2019, ABC News said in a statement: "At the time, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we have never stopped investigating the story. Ever since we've had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it. That work has led to a two-hour documentary and 6-part podcast that will air in the new year."

Jack Royston is Newsweek's chief royal correspondent based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.

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