From: 1 <-> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 12:48 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Dominic Lawson: I stayed at Epstein's so hound =ndrew Prince Andrew has been =amned for his choice of friends, but he is blessed in his enemies, like =abour MP Chris Bryant The Sunday Times Published: 13 March =011 • Recommend (0) ` Comment (0) Print Follow Comment Guilt by association is a conveniently elastic property =or the press, when it is engaged in a manhunt. In this case the man is =rince Andrew, Duke of York, and he has been associating with a sex =ffender named Jeffrey Epstein. In 2008 Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in jail, having =leaded guilty to the charge of soliciting an underage girl for =rostitution. Last December Prince Andrew was snapped by a paparazzo while =alking in Central Park with Epstein and the shot was duly published in =he News of the World. The Prince and Epstein were old friends, and the fourth in =ine to the throne had been staying at the billionaire's New York =ansion. This occasioned only mild scandal at the time; but a =ortnight ago The Mail on Sunday published the account by • of her employment as a 17-year-old masseuse by Epstein, in which =he repeated in bowdlerised form her previously pseudonymous court =eposition — as "Jane Doe 102" — that she had been "sexually =xploited by Epstein's adult male peers including royalty". The story was accompanied by a =hotograph of Prince Andrew with his arm around Ms MI, taken in =001. Although the newspaper went out of its way to emphasise that there =as no suggestion that the Queen's second son had engaged in any =mproper or illegal sexual conduct, headlines such as "Prince Andrew =nd 'naked pool parties' at his paedophile friend's house" had =he desired effect of portraying a royal duke wallowing in sleaze. As is usual in such circumstances, =ther papers, not wanting to be left behind in the cross-country pursuit =f hunt the royal fox, have laboured mightily to be the next to dra