The Metropolitan Police says officers have been asked to consider whether anything "they saw or heard during that period of service may be relevant to our ongoing reviews".
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By spacebanana7 2026-02-1910:222 reply The last time the Duke of York was arrested was in 1483. And before that, the most recent prior was in 1452 during the War of the Roses.
By drcongo 2026-02-1912:02 Blimey, he's older than he looks.
I wonder, does the streak technically still continues? As he was stripped of his titles.
By spacebanana7 2026-02-1914:471 reply Yeah it requires an act of parliament to scrap the Duke title, neither the King nor voluntary resignation can do that
By jaxelr 2026-02-2117:08 I stand corrected.
By petepete 2026-02-1910:18 Series 7 of The Crown will be fun.
As always when reading about these stories I have two questions:
* When did other high profile people know about this illegal and immoral behavior
* Who else is getting away with similar behavior right now
By bell-cot 2026-02-1911:01 1 - Assume it was decades ago. That I've heard, a fair number of the released emails mentioned Jeff's 2008 conviction. But to paraphrase Leona Helmsley, "only the little people need to follow laws". That attitude seems to be very common in the emails.
2 - Isn't it convenient that zero major news organizations - controlled by high profile people and their buddies - are raising that issue? Not that I believe there to be any public support for competent & systematic enforcement of the laws against such behavior. That I've heard of, nobody even cares about how Jeff got off with a slap on the wrist in 2008.
I also kinda have the question of: Who is the new Jeffrey Epstein?
Nature abhors a vacuum, and it seems the space that Epstein filled was large and branching and significantly profitable (in money, information, and influence). There's no way there isn't at least one other person that's started to fill the void.
Ideally, the ramifications of association with Epstein should shrink the size of the vacuum considerably, but the pursuit of those associates has really only just started and, as someone else has already pointed out, some countries / governments are protecting these associates rather than investigating / prosecuting. As such, there's not much discouragement yet.
By phtrivier 2026-02-1913:02 It's unfortunately very possible that someone else is filling the "bring underage girls to rich guys" part (seriously, we have to "teach this fantasy out" for most little boys) ; but it might be someone more discrete, with a smaller network, and who will not merge the "socialite businessmen" persona with the "pimp for the rich" persona.
Also, it might be an anomaly that one person has a very big network ; maybe it's usually more of a "small adjacent networks".
So it would be like asking "who replaced pablo escobar or bernard madoff". The answer is (unfortunately) very likely not "no-one" ; but it might very well be "not one".
