“give him a hug,” Epstein emailed Stern, when he was on his way to Singapore to meet Andrew in June 2018. In early 2010, Ferguson emailed Andrew, suggesting Stern could help the prince with a nascent plan to create a wealth fund in China. “We very discreetly make PA part of it and use his ‘aura and access,’ ” Stern wrote, referring to Prince Andrew. In July 2013, Stern emailed Epstein saying that he and Andrew met with Howard Lutnick, then chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald. “I have a very beautiful friend comoing to london on tues. ANdrew might want to have her for a dinner,” Epstein wrote in October 2013 to Stern.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 17, 2026 10:44 UTC