Prince Andrew: No one will want to be associated with him says Levin

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The disgraced royal has been offered $100 million (approx £75m) to come clean about the bond he had with the late Epstein and the allegations facing him.

The offer was made by investigative journalist Ian Halperin, who stated he wants the Duke of York “to come clean and take a polygraph test with a world-leading polygraph examiner”.

However, polygraph tests are not admissible in US criminal trials.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the New York Times bestselling author said: “If he is as innocent as he says he is, he passes and it clears his name. It is a great way for him to vindicate himself in 45 minutes”.

The request from Mr Halperin comes one week after Virginia Giuffre, previously Virginia Roberts, issued civil proceedings against the prince accusing him of sexually assaulting her while underage.

The civil lawsuit launched in the US has yet to be responded to by Prince Andrew, who has vehemently denied the claims made against him in the past.

Andrew is being accused of “rape in the first degree” and “intentional” emotional distress in the civil lawsuit, but neither him or his legal team have addressed the claims as he stays at Balmoral with his mother, Queen Elizabeth II and other senior royals.

Mr Halperin said that the opportunity to take a polygraph would allow the Prince to “clear his name”, and that the pay per view proceedings would make history, providing the royal with easy access to money.

He said: “It will be a pay per view event, hopefully the biggest pay per view in history, where Andrew gets $100million for just turning up and taking the test”.

If the event were to take place, it would be Andrew’s first appearance on-camera since the 2019 BBC Newsnight interview.

The writer called the situation a “win-win” for the royal, and said “he would be able to make a donation to victims of child sex trafficking”.

He added that “it would make him look great” and would give the royal “a chance in front of the whole world to clear his name once and for all”.

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The writer, who has used polygraph tests to try to establish the credibility of witnesses for documentaries and films in the past, also referred to the opportunity as means of cutting to the chase in just a 45 minute interview.

He said: “Nobody has ever made that amount of money for 45 minutes work. And we will provide him with hair and make-up”.

Mr Halperin continued: “I am open-minded” and added that he has left “the door open for him to clear his name”.

“I am bypassing this ‘he says, she says’ and cutting to the chase”.

Epstein, a registered sex offender, met Prince Andrew in 1999 after being introduced by Epstein’s then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

While awaiting criminal trial for allegedly trafficking underage girls in 2019, Mr Epstein was found dead in his prison cell.

During Andrew’s 2019 Newsnight interview with presenter Emily Maitlis, the royal said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein and as a result of backlash for his comments, he later stepped down from royal duties.

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