Rep. Mace calls for UK’s Prince Andrew ‘in handcuffs’ amidst Epstein controversy
Rep. Nancy Mace said Wednesday that after the release of the Epstein Files, “any and all” potential crimes divulged involving Prince Andrew should see him prosecuted in the United States. (AP FILE)
(WCIV) — Rep. Nancy Mace said Wednesday that after the release of the Epstein Files, “any and all” potential crimes divulged involving Prince Andrew should see him prosecuted in the United States.
“Now seems like a good time to discuss prosecuting Prince Andrew for any and all potential crimes on U.S. soil,” Mace posted on her personal X account Wednesday afternoon. “A cold dark cell. Prince Andrew in handcuffs. Sends the right message.”
The Lowcountry’s congresswoman, in her role on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, listened to testimonies from some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims Tuesday. She was seen leaving the closed-door meeting early, visibly upset by victims recalling their traumatic experiences at the hands of the disgraced financier and sexual predator.
“So when do we prosecute Prince Andrew for potential crimes on U.S. soil?” Mace posited on her official government X account later Wednesday. “Seems like the right next step (after we release the files).”
So when do we prosecute Prince Andrew for potential crimes on U.S. soil? Seems like the right next step (after we release the files).
Perhaps we can focus on prosecuting predators next. Let victims, survivors and the country heal.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) September 3, 2025
Prince Andrew stepped down from his royal duties in the United Kingdom in late 2019 after abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre’s public allegations against him came to a head when he gave a now infamous interview to the BBC. He would go on to settle a lawsuit with Giuffre in 2022, with a statement filed in court saying that he acknowledged Epstein was a sex trafficker and Giuffre was an “established victim of abuse.”
Virginia Giuffre with Prince Andrew (US District Court of Southern New York)
Giuffre would later die by suicide at her farm in Australia in April 2025. She was 41.
Giuffre’s family spoke on her behalf ahead of Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) hosting a news conference along with other survivors of Epstein and his associate’s crimes.
“Virginia fought for truth. She fought to expose a system that allowed the wealthy, the connected and the powerful to exploit and abuse girls and young women without consequences,” Virginia’s brother Sky Roberts said. “She fought for every survivor who was silenced, doubted or discarded, and she never backed down, even when the world tried to break her.”
The victims said at the news conference that they plan to compile their own Epstein client list after a 33,000-page document release from the House Oversight Committee after Tuesday’s testimony left lawmakers on both sides of the aisle underwhelmed.
FILE – President Donald Trump, right, and first lady Melania Trump, left, accompanied by Britain’s Prince Andrew, leave after a tour of Westminster Abbey in London, June 3, 2019. Social media is abuzz with news that a judge is about to release a list of “clients,” or “associates” or maybe “co-conspirators,” of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Besides Andrew, many other powerful men are known to have been close associates to Epstein, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and many more. Trump has labelled the talk around the Epstein files scandal a “Democratic hoax,” while Clinton’s camp has claimed he knew nothing of the sex trafficker’s crimes while being listed in his flight logs around 26 times.
