Epstein files appear to show Andrew on all fours over female - as more than three million pages released

More than three million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, relating to infamous paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been released today.

The former Prince Andrew features heavily in the newly released documents, including an email which appears to show him inviting the sex trafficker for dinner at Buckingham Palace.

Andrew told him "alternatively we should have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy" after Epstein told him for "private time".

A set of images appear to show Andrew on all fours tending to a female who is sprawled out on the floor.

Andrew has always denied that he knew anything about Epstein’s crimes and appearing in these files does not imply any wrongdoing.

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Another email appears to show Jeffrey Epstein organising a “facial” for someone described only as “The Duke.”

One exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in August 2010 promising him "a friend who I think you might enjoy having dinner with".

He said the girl was a 26-year-old, Russian, who is "beautiful" and "trustworthy".

Among the emails released as part of today's drop are messages from Epstein claiming tech billionaire Bill Gates caught an STD from sleeping with "Russian girls" and tried to "slip" his wife antibiotics as a result.

Gates has long denied any involvement in Epstein's crimes and said he regrets their friendship.

The tech billionaire also appears in a number of pictures throughout this new release.

A representative of the Gates Foundation said on Friday: "These claims – from a proven, disgruntled liar – are absolutely absurd and completely false.

"The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

Lord Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to the US last year over his links to Epstein, also appears in the files and discussed staying at Epstein's property in an email.

The correspondence is from 16 June 2009, when Epstein was serving a prison sentence for soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. The financier was able to work during the day.

Mandelson asked Epstein: “Shall I stay at yours Friday-Sunday this weekend?”

Epstein replied: “thrilled to host and sad I’m not there”.

Speaking during a press conference on Friday, US deputy attorney Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice is releasing "more than three million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in total".

These include images and videos taken from devices belonging to the sex trafficker and mark the end of the so-called "review process," he said.

He added: "That means the department produced approximately 3.5 million pages in compliance with the act."

Mr Blanche said a number of documents have been withheld due to "ongoing investigations", but declined to comment on what these investigations are.

These redactions include images of every woman to feature in the so-called Epstein Files.

No men have been redacted, he added.

It is important to note that featuring in the documents does not imply any wrongdoing.

"The attorney general, the director of the FBI, and our partners throughout this administration work hard every single day to protect the most vulnerable among us with the protection of this magnitude," Mr Blanche continued.

"Mistakes are inevitable.

"We, of course, want to immediately correct any redaction errors that our team may have made."

Speaking about Epstein's victims, he continued: "Victims of Mr Epstein have gone through unspeakable pain and there's nobody who should say anything differently.

"There's frustration, I understand where that comes from.

"Just from what we know about Mr Epstein, I hope that the work that the men and women within this department have done over the past two months, hopefully is able to bring closure."

He insisted this process was not designed to protect Donald Trump, who had a long and close friendship with the sex offender.

"No, we did not protect President Trump," he said.

"We didn't protect or not protect anybody, I think there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.

"There's nothing I can do about that."

He compared today's release to two Eiffel Towers due to its sheer magnitude.

"People can criticise all they want, my point was to make plain that when it comes to what we've been doing the past two months and why, we weren't able to complete the review of over six million pages," he said.

"You're talking about two Eiffel Towers of pages in 30 days in a way that made sure we complied with the act."