Royals Prince Andrew’s “Level of Maturity” The Sunday Times reported a few days ago (via Vanity Fair) that Prince Andrew, less than a year after he announced that he was stepping down from royal duties, not over his friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein but because they were mortified by his shambolic performance during By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:02 am
Royals The Royal and Powerful Redactions As mentioned earlier today, 400+ pages of deposition testimony from a now-settled civil suit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffery Epstein’s alleged madam, were unsealed and made public this morning. Journalists are now poring over details. Not surprisingly, Ghislaine denies any wrongdoing, denies seeing any wrongdoing, and By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 02:19 pm
Royals How’s Buckingham Palace Feeling Today? Rudy Giuliani’s in the headlines right now because Sacha Baron Cohen punked him in Borat 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime, and there’s a scene in the film in which Rudy’s in a hotel room with an underage girl posing as a journalist and at one point By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 09:17 am
Royals Intro for August 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, Back in June, when I posted about Prince Philip’s 99th birthday, I noted that he didn’t get the royal bells from Westminster Abbey, and neither did the Queen. Getting birthday bells from Westminster Abbey is a royal tradition to honour the monarch and their consort and By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 09:27 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s Perverted Puppet This story has everything: fat fingers, defective sweat glands, a possibly bogus pizza defence, and now a perverted puppet in the likeness of Prince Andrew that was allegedly used to grope victims. Reminds me of a piece by Amanda Marcotte last year for at Salon, “Are we breeding depraved billionaires” By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 11:40 am
Royals Prince Andrew: the unsealed documents and the pizza defence As expected, the unsealed documents that were released last week from the defamation suit between Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Roberts Giuffre have caused even more trouble for Prince Andrew and the other rich and powerful men allegedly connected to Prince Andrew’s friend, the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 09:51 am
Royals Prince Andrew and the Unsealing While most of the British royal headlines the last few days and probably in the days to come will be about the rom-com known as Finding Freedom, about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, don’t sleep on another potential royal story that’s expected this week that is much more By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 01:00 pm
Royals Team Andrew didn’t see it coming By now you know about Prince Andrew’s interview with Emily Maitlis for BBC Newsnight. It was a disaster. In the moment though, Andrew and his aides had no idea. The British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs) will be announced virtually on July 31 and Newsnight’s Prince Andrew interview has By Lainey • Jul 21, 2020 10:12 am
Royals Princess Beatrice is married Princess Beatrice was supposed to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29 at St James’s Palace in London but then the pandemic happened so they ended up postponing it. The Daily Mail reported that they were hoping instead to have their wedding in 2021 and that it would be By Lainey • Jul 17, 2020 10:28 am
Just Andrew Intro for July 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have requested that she be released on US$5 million bail, because of COVID-19. Her legal team is promising that she would turn over her passports and be GPS-monitored while staying in New York at a private residence. They insist that she is not By Lainey • Jul 13, 2020 08:51 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s Royal “Affluenza”? LOLOLOLOLOLOL, this is rich. Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested, people are wondering about a possible list of names, and who she’ll sell out to save herself. Did you watch Filthy Rich on Netflix? If you did, you’ll remember, in the last episode, it was strongly suggested By Lainey • Jul 07, 2020 02:05 pm
Royals Prince Andrew: No Spain, No Golf According to Page Six, Prince Andrew won’t be going on his annual summer golf trip to Spain this year. Poor Andrew. Spending some time in the hot Spanish sun might have done some good for his defective sweat glands. You’ll recall, last year, after Jeffrey Epstein was found By Lainey • Jul 06, 2020 11:03 am
Royals Intro for July 3, 2020 Dear Gossips, Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested, as you know, in New Hampshire yesterday, after maintaining a very, very low profile for almost a year. According to FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge William Sweeney: "We learned she had slithered away to a gorgeous property in New Hampshire, continuing By Lainey • Jul 03, 2020 09:42 am
Top Reads Ghislaine Maxwell arrested?! “Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and heiress who became a confidante of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and was later accused of involvement in his alleged sexual crimes, has been arrested by the FBI, two senior law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York. She was arrested in New Hampshire on By Lainey • Jul 02, 2020 10:10 am
Royals Prince Andrew wants an “olive branch” It’s now been over six months since Prince Andrew stepped down from public duty. Word is they’ve permanently retired him now because he’s such an embarrassment to the British royal family. If you need a reminder, the reason for this is friendship with the dead rapist pedophile By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 11:21 am
Legal issues Team Andrew on the Unfair Treatment of Prince Andrew I mean, let’s just all go ahead and get the LOLs out of the way. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. These are bitter LOLs though. You’ll learn why soon. Prince Andrew was reportedly ordered by US authorities to provide testimony in the ongoing investigation into the crimes of his friend, the dead By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 10:02 am