Epstein’s close friend Baroness Rosa Monckton was Princess Diana’s close confidant
In the Mid-1980s, Jeffrey Epstein was living in London. He met and formed a close relationship with Rosa Monckton, then-CEO of Tiffany & Co.’s London division. In 1991, Monckton married Dominic Lawson, a notable UK Journalist. Monckton was one of Princess Diana’s close friends.
2025: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Revelation from Prison
Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking, was recently interviewed by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Blanche was Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney. But when Trump was inaugurated a second time, he appointed Blanche to serve as number two in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice.
During Blanche’s interview of Maxwell, she recalled a specific “event” that Jeffrey Epstein attended with Princess Diana.
1994: Was Epstein shadowing Princess Diana on her “revenge dress” night?
In June 1994, then-Prince Charles admitted his infidelity while being interviewed on ITV. That same night, Princess Diana stepped out in her “revenge dress.” Was Epstein shadowing Diana at the event? Did Rosa Monckton introduce him to her close friend Diana?
1998: Dominic Lawson’s cover blown. Labour party files a motion revealing he’s an “intelligence asset” in the newsroom
The bridge between Epstein and the Palace wasn’t just social; it appears to have been structural.
Rosa Monckton’s husband Dominic Lawson, is a well-known journalist in the UK. He started at the BBC. Lawson edited The Sunday Telegraph from 1995 to 2005.
In 1998, the Labour party filed an Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament requesting that Dominic Lawson be removed from his editorial role at The Sunday Telegraph because he was an intelligence asset of the British Security Services.
“That this House is greatly disturbed by the news that a national newspaper editor, Mr. Dominic Lawson. . . has for a considerable period of time served as an intelligence asset of the British security services...” — UK Parliament Motion, 1998.
The motion states:
That this House is greatly disturbed by the news that a national newspaper editor, Mr Dominic Lawson of the Sunday Telegraph, has for a considerable period of time served as intelligence asset of the British security services, which paid him large sums of money into foreign bank accounts for the services he rendered under the guise of a journalist and editor; considers that his actions constitute not only a fraud upon his readership but a danger to genuine journalists, especially those working abroad; and calls upon Mr Lawson to resign his editorial position, failing which it calls upon his proprietor Mr Conrad Black to dismiss him forthwith.
(EDM 142: tabled on 16 December 1998, emphasis added.)
1999: Rosa Monckton, Dominic Lawson, and their daughters stay at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence
In 1995, Monckton’s and Lawson’s second daughter Domenica was born with Down syndrome. Princess Diana was her godmother.
While the family was navigating the challenges of raising a child with special needs, Epstein provided a strategic escape, he offered the use of his Palm Beach residence. In January 1999, they took Epstein up on his offer. Note that shortly before their visit, Epstein traveled to his newly acquired island with Prince Andrew.
In 2003, Vanity Fair journalist Vicki Ward interviewed Monckton about her friendship with Epstein. Monckton was heavily quoted in Ward’s article The Talented Mr. Epstein—a publicity piece for Epstein who was relatively unknown at the time.
2000-2001: Maxwell and Epstein rape 16-year-old Virginia Roberts and use her to blackmail Prince Andrew
In 2000, then 16-year-old Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre), was working as a locker-room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. That’s when Ghislaine Maxwell began grooming her into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. In 2001, Epstein and Maxwell sex trafficked Virginia Giuffre to Prince Andrew. Giuffre discusses these incidents in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl.
On June 28, 2002, Maxwell sent a package to Rosa Monckton, who was then working at Asprey & Garrard, Ltd. Months prior, Monckton had stepped down as the company’s CEO to become as what her husband’s newspaper describe as a “non-executive” chairperson. Lawson picked up the FedEx.
Maxwell sent a two pound package to Monckton’s at Cox’s Mill in Dallington. Monckton and Lawson use the address for professional correspondence.
Around the time Maxwell sent the 2002 package, it was publicly announced that billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr., was going to acquire a 40 percent interest in Asprey. Prior to that Bronfman was the CEO of The Seagram Company Ltd., (VO) which he sold to Vivendi (Vivendi SE). Epstein had many communications with Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his son William Bronfman.
2015: Prince Andrew is Exposed for raping Viriginia Roberts (Giuffre)
On 12/30/2014, Giuffre as Jane Doe 3, filed a sealed motion to join a lawsuit that Epstein’s victims had filed against the United States Government for violating their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) by giving Epstein a “sweetheart deal.”
Giuffre had alleged—under seal—Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was a minor at Maxwell’s flat in London, Epstein’s townhouse in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin islands. Giuffre alleged the third time on the island was an orgy that included numerous other “under-aged girls.” Epstein had demanded that Giuffre give Prince Andrew whatever he demanded.
Days after the sealed allegations were filed, Buckingham Palace publicly denied that Prince Andrew had sexually abused the “unnamed alleged victim” in court filings.
Prince Andrew “categorically denied” the unnamed alleged victim’s allegations.
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said:
“This relates to long-running and ongoing civil proceedings in the U.S. to which the Duke of York is not a party. As such we would not comment on the detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”
At that time, Virginia Robert’s was not known to be Jane Doe 3. London Daily Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner, had acknowledged in his article “Prince Andrew denies claims in sex lawsuit” that the allegations were from an “unknown victim.”
Interestingly, at the end of Rayner’s article he mentioned Virginia Roberts as one of the 40 women who were abused by Epstein.
Obviously, someone had leaked Virginia Robert’s name to London Daily Telegraph.
The next day, Sunday Independent published an article by Robert Mendick with the infamous photo of Virginia Roberts standing next to Prince Andrew at Maxwell’s flat in London.
Daily Mail wrote “Andrew will NEVER return to royal fold after ‘underage orgy’ claims.
Dominic Lawson writes an article quick to defend Prince Andrew, puts Epstein on a pedestal, shames Virignia Roberts
On March 13, 2011, someone emailed Epstein an article in The Times written by Dominic Lawson who publicly defended Prince Andrew while minimizing Epstein’s crimes. The day before the article was published, Epstein had instructed this unknown person to pull up articles from Dominic Lawson and Kate Mansey of The Times. The U.S. Department of Justice redacted Kate Mansey’s name from the email below for unknown reasons.
In the article: “Dominic Lawson: I stayed at Epstein’s so don’t hound Andrew,” Lawson claimed that Prince Andrew should not be considered guilty merely by his association with Epstein.
Lawson wrote:
“Guilt by association is a conveniently elastic property for the press, when it is engaged in a manhunt. In this case the man is Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and he has been associating with a sex offender named Jeffrey Epstein.”
Lawson admitted that he too had stayed at Epstein’s:
I suppose, before I am outed by the Mirror as a paedophile at one remove, I had better confess all. In January 1999 we enjoyed a brief family holiday at Epstein’s now notorious Florida home. My wife had known Epstein since the mid-1980s; when she told him in the winter of 1998 that our younger child had been most unwell for a long period, he said that what she needed was some sunshine and insisted we stay at his Palm Beach home.
The place was empty, apart from us and the housekeeper; but, yes, I did notice a photograph in it of Epstein and his then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell with Prince Andrew. This, of course, was before Andrew took on the job of being Britain’s “special trade representative” — and long before the world knew of Epstein’s involvement with teenage girls (not the same thing as “paedophilia”, by the way, since none of the girls was pre-pubescent, but undeniably both sordid and exploitative).
Lawson went on to write about Epstein’s educational background in “physics and calculus” and career as a “financial trader and adviser.” And although Epstein had previously been convicted of soliciting prostitution with a minor, Lawson praised Epstein in the article:
As a billionaire he retained a consuming fascination with science, being a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a visiting fellow at Harvard: his biggest charitable donations are in the fields of particle physics and artificial intelligence.
On the one occasion I had a conversation with him, it was about the development of chess computers and how they could be made to simulate human methods of calculation; it soon became embarrassingly clear that I could not grasp a fraction of what he understood. As I said, it was impossible to see what he had in common, intellectually at least, with the Duke of York. On the other hand, the notionally republican Americans have a perennial obsession with the British royal family — the impending wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton seems almost bigger news there than here — and I suspect Epstein, an avid collector of objects and people, wanted to add a part of the House of Windsor to his fabulously expensive portfolio of exotica.
In the background, Epstein was e-mailing Lawson and establishing a backchannel with Lawson through his wife Rosa Monckton. Newly released emails from the U.S. Department of Justice demonstrate this.
On March 14, 2011, Epstein instructed Maxwell to ask Lawson if he would speak off the record.
Maxwell responded, by instructing Epstein to call Rosa Monckton because Maxwell thought Epstein would be more likely to get what he wanted that way.
On March 15, 2011 Dominic Lawson wrote to Epstein “Will be on my mobile from now until Thursday night . . .”
Dominic Lawson and Epstein continued to correspondent with each other during the summer of 2011. Epstein emailed Lawson a copy of Virginia Robert’s criminal records.
Epstein and Lawson discussed the sexual abuse allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn aka DSK, who had just stepped down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
Epstein likened sexual abuse victims to “unpunished accusers.”
Lawson responded by explaining a story he had heard about the allegations against DSK. Someone close to DSK told Lawson that DSK had “ordered a girl from an escort agency and then the chambermaid came in at the same time the escort was due, and there was a . . . . misunderstanding . . . Anyway it looks as if she’s the one who’s going to get put away.”
2019: Epstein allegedly kills himself in jail. Dominic Lawson does another drive by on Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Lawson continues defending Prince Andrew and now Alan Dershowitz
In 2019, Epstein was arrested on new charges of child sex trafficking. In August 2019, while in jail awaiting trial, Epstein purportedly hanged himself. In November 2019, Dominic Lawson published another article, this time in The Daily Mail defending Prince Andrew—again.
In Lawson’s article self-titled article, DOMINIC LAWSON: I believe Prince Andrew. But his honesty doesn’t excuse a naive royal arrogance, Lawson defending Prince Andrew while omitting and misstating critical facts about Virignia Giuffre’s allegations against the Duke of York.
Lawson falsely wrote:
I am not claiming Ms Giuffre is lying about the way she was sexually used by Epstein himself. But when she gave the photograph of herself posing with Prince Andrew to the Mail on Sunday in 2011, she made no claim of having been sexually trafficked to the (now) eighth in line to the British throne.
She advanced that assertion only four years later — along with a claim that she had been similarly trafficked to Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, now 81.
Essentially, Lawson was obviously implying that Giuffre’s allegations against Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz were not credible because she did not reveal the details until sometime around 2016. But regardless, Lawson’s statements are false. In 2010, Giuffre had filed sealed allegations in a federal lawsuit, alleging that Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz. Prior to filing the allegations, Virignia Roberts had reported the incidents to the FBI.
In the article, Lawson likened Giuffre to “a kind of in-house prostitute.” Giuffre committed suicide in 2025.
