DOJ demands Prince Andrew be made available for questioning about his links to Jeffrey Epstein

Prince Andrew will launch an extraordinary public fight back today after US authorities made a formal request for him to be quizzed over the Epstein affair. Scroll down for video The Duke of York, 60, had previously refused to be questioned by prosecutors in New York, in relation to their investigation into Epstein’s historic sex trafficking network Prince Andrew has previously admitted to becoming friends with Jeffrey Epstein in 1999, after being introduced to the financier through Ghislaine Maxwell However, the Mail understands that the prince will make his own dramatic move Monday by hitting back forcefully at claims he has failed to engage with the American investigation. Prince Andrew announced he’d be stepping back from public life after a disastrous interview with the BBC in November, regarding the decades-long friendship he shared with Epstein The disgraced financier killed himself last August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, but his victims want justice against his alleged conspirators, including British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 58 – the daughter of shamed media tycoon Robert Maxwell. Giuffre also alleges that Epstein paid her to have sex with Andrew at Epstein’s New York mansion, and claims to have had sex with Prince Andrew and eight other girls on Epstein's private island Andrew vehemently denies the allegations made by Roberts, insisting he has no recollection of ever meeting her Prince Andrew announced he’d be stepping back from public life after the disastrous interview with BBC's Newsnight in November, regarding the decades-long friendship he shared with Epstein. He was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell last year while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges Epstein and Andrew were believed to have met on at least 10 other occasions, with the Duke of York even staying over at Epstein’s mansion in New York, at his Palm Beach home and on his private island in the US Virgin Islands.