Email from 'Balmoral' asks Ghislaine Maxwell for 'inappropriate new friends'

The messages, released in the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents by US Department of Justice, were sent in August 2001 from an email account identified as “The Invisible Man" and signed off as “Axxx”.

The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the financier and convicted sex offender.

The email to Maxwell, the convicted associate of Epstein, read: “I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family. Activities take place all day and I am totally exhausted at the end of each day. The Girls are completely shattered and I will have to give them an early night today as it is getting tiring splitting them up all the time.

It added: “How’s LA? Have you found me some new inappropriate friends? Let me know when you are coming over as I am free from 25th August until 2nd Sept and want to go somewhere hot and sunny with some fun people before having to put my nose firmly to the grindstone for the Fall.

“Any ideas gratefully received! See ya A xxx”.

Another message in the conversation sent from the Royal estate in Aberdeenshire, later saw “A” tell Maxwell they were “distraught” that she could only find them “appropriate friends”.

The messages also included details of the person having lost a close member of staff.

The email said: “You probably wouldn’t know but I lost my valet on Thursday. He died in his sleep. He had been with me since I was two.

“I am a little off balance as not only has my office been restructured, I have left the RN and now my whole life is in turmoil as I have no one to look after me.

“He was a real rock and almost a part of the family.”

There has not been any verification of the sender of the email.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his Royal titles in October amid the continued public outcry over his connections with Epstein and sexual assault claims, which he denies.

At the weekend, a photo was released that appeared to show Epstein and Maxwell posing on the grounds of Balmoral Castle with someone who may have been a gamekeeper.

The latest tranche of documents also accuses Donald Trump of travelling "on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported".

An email says Trump "is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present".

The US Department of Justice said some of the content of the newly public documents, which had been mandated to be released in their entirety by Friday, but have been released gradually, were “untrue and sensationalist”.

It said: “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.

“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already. Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.”

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence in the US after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors for Epstein.

Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide.