Duke of York named in court documents relating to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Newly released documents relating to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein include evidence given by a woman who claims Prince Andrew touched her breast, it has been revealed.

The documents, which name more than 170 of Epstein's associates, friends or victims, were made public on Wednesday evening (January 3). In one, a woman named Johanna Sjoberg claimed Prince Andrew touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside the US billionaire’s Manhattan apartment in 2001, while giving testimony in May 2016.

The evidence formed part of a 2015 US defamation case by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced British socialite who supplied Epstein with underage girls. Buckingham Palace previously said the allegations are 'categorically untrue'.

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US Judge Loretta Preska ruled last month that the documents should be made public. One site where the documents were being released on Wednesday evening crashed within minutes, warning that the server might be overloaded.

An email sent from Epstein to Maxwell, which was released as part of the tranche of documents, appeared to show the financier ask her to “issue a reward” to any of Ms Giuffre’s friends who “come forward and help prove her allegations are false”.

Among the allegations listed by Epstein in the email were a “Clinton dinner” and claims described as “the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy”.

In Ms Sjoberg’s interview under oath, which is called a deposition in the US, she also said Epstein had told her former President Bill Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls”.

In other documents, Maxwell could be seen sending