'It was an extortion plot': Epstein wanted to blackmail Queen via Prince Andrew, says Sarah Ferguson's ex-lover

'It was an extortion plot': Epstein wanted to blackmail Queen via Prince Andrew, says Sarah Ferguson's ex-lover
Jeffrey Epstei wanted to blackmail the Queen but Prince Andrew never gave him the ammunition to do so (Christopher Furlong - WPA Pool/Getty Images, Florida Department of Law Enforcement via Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: John Bryan, a US businessman and former lover of Sarah Ferguson, made a startling claim on the controversies surrounding Jeffrey Epstein that involved Prince Andrew in his very first candid interview. During the conversation, Bryan was questioned about Andrew's interactions with pedophile Epstein and the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Bryan, who was in a four-year relationship with Fergie in the 1990s, was exposed in a royal scandal when he was photographed in 1992 sucking her toes after she split up with Andrew. Years later, he claims that he was secretly invited to join Prince Andrew for crisis discussions. Bryan feels Epstein built his livelihood by using extortion to force wealthy men to pay him money in return for his confidentiality over their illicit behavior. He claims that blackmailing of the Queen was the pedophile's "ultimate" goal. The Daily Mail quoted Bryan as saying, "It was just an extortion plot."