The Backstory: The Sex Scandal That Foreshadowed the Epstein Case
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Jeffrey Epstein’s files have upended peoples’ lives and resulted in the first arrest of a royal family member in 400 years. But the beginning of the end for these big shots actually took place over 60 years ago during an earth shattering sex scandal in London.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, this has been a crazy week. We've seen the release of more of the files of the late millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, putting the white-hot spotlight on powerful people in government and in Hollywood, and most notably the arrest of the former Prince Andrew, brother to King Charles, for his involvement with Epstein and some very young women. |
| 0:24.6 | But it's not the first time the Brits have seen their powerbroker stumble. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Patty Steele. |
| 0:33.2 | A 1963 incident with a 19-year-old girl and a powerful politician almost brought down the British government. |
| 0:34.4 | That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:41.9 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:49.6 | The backstory is back. Kind of a shocking moment, though I guess not unexpected, when former Prince Andrew was arrested this week on suspicion of misconduct in public office. That's a nice way to put it. |
| 0:56.9 | It was the first time a member of the royal family had been arrested since 1649 when King Charles I was |
| 1:04.2 | arrested and executed for treason. So Andrew, as we know, spent a lot of years palling around with the millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:13.9 | In addition to any illicit sexual activities, Andrew's arrest has him being investigated for maybe sharing confidential government info with Jeffrey. |
| 1:24.1 | And it gets stickier. |
| 1:25.6 | Because the Epstein files indicate that Jeffrey was secretly |
| 1:29.0 | working for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. So info that Andrew shared may have been passed along |
| 1:36.4 | to Israel. Wow, what a maze of intrigue, right? But like everything else that happens today, |
| 1:42.5 | there's at least one precedent. |
| 1:44.7 | Let's go back to the early 1960s, just before what was arguably the biggest sex scandal in modern British history came to light. |
| 1:53.5 | It began, as a whole lot of political disasters do, at a party. |
| 1:58.2 | It's July, 1961. |
| 2:05.8 | The party is at Clivden House, an estate built in 1666, by a duke for his mistress. By 1893, it had been sold to the Aster's American aristocrats. |
| 2:13.4 | It's quite a party, though, with just a handful of guests. Lord Astor invites Britain's secretary of state for war, John Profumo. |
| 2:21.4 | And also Dr. Stephen Ward, a fashionable, holistic doctor, |
| 2:25.6 | who also is a sort of social fixer-upper, comfortable in high society, |
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