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The FBI’s 2,000-page ­dossier on Prince Andrew’s paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein includes details of 301 British associates from the pervert’s address book.

FBI agents raided Epstein’s private US Virgin Island, dubbed “paedophile island”, yesterday as the sex-trafficking probe continued, despite his apparent suicide, aged 66, on Saturday.

US officials have also vowed to carry on probing Epstein’s ties to the UK amid fears about his offending overseas.

And MPs are calling for an investigation into the Duke of York’s relationship with Epstein.

Virginia Giuffre claims she was a victim of sex trafficking by Epstein and “loaned” to Prince Andrew for sex three times, which he vehemently denies.

Labour MP Jess Phillips, who sits on the Women and Equalities Committee, said: “I think that, of course, the case must be properly investigated.”

She said it was especially important as Prince Andrew, 59, “still appears to have some role as an envoy for the UK government”. He stood down as a trade envoy in 2011 amid criticism of his links with Epstein.

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Ms Phillips added: “No one is assuming guilt, but the Epstein case and evidence does mean that we have a duty to undertake a proper investigation.

“We are talking about the trafficking of children, this is very serious and authorities should learn from the past in ignoring such allegations.”

Labour backbencher and committed Republican Emma Dent Coad said: “Nobody should be above the law and if there is a case to answer then whoever it is should answer it.”

Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle said the prince had questions to answer. He said: “He has been accused by a credible witness of keeping her as a sex slave when she was a child.

“He is allegedly among many alleged co-conspirators in a child trafficking operation led by Epstein.

It was likely that Epstein would have clarified who else was involved and now his victims will never know.

“Prince Andrew must give a full account of his relationship with Epstein and answer accusations levelled against him.”

US investigators who looked at Epstein’s “little black book” found almost half of it read like a who’s who of British society.

His 301 British contacts had more than 1,000 numbers and dozens of email addresses between them.

There is no suggestion the presence of their names in the book means any are accused of any wrongdoing or even met Epstein in person.

The contacts included celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Simon Le Bon, the late Sir David Frost, Richard Branson, Naomi Campbell, Tamara Beckwith, Jonathan Dimbleby, Loyd Grossman and numerous lords and ladies.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is recorded once, while his former cabinet minister Lord Peter Mandelson has 10 numbers, including one marked “direct line” one for “home” and another for “country home”.

There are 16 numbers for Prince Andrew, including a mobile number, one marked “Palace ex-directory”, one for Balmoral, the Queen’s Scottish residence, where the Prince invited Epstein, and one marked “Sand”, for Sandringham, another royal retreat where he spent time.

Epstein also recorded 18 numbers for Prince Andrew’s former wife Sarah Ferguson, who took £15,000 off the paedophile to help pay off her debts.

Federal prosecutors and FBI agents who built the case against Epstein have turned their attention to people his accusers claim were involved in his scheme to sexually exploit dozens of underage girls.

It includes a circle of associates who victims claim helped recruit, train and coerce them.

One document is said to describe in detail the “damning things” Epstein’s inner circle did as he abused more than 100 girls from across the world.

A source said: “The document entails everybody in the Epstein case. It has some damning things, including about a number of Brits.”

The ex-Wall Street financier flew “sex slave” Giuffre, formerly known as Roberts, to London in 2001, when she was just 17.

While in the capital, she was pictured with the then 41-year-old Prince Andrew inside the home of British socialite ­Ghislaine Maxwell.

Giuffre claims she was “lent out” to the prince for sex in London and on two other occasions. Buckingham Palace has issued an “emphatic” denial, saying: “Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.

“It is emphatically denied that the Duke had any form of sexual contact or relationship with [then] Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”

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US Attorney General William Barr said yesterday that there were “serious irregularities” at the federal prison in New York City where Epstein died.

And he vowed that the investigation into Epstein’s sex crimes would continue. Barr, the top US law enforcement official, said: “Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.”

His comments came in a speech to the Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police’s National Biennial Conference.

Barr said the criminal case against Epstein was personally important to him. He said the financier’s death had denied victims the chance to confront Epstein in a courtroom.

Barr said: “I was appalled – and indeed the whole department was – and frankly angry to learn of the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s failure to adequately secure this prisoner.

“We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a ­thorough investigation.”

The decision by officials at the Bureau of Prisons not to keep Epstein on suicide watch even after he was found semi-conscious with neck wounds in July has come under scrutiny.

The prison where Epstein died is run by the federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the US Justice Department.

Fergie feels heat for hubby Andrew meeting Epstein

By Rachael Bletchley

On an August morning in 1992 the Duchess of York joined the royals in the Balmoral breakfast room and realised her fairytale was over.

Lying on the sideboard were the morning papers, with photos of Sarah topless in St Tropez having her toes sucked by American financial adviser Johnny Bryan.

Sarah was booted out of The Firm and she and Prince Andrew divorced in 1996.

But Andy could never let her go.

Not when it emerged she’d had an affair with Texan financier Steve Wyatt while she was pregnant with their daughter Eugenie.

Nor when she was secretly filmed selling access to her ex-husband to a fake businessman for £500,000.

And 27 years after her toe-sucking shame, Sarah and Andrew have been “rekindling” their romance back at Balmoral on holiday with the Queen.

Until Sunday’s headlines about another wealthy American saw Fergie fleeing the royal fold in panic.

Because paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the pal who helped clear her debts, had killed himself – leaving secrets that could draw Andrew deeper into a sordid sex scandal involving teenage girls.

And while the royals are standing by Andrew, who categorically denies any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors, Fergie fears she will take more flack over Andrew’s friendship with the disgraced financier.

For it was Sarah who first introduced Andrew to “Good Time Ghislaine” Maxwell in the 1990s, before she introduced them to her lover Epstein.

Ghislaine became Andrew’s social fixer, his conduit into millionaire trans-Atlantic society.

They were spotted dining on lobster salad, drinking champagne cocktails at a stylish Madison Avenue restaurant in New York in 2000. This was just a brief glimpse of Andrew’s new US life in the fast lane, all private jets, racy nightclubs and first-class treatment.

When the Yorks divorced, Fergie’s profligate spending saw her rack up £5million in debts.

In 2011, three years after Epstein was convicted of soliciting underage girls for prostitution, Sarah revealed he’d paid £15,000 to a personal assistant she owed.

She said “I deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf.”

Her father-in-law, Prince Philip, believes Andrew’s relationship with Fergie was a gigantic error of judgment too.

He has refused to have any dealings with her since the Bryan scandal and, sources say, he thinks Andrew has been “taken for a fool” over her “American liaisons”.

He is said to have arrived at Balmoral “in a foul mood” shortly after Fergie fled.

A source said: “The Queen insisted Andrew join her in her car to church on Sunday, in a public display of support.

“The Royal Family are all supporting him. But they must be bracing themselves for the next spate of headlines from America.”