PRINCE Andrew has come under renewed pressure to be interviewed by the FBI after a new book exposes the extent of his former friend Jeffrey Esptein’s child abuse.

Wealthy paedophile Epstein hanged himself in prison last year while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking but his victims are demanding the Duke of York answer questions about what he new.

4 Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured together in New York Credit: Jae Donnelly

4 The Prince with Virginia Roberts, centre, and Ghislaine Maxwell Credit: Rex Features

A new book by a lawyer for one of them, Brad Edwards, has now revealed the extent of Epstein’s abuse, based on his years of investigating the disgraced financier’s sex cult.

Virginia Roberts, 36, who now uses her married name Guiffre, spent three years as a sex slave of Epstein and claims she was forced to sleep with Prince Andrew on three occasions.

The Prince has strenuously denied the allegation and told the BBC’s Emily Maitlis in an interview last year that he had never met Ms. Roberts.

In his book “Relentless Pursuit”, Edwards claimed Ms Roberts was asked to carry Epstein’s baby with intention of handing the new born child over to him.

The book also reveals:

Andrew may have stayed at Epstein’s New York mansion at the same time as a woman who became the billionaire’s "chief recruiter" of girls

Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were dubbed "Bonnie and Clyde" by victims

Epstein was abusing three girls a day at one point and he would visibly shake with sexual desire

Edwards says of Epstein: “He was an intellectually gifted sociopath with unlimited wealth who lived a virtually unconstrained life.

“The rules he – and those in his fold – lived by were his own. The problem was that his rules didn’t account for laws.

“Epstein had amassed extensive political and worldly connections. For decades, he used his tremendous fortune to sexually exploit women and girls, some as young as 14.”

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The book claims Ghislaine Maxwell was a pivotal figure in Epstein’s abuse for more than a decade, allegedly helping him recruit and groom underage girls.

The whereabouts of the 58-year-old socialite, who was one of Prince Andrew’s closest friends, remain a mystery.

Andrew invited Epstein and Maxwell to Windsor Castle to help celebrate his daughter Beatrice’s 18th birthday in 2006.

A year earlier, police in Florida discovered that Epstein was abusing three girls a day at his property in Palm Beach and had identified 23 underage victims.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein and what was he accused of? Jeffrey Epstein was a US financier who was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008. He was arrested on July 6, 2019 for sex trafficking minors in Florida and New York. Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019 on sex trafficking charges. Court documents allege that at least 40 underage girls were brought to Epstein’s mansion for sexual encounters. He was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. FBI agents are also said to have broken down the door to his Manhattan townhouse. He pleaded not guilty to child sex trafficking charges in New York and could have faced 45 years in prison if found guilty. On July 18, a federal judge said that the disgraced financier presented a "danger to the community" and must stay in one of New York's toughest prisons while he awaited trial over the sex trafficking accusations. The shamed financier was locked up amid fears he would flee the country.

According to the book, Maxwell kept the names of girls who were being abused by Epstein on her computer and the pair where known as “Bonnie and Clyde” by victims.

Maxwell allegedly groomed Epstein’s first underage victim in 1994, when she approached a 13-year-old girl - who was later molested and raped by Epstein - outside a summer camp in the US.

“Epstein had an unquenchable appetite for young girls, and Ghislaine had a knack for finding them,” writes Mr Edwards.

He also alleges that the Prince may have stayed at Epstein’s New York mansion at the same time as a woman who became the billionaire’s "chief recruiter" of girls, a twenty-something Russian-born woman.

It’s claimed she was pictured leaving Epstein’s mansion during Andrew’s stay in December 2010.

Mr Edwards has now repeated his calls for the Prince to collaborate with the US authorities.

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Another lawyer representing US victims, Gloria Allred, added: “Unless he agrees to speak to the FBI and provides truthful answers to their questions, the victims and law enforcement will continue to pursue him.

“I can assure him that no amount of legal armour or Palace guards will shield him from his attempts to thwart justice and the truth.’

Prince Andrew has been approached for comment.