PRINCE Andrew had 13 different phone numbers to keep in contact with paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein, an investigator claims.

The embattled Duke of York has faced continued scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein, who hanged himself while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.

4 Prince Andrew, pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, also partied with him in Florida in 2000 Credit: Jae Donnelly

Now an investigator claims Prince Andrew met the billionaire paedo at least ten times over their ten-year friendship.

Mike Fisten, a former police detective sergeant in Florida, also says he discovered an address book at Epstein's Palm Beach home that was a “a treasure trove of Jeffrey’s activities”.

He told The Sunday Times: "It really took us out of south Florida and took us around the globe . . . for instance, if looking at the section in London, you could pick out the Duke of York, which is Prince Andrew.

"And when you look at that, under Duke of York, it shows Buckingham Palace, London. He has 13 phone numbers to contact the duke.”

ROYAL SEX CLAIMS

Fisten's claims will be explored in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme, due to be broadcast tomorrow, that sheds more light on Epstein and Andrews friendship.

There have been a long string of allegations made against Andrew since Epstein's death.

The financier's alleged sex slave Virginia Roberts claims she had sex with the prince aged 17 - which he strongly denies.

Ms Roberts, 36, who now uses the surname Giuffre, had her claims against the royal thrown out by a judge who deemed them “immaterial” to her defamation case against "madam" Ghislaine Maxwell.

Dispatches reveals Ms Roberts was allegedly taken to a hospital in New York suffering from intimate bleeding, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and "sharp, low abdominal pain”.

Medical records seen by the newspaper show she checked in on July 9 - three months after she claims she had sex with Andrew on Epstein's "paedo island".

'SERIAL PAEDOPHILE'

Andrew was infamously pictured with his arm around Ms Roberts at Ms Maxwell's home in London in 2001.

Fisten said: "Ghislaine Maxwell was Jeffrey’s pimp. Everything I’ve found that Virginia Roberts has said to us has been totally credible.”

He was hired by Epstein's victims to investigate the tycoon and spent more than a decade discovering the number of girls he attacked climbed from two to at least 35.

The investigator claims the girls would have to wash their clothes in the sink and "barely had enough food to eat" as Epstein wanted his victims "more in need".

He explained: "I knew at that point that not only did we have a predator, a paedophile, but we had a serial paedophile.

"When you talk to these girls . . . your heart had to pour out to them because they were so vulnerable."

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The Duke was last pictured with Epstein in New York in 2010 after the hedge fund manager had been released from prison and was a registered sex offender.

Prince Andrew released a statement condemning his former pal and said he never took part in, witnessed or even suspected any untoward behaviour.

Buckingham Palace said the Duke of York would help authorities in any investigations into the disgraced millionaire.

Fisten said: "When people tell me, ‘I didn’t know what Jeffrey was about’, I don’t want to say BS [bulls**t]. I’ll just say hogwash."

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At least five women who say they were abused by Epstein have filed lawsuits against his £458million estate after the paedo killed himself.

All said Epstein used a “vast enterprise” of associates to recruit them, subject them to unwanted sex acts and keep them under his control.

He was arrested on July 6 over claims he was involved in the sex-trafficking of dozens of girls as young as 14 from at least 2002 until 2005 but hanged himself a month later.

4 Prince Andrew with Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001 Credit: Collect

4 Epstein had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges and was being held without bail when he was found dead in his cell Credit: AP:Associated Press