About this episode

Andrew Lownie discusses his new book and the connections between Epstein, Russian intelligence, and historical events.

Andrew Lownie sat across from me in shorts on Monday afternoon. The paperback of The Rise and Fall of the House of York drops Thursday in the States — the book Simon & Schuster pulled to delete a single line was published as a paperback in Britain and is tracking for number one. Next, American readers get the book on Thursday. Lownie referenced an FBI intelligence document dated January 2026, headed RIS and the People’s Republic of China. The subject is Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The links being mapped: Russian criminal gangs, Russian intelligence services, Chinese state intelligence. Andrew served at the Ministry of Defence. He was a trade envoy. He collected secrets in both roles. Lownie writes about that document in the new paperback. “In some ways Epstein was a player in a bigger story,” he said. He thinks Epstein was a Russian asset recruited much earlier than people realized. That, he said, explains where the money came from. I pushed him on the timeline. I told him what Stephen Hoffenberg told me before he died — that Epstein and Maxwell knew each other in the 1980s, that Epstein was working with Maxwell on his financial issues in the dying days of Maxwell’s life. I told…

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Host: Zev Shalev

Guest: Andrew Lownie

Topics covered

• true crime
• intelligence
• historical analysis
• Epstein
• Russian assets
• political connections

Keywords

• Andrew Lownie
• Epstein
• Russian intelligence
• FBI document
• House of York
• political intrigue
• historical connections

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Simon & Schuster, FBI, Military Intelligence Directorate, People’s Republic of China, Russian intelligence services, Russian criminal gangs

Books & works: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

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