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A glamorous French female art dealer who flew on the Lolita Express with Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could be a ‘key witness’ and help ‘vindicate’ the Duke of York, it was claimed today.
Alexia Wallaert, 51, is named 12 times on the flightlogs of Epstein’s private jets in just under two years – including on one trip to Florida with the Duke of York, according to legal documents made public in the US.
Speaking outside her luxury £500,000 central Paris apartment, Ms Wallaert, declined to say why she flew with Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew – as she was urged to speak to the police.
She said: ‘I am not going to discuss my friends.’
The daughter of a Parisian businessman flew on the £8million Boeing 727 nicknamed the Lolita Express with Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell between New York and Palm Beach on May 12 2000.
Ms Wallaert is also named on the passenger lists of 11 other flights between 2000 and 2002, when she was aged around 30. Four of those were on the Lolita Express, the rest were on one of Epstein’s smaller jets including two flights from the US Virgin Islands.
Mark Stephens, one of Britain’s leading constitutional lawyers who has spoken widely on Prince Andrew’s links to Epstein, has said that it may be in the Duke of York’s interests for Ms Wallaert to speak to police.
He said: ‘She could be the key witness that vindicates Prince Andrew. She might have the evidence that might finally put him in the clear’.
Parisian Alexia Wallaert, who was named on the flightlogs as being on the Lolita Express with Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Ms Wallaert declined to comment on why she would be named in the documents or travel on Epstein’s private jet
Ms Wallaert has enjoyed success in the world of art, working in New York and her native Paris
Prince Andrew, pictured today, flew with Alexia in 2000, court documents show. Experts have said that she might be able to help him
The Duke of York, pictured here with Virginia Giuffre (centre) and Ghislaine Maxwell (right), has always denied wrongdoing in his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
This is the flightlog from May 12, 2000, where Alexia Wallaert is named on the flight log of the Lolita Express travelling with Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Alexia is also named in Epstein’s ‘little black book’ of friends and contacts
The Boeing 727 – nicknamed the Lolita Express – hasn’t flown since 2016. Epstein is pictured on the jet getting a foot massage from Ghislaine Maxwell with French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel killed himself before he could be put on trial for sex offences
This is Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ – a private Boeing 727 airliner that carried prominent passengers and allegedly underage girls
It is not known if Ms Wallaert has ever spoken to the authorities.
Mr Stephens said: ‘I think the number of occasions that she flew on Epstein’s private jets means that this is someone that police would want to track down and take evidence from. She may have seen things’. He added: ‘Police have interviewed Epstein’s flight crew. It stands to reason that they would want to interview her’.
Her father, Patrick Wallaert, was a respected oil industry engineer who became president of the Paris Country Club and was awarded France’s highest accolade, the Légion d’Honneur. His death, aged 82, in 2019, was marked in Gallic national newspapers.
Norman Baker, a former MP and expert on the Duke of York and the Epstein scandal, said today that Alexia could hold key information about Andrew’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.
The Boeing 727 that became as the ‘Lolita Express’ for its role in ferrying young women between Epstein’s homes. But friends and associates including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were also welcomed on board.
Mr Baker said: ‘This woman has not been named before in the media and needs to be spoken to by the authorities to find out what she was doing on that plane, what if anything she knew about Andrew and Epstein and their relationship. Did she see anything?’
A source close to Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times as a teenager, told MailOnline: ‘The only information we have on Alexia Wallaert is that she was on the flightlogs and was in Epstein’s black [contacts] book’.
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a member of the legal defense team for the first criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein, said that he wasn’t ‘familiar’ with her name or any connection she might have had to Epstein.
One flightlog record for May 12, 2000, names Alexia Wallaert as being on board the Lolita Express as it flew between New York and Palm Beach with Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell.
A bodyguard, likely to be the Duke of York’s royal protection officer, a British actress and two unnamed men were also on the luxury jet heading to Florida, the document seen by MailOnline shows.
According to the court documents, other passengers Alexia shared the so-called ‘Lolita Express’ with included Jean-Luc Brunel, a French former model scout who was later charged with grooming young girls and trafficking them to Epstein. He killed himself before trial for rape and suspected of trafficking underage girls.
The flightlogs are among files related to a 2015 US defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre claimed Prince Andrew knew Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were trafficking children for sex.
Ms Wallaert is also named on page 81 of Epstein’s ‘little black book’ of contacts, which contained the names, addresses and phone numbers of 1,700 friends and associates including Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Tony Blair, Bill Cosby, Henry Kissinger and John Kerry and Woody Allen.
Former US President Bill Clinton, pictured smiling while boarding Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private jet along with Ghislaine Maxwell
The plane’s rear bedroom cabin with double bed
The front cabin of the ‘Lolita Express’ has a circular seating area
There are numerous unsettling nods to the plane’s notorious former occupant Epstein, including mirrored walls
Alexia, now 51, was the daughter of Paris businessman Patrick Wallaert who was co-president of the Paris Country Club, where Epstein and his friends had spent time when in the French capital. Epstein had a home in the city.
Her father was boss of the Albatross business group, which ran five golf courses in France. He died in 2019, aged 82.
According to Epstein’s black book, the family had homes in Paris, Cannes and Italy. She is now married having returned to Paris around 19 years ago.
Born in Paris in 1973 into a prosperous family, Ms Wallaert gained a degree in Architecture and History of Art at France’s prestigious Sorbonne University in 1995.
Ms Wallaert continued her studies in New York City, where she gained a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art, the following year.
She worked across the art world, coordinating exhibitions for the Cartier Foundation before moving to the Modern Art department of the Pompidou Centre, in Paris.
The French woman moved to New York City in 2001 where she worked as an Art Advisor and Investor, before returning to Paris in 2004.
In 2012 she became a director of the Yellowkorner private art photography gallery in Paris. Last year she set up her own art dealership company.
Epstein’s jet was nicknamed the ‘Lolita Express’ because the paedophile used it to shuttle victims to his homes in New York, Florida and the US Virgin Islands.
Epstein was arrested on July 6 2019 in New Jersey after his private jet landed on a flight from Paris, where he had a residence on Avenue Foch, one of the French capital’s most exclusive addresses. He killed himself before trial.
Epstein owned an apartment in Paris is on the famed Avenue Foch (pictured)
Epstein owned four jets and an executive helicopter, which were used to whisk under-age girls to his various lavish homes, where they were sexually abused.
The pride of his £62million fleet was an £8million Boeing 727, which was dubbed ‘The Lolita Express’ – though the nickname was also used to describe the smaller Gulfstream jets that were also used to traffic underage girls.
In November 2019, during his BBC Newsnight interview, Prince Andrew admitted that he had flown on Epstein’s ‘private plane’ but did not specify which one or how many times. A Daily Mail investigation later discovered it was at least four times.
From the moment the aircraft reached its cruising altitude at 41,000ft, there was no request the ever-smiling crew would not seek to fulfil. Guests were offered dishes including Wagyu beef steak and caviar blinis washed down with vintage Cristal champagne.
But the plane had a darker side, with alleged victims claiming Epstein and Maxwell used it to fly them around the world to be abused.
Many went to his home on Little St James, later given the grim moniker ‘paedo island’.
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