🗞️ Story file #85
Former Prince Andrew files legal action against police over Epstein-related arrest
Oct 5, 7 AM ET to Oct 6, 5 PM ET
- 18outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 6 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 1.4 dayson the front pages
- 18front pages at once, at its peak
- 26 minof TV captions
- 16people retold it online
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 5, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Oct 5, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 5, 5 PM ETpeak: on 18 front pages
- Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 16 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 3 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune, NPR, PBS NewsHour)
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 andrew files 🫏 quash warrants
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Ex Prince Andrew takes cops to court over Epstein files arrest: report” → “Ex-Prince Andrew takes legal action against police over birthday arrest”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Andrew Challenges Arrest Over Epstein Documents” → “Andrew Challenges Arrest Over Epstein Docs”
- Reuters (3 wordings): “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes police to court over Epstein files arrest - reuters.com” → “Ex-prince Andrew takes police to court over search warrants linked to Epstein”
Every outlet's first headline (18), left to right by AllSides rating
The Daily Beast
Disgraced Ex-Prince Andrew Fights Police Raids After Arrest Oct 5, 1 PM ET
The Guardian
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor launches legal action against police over Epstein raids Oct 5, 7 AM ET- AP Former Prince Andrew files a legal action to quash warrants that led to searches of his residences Oct 5, 11 AM ET
CBS News
Ex-Prince Andrew challenges validity of Epstein-related search warrants Oct 5, 12 PM ET
NPR
Former Prince Andrew files legal action to quash warrants that led to residence searches Oct 5, 7 AM ET
PBS NewsHour
Former Prince Andrew files legal action challenging warrants that led to searches of his homes Oct 5, 1 PM ET
The Independent
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor taking legal action against police over his arrest Oct 5, 8 AM ET
USA Today
Police raided ex-Prince Andrew's home. Now he's suing. Oct 5, 9 AM ET
BBC
Andrew takes legal action over search warrants before his arrest Oct 5, 7 AM ET
Chicago Tribune
Former Prince Andrew files a legal action to quash warrants that led to searches of his residence Oct 5, 8 AM ET
News Nation
Former Prince Andrew sues police over Epstein-related arrest: Reports Oct 5, 1 AM ET
Newsweek
Ex-Prince Andrew Launches Legal Challenge Over Epstein Files Case Oct 5, 7 AM ET
Reuters
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes police to court over Epstein files arrest - reuters.com Oct 5, 7 AM ET
The Hill
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sues police over Epstein-related arrest Oct 5, 9 AM ET
Fox News
Former Prince Andrew fights back against police after raids on royal homes Oct 5, 4 PM ET
IJR
Mountbatten-Windsor Challenges Epstein Probe Search Warrants Oct 5, 5 PM ET
New York Post
Ex Prince Andrew takes cops to court over Epstein files arrest: report Oct 5, 7 AM ET
Newsmax
Andrew Challenges Arrest Over Epstein Documents Oct 5, 7 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes police to court BBC News, 11 min
- Andrew takes police to court over his arrest BBC News, 5 min
- Andrew contesting legality of search warrants BBC News, 4 min
- FORMER PRINCE ANDREW TAKES LEGAL ACTION OVER EPSTEIN-RELATED ARREST CNN, 2 min
- ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR CHALLENGES UK POLICE OVER HIS ARREST AND SEARCH WARRANT IN EPSTEIN-TIED CASE CNN, 2 min
- King's money won't fund Andrew legal action BBC News, 73 s
- Police force taken to court over Andrew arrest BBC News, 62 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is challenging the legality of search warrants used to search his homes, alleging police misconduct. Oct 6: told by 16 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Prince Andrew Jeffrey Epstein
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 ex-prince andrew warrants
Former Prince Andrew files legal action against police over Epstein-related arrest (this story)
Oct 5, 7 AM ET
Court rules search warrants in Ex-Prince Andrew case were unlawful
Oct 8, 11 AM ET