Late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein appeared to confirm in newly released emails that the infamous photo of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor posing with his teenage sex accuser, Virginia Giuffre, was legit — despite the disgraced ex-prince repeatedly suggesting it was fake.

“Yes she was on my plane, and yes she had her picture taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have,” Epstein wrote on July 1, 2011, in an email to an unidentified reporter in which he trashed Giuffre’s credibility and urged them to look into the accuser’s backstory.

“[S]he also accused numerous people of having sex with her,” the disgraced financier raged, naming prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz and former Israeli Prime Minister Edhud Barak as among those victimized by her claims.

“[N]ot one newspaper had the balls to question her credibility,” the pervert continued.

When the reporter responded, “I might be interested in that story” and asked if the then-Duke or York’s camp would cooperate, Epstein responded, in part: “I have never misled you, this girl is a total liar, they [sic] authorities should check her Australian immigration form, you could talk to Dershowitz.

“I will ask if they will cooperate-Prince people,” he concluded.

Though the identify of Giuffre, who took her own life this past April, is redacted in the exchange, she had moved to Australia by the time Epstein sent the email and had claimed she was assaulted by Dershowitz and Barak — later dropping a defamation lawsuit against the former and acknowledging she may have been “mistaken” in accusing him.

The stash of 20,000 documents released Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee also includes an alarmed Andrew reaching out to Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, on March 4, 2011, after the Mail on Sunday newspaper reached out to Maxwell’s attorney ahead of publishing the notorious photo for the first time.

“What? I don’t know any of this,” said Andrew in reference to the claims in the Mail on Sunday story, including that Giuffre was told to have sex with the royal at Maxwell’s London home, Epstein’s New York townhouse, and his private Caribbean island, Little St. James.

“How are you responding?” Mountbatten-Windsor pressed.

“[J]ust got it two minutes ago,” answered Epstein, adding that the story was “so salacious and ridiculous, im [sic] not sure how to respond … the only person she [Giuffre] didn’t have sex with was Elvis.”

“Please make sure that every statement or legal letter states clearly that I am NOT involved and that I knew and know NOTHING about any of these allegations. I can’t take anymore of this my end.”

The 2001 photo captured a grinning Andrew with his arm wrapped around Giuffre’s waist as Maxwell, stood next to them beaming.

Andrew, who has long denied Giuffre’s allegations, repeatedly tried to sow doubt about the image’s authenticity.

“I have no recollection of that photograph ever having been taken,” a defiant Andrew said in a train-wreck 2019 BBC interview that led to him being booted from royal duties.

“It’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph,” continued the then-Duke, who also lied that he had cut off contact with Epstein in late 2010 — despite the March correspondence clearly showing otherwise.

“Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored.”

He later bizarrely reasoned that the snap, which Giuffre said was taken in Maxwell’s London mansion, couldn’t possibly be real — because he didn’t dole out hugs.

“I’m terribly sorry, but if I, as a member of the royal family, and I have a photograph taken — and I take very, very few photographs — I am not one to, um, as it were, hug,” he said.

“Public displays of affection are not something that, that I do. So. That’s the best explanation I can give you.”