Over the past few days we have witnessed the emerging of a royal scandal across the Pond involving Britain’s Prince “Randy Andy” Andrew, fifth in line to the British throne. Apparently the Prince was BFF’s with pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, and was fond of jetting to the Florida businessman’s private Caribbean island where he was “loaned” the services of an underage ‘sex slave.’

Andrew’s former wife Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, has defended the Prince, although it appears she also benefitted from association with Epstein:  he gave Fergie £15000 to pay off her debts in 2010. I guess it’s a less colorful alternate meaning of the term “friends with benefits.”

Now Australian Virginia Roberts, the woman who claims to have become Epstein’s sex slave when she was 17, has brought a lawsuit against Epstein. This is not Epstein’s first rodeo:  in 2008 he was arrested for soliciting underage prostitutes and served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in Florida.

Roberts’s attorneys allege that the financier trafficked minors to wealthy and powerful men to “ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information”. They provided the names of powerful Americans in the lawsuit, including Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and real estate magnate Donald Trump, who once said ‘I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”‘

And when there is an abundance of young women and sex to be obtained, can Bill Clinton be far behind?

Of course not.

The Daily Mail reports that Clinton has been named in the lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein, reporting that the womanizing former President took frequent trips to Epstein’s Caribbean hideaway. Even though he cut ties with Epstein after the latter’s arrest, Clinton maintained a friendship with a woman who collected sexually explicit photos of underage girls for Epstein’s perusal, and Clinton even invited her to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.  The Smoking Gun reports that Epstein’s private phone book contained various email addresses and 21. . . 21! phone numbers for Clinton. As one poster at Twitter put it, “Damn, that boy loves him some burner phones.”

That old horn dog must love him some cute new tricks, too.

So what does this mean for Hillary Clinton’s likely run for the Presidency in 2016?

The fact that Hillary lied about the 2012 Benghazi attacks should’ve been enough to kick her Presidential ambitions to the curb. But this says even more.

It says that Hillary maintains a sham marriage to a disgraceful man who chose to associate with a known pedophile. She has no respect for the dignity of marriage, for fidelity, or for honorable living. She used the ambitious Bill Clinton as a stepping stone into the rarefied air she now inhabits; had it not been for him she would’ve remained an unknown attorney in a run-of-the-mill law firm. She has become Bill’s Carmela Soprano, willing to overlook the adulterous behavior of her husband in exchange for the power and materialism he brings her way.

What difference does this make? A lot. A helluva lot. Hillary Clinton is not Presidential material.