"If you’re not in those files, it would be an insult."

Lady Victoria Hervey dated the former Prince in the late 1990s, and appeared on LBC to discuss Epstein and his links to the rich and powerful.

"He knew everybody that was very powerful," she told Tom Swarbrick.

"So, like, if you were on the scene and you were powerful, to be honest, if you're not in those files, it would be an insult because it just means that you were a bit of a loser."

Swarbrick pressed her on this comment: "Right, so the people who aren’t in the files are losers?"

Lady Hervey, who is reportedly named 23 times in the files, replied: "Yes!"

Lady Hervey made headlines last year after the death of Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.

"When lies catch up with you there’s no way out," she wrote on social media as she shared a link to a story revealing Giuffre had taken her own life.

She later wrote: "I have taken the decision to pause my posts on the topic of Virginia Giuffre at the this time.

"Irrespective of circumstances, suicide in anyone at anytime is tragic and in a young mother who has children even more."

Appearing or being named in the Epstein files does not indicate any wrongdoing, and the former Duke of York has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in connection with his friendship with the convicted paedophile.

In 2019, Andrew said during the "limited time" he was connected to Epstein, he never saw "any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction".

Andrew has come under fire for his links to the convicted paedophile, and was stripped of his royal titles in October last year.