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The unflattering photo of the disgraced former royalty was taken after his arrest last week for his ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Activists affiliated with the Everyone Hates Elon campaign installed a framed photo of ex-Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken shortly after his recent arrest, at the Musée du Louvre on Sunday, February 22.
Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his royal title last October following allegations of his involvement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking ring, was taken into custody on February 19 on suspicions of misconduct in public office outlined in the latest batch of released Epstein files.
“He’s Sweating Now,” read the impromptu wall text accompanying the guerrilla installation, pointing to the ex-Prince’s 2019 claim that he was medically unable to perspire as he fervently denied having sex with the late alleged sex trafficking survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Epstein’s primary accuser. Giuffre recalled that on the first night she was made to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor in 2001, while she was 17, they danced together at a nightclub in London where he allegedly sweated all over her.
Though the scandal-studded former prince had been stripped of his titles over the allegations of sex abuse in connection to Epstein, Mountbatten-Windsor's Thursday arrest — on his 66th birthday at that — emerged following claims that he had shared confidential information with Epstein while serving as UK trade envoy. A photojournalist with Reuters captured the infamous snapshot of Mountbatten-Windsor in the back of a police vehicle, slouching with an ashen face with flash-red eyes and his fingers interlaced in front of him.
“Seeing a disgusting abuser FINALLY face a bit of justice? That’s priceless,” read the Instagram post claiming credit for the action on Everyone Hates Elon's account.
“We're sick of obscenely rich, powerful men thinking they can just do as they please,” another post by the campaign detailed. “So when he was arrested, we wanted to show ex-prince Andrew how the world will remember him.”
Everyone Hates Elon is best known for extremely confrontational guerrilla billboards and bus station ads targeting billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump's connection to Epstein. The campaign recently unfurled a massive photograph of Trump with Epstein at Windsor Castle and at the United States Capitol.
Some commentators online noted that the Louvre was the perfect location for the intervention as Giuffre's memoir Nobody's Girl (2025), published posthumously after she took her own life in April 2025, begins with her revisiting the museum in 2021. The museum still hasn't replied to Hyperallergic's request for comment.