Prince Andrew just got some bad news when it was revealed that a former private chef has started cooperating with the FBI and giving them information about the royal’s former friendship with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The Mirror reported that Adam Perry Lang spent five years working for Epstein as a private chef from 1998-2003. Lawyers for Epstein’s victims have celebrated that Perry Lang is cooperating with investigators.

“We certainly hope that this may inspire other witnesses to come forward and help shed some light on Epstein’s dark scheme,” said attorney Arick Fudali.

Perry Lang, who opened the Barbecoa restaurant with Jamie Oliver in London in 2010, catered for Andrew and even alongside him on board Epstein’s private jet. Court documents show that the chef was with Andrew on two flights in February 1999 and one in May the next year.

Sources said that Perry Lang “has been or will be” quizzed about his time with Andrew as American prosecutors have “grown increasingly annoyed” at being stonewalled by the royal.

“The gloves are firmly off. Perry Lang holds information on what took place,” a source said. “They will get as much detail as possible that will help shape any interview they may one day have with the Duke.”

Perry Lang contacted the FBI after Virginia Giuffre, who claims that Epstein forced her to have sex with Andrew on three occasions, wrote to him personally.

“Please don’t be an enabler. Be a hero to me,” she wrote to the chef.

Perry Lang’s lawyer, Lawrence Lustberg, confirmed that his client has been cooperating with the FBI.

“Mr Lang has begun a course of fully cooperating with the federal authorities investigating this case,” Lustberg said. “He, like them and like the victims, wants only that justice be done.”

“We have absolutely always been available to the attorneys for the lawyers representing victims,” Perry Lang himself added.

The chef had previously said of Epstein, “I was unaware of the depraved behavior and have great admiration for the brave women who have come forward.”

Victims of Epstein have spoken highly of Perry Lang, with Giuffre saying, “He used to talk to me like I was a person.”

Epstein committed suicide in prison in August of 2019 while awaiting trial on various sex crime charges. Andrew has yet to comment on these latest developments.