British Prince Andrew is asking to be tried in a civil trial in New York to defend himself from accusations of sexual assault he allegedly committed more than twenty years ago on an American, a minor at the time, announced Wednesday, January 26 his lawyers.
“Prince Andrew hereby demands a trial by jury on all the grounds invoked in the complaint” in civil proceedings filed in August 2021 in New York by Virginia Giuffre, 38. Accuser claims Queen Elizabeth II’s second son killed her “sexually assaulted” three times in 2001 when she was 17 and was called Virginia Roberts at the time. The facts would have taken place in London, New York and the American Virgin Islands, in residences of the couple formed by the American multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, both friends of Prince Andrew.
Stripped of his military titles
In a court document filed in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, Prince Andrew’s lawyers dispute Mr.me Guiffre. The latter, who now resides in Australia, was the victim of American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The latter, a figure of the jet-set, committed suicide in prison in Manhattan in August 2019, shortly before his trial for sex crimes.
His companion and accomplice for three decades, Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, has been in prison since the summer of 2020. She was convicted in December in New York of sex trafficking of minors for the benefit of Jeffrey Epstein. She had been portrayed in court by the prosecution as a “sophisticated predator”, a key figure in the system set up with Jeffrey Epstein, of which she was the “partner in love” and ” the right arm “. Mme Maxwell, who will be sentenced next June, faces decades in prison.
The Duke of York, who has just been stripped of his military titles by Elizabeth II and now lives as an outcast, has always disputed “categorically” the facts, but failed in January that the American justice dismissed the complaint of Mme Guiffre.
British Prince Andrew is asking to be tried in a civil trial in New York to defend himself from accusations of sexual assault he allegedly committed more than twenty years ago on an American, a minor at the time, announced Wednesday, January 26 his lawyers.
“Prince Andrew hereby demands a trial by jury on all the grounds invoked in the complaint” in civil proceedings filed in August 2021 in New York by Virginia Giuffre, 38. Accuser claims Queen Elizabeth II’s second son killed her “sexually assaulted” three times in 2001 when she was 17 and was called Virginia Roberts at the time. The facts would have taken place in London, New York and the American Virgin Islands, in residences of the couple formed by the American multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, both friends of Prince Andrew.
Stripped of his military titles
In a court document filed in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, Prince Andrew’s lawyers dispute Mr.me Guiffre. The latter, who now resides in Australia, was the victim of American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The latter, a figure of the jet-set, committed suicide in prison in Manhattan in August 2019, shortly before his trial for sex crimes.
His companion and accomplice for three decades, Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, has been in prison since the summer of 2020. She was convicted in December in New York of sex trafficking of minors for the benefit of Jeffrey Epstein. She had been portrayed in court by the prosecution as a “sophisticated predator”, a key figure in the system set up with Jeffrey Epstein, of which she was the “partner in love” and ” the right arm “. Mme Maxwell, who will be sentenced next June, faces decades in prison.
The Duke of York, who has just been stripped of his military titles by Elizabeth II and now lives as an outcast, has always disputed “categorically” the facts, but failed in January that the American justice dismissed the complaint of Mme Guiffre.