Prince Andrew, the target of a complaint in New York for sexual assault, admitted that he was now subject to official proceedings. And this, as part of the investigation into the sex crimes of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison. Indeed, the second son of Queen Elizabeth has been publicly accused of sexual assault by an American. In early August, this woman, Virginia Giuffre, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court for facts that allegedly occurred more than 20 years ago, when she was a minor.
This complaint, dated August 9, had been officially delivered on August 27 at the royal residence of Windsor, in the absence of Prince Andrew, but he had contested for ten days the official delivery and notification.
According to court documents consulted by AFP on Friday, the Duke of York finally accepted that the complaint had indeed been and officially handed over to him. His lawyers and his accuser agreed that this notification of complaint dated back to September 21 (and no longer to August 27). Prince Andrew, 61, has until October 29 to respond.
According to Ms. Giuffre’s complaint, he was “one of the powerful men” to whom she had been “handed over for sexual purposes”, when she was the victim, between 2000 and 2002, from the age of 16, of the vast trafficking. for which the financier Jeffrey Epstein was indicted and imprisoned, before taking his own life in a Manhattan prison in the summer of 2019.
Prince Andrew, who “categorically” rejects these accusations, is suspected of having “sexually assaulted” Virginia Giuffre on three occasions: in London at a very pro
he of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and at the businessman’s properties in New York and the Virgin Islands. Prince Andrew gave an interview deemed calamitous to the BBC in November 2019, where he did not express a single regret for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, nor the slightest empathy for his victims.
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