Prince Andrew’s lawyers have just struck a blow by delivering this Friday, October 29, new documents to the court in which they do not hesitate to question the story of Virginia Giuffre. To do this, they rely on testimonies from former relatives of the complainant, reveals the American site Page Six.
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From the beginning, the story told by Virginia Giuffre has hardly changed. The young woman of today 38 years old maintains that she was recruited by businessman Jeffrey Epstein and his companion Ghislaine Maxwell in the context of extensive sex trafficking in minors. The mogul would have thus procured very young girls to some of his famous and rich friends. Jeffrey Epstein will never answer for these accusations, however. Arrested in connection with this investigation, he was found dead in his cell in August 2019. But the affair did not die with him. Virginia Giuffre claims Prince Andrew, younger son of Queen Elizabeth II, taking advantage of the herd provided by Jeffrey Epstein allegedly sexually assaulted her three times when she was a minor. Facts that the prince fiercely denies.
At his side a team of highly motivated lawyers, including the tenor of the bar Andrew Brettler. This one engaged a first offensive against Virginia Giuffre arguing that this lawsuit brought by the complainant was not necessary, the latter having signed in 2009 a confidential agreement with Jeffrey Epstein likely to extinguish any subsequent legal action.
Prince Andrew’s team goes after Virginia Giuffre
But Prince Andrew’s team did not stop there and unveiled shocking allegations about the complainant. They thus claimed that Virginia Giuffre would not be as she claims, the innocent victim of trafficking set up by Epstein, but one of its cogs. According to documents submitted to the court, Virginia Giuffre would have been commissioned by Jeffrey Epstein to find him “hot girls “.
The Duke of York’s legal team brought this dizzying accusation against Virginia Giuffre in a motion on Friday which aims to have his lawsuit against him dismissed in federal court in Manhattan. According to him, she was “involved in the deliberate recruitment and trafficking of young girls for sexual abuse “set up by the businessman.
“She was one of the thinking heads. There were nine or ten girls she used to bring him. She never looked like she was being held captive “, said Philip Guderyon, a former boyfriend of Virginia Giuffre, cited in the court document.
Crystal Figueroa, whose brother also dated the complainant, said that Prince Andrew’s accuser asked her for help finding victims for Jeffrey Epstein, report the documents submitted to the court: “She [Giuffre] told me : ‘ Do you know some dirty girls? ‘ “, she would have thus indicated to the lawyers of the Duke of York. A turnaround likely to extinguish the complaint? A blow in any case for Virginia Giuffre who sees for the first time her history called into question …
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