Duke York’s lawyers accuse Virginia Giuffre to continue the prince “to get more money”.
Le Monde with AFP
Targeted by an accusation of sexual assault on Minor, Prince Andrew of Great Britain goes to the defensive. He asked, Friday, October 29, to the American justice to reject Virginia Giauffre’s basis complaint, according to a judicial document consulted by the France-Press Agency (AFP).
According to judicial documents, the Duke d’York lawyer accuses Virginia GIuffre to continue the prince “to get more money” from his allegations against the sulphureux Financial Jeffrey Epstein, death in 2019. “Most people Do not even dream of getting money that M me giuffre has garnered over the years, “wrote Andrew Brettler.
Prince’s lawyers claim that M me giuffre “would have received millions of dollars” from an amicable settlement dating back to 2017 after pursuing Ghislaine Maxwell, a close to Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is a motivation for giuffre so that it continues to sue the underestimates such as Prince Andrew, whose tainted reputation is only the last collateral damage of the Epstein scandal”, he added.
An “oral debate” claimed
Andrew’s lawyers, who has always denied the accusations, ask the Manhattan court that the complaint is rejected because, according to them, it does not state “an application that can give rise to reparation”. Alternatively, they ask the Tribunal to require that the complainant “provide a more permanent version of his allegations”.
They finally ask the court to hold an “oral debate” on these issues. Since the filing of the complaint, the York Duke has challenged its notification, before finally recognizing it.
“Virginia Giuffre could have been a victim of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, and nothing can excuse, say, the horror and severity of the monstrous behavior of Epstein against GIuffre, if it is proven, have written the lawyers. However, and without diminishing the harm suffered because of the presumed behavior of Epstein, Prince Andrew has never committed aggression or sexually assaulted giuffre. He unequivocally denies the false allegations of gix against him. “
Prince’s lawyers specify that an agreement in 2009, that M me giauff had signed with Jeffrey Epstein, prevented him from pursuing anyone else in connection with his allegations of sexual abuse. Solicited, a lawyer of M me giuffre had not reacted in the immediate future.
used in a vast sex traffic
This American, who had already accused publicly the second son of Queen Elizabeth, had filed a complaint in August 2021 in the Federal Court of Manhattan. The case is particularly embarrassing for the British royal family because the sulphureux Financial Jeffrey Epstein is associated with it.
In his complaint, Virginia Giauffre accuses Prince Andrew for being “one of the powerful men” to whom it would have been “given for a sexual purpose” when it was, does it affirm, the victim between 2000 and 2002, from its 16-year-old, the vast sex trafficking for which Jeffrey Epstein was charged and incarcerated, before killing himself in a Manhattan prison in the summer of 2019.
Prince Andrew is accused of having “sexually assaulted” M me GIuffre three times: in London at Ghislaine Maxwell, a close to Jeffrey Epstein, and in the properties of American financial in New York and in the Virgin Islands. Despite his denials, his attendance of the American businessman had plunged him into the turmoil and forced to withdraw from public life.