A New York judge rejected the recourse of the son of Queen Elizabeth II against the complaint of Virginia Giauffre, who accuses him of having sexually abused when she was still a minor.
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Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, faces the prospect of a civil trial in the United States. Judge New York Lewis Kaplan has decided, Wednesday, January 12, in favor of the arguments of the complainant, Virginia Giauffre, who accuses the Duke of York, 61, to sexually abuse him three times in 2001, while ‘She was still a minor (17 years old). This decision abysses a little more the prince’s reputation and constitutes a blow for the British royal family, who would have preferred the year 2022 to the celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of the sovereign (70 years of reign), rather than A great judicial unpacking at the global media resonance.
Virginia Giuffre (born Roberts) assured to have been forced to sex with the prince in London, New York and in the Caribbean by the American sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein (a friend of the prince, who committed suicide in prison In 2019) and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, convictedly convicted 2021 of teenage sex trafficking.
The Duke of York has always denied these allegations. In recent months, his lawyers have tried to prevent a trial, their ultimate attempt being the evocation of a clause, in an amicable agreement signed in 2009 between Epstein and Virginia Roberts, who, to believe them. , prevented the latter from pursuing others than the US financial for sexual assault. Kaplan JA has not retained their arguments. Its decision is likely to appeal.
Andrew’s highly questionable friendships with Jeffrey Epstein appeared in 2010 with the publication, in 2010, a photograph of the prince walking alongside the American in Central Park in New York, after the latter has purged a prison sentence for sexual assault. On another photograph, published in 2011 and now famous, the prince holds Virginia Roberts by the size alongside Ghislaine Maxwell (she was taken in the London residence of the latter in March 2001). Other clichés have been published over the water, showing that Andrew did not hesitate to introduce Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the heart of the royal circles. They were even invited to Balmoral, a very private summer residence of Windsor in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Fasty lifestyle
The prince has chosen to break his silence on these sulphurous relations during a long interview at the “Newsnight” show of the BBC, at the end of 2019. The result was catastrophic: not only did he show any compassion For the victims of Mr. Estein or expressed no regret for having attended this sexual abuser, but the explanations he has put forward to deny sex with Virginia Roberts surprised.
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