The second son of Queen Elizabeth II is involved in the scandal of rape and sexual assault related to the American Financial Jeffrey Epstein, died in 2019.
Le Monde with AFP
The British Prince Andrew asks to be judged during a civil trial in New York to defend himself with accusations of sexual assault he would have committed more than twenty years on an American, minor to the his lawyers on Wednesday, January 26, announced.
“Prince Andrew therefore requires a trial by a jury on all the reasons given in the civilian complaint filed in August 2021 in New York by Virginia Giauffre, 38 years old. The accuser affirms that the second son of Queen Elizabeth II “sexually assaulted” three times in 2001 when she was 17 years old and called at the time Virginia Roberts. The facts were held in London, New York and the US Virgin Islands, in residences of the couple formed by the American multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the British worldly Ghislaine Maxwell, both Friends of Prince Andrew.
fallen. of its military titles
In a judicial document submitted Wednesday at the Federal Court of Manhattan, Prince Andrew lawyers dispute by point by point the accusations of M me guiffre. The latter, which today resides in Australia, was the victim of US Financial Jeffrey Epstein. The latter, the Figure of the Jet-Set, committed suicide in prison in Manhattan in August 2019, shortly before his trial for sexual 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 sexual sex trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein’s profit. She had been portrayed by the accusation as a “sophisticated predator”, a key character of the system set up with Jeffrey Epstein, of which she was the “Love partner” and “the right arm”. M me Maxwell, who will experience his sentence next June, incurs dozens of prison years.
The Duke of York, who has just been deprived of his military titles by Elizabeth II and lives henceforth in Paria, has always challenged “categorically” the facts, but failed in January to what American justice class. Following the complaint of M me guiffre.