Prince Andrew
The application is said to have not been properly served
The application was transferred to Prince Andrew.
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The abuse and sexual assault complaint was transferred to Prince Andrew. “Not properly,” claim his lawyers.
Prince Andrew (61) has received the legal documents for a civil lawsuit for rape and sexual assault of a minor in the United States. They were received by the security chief at the Royal Lodge, Andrew’s Mansion in Windsor. This emerges from court files that were accessible in New York on Friday. Accordingly, a representative of the applicant presented the documents on August 27.
However, it was revealed on Friday evening that Andrew’s lawyers allege the papers were not properly served. As “Mail Online” reports further, they should therefore want to boycott the hearing scheduled for Monday (13.9.) on the allegations of the Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre (38).
Is a formal error preventing the process?
The team of Queen Elizabeth II’s second eldest son (95) also hopes that the case will be dismissed due to a formal error. His attorney, Gary Bloxsome, stated in a brief that the document signed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2009 could invalidate their lawsuit. It is the first clue as to how the prince and his lawyers are planning to fend off the case after weeks of silence.
Civil lawsuit filed in early August
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019), filed a civil lawsuit against the Duke of York in early August. In the court papers, she claims that the Royal abused her three times between 1999 and 2002 – in the London house of Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell (59), in Epstein’s house in Manhattan and in the financier’s private Caribbean refuge in the Virgin Islands (USA).
The prince was a confidante of the two accused Epstein and Maxwell, but says he had nothing to do with the alleged abuse of the girls. In general, Prince Andrew has vehemently denied all allegations made by Giuffre. He also denies meeting her, claiming a photo of the two taken in London in 2001 may have been tampered with. After a disastrous BBC interview on the Epstein scandal in late 2019, he resigned from his public office.