Prince Andrew denounced for sexual abuse

by time news

Time.news – Prince Andrew was recently notified in his home near London of a complaint filed in New York by the American woman who accuses him of having sexually abused her when she was a minor with the help of the financier Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison.

According to the documents of the American court, the complaint was handed to him on August 27, in his absence, in the royal residence of Windsor where the second son of Queen Elizabeth lives. According to other documents seen by AFP, a first procedural hearing, which Prince Andrew is not required to attend, is scheduled for Monday in this embarrassing case for the British royal family.

The services of Prince Andrew, considered the “favorite son” of Elizabeth II, declined to comment.

Virginia Giuffrè, who had already publicly accused the Duke of York, filed a complaint on August 9 in the federal court in Manhattan. According to this complaint, the Duke of York is “one of the powerful men” to whom she was “handed over for sexual purposes” when she was the victim between 2000 and 2002, from the age of 16, of the vast sex trafficking for which Financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged and jailed before taking his own life in the Manhattan jail in the summer of 2019.

Prince Andrew, who had already denied the accusations, allegedly “sexually assaulted” Mrs. Giuffrè, then a minor, on three occasions: in London at the home of one of Epstein’s close friends, Ghislaine Maxwell, and in the property of the man of ‘ business in New York and the Virgin Islands.

Prince Andrew, 61, had already “categorically” denied such allegations in an interview with the BBC in November 2019. In particular, he expressed doubts about the authenticity of a highly publicized photograph of him with Virginia Giuffrè and, in the background, Ghislaine Maxwell, who remains incarcerated and whose trial is expected to begin on November 29 in New York.

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