The standoff continues between Prince Andrew and the American Virginia Giuffre. As reported by AFP this Saturday, October 30, 2021, the son of Queen Elizabeth asked the American justice on Friday to reject the “baseless” complaint of the one who accuses him of sexual assault when she was a minor, assuring that she was seeking to profit financially from the case, according to court documents. In one of them, filed in Manhattan, the Duke of York’s lawyer accuses Virginia Giuffre of suing the prince “to get more money“of his allegations against the sulphurous financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019.
“Most people wouldn’t even dream of getting the sums of money Giuffre has made over the years.“, wrote Andrew Brettler.”This is a motivation for Giuffre to continue to pursue low-level lawsuits against individuals such as Prince Andrew, whose tainted reputation is only the latest collateral damage to the Epstein scandal.“, he added. Virginia Giuffre, 38, who had already publicly accused Prince Andrew, filed a complaint last August in federal court in Manhattan.
In her complaint, she claims that it is “one of the mighty men“to whom she would have been”delivery for sexual purposes“when she was, she says, the victim between 2000 and 2002, from the age of 16, of the vast sex trafficking for which Jeffrey Epstein was accused and imprisoned, before killing himself in a prison in Manhattan, in the summer of 2019. For his part, Prince Andrew has always firmly denied his accusations, especially during a disastrous interview with the BBC in November 2019, following which he retired from life public …
Lawyers for the 61-year-old Briton asked the Manhattan court to dismiss the lawsuit on Friday because they say it fails to disclose “a request that may give rise to compensation“. Alternatively, they ask the court to require that the complainant”provide a more definitive version of their allegations“. They also asked the court to hold a”oral debate“on these issues.
Mrs. Giuffre “would have received millions of dollars”
“Virginia Giuffre may well have been sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein, and nothing can excuse, or fully express, the horror and gravity of Epstein’s monstrous behavior against Giuffre, if this is true.“, wrote the lawyers.”However, and without diminishing the harm suffered as a result of Epstein’s alleged behavior, Prince Andrew never assaulted or sexually assaulted Giuffre. He unequivocally denies Giuffre’s false allegations against him. “The prince’s lawyers have claimed that Ms Giuffre”would have received millions of dollars“of an amicable settlement dating from 2017 after having sued Ghislaine Maxwell, a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
They also said an agreement in 2009, which she signed with Jeffrey Epstein, prevented her from prosecuting anyone else in connection with her allegations of sexual abuse. Solicited, a lawyer for Ms. Giuffre did not react immediately.