Unless the decision can be appealed or the case ended with a financial transaction, Queen Elizabeth’s youngest son II will face a civil trial for sexual assault, likely in late 2022.
“It is a devastating blow for Prince Andrew and the British royal family”, breath The Guardian. Manhattan federal court ruled inadmissible, Wednesday, January 12, the request to quash a civil lawsuit against the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, accused of three sexual assaults by one of the victims of the American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Since the Duke of York was photographed with the billionaire in 2010, his reputation has been tarnished by association”, relates the London daily. The following year, a cliché “Showing him holding by the waist” the complainant Virginia Giuffre, then aged 17, “Has pushed it a little deeper in the eyes of public opinion”.
The first accusations of forced sex leveled against him by the American-Australian date back to 2015, specifies The Guardian. “The prince has since failed to counter allegations that he vigorously refutes, evidenced by a catastrophic interview with the BBC in 2019, and, therefore, to avoid a summons to court. ” The accusations, coupled with the friendly relations maintained with Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, even forced him to give up officially representing the royal family in 2020.
Arguments rejected by the judge
Before the Manhattan court, Andrew’s lawyers argued on January 4 that “Virginia Giuffre’s accusations were too vague” and that an agreement made in 2009 with Jeffrey Epstein forced her to “Exempt any third party from legal proceedings”. Arguments rejected by the judge.
Unless you can appeal the decision or end the case with a financial transaction “unlikely”, Andrew “Now faces the ignominious prospect of having to undergo cross-examination in which elements of his private life are exposed”.
Whether the Duke wins or loses the procedure planned at the end of the year, concludes The Guardian, “These sexual assault prosecutions constitute an unprecedented chapter in the history of the British monarchy”.
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