Attorneys for Prince Andrew want a sexual assault lawsuit against him tossed, arguing it violates a settlement the accuser made with Jeffrey Epstein

Attorneys for Prince Andrew have asked a US judge to dismiss a sexual assault civil case against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, arguing that it violated a agreement agreement with coitus lawbreaker Jeffery Epstein, CNN reported Bigwig preliminarily reported that Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in August, criminating the Duke of York of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 In the action, Giuffre said the royal, alongside Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, forced her to have sexual intercourse with him against her will in London, New York, and the US Virgin Islands, Insider’s Rebecca Cohen and Erin Snodgrass reported Giuffre also contended that Prince Andrew knew she was a minor when the events passed.

He has preliminarily denied Giuffre’s allegations Virginia Giuffre may well be a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. and nothing can excuse, nor completely prisoner, the abhorrence and graveness of Epstein’s monstrous geste against Giuffre, if so,”Andrew’s attorneys wrote in a court form on Friday, CNN reported.” Still, and without dwindling the detriment suffered as a result of Epstein’s alleged misconduct, Prince Andrew noway sexually abused or assaulted Giuffre.”

Epstein was arrested in July 2019. He failed by self-murder in jail in Manhattan in August 2019 awaiting trial for coitus trafficking and conspiracy charges Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 was also charged with coitus-trafficking crimes by US prosecutors. Maxwell is awaiting a trial listed to start in November and is presently detained at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center Reuters reported that on Friday, Prince Andrew called Giuffre’s action against him” unwarranted”and said it was an attempt to” achieve another payday  Criminating a member of the world’s best known royal family of serious misconduct has helped Giuffre produce a media delirium online and in the traditional press,”the form said, according to CNN.”Epstein’s abuse of Giuffre doesn’t justify her public crusade against Prince Andrew.”

Reuters reported that Giuffre and Epstein inked a agreement in 2009 that released Epstein and several other people from any claims made against them. Andrew’s attorneys argued he was included in that release. Forbes reported that Prince Andrews attorneys were granted authorization to review that agreement before this month David Boies, a counsel for Giuffre, told Reuters that the agreement”on its face” applied to people involved in action in Florida, so it does not include Andrew Prince Andrew’s attempt now to use the 2009 release as a get out of jail free card shows how hopeless he’s to dodge and duck the data of what he did,”Boies said.

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