Prince Andrew, in the eyes of the cyclone for years because of his relationship with the pedophile big investor Jeffrey Epstein, failed in his attempt to reject the appeal filed in the American courts by a woman, who accuses him of sexually abusing her in 2001. when she was 17 years old.
Queen Elizabeth’s second son is now in danger of being charged in a New York trial. If all his appeals were dismissed, Judge Lewis Kaplan had stated in the fall that the trial could take place sometime “between September and December 2022”.
For many years, Virginia Joufre or Roberts, a 38-year-old American woman now living in Australia, has publicly accused Andrew. Last summer, however, she decided to go to court, accusing him of being one of the “strong friends” to whom Epstein handed her over to sexually abuse her when she was a minor. He claims to have been abused three times in 2001 in London, New York and the US Virgin Islands.
The prince has been trying for six months to persuade US judges to dismiss Giufre’s lawsuit. This time his lawyers invoked an agreement reached in 2009 by Gioufre, under which he pledged not to turn against Epstein and “other possible defendants”, in exchange for the sum of $ 500,000 from the American multimillionaire.
Judge Kaplan, however, considered the 40-page agreement “ambiguous”, which he said was open to many interpretations, and rejected the prince’s appeal. Gioufre’s lawyers pointed out that the agreement did not cover Andrew, who did not even know it existed at the time.
Andrew has been in a difficult position in recent years over his relationship with Epstein, who committed suicide in prison in 2019. Epstein’s ex-partner, Gyllenn Maxwell, was found guilty in December of human trafficking by a Manhattan court and risks being sentenced to multi-year imprisonment. Many photos have been released showing the prince’s companionship with Epstein, Maxwell and Joufre, when the latter was still a minor.
On December 31, Judge Kaplan dismissed another lawsuit filed by Andrew alleging that Joufre could not sue him in the United States because he resides in Australia.
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