Prince Andrew has denied that he was a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, his lawyers said in court papers filed Wednesday. The Duke of York also denies that Epstein “trafficked girls to him”, his legal team wrote.
These statements were filed as part of Virginia Giuffre’s sexual abuse lawsuit against the Duke of York in Manhattan federal court. Giuffre has long alleged that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell forced her into a sexual encounter with the senior British royal 20 years ago, when she was 17.
Andrew’s denials were part of his “answer and affirmative defenses” to Giuffre’s civil complaint against him. Andrew did say in this document that he met Epstein “in or around 1999”.
“Prince Andrew hereby demands a trial by jury on all causes of action asserted in the complaint,” his lawyers also wrote.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was apprehended in July 2019 for sex trafficking girls as young as 14. He killed himself about one month later in a Manhattan jail, while awaiting his sex-trafficking trial.
Maxwell, daughter of the British press baron Robert Maxwell, was found guilty sex trafficking and related charges in December for luring girls as young as 14 into Epstein’s abusive orbit. Andrew has denied all allegations of misconduct.
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