Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth II of England, has obtained access to a confidential document that, according to his lawyers, could put an end to the case of alleged sexual abuse of which he has been accused by the American Virginia Giuffre when he was a minor .
According to Forbes magazine, Prince Andrew’s legal team has received permission to agree to a sealed agreement between Giuffre and the late friend of Queen Elizabeth’s son, financier Jeffrey Epstein, the origin of the scandal involving the British royal.
The prince’s lawyers believe, according to Forbes, that those documents could provide Andrew with immunity in that lawsuit.
New York Judge Loretta Preska, who is in charge of the case, has agreed to allow Andrés de England’s legal team to receive a copy of that agreement, with the consent of Epstein’s heirs.
Giuffre’s attorney, David Boies, agreed that Elizabeth II’s son has the right to review those sealed documents, although he considers it to be "Irrelevant" for the ongoing lawsuit.
The agreement, reached in the state of Florida between Epstein and Giuffre in 2009, ended one of dozens of civil lawsuits filed against the tycoon by women who allege he sexually abused them when they were minors and that were resolved in private. with economic agreements that have not been publicly disclosed.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a friend of Epstein who Giuffre has also accused of sexual abuse, told Forbes in a statement last month that the settlement led to the assault case brought against him being dismissed and added that "the same reasons" They could be applied to the process against Prince Andrew.
These new details of the case are known a few days after it became public that Queen Elizabeth II coasts with "million pounds" of your own fortune the legal defense of your son in this matter.
The Duke of York expanded his legal team last September after hiring lawyer Melissa Lerner, who joined Andrew Brettler in his defense against the aforementioned sexual abuse complaint filed by American Giuffre in a New York court last year. August.
According to sources of the royal house cited by the British "Telegraph", the lawyer bill will skyrocket in "millions" of pounds, in a legal process that is expected to take months or years and that could end with an economic settlement that will further increase the final cost.
A New York court gave Prince Andrew until October 29 to respond to Giuffre’s complaint, who alleges that when she was 17 she was forced to have sex with the prince, something that Jeffrey Epstein urged him to do. , the late mogul accused of running a child sex trafficking ring connected to leading figures in the world of economics and politics, and his right-hand man, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Epstein committed suicide in August 2019 in a New York cell shortly after being arrested, while Maxwell remains in another prison in the Big Apple accused of helping the businessman recruit minors for his sex trafficking activities.
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