{"id":1187673,"date":"2022-01-04T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187673"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:04:34","slug":"prince-andrew-to-seek-u-s-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-andrew-to-seek-u-s-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew to Seek U.S. Sexual Abuse Case Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprince-andrew-to-seek-u-s-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187673&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">U.S. legal counsel for Prince Andrew will seek to use an historical court settlement Tuesday to scupper plans to try him for sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Andrew\u2019s lawyers are planning to use a previous out of court settlement between Virginia Giuffre and dead billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to prevent him from being summoned to court, the<em> BBC<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-59857168\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan is expected to determine whether the 2009 settlement&nbsp;agreement between Epstein and Giuffre also shields Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>The document states Ms Giuffre,&nbsp;formerly known as&nbsp;Virginia Roberts, had agreed in 2009&nbsp;to \u201crelease, acquit, satisfy, and forever discharge\u201d Jeffrey Epstein and \u201cany other person or entity who could have been included as a potential defendant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Giuffre\u2019s lawyers however have dismissed the settlement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220104-prince-andrew-to-urge-us-judge-to-dismiss-sex-abuse-case\">saying<\/a>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;\u201cirrelevant\u201d to her civil action against the Queen\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Giuffre has accused Prince Andrew of raping her at&nbsp;Epstein\u2019s London home when she was 17 in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The Prince has denied both that he forced&nbsp;Giuffre to have sex with him and that he had sex with her at all, accusing her instead of&nbsp;seeking another \u201cpayday\u201d, as alongside her $500,000 settlement she also sought $50 million from Epstein in a 2015 lawsuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oiuyWQNUmV\">https:\/\/t.co\/oiuyWQNUmV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1476316191694151681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The age of consent in Britain is 16 so Prince Andrew would not face statutory rape charges that he would face if the deed had taken place in the US. However because&nbsp;Giuffre is claiming she was trafficked from America to the UK by Epstein while she was a minor, she is still able to seek financial compensation from the Prince.<\/p>\n<p>There is not currently a set number on the damages Giuffre is seeking, but it is believed to be in the millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prince Andrew has not currently been charged with any criminal offences, and the case is in the civil not criminal courts.<\/p>\n<p>The case comes after Epstein\u2019s right-hand confidante and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell,&nbsp;60, was convicted and found guilty of conspiring to run a sex crimes ring with the disgraced billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/ghislaine-maxwell-found-guilty-on-five-of-six-counts-in-sex-trafficking-trial\/\">faces<\/a> up to 65 years in prison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12218572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Andrew-Clinton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12218572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Andrew-Clinton.jpg\" alt=\"President Clinton, right, heads out to play a round of golf with Prince Andrew, left, at the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha&#039;s Vineyard Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. (AP Photo\/Greg Gibson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>President Clinton, right, heads out to play a round of golf with Prince Andrew, left, at the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha\u2019s Vineyard Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. (AP Photo\/Greg Gibson)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Epstein allegedly killed himself while in a jail cell in 2019, before he could face justice in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew initially became friends in 1999 via Maxwell, it was also the first time the Prince flew on Epstein\u2019s private jet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-49411215\">allegedly<\/a> to Epstein\u2019s private island,&nbsp;Little St James in the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ghislaine Maxwell believes Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in prison and fears she will also be killed, a family friend says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ohAcVtEQ1L\">https:\/\/t.co\/ohAcVtEQ1L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1285294396188110848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Prince had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/nov\/18\/the-party-prince-how-andrew-got-his-bad-reputation\">reputation<\/a> for partying, with the British tabloids referring to him as \u201cRandy Andy\u201d, which would have made him more accessible than other British royals.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Andrew claims to have ended his friendship with Epstein in 2010 after Epstein went to jail for 13 months for soliciting a minor for prostitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. legal counsel for Prince Andrew will seek to use an historical court settlement Tuesday to scupper plans to try him for sexual abuse. 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