EFE.- A New York court gave Prince Andrew of England until October 29 to respond to the complaint of sexual abuse filed by American Virginia Giuffre last August.
According to a judicial document from the Court of the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan has granted this Friday more than a month for the Duke of York’s lawyers to present their defense.
The decision comes after the legal representative of Elizabeth II’s son, Andrew Brettler, confirmed that he had formally received the notification of the case on September 21, thus allowing the judicial process to continue its course.
Until now, lawyers for the member of the British royal family had tried to block him, claiming in the first preliminary hearing, held on September 12, that the complaint documents had not been delivered correctly.
The judicial session that was scheduled for October 13 to decide whether the notification process had been carried out correctly is therefore canceled.
Just over a week ago, Giuffre’s lawyers had criticized the attitude of Prince Andrew, and assured that “the notification should not be a game of hide and seek behind the palace walls.”
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Giuffre alleges in her complaint that when she was 17 years old, she was forced to have sexual relations with the prince, something that Jeffrey Epstein, the late magnate accused of managing a network of sex trafficking of minors connected to important figures in the world of the economy, ordered her to do. and politics, and his right-hand man, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Epstein committed suicide in August 2019 in a New York cell shortly after his arrest, 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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