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Friday, January 2, 2015
Prince Andrew named in US lawsuit over underage sex allegations
Princes. prosecutors, prime ministers, and presidents are all pedophiles - 2015 is the year to exterminate them all. These are grotesque perverts with too many get out of jail cards. Execute them all. I can't imagine how many young children have been sacrificed and killed to cover up their insane appetite for evil....Kill them all..... Thank you, J.P.
Prince Andrew named in US lawsuit over underage sex allegations
In
case related to banker Jeffrey Epstein, woman alleges in court filing
that she was forced to have repeated ‘sexual relations’ with duke
Prince Andrew,
whose close relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has
long been a source of controversy. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
A woman who claims that an American investment banker loaned her to
rich and powerful friends as an underage “sex slave” has alleged in a US
court document that she was repeatedly forced to have sexual relations
with Prince Andrew.
The accusation against the Duke of York is contained in a motion
filed in a Florida court this week in connection with a long-running
lawsuit brought by women who say they were exploited by Jeffrey Epstein,
a multi-millionaire convicted of soliciting sex with an underage girl
after a plea deal.
Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein in New York.Photograph: Jae Donnelly/News Syndication
The woman, who filed the motion anonymously, alleges that between
1999 and 2002 she was repeatedly sexually abused by Epstein who, she
also alleges, loaned her out to rich and influential men around the
world.
The document – a motion to expand an ongoing lawsuit relating to
prosecutors’ handling of Epstein’s case with two new plaintiffs –
alleges that the woman “was forced to have sexual relations with this
prince when she was a minor” in London, New York and on a private
Caribbean island owned by Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein.Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex
The prince is not a named party to the legal claim, which is
directed against federal prosecutors. He has not had any opportunity to
respond to the allegations in the legal claim.
The woman is said to have been 17 at the time, considered to be a minor in Florida.
In a 2011 Vanity Fair article, Prince Andrew denied any sexual contact with young women associated with Epstein.
Contacted on Thursday, Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the
allegations contained in the court document. A palace spokesperson said
the royal household would “never comment on an ongoing legal matter”.
Another close associate of Epstein who is also accused in the
lawsuit, Alan Dershowitz, told the Guardian that the woman’s accusations
against himself were “totally false and made up”.
The Harvard law professor and esteemed criminal defence attorney who
later advised Epstein on how to respond to the FBI’s investigation is
accused in the court motion of having sexual relations with the woman
when she was a minor and of witnessing the abuse of other minors.
On Thursday he told the Guardian: “There is no more strenuous denial
than the one I am giving. I never met her. I don’t know her. I have
never had sex with an underage person.”
He added: “This person has made this up out of cloth, maliciously and knowingly in order to extort money from Mr Epstein.”
Dershowitz, who has occasionally written op-ed articles for the Guardian,
said he could not comment on the woman’s allegations against Prince
Andrew or any other men, but he said her claims against him were
demonstrably false and challenged her to file criminal charges against
him.
“It is a totally fabricated charge in every possible way,” he said. “It just never happened.”
He said he was considering taking legal action to have Brad Edwards
and Paul Cassell, the lawyers who filed the motion, disbarred for
“knowingly filing … a false, malicious and defamatory statement in a
lawsuit”.
Edwards said: “We have been informed of Mr Dershowitz’s threats of
legal action and bar proceedings … we carefully investigate all of the
allegations in our pleadings before presenting them.”
In a statement to the Guardian through her lawyers, the woman behind
the allegations said she was being “unjustly victimised again”.
“These types of aggressive attacks on me are exactly the reason why
sexual abuse victims typically remain silent and the reason why I did
for a long time,” she said. “That trend should change. I’m not going to
be bullied back into silence.”
The Guardian is aware of the identity of the plaintiff behind the
allegations, but is respecting her wish to bring the case anonymously.
Andrew’s close relationship with Epstein – he visited him in New York
two years after the American’s release from prison in 2009 – has long
been a source of controversy. The Daily Mail reported in 2011 that the
prince had broken off contact with the banker.
The duke had previously been accused of meeting Epstein’s young
victims and possibly being aware of their sexual exploitation. However,
this is the first time he has been named in a court document as a
participant in any sexual activity with one of the young women allegedly
trafficked by Epstein.
As the claim has only just been lodged, and as the duke is not a
named party to it, he has not had the opportunity to formally file a
defence or denial to the claims.
In 2006, the FBI opened an investigation into allegations that
Epstein had been paying for sex with underage girls at his Palm Beach
mansion for years. By the following year federal prosecutors said they
had identified 40 young women who may have been illegally procured by
Epstein.
In 2008, however, the federal inquiry was dropped after Epstein
negotiated a deal with prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty to
a relatively minor state charge relating to soliciting paid sex with a
minor – a 14-year-old girl. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence
and is now a registered sex offender.
Many of his alleged victims have since reached out-of-court
settlements with Epstein, who was once considered among the wealthiest
investment bankers in the world.
However, two of Epstein’s alleged victims, referred to in court
documents as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, have brought a lawsuit arguing
that federal prosecutors violated a victims’ rights statute by failing
to consult them over Epstein’s secret deal.
The pair won a significant legal victory in July last year entitling
them to see previously confidential documents from the plea bargain
discussions between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors.
The court document filed this week containing allegations against
Andrew is a motion to allow two more alleged Epstein victims, referred
to as Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4, to join the action.
Jane Doe 3 – the woman who made the accusations against Andrew –
claims her contact with Epstein began when she was approached at the age
of 15 by Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late media mogul Robert
Maxwell and a close friend of Epstein.
The motion alleges that Maxwell “was one of the main women whom
Epstein used to procure under-aged girls for sexual activities”. With
Maxwell’s assistance, the document alleges, Epstein converted the girl
into a “sex slave”, repeatedly abusing her in his private jet or his
lavish residences in New York, New Mexico, Florida and the US Virgin
Islands.
“Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe, making her
available for sex to politically connected and financially powerful
people,” the court document alleges. “Epstein’s purposes in ‘lending’
Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to
ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and
financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.”
The motion alleges that Maxwell was “a primary co-conspirator in his
sexual abuse and sex trafficking scheme” and that she also participated
in the abuse.
The document goes on to allege: “Perhaps even more important to her
role in Epstein’s sexual abuse ring, Maxwell had direct connections to
other powerful individuals with whom she could connect Epstein. For
instance, one such powerful individual Epstein forced Jane Doe #3 to
have sexual relations with was a member of the British royal family,
Prince Andrew (aka Duke of York).”
The document lists three locations where the woman alleges she was
forced to have sexual relations with Andrew: Maxwell’s London apartment,
Epstein’s private Caribbean island in what was allegedly “an orgy with
numerous other under-aged girls”, and an undisclosed location in New
York.
Requests made to representatives of Ghislaine Maxwell for comment had
not been returned at the time of publication, but she has previously
strenuously denied any involvement in procuring young girls for Epstein
or any of his associates. In 2011 a spokesperson for Maxwell said she
had never been contacted by any law enforcement agency in connection
with the allegations.
The new motion alleges that Epstein instructed the girl “to give the
prince whatever he demanded” and also instructed her to “report back on
the details of the sexual abuse”.
The woman’s lawyers allege in their motion that, in addition to
facilitating her alleged encounters with the prince and Dershowitz,
Epstein trafficked her to “many other powerful men, including numerous
prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign
presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders”.
After this article was published, Buckingham Palace issued a
statement, saying: “This relates to long-running and ongoing civil
proceedings in the United States to which the Duke of York is not a
party. As such we would not comment in detail. However, for the
avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors
is categorically untrue.”
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