Prince Andrew asks US court to dismiss sexual abuse case

The British Prince Andrew He filed an appeal on Friday to dismiss the complaint of sexual abuse against him made by an alleged victim in a New York court, according to a court document.

The lawyers of the Duke of York tobequeathed in the resource that Andrés “He respectfully requests the dismissal of Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit”, who accuses him of having sexually abused her more than 20 years ago, when she was 17, considered a minor by US law.

Andrés, 61, has not been criminally charged and has refuted all the accusations.

Last month, the queen’s second child Isabel II He accepted to have received official documents of the case and had until October 29 to respond to the complaint.

His attorneys asked the Manhattan District Court to dismiss the complaint for “Be legally unfounded.”

They also asked that Giuffre, 38, “Provide a more complete statement of your allegations.”

“Prince Andrew respectfully requests that the court make an oral argument on his request”says the court in a terse statement.

Giuffre alleges that Andrés sexually abused her at the London home of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

He also assures that he had sexual relations with her in the home of New York of the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein, as well as on his private island in the Virgin Islands.

Giuffre accuses Epstein, who committed suicide while awaiting trial for child trafficking in 2019, of lending her to his wealthy and powerful friends to have sex with her.

Andrés has practically disappeared from public life since he was forced to withdraw from the front line of real activities in 2019 for not distancing himself from Epstein.

Maxwell’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 29 to answer charges of recruiting teens for Epstein. He pleaded not guilty.

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