Next steps. Prince Andrew could face trial by the end of the year as new developments are made in his ongoing sexual assault lawsuit.The Associated Press reported on Wednesday, January 12, that a judge dismissed the 61-year-old royal’s request to turn over the suit filed by Virginia Giuffre.
Andrew’s lawyers recently argued that the allegations lacked credibility, claiming that the lawsuit should be thrown out because of a settlement Giuffre reached with the late Jeffrey Epstein in 2009.“Ms.
Giuffre’s complaint is neither ‘unintelligible’ nor ‘vague’ nor ‘ambiguous,'” Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his ruling, per CNN. “It alleges discrete incidents of sexual abuse in particular circumstances at three identifiable locations.
It identifies to whom it attributes that sexual abuse.”Buckingham Palace refused to comment on the “ongoing legal matter” in a statement on Wednesday.
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