Prince Andrew denies sex abuse allegations, calls for jury trial

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By Sonia Moghe, CNN

In his official response to Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit alleging sexual abuse, Prince Andrew denied her allegations and demanded a jury trial, according to a filing Wednesday.

The filing details his denials of the charges Giuffre made against him in his trial, paragraph by paragraph.

Giuffre alleged in the lawsuit that the late financier Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her and forced her to have sex with his friends, including Andrew, and that Andrew knew she was underage in the United States at the time. era.

She alleged Andrew sexually assaulted her on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, at his mansion in Manhattan and at the home of his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in London.

Andrew denied these allegations.

Yet the British royal admitted in the court filing that he met Epstein in 1999 through Maxwell. Andrew also admitted that in 2000 Epstein and Maxwell attended the prince’s 40th birthday and in 2010 Andrew was photographed with Epstein in Central Park and stayed at Epstein’s New York mansion.

CNN has reached out to Giuffre’s attorney for comment.

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