A federal judge denied Prince Andrew’s request to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing a teenager, dealing a blow to the royal’s efforts to stop litigation alleging his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
The prospect of a highly publicized trial involving Prince Andrew in the year that Queen Elizabeth is due to celebrate her 70 years on the British throne isAfter stepping back from royal duties in 2019 over his links to Epstein, Prince Andrew, the queen’s second son who holds the title of Duke of York, has largely been relegated to appearing in long-lens paparazzi shots driving to and from his home on the Windsor estate.
Still a deep dive into his private life in a New York court would generate a swath of negative headlines just as the palace looks to highlight the service of Britain’s longest-serving monarch.Ms. Giuffre previously settled a lawsuit with Epstein in 2009 that accused him of trafficking her for sex. Earlier this month, Prince Andrew’s lawyers argued in court that he was protected from litigation by Ms. Giuffre under the settlement between her and Epstein. The agreement prohibited her from suing Epstein, his employees and other “potential defendants.”
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in his ruling on Tuesday that the language in the settlement was too ambiguous as to whom it protected from litigation. “Of course, we don’t know what, if anything, went through the parties’ minds with respect to the specific terms of the 2009 agreement,” the judge said in his ruling.
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