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Britain's Prince Andrew wants to challenge the civil suit brought by a woman accusing him of molesting her as a minor.
The 61-year-old Andrew wanted to challenge both the jurisdiction of the court in New York and the proper delivery of the lawsuit, according to a document that a lawyer for the prince deposited on Monday at a court hearing and that was available to the dpa news agency.
Virginia Giuffre, 38, filed the civil lawsuit in mid-August.
The complaint was presented by a representative of Giuffres on August 27 to a police officer at the entrance to the Prince's residence in Windsor, England, according to court files that were inspected in New York last Friday.
Jeffrey Epstein case
In it she accuses the second eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of sexual abuse of a minor and demands compensation.
Giuffre had previously publicly accused the prince of having abused her as a minor.
Andrew had always denied that.
The chief of the London police, Cressida Dick, had announced a review of the abuse allegations.
The case is related to the abuse scandal involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in prison in 2019.
The multimillionaire Epstein is said to have sexually abused underage girls and young women and incited them into prostitution for years.
The allegations against Prince Andrew have been in the room since 2019.
He was several overnight guests at Epstein's premises in the USA and the Caribbean.
He always denied the allegations against him and said that he could not remember a meeting with Giuffre, but resigned from his royal duties after an unsuccessful TV interview in 2019.
dpa / Reuters
