Lawyers for British Prince Andrew on Tuesday, January 4, urged an American judge to dismiss a civil complaint for "sexual assault" that an American filed in New York for facts dating back to 2001 when she was a minor.
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The prince's defenders rely on a compensation and exemption agreement signed in 2009 between this American woman, Virginia Giuffre, and the sexual predator who died in 2019 Jeffrey Epstein, to argue that this regulation “
protects
” also others “
potential accused
”in the entourage of Jeffrey Epstein, including his friend Prince Andrew.
Virginia Giuffre "
gave up her rights to file a complaint against them when she signed the 2009 agreement and received money from Jeffrey Epstein,
" lawyer Andrew Brettler pleaded in a teleconference hearing before Manhattan Federal Court.