The guilty verdict in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping to lure teen girls for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, comes days before her longtime friend Prince Andrew tries to get his own civil case dismissed in a New York City courtroom.
Although the jury at Maxwell’s trial heard no evidence of Prince Andrew’s involvement in any wrongdoing and Giuffre did not testify, the influential U.K. newspaper The Times heralded the verdict as “bad news” for the prince, who is now linked with two convicted criminals. Other British media outlets followed suit.He said in a 2019 BBCthat he had “no recollection” of ever having met Giuffre and “absolutely no memory” of an infamous photograph showing them together with Maxwell in 2001.
He added that he had been friends with Maxwell for decades and that it was through her that he met Epstein in 1999.: “We were told constantly, you know, these people will never go to jail. They are too powerful. They are too rich. And we live in a new day. And it just goes to show that, you know, this is not the end. This is just the beginning.”alleging that Maxwell trafficked her to Prince Andrew when she was 17.
Andrew Brettler, the prince’s lawyer, said in a text message Thursday that he would not be issuing a statement about the Maxwell verdict on behalf of Prince Andrew. Giuffre accuses Andrew in the lawsuit of having sexually abused her on separate occasions — in London and New York and on Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.The suit alleges that Epstein and Maxwell compelled her to engage in sexual acts with Andrew and that he knew she was a sex-trafficking victim.
“Twenty years ago Prince Andrew’s wealth, power, position, and connections enabled him to abuse a frightened, vulnerable child with no one there to protect her. It is long past the time for him to be held to account,” says the lawsuit, which was filed Aug. 9 in the Southern District of New York.
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