In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, lawyers for Virginia Giuffre say they sent a civil lawsuit to Prince Andrew's U.S.-based lawyer by email and FedEx, and both copies had been received.
has been served with a sexual assault lawsuit in the United States by lawyers for a woman who says she was forced to have sex with him at the London home of a friend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, court papers show.said they sent the civil lawsuit to the prince's Los Angeles-based lawyer Andrew Brettler by email and FedEx, and both copies had been received by Monday morning.
Brettler did not respond to a request for comment. There was no comment from the prince's London legal team. She also said Andrew abused her at around the same time in Epstein's mansion in Manhattan and on Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees Giuffre's lawsuit, has urged both sides not to dwell on"technicalities" and instead to focus on the case's substance.
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