Prince Andrew fails in bid to dismiss US sexual abuse lawsuit
by Victoria Bekiempis in New York from World news | The Guardian on (#5TY0Y)
Civil claim against duke by longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre can move forward, federal judge rules in New York
- This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse
A judge in New York has rejected Prince Andrew's attempt to persuade a US court to throw out a sexual abuse lawsuit brought against him by longtime American accuser Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre, now 38, says she was forced into sex at 17 with Andrew, the Duke of York, by associates of his, the late sex offender and financier, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell, the British media heiress who was convicted in New York last month of sex-trafficking girls for Epstein.
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