The woman who named Britain’s
Prince Andrew in a US court filing
claiming that she was kept as an
underage “sex slave” by a Wall
Street financier said Saturday she
would not be silenced.
The plaintiff, identified only as
“Jane Doe #3″ in court papers,
told the Guardian newspaper that
she refuses to be “unjustly
victimised again” after robust
denials from Buckingham Palace
and another man named in the
suit.
The story made headline news in
Britain’s newspapers on Saturday.
According to the motion filed in a
Florida court on Monday, the
woman alleges she was “forced to
have sexual relations” with
Andrew, the Duke of York, in
London, New York and the
Caribbean at the behest of Jeffrey
Epstein.
Epstein, a known friend of the 54-
year-old prince, was convicted in
2008 of soliciting an underage girl
for prostitution and served a
prison term.
No dates for the purported sexual
encounters were given, but the
woman claimed she was Epstein’s
sex slave from 1999 through 2002.
In a strongly worded response on
Friday, Buckingham Palace said
that “any suggestion of
impropriety with underage minors
is categorically untrue”.
Another man named in the court
papers also robustly protested his
innocence.
Alan Dershowitz, one of Epstein’s
defence lawyers with whom “Jane
Doe #3″ was allegedly forced to
have sex with on several
occasions, told AFP the story was
“made up”.
He accused “Jane Doe #3″ of
“filing a false and malicious legal
proceeding” in an attempt to extort
money from his former client.
In a statement issued to the
Guardian through her lawyers, the
woman said: “These types of
aggressive attacks on me are
exactly the reason why sexual
abuse victims typically remain
silent and the reason why I did for
a long time.
“That trend should change. I’m not
going to be bullied back into
silence.”
Andrew is the second son of Queen
Elizabeth II and fifth in line to the
British throne.
He was Britain’s Special
Representative for International
Trade and Investment for 10 years
until 2011.
The motion in which he is named
is to be included in an ongoing
civil case that accuses federal
prosecutors of cutting a plea-
bargain deal with Epstein without
consulting his victims, in violation
of the US Crime Victims Rights’
Act.
In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to
18 months in prison after pleading
guilty to a single Florida state
charge of soliciting prostitution.
He remains a registered sex
offender.
Prince Andrew in a US court filing
claiming that she was kept as an
underage “sex slave” by a Wall
Street financier said Saturday she
would not be silenced.
The plaintiff, identified only as
“Jane Doe #3″ in court papers,
told the Guardian newspaper that
she refuses to be “unjustly
victimised again” after robust
denials from Buckingham Palace
and another man named in the
suit.
The story made headline news in
Britain’s newspapers on Saturday.
According to the motion filed in a
Florida court on Monday, the
woman alleges she was “forced to
have sexual relations” with
Andrew, the Duke of York, in
London, New York and the
Caribbean at the behest of Jeffrey
Epstein.
Epstein, a known friend of the 54-
year-old prince, was convicted in
2008 of soliciting an underage girl
for prostitution and served a
prison term.
No dates for the purported sexual
encounters were given, but the
woman claimed she was Epstein’s
sex slave from 1999 through 2002.
In a strongly worded response on
Friday, Buckingham Palace said
that “any suggestion of
impropriety with underage minors
is categorically untrue”.
Another man named in the court
papers also robustly protested his
innocence.
Alan Dershowitz, one of Epstein’s
defence lawyers with whom “Jane
Doe #3″ was allegedly forced to
have sex with on several
occasions, told AFP the story was
“made up”.
He accused “Jane Doe #3″ of
“filing a false and malicious legal
proceeding” in an attempt to extort
money from his former client.
In a statement issued to the
Guardian through her lawyers, the
woman said: “These types of
aggressive attacks on me are
exactly the reason why sexual
abuse victims typically remain
silent and the reason why I did for
a long time.
“That trend should change. I’m not
going to be bullied back into
silence.”
Andrew is the second son of Queen
Elizabeth II and fifth in line to the
British throne.
He was Britain’s Special
Representative for International
Trade and Investment for 10 years
until 2011.
The motion in which he is named
is to be included in an ongoing
civil case that accuses federal
prosecutors of cutting a plea-
bargain deal with Epstein without
consulting his victims, in violation
of the US Crime Victims Rights’
Act.
In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to
18 months in prison after pleading
guilty to a single Florida state
charge of soliciting prostitution.
He remains a registered sex
offender.
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