EPSTEIN VICTIMS FEAR ANDY WILL NEVER FACE TRIAL
Prince will get ‘rape’ case dismissed predicts lawyer
JEFFREY Epstein’s victims fear Prince Andrew will never face a US court despite finally being served a writ over alleged rape and sexual assault.
Attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents nine of paedophile Epstein’s victims, believes the Duke of York’s team will lodge a motion to dismiss the civil lawsuit within days.
Mr Kuvin says there are numerous grounds the prince could use.
And he fears Judge
Lewis Kaplan may not even accept that the writ has been legally served when he sits to formally consider the case at a hearing in
New York scheduled for 9pm Uk-time tomorrow. Mr Kuvin, who is based in Florida, told the Sunday People: “The victims I represent don’t believe Andrew will ever be held accountable for his actions.
“There is no chance of getting Andrew to court, but he absolutely should be tried in the court of public opinion and that’s what this process is doing very successfully.”
Epstein’s former sex slave Virginia
Giuffre, now 38, accuses Andrew, 61, of abusing her three times when she was aged under 18, including at the London home of Epstein pal Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Mr Kuvin said: “My personal view is that Andrew should step forward and be a man and answer to his accuser.
“He should present himself in court, present himself for a deposition, but
he’s never going to do that.” Lawyers for Miss Giuffre claim the papers were properly served by private investigator Cesar Sepulveda at Andrew’s Royal Lodge home in Windsor, Berks.
Mr Sepulveda handed the documents to a police officer at the lodge on August 27 after weeks of claims that Andrew was avoiding officials. The prince denies all Ms Giuffre’s claims.
Last night he was at Balmoral, Scotland with the Queen and his ex-wife Sarah, 61, who still lives with him.
Maxwell, 59, daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, is in jail in New York awaiting trial on charges of aiding Epstein.
The financier, 66, was found dead in his cell in 2019 before his trial. feedback@people.co.uk