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An agreement between the deceased financier and Virginia Giuffre is made public in 2009 whereby the young woman collected half a million dollars and agreed not to sue other “potential defendants”
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The document will be the subject of an intense legal debate on Tuesday to determine if Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against the Duke of York can continue.
Five days after a federal popular jury in New York convicted Ghislaine Maxwell in a criminal case for conspiring and participating in the trafficking and sexual abuse of minors plot attributed to the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, attention now turns to Prince Andrew of England, one of the most noted as participants in the exploitation of victims of this plot, accusations that he denies.
The second and favorite son of Elizabeth II faces in New York a civil lawsuit for emotional distress and aggression presented by Virginia Giuffre, the 38-year-old woman, now a mother of three, who has assured that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three times in 2001 when she had 17 years and it was submitted by Epstein and Maxwell, who was the one who introduced him to the member of the British royal house.
It is Tuesday there will be a fundamental view in which Judge Lewis Kaplan will decide whether the lawsuit goes ahead. And in that hearing a document released this Monday will play a key role: a confidential agreement that Giuffre signed in 2009 with Epstein in Florida.
Under that pact, in which Epstein did not acknowledge guilt or responsibility but put an end to Giuffre’s lawsuit, he paid him Half a million dollars and she accepted do not take future legal action against the financier, against the people directly related to him (from heirs to lawyers, administrators and / or employees) or against any other person or entity that could have been included as “potential defendants”.
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The lawyers of Andrés, who has been removed from all official functions of the Crown, interpret that their client is included in that part of “potential defendants & rdquor; that covered the 2009 pact (which they tried not to make public) and they want the current lawsuit to be dismissed against your client.
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The defense also previously tried to have the case dismissed on the grounds that Giuffre has lived for more than a decade in Australia and not in the United States, where he has filed the civil suit, but Judge Kaplan refused to do so.
Giuffre is also involved in a crossover of civil lawsuits for defamation with the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor what was Epstein’s lawyer in 2008 and has also represented Harvey Weinstein y Donald Trump. According to Giuffre denounced in the BBC and in ‘The New Yorker’, she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz by Epstein six times. He has called her a “prostitute & rdquor; and “bad mother”.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com