By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 10 – Prince Andrew was sued on August 9 by Virginia Giuffre, under the New York State Child Victims Act, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (where Inner City Press found it that day in the docket).
Now on September 10 in the docket, an affidavit of service by Cesar Augusto Sepulveda that he served The Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park - to a Metropolitan Police Officer then by mail.
SDNY Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, to whom the case has been assigned, scheduled a September 13 proceeding, regardless: "ORDER FOR INITIAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE: Initial Conference set for 9/13/2021 at 04:00 PM before Judge Lewis A. Kaplan via teleconference. Counsel receiving this order shall promptly mail and email copies hereof to all other counsel of record or, in the case of any party for whom no appearance has been made, to such party and to all counsel, foreign or domestic, known or believed to be acting on behalf of such party. Counsel for both parties are directed to confer regarding an agreed scheduling order. If counsel are able to agree on a schedule and the agreed schedule calls for filing of the pretrial order not more than six (6) months from the date of this order, counsel shall sign and file within twenty-one (21) days from the date hereof a consent order in the form annexed for consideration by the Court. Regardless of whether such a consent order is filed within the time provided, a teleconference will be held on September 13, 2021 at 4 p.m."
Guiffre, represented by Boies Schiller, states that Giuffre "was regularly abused by Epstein and was lent out by Epstein to other powerful men for sexual purposes. One such powerful man to whom Plaintiff was lend out for sexual purposes was the Defendant, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York."
The Complaint contains a map of flights from London to Tangier to Teterboro to Santa Fe. It cited Ghislaine Maxwell, who after press conferences in the United Nations is in the MDC awaiting trial in the SDNY.
It has the famous photo, with Prince Andrew with his arm around Giuffe's waist and Maxwell in the background. The first cause of action is Battery.
Then, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, and damages. Inner City Press will follow and report on the case.
The case is Giuffre v. Prince Andrew, 21-cv-6702 (Kaplan).
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