PRINCE Andrew may face extra bombshell claims as his rape accuser calls for secret courtroom paperwork are launched.
The Duke of York has already been advised he faces a courtroom battle with Virginia Roberts Giuffre after a choose sensationally rejected his bid to get the case thrown out.
Now her legal professionals are demanding courtroom paperwork from when she sued Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation be launched.
The paperwork relate to details about Prince Andrew’s mates Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
Virginia’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley has now written to Decide Lauren Preska in relation to the 2016 courtroom she filed in opposition to Maxwell for calling her a liar
“Now that Maxwell's legal trial has come and gone, there's little purpose to retain safety over the huge swaths of details about Epstein and Maxwell’s sex-trafficking operation that had been initially filed underneath seal on this case,” she mentioned.
Maxwell, 60, is going through dying in jail after being convicted of intercourse trafficking ladies for Epstein to abuse.
The Duke fame lies in tatters because of his friendship with Maxwell, who then launched him to Epstein, with whom he additionally had longstanding friendship.
Epstein hanged himself in jail in 2019 aged 66 whereas going through costs of intercourse trafficking minors.
In her lawsuit in opposition to the Duke, Virginia accuses the pair of trafficking her when she was nonetheless a minor for the royal to abuse her.
The fabric pertains to eight nameless people, all named ‘John Doe’ adopted by a quantity to guard their identification.
If Decide Preska agrees to unseal the paperwork, they might shed new mild on the Duke’s dealings with Maxwell and Epstein.
However it's unclear if Andrew is amongst these recognized in courtroom paperwork.
At the least two of the boys have demanded the paperwork stay underneath wraps with one saying affiliation with the case “would trigger him annoyance and embarrassment”.
However in her letter to the choose, Ms McCawley argued that a “generalized aversion to embarrassment and negativity” was no purpose for the paperwork to stay sealed.
Virginia, now 38-year-old, claims she was enticed by Maxwell and lured into paedo Epstein's sick sexual pyramid scheme.
She alleges she was pressured to have intercourse with Andrew on three events - in London, New York and on Epstein's island Little St James.
Her authorized staff argue she was a "frightened, weak baby with nobody there to guard her" when she was allegedly abused by Andrew, saying "no individual, whether or not President or Prince, is above the legislation".
The royal has repeatedly denied all allegations in opposition to him, which incorporates rape within the first diploma, and his attorneys have claimed his accuser has a "tendency to alter her story".
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