NEW YORK —
A U.S. choose on Thursday scheduled a Jan. 4, 2022 listening to the place legal professionals for Prince Andrew are anticipated to argue for a dismissal of Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her when she was beneath 18.
U.S. District Choose Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan issued the scheduling order at some point after saying he anticipated Giuffre’s civil case to go to trial between September and December 2022, offered it isn’t settled or dismissed.
Giuffre, 38, sued Andrew for unspecified damages in August.
She accused Queen Elizabeth’s second son of forcing her to have intercourse greater than twenty years in the past on the London residence of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, and abusing her at two houses belonging to financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew, 61, has denied Giuffre’s claims, and accused her of attempting to revenue from accusations in opposition to Epstein, who Giuffre says additionally abused her, and individuals who knew him. The prince has not been charged with crimes.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail in August 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking fees. A health worker known as his loss of life a suicide.
Maxwell has pleaded not responsible to felony fees she helped recruit and groom underage ladies for Epstein to abuse.
Her trial begins on Nov. 29.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; modifying by Grant McCool)
