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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Prince Andrew case: Will he face trial over Virginia Giuffre’s claims of sex abuse?

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

A federal judge in New York threw out a request by Prince Andrew to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing him of having sex with a 17-year-old girl who was being sex-trafficked by late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, in a bombshell ruling that paves the way for the case to go to trial.

Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on 12 January that the lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre can move forward to trial.

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