NEW YORK — The U.S. judge overseeing the lawsuit alleging Prince Andrew sexually assaulted a teenager decades ago asked U.K. and Australian authorities for assistance questioning potential witnesses in those countries.
U.S. District Court Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Monday sent a formal request to a U.K. court to facilitate Virginia Giuffre’s subpoena for the testimony of Shukri Walker, who has previously said in media interviews that she saw Andrew with a young girl at London’s Tramp Nightclub in 2001.
According to Giuffre’s suit against Andrew, she danced with him at the club around that time, after being taken there by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell when she was 17. Giuffre claims the British royal was one of several powerful men to whom Epstein “lent” her out for sexual abuse.
