According to The Mirror the Queen has allegedly told the wayward prince that she will not be responsible for his legal fees, at the same time reports that the unemployed man is struggling to raise funds is reported.
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To this end outlets claim that the man who earned the nickname “Randy Andy” is desperately trying to sell his £17million Swiss chalet.
All of this conjecture comes after the Duke of York apparently visited his mother on January 31. He must also contend with the fact that a judge in his case has thus far declined to dismiss the suit at his request, and his friend Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on similar charges last week.
The civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew was brought by Virginia Giuffre. She alleges that she was trafficked as a minor to Andrew by Maxwell and the dead convicted pedophile friend of both her and Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein.
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According to the accuser, Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17-years old. According to Republic World, “She claimed Prince Andrew forced her into sexual acts. The case was filed under New York’s Child Victims Act. According to Guiffre, Prince Andrew knew that she was a sex-trafficking victim. She alleged that the Duke of York had forced her to engage in a sexual relation, a claim Andrew continues to deny.”
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After Maxwell was found guilty on similar counts to those which Andrew is now facing, legal experts claim this is a potential setback for Andrew who has asked for the case to be dismissed.
“According to attorneys who have been fighting the case for decades … Maxwell used to lure teenage girls for her boyfriend, Epstein and his close aides.” The existence of a photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around the bare waist of Giuffre, with Maxwell grinning in the background has arguably come back to haunt Andrew. It has been widely disseminated yet his friends claim it is a Photoshop fake.
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