This will be embarrassing for the royals.
What is in the secret Prince Andrew ‘sex slave’ files?
Now, about 2,000 files from a 2015 defamation case involving Virginia Roberts, an alleged trafficking victim, are due to be released. Some are said to contain information regarding Roberts’ claim that as a teenager, she was forced by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew, the
Daily Expressreports. The Duke of York strongly denies the allegations.
Roberts, now 35, says that she was first coerced into sexual slavery in 1998, when she was a 15-year-old working as a changing room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago beach club in Florida, reports
Business Insider.
She has claimed in court documents that she was “procured for sexual activities” by Ghislaine Maxwell, a personal aide of Epstein and friend of Prince Andrew. Maxwell also denies the claims.
Roberts says Epstein used her as a “sex slave” and forced her to sleep with his prominent associates, including the Prince. The royal was pictured with his arm around the then-17-year-old’s waist at Maxwell’s London home in 2001.
Epstein and Roberts are believed to have settled a civil lawsuit out of court in 2009 but six years later, she attempted to join a lawsuit launched by other alleged victims trying to reopen the Epstein case. However, the judge ruled that too much time had passed since her original suit and threw out her allegations against Andrew because they were “immaterial and impertinent to the central claim”.
Maxwell then gave an interview during which she called Roberts a “liar”. In response, Roberts sued her for defamation in the US, with that case also settled.
“Most of the court documents remained under seal following legal representations from Maxwell, who is a daughter of the late disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell,” reports
The Times.
But in the latest ruling, Jose Cabranes, a US appeals judge, said that the public’s right to know the content of the documents containing the allegedly revealing information “outweighed the privacy rights of people who wanted to keep them secret”.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/102268/what-is-in-the-secret-prince-andrew-sex-slave-files