Prince Andrew was arrested by anti-monarchy group Republic after allegations that he had sexual relations with minors trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein resurfaced in a trove of unseen court documents released this week. was reported.
The disgraced royal family, which was mentioned more than 70 times in nearly 1,000 pages of documents that Manhattan federal judge Loretta Preska ordered released last month, is said to have made numerous arrests on the late pedophile's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was accused of participating in an orgy with underage girls. Islands.
The victim, referred to in court documents as “Jane Doe 3,” was “forced to have sexual relations with the prince as a minor” at Epstein's private island in New York and at Ghislaine Maxwell's apartment in London. Stated.
Virginia Giuffre, the Epstein defendant at the center of the document dump, said she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times around 2001, when she was 17 and 18.
Mr. Giuffre's settlement of a 2015 defamation lawsuit against Madame Maxwell, the source of the unsealed documents, has sparked renewed interest in the case.
Another Epstein accuser, Johanna Sjoberg, said the Duke of York allegedly put his hand on her chest as she sat on his lap for a photo at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in 2001. He explained the incident in a newly unsealed deposition in 2016.
The Republic said the newly unsealed documents required a deeper investigation into Prince Andrew.
Republic said in a statement posted to
“That is why today the Republic is reporting Andrew to the police and calling on the Metropolitan Museum of Art to investigate these accusations.”
“It's simple. The Royal Family should not be above the law. Accusations of crime should always be thoroughly investigated. That's why the Met must act.”
The Metropolitan District has not yet commented on the Republic's request for a new investigation into the royal family.
Law enforcement officials investigated Ms. Giuffre's claims that Andrew had previously sexually assaulted her and completed the investigation in 2021, but no action was taken upon completion.
Andrew denies all of Giuffre's accusations and settled a multimillion-dollar civil suit with her in 2022 without admitting guilt.
Three years earlier, in 2019, he was fired from royal duties over his relationship with Epstein.
