Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Faces U.S. Judge Lewis Kaplan In Virginia Giuffre’s Epstein Case

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, is set to be called before U.S. judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York in a case brought by Virginia Giuffre, who alleges triplice violenza sessuale.

“- Published A woman abused by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has said they had dinner in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's private apartments in Buckingham Palace”

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La Repubblica frames the dispute as a choice between a “processo per violenza sessuale” and a “risarcimento” that avoids judgment, citing that 10 milioni di dollari had been offered for a patteggiamento that “ora non bastano più.”

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The same account ties the allegations to Jeffrey Epstein, described as a “miliardario americano amico del principe Andrea,” and to Ghislaine Maxwell, described as “storica amica del principe Andrea” and “complice” in New York.

La Repubblica also situates the case within the 2022 “Giubileo di Platino” of Elisabetta II, quoting Enrico Franceschini’s warning that it risks becoming a “Giubileo di Fango.”

Marie Claire reports that Prince Andrew told BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019, “Suppongo di averlo visto una o due volte all’anno, al massimo tre volte l’anno,” while also saying it would be “un’esagerazione” to call Epstein “un amico molto, molto intimo.”

Marie Claire’s chronology says Andrew told Maitlis that he met Epstein in 1999 “tramite la sua ragazza,” Ghislaine Maxwell, but it also notes that Alastair Watson in 2011 said Andrew knew Epstein “da quando gli è stato presentato all’inizio degli anni ’90”.

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The BBC adds a separate, later account from Sarah Kellen to the US House Oversight Committee, where she said she had dinner in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s private apartments in Buckingham Palace.

In the BBC’s reporting, Kellen told the committee that she was “sexually and psychologically abused by Jeffrey Epstein for over a decade,” and she said she was sexually abused by Ghislaine Maxwell, while also stating she witnessed no “inappropriate behaviour” from Mountbatten-Windsor.

The BBC reports that the House Oversight Committee is conducting a congressional investigation into Epstein, who “died in a New York prison in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges,” and it describes Kellen’s testimony as part of the committee’s review of allegations tied to royal residences.

“It's a banishment—the historic decision taken by King Charles III against his brother Andrew, a Windsor dynasty outcast swept up in scandals, beginning with his ties to the late American fixer-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein”

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In that same BBC account, Kellen told the committee that she had potentially “organised meetings at Jeffrey's office in Palm Beach, Florida, while he was on work release [from prison] and at the house in Palm Beach,” for Sarah Ferguson, and she said she was “unaware” of being named a possible “co-conspirator” until it became public.

La Repubblica, meanwhile, portrays the legal fight as a broader reckoning for the Windsor monarchy, writing that the “contrappasso” would come through “l’accertamento della verità” in a public process or through a settlement that avoids judgment.

La Repubblica also quotes Enrico Franceschini’s line that the “Giubileo di Platino” could turn into a “Giubileo di Fango,” linking the stakes to how the world remembers the Windsors as the case proceeds before Lewis Kaplan.