Lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, say they have served the British royal with legal papers for a lawsuit.
NEW YORK — Lawyers for a woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse say they have served the senior British royal with legal papers for a lawsuit. Prince Andrew is being sued in New York by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says he had sex with her when she was 17. Andrew has denied similar allegations from Giuffre in the past. Giuffre has launched a civil case seeking damages, but the lawsuit can’t proceed until the papers are served. In an affidavit filed in a New York court Friday, a process server hired by Giuffre’s legal team to give formal notice of the lawsuit to Andrew said he left the papers with the Metropolitan Police security detail at the main gates of Andrew’s home, the Royal Lodge in Windsor, on August 27. Serving the papers in that manner “is consistent with the provisions for service upon an individual Defendant… as required by The Supreme Court of Judicature in England & Wales,” said the document, which was filed in the Southern District of New York and obtained by CNN. It is unclear whether Prince Andrew, the Queen’s second son, was at his residence at the time and whether his lawyers would say this was proper service.
