Virginia Giuffres father made a scathing attack Prince Andrew To ‘victim-blame’ his daughter.
Skye Roberts has reprimanded the Duke of York for filing legal papers, saying her case against him should be dropped because of ‘his own wrongdoing’.
He said Royal was a ‘coward’ and feared it would lead to claims that his then teenage daughter had trafficked women. Jeffrey Epstein,
But he said he doesn’t think Prince Andrew will go to prison given the outcome of his daughter’s case.
It comes as a lawyer representing Giuffre is set to question the duke in London, but has said he will not need evidence from his ex-wife, daughters or any other person. Queen,
David Bois suggested Andrew be interrogated under a ‘slightly uneasy’ oath – but there is a possibility a financial deal could be struck.
Ms Giuffre claimed in a civil suit that she was smuggled by epstein and forced to have sex with Royal on three occasions at the age of 17.
The Duke issued 41 rebuttals last week, denying all of wrongdoing. He further stated 40 times that he lacked sufficient information to accept or deny the claims.
Skye Roberts (pictured) reprimanded the Duke of York for filing legal papers saying her case against him should be dropped because of ‘his own wrongdoing’.
He said Royal (pictured with his ex-wife this month) was a ‘coward’ and feared it would lead to claims that his then teenage daughter trafficked women for Jeffrey Epstein.
Ms Giuffre claimed in a civil lawsuit that she was trafficked by Epstein and forced to have sex with Royal on three occasions at the age of 17.
Mr Roberts, 65, a retired maintenance manager who worked at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, told sunday mirror: ‘This is the way of cowards to try to blame the victim.’
He continued: ‘It’s ridiculous for him to say that Virginia’s hands are unclean or that she has skeletons in her closet, or whatever.’
He said his daughter was trying to financially harm the Duke as she had no other way.
He continued: ‘How else are you going to hurt him? Are you going to send him to jail? No. He will be protected, he will never see jail.’
But Mr Roberts said it was ‘great’ to see the Queen reject her son for withdrawing from public life and stripped of his military titles.
A for the Duke of York declined to comment on the latest claims in the ongoing saga.
One of America’s best-known lawyers, 80-year-old David Boise, suggested yesterday that the experience of Andrew being interrogated under oath would be ‘a bit uncomfortable’ – but dismissed the possibility that a financial deal could be done
Giuffre’s lawyer Mr Boise is preparing to fly to the UK later this year to receive a legal statement from the Duke, which he expects to last “a day, or maybe two”.
“I’m going to try to convince them that it’s not going to be belligerent,” he told The Daily Telegraph. ‘Obviously, I’m going to ask him a lot of questions.
‘And although some of the questions may be uncomfortable, I am not going to be offensive or in any way offensive towards them. I’m going to be respectful.’
Mr Boise is known as the ‘largest depositor’ in the US and has secured or won nine settlements for clients totaling over $1 billion.
He represented presidential candidate Al Gore after the controversial 2000 election and helped change laws in California to allow gay people to marry.
Mr Bois is preparing to fly to the UK later this year to take a legal statement from the Duke, which he hopes will last ‘a day, or maybe two’, although he says he will probably be able to meet with Prince Andrew’s wider family . no need to talk to
Andrew’s statement must be taken before the July 14 deadline set by the judge.
Should the matter go to court, Mr Bois said he does not think we will need the Duchess of York, Princess Beatrice or Princess Eugenie to testify.
He said that Andrew’s conversation with the Queen could have been used, it is difficult to reach him, because he is probably not going to accept him, and we are not going to depose him.
The duke says he has no recollection of ever meeting Ms. Giuffre, who now uses her married name Giuffre, and said last week that he had a famous one of hers with her arm around his waist in March 2001. There is not enough information to accept or reject the picture. ‘Present’.
Mr Bois claimed he had tried to avoid litigation and is upset by the Duke’s legal strategy.
‘He could have said, ‘I didn’t know she was that young.’ He could have said, ‘It was purely a matter of consent.’
There are so many things he could have said that attacking would have been difficult. But it is incomprehensible.’
Legal experts have widely predicted that Andrew will be forced to settle the case out of court with a financial payout.
While Mr Bois said his client would not want to settle if Andrew continued to deny knowing her and suggested the 2001 photo was fake, she acknowledged that she would consider a financial offer if it was ‘a Enough to be ‘vengeance’.
He added: ‘We would be unlikely to settle in a situation in which someone just handed over a check.
‘So if Prince Andrew says ‘I’ve never heard of this person’, ‘I don’t know who he is’, ‘the pictures are fake’, I don’t think we’ll settle on that basis.
‘That said, if you had a settlement that was really big enough to be a retaliation, that’s something we’ll look at clearly.’