Prince Andrew’s accuser insists she’s a US resident

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The woman who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 today insisted she is an American resident even though the Duke of York’s lawyers claim she lives in Australia so the case must be stopped.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre is suing the ninth in line to the British throne for damages claiming she was ‘forced to have sexual intercourse with Prince Andrew against her will’ and lists offences including ‘rape in the first degree.’

Her attorneys today said her domicile is in Colorado, where her mother resides, and noted that she is registered to vote there. They said those facts and additional evidence establish her Colorado citizenship. 

The Duke of York has also been asked to produce key documents in support of his alibi he did not have sex with his American accuser – including confirmation he did not sweat and witnesses who saw him at a Woking Pizza Express.

Andrew is pinning his hopes on a crunch hearing before a New York judge on January 4 when he will attempt to have the case against him thrown out claiming Ms Giuffre does not live in America, as the writ claims.

The mother-of-three – suing Andrew under her married name of Virginia Giuffre – alleges she was forced to have sex with the duke when she was 17 and was his friend Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave. The Queen’s second son, 61, has always denied her claims in the strongest of terms. 

Her attorneys filed their response to papers earlier this week in which Andrew´s lawyers say she´s really living in Australia, where she has resided for all but two of the last 19 years.

But the prince’s legal team believe the lawsuit she filed in August in Manhattan federal court in which she claimed the prince sexually abused her on multiple occasions in 2001 should not proceed until it is determined whether she is qualified by residency to file the US lawsuit.

They’ve already asked a judge to toss out the lawsuit on multiple grounds, saying the prince never sexually assaulted Giuffre.

The prince’s attorney, Andrew Brettler, has called the lawsuit ‘baseless.’ But lawyers for Giuffre called the action by Andrew’s attorneys to temporarily halt progression of the lawsuit toward trial a ‘transparent attempt to delay discovery into his own documents and testimony.’

They said the prince has claimed he has no documents that would be responsive to the majority of requests by Giuffre’s lawyers, including of any communications with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell or the late financier Jeffrey Epstein or relating to his trips to Florida, New York or various locations in London.

And they said he’s also denied having documents supporting a claim that he has a medical inability to sweat, an alibi he offered in a media interview.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted Wednesday of sex trafficking and conspiracy charges after a month-long trial. Her lawyers had argued that she was made a scapegoat by the U.S. government after Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan federal lockup in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell was arrested a year later.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew‘s accuser are demanding he hand over any documents which explain why he doesn’t sweat – an excuse he used as proof that he had never having met her.

Attorneys representing Virginia Giuffre want the Duke of York to give them information about ‘your alleged medical condition of anhidrosis, hyperhidrosis’, court documents reveal.

Andrew claimed in an interview with the BBC in 2019 that he never got sweaty on the dancefloor with Giuffre in 2001 at a club in London before they had sex because he has a condition which makes it impossible for him to perspire.

The claim was ridiculed and the next day newspapers published photographs of the Duke drenched in sweat at various times.

The court documents also reveal that Giuffre’s lawyers are also asking for deeply personal information from the British royal including ‘any documents concerning any allegations of sexual abuse or extramarital sex made against you’.

The request is part of a lawsuit Giuffre filed in August for infliction of emotional distress and battery.

Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke three times in 2001 at Epstein’s command. Prince Andrew strenuously denies the allegations. 

The documents were filed the day after Andrew’s former close friend Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of recruiting and trafficking underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein.

An infamous photo shows him with his arm around her at Maxwell’s London townhouse: she is in the background grinning broadly.

In his interview with the BBC, Andrew claimed that he didn’t sweat because he had an ‘overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at … it was almost impossible for me to sweat’.

Andrew served as a helicopter pilot in the conflict in 1982 where he flew numerous missions including casualty evacuations.

The documents filed by Giuffre’s lawyers David Boies and Sigrid McCawley are a laundry list of things they want from Andrew during the process of discovery, where both sides hand over materials to the other.

One of the requests asks for: ‘All Documents concerning Your alleged medical condition of anhidrosis, hypohidrosis, or your inability to sweat’.

Andrew’s lawyer Andrew Brettler rejects this on the grounds it is ‘harassing and seeks confidential and private information and documents that are irrelevant, immaterial and not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence’.

Further requests include all documents regarding Andrew’s schedules and meetings in 2001, when he allegedly had sex with Giuffre three times when she was 17.

Andrew’s lawyers rejected the request for all information about allegations of extramatrial sex or sexual abuse on the grounds they are ‘confidential and private information and documents that are irrelevant, immaterial’.

One request is for: ‘All Documents concerning Defendant’s travel to or from, or presence in or on: a. Epstein’s planes; b. Florida; c. New York; d. New Mexico; e. the United States Virgin Islands; f. a Pizza Express located in Woking, England; or g. the Club Tramp nightclub, located in London, England’.

Pizza Express is where Andrew told the BBC he was the night Giuffre claims they had sex in London, and Tramp is the club she claims they went to.

The other locations are where Epstein had his homes.

Another request wants any communications between Andrew and Epstein or Maxwell and their lawyers concerning ‘sexual abuse’ and Andrew’s ‘sexual relations with anyone’.

Andrew’s lawyers rejected this as ‘overbroad, burdensome and oppressive’.

A further request asks for: ‘All Documents concerning any massage that Defendant has received or requested, including but not limited to any documents concerning any individuals who may have provided such massages to Defendant’.

Another document filed to the court is interrogatories submitted to the Duke, which are requests to him to respond to a series of questions.

They include identifying any person or entities who can provide information about people who tracked Andrew’s whereabouts while he was visiting any property owned by Maxwell or Epstein.

Andrew’s response says one such entity would be ‘Buckingham Palace’.

Andrew’s lawyers have requested that the case be dismissed and on Tuesday a judge in federal court in New York will rule if it can be.

Earlier this week Andrew tried to claim the lawsuit was not valid because Giuffre lives in Australia.

In a letter, Boies states that she intends to return to Colorado and is registered to vote there and her mother lives there.

Andrew has strongly denied Giuffre’s claims and claimed she filed the lawsuit to get another ‘payday at his expense’.