Britain's Prince Andrew placed his hands on Johanna Sjoberg's breast at businessman Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home in 2001, is one of the details of Virginia Geoffrey's civil suit against Epstein for pimping and sexual assault that was revealed when court documents from the trial were unsealed on Wednesday. , Voice of America reports.
In a separate statement, Sjoberg, who is also suing Epstein, confirmed this and explained that Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast to pose for a photo with her, Geoffrey and Epstein's ex-girlfriend Gillian Maxwell.
Andrew was stripped of most of his royal titles because of his association with Epstein. He settled a civil suit with Giuffre last year for an undisclosed sum and denied all charges. He was not available for comment, Voice of America writes.
The incident is one of hundreds of sexual assault and pimping allegations against Epstein, who hung out with Wall Streeters, royalty and celebrities before pleading guilty in 2008 to pimping a minor.
He took his own life in 2019 at the age of 66, while awaiting trial on federal charges of human trafficking, writes Voice of America.
Politicians and billionaires
Dozens of women have accused Epstein of forcing them to provide sexual favors to him and his guests. He allegedly pimped them out on his private Caribbean island and at homes in New York, Florida and New Mexico.
Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit, which Epstein also filed, names more than 150 people whose names were sealed for years until a federal judge ruled last month that there was no legal justification for doing so.
Juffre claims in the deposition that she had sex with several prominent politicians and financial leaders, including American billionaire Tom Pricker. She did not specify whether she was a minor at the time, nor whether the sex was without consent, the Voice of America reports.
She also said she had sex with other prominent figures who have previously denied her allegations, including hedge fund owner Glenn Dubin, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
The list stems from a long-settled defamation lawsuit filed by Geoffrey against the daughter of British media mogul Robert Maxwell Gillane, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting underage girls for Epstein. She filed an appeal against the verdict.
Geoffrey accused Gillian Maxwell of recruiting her when she was a minor to be molested by Epstein.
US Judge Loretta Presca, who is overseeing the case, decided that some names will remain confidential, including those of people who were minors when Epstein molested them, Voice of America reports.
Accomplices in sexual crimes
According to British media, Geoffrey's lawsuit against Gillian Maxwell dates back to 2016. The Miami Herald then took legal action to access court documents to investigate Epstein's network.
A number of documents in the case were released in 2019, days before Epstein hanged himself in prison while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell and Epstein were in an emotional relationship in the early 1990s. For almost three decades, they were business associates and accomplices in sexual crimes.
Epstein, a financier with a powerful network in the United States and abroad, was himself accused of raping young girls.
Clinton, Jackson, Hawking...
More than 900 pages of court documents include the name of former US President Bill Clinton. Mentioning a person's name in the context of a civil lawsuit against Epstein does not necessarily mean that person was involved in sexual abuse. Relatives of Epstein's victims are also mentioned, for example.
The American media write that Clinton did not object to the publication of his name, which is mentioned several dozen times, and in the capacity of a witness, which only brings him closer to the committed acts.
Much earlier there was speculation as to who all attended Epstein's parties. New to the list are the late "King of Pop" Michael Jackson and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
Donald Trump is mentioned somewhere in the court documents, but only in the context of the questioning of one witness who stated that she never had sexual relations with him.
