A Harvard law professor who once acted for Jeffrey Epstein and a photograph of Ghislaine Maxwell’s bathtub may not seem the most obvious means of rehabilitating one’s image.
However, supporters of the Duke of York believe they could prove to be crucial elements in a campaign to help clear his name.
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Last night,
Alan Dershowitz, an American lawyer and academic who Guiffre accused of abuse before admitting she may have made a “mistake”, also gave Andrew his support.
“I hope he fights back in an effort to uncover the truth,” he said.
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The prospect of Andrew seeking to overturn the settlement — and potentially to extract an apology from his accuser — appears to have been fuelled by Giuffre’s recent decision to end a separate legal action involving Dershowitz. Giuffre had repeatedly claimed that she had been trafficked by Epstein, the late paedophile financier, to be abused as a teenager by the emeritus Harvard law professor.
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Legal experts believe that Andrew’s settlement with Giuffre can be “undone” if there is evidence of fraud, coercion or any other wrongdoing.
One possible line of attack that might be re-examined is whether Giuffre was a genuine US resident when she originally filed her lawsuit against the duke.
She stated at the time that she was a resident of Colorado, but Andrew’s lawyers pointed out that she had lived in Australia for all but two of the last 19 years.
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Boies accused Andrew’s supporters of “casting innuendos from the shadows” and pointed out that Dershowitz had conceded in the past that Giuffre was being “honest and truthful” to the best of her recollection.
Ian Maxwell, however, said the Dershowitz outcome is likely to benefit the duke and could have a bearing on his sister’s impending appeal against child sex trafficking offences, for which she is serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida jail. “If Andrew goes to court, my hunch is he would prevail or at least obtain a retraction,” he said.
A staged photo of ‘the prince and Virginia Giuffre’ in a tub has been published in a bizarre attempt to prove his innocence
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BBM. I'm pretty sure Ian Maxwell also predicted Ghislaine would be cleared at trial.