Prince Andrew’s legal team is fighting back in US sex assault case. Here’s what you need to know

Giuffre, an alleged victim of convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says she was forced to perform sex acts with Andrew.

Andrew, 61, has consistently denied the claims, telling the BBC in 2019: “It didn’t happen.

That agreement, Andrew’s lawyers say, included a “general release” of all claims against Epstein and numerous other people, including Andrew.

The scheduling order signed by the judge in New York means that if lawyers for Giuffre want to question Andrew, they must do so outside of court and submit the interview by that date.

In that broadcast, Andrew said he had taken his elder daughter, Princess Beatrice, to a party at a pizza restaurant on the night it is claimed he had sex with Giuffre.

Aside from the days following the death of his father, Prince Philip, earlier this year, he has barely appeared in public since.

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