LONDON, January 2 (Sputnik) — Buckingham palace strongly denied in a Friday statement the allegations by a US woman who claimed she was forced into sexual relations with Prince Andrew when she was a teen.
20 October 2014, 16:08 GMT
"This relates to long-running and ongoing civil proceedings in the US to which the Duke of York is not a party. As such we would not comment in detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue," a spokesperson for the Buckingham Palace said.
The papers filed by the lawyers of a US-national to the court of Florida say that from 1999 to 2002 she was held as a "sex slave" by US banker Jeffrey Epstein. The woman named "Jane Doe 3" in the court documents, claims that Epstein "loaned" her to his famous friends, including Prince Andrew, when she was as young as 17.
In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in jail over soliciting a 14-year-old girl for prostitution. In 2011, Prince Andrew denied in a public statement that he ever had relations with any of "Epstein's girls."
