Prince Andrew: Calls for royal to say sorry and speak to FBI | UK news | The Guardian
Prince Andrew: Calls for royal to say sorry and speak to FBI | UK news | The Guardian
Prince Andrew: Calls for royal to say sorry and speak to FBI
Lawyers for Epstein’s victims say they were ‘almost completely ignored’ in interview
Edward Helmore in New York, Ben Quinn and Jim Waterson
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Prince Andrew
Lawyers say that Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview ‘ignored victims’. Photograph: BBC
Prince Andrew is facing a transatlantic backlash over his extraordinary defence of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after lawyers who represent 10 of the billionaire predator’s victims branded the royal unrepentant and implausible and demanded that he speak to the FBI.
After the royal’s defiant Newsnight interview on Saturday triggered a disbelieving reaction from the public and the media, the prince was under growing pressure from critics in the UK and US on Sunday who demanded an apology for his conduct and said that his defence of his actions was simply not credible.
Gloria Allred, who has worked on numerous high-profile sexual harassment cases and is now representing five of Epstein’s victims, told the Guardian: “The right and honourable action for Prince Andrew to take now is for him to volunteer to be interviewed by the FBI and prosecutors for the southern district of New York [who are continuing to investigate sex-trafficking allegations against Epstein despite his death in prison in August].
“Prince Andrew has decided to enter the court of public opinion with this interview and people can decide whether to believe him or not. The most important part of this is the victims and very little was said about them in this interview. They were almost completely ignored.”
Prince Andrew: Calls for royal to say sorry and speak to FBI
Lawyers for Epstein’s victims say they were ‘almost completely ignored’ in interview
Edward Helmore in New York, Ben Quinn and Jim Waterson
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Prince Andrew
Lawyers say that Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview ‘ignored victims’. Photograph: BBC
Prince Andrew is facing a transatlantic backlash over his extraordinary defence of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after lawyers who represent 10 of the billionaire predator’s victims branded the royal unrepentant and implausible and demanded that he speak to the FBI.
After the royal’s defiant Newsnight interview on Saturday triggered a disbelieving reaction from the public and the media, the prince was under growing pressure from critics in the UK and US on Sunday who demanded an apology for his conduct and said that his defence of his actions was simply not credible.
Gloria Allred, who has worked on numerous high-profile sexual harassment cases and is now representing five of Epstein’s victims, told the Guardian: “The right and honourable action for Prince Andrew to take now is for him to volunteer to be interviewed by the FBI and prosecutors for the southern district of New York [who are continuing to investigate sex-trafficking allegations against Epstein despite his death in prison in August].
“Prince Andrew has decided to enter the court of public opinion with this interview and people can decide whether to believe him or not. The most important part of this is the victims and very little was said about them in this interview. They were almost completely ignored.”
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