Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a longtime accuser of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, accusing him of sexual abuse.
In the suit, filed on Monday in New York federal court, Giuffre accused the 61-year-old prince of sexually abusing her at Epstein’s Manhattan home when she was under the age of 18, and of intentionally inflicting emotional distress. She is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
“I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me. The powerful and the rich are not exempt from being held responsible for their actions,” Giuffre said in part, in a statement to media.