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No comfort for the duke

No comfort for the duke

Giuffre’s claim goes ahead — but where will it end?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jan 12, 2022
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Prince Andrew and his lawyers will be disappointed by the ruling delivered in New York today by Judge Lewis Kaplan. But they are not likely to be very surprised.

The Duke of York wanted the judge to dismiss a civil claim brought against him by Virginia Giuffre before it went to trial. Giuffre’s claim is based on two torts, or civil wrongs: battery — whic…

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