Court documents reveal that the Duke of York wants Virginia Roberts Giuffre's psychologist to be questioned as a witness and say that Giuffre is suffering from “false memories” in her claims that he sexually abused her in 2001 when she was 17 years old.
In the first detailed indication of the strategy he will use to confront Ms Giuffre’s allegations the Duke has laid out a series of claims of his own, each with the potential to severely damage her testimony and credibility.
The Duke also claims that any trauma Ms Giuffre suffered at Epstein’s hands has been compounded by her own decision to speak openly about her past.The move came as the Duke was photographed with his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, in his Range Rover driving from their residence in the grounds of Windsor Great Park on Saturday.The Duchess’s appearance by his side suggests she continues to stand by him in his battle to clear his name.
His lawyers state that the Duke “contends that [Ms Giuffre] may suffer from false memories, as evidenced by the fact that her claims regarding her time with Epstein and the circumstances under which [Prince Andrew] allegedly assaulted her have repeatedly changed over the years”. Prince Andrew’s lawyers state that Mr Giuffre met Virginia Roberts in Thailand in around 2002, “when she was attending a massage training course and recruiting one or more women to perform sexual acts for Jeffrey Epstein, who funded the trip.”
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