{"id":8647,"date":"2019-11-18T04:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2019-11-18T04:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:16:51","slug":"prince-andrew-calls-for-royal-to-say-sorry-and-speak-to-fbi-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8647","title":{"rendered":"“Prince Andrew: Calls for royal to say sorry and speak to FBI”, The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawyers for Epstein\u2019s victims say they were \u2018almost completely ignored\u2019 in interview<\/p>\n

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Prince Andrew is facing a transatlantic backlash over his extraordinary defence of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> after lawyers who represent 10 of the billionaire predator\u2019s victims branded the royal unrepentant and implausible and demanded that he speak to the FBI.<\/p>\n

After the royal\u2019s defiant Newsnight<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Gloria Allred, who has worked on numerous high-profile sexual harassment cases and is now representing five of Epstein\u2019s victims, told the Guardian: \u201cThe right and honourable action for Prince Andrew<\/a> 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].<\/p>\n

\u201cPrince 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Los Angeles-based lawyer Lisa Bloom, who represents another five victims, told the Guardian that Andrew\u2019s intervention fell far short of ending questions over his relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPrince Andrew\u2019s interview was deeply disappointing,\u201d Bloom \u2013 who is Allred\u2019s daughter \u2013 told the Guardian. \u201cHe is entitled to deny allegations and defend himself. But where is his apology for being so closely associated with one of history\u2019s most prolific paedophiles?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interview, Andrew said he had been in Pizza Express in Woking on the day of his alleged meeting with accuser Virginia Giuffre<\/a>; claimed a condition linked to the Falklands war that prevented him from sweating undermined her story; and described Epstein\u2019s history of paedophilia as \u201cunbecoming\u201d but refused to express regret for their friendship.<\/p>\n