”En vanlig tjej från USA har fällt en prins med sitt mod”
Kung Charles beslut att ta ifrån sin bror Andrew hans prinstitel och vräka honom från hans bostad är ett steg i rätt riktning. Det säger traffickingoffret Virginia Giuffres familj till BBC.
”I dag har en vanlig amerikansk tjej med sitt mod fällt en prins”, skriver de anhöriga i ett uttalande.
Giuffre har i många år anklagat Andrew för att ha förgripit sig på henne när hon bara var 17 år. Anklagelserna har åter blivit förstasidestoff sedan hennes självbiografi getts ut postumt. Hon tog sitt liv tidigare i år.
Virginia Giuffres bror Sky Roberts säger till BBC att kung Charles beslut inte är tillräckligt.
– Kungen förtjänar beröm, jag tycker han gör ett fantastiskt arbete. Men vi måste ta det ett steg längre: Andrew förtjänar att bli inlåst.
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Virginia Giuffre
Wikipedia (en)
Virginia Louise Giuffre (, JOO-fray; née Roberts; August 9, 1983 – April 25, 2025) was an American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2015, Giuffre founded Victims Refuse Silence, a U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to supporting survivors. The organization was relaunched as Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) in November 2021. She provided detailed accounts to numerous American and British reporters about being trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Giuffre pursued criminal and civil actions against Epstein and Maxwell while appealing directly to the public for justice and awareness. She sued Maxwell for defamation in 2015; the case was settled in Giuffre's favor in 2017 for an undisclosed sum. On July 2, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered the unsealing of documents from Giuffre's civil suit against Maxwell. The first batch of documents was released on August 9, 2019, further implicating Epstein, Maxwell, and their associates. The following day, Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell.
In a December 2019 BBC Panorama interview, Giuffre described being trafficked by Epstein to Britain's Prince Andrew, which shifted public opinion against the prince. She later sued the prince in a New York civil court. The suit was settled in February 2022; Prince Andrew paid Giuffre an undisclosed amount and made a substantial donation to her charity. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025. Her memoir Nobody's Girl came out posthumously, in October of that year.
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