Finally, Prince Andrew has received court papers for his sexual accuser’s lawsuit, after his police and security guards were initially ordered not to accept them, according to court documents filed Friday.
Cesar Sepulveda filed an affidavit in the Manhattan federal lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre confirming that he had served the papers to Andrew at his Royal Lodge home at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 27.
He detailed how he had been repeatedly rejected in previous attempts to hand over documents in which Queen Elizabeth II’s 61-year-old son is accused of first-degree rape linked to the sexual ring of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Sepulveda said the day before the papers were successfully served, he had been told to wait at Andrew’s front doors, where police officers, including Andrew’s security chief, repeatedly stated they could not arrive. to anybody.
The server said he was then told that “security there had been instructed not to allow anyone to attend with the aim of filing court papers on the property grounds and at the time they were told that they did not accept the notification of any judicial process “.
At that time, he was also warned that all that was left would not be sent to the prince.
“From the attendance it appeared that security personnel had already been prepared not to allow anyone access to the property to attend the court process and that they had been instructed not to accept any service,” his statement said. jury.
He then left messages with Andrew’s lawyer, but “no communication was received” in response, he said, forcing him to return to the Royal Lodge the next day.
This time, the door officer contacted Andrew’s head of security, who assured Sepulveda that he could leave the newspapers and that they would be sent to the Duke of York’s legal team.
Sepulveda asked if it was “possible to meet in person” with Andrew to serve him directly, but “he was told this was not possible,” his affidavit said.
However, leaving it in the hands of the police officer “is consistent with the provisions for service,” the affidavit stated in which it was stated that Andrew officially received the complaint and the exposures.
He also left documents warning him that the first hearing, a conference call from New York, is scheduled for Monday, according to newspapers.
Giuffre’s lawsuit alleges she was “forced to have sex with Prince Andrew against her will” at the urging of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and charged Mrs. Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Prince Andrew’s actions constitute sex crimes,” including the first- and third-degree rape, according to the lawsuit, which cites the New York Penal Code, according to which the rape includes someone “by forced obligation.”
Giuffre claims he suffered “substantial damage” from “extreme emotional distress, humiliation, fear, psychological trauma, loss of dignity and self-esteem and invasion of his privacy.”
“I am making Prince Andrew responsible for what he did to me,” Giuffre told The Post in a statement after filing his lawsuit.
“The powerful and the rich are not exempt from being responsible for their actions,” he said.
“I did not take this decision lightly. As a mother and wife, my family is the first (and I know this action will subject me to further attacks by Prince Andrew and his deputies), but I knew that if I did not continue this action, I would leave them and the victims everywhere. down, ”he said.
Andrew has repeatedly denied Giuffre’s claims, even during an interview with the BBC in which he insisted that he “did not remember ever meeting this lady, nor any of them.”
Neither he, nor his legal team, nor Buckingham Palace have responded to the lawsuit.
Epstein hanged himself in his Manhattan lockout in August 2019 while awaiting trial for serious sexual charges.
Maxwell is detained in Brooklyn awaiting trial for allegedly recruiting underage girls for Epstein. She has pleaded guilty.