Prince Andrew asked to prove his inability to sweat by Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers

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  1. Prince Andrew has been asked to turn over documentary evidence of “his alleged inability to sweat” and the names of anyone he met at a Pizza Express in Woking by lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, who accuses him of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York.

    The lawyers have also demanded any documents related to his “travel to or from…the Tramp nightclub” in London and any gifts he received from Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, “including but not limited to puppets.”

    Giuffre, 38, alleges that she was brought to London in 2001 when she was seventeen by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and that she was introduced to the Duke of York. They went out together to the Tramp nightclub where the Prince sweated profusely and then came back to Maxwell’s house in Belgravia, Giuffre has alleged.

    In the lawsuit she filed against the Prince in August, she said that she was then “forced… to have sexual intercourse with Prince Andrew against her will.” The suit alleges that later, in Epstein’s townhouse in New York, Giuffre and another alleged victim named in previous depositions as Johanna Sjoberg were made to sit on each of Prince Andrew’s knees while “Prince Andrew touched (Guiffre)”.

    Giuffre has previously alleged that Maxwell had given the Prince a puppet in his likeness from the satirical show Spitting Image and that “Andrew cupped my breast with a doll” as she sat on his lap with Sjoberg. In a separate deposition, Sjoberg, said that “they took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.”

    Prince Andrew, who denies the allegations, told Newsnight in 2019 that her account of the evening out at the Tramp nightclub could not be true “because I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don’t sweat or I didn’t sweat at the time… because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falkland’s War when I was shot at… It was almost impossible for me to sweat.”

    He also claimed that on the day in question, he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express in Woking in the late afternoon and was then at home with his children for the rest of the night.

    As part of the discovery process, in which each side in a lawsuit turns over information ahead of a trial, lawyers for Giuffre asked the Prince to name “all persons you met or encountered at a Pizza Express located in Woking, England” and anyone he met at the Tramp nightclub.

    In response, Prince Andrew’s lawyers said the queries were “burdensome and harassing”. But they said the Prince had not met anyone at the Pizza Express. He also “denies the allegation that he was at the Tramp nightclub,” they said.

    In response to the request for documents related to his claimed inability to sweat, the Prince objected that the demand was “harassing” and sought “confidential and private information.” His lawyers added that the Prince found that “no such documents exist in his possession, custody or control” after making a “diligent search”.

    Giuffre’s lawyers filed the documents detailing their questions and the Prince’s responses in response to a motion his lawyers filed to halt proceedings in the case pending an investigation of whether Giuffre was a resident of the United States. They alleged that she was actually a resident of Australia and was thus unable to file a suit against him in a New York federal court.

    Giuffre’s attorneys said they would prove that her home was in Colorado and accused the Prince of “a transparent attempt to delay discovery into his own documents and testimony.” They added that “if Prince Andrew truly has no documents concerning… his alleged medical inability to sweat or anything that would support the alibis he gave during his BBC interview, then continuing with discovery will not be burdensome to him at all.”

    Judge Lewis Kaplan will hold a hearing in the case on Tuesday, at which the Prince’s lawyers will seek to have the case dismissed.

    *Will Pavia, New York*

    Friday December 31 2021

  2. It’s still one of the most grimly amusing parts of the story that Prince Andrew was accused of being a sweaty rapist and he thought it was a good idea to argue on national TV that he’s not actually all that sweaty.

    Especially when his gibberish about being unable to sweat because he used to br such a brave, tough, manly soldier is such obvious bollocks.

  3. Fresh in:

    >SkyNews: [Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre insists she is US resident and so lawsuit can continue](https://news.sky.com/story/prince-andrews-accuser-virginia-giuffre-insists-she-is-us-resident-and-so-lawsuit-can-continue-12506626)
    >
    >Virginia Giuffre’s team, in a court filing, branded the action by Prince Andrew’s lawyers to halt her lawsuit a “transparent attempt to delay discovery into his own documents and testimony”. She has accused the Queen’s second son of sexual assault, which he denies.

  4. The ‘plot twist’ of his ‘inability to sweat’ seems hilariously straight out of a Sherlock Holmes episode.

    ‘You see, my dear Watson, it couldn’t have been him as he is unable to sweat!’

  5. What gets me was the smile on his face when he produced this bullshit excuse – he looked like he had just played one of the top hands in cards. A royal flush, for example.

  6. Interviewer: So you admit you’re a sweaty rapist who had sex with children?

    PA: Well, actually, funny story. I can’t sweat.

  7. Logically speaking, could the people trying to prove Andrew guilty put out a reward to ask anyone who was at the Pizza Express birthday party to come forward? I am sure you know when you are in the presence of a princess and if Prince Andrew turns up I am sure I would remember. There must be at least one other adult who was there or even wait staff who would remember him being there IF he was actually there.

    Another point would be to set up a few rooms with the Belgravia flat layout and see if any of the victims can correctly identify the flat that the offences were committed in.

    I can’t remember every house that I have been in but I generally recognise patterns of rooms enough to rekindle my memory.

  8. This is why you don’t talk to the cops – or anyone – during an investigation.

    Now on top of everything else, his lawyers have to prove he can’t sweat.

    Moron.

    More than anything, this looks to me like a person who’s never been challenged on anything in his entire life.

    This criminal mastermind though he figured out a loophole on the accusation. “If I just say I was somewhere else, then I couldn’t have done it. Case closed!”

  9. I seriously thought this was a satire news site when I first read the headline, then seeing it’s The Times makes this even funnier, he’s really good at dropping himself right in it isn’t he?

    What’s next asked to provide the pizza receipt, or prove how come he managed to claim to be in the pizza place when their cctv shows no sign of him?

    Edit… it’s almost as good

    > and the names of anyone he met at a Pizza Express in Woking

  10. Would pay money to see this over privileged product of centuries of inbred usurpers get fucked by a legitimate legal system.

  11. Prince Andrew, who denies the allegations, told Newsnight in 2019 that her account of the evening out at the Tramp nightclub could not be true “because I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don’t sweat or I didn’t sweat at the time… because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenalin in the Falkland’s War when I was shot at… It was almost impossible for me to sweat.”

    Well, considering my dad went to the Falklands War as well, as part of 3 Para, I’m amazed that my dad can still sweat! /s

  12. There is a criminal psychology account on YouTube called Jim Can’t Swim, or JCS.

    He has a video called “Prince Andrew is not good at lying”

    HIGHLY recommend watching it

  13. Search Prince Andrew sweating on google and tell me if you’ve ever seen such a sweaty wired out their head person, fuck knows what he’s on but that’s what made him sweaty as fuck, looks like amphetamines

  14. I too would be very interested to see this.

    It should be live streamed in fact, for free. Prince Andrew is a nationalised asset after all, lets see him on a treadmill where he can be given the opportunity to prove this magical ability.

  15. When satire becomes reality. I had to check the source as its something I would expect from newsthump

  16. “I haven’t sweated in 25 years!”

    “Have you done any manual labour in that time? Any heavy lifting? Been in any hot place without air conditioning?”

    “No. Why does that matter?”

  17. They should instead ask him to list the three basic ingredients of a pizza. He’ll trip up by making the natural assumption that it’s Gruyere and quail on a bed of swan.

  18. There are plenty of pics of this man sweating, google ‘prince andrew sweating’. One pic shows him in a nightclub, and the stuff is rolling down his face. I cannot stand them. this man deserves a serious prison sentence.

  19. Puts into perspective just how stupid these people in power really are. Dudes literally in photos with her and his defense is I never met her.

    The reason why they haven’t been caught isn’t because they move smart but because other corrupt people in power cover up for them. Remember, The government knew Epstein was a pedophile and trafficked women more than a decade ago and continued to let him get away with it.

    As more and more people of good moral standing are elected into office, the more we’ll find out.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the Clinton’s end up with a huge scandal, they invited Ghislaine to their daughters wedding even after all the allegations had surfaced.

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