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Prince Andrew served with lawsuit from Epstein
sex trafficking victim, document says
10 Sep, 2021 22:46
The security detail at the Royal Lodge in Windsor accepted the documents detailing the sexual abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew by one of the victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. His response is due soon in a US court.
Process server Cesar Augusto Sepulveda attested that he successfully served the documents on August 27, according to an affidavit that surfaced Friday. It says the Duke of York did not accept the papers personally, but the Metropolitan Police Office and the head of security at The Royal Lodge in Windsor did.
The document surfaced in court filings ahead of the initial pretrial conference before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York, scheduled for September 13.
Andrew Albert Christian Edward, the Duke of York, was accused by Virginia Giuffre of sexual assault, battery and inflicting emotional distress on her. Giuffre’s lawsuit alleges that she was abused by Prince Andrew on multiple occasions while she was under the age of 18, including at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell and at Epstein’s mansion in New York.
The Queen’s second son has denied ever having sexual relations with Giuffre and told the BBC in 2019 he had “no recollection” of ever meeting her.
Sepulveda said that he had made the first attempt to serve the papers on August 26, but was told no one was authorized to accept them. Someone at Windsor apparently changed their mind when he came back the following day.
Court documents indicate that attorneys for the royal have until September 17 to file a response. If they fail to do so, “judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.”
It was the unsealing of Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Maxwell, settled in 2015, that blew open the entire scandal and revealed the lenient 2008 plea agreement Epstein was given by US authorities. The disgraced financier was arrested in July 2019 and allegedly committed suicide in a New York jail a month later. Maxwell, his confidante and alleged confederate, was arrested in July 2020. Her trial on charges of being an accessory to sex trafficking is scheduled to start in November.
Baseball star accused of choking, repeatedly punching woman in
sexual assault allegations ‘will sit out rest of the MLB season’
10 Sep, 2021 20:27
A baseball star who signed a $102 million deal in February will reportedly spend the rest of the 2021 season on administrative leave as a sexual assault investigation continues.
Star Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was first placed on the form of leave on July 2, with reports detailing how a woman he allegedly exchanged steamy texts with had accused him of choked her to near-unconsciousness and punching her during two sexual encounters.
MLB and the players' union have now agreed to extend his formal spell on the sidelines until the end of the World Series, according to CNBC, which says that the organizations recognized the 30-year-old "would not be in a position physically to return to play this season."
Bauer has consistently denied any wrongdoing. The player's agents, Jon Fetterolf and Rachel Luba, released a statement on Friday saying that he had agreed to extend his leave "in a measure of good faith and in an effort to minimize any distraction" to the team.
“He continues to co-operate with the MLB investigation and refute the baseless allegations against him," they emphasized.
“Again, by definition, administrative leave is neither a disciplinary action nor does it in any way reflect a finding in the league’s investigation."
The Pasadena, California, police department turned reported the findings of its investigation to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office at the end of last month. No determination has been made on whether to charge Bauer.
The 27-year-old woman who has made the allegations, named as Ms Hill, is said to have been denied a permanent restraining order in August against the winner of the Cy Young pitcher award in 2020.
No decision on whether to suspend Bauer is expected from MLB until prosecutors have confirmed whether they will charge him.
Bauer previously spent six years with the Cleveland Indians and a year with the Cincinnati Reds before joining the Dodgers in the mega-money signing.
Rose McGowan & Larry Elder to accuse Gov. Newsom’s wife
of attempting to ‘bribe, silence’ actress about Weinstein at presser
12 Sep, 2021 09:23
Actress and activist Rose McGowan has accused California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife of trying to convince her not to go public with the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse story. She will detail the allegations on Sunday.
Newsom’s chief rival, Republican Party candidate Larry Elder, said he and McGowan will hold a press conference on Sunday afternoon, during which McGowan will detail how “Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer, attempted to bribe and silence her from speaking out about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuses.”
“The time for radical change is now,” the actress wrote on Twitter after the announcement.
The event is scheduled to take place two days before the recall election, in which Elder hopes to unseat Newsom, who has been governing California since 2019.
McGowan, who has harshly criticized both Republican and Democrat figures in the past, first made allegations about Newsom’s wife in an interview with political commentator and talk show host Dave Rubin earlier this week.
She claimed Jennifer Siebel Newsom wanted to set up a meeting with her and later called her on behalf of Weinstein’s lawyer, David Boies, attempting to convince McGowan not to go public with sexual abuse accusations against Weinstein.
According to McGowan, the call occurred in 2017, six months before The New York Times ran a story in which dozens of women, including McGowan, accused Weinstein of rape and sexual assault. The accusations spearheaded the #MeToo movement and led to a criminal investigation of Weinstein. The once-powerful Hollywood mogul was ultimately sentenced to 23 years in jail last year.
“Remember when you @JenSiebelNewsom asked me on behalf of Weinstein’s gross lawyer ‘What it would take to make me happy?’ Gavin Newsom’s wife has some explaining to do,” McGowan tweeted after the interview with Rubin. She called on Californians to vote for Elder instead of Newsom.
The actress posted screenshots of what she said were emails sent by Siebel Newsom. According to the screenshots, the governor’s wife supposedly acknowledged that one of her extended family members works at the same law firm as Boies, but called the accusations of her being in cahoots with Boies “crazy.”
“I want us to heal as a culture and so I asked Rose ‘what if anything Boies could do for her that would help her to heal’ and then I thought I would present that to my brother in law to take to Boies,” the email purportedly sent by Siebel Newsom read.
The email also seemed to suggest McGowan’s allegations against Siebel Newsom stemmed from “unresolved trauma,” and Siebel Newsom was made into “the scapegoat.”
In a statement to Newsweek, a spokesperson for Siebel Newsom dismissed the allegations as a “complete fabrication.”
Opponents have criticized Newsom for imposing a harsh lockdown last year when the state was first hit by Covid-19. The governor was later forced to apologize for attending a packed birthday party at a luxury restaurant in November at a time when he and his administration were asking Californians to refrain from family gatherings on Thanksgiving.
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