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Andrew's lawyers hold 'emergency talks'over Maxwell verdict as experts warn socialite's conviction will raise questions over how much prince knew about his friend's 'debauched behaviour' - amid royal fears she will 'name names' to reduce jail term
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 03:41 EST, 30 December 2021 | UPDATED: 10

Posted on 12/30/2021 9:44:36 AM PST by Red Badger

* Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking charges yesterday after six days of deliberations

* Prince Andrew is fighting to get Virginia Roberts Giuffre's claim thrown out of court on January 4

* Legal experts warn that Duke of York's chances of victory will have been diminished by Maxwell's convictions

* Jury of 6 men and 6 women found the British socialite guilty on five of six counts. She faces 65 years in prison

* British socialite had recruited them when they were teens to take part in orgies with Epstein at his properties

* Maxwell declined to give evidence at trial - but experts ponder if she will now 'name names' to cut sentence

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Prince Andrew's US lawyers have reportedly held emergency talks after Ghislaine Maxwell's convictions for child sex trafficking as experts told MailOnline the guilty verdicts are 'not good news' for the Duke of York whose future as a frontline royal is now looking increasingly 'bleak'.

Lawyers in the US believe the ninth in line to the British throne should now be 'quaking in his boots' as his old friend faces spending the rest of her life behind bars unless she flips and 'names names'.

Experts also believe that the Duke of York's chances of defeating the legal action brought against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre will now be even harder after Maxwell was found guilty by a New York jury yesterday.

The 60-year-old British socialite was labelled a 'dangerous' predator as she was convicted of helping to entice vulnerable teenagers to Jeffrey Epstein's homes for him to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: breaking; didyousearch; ghislainemaxwell; jeffreyepstein; princeandrew; scrolldown; virginiagiuffre
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1 posted on 12/30/2021 9:44:36 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Maxwell did not kill herself.


2 posted on 12/30/2021 9:47:22 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Red Badger

Why did Epstein’s handlers want their hooks into the House of Windsor?

Why did the UK’s law enforcement and intel services look the other way for years?

Inquiring minds want to know...


3 posted on 12/30/2021 9:47:35 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Red Badger

She will have a stroke and be unable to communicate.


4 posted on 12/30/2021 9:48:16 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger
fears she will 'name names' to reduce jail term

Only thing naming names will reduce is her life expectancy

5 posted on 12/30/2021 9:50:52 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Red Badger

Do we have a Dead Pool yet?


6 posted on 12/30/2021 9:51:07 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (I use an euphemism for "Let's Go Brandon!". It's F*** Joe Biden! )
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To: mewzilla

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$......................


7 posted on 12/30/2021 9:51:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Not that I know of......................

I’ll take January 16th...................


8 posted on 12/30/2021 9:51:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Pollard

She will not kill herself.....................


9 posted on 12/30/2021 9:52:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: mewzilla

I’m guessing the Epstein /Maxwell initiative was a Mossad plan to leverage all the powers of the world to accomplish what they wished.

I doubt she will ever talk.


10 posted on 12/30/2021 9:54:54 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: mewzilla

> Why did Epstein’s handlers want their hooks into the House of Windsor? <

That’s a good question. True, the royals have money. But the only real power they have nowadays is the power to attract tourists. So maybe Prince Andrew was just a target of opportunity.


11 posted on 12/30/2021 9:56:02 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Red Badger

After all of the rich and powerful people implicated, after all of the records seized, the court cases, the obvious foreign intelligence operation, it’s Prince Andrew who ends up as the fall guy on this. Hilarious.


12 posted on 12/30/2021 9:57:11 AM PST by cdcdawg (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: Pollard

“Only thing naming names will reduce is her life expectancy”

She will obtain a reduced term if she names the correct names. The correct names will be dead or not members of the establishment. It will be a bit of a challenge not naming a wrong one.


13 posted on 12/30/2021 9:58:04 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: cdcdawg

They didn’t call him “Randy Prince Andy” for nothing.
No wonder Sarah Ferguson divorced him...............


14 posted on 12/30/2021 9:58:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Leaning Right

If you or I were charged and convected of child sex trafficking the prosecutors would be all over us to name our associates. In this case crickets and nobody is asking why.


15 posted on 12/30/2021 9:59:13 AM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Red Badger

The FBI, CIA and MI6 already have evidence of the powerful/wealthy Johns. They’ve done and are now continuing to circle the wagons to keep these names from hitting the news cycle.

Slick Willy...flew on the Lolita express 26 times. He had a super weird portrait painted of himself in a blue dress and high heels found in one of Epstein’s Lair.

Come on man! Equal justice? Rule of law? lol Yea...right.


16 posted on 12/30/2021 9:59:28 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Red Badger

With this DOJ she will EXTEND jail time by naming names


17 posted on 12/30/2021 9:59:39 AM PST by Swanks
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To: mewzilla

Prince Andrew is an arrogant POS and has been notorious for being a pompous ass who treats his staff, his police protection and (when he was in the Navy) his subordinates like minions. I know someone who served in the Navy with him, he and his fellow sailors absolutely despised him.

He was also notorious for the way he picked and chose his Royal Duties depending on whether there was a golf course nearby.

There is also a story about the Royals being fans of the soap ‘Coronation Street’ in the 1960s when he was a boy, and he made a remark saying something along the lines of ‘look at all those poor people’ and the Duke of Edinburgh clipped him round the ear for this remark. Unfortunately, nobody could alter his fundamental charectar and he has continued to be an embarassment to the Royal Family. He is apparently doted on by the Queen who has protected him from the consequences of his behaviour but sources suggest that Prince Charles and William cannot stand him and once his Mum dies he is going to get the cold shoulder and kept as far away from the centre of Royalty as possible.


18 posted on 12/30/2021 10:00:04 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Red Badger

She will be dead by mysterious circumstance long before she names names.


19 posted on 12/30/2021 10:00:26 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: mewzilla

Why did blue dress Bill take 27 flights?


20 posted on 12/30/2021 10:00:32 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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