Even Attorneys Are Falsely Accused

A Nightmare of a False Accusation Against a Prominent Lawyer

A well-known criminal defense lawyer, who along with Prince Andrew has been accused of having sex with an under-age girl, has denied the allegations in a federal court filing and asked that his name be removed from the case.

In court papers filed January 2015 in the Southern District of Florida, representatives for the lawyer, Alan M. Dershowitz, called the claims that he had sex with a minor “outrageous and impertinent.”

The accusations against Mr. Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, and Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth and fifth in line to the British throne, came in a motion filed Dec. 30 as part of a broader, long-running federal lawsuit.

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The motion claimed that Jeffrey E. Epstein, a wealthy businessman who has previously pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution, had forced the girl, beginning at age 15, to have sex with “politically connected and financially powerful people,” including Mr. Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. Buckingham Palace has vehemently denied the allegations against the prince.

The woman, who was not identified in the court document, was repeatedly sexually abused by Mr. Epstein as a minor, the filing said, and was “required” to have sex with Prince Andrew and Mr. Dershowitz several times, including in Florida, New York, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands and on private planes.

The motion also claimed that Mr. Dershowitz had abused other minors and had been “an eyewitness to the sexual abuse of many other minors” by Mr. Epstein and others.

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