Prince Andrew Named in Lawsuit Filed by Underage "Sex Slave"

In a lawsuit, Prince Andrew, the fifth in line to be the King of England, has been named as one of many well connected individuals in the realms of business and politics who participated in a sexual slavery ring run by Jeffrey Epstein.

The Guardian reports that one of the plaintiffs was 17-years-old at the time of her sexual encounters with Prince Andrew, which took place numerous times London, New York, and private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit was filed in a Florida court, and 17 is under the age of legal consent in the state of Florida.

Epstein is a registered sex offender who previously spent 13 months in prison on charges that originally stemmed from the fact he would use older women to recruit young teen girls into prostitution. Political interference by the prosecutor resulted in the charges being reduced to solicitation, and a much shorter prison sentence.

Epstein was allowed to leave the prison for 16 hours a day for "work" and when he was in the prison he stayed in private wing.

In the new lawsuit reported by the Guardian, Epstein is accused of those exact same crimes, aided and abetted by a woman named Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell recruited the girl Prince Andrew had intercourse with at the age of 15, according to the plaintiffs.

The lawsuit itself is actually directed towards the prosecutors that reduced Epstein's charges. That reduction was part of a secret deal between the prosecutors and Epstein's legal team and the plaintiffs in this new suit claim that their rights were violated because they were not made aware that a deal was in the works.