Russian billionaire is behind mansion that housed Harry and Meghan, leaked files show

It’s been an international enigma for the last two years: Who really owns the lavish Vancouver Island estate where Prince Harry and Meghan wintered in 2020 as they reportedly hashed out their plan to step back from official royal duties?

Is it the Russian-born billionaire who several media outlets linked to the property? Is it Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, as (erroneously) reported by the New York Post’s Page Six?

CBC and Radio-Canada found the answer, and it does indeed involve a Russian, but it wasn’t easy — it took an international leak of tax-haven data, access to a company’s internal records and intense research. All that, experts say, shows once again just how opaque Canada is when it comes to assets like real estate and who owns it.

This Oligarch should have his assets seized just for inflicting Woke Harry and Meghan on us.

 

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Prince Andrew’s statement seems to contradict answers he gave me – Emily Maitlis

It is an image now burned into my brain: Prince Andrew, in the eaves of Buckingham Palace, trying to explain to me why he thought a Newsnight interview might be a good idea.

He wanted to get across his innocence. He wanted to tell me he had never met the woman who was accusing him of sex trafficking. He wanted to try and prove that it hadn’t been him in the now-infamous photograph in Ghislaine Maxwell’s house – an arm flung around Virginia Giuffre.

And as he prepared his defence, something became very clear to our team: that this interview – albeit without any legal bearing whatsoever – would have to be as forensic as any court document. The questions were what any journalist would want to ask. But they were asked in a way that would make them a legitimate public record.

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Prince Andrew was ‘constant sex pest’ and tried to hug me after naked massages, says royal’s ex-physio

A PHYSIOTHERAPIST claims ex-client Prince Andrew tried to hug her after NAKED massages in his bedroom.

Emma Gruenbaum says he was her creepiest customer after sessions at Royal Lodge, Windsor.

The 50-year-old speaks out today after Andrew’s legal team said his sex-case accuser Virginia Giuffre “may suffer from false memories”.

Emma was a 34-year-old sports massage therapist at the Wentworth Club in Surrey when she started treating Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in early 2005.

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Prince Andrew to give evidence in deposition in March

The Duke of York will give evidence under oath next month in London as part of the civil sexual assault case against him.

Virginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew in the US, and the prince has repeatedly denied the allegations.

He will face a deposition, which means giving evidence to lawyers for use in court.

A date has been set for 10 March in London – which has been described as a neutral location.

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Prince Andrew’s Costly U.S. Court Battle Puts Strain on Finances

Prince Andrew is approaching the toughest legal fight of his life and one thing is sure: it won’t be cheap, whatever the outcome.

The disgraced royal is facing seven-figure legal fees — at least — if Virginia Giuffre’s sexual abuse suit goes to trial, according to two lawyers surveyed by Bloomberg, while the cost of settling is expected to be well in excess of $5 million. With a personal fortune estimated by his private bank at 5 million pounds ($6.8 million) in 2017, funding the fight will be a challenge.

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Prince Andrew made eight trips to China as a guest of its propaganda unit

Prince Andrew made eight trips to China as a guest of an organisation accused of being a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party’s feared intelligence agency.

During the visits – most made on behalf of his Pitch@Palace business mentoring initiative – the Duke of York heralded closer UK-China co-operation, prompting critics to this weekend accuse him of being a ‘useful idiot’ for Beijing.

The visits, made between 2010 and 2019, were at the invitation of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA).

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Money, power and prestige: what a Prince Andrew trial would mean for New York

… The prospect of a jury trial follows the prince’s attorney’s decision on Wednesday to file legal papers strongly resisting sexual abuse claims brought against him by his accuser, Virginia Giuffre. In the papers, Andrew’s legal team denied the allegations and then sought to blame Giuffre for being partly responsible for her abuse. That move has been criticized as “cruel” and “inappropriate” by legal experts.

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Prince Andrew demands a JURY trial denies all of Virginia Roberts’ sex abuse allegations – and claims Ghislaine Maxwell was NOT his ‘close friend’

Prince Andrew’s legal team has filed legal papers in which the Royal denied all of Virginia Roberts’ sex abuse allegations as he prepares for a bitter court battle in the United States.

The papers, filed today by Prince Andrew’s legal counsel Andrew Brettler, contained a detail rebuttal of all of Roberts’ claims and also requested that the Royal be granted a trial by jury.

The Duke of York’s official rebuttal comes after a motion to dismiss the case on a legal technicality at the beginning of January was denied, and could see Prince Andrew himself take the stand in New York to argue his case in front of jurors.

You have to wonder at his lawyers.

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Prince Andrew: How Tragic for His Mother

He thought he knew best in responding to the Epstein scandal — and now he’s paying the price.

Who’d have thought a 95-year-old woman, who’s just lost her husband of seven decades, could be so utterly ruthless? Who could know she’d stand ready to desert her favorite child? And who could imagine that she would put her business — “The Firm,” as she calls it — ahead of her nearest and dearest.

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‘I don’t give a toss what Prince Andrew feels… he is a horrible, nasty man’: Duke’s ex-maid says

Duke of Diddler

Former Buckingham Palace maid Charlotte Briggs today defended her Prince Andrew revelations and attacked him for being a ‘horrible man.’

Ms Briggs, 47, said she had no regrets about speaking out over the Duke’s ‘demanding and entitled’ foul-mouthed rants, which she claimed left her in tears.

Speaking to MailOnline in her hometown of Halifax, West Yorkshire, she said: ‘I don’t give a toss what Prince Andrew feels… he is a horrible, nasty man.’

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The problem with Prince Andrew

He’s an arrogant and entitled plonker. He’s also innocent until proven guilty.

‘With the queen’s approval and agreement’, read Buckingham Palace’s official statement, ‘the Duke of York’s military affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the queen’. And with that, Prince Andrew was stripped of his royal garb. All the titles, including His Royal Highness, were gone and, according to the statement, never to return.

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Prince Andrew fears ‘complete financial ruin’ as legal costs mount: report

Prince Andrew fears he could be left “completely broke” after being stripped of his military titles and royal patronages amid his legal battle against Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

The Duke of York is up against mounting legal costs as he fights a sex-assault lawsuit from Giuffre that he worries could leave him penniless, the Daily Mail reported.

“Until very recently it appears the absolute enormity of this case and the consequences he faces has not hit him,” a source told the outlet. “Now the bills are mounting up and the possibility of a settlement, or even worse a judgment against him, is being widely discussed; he fears complete financial ruin. 

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