Legally, things are not looking good for Prince Andrew.
The noble's lawyers were reprimanded on Tuesday at the first hearing in a New York court hearing an American woman's claim for damages against the son of Queen Elizabeth II after alleged sexual assault.
Presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan emerged after her allegation that plaintiff Virginia Roberts Giuffre had failed to adequately explain the abuse.
"It's called involuntary intercourse," the lawyer told the Prince's California attorney, Andrew Brettler.
Roberts Giuffre is demanding an undisclosed amount of damages because the Duke of York allegedly sexually abused her three times in 2001 when she was seventeen.
The attacks, allegedly arranged by New York finance manager Jeffrey Epstein and his confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, took place in London, Manhattan and on the Caribbean island of Little St. James, according to Roberts Giuffre.
Judge Lewis Kaplan announced on Tuesday that he would be "rather quick" to rule on Prince Andrew's motion to dismiss the thirty-eight-year-old's case.
The nobleman refers, among other things, to an agreement between Epstein and Roberts Giuffre from 2009, according to which she allegedly cannot prosecute Epstein or his entourage for alleged assaults.