His insistence on telling Prince Andrew only the best case scenario has earned him the nickname ‘Good News Gary’.
But even the beleaguered Duke of York’s trusted solicitor must be struggling to find positives in the bombshell ruling that a civil sex abuse case against the prince can proceed to trial.
Gary Bloxsome, from law firm Blackfords, was appointed by Andrew in January 2020 to help mastermind his response to allegations made by Virginia Roberts that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and forced to have sex with the Duke on at least three separate occasions.
Today's bombshell ruling means a civil sex abuse case against Prince Andrew (pictured) can proceed to trial
Gary Bloxsome, the Duke's trusted solicitor, whose insistence on telling Prince Andrew only the best case scenario has earned him the nickname ‘Good News Gary’
Despite a relatively unheralded CV, the 48-year-old is said to have endeared himself so closely to the Duke that he has become his ‘inner circle of one’.
The spotlight is again on Andrew’s advisers after Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed his claim to have the civil lawsuit in New York thrown out on a technicality.
Mr Bloxsome was appointed to help with any criminal matters arising out of a separate ongoing FBI investigation into the activities of Jeffrey Epstein and any inquiries which might be conducted by Scotland Yard.
A biography says he specialises in helping ‘ultra-high-net-worth individuals in international jurisdictions’.
His most publicised cases include defending a footballer who was involved in a nightclub brawl.
The Duke was convinced to take part in the infamous Newsnight interview by his private secretary, Amanda Thirsk (pictured), his ‘gatekeeper’ since 2012, despite the reservations of his public relations adviser Jason Stein
Question were raised over the Duke’s inner circle after his disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview.
He attempted to rebut Miss Roberts’s claims by insisting he was unable to sweat - she alleged he had perspired heavily at Tramp nightclub the evening she slept with him in London in March 2001.
His other eye-raising claim was that he had been at a Pizza Express in Woking that day at a children’s party his
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