- Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre reach out-of-court settlement in civil sex claim filed in New York
- Her lawyer wrote jointly with Andrew’s lawyers to say that the parties had ‘reached settlement in principle’
- Court papers show Duke will make ‘substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights’
- Buckingham Palace declines to comment on news which is in year of Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations
Mark Duell, James Gant and Jen Smith – Daily Mail Online Feb 15, 2022
Prince Andrew has dramatically settled the bombshell sexual abuse lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre after he agreed an undisclosed deal said to be worth £7.5million with his accuser without admitting her accusations.
Court documents filed in New York this morning revealed the Duke of York and Mrs Giuffre have reached a ‘settlement in principle’ in the civil sex claim – but royal experts said it was ‘very, very unlikely’ that there was a way back to public royal life for the Queen’s son.
And one royal source told MailOnline: ‘I’m sure that Charles has had enough and blown a gasket. Charles would have said to him that he needed to get this sorted out as soon as possible and before the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations begin. Charles did not want this hanging over the Royal Family this year.’
Andrew will now make a ‘substantial donation’ to Mrs Giuffre’s charity supporting victims’ rights, and praised her ‘bravery’ and that of other trafficking victims, saying he has ‘never intended’ to malign her character.
Mrs Giuffre, previously known as Virginia Roberts, sued him last August, alleging he sexually abused her more than two decades ago when she was 17, a minor under US law, while the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking her.
Although the parties have settled, the agreement is not an admission of guilt from Andrew and he has always strenuously denied the allegations against him.
And the Duke, 61, said in his statement today that he ‘regrets his association with Epstein’ and pledged to demonstrate this ‘by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims’.
An attachment to the letter announcing the settlement to the public and the United States District Court gave brief details of the agreement between Andrew and Mrs Giuffre but indicated the sum would not be disclosed
Attorney David Boies, who represents Mrs Giuffre, said that lawyers on both sides were telling the judge that a settlement in principle has been reached and they will request a dismissal of the lawsuit within a month.
The settlement means the civil case will not go to a jury trial, and also that Andrew will no longer be questioned under oath by Mrs Giuffre’s lawyers – something that had been expected to take place in the coming weeks.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the development today, which comes ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations this summer in May and June as well as a Westminster Abbey service to remember the late Prince Philip next month. Royal sources told ITV News that the case was a matter for the Duke and his legal team.
But the news will no doubt be welcomed by the Queen and other senior royals – and will also spare Andrew from a potentially embarrassing series of disclosures and accusations in the months ahead of and during a trial.
Royal author Penny Junor said the settlement is likely to come as a ‘huge relief’ to the rest of the Royal Family because a trial ‘could have been very, very nasty’ and ‘humiliating’. She added: ‘It could have really taken the shine off the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year.’ Ms Junor also said there had been a ‘complete change of tone’ on Andrew’s words on his links to Epstein, adding: ‘At last, he’s expressing some regret and some empathy for those girls.
£7.5 million buys an awful lot of innocence, and Yahoo News UK reports it’s £12 million which if true means he’s even more innocent than that.
17 in most ‘civilised’ countries is way above the age of consent. In some US states, you can legally engage in bestiality, so go figure.
It also turns of that Giuffre had lost the original infomous image of her and Andrew, so her case was crumbling, so she agreed an out of court settlement.
While I can’t stand the Royals, I think this settlement is a mistake, forced on him by Charles and the deep state. Andrew should have gone to court and ripped this deep state asset gold digger to bits, because they real ‘deal’ is that the Epstein deep state operation has been partially capped, because I believe it is inextricably linked to Maxwell’s trial, & the outcome of that trial.
We can only wonder at the deal given to the US by the UK regime, because the US deep state could have removed Giuffre years ago if they didn’t have things to gain, same with Maxwell.
While I can’t deal with the shear volume of information, I don’t see or hear a long line of women making true or false allegations against Andrew. Sure, there’s accusations of bullying and work place mistreatment, but this is everyday piffle, most bosse are awful, & you can imagine how many prejudices are loaded into Andrew’s operating system. When Andrew was a trade envoy tarting about on the Royal Yacht, he was the deep state face of numerous dodgy trade deals, many involving arms. I think Andrew’s relative media poverty is an illusion. I think he’s worth a lot more than most think.
this opens the door for others one girl was just 13 years old
people say well at least it was girls and hes nota queer
but that dont make it right
Does it mean she is a prostitute whose fee is in the millions? From one angle, yes. Rich men almost need to avoid all the proz women.
I wonder if parting with such a paltry sum of hush and go away money made the favoured royal nonce a bit ‘sweaty’.. for the first time since the ‘Falklands’ psy-op…
If only Jimmy Savile had been around to bury the bodies and ‘fix it’ for him like his brothers and uncles… unfortunately for this particular retarded royal the CIA cross dressers had already set up the ducks..
They all deserve to end up like Mountbatten.
Innocent man gives £10 million to his accuser.
a couple of the comments here smell like insiders
the stink of those who condone child abuse is not solely the province of those middle east hook nosed folk
prosecute them all some girls were aged 12 and 13 but most 15
disgusting
He’s the only one of numerous high-profile individuals that we hear about day after day. In his case, he’s “accused” of having sexual relations with a young woman considered an adult in much of the world. Is this the worst they have on him? This is supermarket tabloid reading material for sanctimonious hypocrites…nothing serious here as compared to the evils a fellow Epstein accolade…Bill Gates or yet another “Bill,” Bill Clinton, and we don’t hear about them on a daily basis in this regard. The general public may not even be aware of their likely numerous trips to the island. Why is Andrew being singled out to such an extent? Yes, he was promiscuous, and that’s “bad.” I personally don’t know what I would do if were in his position, but, as a man who finds young women attractive, I cannot honestly say that I wouldn’t have done something similar if I were born into similar circumstances. What men amongst us here can honestly say otherwise? So let’s all–the men amongst us at least–cut the sanctimonious blibber blabber.
More serious is the possibility of betraying one’s nation in response to being blackmailed by the Mossad, CIA, MI5, etc. Given the degree to which he’s been singled out, I wonder if Prince Andrew refused to sell out his country, unlike others that I’m sure have done so, either in connection with this particular Mossad setup or in general…individuals such as Bill Clinton and Bill Gates (who has sold out all of humanity), and who possibly visited the island more frequently than Prince Andrew did, and about whom the public hears very little on a day-to-day basis in connection with Epstein. Even Donald Trump, whom the media supposedly hates, is rarely mentioned in this regard as compared to the constant harping on Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew served in the British military as a helicopter pilot and instructor. He operated helicopters in combat situations on rescue missions. Compare that to the records of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump (and Gates too I assume) who avoided service in the military.
> forced on him by Charles and the deep state
charlie is a pedo too.
And it’s nice that I’m paying to let a pedo off — not to mention for him to carry right in living the life of riley. This sort of thing is exactly why I HATE the “uk”.
> Innocent man gives £10 million to his accuser.
Not innocent, and not HIS £7/10/12m.
The minor Royal, Andrew, may have been thrown to the wolves, but it’s highly suspicious as to how how the Clinton’s have got away with things.
Greatly suspicious.
‘Saving the Jubilee’ was a side issue. The main reason is that had he been put in the witness box he could have been compelled to reveal who else was at the sex orgies. That would have been a very long list of Establishment figures.
Gimme Some Truth: according Trump, the Clinton’s are about to be blown out of the water, we wait and see.
Sick: my comments are not related to whether they are paedos. I am pretty convinced Charles and his daddy (Phillip) were paedos, but we are talking about a US/Israeli deep state honey trap operation. If you want paedo chat, maybe Rixon should open a chat room…
larry barnes: I hope this isn’t aimed at me, because ober the years, I been one of the anti paedophile commentors on here. While in some US states 17 is under the age of consent, I don’t believe that is a valid law, because most young women and men in Amerika would be criminals. We are talking about a deep state slag who looked pretty happy to be doing it with XYZ. I am 60, when I was 17, most (not all) young ladies were lying about their age and rather desperate to open their legs, this being the pre AIDS age. I was involved, but not abused, in connection to boys homes in the North Wales areas. I was in one of these homes, but I was affected by Wrexham education dpt moving older boys into regular schools so this it was easier to abuse the younger boys, and I believe McAlpine was upto his neck in it, because his often uttered line of defence was: “I only went to Wrexham once, and that was with my agent.” McAlpine said this, knowing that said boys were being sent to London and around the country for elite paedo parties.
With Andrew and his settlement, we are talking power politics and deep state. Very easy to get side tracked into the muck that really leads to nowhere, because as we’ve seen, the elites, the fake news, the police states, and the deep states are very good at covering their tracks.
This will never get sorted until the 0. 1%, & later the 0.2% are tried for high crimes, then we might be able to tackle elite paedophilia.
I agree with Carl’s take on this.
At seventeen she was probably following ideas of being a Hollywood star and turned her nose up at being dated by regular guys. Now she has a huge payout.
I would have shagged Princess Anne when I was seventeen for a promise of playing for the Albion, and then accepted a few million when I was in my thirties. Nice work if you can get it…
As for Andy Pandy, he’s just another useless member of the Rothschild theatre troupe known as the “Windsors” …
But yeah, this whole thing may tell us their days of use are coming to an end. More strings would have been pulled in days gone by.
Andrew is a vile scumbag, like the rest of the so-called “royal” family of parasites, but that whore did not look like she was opposed to what was going on in those photographs and she ended up getting paid handsomely for it.
i see sarah evans has come forward she was ahed 13 and like many others her family was promised she would be well chaperoned by gislane maxwell while filiming a big film
there was no film she was there as bait for mossad to blackmailk high flyers#
this is why not one of our 600 MPS will speak on the genocide in palestine
it turns out maxwell known to the girls a s the spider woman was also abusing them
we need to see ALL the names in maxwells black book
BTW carl beeach who was imprisoned for whistleblowing told the truth 100%
> Prince Andrew served in the British military as a helicopter pilot and instructor. He operated helicopters in combat situations on rescue missions
Sure he did. Just like charlie right? It’s amazing what telling old men that someone ‘helped’ people will achieve. You notice how you say “rescue missions” and not murder missions. The fact that you call him ‘prince’ makes you a shill. Do you think all ‘helpers’ that did ‘rescue missions’ should be allowed to rape children? Is it some kind of reward?
To those that are saying the girls were ‘willing’. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. If I were to rape children and then have every one of them forevermore say that they wanted me to, would you think it was ok?
To those that are saying the pedos are all victims of ‘mossad’. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. If I were to rape children because someone else laid them out in front of me in order to blackmail me over it, would you think it was ok?
@ Simon Smith
“I would have shagged Princess Anne when I was seventeen for a promise of playing for the Albion.”
I think that you should make that the title of your autobiography, Simon.
It’s such a wonderfully evocative phrase. It conjures up images from “The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner” and “This Sporting Life” to me, somehow.
I hope you didn’t mean it though. The Princess Anne bit I could understand but the Baggies? Really?