Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre have reached a settlement in her sex abuse suit against him and can dismiss the case introduced in Manhattan federal court docket.
The sum of the settlement is not going to be disclosed, in accordance with court docket papers filed Tuesday. Giuffre and Prince Andrew will file a stipulation to dismiss the case inside the subsequent month, in accordance with the court docket papers, which had been filed collectively by each events.
In an unsigned letter submitted as an attachment to the settlement submitting, Andrew stated he accepts Giuffre has suffered as an “established sufferer” of intercourse abuse however doesn’t admit any wrongdoing.
“Prince Andrew has by no means supposed to malign Ms. Giuffre’s character, and he accepts that she has suffered each as a longtime sufferer of abuse and because of unfair public assaults,” the letter states.
“It’s recognized that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked numerous younger ladies over a few years. Prince Andrew regrets his affiliation with Epstein, and commends the bravery of Ms. Giuffre and different survivors in standing up for themselves and others,” it provides.
The assertion claimed Andrew will struggle in opposition to the “evils” of intercourse trafficking however didn’t element how he plans to take action.
“He pledges to exhibit his remorse for his affiliation with Epstein by supporting the struggle in opposition to the evils of intercourse trafficking, and by supporting its victims,” it stated.
Giuffre claimed within the go well with that the embattled royal sexually abused her 3 times when she was a teen in London, New York and the US Virgin Islands.
Andrew had maintained his innocence.
In her go well with, Giuffre claimed she was trafficked to Andrew by Epstein and his cohort Ghislaine Maxwell beginning when she was 17 years outdated.
On one event, the go well with claims she was pressured to have intercourse with Andrew at Maxwell’s London townhouse.
“Throughout this encounter, Epstein, Maxwell, and Prince Andrew pressured Plaintiff, a toddler, to have sexual activity with Prince Andrew in opposition to her will,” the go well with states.
In every of the three encounters, Giuffre claimed, she “feared demise or bodily damage to herself” if she didn’t adjust to Maxwell and Epstein’s orders.
In January, a federal choose dominated the case may go to trial after Andrew had filed a movement to dismiss the go well with.
Andrew had argued, partially, {that a} settlement settlement Giuffre inked with Epstein in 2009 barred her from bringing the civil go well with in opposition to him. The argument was shot down by Choose Lewis Kaplan.
In an interview with the BBC, Giuffre’s legal professional, David Boies, stated in January that he didn’t assume she can be excited by a strictly monetary settlement.
“A purely monetary settlement shouldn’t be something I believe she is excited by,” he stated.
Andrew has lengthy denied the accusations made in opposition to him by Giuffre, together with in a disastrous, televised interview with the BBC in 2019 — throughout which he claimed he couldn’t have abused her as a result of he was unable to sweat.
Giuffre had beforehand stated she remembered Andrew sweating on her as they danced at a London nightclub.
The longtime Epstein and Maxwell accuser has claimed the pair trafficked her throughout the globe to the pedophile financier’s rich associates.
She didn’t testify at Maxwell’s extremely publicized Manhattan federal court docket legal trial final yr, however prosecutors launched proof within the case that purported to indicate she had flown world wide with the couple on Epstein’s personal jet.
Maxwell was convicted on 5 of six counts on the trial – however the verdict was thrown into query after a juror revealed in numerous press interviews that he had been sexually abused as baby.
Maxwell’s attorneys have requested a brand new trial. A choose has not dominated on whether or not to grant her one.
Epstein died in a Decrease Manhattan jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking costs. His demise was dominated a suicide by the New York Metropolis Medical Examiner’s Workplace.
