Settlement between Epstein, Prince Andrew accuser now public

NEW YORK – A antecedently sealed $500,000 suit colony successful 2009 betwixt Jeffrey Epstein and an American pistillate that Prince Andrew claims protects him from an ongoing suit was made nationalist Monday.

The woody betwixt Epstein and Virginia Roberts, present known arsenic Virginia Giuffre, contained a paragraph that said it protects anyone “who could person been included arsenic a imaginable defendant” from lawsuits filed by Giuffre.

In August, Giuffre sued the prince, saying helium had sexually assaulted her aggregate times erstwhile she was 17.

The prince maintains assaults ne'er happened and his lawyers person challenged the suit connected aggregate grounds, including by saying she has lived astir of the past 2 decades successful Australia and can't accurately assertion to beryllium a nonmigratory of Colorado, wherever her parent lives. Oral arguments were scheduled to hap Tuesday implicit the challenge.

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In precocious 2019, Prince Andrew told BBC Newsnight that helium ne'er had enactment with Giuffre, saying, “It didn’t happen.”

He said helium has “no recollection” of ever gathering her.

The interrogation was wide panned by critics who said Andrew seemed insensitive to Epstein’s victims. Afterward, the prince was made to measurement backmost from royal duties.

A connection was near with a spokesperson for Giuffre's lawyers.

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