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Prince Andrew has paid a settlement to sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre, based on her lawyer, and a US district choose agreed Tuesday to dismiss her lawsuit against the Duke of York.
“The cost was obtained, the settlement we introduced final month has been accomplished. We’re clearly very happy with the end result,” Giuffre lawyer David Boies informed CNN.
Boies wouldn’t disclose the quantity the 2 events agreed upon.
CNN reached out to counsel for Prince Andrew for remark.
After the cost was made, attorneys for each events filed a stipulation for the lawsuit to be dismissed with prejudice, that means Giuffre can not refile the declare in the identical district courtroom in New York.
The settlement brings to a detailed a civil lawsuit that sprung from the sprawling and disturbing allegations in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein, the rich intercourse offender who befriended a sequence of highly effective males regardless of a sketchy historical past.
Within the lawsuit, Giuffre alleged Epstein trafficked her and forced her to have sex along with his buddies, together with Prince Andrew, and that Andrew was conscious she was underage within the US on the time. She alleged Andrew sexually abused her at Epstein’s personal island within the US Virgin Islands, at his mansion in Manhattan and at his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London.
The prince has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. Nonetheless, the allegations in opposition to Andrew, 62, dramatically tarnished his public standing, and he stepped again from royal duties in late 2019.
In January, US District Decide Lewis Kaplan denied Andrew’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, and he had been scheduled to offer an announcement below oath on March 10, a supply informed CNN.
Nevertheless, the events reached an out-of-court settlement agreement final month. The settlement included Prince Andrew’s cost of an undisclosed quantity to Giuffre and to her charity supporting victims’ rights, based on courtroom paperwork.
“Prince Andrew intends to make a considerable donation to Ms. Giuffre’s charity in assist of victims’ rights. 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 on account of unfair public assaults,” based on a letter filed to the courtroom final month asserting the settlement.
Epstein was indicted on federal intercourse trafficking prices in July 2019 as prosecutors accused him of finishing up a a long time lengthy scheme of sexual abuse of underage women. He died by suicide in jail earlier than he might face trial.
Maxwell was arrested in 2020 and accused of facilitating the abuse scheme. A federal jury convicted her in December on 5 federal counts, together with intercourse trafficking a minor and conspiracy. Nevertheless, that conviction may very well be upended because the courtroom weighs concerns about a juror’s false statements on his questionnaire.