LEGAL SETTLEMENT
In August 2021, Giuffre filed a lawsuit against Andrew, alleging he sexually assaulted her three times, including twice when she was 17.
In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl” published earlier this month, Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three separate occasions, having been trafficked by Epstein.
On the first occasion in March 2001, the then 41-year-old Andrew had sex with her at Maxwell’s mews house in London.
Andrew was asked to guess her age. When he correctly suggested she was 17, he explained his accuracy by saying that “my daughters are just a little younger than you”, Giuffre recalled in her memoir.
The second encounter was the following month at Epstein’s “garish” townhouse in New York.
The last time was on Epstein’s private island as part of what she described as an “orgy” with Andrew, Epstein and around eight other girls who “all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English”.
A letter filed to a US court in February 2022 jointly by Giuffre and Andrew’s lawyers revealed they had reached an out-of-court settlement to end her civil case against him.
Andrew – who made no admission of liability – agreed to pay her an undisclosed sum. The exact amount has not been revealed, but was reportedly more than £9 million (US$12 million).
“NO RECOLLECTION”
Andrew stood down as a UK trade envoy in 2011 amid controversy over his ties with Epstein.
In 2019, after a disastrous TV interview, he withdrew from public duties and gave up his HRH (His Royal Highness) title after denying in the interview that he had sex with Giuffre.
He added that he had no recollection “at all” of ever meeting her.
Queen Elizabeth II in January 2022 stripped him of his military titles and royal patronages after he lost his attempt to quash the civil suit filed by Giuffre in 2021.
On Oct 17, Andrew agreed to give up his Duke of York title under pressure from Charles, saying he would not use it.
His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who borrowed money from Epstein, will also no longer be known as the Duchess of York.
On Thursday, amid growing public outcry, King Charles III moved to strip his younger brother of all his titles and to oust him from the Royal Lodge, on the Windsor estate, where he had lived for two decades paying only a peppercorn rent.
Giuffre took her own life in April, at the age of 41, in Australia where she lived with her husband and three children.
Source: CNA
