The prince andrew reached an ‘agreement in principle’ with Virginia Roberts in a US civil sex lawsuit, court documents reveal.
The parties “settled out of court,” Giuffre’s attorney, David Boies, wrote in a letter to a New York judge sent on behalf of both parties, without disclosing the financial terms of the settlement.
In the brief addressed to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the lawyers do not disclose the terms of the agreement, but ask him to “suspend all terms” of the trial, which was scheduled to begin next fall, although there was no set date.
In the letter signed by David Boies, the prince’s lawyer, they anticipate to the judge that they are going to file a lawsuit to dismiss the case within 30 days.
Judge Kaplan now has the power to file the case, as well as to keep the terms of the settlement secret.
Same Judge Kaplan already refused in December to file the case, a request from the defense that it was based on an agreement signed by Giuffre (now 38 and living in Australia) and the late tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, who was the one who allegedly introduced Giuffre to Prince Andrew.
In that agreement, signed in 2009, Giuffre gave up pursuing Epstein “and other potential defendants” for the sexual abuse cases, in exchange for a payment of half a million dollars.
The judge then considered that the accusations against Andrés were not the same as those against Epstein, and also the case was seen in a different jurisdiction; In addition, he argued that the only people who could execute a confidential agreement were the signatories, a requirement that is supposedly fulfilled now.
Victim support
According to the Daily Mail, the document states that Prince Andrew intends to make a substantial donation to Mrs Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights. “Prince Andrew never intended to smear Mrs Giuffre’s character, and he accepts that she has suffered so much as an established victim of abuse as a result of unfair public attacks.
“Jeffrey Epstein has been known to traffic in countless young girls for many years. Prince Andrew deplores his association with Epstein and commends the courage of Mrs. Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others,” the agreement detailed.
In addition, in the agreement, he agrees to show his remorse for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking and supporting its victims.
During the process, the lawyers of the third son of Queen Elizabeth of England presented an official document before the court of the southern district of New York, in which they denied that he sexually abused Giuffre Y they reject that it was accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epsteinthe businessman accused of sexual trafficking of minors.
In the text the prince Andrés does admit that he met Epstein “in or about 1999,” and expressly asks that “all causes” in the case be tried by jury.
The Epstein case is aired in the United States and the British prince was formally accused by Giuffre of sexually abusing her when she was 17 in a civil lawsuit filed in a New York court. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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