The second son of the Queen has made an agreement with Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual assault. He “recognizes that she has suffered as a victim of abuse” and undertakes to pay a “substantial donation” to charity works.
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Prince Andrew has found an amicable agreement with Virginia Giauffre (born Roberts), who accused him of sexual assault and had obtained the next outfit of a trial in the United States. Thanks to a “substantial” financial payment – the amount of which was not made public by US justice, Tuesday, February 15 -, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II will avoid the public exhibition of a trial with jury, and perhaps the opprobrium of a conviction.
Virginia Giauffre, 38 years old, one of the Multimillionaire’s Multimillière and Sexual Criminal Jeffrey Epstein (found in his cell in August 2019), pursued the Duke of York, assuring that he was forced by Mr. Epstein and his friend, Ghislaine Maxwell (sentenced to minor trafficking), to have three times sex with him in 2001, while she was only 17 years old. Andrew, 61, has so far always denied these allegations and even affirmed “having no memory” from having encountered him, despite the existence of a photograph dating from 2001 the show holding the young Virginia by the size , in the presence of Ghislaine Maxwell.
In a common statement, Virginia Giauffre and Prince Andrew specify that the latter “has never intended to denigrate the character of M me giuffre, and recognizes that she suffered As a victim of abuse and target of unjust public attacks “. Prince Andrew “regrets” also “his association with Mr. Epstein” – he remained close to the rich New Yorker, even after his sentence to prison in the early 2010s. Finally, he undertakes to pay a ” substantial donation “to works of charity (help victims of sexual abuse and founded by Virginia Giauffre).
” The tabloids would have deselected “
Lawatier Lisa Bloom, who represents eight of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, reacted, believing that “Virginia accomplished what no one else could have done: bring Prince Andrew to stop his nonsense and Range on the side of the victims of sexual violence. We greet his amazing courage “.
This agreement amicably welcomed by the rest of the royal family, already shaken by the smashing departure for America Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, and who feared a lawsuit Public, tabloid loving, does not tarnish the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (70 years of reign), in June, who must celebrate his exceptional longevity and the strength of the British monarchy. “Going to the trial could have gave rise to situations really unpleasant. It would have been embarrassing, humiliating, the tabloids would have deselected it. And that would have eclipsed the Platinum Jubilee of the Queen,” says the journalist and Aurer Penny Junor. , in The Guardian .
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