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Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew was filed in federal court in New York in August 2021, accusing him of sexually abusing her when she was 17 after she had allegedly been trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The case alleged that Andrew assaulted her in multiple locations, including London, New York, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and it was brought under New York’s Child Victims Act, which temporarily allowed older abuse claims to be filed despite expired statutes of limitation. Andrew denied the allegations and tried to get the case dismissed, but Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected that effort in January 2022, allowing the lawsuit to move forward while making clear that the ruling was not a finding that the accusations were true

The lawsuit was explosive because it threatened to drag Andrew into discovery, depositions, and possibly a public civil trial over his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell. Instead, in February 2022, Andrew and Giuffre reached an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed amount, with Andrew agreeing to make a substantial donation to Giuffre’s victims’ rights charity while making no admission of liability. The settlement ended the civil case, but it did not erase the damage: Andrew had already lost royal duties, military affiliations, and much of his public standing, and the case cemented him as one of the most disgraced figures in the modern royal family.


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