{"id":187,"date":"2022-02-15T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/?p=187"},"modified":"2022-02-15T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:39:53","slug":"prince-andrew-settles-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-with-his-victim-virginia-giuffre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/europe\/british-royal-family\/prince-andrew-settles-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-with-his-victim-virginia-giuffre\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew Settles Sexual Abuse Lawsuit With His Victim Virginia Giuffre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reached a settlement in the sexual abuse lawsuit brought against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Giuffre\u2019s lawyer David Boies revealed the settlement in a motion filed with US District Judge Lewis Kaplain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit alleged Andrew sexually abused Virginia as a teenager on multiple occasions in London, Manhattan, and the US Virgin Islands in 2001, when she was 17, allegations that he strongly denied. Who would admit to this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell-1024x682.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell-768x511.png 768w, http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell-1536x1022.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell-620x413.png 620w, http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Andrew-Andrew-Mountbatten-Winsor-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Ghislaine-Maxwell.png 2022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Virginia Roberts Giuffre &amp; Ghislane Maxwell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince Andrew\u2019s legal team sought to have the case dismissed, arguing that another 2009 settlement between Virginia and Jeffrey Epstein barred him from liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However Judge Kaplan denied that bid in January, paving the way for a trial that will no longer happen under the new settlement, the terms of which have not been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A document submitted to a US court on Tuesday said that Andrew and Virginia had reached an out of court settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said he would make a <em>&#8220;substantial donation to Ms Giuffre&#8217;s charity&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/prince-andrew-news-latest-virginia-giuffre-trial-b2015695.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I<\/a><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/prince-andrew-news-latest-virginia-giuffre-trial-b2015695.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ndependent<\/a><\/em>,<\/span> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-60393843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BBC<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Winsor has reached a settlement in the sexual abuse lawsuit brought against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}