Jeffrey Epstein paid $ 500,000 to an accuser - Rolling Stone

In 2009, Jeffrey Epstein made an agreement with Virginia Giuffre to buy her silence.Today, Prince Andrew claims that the agreement protects him from possible prosecution.

The secret agreement concluded between Jeffrey Epstein and the accuser Virginia Giuffre was made public on Monday in New York.Prince Andrew claims that the 2009 agreement sheltered from the trial brought by Virginia Giuffre, who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 years old.

The private pact reveals that Epstein paid $ 500,000 to Giuffre to end his accusations of sexual assault when she was a teenager.The initial trial she brought against Epstein, under the name of Jane Doe n ° 102 in May 2009, included allegations that Epstein had started to abuse her sexually at the age of 15, had forced herto prostitute herself when she was minor and had sold her to her peers, "including members of the royal family".

Prince Andrew's lawyers insisted that the documents were unveiled on Monday in order to support their claims according to which the agreement included a discharge prohibiting Guffre from continuing the Duke of York.At the time, the parties agreed that the agreement "releases" Epstein and its agents, as well as any other "potential" in this case, of any future prosecution.But the lawyers of Giuffre claim that the discharge does not protect Prince Andrew, prosecuted for sexual assault and assault and injury before the Federal Court of Manhattan, because the claims of the 2009 trial concerned the accused involved in his alleged traffic, and notthe "male peers" to which it was sold.His lawyers also argue that the Federal Court of Florida, where the Epstein-Giuffre settlement agreement has been concluded, would not have admitted to having legal competence on Prince Andrew, because Giuffre had not accused the Duke ofYork to have abused her in this state and that he did not live there.

"Unlike New York or the American Virgin Islands, there is no allegation that Prince Andrew has abused Mrs. Giuffre in Florida," wrote his lawyers in a document filed on November 29 to oppose thePrince Andrew attempts to reject the case.

"At first glance, the agreement prohibits any claim from Ms. Giuffre against her," said Prince Andrew's lawyers in a document deposited in court on December 13."The discharge agreement, by its clear terms, embodies the intention of the parties to benefit directly and substantially from a category of people whose Prince Andrew is a member".

Previously known under the name of Virginia Roberts, Giuffre brought trial to Prince Andrew in August, saying that the third child of Queen Elizabeth II had forced him to engage in sexual acts in New York, London and inAmerican virgin islands, when it was a minor.Virginia Giuffre, 38, says that Adolescentnte, she worked in a spa of the Mar-A-Lago club in Donald Trump when she was drawn to Jeffrey Epstein's canvas by Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted on December 29 for recruiting andPrepared victims for Epstein.According to Giuffre, Prince Andrew attacked her in the Epstein home in Manhattan when she was 17 years old, raped her at Maxwell's home in London and forced her to have unwanted sex on thePrivate Epstein island known as Little St.

Another element could weigh heavy: an email that Prince Andrew would have sent Maxwell shortly after Giuffre made his first complaints against him in December 2014 public."Let me know when we can talk.I have a few specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts, "the prince wrote in Maxwell, according to the court documents from Giuffre."Prince Andrew did not express a surprise and did not ask Maxwell who was the woman who accused him of sexual abuse," said Giuffre lawyers.

Nancy Dillon

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