Everything we know about the lawsuit and this subsequent settlement
The queen’s favorite boy. Photo: Liam McBurney - PA Images/Getty Images The past few years, it is almost an understatement to say, have been acutely embarrassing for Prince Andrew, the man ninth in line for the British throne and reportedly the queen’s favorite boy. Deservedly embarrassing, maybe, but a real barn burner of a tabloid nightmare regardless.
In this most recent lawsuit, Giuffre maintained that Epstein and Maxwell forced her into sex with Andrew when she was 17 years old and the prince was 40. Again, these weren’t new claims, but they did amount to “assault and battery,” per her filing, which also called out locations.
Isn’t there a photo of him hanging out with Giuffre and Maxwell? Oh, yes! Here is the photo you are thinking of: Andrew with his arm wrapped around a teenage Giuffre’s waist, while Maxwell grins in the background. It appears to have been taken at Maxwell’s London home around 2001, which is when Giuffre alleges the abuse took place.
• Of his 2010 breakup trip: Phoning Epstein to say that the whole child-sex-ring thing precluded the possibility of continued friendship would’ve been the “chicken’s way of doing it,” whereas staying at his house for a few days was “convenient” as well as the “honorable and right thing to do.” Indeed, Andrew supposed that his “judgment was probably colored by” his “tendency to be too honorable” even as regards a person so “unbecoming” as Epstein. No show of politesse goes unpunished, I guess.
Can a body sort of shock itself into an extended sweatless state as Andrew described? Even just hypothetically, is that plausible? Um! I think, in the way Andrew explained the situation — the “overdose of adrenaline” he experienced amid gunfire in the Falklands left him incapable of perspiration for whole decades — his temporary sweatlessness is not very plausible. It is true that some people don’t sweat, a condition called anhidrosis; sweathelp.
Still, he’s received slaps on the wrist along the way: In 2011, for example, Andrew stepped down from his role as royal trade envoy in the aftermath of his Epstein visit. Then, a week after his dreadful BBC accounting, Andrew announced his purportedly voluntary resignation from his official duties.
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