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February marks one year of the agreement that saved the Duke of York from being indicted for allegedly abusing Virginia Giuffre, one of the victims of his friend Jeffrey Epstein, when he was a minor, in a civil lawsuit in NY.
The Duke of York preferred not to fan the fire by forcing a trial that would have coincided with the Platinum Jubilee of his mother
Elizabeth II, and contained the scandal in a private pact with Giuffre (née Roberts).
But now he is willing to reopen the case and obtain the annulment of the complaint encouraged by another parallel case in which Giuffre has confessed to having been wrong and with the support that the change of monarch has in store for him, according to British media.
Andrés did not admit guilt in the document released by the lawyers.
He did recognize Giuffre as a victim of sexual assault,
celebrated his "bravery" and "rewarded" him with a "substantial donation" estimated at around ten million euros.
In return, she would have agreed to remain silent for a minimum of twelve months.
This agreement threatens to break down in another key year for the United Kingdom, with the coronation of Charles as king in May.
Both parties begin to pull strings to undo the agreement, according to what British media have published, which assure that
the Duke of York would be plotting to return from monarchical exile
, after purifying his reputation and with the desire to work for the Crown.
According to the
Mail on Sunday,
he is studying with his American lawyers ways to get a rectification and even an apology from Giuffre.
Although at the moment he is the most unpopular royal and the outcast brother of the king.
Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in the backgroundGTRES
The duke's friends insist that the family pressured him to settle the dispute urgently.
"Andrés felt like he was in a pressure cooker, as if he had no choice but to settle the matter.
He did not want to resolve it like this and he has always insisted that he is innocent. He wants to see what legal routes are available to him," quotes the Sunday newspaper from an anonymous source.
Others mysteriously suggest that he will ring the bell in February.
The case of attorney Alan Dershowitz gives hope to disgraced Windsor.
Giuffre withdrew his allegations of sexual abuse two months ago against the Harvard professor and legal representative of Jeffrey Epstein,
the millionaire friend of the prince who died by hanging in a New York cell
after being charged with child trafficking.
"I recognize that I could be wrong to identify Mr. Dershowitz," Giuffre corrected.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for collaborating in Epstein's "pyramid", believes that Giuffre's turning back benefits her "dear" Andrés.
"She has changed her version multiple times and it's hard to know what's true and what isn't,"
she said in her first interview from a Tallahasse jail in Florida.
She was more certain she expressed about the visual evidence that grounded the duke's testimony that he does not remember meeting Virginia 20 years ago.
The two adults and the young American appear together in a photo allegedly taken by Epstein in London.
"It's fake," Maxwell said.
Will Giuffre back down again?
His apparent plans point in the opposite direction.
Giuffre, who has three children and lives in Australia,
is determined to "prove that the rich and powerful are not above the law and must be held accountable."
She founded the NGO Speak Out, Act, Reclaim to spread "survivor stories and end sex trafficking."
Now he has signed a contract to publish his memoirs, according to the
New York Post
.
Details of his ordeal have come to light in lawsuits and countersuits he has filed with Epstein, Maxwell, Dershowitz and the Duke of York, among others.
"It was not easy to deal with the sexual desires of all those men, the prince among them.
He loved my feet and even licked me between his fingers,"
he writes in a long testimony that he titled
The Playboys Billionaires Club.
The tabloids believe that Andrés will be left out of a biography that promises to be explosive.
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