Prince Andrew Sexual Assault Settlement Is HUGE! And The Queen Is Covering How Much?!
17.02.2022 - 05:25
/ perezhilton.com
We told you on Tuesday about the shocking news that Prince Andrew had given up the fight and decided to settle the sexual assault lawsuit against him. We guess he was starting to sweat after all, eh?
The suit came about as a result of the Duke of York’s long established relationship with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell. After Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges, the accusations against Prince Andrew was given new life, in a legal sense, anyway. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has maintained for years that she was coerced by Epstein into having sex with Andrew on more than one occasion, including when she was just 17 years old, finally filed a sexual assault lawsuit last year.
Though Andrew professed both his innocence and his intentions to fight it out in court, he did a full 180 on Monday, settling for an unknown sum. Considering Virginia’s lawyer David Boies previously stated they wouldn’t take the money while he was still denying even knowing her — as he did in that awful interview — we knew it had to be a lot. Especially as Boies ended that declaration with:
So how large are we talking? Well, someone must have leaked to the press in the UK because several outlets, including The Telegraph, are reporting the number to a whopping 12 million. That’s pounds, mind you. In US dollars, we’re talking north of $16 mil!
Yowza! That’s a lot of little pictures of Andrew’s mum!
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Even for a man of such wealth, that’s a sizable sum. Add to that the man was stripped of his royal titles as a result of this scandal, and we have to wonder how he can afford it — and