(New York) The sexual assault lawsuit filed in New York against Prince Andrew by his longtime accuser, Virginia Giuffre, has been officially dropped after a financial settlement, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Posted at 10:52 p.m.
In February, the parties reached an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum, sparing Queen Elizabeth II’s second son the public humiliation of a trial.
Both parties filed a “stipulation of dismissal” of the case in federal court in New York, signed by Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday.
Last month’s agreement stipulated that the parties would file a motion to dismiss “upon receipt by Mr.me Giuffre of the settlement”, suggesting that it was paid.
Mme Giuffre, 38, said she had sex with Andrew when she was 17, and therefore a minor under US law, after meeting him through US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in 2019 in his cell in New York, as he awaited his own trial for sex crimes.
The prince, now 61, has not been criminally charged and has denied the charges.
the Daily Telegraph reported that he was to pay £10 million ($13.1 million) to Mme Giuffre and £2million to a charity for victims of sex trafficking.
In January, the prince was stripped of his honorary military titles as well as remaining charitable roles.
He stepped down from royal public life in 2019 after a BBC interview in which he sought to clear himself of the accusation of Mme Giuffre.