Inside the court case that ended in the humiliation of Prince Andrew | 60 Minutes Australia

Not all pictures say a thousand words, this one says a lot more that we will never know exactly, but it is also probably worth around $20 million, that is the speculated amount that Prince Andrew will pay Virginia Du Frey to settle a legal

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that she filed against him, he says. When she was 17, she was trafficked to the Prince by pedophile businessman Jeffrey Epstein, ably assisted by fellow sex offender Glenn Maxwell. Despite the photograph, Andrew has always denied ever knowing, much less having had sexual relations with Miss Dufrey, but has been so discredited these days that it is difficult to believe anything, disgraced royalty says the downfall of a duke stripped of all military titles bestowed by his mother and no longer known as mrs. the queen expels her son her favorite is the photograph that she shot down a

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from the investigations we have done You cannot prove if that photograph is fake or not.

Prince Andrew happily poses with Virginia Dufrey, who was only 17 years old at the time. This is a real photo and that was the first time you met him and that is the first time I met him. and that's right before he abused me. It is the crucial evidence in the civil suit that Virginia filed against the

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accusing him of sexual abuse on three separate occasions, when you knew that after the first time it was going to happen a second time and then it was going to happen a third time, what was your reaction to that?

Every time he displeased you, absolutely displeased. I don't remember meeting this lady, but others did. Virginia's ex-boyfriend now speaks out against Prince Andrew. I didn't think he was like royalty. included in all of this and then when I heard how much bigger can it get than that, prince

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hours ago agreed to a settlement, then the shocking announcement that the duke admits no responsibility from denial to capitulation. Prince Angie regrets his association with Epstein and praises the bravery of prank Frey and other survivors Prince abandons the legal fight in terms of financing around 12 million pounds and chooses to pay instead of appearing in

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In fact, he would have expected him to try to reach a settlement before we filed the

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. litigation and we were inside in the final hours while the finer details of this momentous negotiation were being worked out. I knew it wasn't going to be an easy road. He has very good lawyers and many resources, but not enough to protect him. Palace sources are now preparing to expose the real Prince Andrew. Did Prince Andrew have a nickname at the time? He was called that. Virginia du Frey first told us in 2019 that she would never have met the Duke of York if it weren't for her close friends.

Criminals Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell were attacked by Maxwell in 1999. The troubled fugitive was offered a job and the promise of training to become a professional masseuse, unaware of the trap set for his Virginia, and he agreed with Maxwell's help. do a test massage on epstein, that's when I was ordered to do it, that's when I was ordered to undress and have sex with Jeffrey Epstein while Geeland Maxwell was also participating, do you want to take a moment, I'm fine, so they both abused of you. On their first meeting, yes, both Helen and Epstein abused me and it broke my heart.

I don't want to sound sexist in any way, but I expected it from a man, but I didn't expect it from a woman who couldn't imagine putting someone through what she put me through and um yeah, I think that's what I most hurts. Do you know Virginia? Can you at least say if she was at your house at the end of December last year? Glenn Maxwell was convicted of recruiting and grooming teenagers to have sex with her ex-boyfriend, disgraced and now dead billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, guilty as his appeal is heard within months, Maxwell faces the rest of his life in prison for his role which included the trafficking of a minor when we started our goal was to really attack the evil of sex trafficking to try to stop epstein and maxwell it is a case that has a touch of david versus goliath where in this case the unlikely loser is the formidable david boyes federal prosecutor virginia east At the time when the experienced litigator was assuming the power and wealth of not only the Epstein and Maxwell double act but also the British royal family at the time of this interview last Tuesday, David was preparing for his Prince Andrew statement scheduled for early March, the duke is the first royal to come under such legal scrutiny and so you feel the weight of that.

I mean, this is a pretty historic moment in some ways, but I've deposed a lot of historical figures, whether they're Bill Gates or senators or cabinet members. billionaire captains of industry, so adding a royal to their list does not scare or intimidate them in any way, well, it doesn't scare or intimidate me because I can ask the questions, but David's questions will be left without response with The prince evades the interrogation by solving the case. Serious and deeply disturbing allegations continue to exist. Virginia says she was trafficked to many men, but the prince was the most prominent.

How did you know you were going to be trafficked to him? You know, they woke me up. I went to Guilin in the morning and he told me I was going to meet a prince and until then I shouldn't have even known, but I didn't even know that I was going to be trafficked to him that night and we went shopping and and Prince Andrew came and then we went to the club and he danced with me and by the way he's a horrible dancer and he sweats a lot and he smells funny um and then and then we get in the car and

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is not in the car with us, he is in the car behind us with his security guards and Elon tells me in the car that I have to do what I do for Jeffrey, for Prince Andrew, and that's when I knew what was going to happen first in London, at Maxwell's house and then. new york at the epstein mansion and finally on the caribbean island of epstein virginia says that to the prince it was nothing more than a sexual game I was less than a dog to them you know I was I was not even a puppy to play with I was just a toy that you don't even recognize as alive or there or important or cared for or concerned in some way none of those human emotions were attached to me when I was trafficked to prince andrew in the growing chorus against the prince andrew's denials come tony figueroa the groom from virginia at the time a high school girlfriend who shared a house with the 17 year old he was very aware of her routine two weeks home with him and two weeks away with jeffrey epstein when epstein's scheduled call came Tony says Virginia He had no choice but to leave.

There was an element of fear, of course, when such a powerful person knows where you live, like where you sleep, when you see your girlfriend, she has to leave every two weeks and when she gets that call in her face. like she completely changed from "okay" I'm good to like you know, oh my gosh, you know it takes its toll and it gets pretty stressful. Tony remembers one call in particular, but this one came from Virginia herself, she called me, maybe I guess right after you. I know she found out exactly what they wanted her to do, she said she didn't feel safe and I mean I just told her to do everything she could to make sure she was safe, what did they want her to do to have sex? them with jeffrey and the prince since virginia went public with her accusations against prince andrew, he has vehemently denied them most memorably on british television.

In this compelling and cringe-worthy interview was Prince Andrew's response to Virginia's claim that he was sweaty and smelled funny. I described dancing with you and you sweating profusely and her taking a bath, possibly there's a little problem with the sweating, um, because I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don't sweat, or I didn't. I was sweating at the time and that was oh she, yeah, I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an adrenaline overdose in the Falklands War when I was shot and it was just, it was, it was It's almost impossible for me to sweat. , then his statement that the night Virginia claims he sexually abused her, he was in fact at Pizza Express working with one of his daughters, something very unusual for me seeing all this was the lawyer David Boyes, my I understood that if would have looked for some evidence of those claims, evidence that you have a condition that prevents you from sweating and evidence that you were not working, have you been able to provide any of that?

No, she is absolutely right. We served him with a document demand asking for any documents to support those claims and he has no documents. Did you really expect me to have documentary evidence that he doesn't sweat? uh no, I didn't have my reaction with um regarding the claim that he didn't sweat was a bit of disbelief and I thought this probably wasn't credible ground to risk his reputation. Regarding Pizza Express, it occurred to me that it would be reckless to make that statement. unless you had some way to prove it, then we certainly wanted to prove it and so far it hasn't been proven, so far it hasn't been proven, Virginia launched her civil suit against the prince six months ago since he has done everything he can to distance himself from jeffrey epstein and glenn maxwell, the architects of the sex trafficking ring, but as you will see, the palace staff is now prepared to go on record about the extent of the relationship between mrs. epstein and prince andrew, myself and my other colleagues We were given the impression that they were in some kind of intimate relationship until Prince Andrew defiantly headed to

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last week to fight accusations that he sexually abused teenager Virginia Dufrese after having rejected previous attempts to reach out. an agreement.

Both sides were preparing for a showdown with Virginia's New York attorney, David Boyes, preparing to question the prince under oath last Tuesday. David agreed to talk about the trial scheduled for September and hinted that something might be afoot, that there will be developments we'll probably want to talk about soon. Do you have any idea if the trial may not continue at all, but could in fact be resolved before the trial date? I think there is always the possibility of an agreement. I think the prospects of an agreement and a negotiation are not something I can really talk about.

As you understand, you can't really try to solve a case like this in public. Those negotiations have to continue in private. It is now clear that those negotiations continued right after our interview

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. Less than 24 hours later, the news hit the mainstream. for prince andrew of great britain to reach a settlement with virginia prince andrew was no longer going to court reach an out-of-court settlement for an undefeated agreed to a settlement meet virginia's conditions years of denying her claims against him one of the things What Virginia has said is that in addition for an appropriate settlement amount there would have to be an acknowledgment by Prince Andrew of the inappropriateness of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

I think we've said from the beginning that there would have to be a vindication of Virginia, there would have to be a recognition of Virginia as a clear victim of abuse, and there would have to be an acknowledgment of the unfair public attacks that have been made against her over the past week. , the biggest speculation has been about how much the confidential settlement is worth and, ultimately, who will pay for it. We are talking about between 10 and 12 million pounds. Andrew is not a very rich man. He has some rich friends who I think would lend him £12 million.

Frankly, he has been repeatedly mentioned in the press as the queen. It's being rescued Author Nigel Corthorn, who investigated the Epstein scandal, says the biggest worry in the UK is that money rumored to be the equivalent of $20 million will come out of the public purse, from what I can see , defending her wayward son in a sordid sex case in a foreign court is not one of Her Majesty's official duties, what do you imagine the Queen said to Prince Andrew? I don't know her, I think she probably addressed him like he was one of her corgis and told him that coming to heal the deal in no way exonerates him at all you say the deal doesn't exonerate him in the eyes of the public do you think that consolidates his perception that he is guilty in the court of world public opinion?

I think we've all made a decision, right? I won't stop fighting. I will never be silenced until these people are brought to justice. What do you say to Virginia's critics who say it's a money grab after so much time? This has never happened. has been entirely, mostly or even largely, about money, this has been a cause that Virginia has dedicated her life to in terms of bringing attention to the evils of sex trafficking and holding accountable the people who They are dedicated to sex trafficking. Only Prince Andrew can do it. explain his decision to settle, but the December conviction of his old friend gulen maxwell for traffickingsexual did not seem good to him.

He had been friends with Guillaine Maxwell for 40 years, although in her rebuttal in the Gufrey case he says she is not a close person. friend but they are together at buckingham palace they get together at balmoral they get together at sandringham they are together at ascot they are not close friends do you think he is telling the truth no doubt paul page a former royal personal protection officer witnessed the prince and maxwell together many times at Buckingham Palace personally, I would say in the two years I had seen her come in a dozen times and she just waved at her.

One of my colleagues saw her come in four times in one day. That Prince Andrew says that he barely knew her is what I mean. He is misleading me and my other colleagues, we were under the impression that they had some kind of intimate relationship. Paul's concern at the time was not so much for Andrew's reputation but for the queens, as the palace hosted the daughter of media mogul and disgraced fraudster Robert Maxwell. We realized it was Prince Andrew and Gizley Maxwell sitting around having a picnic. We said: I wonder if the queen knows who is sitting in her lungs having a picnic with her son.

You know, so we thought it would be a bit if the press found out. a problem prince andrew brought the sex trafficking scandal to the house of windsor now the palace staff is raising the curtain on the prince of oddities why would anyone have 50 or 60 teddy bears in their bed settling the civil suit with his accuser prince virginia dufrey? Andrew surely hoped the stench of scandal surrounding him would go away despite not admitting that public perception is that he has evaded scrutiny and once again some tough questions according to author Nigel Corthorn, but once he said he never met her , I do not know who.

She is and there is an image of freedoms together. He just completely ruined it for Paul Page, who worked as part of the palace security for six years. The legal stash has allowed people to finally see the real Prince Andrew. Did Prince Andrew have a nickname at the time? he had a nickname but it's a bit rude of me to tell you one I'll tell you but you won't be able to pass it on his name was just join me italy yeah his name was plain and simple because unfortunately he annoyed everyone he came across he was the member most unpopular in the royal family, um, while I was there he was just rude and arrogant, I mean his sense of self-entitlement was impressive between 1998 and 2004, Paul says he witnessed the atrocious behavior of a man who was used to always getting what he wanted, I just feel like prince andrew has a case to answer on every level including bullying, and i suffered at the hands of prince andrew.

The girls suffered at the hands of Prince Andrews' colleagues, other police officers and members of staff. but none of this has ever been investigated because people were too scared. Andrew was undoubtedly the prince of good times. There was a constant stream of women visiting Prince Andrew late at night and we didn't know their names or his identity. Obviously we thought about it. It was a purchase and the joke was that he should have a revolving door in his bedroom and take British eccentricity to another level. Paul recounts a colleague's tour of the prince's bedroom where teddy bears were meticulously placed on his bed.

We saw everything. the teddy bears in the bed before, okay, a 40 year old man with about 50 or 60 teddy bears in his bed, okay, and then he said there's a card in that drawer down and he showed us the card that Was eliminated. Picture of all the teddy bears and then explained that if the teddy bears are not put back in this certain order, Prince Andrew would start shouting and cursing at the companions, alarm bells are ringing on that kind of trouble, You know, why would someone be like that? Can you handle why someone would have 50 or 60 teddy bears in his bed?

Well, apparently 72 more showed up, so it's behavior that Paul says speaks to the arrogance of someone who didn't have to answer to anyone if that was the case. throwing their majestic weight on a misplaced teddy bear or brazenly visiting notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in New York. That trip would have been planned from an office within the Department of Homeland Security, they would have contacted the state police. or whoever runs protection in new york and by giving them the prince's details about where he was staying, his travel arrangements would have returned, many of which were owned by jeffrey epstein, who was a convicted felon, you're saying that the royal house would have gotten a red flag for this, yes they need to do it. knowing where he is staying, where the nearest police station is, when this hospital is, what teams will take turns caring for him and all those factors come into play, but who in that house would know, I mean, if mom and dad were Would you inform them about this? the queen again, I'm not really sure if there is anyone who has the guts to talk to the queen about this.

I'm pretty sure that if the queen, if the queen knew, she would have said no, Paul Page himself has been in trouble with the law, he was sentenced to prison for six years for investment fraud, but it's his encounters with Prince Andrew. the ones that seem to have marked him the most, knowing the inner workings of the palace that he is convinced of on every trip Andrew made, and every time he was accused of being with Virginia, there was someone. Who saw it there, so if there were witnesses that Prince Andrew was with Virginia Dufrey, why haven't they come forward?

You're taking on the royal family, so there's a lot of fear among ex-police officers to come forward, they've signed no-disclosure agreements too, so they're worried about their pensions. There are a lot of people out there with information who are too scared to come forward with it. The journey to justice has been a long one for Virginia Dufrey. She does not have. It's a shame that when we first met the now Australian resident in 2019, she made clear accusations against Prince Andrew, but the prospect of a member of the royal family ever facing a court seemed almost impossible.

No one, no one who hurt me, has taken responsibility in any way. everyone who has hurt me has since denied it the virginia campaign has seen prince andrew stripped of his titles, his privileges and his position even though he settled the court case and continues to deny virginia's claims few seriously believe that can remove the stain of being linked to epstein and maxwell's sex trafficking ring what is the future of prince andrew well i mean i hate to be facetious about these things but i mean the only way to come back publicly is that he should be revived its reputation as a kind of war. hero, so I guess he should volunteer for the front line in Ukraine right now.

Virginia will likely carry the scars of battle for the rest of her life, but for many, especially her attorney David Boyes, right now she is triumphant in an ongoing war. fight for others, how is Virginia doing in your opinion? She is doing remarkably well, she is a great young woman, enormous courage, commitment, it was going to be a cause that was going to subject her to enormous personal attacks, so who came into this with his eyes open and has persevered. This is a cause she believes in and is determined to try to prevent what happened to her from happening to other young women because this is not a path you would choose if you didn't feel you had to.

Is this not a path you would choose? No, no person would ever assume the wealth, power and position of Jeffrey Epstein and Lane Maxwell, Prince Andrew, if they were not convinced not only of the righteousness of her cause but of its critical importance. from your cause hello, I'm tara brown, thanks for watching 60

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