The exact amount Prince Andrew paid Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre in an out-of-court settlement could now be revealed after her death by suicide.
The payout figure, which has never been disclosed, may become clear as her estate is bequeathed to her estranged husband and three children.
The American-born mother-of-three was found dead at her farm in Neergabby, Australia on April 26. She was 41 years old.
Ms Giuffre settled out of court with Prince Andrew in 2022 after she accused him of sexual assault.
The Duke of York has consistently denied the claim but it was reported at the time that he paid her around $12million.
Following Ms Giuffre’s death last month, questions have arisen about what will happen to the money that remains.
Like in the UK, in Western Australia the contents of a will become public record once probate is completed.
However, sometimes sensitive financial or family information could be redacted if the document is contested.
In other instances, courts have issued suppression orders on the contents of wills to protect victims of abuse or minors.
Virginia Giuffre claimed she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew at the behest of Epstein’s associate, jailed British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, when she was just 17
Virginia Giuffre , one of the public faces and advocates for the victims of historical pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, died by suicide last month. She was 41 years old
An undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location and released on December 2, 2021 by the United States District Couty for the Southern District of New York shows Virginia Giuffre
Ms Giuffre’s death by suicide came after a life of tireless advocacy on behalf of herself and other alleged victims of Epstein’s sex crimes.
She was born in California in 1983 and was shattered as a grade-schooler when she was sexually abused by a man her family knew.
She spent time as a runaway, was shuffled through foster homes and lived on the streets at just 14. She was first forced into sex trafficking by Miami sex trafficker Ron Eppinger.
Eventually, Giuffre got free of Eppinger reunited with her father Sky, according to The Miami Herald.
At 16 in mid-2000, her father was working in maintenance at Mar-a-Lago resort, the private club owned by Donald Trump, and got her a job as a locker room attendant.
That’s when she said she met Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a former member of parliament and publisher of several British newspapers.
Giuffre said that Maxwell offered her the opportunity to work as a massage therapist for Epstein.
‘They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I’d had a really hard time in my life up until then—I’d been a runaway, I’d been sexually abused, physically abused,’ she told the BBC.
‘That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was.’
Epstein and Maxwell groomed her to sexually service both of them as well as other clients, she said in an interview and a sworn court affidavit.
She claimed in 2011 that she was sex trafficked to Prince Andrew on three occasions by Epstein and Maxwell, the first time when she was 17.
The Duke of York has consistently and vehemently denied her claims, as has convicted sex offender Maxwell, who Giuffre claims acted on Epstein’s behalf. Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019.
‘It started with one and it trickled into two and so on and before you know it, I’m being lent out to politicians and academics and royalty,’ she said.
Virginia Giuffre, with a photo of herself as a teen, when she alleged she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, among others
In recent weeks, she had made troubling posts on social media – including a spate of hospital admissions, a quad bike accident and her claims she had ‘four days to live’
Giuffre came forward publicly after an initial investigation in 2005 ended in an 18-month Florida jail term for Epstein, who made a secret deal to avoid federal prosecution by pleading guilty instead to relatively minor state-level charges of soliciting prostitution. He was released in 2009.
She attempted to tell her story in subsequent lawsuits against her alleged abusers.
The men, including Epstein and Prince Andrew, denied the allegations and assailed Giuffre’s credibility.
She acknowledged changing some key details of her account, including the age at which she first met Epstein.
But many parts of her story were supported by documents, witness testimony and photos – including one of her and Andrew, with his his arm around her bare midriff, in Maxwell´s London townhouse.
Giuffre said in one of her lawsuits that she had sex with the royal three times: in London during her 2001 trip, at Epstein’s New York mansion when she was 17 and in the Virgin Islands when she was 18.
‘Ghislaine said, “I want you to do for him what you do for Epstein,”‘ Giuffre told NBC News’ Dateline in September 2019.
Andrew categorically rejected Giuffre´s allegations and said he didn’t recall having met her.
His denials blew up in his face during a November 2019 BBC interview.
Viewers saw a prince who issued incredulous rebuttals – such as disputing Giuffre’s recollection of sweaty dancing by saying he was medically incapable of perspiring – and showed no empathy for the women who said Epstein abused them.
Within days of the disastrous interview, Andrew stepped down from his royal duties.
He settled with Giuffre in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a ‘substantial donation’ to her survivors’ organization.
