Britain's Prince Andrew at the coronation ceremony for King Charles and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey in 2023. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire
Prince Andrew’s team tried to hire “internet trolls to hassle” his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, while he hid behind the “well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle to avoid being served court papers, according to allegations in her posthumous memoir.
Ms Giuffre wrote of the 2022 confidential settlement of her sexual abuse civil claim against Britain’s royal, widely rumoured to be $12m (€10.4 million), that her lawyers “were going to ask for the moon” and her team had agreed it “had to be more than mere money”.
“After casting doubt on my credibility for so long – Prince Andrew’s team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me – the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well,” she wrote.
“We would never get a confession, of course. That’s what settlements are designed to avoid. But we were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgment of what I’d been through.”
Ms Giuffre agreed to a one-year gag clause so as not to “tarni
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