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

not all pictures tell a thousand words this one tells so many more we'll never exactly know but it's also probably worth about 20 million dollars that's the speculated amount prince andrew will pay virginia du frey to settle a legal case she brought against him she says when she was 17 she was trafficked to the prince by the pedophile businessman jeffrey epstein ably assisted by his sex offender partner glenn maxwell despite the photograph andrew has always denied ever meeting let alone having sex with miss dufrey but he's been so discredited these days it's difficult to believe anything the disgraced royal says the downfall of a duke stripped of every military title given by his mother and no longer known as hrh the queen casts out her favorite son it's the photograph that brought down a prince from the investigations that we've done you can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not prince andrew happily posing with virginia dufrey who was then just 17. this is a real photo and that was the first time you met him and that's the very first time i met him and that's right before i was abused by him it is the crucial evidence in the civil suit virginia has brought against the prince accusing him of sexual abuse on three separate occasions when you learnt know after the first time that it was to happen a second time and then it was to happen a third time what was your reaction to that disgusted every time just absolutely disgusted i have no recollection of ever meeting this lady but others do virginia's former boyfriend now speaks out against prince andrew i didn't think it was like royalty included in any of this and then when i heard that how much bigger can you get than that prince andrew hours ago agreed to a settlement then the shock announcement there is no admission of liability by the duke from denial to capitulation prince angie regrets his association with epstein and commends the bravery of mischief frey and other survivors the prince abandons the legal fight in terms of the funding around 12 million pounds opting to pay out rather than show up in court i actually would have expected him to try to settle before we brought the litigation and we were on the inside in the final hours as the finer details of this momentous negotiation were hammered out i knew it was not going to be an easy road he has very good lawyers and a lot of resources but not enough to protect him from palace sources now prepared to expose the real prince andrew did prince andrew have a nickname at that time it was called [Music] as virginia du frey first told us in 2019 she would never have met the duke of york if it was not for his close friends convicted sex offenders jeffrey epstein and glenn maxwell targeted by maxwell in 1999 the troubled runaway was offered a job and the promise of training to become a professional masseuse unaware of the trap set for her virginia agreed with the help of maxwell to do a trial massage on epstein that's when i was instructed to um to that's when i was instructed to um get undressed and um and have sex with jeffrey epstein while geeland maxwell was participating as well you want to take a moment i'm okay okay so you were abused by both of them in your very first encounter yeah both of them i was abused by helen and epstein and it broke my heart i don't mean to sound sexist in any way shape or form but i i expected it from a man but i didn't expect it from a woman i couldn't imagine um putting someone through what she put me through and um yeah i think that's what hurts the most do you know virginia can you at least say if she's been in your house in late december last year glenn maxwell was convicted of recruiting and grooming teenage girls to have sex with her former boyfriend the disgraced and now dead billionaire financier jeffrey epstein guilty while her appeal will be heard in a few months maxwell faces the rest of her life in jail for her role which included the trafficking of a minor when we started out our goal was really to attack the evil of sex trafficking to try to stop epstein and maxwell it's a case that has a touch of david versus goliath where in this instance the unlikely underdog is david boyes virginia's formidable u.s attorney this time the experienced litigator was taking on 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 his deposition of prince andrew set down for early march the duke is the first royal to come under such legal glare [Music] and so do you feel the weight of that i mean this is quite a historical moment in in a sense um but i've deposed a lot of historical figures whether it's bill gates or senators or cabinet members billionaires captains of industry so adding a royal to your list doesn't uh frighten you in any way or intimidate you in any way well it doesn't frighten or intimidate me because i get to ask the questions but david's questions will remain unanswered with the prince dodging the interrogation by settling the case serious and deeply disturbing allegations remain virginia says she was trafficked to many men but the prince was the most high profile how did you learn that you're going to be trafficked to him i you know was woken up by guilin in the morning and told i was going to meet a prince and up till then i didn't even i should have known but i didn't even know that i was going to be trafficked that night to him and we went shopping and and prince andrew came over and then we went to club [ __ ] and he danced with me and he's a horrific dancer by the way and he sweats a lot and he smells funny um and then and then we get in the car and andrew's not in the car with us he's in the car behind us with his security guards and um elon tells me in the car that i have to do what i do for jeffrey for prince andrew and that's when i learned what was going to happen first in london at maxwell's town house then new york at the epstein mansion and finally on epstein's caribbean island virginia says she was nothing more to the prince than a sexual play thing i was lower than a dog to them you know i was i wasn't even a puppy to be played with i was just a toy you're not even acknowledged as being alive or there or important or or cared for or worried about in any way none of those human emotions were attached to to me when i was trafficked to prince andrew in the growing chorus against prince andrew's denials comes tony figueroa virginia's boyfriend at the time a high school sweetheart who shared a house with the 17 year old he was well aware of her routine two weeks at home with him and two weeks away with jeffrey epstein when the scheduled call came from epstein tony says virginia had no choice but to go was there an element of fear of course when one person that powerful knows where you live like where you sleep when you see your girlfriend have to leave every two weeks and like when she gets that call her face like completely switches from all right i'm good to like you know oh my god 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 know she found out exactly what they wanted her to do she said she wasn't feeling safe and i mean i just told her to do whatever she could to make sure she stayed safe what did they want her to do for her to have sex with them with jeffrey and the prince ever since virginia went public with her allegations against prince andrew he has vehemently denied them most memorably on british television in this compelling and cringe-worthy interview there was prince andrew's response to virginia's claim he was sweaty and smelled funny she described dancing with you and you profusely sweating and that she went on to have baths possibly there's a slight problem with with with with the sweating um because uh i i have a peculiar medical condition which is that i don't sweat um or i didn't sweat at the time and that was oh she yes i didn't sweat at the time because i um had suffered what i would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the falklands war when i was shot at and i simply it was it was it was almost impossible for me to to sweat then his declaration that on the night virginia claims he sexually abused her he was in fact at pizza express in woking with one of his daughters a very unusual thing for me to do watching all this was attorney david boyes my understanding was that there had you have sought some evidence of those claims evidence that he has a condition that stops him from sweating and evidence that he wasn't working has he been able to provide any of that no i you're entirely correct that is we served a document demand on him for any documents that would support those assertions and he does not have any documents did you really expect him to have documentary evidence that he doesn't sweat uh no i didn't my reaction with um with respect to the assertion that he didn't sweat was a little in incredulity and a thought that this was probably not a credible ground to stake your reputation on uh with respect to the the pizza express it occurred to me that it would be reckless to make that assertion unless you had some way of proving it um and so we certainly wanted to want to check that out and so far it doesn't check out so far it has not checked out virginia launched her civil suit against the prince six months ago ever since he has done his utmost to distance himself from jeffrey epstein and glenn maxwell the architects of the sex trafficking web but as you'll see palace staff are now prepared to go on the record revealing the extent of the relationship between epstein's madame and prince andrew myself and my other colleagues we got the impression that they were in some form of intimate relationship up until last week prince andrew was defiantly heading to court to fight allegations he sexually abused the teenage virginia dufrese having rejected earlier attempts to settle both sides were getting ready 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 set for september and hinted something might be afoot there will be developments that we'll probably want to talk about uh again soon do you have any sense whether the trial may not go ahead at all but might in fact be settled before that trial date i think there's there's always a possibility of settlement i think the prospects of of settlement and negotiation is not something i can really um talk about as you appreciate you can't really try to resolve a case like this in public those negotiations have to go on in private it is now clear those negotiations continued right after our interview finished less than 24 hours later the news broke now to the major turn for britain's prince andrew reaching a settlement with virginia prince andrew was no longer going to court settling out of court for an undefeated agreed to a settlement meeting virginia's conditions years of denying her claims against him one of the things that virginia has said is that in addition to an appropriate settlement amount there would have to be recognition by prince andrew of inappropriateness of his relationship with jeffrey epstein i think that we've said from the beginning that there would have to be vindication of virginia there would have to be a recognition of virginia as a clear victim of abuse and there would have to be recognition of the unfair public attacks that have been made against her over the past week the greatest speculation has been over how much the confidential settlement is worth and ultimately who will pay for it we're talking about between 10 and 12 million pounds now andrew is not a very rich man he has some rich friend friends who i think would be branch at lending him 12 million pounds frankly um there has been mention repeatedly in in the press that that the queen is bailing him out author nigel corthorn who's investigated the epstein's scandal says the greatest concern in the uk is that the money rumored to be the equivalent of 20 million dollars will come out of the public purse as far as i can see defending your wayward son in a sleazy sex case in a foreign court is not one of her majesty's official duties what would you imagine the queen said to prince andrew i don't know she i think she probably addressed him as like like one of her corgis and and told him to come to heal the settlement in no way exonerates him at all you say that the settlement does not exonerate him in the eyes of the public do you think it cements their perception that he's guilty in the court of world public opinion i think we've all made our minds up haven't we i won't stop fighting i will never be silenced until these people are brought to justice what do you say to the critics of virginia who claim that it's a money grab after such a long time this has never been entirely or mostly or even to a very large extent 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 people who engage in sex trafficking to account only prince andrew can explain his decision to settle but the conviction in december of his longtime friend gulen maxwell for sex trafficking did not look good for him he'd been friends with guillaine maxwell for 40 years though in his rebuttal in the gufrey case he says she's not a close friend but they're together in buckingham palace they get together in balmoral they get in sandringham they're together in ascot they're not close friends do you think he's telling the truth certainly paul page a former royal personal protection officer witnessed the prince and maxwell together many times at buckingham palace personally i'd say within over the two years i'd seen come in about a dozen times and she was just waved through um the one of my colleagues saw her come in and at four times in one day for prince andrew to say i hardly knew her is is i mean he's delusional to myself and my other colleagues we got the impression that they were in some form of intimate relationship paul's concern at the time was not so much for andrew's reputation but the queens as the palace hosted the daughter of disgraced media tycoon and fraudster robert maxwell we noticed it was prince andrew and gizley maxwell sitting having a picnic we said i wonder if the queen knows who's sitting on her lung having a picnic with her son you know so we thought was a bit if the press got hold of it it might be an issue prince andrew brought the sex trafficking scandal into the house of windsor now palace staff are pulling back the curtain on the prince of weirdness why would anyone have 50 or 60 teddy bears on their bed by settling the civil suit with his accuser virginia dufrey prince andrew was surely hoping the stench of scandal surrounding him would go away instead despite making no admissions the public perception is he's evaded scrutiny and yet again some tough questions according to author nigel corthorn but once he said i never met her i don't know who she is and there's a picture of the freedoms together he just completely blown it for paul page who worked as part of 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 that time he did have a nickname but it's a bit rude for me to tell you one i'll tell you but you're not going to be able to air it it was just called join me italia yeah it was called plain and simple because unfortunately he upset everyone he come across he was the most unpopular member of the royal family um while i was there he was just rude arrogant i mean his sense of self-entitlement was breathtaking between 1998 and 2004 paul says he witnessed appalling behavior from a man who was used to always getting what he wanted i just feel that prince andrew has got a case to answer on all levels including bullying and i i suffered at the hands of prince andrew young girls suffered at the hands of prince andrews mates other police officers and members of staff but none of this has ever been looked into because people were too frightened andrew was certainly the prince of good times there was a constant flow of females visiting prince andrew late in the evening whom we were not privy to their names or identity we obviously thought it was a bit of a buy and the joke was he should have a revolving door in his bedroom and taking british eccentricity to another level paul recounts a tour by a colleague of the prince's bedroom where teddy bears were meticulously placed on his bed we looked at all the teddy bears on the bed before okay a 40 year old man with about 50 or 60 teddy bears on his bed all right fair enough and then he said there's a card in that drawer down and showed us the card it was eliminated picture of all the teddy bears and then he explained that if the teddy bears aren't put back in this certain order prince andrew would start shouting and swearing at the mates the alarm bells are ringing in on that sort of issue of of you know why would anyone be that sort of you know controlling why would anyone have 50 or 60 teddy bears on their bed well apparently it was 72 more have come forward so it's behaviour paul says that speaks to the arrogance of someone who didn't have to answer to anyone whether it was throwing his regal weight around over a misplaced teddy or brazenly visiting known child sex offender jeffrey epstein in new york that trip would have been planned from an office within the role protection department they would have contacted the state police or whoever runs protection in new york and giving them the prince's details of where he was staying his travel arrangements a lot of [ __ ] would have come back that was owned by jeffrey epstein who was a convicted felon you're saying that the royal household would have been red flagged on this yes they need to know where he's staying where the nearest police station is when this hospital is what teams are going to take turns and looking after him and all those factors come into play but who in that household would know i mean would mum and dad be told about this with the queen again i'm not too sure if there's anyone who's got the the guts to speak to the queen about it i'm pretty sure if the queen if the queen knew she would have said no paul page has himself been in trouble with the law sentenced to jail for six years for investment fraud but it's his encounters with prince andrew that seem to have scarred him most knowing the inner workings of the palace he's convinced for every trip andrew took for every time he's accused of being with virginia there was someone there who saw it so if there were witnesses to prince andrew being with virginia dufrey why have they not come forward you're going up against the royal family so there's a lot of fear amongst ex police officers of coming forward they've signed non-disclosure agreements as well so they're worried about that they're worried about their pensions there's a lot of people out there with information that are just too frightened to come forward the journey to justice has been a long one for virginia dufrey she has no shame when we first met the now australian resident in 2019 she made clear allegations against prince andrew but the prospect of a member of the royal family ever facing a courtroom seemed a near impossibility nobody nobody who hurt me has taken accountability in any way shape or form everyone that has hurt me has denied it since then virginia's campaign has seen prince andrew stripped of his titles his privileges and position even though he has settled the court case and continues to deny virginia's claims few seriously believe he can ever remove the stain of being linked to epstein and maxwell's sex trafficking ring what is the future for prince andrew well i i mean i hate to be facetious about these things but i mean the only actually way back publicly is that he should he needs to revive his his reputation as a kind of war hero so i guess he should volunteer for the front line in the ukraine right now [Music] virginia will most likely carry the scars of battle for the rest of her life but to many especially her attorney david boyes in this moment she is triumphant in a war she continues to fight for others how is virginia holding up in your opinion she is holding up 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 she went into this with her eyes open and she has persevered this is a cause that she believes in and she is determined to try to prevent what happened to her to happening other young girls because this is not a path you would choose if you didn't feel you had to is it this is not a path you would choose uh no no person would ever take on the wealth and power and position of jeffrey epstein and because lane maxwell prince andrew if they were not convinced not only the rightness of their cause but of the critical importance of their cause [Music] hello i'm tara brown thanks for watching 60 minutes australia subscribe to our channel now for brand new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss out on our extra minutes segments and full episodes of 60 minutes on nine now dot com dot a u and the nine now app

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