Now There’s A Surprise !

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/prince-andrew-and-virginia-giuffre-settle-out-of-court-over-civil-sex-assault-claim-12542826

[andy-hughes]

Lady CG - // She'll be rubbing her grubby hands all the way to the bank now. I personally feel this was about nothing but the money all along. //

I am sure you are delighted to have been proven right, even if it's only in your own mind.

[Mozz71]

Andy- //So thanks for picking up the baton - all power to you.//

Lol I won't be banging my head against the wall trying to change some ABer's opinions, I know a losing battle when I see one. ;-)

[Ken4155]

Naomi, that insistence was probably an attempt to up the amount offered as settlement. Course, we'll most likely never know if it worked or not.

[naomi24]

I agree ken. ‘They’ say everyone has their price. So much for principle.

[naomi24]

I wonder if he and and Fergie will retire abroad now? It wouldn’t surprise me.

[andres]

mozz71-^^^^^ just to correct my last answer. She lived with a convicted sex offender in Miami for several months not 'years'.
She was a highly paid career prostitute when working for Epstein and Maxwell
. Yes she did meet and marry her present husband when she was on a massage course. Didn't take her long because she married him within a week of meeting him!

[Bobbisox1]

/// naomi24
Mark as Best Answer
I wonder if he and and Fergie will retire abroad now? It wouldn’t surprise me.///
one can but hope Naomi

[DTCwordfan]

The Gold Digger finds the Gold Mine - next the payout in diamonds for the oral examination?

[naomi24]

I couldn’t care less whether he stays or goes, Bobbi, but he’s an embarrassment to the family so maybe he’ll be encouraged to disappear into oblivion - at least from a public perspective.

[DTCwordfan]

Naomi, as I have said all along, send him to South Georgia and be done with him - or they could go and lend a hand in rebuilding Tonga.

[Gromit]

Common sense has prevailed.
Andrew gets away with bringing the family firm into disrepute by paying hush money. Keep the truth hidden, definitely not in open court. No field day for the press - move along, nothing to see here.

And some waif gets a wad of money.

It’s a win-win.

[Mozz71]

//Didn't take her long because she married him within a week of meeting him!//

And has been happily married to him for nearly 20 years now. Sounds like she finally found love (albeit rather fortunately given the amount of time between meeting and marriage) after a lifetime of abuse.

[naomi24]

Bahamas, DTC?

[LadyCG]

Yes, the Bahamas will do nicely. They can relax on the beach and suck each other's toes...

[Gromit]

Recently Andrew sold his Swiss Chalet for £17million.

Today he has paid off someone he claims to have never met and his reputation is intact.

[naomi24]

Paying people off doesn’t leave reputations intact, gromit. Quite the opposite. It’s tantamount to an admission of guilt!!

[Mozz71]

I agree with Naomi. Paying off his accuser seems more like an admission of guilt to me. I thought the same about Michael Jackson.

Andrew's reputation has been quite deservingly destroyed.

[Ellipsis]

> did anyone read as far as the bit saying the payment was going to charity? Seemingly not. It's way down in the third paragraph.

I too think that Virginia Giuffre is getting some money (an undisclosed amount) and, separately, "charity" is getting some money (which may well become public, not least because charities usually have to publish their finances).

[Stickybottle]

So will he get his royal titles re-instated I wonder ?
Maybe one or two but not the full list
I doubt the patronages will return either

[DTCwordfan]

Sticky Lord Dick perhaps.....