Giuffre v. Prince Andrew

Virginia Giuffre filed suit against Prince Andrew, Duke of York, in the Southern District of New York on August 9, 2021, under New York's Child Victims Act. The complaint alleged that Andrew sexually abused her on three occasions when she was 17 years old, including at Ghislaine Maxwell's London townhouse, at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion, and on Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Giuffre alleged she had been trafficked to Andrew by Epstein and Maxwell. Andrew denied the allegations.

Andrew's legal team contested service of process and moved to dismiss, in part by invoking the 2009 settlement agreement between Giuffre and Epstein. On January 12, 2022, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied the motion to dismiss, allowing the case to proceed to discovery. Roughly five weeks later, on February 15, 2022, the parties announced an out-of-court settlement that included a substantial donation by Andrew to Giuffre's victims' rights charity. The settlement amount was not disclosed publicly; press reporting placed the figure in the range of GBP 12 million or more.

The litigation unfolded against a backdrop of years of public controversy. Andrew's November 2019 BBC Newsnight interview, in which he disputed a widely circulated 2001 photograph showing him with his arm around Giuffre at Maxwell's London home and offered an unusual sweat-glands defense, was widely viewed as damaging. In the wake of the lawsuit, Buckingham Palace stripped Andrew of his military affiliations and royal patronages in January 2022, and he ceased using the style 'His Royal Highness' in official capacities. Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.

The DOJ EFTA production contains only two documents linked to this case, and neither is a core pleading from Giuffre v. Andrew itself. Both are filings from the parallel JPMorgan litigation in S.D.N.Y. that reference Prince Andrew as one of the 'participants' previously sued by the same plaintiffs' firms. EFTA01652881 is a 71-page joint declaration of David Boies and Bradley Edwards filed June 22, 2023 in Jane Doe 1 v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (1:22-cv-10019-JSR), supporting preliminary approval of the JPMorgan class settlement and recounting the firms' history of suing 'Epstein himself,' his estate, Maxwell, and 'certain participants like Prince Andrew.' EFTA02816521 is a 255-page exhibit filed August 18, 2023 in Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase (1:22-cv-10904-JSR), containing the expert report of Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco of Break the Chain LLC.

The substantive record of Giuffre v. Andrew, including the complaint, motion-to-dismiss briefing, Judge Kaplan's January 2022 order, and the settlement filings, lives on PACER and in contemporaneous press coverage rather than in the EFTA production. Readers seeking the closest related corpus material should consult the briefing for Giuffre v. Maxwell (15-cv-7433), the long-running Southern District of New York civil case whose unsealed exhibits and depositions form the bulk of the publicly available Giuffre-related litigation record.