‘I may have made a mistake’: Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre drops lawsuit against Alan Dershowitz
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK: Virginia Giuffre, who has long accused Jeffrey Epstein of forcing her to have sex with a professor, has agreed to withdraw her defamation lawsuit against former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, saying Tuesday, Nov 8, that she may have made a "mistake" in identifying him. Attorneys for Giuffre and Dershowitz agreed that neither side would receive costs or fees as part of the settlement, which led to the dismissal of the case in Manhattan federal court.
Giuffre claims she was the victim of sex trafficking by Epstein after meeting the millionaire pedophile through Ghislaine Maxwell, who identified her as a potential victim at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, owned by former President Donald Trump, the New York Post reported. According to Giuffre, the wealthy financier referred her to a number of his influential friends, including Dershowitz. After he called her a "total liar" over the allegation, she filed a defamation lawsuit against the legal expert in 2019. In response, Dershowitz filed a countersuit against Giuffre.