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Three years on, the ‘significant sum’ paid out by Prince Andrew has still not reached accuser Virginia Giuffre’s charity  

The money Prince Andrew gave his accuser’s charity still hasn’t been paid to the organisation three years after their settlement, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. 

The ‘significant’ sum – which is thought to be in the millions – has yet to be sent to Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) which was founded by Virginia Giuffre.

The Duke of York agreed to pay the money following his £10 million agreement with Ms Giuffre in February 2022 to settle the sexual battery lawsuit she filed against him.

He always denied her claims and insists the settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing. 

But SOAR has yet to formally launch as a non-profit group, and its predecessor, Victims Refuse Silence, lost its charitable status in 2023. 

A source said the money would get to SOAR ‘eventually’.

Ms Giuffre, who took her life in April at 41, accused the duke of having sex with her three times when she was 17 after she was trafficked by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The money was a key to Ms Giuffre’s hopes to become a global campaigner for victims of sexual abuse.

 Instead, Victims Refuse Silence, which was active when she got the settlement, is defunct and had its charitable status revoked by America’s Internal Revenue Service in 2023 for failing to file tax returns.

SOAR’s website went online after the arrest and suicide of Epstein in 2019, but no US company records exist for it, nor is it registered with the IRS as a non-profit group. 

A source close to Ms Giuffre said the duke’s money had not been spent, but would not say where it was.

The state of Ms Giuffre’s finances were revealed during the probate of her estate in Perth, western Australia, where she lived.

She died without a will, meaning it could take years before her estate is distributed, potentially further delaying the payment.

Her family also want SOAR to get the proceeds from her memoir, due out in October. But that could be in doubt as it is not yet a non-profit.

Another source said: ‘The sad thing is that this money has not gone to help victims. The money is in legal limbo. With the mess Virginia’s death left, it’s likely to remain in limbo for a long time.’

Ms Giuffre’s family did not reply to requests to comment.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Says Lady Rothschild Introduced Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein – Philanthropist Also Introduced Disgraced Financier to Alan Dershowitz and Bill Clinton

The two-day interview of Ghislaine Maxwell with the DOJ continues generating headlines.

After the complete audio recordings and transcriptions of the interviews have been released, many nuggets of information have called the attention of the press and the public, including the relationship between the late convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein and a world-famous British-American philanthropist.

During questioning by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Ghislaine Maxwell denied introducing Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein, and said the two of them met for the first time at the holiday home Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild.

The Telegraph reported:

“’First of all, let’s just state, I did not introduce him [Epstein] to Prince Andrew. I did not introduce him to Prince Andrew or to Sarah Ferguson. That is a flat untruth. I’ll start with that’, Maxwell said over nine hours of interviews over two days in July.”

Lady de Rothschild was born in New Jersey, and is a telecommunications businesswoman turned investor, today chairing EL Rothschild, a wealth management firm which has The Economist Group in its portfolio.

“’She had a house or she rented a house in the Vineyard. I think it was in the Vineyard or Nantucket, I can’t remember now which one it was’, Maxwell told Todd Blanche, deputy attorney-general and a former personal lawyer for Donald Trump.

‘It was one of those. It was either in Nantucket or the Vineyard, and invited Epstein to go, and I believe that’s when he met Prince Andrew’.”

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Prince Andrew free to travel abroad as FBI ends probe into royal’s Jeffrey Epstein links

Prince Andrew can finally end his self-imposed travel ban after a leaked memo revealed that the FBI is closing its investigation into the royal’s Jeffrey Epstein links.

The disgraced Duke of York, 65, has left the UK once in the last six years over fears of an arrest, civil lawsuits or being subpoenaed.

Now, it appears as though the scandal-scarred prince — who has been kept at arm’s length from the royal fold — is able to venture out of the UK without fear of repercussions.

“He has been abroad once since the scandal erupted,” a source alleged to the Sun.

“He has always been very nervous about going abroad and felt he’d always be looking over his shoulder as he could be subject to civil action or at worst, being arrested.”

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Canadian Liberal PM Mark Carney Under Fire for Resurfaced Ties to Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew

Labour leader and Canadian Prime Minister has entered a troubling phase in his new political career.

Since the Former Bank of England head dissolved the Parliament and called snap elections, it’s one scandal after another.

Mere days after Carney was accused of plagiarizing his doctoral thesis in Oxford University, he is now getting heckled over his links to Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Economic Times reported:

“During a campaign event, Prime Minister Mark Carney was interrupted by a heckler who shouted, ‘How many kids did you molest with Jeffrey Epstein?’ The question left Carney visibly stunned. Security swiftly removed the heckler, but a video of the moment soon went viral.”

This comes as a picture has surfaced of Carney with Ghislaine Maxwell in a music festival back in 2013.

Needless to say, a picture with Maxwell does not a sex-trafficker make – but citizens have started digging on Carney’s history.

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UK Judges Rule That Docs Revealing Close Ties Between Disgraced Prince Andrew and Alleged Chinese Spy Yang Tengbo Must Be Released in Two Weeks

Another week, another damaging report brought Prince Andrew’s alleged corruption to the forefront of British public opinion.

A London tribunal has ruled that private documents of the correspondence between Andrew’s top adviser and an alleged Chinese spy must be made public in a fortnight.

Dominic Hampshire, an aide and close friend of the Duke, had to submit a witness statement after Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo was expelled and banned from the UK.

The Telegraph reported:

“Mr. Yang was forced to leave the country on national security grounds in March 2023 and unsuccessfully challenged the decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission last year. UK authorities have alleged that he formed an ‘unusual degree of trust’ with the Duke and developed relationships with politicians to be ‘leveraged’ by China.”

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Prince Andrew AGAIN in the Spotlight as FBI’s Kash Patel Vows To Uncover the ‘Jeffrey Epstein List’, and Evidence Surfaces of Royal’s Continued Relation With Late Pedophile

Another week, another bad Prince Andrew scandal and another Jeffrey-Epstein linked bombshell, as a damaging email has arisen in an unrelated lawsuit, showing that the Royal allegedly lied to the public yet again in his car-crash BBC interview and that his relationship with the late pedophile continued for far longer than he has previously admitted.

This latest development comes as the man chosen by US President Donald J. Trump to lead the FBI, Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel, has vowed to expose those in positions of power who had links to Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.

The British press is aflame with the prospect of Prince Andrew facing an FBI investigation, especially on the revelation of Andrew promising Epstein that they would ‘play some more soon!’ many weeks after the duke supposedly cut ties with him.

Daily Mail reported:

“The Duke of York sent the bombshell email pledging to ‘keep in close touch’, despite claiming he had ceased all contact with the American financier weeks earlier, it has been revealed.

The fresh evidence infers that Andrew could’ve lied in his disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview, where he insisted he had stopped seeing Epstein in early December 2010, when they were photographed walking through New York’s Central Park. Despite this claim, a February 2011 email has been uncovered that Andrew wrote to his predator friend: ‘Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!’”

And that was not all – as the duke suffered with yet another disclosure this week, as court documents revealed his most trusted lieutenant confided in an alleged Chinese spy – Yang Tengo – that Andrew’s infamous Emily Maitlis BBC interview was ‘hugely ill-advised and unsuccessful.’

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Prince Andrew Reported To British Police, Accused of Using False Name to Register Shady Companies

Another week, another Prince Andrew scandal.

Sounds unbelievable, but the echoes of his latest espionage scandal have not even died out, and a new concern about the Duke of York has hit the headlines of newspapers in the UK and around the world.

It arises now that Andrew has been reported to police after using the name ‘Inverness’ to register companies in Britain.

The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic accuses the Duke of ‘filing false information’.

It was revealed back in 2019 that Andrew secretly set up a private investment fund under the name ‘Andrew Inverness’ to ‘channel deals brokered at Buckingham Palace’.

Now, he is the owner of four linked companies registered at Companies House under this name.
Andrew is described on official documents as a “consultant” to these companies.

The Telegraph reported:

“On Monday, Graham Smith, the Republic chief executive, filed a complaint to the Metropolitan Police about the registration of Naples Gold Ltd, one of those companies. He alleged that the name used by the Duke, ‘Andrew Inverness’, was false, and that he had erroneously listed a London address as his residential address.

Mr. Smith said: ‘The royals appear to believe they can act with impunity, an impression given weight by the lack of police action on serious allegations of corruption and sexual offences. The apparent filing of false information with Companies House may seem trivial, but the UK faces serious issues of fraud committed in this way. While no such fraud is alleged here, surely Andrew must be held to the highest standards’.”

Andrew received the title of Earl of Inverness by the late Queen Elizabeth back when he married Sarah Ferguson in 1986. But concerns have been raised that, when choosing to register businesses under the name ‘Andrew Inverness’, he would be trying to avoid scrutiny.

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Third batch of Epstein documents released: Les Wexner’s wife Abigail called ‘to talk about something private’

The third batch of Epstein documents was released on Friday and includes details of phone messages left for the late pedophile by Victoria Secret mogul Les Wexner’s wife, Abigail, and the search terms lawyers used while combing through Ghislaine Maxwell‘s computers. 

Twenty-nine exhibits were uploaded on Friday in the latest tranche of papers. They were all filed and kept secret for years as part of Virginia Giuffre‘s lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015. Giuffre sued because Ghislaine had accused her publicly of lying about sleeping with Prince Andrew.

The long-awaited ‘list’ has not yielded the type of allegations that many hoped for, aside from a previously unreported claim of an ‘orgy’ involving Prince Andrew. 

Instead, the documents reveal closer details of Epstein’s inner circle and the extent of his closeness with high profile individuals like Bill Clinton. 

Among the newest files are details of how Virginia’s team thought they could nail Maxwell and Epstein. 

The attorneys were given permission to search Maxwell’s computers and iCloud, finding anything that would prove Virginia’s claims that the pair ran a sophisticated sex trafficking ring involving some of the world’s most powerful. 

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UK police say no probe into Prince Andrew over Epstein claims

UK police said Friday that no investigation has been launched into Prince Andrew after an anti-monarchy group filed a complaint based on recently released US court documents detailing people linked to accused sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A New York judge on Wednesday began to unseal the identities of those linked in the documents to disgraced US financier Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial.

In them, Andrew, who is formally known as the Duke of York, is accused of groping a woman, which he denies.

Republic, which wants an elected British head of state, said in a statement on Thursday that “we’ve just reported Andrew to the police.”

Opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer — a former chief state prosecutor — also said Friday police should “look at” the new claims.

But the Metropolitan Police said Friday that “no investigation has been launched”.

“We are aware of the release of court documents in relation to Jeffrey Epstein,” it said in a statement.

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Epstein list reignites suspicion the pedo financier was working for Mossad and blackmailing the elite with help of ‘useful idiot’ Prince Andrew – after meeting Israeli PM Ehud Barak at least THIRTY SIX times

The Jeffrey Epstein list of associates unsealed by a US judge has reignited suspicions the pedophile financier was an asset for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Barak was identified in the bombshell dossiers Wednesday night. He served as PM from 1991 to 2001 after serving in the IDF for 35 years, rising to Chief of the General Staff.

While he is mentioned only fleetingly in the new files – an Epstein victim asked whether she’d ever given Barak a massage – there has long been speculation surrounding his relationship with the financier. 

Barak met with Epstein some 36 times and was pictured entering his Manhattan townhouse with a scarf around his face in 2016. Young women were seen coming in and out of the residence that same day.

Former Israeli spies have gone on record stating that Epstein’s international sex trafficking was a honeypot entrapment operation – gaining valuable ‘kompromat’ material to blackmail political and business elites.

Prince Andrew, also named in the new list, was Epstein’s ‘useful idiot’, according to an ex-intelligence agent, and described by the financier as his ‘Super Bowl trophy’ for his powerful connections.

During the pair’s friendship, Andrew invited Ghislaine Maxwell and the financier to high society events in London – even allowing them to stay at the Queen’s Balmoral estate. At the time, Andrew served as the UK’s international trade envoy, helping the government to promote business abroad.

Maxwell – who acted as Epstein’s madam – is also closely intertwined in the alleged honeytrap operation. Her father Robert Maxwell, a British newspaper magnate, is alleged to have been a Mossad agent and may have provided the link between Epstein and Jerusalem’s intelligence agency.

Like Epstein’s alleged hanging while awaiting trial, Maxwell’s death on his yacht – The Lady Ghislaine – off the coast of Spain in 1991 has attracted suspicions of assassination.

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