'While we don't know the amount of the settlement announced on Tuesday, the fact that Prince Andrew has apparently been made to pay reparations is an important outcome, not just for Giuffre, but for all women,' writes Kara Alaimo for CNNOpinion
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Virginia Giuffre, the woman who alleges she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and forced to have sex with people including Prince Andrew, has reached a settlement with the prince and plans to file for a dismissal of her civil lawsuit against him, according to a court document filed by her attorneys on Tuesday.
In the lawsuit, she had claimed Prince Andrew was aware that she was underage when he sexually abused her multiple times. The prince"denies that he was a co-conspirator of Epstein or that Epstein trafficked girls to him," according to a filing by his attorneys, but had faced the charges as a private citizen in New York after Buckingham Palace announced that he had been stripped of his military titles.
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