Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reportedly “not paid back a penny” of millions of pounds borrowed from members of the Royal Family to settle with his accuser Virginia Giuffre.
Andrew, who has been stripped of his titles amid fallout over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is understood to have turned to his parents for help following a lawsuit filed in 2021.
A costly out-of-court settlement following the sexual abuse case was agreed to in February 2022, which the late Queen is thought to have contributed £7million towards, with a further £3million believed to have come from Prince Philip’s estate.
Other royals are said to have also chipped in around £1.5million, according to The Sun.
“As far as anyone knows, he still has not repaid a single penny of the millions he borrowed,” an insider told the newspaper.
“The money from the Royal Family bought her silence but denied Virginia her day in court and the chance to openly challenge his account of what happened.”
At the time, Ms Giuffre was seeking unspecified damages as she sued Andrew for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager. Andrew has always denied the claims.
The source added: “They bankrolled his pay-off to his accuser Virginia Giuffre. They bought his lies and helped him try and make the problem go away. His own mother, the late Queen, was left heartbroken by the scandal.”
Ms Giuffre died in 2025, with a coroner ruling that her cause of death was suicide.
Andrew has fallen from favour as the extent of his ties to Epstein continues to emerge. Most recently, Andrew left the Royal Lodge at Windsor and moved onto the secluded Sandringham Estate, amid reported efforts to keep him out of the public eye.
The recent tranche of newly-released Epstein files has also suggested that the image of Mountbatten-Windsor with his hand around Giuffre is authentic.
The new release also includes a picture of Andrew on all fours, hunched over an unidentified woman lying on the floor.
On Wednesday, Democrats introduced proposed “Virginia’s law” legislation that will end the statute of limitations and restrictions that may protect abusers in civil sexual abuse cases.
“It takes years for victims of abuse to feel safe enough to come forward,” said Leger Fernández, chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, “and time should never be a weapon in the abuser’s arsenal.”
