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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Caroline Davies

Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims

Prince Andrew in front of a fence.
Prince Andrew gave up some of his royal titles, including Duke of York, last Friday. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Prince Andrew’s team tried to hire “internet trolls to hassle” his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, while he hid behind the “well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle to avoid being served court papers, according to allegations in her posthumous memoir.

Giuffre wrote of the 2022 confidential settlement of her sexual abuse civil claim against the royal, widely rumoured to be $12m (£9m), that her lawyers “were going to ask for the moon” and her team had agreed it “had to be more than mere money”.

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