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Prince Andrew And The Settlement With Virginia Roberts (Volume I) (1/3/24)

Prince Andrew’s settlement with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, announced in February 2022, marked a significant moment in the fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scandal. Giuffre, who accused Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager, had filed a civil lawsuit in the United States. Despite years of public denials, including a disastrous BBC interview in which Andrew claimed to have no memory of meeting Giuffre, the prince agreed to an out-of-court settlement reportedly worth several million dollars. This agreement avoided a public trial, sparking widespread criticism that Andrew used his wealth and privilege to sidestep accountability. The settlement, though not an admission of guilt, reinforced perceptions that Andrew prioritized damage control over confronting the allegations directly.

Critics argue that Andrew’s decision to settle further tarnished his reputation and that of the British royal family. The settlement came with no public acknowledgment of wrongdoing, leaving lingering questions about the prince’s involvement with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s network. The financial payout also fueled resentment, with many pointing out that Andrew, stripped of his royal duties and titles, appeared desperate to preserve what remained of his public standing. By avoiding a trial, Andrew missed an opportunity to clear his name through transparent legal proceedings, deepening public skepticism. The entire affair underscores the broader issue of how the powerful often evade genuine accountability, leaving victims and the public dissatisfied with a system that appears skewed in favor of the elite.

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Broadcast on:: 03 Jan 2025
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Get started risk-free at greenlight.com/audio. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Well, folks, it's been a rather interesting day, hasn't it? As I'm sure you're all aware at this point, Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts have settled their civil dispute. Now, there has not been a determination of money, how much is going to be paid to Virginia or anything like that. There has been some estimates, and I've seen some people throw numbers like 10 million around, but we don't have anything concrete. And to be honest with you, I'm guessing that the monetary determination is going to stay under seal here. Now, I know a lot of people are disappointed that Prince Andrew isn't going to trial, that he's not going to get exposed during, you know, the deposition and during the discovery phase, and I get it. I'd be a liar if I said I didn't share some of that disappointment. But when you look at the big picture here and you take a look at the whole entire situation, you can't blame Virginia for wanting to put a bow on this and be done with it. This lady's been through a lot, right? And I don't blame her. Now, it would have been nice to see Prince Andrew wiggle and squirm as David boys gave him the business in a couple of weeks. But what's going on here is, at least in my opinion, is why are you paying out this kind of money if you didn't do anything? If you were innocent, you had a chance to fight these charges several times. You could have a million times come forward and talked about your innocence. And then you go on this whole entire tirade about how you demand a trial by Jerry only to settle a couple of weeks out from the deposition. Certainly doesn't look like somebody who has nothing to hide. Now again, we're never going to find out now and it'll be in you window and it'll be, you know, it could have been or this is what might have happened. And unfortunately, that's going to be where this ends up. Because I highly doubt any of this information is going to be unsealed and released for public consumption. But we have to remember that this isn't a movie on lifetime. This is a real person's life, Virginia's life. And I know personally, I wouldn't want to be in the spotlight anymore. I wouldn't want to be dealing with all of this. And if I could get this guy to pay out a gigantic amount of money and basically pay to not have to be deposed, I think that sends a pretty strong message as well. Of course, just like everything else with the Jeffrey Epstein criminal conspiracy, it's not that satisfying end that we hope for, right? Well, mass convictions and all of that. But at the very least, she's getting Prince Andrew to do something that he has never done before, basically, and that show a little bit of empathy towards the situation that the survivors went through. Now, for me personally, I think that Prince Andrew and his family, if you will, the rest of the royals, I think they pressured the shit out of them here. And it's one of those kind of pressure situations where you're not getting out of that. Every single person in the family is basically telling you, "Look, bro, we don't think you're going to win in court. You need to settle." And I'm sure, if the reports are true, that his brother was a huge part of pushing for this settlement. Now, again, I have no idea what the monetary determination is going to be, but I'm guessing it's going to be massive. So, let's jump into this article from the BBC and let's see what Mario Connor has to say. "Prince Andrew settles U.S. civil sex assault case with Virginia Roberts." Prince Andrew has settled a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the U.S. by Virginia Roberts. Miss Roberts had been suing the Duke of York, claiming he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17. Allegations, he has repeatedly denied, but he's going to pay a hefty sum because he didn't do anything. Because that's what innocent people do, right? They pay out millions and millions of dollars and drag their family's name because they're completely innocent. Then they demand a trial by Jerry just to settle a few weeks before the depositions begin. Totally the behavior of somebody who did nothing, folks. It said the Duke would pay an undisclosed sum to Miss Roberts. His representatives said he had no comment beyond what was said in the document filed to the court. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the settlement. In a letter to U.S. judge Louis A. Kaplan, Miss Roberts lawyers David Boyes wrote jointly with Prince Andrew's lawyers to say the pair had reached a settlement in principle. And of course, you know, the lawyers are going to be in the back room banging shit out. I'm on the record about how I feel about lawyers here. And we all know that even though Boyes took this case pro bono, we know that he's benefiting from this. We know that it's going to extend his, you know, reach, right? Hey, I was involved in this case. I got Prince Andrew to settle. It certainly looks good for him and I'm sure in the back room, him and a Brettler were going at it. Like I said, from the very beginning, Brettler is not one of these trifling ass lawyers. This guy is serious business and he's the kind of lawyer that means business. He's not Christian Everdell or any of the lawyers that were working for Maxwell. This dude's a different kind of animal. A statement included with the letter read, the parties will file a stipulated dismissal upon Miss Roberts' receipt of the settlement, the sum of which is not being disclosed. And again, I have no idea what the amount is going to be. My guess is north of 10 million. I would guess somewhere in the range of 15 to 17 million dollars, something like that. Just a wild guess considering all that we know and all we've heard leading up to this point that we're at now. That would seem like a pretty decent number and a number that would have moved boys and Virginia from their place of not settling. It said the Duke would make a substantial donation to Miss Roberts' charity in support of survivor rights. Now, it's a little confusing, the terminology there. So it's going to be a settlement for Virginia, right? That's what this comes down to. And a substantial donation to the charity, or is it all part of the settlement? That part is not very clear yet, so I'll bang that out and I'll get some more details on that and try and make heads or tails of that so we have the right information. And tomorrow morning with the update, we'll make sure that we touch on that to add some more context here. Because it's a little confusing, right? Is it just going to be a donation to the charity or a payout to Virginia and a donation to the charity? It said the Duke would make a substantial donation to Miss Roberts' charity in support of survivor rights. Prince Andrew, the statement added, had never intended to malign Miss Roberts' character. Oh, no, not at all. That's what he had the Lady Victoria heavy for, right? Fake picture, hi, Andrew. Photoshop, hi, Andrew. If it was a Photoshop picture and you guys were so sure that this picture was fake and you could prove that it was fake, then why did you settle out of court? Because the picture is real, folks. That's why the picture definitely is real. Now, where it is now, I don't know. I don't know who has custody of it, but the original photograph that we have seen the reprints of, that's an original photograph. And it's ridiculous that anyone ever tried to say that it wasn't. Now, I get it. It's part of the strategy. And when you don't have much else to hang your hat on, you got to go with what you got. But it was never going to be a winning point, a winning leverage issue here for the Prince. Because everybody knows that picture was real. Even the people out there pumping the bullshit knew in their heart of hearts that it was real. And he recognized that she had suffered both as an established survivor of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks, basically admitting that he was in the wrong for his public attacking and stewing of Virginia when she was a known survivor of Jeffrey Epstein. It was unseemly, certainly not the behavior of a man, and obviously gross. And he's basically being admonished for it here, and he's having to admit that the personal attacks were wrong and misplaced. The Duke also pledged to demonstrate his regret for his association with the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims. Well, that's great, because now, Prince Andrew, we're going to have to rename him folks, right? Prince Andrew the generous. Prince Andrew, consolar of widows. Prince Andrew, hugger of babies. Prince Andrew, friend to lepers. Prince Andrew the great. I mean, is that what they'd want us to think here, want us to believe? He's going to support some charities, and all of a sudden, all's right in the world, everything's forgiven. These same charities that you assholes wrap yourself up in, like a shield, when the walls come down on you. Come on, man, really? He also commended the bravery of Miss Roberts and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others. So basically, this is the apology tour for Prince Andrew. He's like, look, I don't really want to be deposed here. I'm not trying to get hammered by David Boyes. So why don't we just go ahead and wrap this up real quick? I'm getting my ass beat by my goofy ass looking brother. Mom's as old as shit, she ain't going to be around forever. I can't hide behind her forever. I don't have the kind of funds it's going to take to keep fighting this. I might as well just write this apology letter and call it a day. You should have done that in the very beginning. You should have went and talked to the FBI, the second your BFF Jeffrey Epstein? Got arrested. Prince Andrew makes no admission of liability. His lawyers had previously said he was ready to go before a jury to fight Miss Roberts' claims with a trial expected later this year. Well, that's what you would expect of an innocent man, right? I know if it was me, there'd be no settlement. If I was innocent, you better damn well believe we're going to the mattresses. And I am going to go absolutely hard in the paint to prove my innocence. Have receipts, right? Because if you're innocent, you're going to have alibis. You're going to have receipts that back up, the stuff that you're saying. And this dude has had none of that. All he's had is his claims and then the few knuckle-headed surrogates out there trying to push those claims. And that narrative falls flat. I guarantee you, Brettler took a reading of the room in the temperature of the room and understood which way things were going. I'm almost positive, obviously I wasn't there, but I'm almost positive that he urged Andrew as well to take the settlement route. He saw it was ahead of him. He understood. And again, I have a high respect for Brettler's work for what he does and the way he goes about it because he's a bulldog. And I promise you that that's what he said to Andrew. He knows what he's looking at here and he knows how these jury rooms go. And he knows that he didn't have the evidence on his side to get Andrew off. Responding to the settlement, Mr. Boys told the PA News Agency, "I believe this event speaks for itself." I agree with that. Now again, it is kind of disappointing for people. I understand that completely. And I won't tell people how I don't feel disappointed. A lot of people are invested in this case following it all the time and they wanted to see Andrew get deposed and have to spill the beans. But I think him accepting this settlement tells you everything you need to know. Every other person who has accepted a settlement in regards to their treatment of Virginia has been proved to be guilty in a court of law later on down the line. Now I'm not saying that's going to be the same story for Andrew, but fellow travelers and all. Rachel Maskell, labor MP for York Central, renewed her call for Prince Andrew to withdraw his Duke of York title in light of the settlement. She said his delay in expressing regret over his ties to Epstein and initial response to claims against him had caused deep hurt and embarrassment to the city's residents. She urged him to back the withdrawal of his title as a mark of respect to York residents and those affected by abuse. Now I'm very, be very honest here. I'm not familiar with Rachel Maskell or her politics and I don't know if this is a politically motivated statement. If she dislikes the royals or whatever it may be. And I'm not too sure about how the people of York feel I haven't done a poll for myself. But I think it would be the right thing for this dude to continue this shame tour that he's going to be on and hand over the title Duke of York. It's just an honorary anyway. It's not like he's sitting in his great hall passing judgment, cutting off the heads of a deserters from a Hadrian's wall and shit, right? So what's the big deal? Miss Roberts who was previous Miss Roberts claims she was the victim of sex trafficking and abuse by financier Epstein from the age of 16. From the age of 16 Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial, not claimed she was. Again, this is this is important, right? If she wasn't a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, then why would the estate pay out so much money? Why would Epstein settle with her out of court? Why would Virginia's, I mean, why would Gallane settle with her out of court? And why would Uncle Tuchy's bitch ass do the same? Has nothing to do with claimed, okay? This is what happened. This is the reality. And it's time that the legacy media face it. She said part of the abuse saw her lent out to powerful men, including Prince Andrew, who was the third child of the queen and ninth in line to the throne. Miss Roberts, now 38, claimed the Duke 61, sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17, at Gallane Maxwell's home in London, and Epstein's mansion in New York, and on Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Once the trial was given the nod, it was always going to be uncomfortable to say the least for Prince Andrew. But this settlement is about as good as it gets for him, barring going to trial and winning. That's true. Prince Andrew could at least hang his hat on this. He's not going to have to accept the actual public shame of being deposed and that being aired out. Because if he did, I'm telling you it would not end up well for him. There's a reason he's going to pay. A whole entire brinks truck full of money here, folks. And it's not because he's a gracious, generous man. He avoids having to give a sworn statement, which was scheduled for early next month. He makes no admission of guilt. There will be no civil trial, no further airing of accusations and evidence. He is innocent because he has not been found guilty of anything, so he is disentangled from any legal threat. That's a fact, 100%, but we've seen in this case that people who thought they were out of the woods somehow get pulled back in. But he is still badly damaged by the past few years. His friendship with a convicted pedophile and a convicted sex trafficker will always hang over his reputation. The very fact that a civil trial beckoned Will, rightly or wrongly, be held against him. There's nothing from the palace tonight about the settlement. Instead, journalists were pointed towards the announcement in January that the Prince would lose his royal titles and patronages. That fits with what sources have indicated for the past few years that there is no way back for Prince Andrew. That's why there better not be. This dude needs, like I said, this guy has to be sent to the furthest province away from reality in the world. Maybe he needs to go up to the space station for a little while and hang out up there in a cargo bay. In a 2019 interview with BBC Newsnight, Prince Andrew said he had no memory of ever meeting Miss Roberts and her account of their London meeting and sex at a house in Belgravia didn't happen. That's pretty crazy, huh? I mean, you're paying a lot of money here for somebody you never met for if you've never met Virginia, if you really had never met Virginia, do you really think that you'd be paying out the amount of dough oh boy is about to shell out? No way. No one can ever make me believe that. He also said knowing Epstein had some seriously beneficial outcomes at a time when he had left a career in the Navy and begun one as a trade and industry special representative. Of course he did. Epstein was another vehicle for the Duke, right? Girls, money, everything, everything Andrew loves the most. In January, the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York ruled that the civil action over him could go ahead. Buckingham Palace later announced that Andrew's military titles and royal patronage had been returned to the Queen and that he would defend Miss Roberts' civil case as a private citizen. A royal source said he would also stop using his royal highness in an official capacity. Well, that's, again, these are all good steps, right? But at the end of the day, Prince Andrew's still walking free, broken and battered, no doubt, but certainly not facing the same punishment as Glen Maxwell. Lisa Bloom, a lawyer representing several of Epstein's accusers, welcomed the Duke settlement as a victory for Miss Roberts. In a statement on Twitter on behalf of her client, she wrote, "We hail Virginia's victory today. She has accomplished what no one else could, getting Prince Andrew to stop his nonsense, inside with sexual abuse victims. We salute Virginia's stunning courage." And hey, look, it definitely takes a lot, right, to stand up to people like this. I've said it from the very beginning. This kind of shit is not easy. Put your family out there, put your name out there, your reputation out there, have people like Andrew's surrogates going crazy. These people have a lot of money. You don't know what they're capable of. So when you come out and you don't have that sort of power base behind you, that takes a lot of courage and a lot of huevos. And she certainly exhibited that through this whole entire thing. Now, again, I know people are going to have their opinions on whether she should settle or if she shouldn't settle. And for me, it's the same thing as with the victim's compensation fund. It's not my place to tell her what to do. I didn't live her life. I have no idea the torment that she lives with or what her plans might be to help her heal in the future. So I'm very neutral about all of that. Obviously, I have my own opinions for my own reasons. I wanted to see Andrew be exposed because people like that need to be exposed to the light of day. But when it's all said and done, when it comes to her accepting a settlement, I'm very neutral on it because I'm not living her life. I don't know what goes on in her head. I don't know the torment that she has went through for all of these years, and nobody else does either. The settlement is likely to come as a relief to the royal family. BBC Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said, as it means the prospect of a trial, will not disrupt the Queen's platinum Jubilee celebrations. That's what it all comes down to, right? The Queen celebrations and making sure that that's not disrupted. I guess that's a conversation for another time, but it's kind of just a look-see at how they look at the rest of the world. Ah, who cares about human trafficking? You know, it's kind of a problem for us, but as long as the Jubilee celebration isn't overshadowed. He said the Duke could have been under pressure from within his family to settle the case to avoid further public court hearings. The Duke receives a Royal Navy pension, and the Queen has also thought to fund the Duke from a duchy of Lancaster income. Well, that's nice. Wish my mom would throw me a couple of million bucks. The courtroom drama is over before it began. Analysis by Dominic Cassiani, home and legal correspondent. This settlement may feel like it came from nowhere, but it's been hard to find a lawyer who thought that Prince Andrew would fight this case all the way to Jerry trial. That's a fact. I always thought that the settlement was looming, but it would depend on how much the dough was to move Virginia from her position. And, obviously, that number was a number that her and David Boyzen Company thought was acceptable. What is remarkable, however, is the wording. A settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing, but the Prince does not repeat his oft-repeated insistence that he did nothing wrong. Earlier in the case, he allowed his lawyers to accuse Miss Roberts of initiating a baseless lawsuit to achieve another payday at his expense. She was accused of making so much money from her Epstein allegations that she had a compelling motive to launch a frivolous lawsuit against the Prince. All that is gone, never to be repeated again. Swept away in a 32-word sentence that accepts Virginia Roberts has been a victim of abuse, and her character cannot be questioned. So, basically saying, look, Virginia is telling the truth about everything, and also, sinking his good friend, Galain Maxwell, on the way. Basically admitting that she abused Virginia here. So, thanks, Prince Andrew. What did I tell you, folks, from the jump? These people are not -- they aren't about it. What do you think these are hard and criminals? These aren't Mafioso, even Mafioso rat on each other. The courtroom drama is over before it began. The Court of Public Opinion will decide what the Prince's words mean. In December last year, Maxwell's 60 was found guilty of recruiting and tracking underage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. Last month, the former British socialite, Human Trafficker, you mean, officially requested a retrial after a juror in the case told that media, he used his own experience of being sexually abused to influence jurors, reaching a verdict. Now, we know where that story's going. It's still making its way through the court, and eventually we'll have an answer on if we're going to get a mistrial or what we're going to see there, but, like I said, it's very hard to get a mistrial in a case, especially a case like this. So, Virginia Roberts and Prince Andrew have reached out of an out-of-court settlement. The parties will file a stipulated dismissal upon Ms. Roberts' receipt of the settlement. Prince Andrew intends to make a substantial donation to Ms. Roberts' charity in support of survivor rights. Prince Andrew has never intended to malign Ms. Roberts' character, and he accepts that she has suffered both as an established victim of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks. So, it's basically admitting that his whole strategy was bunk, right? And, like we said from the jump, that's not a winning strategy. You're not going to win against Epstein survivors by attacking their credibility anymore. It's not going to work. If you want to prove your innocence, you're going to have to do something that is, I know it's a novel idea. You're going to have to show some evidence to back up your claims. Prince Andrew regrets his association with Epstein and commends the bravery of Ms. Roberts and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others. He pledges to demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking and by supporting its survivors. Well, you could start by telling everybody everything you know about Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators. What do you know about Glenn Maxwell? What do you know about Jean-Luc Brunel? What do you know about any of them? Sit down and give a deposition on your own. He'll never do that, though, because he really doesn't care. This is all just part of it, right? Now the refurbishes reputation tour will begin, and it won't be long. My guess is a few years before you start seeing people say, "Hey, well, you know." And, you know, the wheel will continue to spin. People like Prince Andrew, when you have the kind of money that someone like this guy has, the sky is the limit, right? But these are the things that happen in cases such as this. I never thought that we'd go all the way through a trial here. It was too much of a dangerous situation for Prince Andrew, because when you don't have the evidence and you don't have anything to back up your assertions, you're left using loopholes and technicalities and looking to go absolute scorched earth on survivors. And it's just not a winning strategy. It's not going to be a winning strategy, and I think that people are starting to take note. And Prince Andrew here, settling out of court a few days after demanding a trial by Jerry and making this whole big hubbub about the picture, I think speaks volumes. Because innocent people, well, they don't settle for that kind of money. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at bobbykapucci@protonmel.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I@protonmel.com. You can also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y_C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box. All right, folks, I'll be back later on, and there's some more context episodes coming your way. I have a few other things coming your way, and then tomorrow morning, we'll pick up with the morning update and see just exactly where things are. Until then, everybody, I hope you all have a great night. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. On tonight's program, obviously, we're going to continue talking about the lawsuit settlement between Virginia Roberts and Prince Andrew. Now, all of the terms are still unclear. There has been reports out there some people were speculating when it first broke that it would be about $10 million. I said that was a little light, so today there are reports out that are saying that the settlement is a little bit more significant than that $10 million mark. Now, I figured it would be around 14 to 17 million American U.S. dollars. Good, coal hard cash. And the reports are coming out today, and it's falling right around in that range it looks like. Now, obviously, the terms of the deal are not disclosed as per the agreement, but that is what the rumor mill is talking about, and that is right around the number I would expect. Because it would take something monstrous, right, to knock Virginia off of her perch to come to the table and settle with Prince Andrew. But you know that behind the scenes, her people were negotiating with his people. It wasn't just some kind of like standoff, right? That wasn't happening. That's not how this works. And they came to an agreement behind the scenes, obviously, that was acceptable to Virginia and to her team. Now, Prince Andrew, he was in a no-good situation no matter how you chop it at this point. And the fact that he pumped this and pushed this for so long and dragged this out did nothing but hurt him. And for all of the money he was paying all of those people over in the U.K. blocks him and the rest of them, he should ask for a refund. Because if it wasn't for Brettler and the counsel he got from Lably Singer, he'd have been sunk. 100% goose cooked, because the people who were advising him over in England obviously do not know their ass from their elbow. I'm certainly not a lawyer or a crisis evaluation manager, but I know when you're not reading the temperature of the room, have a little bit of common sense. And the way the dude went about it was completely ridiculous. He is really lucky that he had Brettler and hired Brettler to step in, because at least he got his money's worth there. Because the people over in England, the people in the U.K. that were advising him, they absolutely derailed this dude. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm sure he is his own worst enemy, right? He's the one that makes the final call. But his advisors should have told him and been very firm with him, that this was a losing proposition from the very beginning. And then to come out with the whole entire scorched earth policy like he's Jenga's con all of a sudden is ridiculous, it was never going to win. So, then settling and him settling was the only option at this point. But it is very harmful, moving forward for obviously him, but for the whole royal family, make no mistake about that. There was a point in time where something like this was not even imaginable, it was unimaginable, right? That the royal family someone from the royal family could be caught up in a scandal such as this. But here we are, and they're being exposed, and really folks what it comes down to is they're just regular people like the rest of us. They're not special, what, because they were born in a certain bloodline? They're special all of a sudden, breaking news. At the end of the day, the kings, the queens, and the pawns, well we all go back into the same box. And it's about time that these people remembered that. And for Andrew, and for the whole entire nonsensical charade he was putting on for this whole time, he should be embarrassed, honestly. He won't be, but he should be. Dragging his mom through this, dragging the nation through this, dragging the people of the UK through this. And now, of course, the question's going to be, how's he going to pay for all of this? Obviously, the queen's going to step in and throw him a couple bucks, and we all know that the royal family has a bunch of benefactors out there that would step in in a second to pay this bill to get the spotlight, if you will, off of the queen. So I'm very interested to see how this goes down as far as the payment, and I would hope that not one single dollar of public money is used here, because that would be something else. I mean, I can't even imagine the uproar. If tax dollars are used to pay for a to settle a rape case for the Prince of England. Yeah, I think that'll cause quite the, uh, quite the, the, the maelstrom. All right, so tonight we have an article from the independent and the author is Omid Scobie headline. Prince Andrew did what only the privileged elite can do. Everyone will suffer for it, and it's a fact, right? None of us can pay to get our way out of trouble. If you get into trouble, every single dollar you have is going to go to your lawyers. I mean, here in America anyway, if you're paying for a lawyer, you're going to be in, uh, quite the whole to start out even. So we can't afford to, you know, pay people off, but people like Prince Andrew, this is the lifeblood of these disgusting sons of bitches. Back in October, Prince Andrew's lawyers unleashed an aggressive move, usually only seen during the heated final days of a U.S. presidential election, an oppo dump. The technique, usually performed by flailing politicians, seeking to undermine their opponents as swiftly and brutally as possible, is a classic, if all else fails move, of releasing information and igniting a narrative on an opponent to try and discredit or weaken them. Sounds familiar, right? That's exactly what Prince Andrew did. Him and his team, they unleashed that scorched earth policy like I told you was coming, how long have I been saying it, because it was all they had, right? And they painted themselves even deeper into the corner, if you could believe it. Their target was the Prince's accuser, Virginia Roberts, and they hoped it would result in her claim that the Duke of York had sexually assaulted her three times at the age of 17, coming into doubt. See what they forgot though, was Virginia had been through all of this already. Do you think that Prince Andrew is more shrewd than Jeffrey Epstein? And as great as Brettler is over there at Lobbly and Singer, he's certainly not an underhanded scuss ball like Dershowitz. So Virginia Roberts has been through the ring already dealing with people like this, dealing with all sorts of allegations, all sorts of people trying to demean her character, all sorts of people dragging her name through the mud. You think that Joe Exotic of the Windsor family is going to make her fear stepping up to the plate here? It wasn't going to happen. And when they figured out that they weren't going to be able to bully her, that the narrative that they were pumping certainly wasn't going to be bought by the general public, they knew that it was time to eject. Time to pull the pin and eject right out of this mofo because this plane is going down. And when your number one surrogate is somebody who's out there talking about all kinds of weird conspiracy theories as it is, Lady Victoria Harvey, then you know you're in big trouble. She was, as Andrew's lawyers described, a payday chasing attention seeker that the prince had never even met. Her lawsuit, they said, was completely baseless. Pretty funny, huh? That's what he was asserting. Now fast forward to today, and he's in the hole for about, oh, I don't know, $14, $17 million, looking like an absolute asshole. Because remember, innocent people aren't paying, not this kind of money, innocent people don't do and act the way Prince Andrew acted. Nobody's got nobody, nobody who's innocent is doing that. And now, with all of that nonsense, he put in that letter even just recently, he never met her, it was completely baseless, all of a sudden you're ponying up all this money, huh? Sure looks real good. So it came as somewhat of a surprise to see just 109 days later the queen's son, tail between his legs, stating that he had never intended to malign Miss Roberts character, and that he, except she has suffered as a victim of abuse. Oh, isn't that nice? The good old prince, the hugger of widows, the friend to orphans, the man of the people, is going to accept that she has suffered abuse as a victim. I mean, really? We can all just stop our lives now because Prince Andrew has decided to accept reality. More importantly, the Duke's words were delivered alongside an out-of-court settlement just shy of 12 million pounds. Okay, so there you go. In this article, it's talking about that 12 million pound mark, too, and that would not get into that range, the 1417. It came with no further denial, or admission to Roberts' claims, just the meek promise of supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking. Yeah, you're not welcomed, honestly. Guy like that has no business acting as an advocate for sex trafficking victims. Are you kidding me right now? This dude needs to go and retire on whatever piece of land that his family deems proper for him to have, and have zero to do with the public ever again for as long as he lives. The mountain of cash, a significant portion of which came from the Bank of Mummy Dearest to be donated to Roberts' anti-sex trafficking charity, was so high, the accuser couldn't possibly say no, and that's what they did, right? It came down to the Prince and his team having to throw a boatload of money at Virginia, and that's really the result that you're looking for in a settlement, right? What's the purpose of bringing a lawsuit against somebody if you're not looking for damages to be paid at the end? And if you're going to get damages paid, you have to make sure it really rocks them, right? Make sure it hurts them in the pocketbook. And this kind of claim and this kind of payout certainly does that. Obviously, it takes away a bit of the sting when you're already stinking rich, and you have Mummy Dearest showing up to help pay the bills, but still, it's a real bad look for Prince Andrew, and it validates everything Virginia had to say about this dude. You mean to tell me you're paying out all this money, suffering all of this shame if you didn't do anything? Stop it. I don't believe that. Over 90% of civil cases filed in U.S. federal court result in a settlement, so it was almost inevitable that Robert's lawsuit would boil down to a pretrial payout fact. Always figured that this was something that could happen, right? If the number was monstrous and Prince Andrew would be willing to meet them at a place that is Everest High, then certainly this would be the outcome. But I always was wondering if Andrew would be able to come up with those kind of finances. Where's he getting all that money? Unless of course Mummy is stepping in, and we know that to be the case now. But given how furiously Andrew had denied the allegations, it was a curious move to settle with a woman his staff had once briefed the journalists as having doctored a photo of the two together, just to make her story more convincing. Yeah, sounds about, right, huh? That's exactly what he did. Him and his team tried to paint it like Virginia's out here working for Adobe Photoshop, like Virginia created Adobe Photoshop, and then the insanity to drag other survivors into it, talking about this one's emailing this one. What an absolute ridiculous narrative his surrogates were pitching. I mean, we're talking QAnon level bullshit, folks. The kind of stuff that Alex Jones will look at and say, "Oh, this is a Christmas there!" Andrew was less than four weeks away from a deposition with Robert's lawyers. Didn't he want to use that moment to fight for his innocence? A final chance to prove he didn't do the heinous things he had been accused of? I know, if faced with the same predicament, I would. And the author is not wrong. How long have I been saying that? Real men don't run from shit like this. Real men step up to the plate and they deal with the issues. And if they cause mayhem and they've caused a mess, they clean it up. But Prince Andrew isn't a real man. Real men don't have the hired help come running up the stairs to fix the curtains. Real men don't make the kind of comments he made to those massage therapists. That's somebody's mother, somebody's daughter, somebody's wife, and you're out here running your fat, stupid mouth like you're a tough guy? That's the kind of shit that gets you that three-piece combo with a soda where I'm from. While much of the media coverage has focused around Andrew's statement, a sympathetic narrative is already starting to emerge from the bootlickers of the royal press corps and its orbit of commentators, one that attempts to explain Andrew's decision not to clear his name, because he shiverllously wanted to prioritize protecting the royal institution and his 95-year-old mother from the further shame. Oh yeah, that's exactly what it is. He's just so, so magnanimous, such a shiverll, shiverll-risk guy that he's going to get out here and he wants to protect mom's name. So he's stepping up to the plate now. Here's an idea. Why didn't you do that in the beginning? Why didn't you step up to the plate in the very beginning and say, "Hey, look, this is my part in this. I was around Jeffrey Epstein. I had no idea these were underage girls and I want to help the investigation." And still to this day, let's remember, he has not helped the investigation one single bit, not at all. The quick settlement, royal sources have added, has been a huge relief for the family with the platinum jubilee so close. How hard it must have been for them. Oh, imagine the difficulty of all of this as they swim around in their money wearing the crown jewels of the royal family. You know, is that difficulty? The people who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein, those people, they've had a difficult life. Not Prince Andrew, not any of these people. Again, I have zero empathy for any of these people who were born into great privilege, great wealth, and squandered it on bullshit hanging out with people like Jeffrey Epstein and Galain Maxwell. The thing is, no matter how you try to polish it, there's no way to hide the fact that H.R.H. Les Andrew continues to swan around taking no responsibility for his behavior, taxpayer-funded security team still at his beck and call. And how is that even right? And I try not to get too involved in any of that, obviously I'm not a subject of the queen or, you know, a citizen of the UK, but I find it ridiculous that this guy is using public money to have a security detail. Higher your own security detail, bro, you're charged with all kinds of disgusting allegations, but the dude who moved to America in his chick, they gotta pay for their own security. So leaving the royal family is more of a sin than being involved with Jeffrey Epstein, huh? That's the message you want to show. While we are unlikely to hear Roberts speak about the civil case for the foreseeable future, flicking away her claims with his gilded checkbook won't change the very real fact that the royal enjoyed and invested in close friendships with two sex traffickers who destroyed the innocent lives of Roberts and countless other children and women in the hundreds. That's this dude's legacy. That's the legacy he's going to leave. A legacy of absolute embarrassment for the whole entire family. It also doesn't change the fact that even after Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty for procuring persons under 18 for prostitution, Andrew saw no problem in returning to the pedophile billionaires New York home in 2010 to hang out and allegedly receive foot massages from models of a similar age to his two daughters. And again, it just goes to show you the kind of guy we're dealing with. He has no shame, no moral compass, he's been given everything his whole life, totally everyone around him has been a yes man or a yes woman, and he's never known any sort of repercussions when he's fucked up. You think this dude was getting grounded? I know when I was younger, if I got out of line and I swerved out of the lane, forget it. Forget it, zero chance that it was happening again. This dude, he just feels like he can do whatever he wants. And finally, he's getting some repercussions. Finally, he is going to have to, at the very least, suffer and go down in history as somebody who settled a sexual assault case as opposed to try and clear his name. If Andrew really cared about rape survivors, like his statement claims, there also wouldn't still be a material witness warrant for him in the US, more than two years since he promised to speak to the FBI about Epstein. How long have we been talking about that here on the podcast? And when I say me, all of us, everybody who's following this case, it's been a huge point of contention. If you really want to help and you're this guy who's going to be doing the honorable thing, step up to the plate. Talk to the FBI. Do the right thing. The dark legal clouds that Andrew's mess threatened to cast over celebrations for the Queen's Jubilee may be passing. But, as the funds for Robert's payout are prepared to transfer, the royal family is not shining bright. No, they're glowing. Alright, they're glowing with nuclear fallout. It's like Fukushima over there at Buckingham Palace right now. Though it's understandable that a parent may want to help a desperate and often broke son in need, Andrew convincing our head of state to privately cover close to half of the settlement sum in a civil rape case has resulted in a stain on his mother's legacy in one of the most defining years of her seven-decade reign, Yikes. That's pretty powerful stuff here from the author. And it's not wrong. Imagine if you were the Queen and you had this dunce of a son ruining this for you? I mean, unbelievable. And again, it tracks me up that people close to the Queen or monarchists or whatever are so worried about the stain it's going to hang over the Jubilee celebration. Well, what about the stain hanging over those survivors' lives for the rest of their lives? Yes, what? There's no Jubilee celebration for them. It also raises the question that if there's so much disposable private wealth hidden behind palace walls, why should people of this country, many of whom are struggling to eat their homes as winner, continue to dish out an annual contribution to the royal establishment? Good question. I mean, you've got people starving in the streets. I'm sure it's going the same over in England. Meanwhile, the Queen is shelling out dough to help Prince Andrew quash a rape case. It is absolutely absurd. With the Sussex Sussex is gone and Andrew permanently benched. There are fewer working royals than ever, yet the sovereign grant that funds the royal family continues to grow year on year. So even as the royal family shrinks, the bank accounts grow, huh? Must be nice. They continue to get rich while the rest of us get poor. Seems about right. The Bunting and Street parties this June will serve as a nice distraction, but at a time when the value and purpose of the monarchy, post Queen Elizabeth is coming under growing scrutiny by the public, this, unlike Andrew's problems, won't be a problem that can be silenced with money. And it's a fact. This is going to hang over the royal family for quite some time, folks. And I don't know if this stain will ever go away. Once the Queen is gone, and she passes on the scepter of rule to her son, are the people going to be as willing to accept nonsense from the royal family? I think a lot of the sentiment that you see from some people is specific to the Queen. And it has nothing to do with the royals overall. And when she's gone and her son is in control, I think it's going to be real tough sledding for the monarchy moving forward. And if you take a look at how the other royal families around Europe have been pared down or done away with overall, you can see the writing on the wall for the English monarchy as well. So it's going to be interesting to see how that all breaks, you know, in the coming years and weeks or whatever, but it's certainly showing that there are serious problems. And the public is not going to stand for it. The fact that Prince Andrew was able to avoid scrutiny for so long is something that is really just a gigantic stain on not only him, but the Queen, because she enabled that right she could have forced the issue a long time ago. So we have to remember that as well. But here we are, finally, to a point where Prince Andrew is basically admitting that he can't provide evidence to prove his innocence. So he's going to settle out a court for a gigantic eye-popping sum that will not only drain his bank account, but will cast a dark shadow over the royal family for years to come. All right, folks, that's going to do it for tonight's update. We'll be back tomorrow morning following the story, still seeing where it goes. And until then, obviously, some context episodes are on the way. Hope everybody has a great night. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at bobbykapucci@protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y_C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. According to Prince Andrew, he's going to be working with human trafficking survivors, all sorts of charities that benefit human trafficking, and he's going to become the grand patron of those who want to help human trafficking victims. Well, before he does any of that, he might want to do the honorable thing here and speak with the FBI, because we know he hasn't done that yet. He hasn't provided any help whatsoever to the investigation, and up until this point, has been very obstinate when asked to do so. Of course, him and his team will say otherwise, but when you look at all of the evidence that's been put forward by the Justice Department, by lawyers, by the survivors, certainly doesn't look good for Prince Andrew. Now, before he does any of those things that he says he's going to do, he's going to have to sit down with the FBI, right? How could you say you're going to help survivors of human trafficking if you're not even willing to sit down with the authorities and help the ones who are affected the most by your associations? Does this guy think that that's going to work out well for him because it's not? So before he does anything else, the second that check clears anyway, he needs to sit down and speak with the FBI, and the calls for him to do that are starting to get louder. Now, here on this podcast, I've said he should have done that from the very beginning. He could have saved himself so much misery, so much pain. If he would have just come forward right away and said, "Hey, look, I'm part of this blackmail operation. I got caught up. My proclivity's got the best of me. I had no idea what this dude was up to, whatever." He did none of it. Instead, he tried to lie and act like he didn't even know who Virginia is. Just dig in that hole deeper and deeper by the day. And then for this guy to go on the scorched earth attack only to settle up a few weeks before the deposition is due, it speaks volumes. So Prince Andrew is going to have to step up to the plate and speak to the authorities because this isn't over yet. Now, there's not going to be a trial, obviously, but there are still questions to be answered, and as far as I know, there is still a grand jury impaneled investigating all of this. So his information might be crucial, and he needs to come forward and do the right thing. And today, this article from the Scottish Sun, people are starting to call for him to do just that. Headline. Duke of Shame. Prince Andrew must now speak to the FBI over Epstein's abuse and stop hiding behind Mother's skirt after 800 days of silence. This article was authored by Henry Holloway, and like I said, it was published by the Scottish Sun. Prince Andrew is facing pressure to finally talk to the FBI more than 800 days after saying he was duty-bound to speak to them. You know, you would think if you were duty-bound, if it was a priority, that in 800 days, you'd find a little bit of time to do that. You've had time to have hunting parties, no? Time to drive around in your Range Rover like a jackass, no? No time to set up a meeting with the authorities, however? We know where your priorities are. Calls are growing for the Duke of York to finally talk to law enforcement just as he said he would during his car crash news night interview after he settled a lawsuit with sex abuse survivor Virginia Roberts. So let's see if he sets it up even, right? Let's see if they even talk about it. I'm guessing that Prince Andrew still doesn't want to talk to the FBI, because he might not be in jeopardy here because of the civil case now. That doesn't mean that stuff he says during a interview with federal agents couldn't be used against him because it can be. If you lie to an FBI agent while they're questioning you, that's a process crime. You're going to get in trouble for that. And they love, love, love, love, dog-walking people into those kinds of traps. It was said Andrew needs to stop hiding behind his mother's skirts and hiding in his palace and finally face the music over what he may know about Jeffrey Epstein and Galain Maxwell. You would think that somebody who was dealing with all of this, who has went through all of this for at least 824 days here, as far as the article is concerned, that he'd want to put this to rest, put it to bed. And what better way to do that than to get rid of all of the talking points that people, like me, will use to try and bring up the fact that you're not doing the right thing. So if you go and speak to the authorities, you tell them what you know, you cooperate, you cause yourself a lot less grief. But he doesn't understand that. He still believes that things should just happen for him because, well, he's the prince. Andrew pledged in his settlement statement to help support survivors of sex trafficking and even suggested he would become an ambassador to fight against the evils of the vile crime. I mean, nobody wants you as their ambassador. Nobody. Not the penguins in Antarctica and not the polar bears and the great Arctic north. Nobody wants you as any kind of ambassador for anything. People want you to fade away from public life, or even better, just go away forever. It has been now, it has now been 825 days as of publication, since Andrew told News Night presenter Emily Maitles, he would testify or give a statement under oath over Epstein's crimes. Well, still waiting. And you wonder why people question your narrative. You wonder why people question your honor. Are you wearing the right kit to make those kinds of comments? Prince Andrew? And yet, he is still not spoken to law enforcement in the US after he was reportedly named as a person of interest last August. And remember when all of this was going on, I told you that he's not just a witness, okay? That's certainly not what he was. A person of interest is more likely. Now the FBI can say whatever they want, call you whatever they want to call you. But the fact is, this dude was a lot more than just a witness. And person of interest was certainly the label that should have been applied to him. Somebody that was around them, somebody knew that what they were up to, somebody that was in their confidence, someone who was so close to Maxwell, that she had card blanche at the palace. She was there so often they thought that Prince Andrew and her were a thing. The Duke has now settled civil litigation over claims he raped Virginia, then 17 at his pal Maxwell's house, reportedly offering up 12 million pounds plus legal fees. Now I'm hearing just rumor, obviously nothing set in stone, that roughly 2 million dollars American will go to a charity, and then the rest of the payout going Virginia's way. Again, just rumor obviously because the terms of the settlement are still considered private, but that is what I'm hearing and that sounds about right for what we were estimating in the very beginning. And now calls are growing for him to finally speak to FBI agents as he could potentially help them in the believe to be ongoing probe into the wider crimes of Maxwell and Epstein. Look, I've said it for quite some time, there's been an in-paneled grand jury going on who are looking into the remnants of Epstein's criminal enterprise. Now, if that's going to produce anything or not, I have no idea, but the fact is it is still ongoing, this investigation, and now that Maxwell's wrapped up, we could see other indictments, and I would not be shocked if that's the way it does end up going. Mark William Thomas, an ex cop turned investigative journalist who helped expose Jimmy Seville, told the son online that Andrew could hold an awful lot of information about Epstein and Maxwell. He said Andrew has openly said he would cooperate, but he hasn't. The FBI would jump on a plane and come and interview him, they have operatives in the UK, but he hasn't made himself available. And as for sure, the FBI certainly does have operatives in the UK, it wouldn't be a difficult thing to set it up, one phone call. Him clearing his name here, him talking to the FBI and doing an end-around on this sort of narrative, can all be accomplished with one phone call. His, all his legal team has to do is call the office and tell him, look, we're ready to go. The former detective added, and then he turns around and says he is going to help victims of sex trafficking, what a ridiculous thing to say. If you were prepared to do that, then tell the FBI exactly what you know about Epstein and Maxwell, 100%. That whole entire BS narrative that he's going to be the grandpuba of helping sex trafficking victims is almost offensive, honestly. This dude shouldn't be anywhere near sex trafficking survivors. And he certainly shouldn't be talking about how he's going to start some sort of movement or whatever. Again, a guy like this is still clinging to the hope that he's going to have some way back into civil society. And if he can wrap himself in some charity and that's the vehicle to get him there, then that's what he's going to do. We've learned this dude has zero shame. He is hidden in his palace and he is hidden behind his status. FBI officials and New York prosecutors played a game of cat and mouse with a Duke in 2020 with a tit for tat row over his lack of assistance over the case. Andrew has always denied abusing Virginia and previously claimed he had no knowledge of wrongdoing over his friendship with Epstein. Well, yeah, you're going to claim that, right? What's he going to do? Come out and claim publicly? Yeah, I know everything. I know everything that was going on. But it's one thing to make that blanket denial in the media or, you know, from the confines of your bathroom while you're on the toilet. It's a whole other thing to do it under oath. And that, of course, is what Andrew was trying to avoid. And that's why 16 million reasons were paid out, right? That 16 million reasons were given, I should say, for him not to get up there and have to, you know, sit through a deposition. Dr. Ann Oliviaris, a senior partner at law firm, McAllister Oliviaris, told the Sun Online, she said she hopes now will be the time for Andrew to step up and work with the FBI. These are serious crimes. The fact that he has not cooperated is an insult to the values of the monarchy, to the Queen, to Britain, to the British people, to the United States, and to the survivors of trafficking, she said. Yeah, that's a nice way to sum it up. If this guy really cared, he would have never been in this position in the first place. He doesn't care about human trafficking survivors. He cares that he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, if you will. He's just mad that he got caught. And if he never got caught and Epstein was never exposed, you really think he wouldn't still be paddling around with Jeffrey Epstein in Galain Maxwell because all of a sudden dude has a moral compass? Let's remember, he has two young daughters at home and he was still doing this shit. Dr. Oliviaris added, "If he doesn't do it, what do they do? One would hope the Queen, Williams, and Charles would tell him to go and talk to them. They should have done that a long time ago." How are you going to show up at home with these kind of allegations? Talking about, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to need to borrow 10 million to pay off these rape accusations, but I'm not going to speak to the authorities or anything." You would think that the Queen would be like, "Look, I'm going to break you off a little bit of this change here so you can clean up your legal act, but you're going to have to speak to the authorities." No, none of that. Because really, for the crown, let's just be real. It's all about covering your ass for them too. It's all about the firm and the image of the firm moving forward. It's not about these survivors. It's not just a mother and a son. This is the head of state. He should be told to cooperate. Andrew reportedly agreed to never again deny that he raped Virginia as part of the court settlement, which was suddenly announced on Tuesday, so that's a tough one to swallow for his surrogates, huh? Your boy can't even repeat the claim that he didn't rape her. After paying out 16 million. Sure sounds like he got a strong deal, huh? Sure sounds like he came out a winner here. All he did really was end up saving a bit of face, because this was going to be the end result. Old boy was going to end up having to pay this out anyway, so he saved himself some money by not having to pay a long drawn out legal fee for the battle. And what he does is he saves face for the royal family, and in return they'll pay for his legal bills. They'll make sure he has, you know, a comfortable existence. It's not like he's going to be eaten top ramen anytime soon. And for that, he'll have to stay out of the public eye. That's the deal I'm guessing. He said that he has said to have settled the case after pressure from the Queen. In an extraordinary statement, he told of his regret over his ties to pedophile multi-millionaire Epstein, and held Virginia's bravery. If he would have just done this, again, if he would have just done this in the very beginning, and avoided all of the tomfoolery bullshit he was up to, he wouldn't be in this position. Sure, he'd still look like an asshole, and we'd still be mocking him, but it wouldn't be like this. Dudes getting dragged from every corner at this point. All because he thought it was a good idea to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein, and thought it was a good idea to engage in some very disgusting behavior. And in exchange, Ms. Roberts, who said Andrew raped her when she was 17 after being trafficked to him by Epstein and Maxwell, agreed to drop the case. Nigel Cawthorn, a royal author who has penned books on Andrew, Epstein, and Maxwell, told the son online that the Duke must now submit himself to speak to the FBI. Yes, he must. And if he doesn't, then what? What's going to be the consequences? That's really the question, because you know there's not going to be any. See, the public has done all the public can do. The public has exerted pressure. You folks have done everything that is in your power. You folks have done it, and you've done fantastic work by keeping the pressure up. But what happens? Now, what else? What's next? If he doesn't go and speak to the FBI, can't publicly shame him anymore. It's not like the Met is going to open an investigation into him. So then what? He's done everything he can to hide away from this. And I can't imagine he is going to change a change tack now, no matter what he said in that statement. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliam told the son online. The first thing Andrew should do is talk to the FBI and help them trace Epstein's accomplices, saying, this isn't over. You know, he was hanging out with Bill Richardson down in New Mexico. If I was an investigator, I'd have some questions about that. Some questions about any time he was on the plane, any time he was at the house who was with him, what girls were there, all of it. And under oath, by the way. It's something he said he would do, hasn't done, and should do. It's absolutely clear. He should cooperate. It's a question of responsibility, he said. Mr. Fitzwilliam's went on. The whole thing has been appalling. It's left a dreadful impression on the country. It's a matter of someone who feels very entitled and who doesn't seem to grasp the way the court of public opinion seem to react and respond. Dude can't read the room. We all know his behavior. We know his profile. It's been built for us recently, especially by the people who worked for him. You could tell a lot by somebody. By the way, they treat their employees or people that are below them on the chain of command or however you might want to explain it. When you treat those people with dignity and you treat them with honor, like you would treat your colleague, then you know you're dealing with a halfway decent person for the most part, at least usually. But people like Prince Andrew, the entitled type, the type that thinks people are coming there to help them clean or whatever. He thinks that they're less than him. And he's never going to accept responsibility. And he has no idea what the common man or the common woman or the common person needs or wants or what our desires are. Elsewhere, Epstein's survivor, survivor's lawyer, Gloria Allred, said it was long overdue for Andrew to agree to answer questions about Epstein. His silence is deafening, she told Daily Mail. Robert Marsh, a lawyer who represents a survivor, Sarah Ransom, added he also hoped Andrew would cooperate. But his settlement statement doesn't have any suggestion that he will. No, it doesn't. It's very vague. And he makes these grandiose statements and, you know, it's typical. You know, the, the, the friend to lepers, the, the consolar of widows like I was talking about. That's who he thinks he is all of a sudden. Virginia had alleged she was forced to have sex with the Prince by Epstein, and his madam, co-conspirator, general all around Scuzzbag, fellow child abuser, and by Piedl Serpent, Madam, Maxwell, when she was a teenager and he was 41 in 2001. Andrew faced litigation for the first time over the allegations in the 15-page lawsuit, which was first filed in 2021. His accuser's legal team argued she was frightened, vulnerable child with no one there to protect her. When she was allegedly abused by Andrew, saying no person, whether President or Prince, is above the law, amen to that. And I think it's going to take them a lot longer to figure it out. The men of all ways, right? But the train has left the station. And there's no going back. Anyone who thinks that there's going back, they're, they're incorrect. Things are in motion now, folks. And I mean on a geopolitical level. And when things start spinning like this, there are big results that come down at the end of all of it. Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you which way it's all going to break down, but get ready. There is some turbulence on the way. Court documents claimed Miss Roberts was lent out for sexual purposes by convicted sex offender Epstein, including while she was still a minor under US law. Andrew had consistently denied the allegations and had previously said he had no recollection of ever meeting Virginia. And that's where it really, the shit gets deep, right? You better have your hip-high rubber boots on to wade through that pile of shit. You never met her. The picture is fake. Come on, man. He also said he has no memory of the well-known photograph of him with his arm around Miss Roberts waist at Maxwell's house and has questioned whether it was his own hand in the image, not it was the body doubles hand. The fallout from his car crash, Hindenburg. Newsnight interview saw the royal criticized for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's survivors and a lack of remorse over his friendship with the disgraced financier, uh, pedophile. And yet, look, he didn't have any remorse because he doesn't have any remorse. Oh, he'll have it now. He'll have it now for sure. And that's obviously artificial. Crocodile tears. If he had any remorse, he wouldn't be going over to Jeffrey Epstein's house after he knows dude's a child molester. Do wouldn't be flying over the pond to go and have a sleepover with his boy. Epstein hanged himself, allegedly, in his prison cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking offenses. And meanwhile, Maxwell faces potentially spending the rest of her life in prison after she was convicted in her role in this scheme. The Southern District of New York prosecutor's office declined to comment when contacted by the sun online. The FBI has been approached for comment. Prince Andrew's team declined to comment when approached by the sun online. So look, he's not going to talk. Not to the the sun online. That's for sure. And the FBI. Well, they usually don't say anything. That's why it was so crazy that they had anything to say previously about this because that's not how they operate. That is not their mo. So when they're doing that, you know, they really want to talk to somebody. And now Prince Andrew, you're on the clock, homie. Paid out the settlement. Now it's time for you to speak to the authorities and tell them everything you know about Jeffrey Epstein, Glen Maxwell, and their criminal enterprise. All right, folks, that's going to do it for me tonight with the evening update. As usual, we'll be back tomorrow morning with the morning update. And until then, definitely some context episodes come in your way. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y_C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The links that go with this episode can be found in the description box. All right, folks, until later on, enjoy your evening.