Earlier this week, Virginia Giuffre posted a message on Instagram, saying that she only had days to live following a traffic accident in Australia (where she lives). Australian law enforcement disputed her claims, saying that while there was a minor accident, it was nothing that would lead to a passenger being hospitalized or near death. Virginia’s family also released a statement, confirming her hospitalization. Then we learned that Virginia is apparently separated from her husband and that she recently violated a domestic violence restraining order, and it sounded like she had not seen her children in a while. So… yeah, I have no idea what’s happening here. I don’t regret giving Virginia the benefit of the doubt, and I still believe that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for years when she was just a child. It would have been smart for Prince Andrew to simply ignore all of this. But Andrew is not a smart man, so Andrew’s “friends” ran to the Daily Beast.

Friends of Prince Andrew have said the prince and his family are “completely unsurprised” that his sex accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, made a string of questionable claims about being in a high speed bus crash that had brought her to death’s door.

One friend of Andrew’s told The Daily Beast: “There is no sense of satisfaction on the duke’s part at Giuffre’s disgrace. If anything it has brought back the sadness the entire family feel that this woman, who he always maintained was a fantasist, was allowed to ruin his life. The whole family are completely unsurprised that her alarmist post turned out to be a fabrication.”

Giuffre now says that an Instagram post in which she claimed she only had four days to live after being involved in a horrific bus crash was inaccurate. The Jeffrey Epstein victim’s admission came after police in Western Australia, where she now lives, told The Daily Beast that the only bus crash they could find on their systems in the relevant dates was not serious and had resulted in no injuries.

Andrew paid Giuffre a reported $14 million in 2022 to settle a lawsuit she brought against him alleging sexual abuse but has always maintained he has no recollection of meeting her and never had sex with her, despite the wide circulation of a photograph showing him grinning, with his arm slung around her waist, when she was just 17. Giuffre had claimed Andrew had sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17 and being sexually trafficked by Epstein. Andrew has always emphatically denied the allegations.

Andrew and his supporters, including jailed Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, have claimed the photo is fake. Some have highlighted that Giuffre appears to be wearing exactly the same set of clothes in the photo with Andrew as she wore in a photo of her at a party to celebrate model Naomi Campbell’s birthday.

There has previously been some speculation among Andrew’s friends that he might try and reopen the settlement with Giuffre. Royal writer Daphne Barak, who conducted a jailhouse interview with Maxwell, previously told Talk TV’s Jeremy Kyle Live: “I am very close to the people most close to [Andrew]… There is a feeling right now that he settled too quickly, he might have misunderstood that when he gave up the titles that they would not be given back to him. It’s a tough reality for him. If indeed he was forced to settle for something he didn’t do… is something that is being considered legally right now, that is something I can definitely confirm.”

However, that strategy now appears to have been abandoned, one source told The Daily Beast, saying, “Andrew won’t be trying to reopen the legal settlement. That horse has bolted. But in the longer term, anything that exposes Virginia Giuffre as a liar is a positive for his reputation. He has been quite adamant from day one that he never met her and certainly never had sex with her. Someone capable of lying about being four days from death is quite capable of lying about their interaction with him. Andrew knows he made mistakes—but sleeping with Virginia Giuffre was not one of them.”

[From The Daily Beast]

“But sleeping with Virginia Giuffre was not one of them.” The accusation was that Virginia was trafficked to Andrew when she was a teenager, and the accusation could have been adjudicated in court, except Andrew gave Virginia a ten-figure settlement to end the case before it went to trial. There were also many other accusations that Andrew regularly raped girls and women trafficked to him by Maxwell and Epstein. Andrew’s focus solely on Virginia is being done on purpose, because he’s been caught in multiple lies about the depth of his friendships with Maxwell and Epstein. Anyway, now that Andrew is chiming in, it makes me even more suspicious about what the hell is going on with Virginia.

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