"Innocent men don't pay. They go to trial, Youssef said, leading to Dershowitz accusing him of defamation. Dershowitz was the subject of a defamation lawsuit from the late Virginia Giuffre, one of the victims of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit was dropped in 2022, with Giuffre admitting she may have made a mistake in identifying Dershowitz as an abuser."
"I'm instructing my lawyers to file a lawsuit against him for saying I paid a million dollars. What happened is a woman falsely accused me, Dershowitz said. Though Giuffre never paid him a million dollars, Dershowitz promised Youssef that he would end up forking over the amount. You saying that I paid a million dollars is gonna result in you having to pay me many millions of dollars! he said."
"You know, you're such a liar, Dershowitz said. You know, I thought you were a comedian. I thought at least you'd be funny. You're just a liar. You're somebody who is prepared to make any kind of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel statement. Now I want you to justify the million. I want to you to justify that I paid a million dollars. I want your to justify that. Will you justify it? Will you justify that I paid a million dollars?"
Alan Dershowitz and Bassem Youssef engaged in a heated exchange during which Youssef claimed Dershowitz had settled a lawsuit for nearly a million dollars. Dershowitz accused Youssef of defamation, threatened to instruct lawyers to sue, and warned Youssef could end up paying many millions. The exchange referenced a defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre that was dropped in 2022 after she admitted she may have mistakenly identified Dershowitz as an abuser. Dershowitz called Youssef a liar and accused him of making anti‑Semitic and anti‑Israel statements; a host intervened to allow a response.
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