Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III and formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was arrested on February 19 under suspicion of misconduct in public office. Mountbatten-Windsor's ties to Jeffrey Epstein have long been a subject of speculation and scrutiny, and he was stripped of his titles last fall ahead of the release of the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, who had once sued Mountbatten-Windsor for alleged sexual assault.
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.
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