Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer blames the Queen and claims Prince Andrew made 'terrible mistake'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

The former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein has blamed the late Queen for being behind Prince Andrew settling a civil sexual assault case.

Alan Dershowitz claims Prince Andrew made a "terrible mistake" by settling the case with Virginia Giuffre out of court, instead of giving evidence in a US civil court, as reports the Mirror.The lawyer believes the Duke of York was "pressured by his mother" and would have "won" the case if he'd went to court and was cross-examined.It comes after Giuffre (nee Roberts) claimed Prince Andrew of having sex with her on three occasions, and that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pressured her into it via Ghislaine Maxwell.

Andrew was sued in 2021 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The civil case accused him of "sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress" which she claimed was “severe and lasting”.Dershowitz has now said he feels "sorry" for the banished royal as he added: "If he had fought that case, I believe he would have won, I believe the case would have been dismissed on a variety of grounds, but he didn't want to sit through a deposition, or people around him didn't want to sit through a deposition, so he settled the case."Often you settle cases, not because you're guilty of what you're charged, but because you don't want to admit other things that you've done.“I feel sorry for Prince Andrew for this reason, assuming everything they say about him is correct, the woman who accused him was over the age of consent.”The lawyer has worked for a range of high profile names includingg OJ Simpson, Julian Assange, Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.He claims Giuffre “apparently bragged about it to her friends” and “collected millions and millions