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What happened to Virginia Giuffre’s millions? · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamiot with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines, What happened to the multimillion dollar payment
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  Speaker 1: made by Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to Virginia Guffray. The forty
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  Speaker 1: one year old Guffrey alleged she was trafficked to the
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  Speaker 1: former prince for sex by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: She reached an out of court settlement reportedly worth twelve
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  Speaker 1: million pounds or almost twenty five million Australian dollars with
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  Speaker 1: Mountbatten Windsor in twenty twenty two. The agreement included a
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  Speaker 1: sizeable donation to Gufrey's charity. Mount Batten Windsor has always
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  Speaker 1: denied wrongdoing and also denied it was him in a
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  Speaker 1: photograph with the then teenage Guffray, and the payment was
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  Speaker 1: made with no admission of liability. Giuffray received a further
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  Speaker 1: four payouts in relation to Epstein's crimes between twenty ten
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  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three, but Guffrey didn't leave a will
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  Speaker 1: when she died by suicide in Western Australia in April.
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  Speaker 1: Her teenage sons are in the midst of a bitter
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  Speaker 1: legal dispute over the estate. They say cash held in
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  Speaker 1: a family trust, a rural property, two cars and a horse,
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  Speaker 1: plus of potential royalties from Gufrey's posthumously published memoir adds
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  Speaker 1: up to about four hundred and seventy thousand dollars, but
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  Speaker 1: Geufrey's lawyer and her former career say the true value
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  Speaker 1: is in the vicinity of about twenty two million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and they say Guffrey verbally instructed them to formalize her
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  Speaker 1: will prior to her death and named them as joint executors.
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  Speaker 1: But Giufrey's sons say their mother wasn't of sound mind
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  Speaker 1: prior to her death and have rejected the validity of
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  Speaker 1: the quote informal will. In a separate matter, Guffrey's brother
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  Speaker 1: Sky Roberts and half brother Danny Wilson have launched their
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  Speaker 1: own legal action. So where did it all go? A
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  Speaker 1: portion of the payout made by Mount Button Windsor is
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  Speaker 1: held in escrow in the US, but that leaves as
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  Speaker 1: much as twelve million dollars unaccounted for. Check out that
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