Alan Dershowitz’s defense of Prince Andrew’s settlement with Virginia Giuffre reads less like legal analysis and more like a PR smokescreen dressed up as intellect. Dershowitz, himself a controversial figure tied to the Epstein saga, has claimed that Andrew only settled to avoid embarrassment and spare the monarchy further scandal — not because of guilt. But that explanation collapses under the weight of its own irony. If Andrew truly believed himself innocent, why not fight for exoneration? Why not take the stand and defend his name under oath, instead of wiring millions of pounds to a woman he insists he’s never met? The idea that a royal prince with endless legal resources had no choice but to settle is laughable; what he really had was too much to hide.

Dershowitz’s framing — that Andrew “could have won on legal grounds” — ignores the brutal truth: a deposition would have been a public execution. His credibility had already been obliterated by the Newsnight interview, and a sworn testimony would’ve exposed even more inconsistencies, documents, and witnesses. The settlement wasn’t a tactical misstep; it was a desperate escape hatch. And Dershowitz defending him is rich, considering his own denials of involvement with Epstein’s victims. Both men relied on the same playbook — deny, deflect, and claim persecution by the media — while conveniently sidestepping the question of why their names appear in the same grotesque orbit. In the end, Dershowitz’s “legal strategy” argument feels less like reasoned commentary and more like damage control for a club of men who mistake settlements for salvation.



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