Edited by: TJVNews.com

Now that Ghislaine Maxwell, the former companion to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan for participating in the sex trafficking of underage girls as well as four of the five other charges against her, it has now been reported by Bloomberg News that a confidential 2009 settlement that Virginia Giuffre reached with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be made public on January 3rd.  This settlement is part of a lawsuit in which she claims that the late financier “lent” her out sexually to Prince Andrew.

Giuffre claims she was sexually abused by Epstein as a legal minor, and that he forced her to have sex with his powerful friends.

Sky News reported that Giuffre has accused Andrew of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago when she was under 18 at the London home of Maxwell, and abusing her at two of Epstein’s homes.

The AP reported that Ghislaine Maxwell spent the first half of her life with her father, a rags-to-riches billionaire who looted his companies’ pension funds before dying a mysterious death. She spent the second with another tycoon, Jeffrey Epstein.

Wikipedia reported that she stated in an interview that it was a “wicked” and “really scary time” in her life and that she “couldn’t comprehend how in the highest level of the government powerful people were allowing this to happen. Not just allowing but participating in it”. In court documents from a civil suit that were released from seal in 2019, Giuffre named several others that she claims Epstein and Maxwell instructed her to have sex with, including hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, attorney Alan Dershowitz, politician Bill Richardson, the late MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, lawyer George J. Mitchell, and MC2 modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan said the document will be fully unsealed and available in public court records, according to the Bloomberg report.

Bloomberg also reported that Preska had previously ordered that the document be unsealed unless a party in the two lawsuits or a representative of Epstein’s estate could demonstrate “good cause” for it to remain under seal.

“No such showing has been made,” the judge said in a written order Wednesday.

Dershowitz has denied Giuffre’s claims and has countersued. Both he and Prince Andrew have both argued that the settlement provides a legal release from Giuffre’s claims against them, according to Bloomberg News.

The AP reported that in a court filing on Tuesday that the lawsuit might have to be thrown out because she no longer lives in the U.S., lawyers for the Prince said.

Attorneys Andrew Brettler and Melissa Lerner wrote that they recently discovered Virginia Giuffre has lived in Australia all but two of the last 19 years and cannot claim she’s a resident of Colorado, where she hasn’t lived since at least 2019, as was reported by the AP.

The prince’s lawyers in October asked Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to throw out the lawsuit, saying the prince “never sexually abused or assaulted” Giuffre and they believed she sued Andrew “to achieve another payday at his expense and at the expense of those closest to him.” The AP reported that the lawyers acknowledged that Giuffre may well be a victim of sexual abuse by financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial.

Last month, Kaplan said a trial in Giuffre’s lawsuit against the prince could occur between September and December 2022.

But the prince’s lawyers say the new information about Giuffre’s residence should result in the suspension of any further progress in the lawsuit toward trial, which would include depositions of Andrew and Giuffre, until the issue is settled as to whether her foreign residence disqualifies her from suing Andrew in the U.S.

The AP reported that they asked the judge to order Giuffre to respond to written legal requests about her residency and submit to a two-hour deposition on the issue.

An attorney for Giuffre, Sigrid McCawley, called the request to toss out the case “just another in a series of tired attempts by Prince Andrew to duck and dodge the legal merits of the case Virginia Giuffre has brought against him. All parties in litigation are subject to discovery and Prince Andrew is no exception,” as was reported by the AP.

The prince’s attorneys wrote that Giuffre has an Australian driver’s license and was living in a $1.9 million home in Perth, Western Australia, where she has been raising three children with her husband, who is Australian.

“Even if Ms. Giuffre’s Australian domicile could not be established as early as October 2015, there can be no real dispute that she was permanently living there with an intent to remain there as of 2019 — still two years before she filed this action against Prince Andrew,” the lawyers wrote, according to the AP report.

They said the timing of Giuffre’s registration to vote in Colorado prior to filing the lawsuit against the prince was “suspicious and appears to be a calculated move in an effort to support her specious claim of citizenship in Colorado despite having moved to Australia at least a year (if not four years) earlier.”