Royal commentator Dickie Arbiter slammed Alan Dershowitz’s feedback as “disrespectful” as he stated the American “ought to put up and shut up”.
Mr Dershowitz, who was the defence lawyer and long-time affiliate of convicted paedophile Epstein, sparked fury yesterday when he stated the choice by Andrew, 63, to settle his lawsuit with Ms Giuffre in 2022 was a “horrible mistake”.
The 85-year-old stated the Duke of York “would have received” if he had gone to court docket – and he believed the royal was “pressured” by his mom to settle.
Mr Arbiter, 83, hit again, saying: “In case you went out and spoke to the general public and stated, ‘Look, this man from the States has dragged the Queen into this 15, 16 months after she has died, is it the best factor to do?
“The reply is clearly not. It’s disrespectful.”
Ms Giuffre had sued Prince Andrew in 2021, claiming she was sexually assaulted by him on three events when she was 17.
Andrew has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
The Duke, seen yesterday driving his Vary Rover from his Windsor residence, Royal Lodge, is known to have wished to struggle the civil case filed in New York.
Nonetheless, he was below intense stress to strike a deal and never overshadow the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Months after Ms Giuffre sued him, Andrew paid a reported £12million to settle the case, with no admission of legal responsibility.
However Mr Dershowitz stated: “I believe he made a horrible mistake. I believe he was pressured by his mom to make that mistake.
“If he had fought that case, I imagine he would have received.
“I imagine the case would have been dismissed on quite a lot of grounds, however he didn’t wish to sit by way of a deposition, or individuals round him didn’t wish to sit by way of a deposition, so he settled the case.”
Mr Dershowitz was himself named 137 instances in court docket paperwork just lately unsealed by a New York choose.
They shaped a part of a 2015 lawsuit filed by Epstein trafficking sufferer Mrs Giuffre, now 40, in opposition to his girlfriend, the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell, 62, is presently in jail within the US for procuring women for the billionaire financier to abuse.
Epstein, 66, was discovered lifeless in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking costs.
His loss of life was dominated a suicide.
In Could 2020, Mrs Giuffre additionally accused Mr Dershowitz of intercourse abuse.
She claimed she had supplied the lawyer with sexual favours at the very least six instances. Mrs Giuffre additionally stated she was simply 16 on the primary event.
Mr Dershowitz strongly denied her accusations and Mrs Giuffre sued him for defamation.
However in 2022, she dropped her sexual abuse declare in opposition to Mr Dershowitz, admitting she “might have made a mistake” in accusing him of molesting her.