Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre and lawyer Alan Dershowitz settle lawsuits

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre settled a nasty legal battle Tuesday with the financier’s friend, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, the Daily News has learned.

The resolution closed the books on two lawsuits and two ensuing countersuits in tangled litigation between Giuffre, her lawyer David Boies, and Dershowitz, which dragged on for years in Manhattan’s state and federal courts.

No damages were paid, with Giuffre, Dershowitz, and Boies concluding the cases in joint statements obtained by The News.

Giuffre’s 2019 lawsuit against the former Harvard law professor accused him of smearing her name, and calling her a liar when she alleged he sexually assaulted her between 2000 and 2002. She claimed Dershowitz was one of many “powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders” Epstein directed her to sleep with as a teen.

In her settlement statement, Giuffre, 39, said she may have misremembered Dershowitz as one of those men.

“I have long believed that I was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to Alan Dershowitz. However, I was very young at the time, it was a very stressful and traumatic environment,” Giuffre’s statement reads. “I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz.”

Dershowitz, 84, whose countersuit against Giuffre accused her of lying, perjury, and extortion, said he now believes she wasn’t making it up.

“As I have said from the beginning, I never had sex with Ms. Giuffre. I have nevertheless come to believe that at the time she accused me she believed what she said. Ms. Giuffre is to be commended for her courage in now stating publicly that she may have been mistaken about me,” reads Dershowitz’s statement.

“She has suffered much at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and I commend her work combatting the evil of sex trafficking. I also now believe that my allegations that David Boies engaged in an extortion plot and in suborning perjury were mistaken.”

Giuffre’s case against Dershowitz devolved into a proxy war between her lawyer and Dershowitz when the two big-shot attorneys filed dueling lawsuits against one another.

Boies welcomed the case’s resolution, saying, “The time has come to end this litigation and move on.”

Giuffre, who now lives in Australia, first accused Dershowitz of abuse in 2014 in litigation challenging Epstein’s maligned 2008 plea deal signed off on by then-south Florida U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta. Dershowitz was a member of the powerhouse legal team that scored a deal for Epstein, allowing him to plead guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in state court in exchange for a part-time jail sentence lasting just over a year.

Giuffre has also settled lawsuits with Epstein, Prince Andrew, and Ghislaine Maxwell. She said Epstein directed her to have sex with the disgraced British royal when she was 17 and he was 41, during the same years she alleged she slept with Dershowitz.

Epstein killed himself in August 2019 at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, about a month after his arrest on renewed sex trafficking charges. A jury convicted Maxwell of facilitating Epstein’s abuse of teen girls in late 2021. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June.

Dershowitz’s name was among those that turned up on 118 pages of flight logs from Epstein’s private planes during the trial, along with Prince Andrew’s and former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump’s.