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How did Virginia Giuffre’s alleged dates compare across her federal lawsuit, New York court filings, and depositions?
Executive summary
Virginia Giuffre’s public accounts and court filings place her allegations against Prince Andrew primarily in 2001 when she says she was 17; that timing appears in her 2015 court materials and in biographical summaries [1]. Her later New York civil complaint was filed in August 2021 and sought relief under New York’s Child Victims Act; reporting notes the lawsuit and related filings and service attempts in late August 2021 [2] [3]. Available sources do not comprehensively tabulate every specific date Giuffre gave across depositions, her federal filings, and the 2015 New York court documents; the reporting and public documents summarized in these sources emphasize the early-2000s timeframe and the 2021 filing and subsequent settlement activity [1] [2] [4].
1. The baseline claim: “Three encounters in 2001”
When journalists and court summaries recount Giuffre’s allegation against Prince Andrew, they repeatedly point to encounters in 2001 when she says she was 17. Encyclopaedia-style summaries and her own filings made publicly available in the Maxwell litigation describe that she claims to have been trafficked to Prince Andrew “at least three times in 2001” [1]. That 2001 placement is the clearest and most frequently cited temporal anchor across the available reporting [1].
2. The 2015 materials and depositions: evidence made public later
Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell and related discovery produced documents and a manuscript that were later unsealed and entered the public record. Reporting notes that materials from that case — including her manuscript and court filings used in discovery — became public in 2019, and those materials contain her accounts of being trafficked in 2001 [1]. The appellate discussion in Giuffre v. Maxwell also highlights extensive discovery and sealed deposition transcripts from Florida, which courts and lawyers disputed over public access — indicating depositions exist but were the subject of sealing/unsealing fights [5]. Available sources do not provide a day-by-day list of dates she gave in specific depositions in 2015 or in Florida transcripts; they confirm depositions and sealing disputes without reproducing every date [5].
3. The 2021 New York civil complaint and timing of service
Giuffre filed a civil complaint against Prince Andrew in New York in August 2021 under the Child Victims Act. Coverage cites the filing and procedural steps: reporters note the complaint was filed in August 2021 and that Giuffre’s lawyers said documents were left with Metropolitan Police at Royal Lodge on August 27, 2021 — a point Andrew’s lawyers disputed as proper service [2] [3]. The People magazine timeline similarly documents related motion practice in October and November 2021 after the August filing, showing how the litigation’s calendar unfolded [3]. These sources make clear the lawsuit’s modern procedural dates while keeping the alleged underlying acts anchored to 2001 in Giuffre’s pleadings [2] [1].
4. Settlement, dismissal and how timing mattered legally
In early 2022 the parties announced a settlement that led to dismissal of the New York case; news coverage emphasizes the settlement’s role in ending the prospect of a trial and notes that the stipulation dismissed the suit after an agreement in February and related filings in March 2022 [4]. Separately, the 2009 settlement between Epstein and Giuffre — released publicly later — has been litigated for its potential to limit exposure of others; NPR’s reporting explains that parts of the 2009 agreement purport to release “second parties” and that defendants have argued the 2009 arrangement voids claims against them, a contention that became part of the legal disputes over timing and applicability [6]. Thus the chronology of alleged acts [7], litigation filings (2015 discovery documents; 2019 unsealing), and the New York complaint and service attempts (August 2021) all intersect with older settlement documents that defendants invoked [1] [6] [2].
5. Limits of the available record and competing perspectives
The sources available here consistently place the alleged encounters in 2001 and show litigation activity in 2015 and in August 2021, but they do not provide a comprehensive catalog comparing every specific date Giuffre stated in every deposition, affidavit, or filing. The appellate coverage stresses that deposition transcripts and sealing disputes are complex and that courts have disagreed over access to Florida deposition material [5]. Defendants argued the 2009 settlement could bar claims, while Giuffre’s later filings and public statements emphasized the early-2000s dates and the post-2021 suit — so there are competing legal arguments about which documents and dates control the litigation outcomes [6] [2].
6. Bottom line for readers
Available reporting and court summaries show consistency in Giuffre’s central timing — she alleges trafficking and encounters in 2001 when she was 17 — and then a separate set of procedural dates tied to litigation: discovery and depositions in the Maxwell litigation (2015 and later unsealing), a New York filing and service actions in August 2021, and a settlement/dismissal in early 2022 [1] [2] [4]. For a line-by-line comparison of the exact calendar dates given in each deposition and every filing, the public summaries here are incomplete; the appellate and media pieces indicate the detailed deposition transcripts exist but have been subject to sealing disputes [5].