Well I would have thought that there were two obvious courses open to him

1 - pay her off. This is a civil claim for damages, not crime, and all she wanted was money, at least to start with. Find out how much she wants and pay it. Do it very early before she gets any noise around the case or any momentum. Deny liability and say you're doing it only for nuisance value. Sign her up to a savage NDA. In any subsequent interview you can say "It was a bogus claim but I wasn't going to allow the royal family's name to be dragged through the mud and my US lawyers advised me that this was the sensible thing to do".

2 - tell the truth. I always tell my clients that the truth is the best story. The truth is almost certainly that he shagged her, that she seemed totally up for it, that he had no idea at all that she was "trafficked", that he did suspect that she was being paid by Epstein to shag him but so what, people get paid to shag all the time, she gave every appearance of being very happy with the arrangements, he thought she was of age (which she was in the UK and I think the US too, though haven't checked their age of consent), he wasn't married or in a serious relationship so he wasn't being unfaithful, just recreational sex with a seemingly willing partner.

Posted By: Old Git, Jan 13, 18:04:22