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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamiot with the

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Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines, What happened to the multimillion dollar payment

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Speaker 1: made by Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to Virginia Guffray. The forty

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Speaker 1: one year old Guffrey alleged she was trafficked to the

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Speaker 1: former prince for sex by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 1: She reached an out of court settlement reportedly worth twelve

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Speaker 1: million pounds or almost twenty five million Australian dollars with

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Speaker 1: Mountbatten Windsor in twenty twenty two. The agreement included a

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Speaker 1: sizeable donation to Gufrey's charity. Mount Batten Windsor has always

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Speaker 1: denied wrongdoing and also denied it was him in a

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Speaker 1: photograph with the then teenage Guffray, and the payment was

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Speaker 1: made with no admission of liability. Giuffray received a further

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Speaker 1: four payouts in relation to Epstein's crimes between twenty ten

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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three, but Guffrey didn't leave a will

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Speaker 1: when she died by suicide in Western Australia in April.

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Speaker 1: Her teenage sons are in the midst of a bitter

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Speaker 1: legal dispute over the estate. They say cash held in

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Speaker 1: a family trust, a rural property, two cars and a horse,

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Speaker 1: plus of potential royalties from Gufrey's posthumously published memoir adds

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Speaker 1: up to about four hundred and seventy thousand dollars, but

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Speaker 1: Geufrey's lawyer and her former career say the true value

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Speaker 1: is in the vicinity of about twenty two million dollars,

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Speaker 1: and they say Guffrey verbally instructed them to formalize her

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Speaker 1: will prior to her death and named them as joint executors.

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Speaker 1: But Giufrey's sons say their mother wasn't of sound mind

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Speaker 1: prior to her death and have rejected the validity of

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Speaker 1: the quote informal will. In a separate matter, Guffrey's brother

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Speaker 1: Sky Roberts and half brother Danny Wilson have launched their

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Speaker 1: own legal action. So where did it all go? A

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Speaker 1: portion of the payout made by Mount Button Windsor is

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Speaker 1: held in escrow in the US, but that leaves as

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Speaker 1: much as twelve million dollars unaccounted for. Check out that

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Speaker 1: the morning for a deep dive into the world of

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