I guess Andrew's lawyers have managed to convince him that he had zero chance of defending himself successfully against the claims of abuse being made against him, and that he should pay whatever Ms Giuffre demands, which is speculated to be in the region of £7-12 million pounds, or pushing $15 million dollars, a relatively small portion of which will be paid to charity.
I mean let's face it - even if Ms Giuffre wasn't 'harmed' that much and is just being opportunistic in adopting the 'victim label' - there are several historic victims involved and we've got a suicide and a sex-trafficking conviction of two of his friends, this was always a no-win situation for Andrew, I'm amazed he's managed to drag this out for this long TBH.
While I'm sure the $10 million or so will go a long way towards compensating Ms Giuffre the 'harm 'she's had to endure, it's not a huge price for the Royal Estate to pay to potentially keep one of their own out of jail.
Ignore the fact that the Queen receives around £80 million a year from the tax payer (it should of course be zero), and let's just assume we'll do the reasonable thing this year and take £12 million off, just to make sure the Royal Estate is paying for Andrew's alleged Paedo-antics privately.
And Don't be fooled by NewsPaper headlines quoting the Queen's net worth at around £4-500 million, which makes it sound like £12 million is around 3% of her wealth, that's just her personal wealth.
No, the figure we need to consider to work out the percentage cost I think is the value of the Crown Estate - which is valued at an eye watering £14 billion.
Let's not forget that the [Crown Estate] owns large chunks of London and huge swathes of rural land in England and Scotland, and probably other parts of the world too I imagine.
If we factor in that, then a £12 million payout is only around 0.05-0.1% of the TNW of the entire crown estate.
All they need do is sell-off a few hectares of land and maybe a house in London and that's Andrew's debt covered.
Let's just hope we reduce payments to the crown this year, to make sure we're not paying for this idiot's misdemeanours!