One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent sexual abuse victims, Virginia Giuffre, has settled a bitterly fought defamation lawsuit with famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz.

But while Giuffre reportedly won large cash settlements from prior cases involving serial abuser Epstein and his friend Prince Andrew, no money exchanged hands in Giuffre’s settlement with Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor who was once Epstein’s attorney. Each party in the suit issued a statement as part of the settlement. Giuffre said in her statement that she may have misidentified Dershowitz when she said that he had sexually abused her.

In effect, it was vindication for Dershowitz.

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

Dershowitz, a friend of Epstein who would visit the financier’s home and sometimes accompany him around Harvard, where Epstein would eventually be given his own office, for years maintained his innocence and countersued Giuffre after she first sued him for defamation in April 2019.

“I’m very gratified that she admitted what I’ve known all along that she misidentified me,” Dershowitz told the Miami Herald, adding that he wished Giuffre well.

Dershowitz had previously accused Giuffre of lying when she claimed he had abused her, but said in his statement that he had, “nevertheless come to believe that at the time she accused me she believed what she said.”

The prominent defense attorney, perhaps most famous for being part of O.J. Simpson’s legal team in the Hall of Fame running back’s murder proceedings, said that the lawsuit with Giuffre had been particularly challenging.

“I’ve been fighting fights for a long time,” he said. “The fight with Giuffre has been the most frustrating and serious.”

Giuffre has said that she was initially recruited for abuse by Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who first encountered Giuffre around the time of Giuffre’s birthday when Giuffre was working at the spa at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

Giuffre said that after being groomed by Maxwell, she was subsequently abused by Epstein and that the pair trafficked her to the pair’s high-profile friends, including Prince Andrew.