BREAKING NEWS
Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, died by suicide, her family announced on Friday.
BREAKING: Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, died by suicide, her family announced on Friday.
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” her family’s statement said. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, died by suicide, her family announced on Friday.
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family’s statement said.
“The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily. It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others,” the statement continued.
Giuffre and Epstein settled a civil lawsuit for $500,000 in 2009.
Giuffre had alleged that Epstein trafficked her to Prince Andrew, who she claimed took advantage of and sexually abused her when she was under 18.
Prince Andrew had repeatedly denied the allegation and attacked Giuffre’s credibility and motives.
Giuffre filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew in 2021, accusing the embattled royal of sexually abusing her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and elsewhere in 2001, when she was under the age of 18, according to the complaint.
Prince Andrew agreed to settle the sexual assault lawsuit from Giuffre in 2022, without admitting to wrongdoing.
In 2015, Giuffre had also filed a civil lawsuit centered on allegations that Epstein’s one-time paramour, Ghislaine Maxwell, facilitated the sexual abuse of Giuffre and others.
Hundreds of court filings from that case were unsealed during a four-year period beginning in 2019.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/virginia-giuffre-accuser-jeffrey-epstein-prince-andrew-dies/story?id=121181622
