Virginia Giuffre, the woman who settled a sexual assault lawsuit with Prince Andrew and accused the late Jeffrey Epstein of teen sex abuse, has died. She was 41.
Giuffre committed suicide on April 25, her publicist, Dini von Mueffling, confirmed.
“This might be the saddest day of my life,” Giuffre’s attorney Brad Edwards told NTD, a sister media of The Epoch Times, in an email.
Her publicist said Giuffre died at her farm in Western Australia.
“Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,” von Mueffling said in a statement. “She adored her children and many animals. She was always more concerned with me than with herself. I will miss her beyond words. It was the privilege of a lifetime to represent her.”
Giuffre was among the most prominent Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse accusers. She leaves behind three children whom she had with her husband, Robert Giuffre.
Giuffre accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was 17 years old with the alleged help of the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, 62, who was found guilty of assisting Epstein in sexually abusing multiple girls.
A civil lawsuit Giuffre filed against Prince Andrew in 2021 was confidentially settled with the prince donating money to Giuffre’s charity.
Giuffre’s last post on Instagram is dated March 30, in which she announced that she had gone into kidney renal failure after an accident with a bus and that she had been given four days to live.
The entry includes a photo in which Giuffre is lying on her side in what appears to be a hospital bed, with bruises visible on her face.
“My beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them and they’re being poisoned with lies,” she wrote. “I miss them so very much. I have been through hell and back in my 41 years but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else. Hurt me, abuse me but don’t take my babies. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens.”
