Virginia Giuffre, the girl who accused late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, died by suicide, her household introduced on Friday.
“It’s with completely damaged hearts that we announce that Virginia handed away final night time at her farm in Western Australia. She misplaced her life to suicide, after being a lifelong sufferer of sexual abuse and intercourse trafficking,” her household’s assertion stated.
“The sunshine of her life have been her youngsters Christian, Noah, and Emily. It was when she held her new child daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she needed to struggle again towards those that had abused her and so many others,” the assertion continued.
Giuffre and Epstein settled a civil lawsuit for $500,000 in 2009.
Virginia Roberts holds a photograph of herself at age 16, when she says Palm Seashore multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein started abusing her sexually. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs)
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Giuffre had alleged that Epstein trafficked her to Prince Andrew, who she claimed took benefit of and sexually abused her when she was below 18.
Prince Andrew had repeatedly denied the allegation and attacked Giuffre’s credibility and motives.
Giuffre filed a lawsuit towards Prince Andrew in 2021, accusing the embattled royal of sexually abusing her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and elsewhere in 2001, when she was below the age of 18, in line with the criticism.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York attends the standard Easter Sunday Mattins Service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Fort on April 20, 2025 in Windsor, England.
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Prince Andrew agreed to settle the sexual assault lawsuit from Giuffre in 2022, with out admitting to wrongdoing.
In 2015, Giuffre had additionally filed a civil lawsuit centered on allegations that Epstein’s one-time paramour, Ghislaine Maxwell, facilitated the sexual abuse of Giuffre and others.
A whole bunch of courtroom filings from that case were unsealed throughout a four-year interval starting in 2019.
The morning after the primary set of paperwork was unsealed by a federal appeals courtroom in 2019, Epstein died by hanging in his jail cell in Manhattan, the place he was being held pending trial on prices of kid intercourse trafficking and conspiracy. The New York Medical Examiner dominated the dying a suicide and a Justice Division Inspector Common report concurred with that dedication.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Avenue Live performance Collection Benefitting Wall Avenue Rising on March 15, 2005 in New York Metropolis.
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Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on 5 of six counts associated to the abuse and trafficking of underage women and was sentenced to a 20-year jail time period.
Giuffre was not known as as a witness throughout Maxwell’s trial, and Maxwell has constantly denied all wrongdoing.
Maxwell appealed her conviction to the Supreme Court docket earlier this month, however the Supreme Court docket has not but taken any motion.
ABC Information’ Santina Leuci contributed to this report.
