Virginia Giuffre, who alleged Britain’s Prince Andrew of physical abuse and became one of Jeffrey Epstein‘s most powerful critics, passed away by death at the age of 41, her relatives confirmed.
She passed away on her land in Western Australia’s Neergabby.
Virginia passed away last night at her land in Western Australia, according to her family, and it is with absolutely broken souls that we make this announcement. She was a longtime victim of physical abuse and sex trafficking, and she lost her life to death, the statement continued.
Giuffre, who was a native of Florida, was well known as the force behind the effort to prosecute Epstein and his compliciters.
She was one of the first individuals to formally name Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to NBC News, providing crucial information that helped numerous studies, including the one that led to Maxwell’s 2021 faith.
Virginia fought ferociously against sexual trafficking and sexual abuse. She was the light that brought so many individuals to light,” her relatives said. The abuse’s burden is so great in the end that Virginia couldn’t bear to bear it, her relatives said.
Giuffre claimed in a federal complaint against Prince Andrew that when she was 17 years old, Epstein and Maxwell sexually abused her. The duke refuted the claims and settled the case with an undisclosed amount in 2022, without releasing any evidence of guilt.
Giuffre had previously testified in Paris against the later French model Jean-Luc Brunel, who had ties to Epstein and was accused of sexual abuse. After her 2021 evidence, she said,” I wanted Brunel to know that he no longer has the power over me.”
NBC News cited her nephew, Danny Wilson, who claimed Giuffre had been experiencing physical and mental pain. She was actually in real pain because she had cardiac failure. However, I believe the emotional suffering was worse,” he said.
Her agent, Dini von Mueffling, described her as “one of the most remarkable human beings I have ever had the honour to know,” while her attorney, Sigrid McCawley, described her as” a dear companion and an extraordinary champion for another patients.”
Giuffre had previously urged the government to talk in her earlier pertains. She had told NBC’s Dateline,” Take us seriously, we problem.”
Epstein was awaiting trial in a New York prison in 2019 by suicide. In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of five matters of sexual trafficking. In 2022, Brunel even committed suicide in jail.
