Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew in Epstein sex scandal, dead at 41
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Virginia Giuffre, who took Prince Andrew to court over sexual abuse allegations, died Friday at her home in Australia. Giuffre's publicist recalled her as “loving, wise and funny.”
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew of sexual abuse and was one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein, has died. She was 41.
Her publicist and family confirmed she died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia on Friday.
“Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors,” her family said in a statement. “Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.”
Her publicist Dini von Mueffling described Giuffre as “deeply loving, wise and funny.”
“She adored her children and many animals. She was always more concerned with me than with herself,” von Mueffling wrote in a statement. “I will miss her beyond words. It was the privilege of a lifetime to represent her.”
The American-born Giuffre, who lived in Australia for years, became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure in Epstein’s prolonged downfall.
Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in 2021, accusing him of forcing her to have sex at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime Epstein associate, when she was 17.
She also accused Andrew of abusing her at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan, and on one of Epstein’s private islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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