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Virginia Giuffre, Fierce Advocate and Epstein Survivor, Dies by Suicide at 41

 

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network and a driving force behind efforts to hold his enablers accountable, has died by suicide at the age of 41. Her death was confirmed by her family, who said she passed away at her farm in Neergabby, Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.

 

Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell at Prince Andrew's London home in a photo released with court documents.

 

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” her family said in a statement to NBC News. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.” They described her as “a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” and added, “She was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

 

 

Raised in Florida, Giuffre endured abuse from a young age and experienced homelessness as a teenager before being lured into Epstein’s circle by Ghislaine Maxwell. She said Maxwell groomed her for sexual exploitation, and she suffered abuse from Epstein between 1999 and 2002. Giuffre also alleged she was trafficked to several of Epstein’s powerful associates, including Prince Andrew and French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel.

 

Giuffre became one of the first women to publicly accuse Epstein, demanding justice long before the full scope of his crimes came to light. Her courage inspired other victims to come forward and played a vital role in triggering multiple investigations, including the successful prosecution of Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on five counts related to sex trafficking.

 

She filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew in 2021, alleging he sexually abused her when she was 17. He denied the allegations but reached an out-of-court settlement the following year for an undisclosed sum. Brunel, who was later charged with rape and sexual harassment, died by suicide in a French jail in 2022. Giuffre had testified against him in a Paris courtroom in 2021. “I wanted Brunel to know that he no longer has the power over me,” she said after her testimony. “I am a grown woman now and I’ve decided to hold him accountable for what he did to me and so many others.”

 

She moved to Australia before Epstein’s arrest in 2019 and lived there with her husband and their three children. Her brother, Danny Wilson, told NBC News that Giuffre "pushed so hard to snuff the evil out" and that despite suffering from renal failure and physical pain, it was her mental pain that was harder to bear. “Her biggest push was, ‘If I don’t do this, nobody’s going to do it,’” he said.

 

Giuffre's voice remained powerful even as she faced immense personal challenges. In a “Dateline” NBC special aired before the arrests of Maxwell and Brunel, she implored authorities to believe survivors. “Take us serious,” she said. “We matter.”

 

Her attorney, Sigrid McCawley, called her a “dear friend and an incredible champion for other victims,” while her representative, Dini von Mueffling, said, “Virginia was one of the most extraordinary human beings I have ever had the honor to know.” McCawley added, “Her courage pushed me to fight harder, and her strength was awe-inspiring.”

 

Giuffre’s death marks a tragic end to a life spent fighting for justice—not only for herself, but for countless others who endured abuse. Though her own battle has ended, the legacy of her bravery continues to echo in courtrooms and survivor communities around the world.

 

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I did not find her claims credible. Not that I doubt that she may have provided sexual favours, I  do doubt that she was compelled or forced to do so. I think she was a party girl who grew bitter and resentful, once she realized that she was not the special person her sexual partners told her she was.  Getting old and plump sucks.  As recent events  show, she was given to embellished and inflated stories. Idiots like Andrew the self entitled lazy one were easily taken advantage of in large part because they were idiots. ''

 

42 minutes ago, AnnaBanana said:

Why should she?

Livin' it up at Club Fed, such a lovely place, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

She is not in a Club Fed.  She is currently in the FCI Tallahassee facility.  She is in the wing for people who  have good behavior and it is a dorm. set up which means rows of metal bunk beds with little privacy.  The prison  does not have a good   reputation. The local newspaper, The Tallahassee Democrat reported a year ago that  A summer inspection of the women's prison by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General revealed "alarming" conditions, including inmates living with "black substances" on walls and ceilings.  "We found that some inmates in the female prison lived in housing units in which water frequently leaked from ceilings and windows on or near their living spaces," the report says. "We also observed poor conditions inside communal inmate bathrooms." Inspectors also said there were "serious issues" with the food service that posed a risk to inmates' health. Rotten food was consistently served and stored in areas with rat droppings and insect infestation.

 

21 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Another suspicious suicide?  

 

Another idiotic suggestion of a  fake conspiracy? The deceased had already been caught lying after her vehicle crash when she claimed that she was dying and had kidney failure.

 

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3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

If she had serious mental issues, wouldn't that cast doubt on her recent testimony for incidents that happened more than 20 years in her past? 

The underage sex caused the mental issues 

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8 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

The underage sex caused the mental issues 

Underage in some states of the USA, but many women in the rest of the world seem to manage legal sex (aged 15-16) in many countries without suffering major mental issues.

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3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Underage in some states of the USA, but many women in the rest of the world seem to manage legal sex (aged 15-16) in many countries without suffering major mental issues.

Were they shipped off to an island for sex with celebs?

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7 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Were they shipped off to an island for sex with celebs?

I'd certainly have been up for that when I was 17.

But all I managed to get was a bunch of 19yo nobodies.

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1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

 

I think it was her knowledge that she was a total fraud and ruined all these men's lives with her abject lies, for profit. It's hard to live with something like this.

So Epstein island wasnt dodgy?

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3 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Oh dear... another one who's 'suicided.'

 

Let's see.

 

Epstein... Brunel... Kate Spade... Anthony Bourdain... Chris Cornell.... Kurt Cobain.... now Virginia.

 

Hitler

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25 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

The underage sex caused the mental issues 

That is unlikely.  UAS is not linked to

" mental issues". Why on earth would they? Underage is only relative to the state/country/culture..No. I'm inclined to agree with poster who saw her as teenage party animal who got fat and bitter and turned on her ex lovers. I NEVER bought into the "me too" movement. No male should have.

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27 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Were they shipped off to an island for sex with celebs?

Yes but so what. They were lucky. The others didn't make a fuss about it!

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"Giuffre first accused Dershowitz of abuse in 2014, when she submitted an affidavit as part of a federal lawsuit two Epstein victims filed against the government.

“I had sexual intercourse with Dershowitz at least six times,” that affidavit stated, adding that these alleged encounters occurred at Epstein’s homes around the country and U.S. Virgin Islands. “The first time was when I was about 16, early on in my servitude to Epstein, and it continued until I was 19.”

 

“I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz,” Giuffre added.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-virginia-giuffre-says-dershowitz-abuse-claim-may-have-been-mistake/

 

So she lied about having sex with Dershowitz 6 times, and then claimed "Oh ooops, I made a mistake", because she had no chance to win that court case.

 

How do you have sex with someone 6 times and then get off saying you did not know who he was? Are you kidding me?

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11 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

How do you have sex with someone 6 times and then get off saying you did not know who he was? Are you kidding me?

2014 would have been nearly 20 years after the event.

And I bet she'd been through a lot of guys in that 20 years, and their faces would have been a total blur.

Obviously she would have remembered banging a prince or a president or the pope, but anyone else ...... nah.

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1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

2014 would have been nearly 20 years after the event.

And I bet she'd been through a lot of guys in that 20 years, and their faces would have been a total blur.

Obviously she would have remembered banging a prince or a president, but anyone else ...... nah.

 

Again, makes no sense. If she didn't remember him, why would she start a legal action against Dershowitz?

 

She was out for cash, that's why, and she had lied for years, and got away with it and made millions of profit. But the Dershowitz case was a bridge too far and after claiming she had sex with him 6 times, she had to humiliatingly get out of her web of lies by claiming "Oh I just made a mistake, oops". She made no mistake, she falsely accused people of rape. Because she got paid millions for it by the US legal system which used Epstein's estate to compensate the "victims".

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10 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

That makes absolutely no sense, clean up what evidence? Viirginia spent 11 years providing witness statements, accusing celebrities, princes and the pope of having raped her. Only it was not true. She was NEVER raped. She WILLINGLY had sex with Epstein for money. And then with others for money. When she realised she could cash in, she made millions by peddling her lies that she was raped.

 

What evidence to clean up? She already spent 11 years spewing all her "evidence" most of it was made up and a tissue of lies anyway.

They always keep a few names back (and maybe a stained dress) for evidence.

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