Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide, family says

Yi Wei Wong and Shamim Adam, Bloomberg News on Apr 25, 2025

By clicking submit, I authorize Arcamax and its affiliates to: (1) use, sell, and share my information for marketing purposes, including cross-context behavioral advertising, as described in our Privacy Policy , (2) add to information that I provide with other information like interests inferred from web page views, or data lawfully obtained from data brokers, such as past purchase or location data, or publicly available data, (3) contact me or enable others to contact me by email or other means with offers for different types of goods and services, and (4) retain my information while I am engaging with marketing messages that I receive and for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. I understand I can opt out at any time through an email that I receive, or by clicking here

Virginia Giuffre, who accused financier Jeffrey Epstein and Britain’s Prince Andrew of sexual abuse as a teenager, has died by suicide, her family said. She was 41.

Giuffre died at her farm in Western Australia on Friday night, her family said in a statement.

“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” according to the statement.

Giuffre settled a lawsuit against Epstein before his 2019 death in a Manhattan jail cell while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in New York. She also sued Epstein’s former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015 for defamation. That case also settled.

Giuffre’s allegations that Epstein “lent” her to Prince Andrew for sexual abuse rocked the royal family and led to King Charles’s younger brother being stripped of honorific titles and royal patronages. Prince Andrew settled the suit for an undisclosed sum.