The family of Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, is speaking out after news broke she died by suicide at age 41.
“The world lost a fierce warrior,” Amanda Roberts, Virginia’s sister-in-law, told People in an interview published on Saturday, April 26. “She wished for all survivors to get justice. That is who she was.”
She continued: “We lost our sister. Her children lost their mother, and her mother lost her daughter. That’s where we are now. She was one of the most beautiful souls you would ever have the chance to meet. But I think sometimes, that load and that weight becomes too much to carry.”
Giuffre was found unresponsive in her home in Neergabby, Australia, on Thursday, April 24. Emergency aid was rendered, according to media liaison officer for the Western Australia Police Force who spoke to People, but Giuffree was declared dead at the scene. According to authorities, “early indications” show that her “death is not suspicious,” though it is currently being investigated.
According to Amanda, Virginia’s brother, Sky Roberts, was staying with her at the time of her death.
“Giuffre lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family said in a statement shared on Friday, April 25. “Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure. The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily.”
Giuffre’s death domes after she shared in March that she had been hit by a school bus traveling at approximately 70 miles per hour and claimed that doctors said she only has four days to live.
“This year has been the worst start to a new year, but I won’t bore anyone with the details but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology. I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes.”
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She continued, “S*** in one hand and wish in the other & I guarantee it’s still going to be s*** at the end of the day. Thank you all for being the wonderful people of the world and for being a great part of my life. Godbless you all xx Virginia 😔🙏🦋.”
Giuffre previously claimed that Jeffrey Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her to men when she was a teenager. (Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019 and died by suicide later that year at age 66. In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of recruiting young women.)
Giuffre accused Andrew, now 65, of abusing her in 2001. He denied having memories of meeting her in a 2019 interview with BBC.
“I never saw them. I mean you have to understand that his house, I described it more as almost as a railway station if you know what I mean in the sense that there were people coming in and out of that house all the time,” he said at the time. “What they were doing and why they were there I had nothing to do with. So I’m afraid I can’t make any comment on that because I really don’t know.”
Giuffre sued Andrew in August 2021, which the pair settled in February 2022. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money, per court documents obtained by Us Weekly. Andrew permanently resigned from all public roles in 2020.
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