Virginia Giuffre, a sufferer of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who mentioned she was “handed round like a platter of fruit” as a teen to wealthy and highly effective predators, together with Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.
Ms. Giuffre (pronounced JIFF-ree) died by suicide, in accordance with a press release by the household. She wrote in an Instagram put up in March that she was days away from dying of renal failure after being injured in an car crash with a college bus that she mentioned was touring at practically 70 miles per hour.
Within the assertion, her household known as her “a fierce warrior within the struggle in opposition to sexual abuse and intercourse trafficking” and “the sunshine that lifted so many survivors.”
In 2019, Mr. Epstein was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors within the Southern District of New York with sex-trafficking and conspiracy, accused of soliciting teenage ladies to carry out massages that grew to become more and more sexual in nature.
Barely a month after he was apprehended, and a day after paperwork had been launched from Ms. Giuffre’s profitable defamation go well with in opposition to him, Mr. Epstein was discovered hanged in his cell within the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in Decrease Manhattan. His demise, at 66, was dominated a suicide.
In 2009, Ms. Giuffre, recognized then solely as Jane Doe 102, sued Mr. Epstein, accusing him and Ghislaine Maxwell, his co-conspirator and the daughter of the disgraced British media magnate Robert Maxwell, of recruiting her to hitch his sex-trafficking ring when she was a minor underneath the guise of turning into knowledgeable masseuse.