Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of trafficking her and Prince Andrew of exploiting her, has died by suicide

Virginia Giuffre, accusing Britain's prince Andrew and other influential sexual men who took advantage of him as a teenager who was trained by financier Jeffrey Epstein, died. He's 41.

Giuffre died of suicide Friday on his farm in Western Australia, his publicist confirmed.

“Virginia is a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She is the light that has raised so many survivors,” her family said in a statement. “Despite all the difficulties he faces in his life, he brightens brightly. He will be forgotten without measuring.”

His publicist Dini Von Mueffling described Giuffre as “deeply loving, smart and funny.”

“He worshiped his children and many animals. He always remembered me more than himself,” Von Mueffling wrote in a statement. “I will miss him beyond the words. It is the privilege of a life that represents him.”

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Born American Giuffre, who lived in Australia for many years, became a advocate for survivors of sex trafficking after appearing as a central figure inEpstein's long collapse.

The rich, properly connected to the New York Money Managerkilled himselfIn August 2019 while waiting for the trial of usFederal Sex Trafficking chargesInvolving twelve -two teenage girls and young women, some of the ages of 14. The charges came 14 years after the police in Palm Beach, Florida, first began to investigate the allegations that he was sexually abusing the underage girls who had been hired to give him a massage.

Giuffre arrived publicly after preliminary investigation ended in an 18-month Florida jail term for Epstein, who madea secret dealTo prevent federal persecution by demanding sin rather than a relatively minor level of state of prostitution uprising. He was released in 2009.

In the subsequent suits, Giuffre said he was a teenager at the teen's spa at President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago-Palm Beach Club-when he approached 2000 of Epstein's girlfriend and eventually employee, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Giuffre says Maxwell has hired him as a masseuse for Epstein, but the couple can effectively make him a sexual servant, forcing him to enjoy not only Epstein but his friends and companions. Giuffre says he will fly around the world for dedication to men including thatPrince AndrewWhile he was 17 and 18.

The men denied it and attacked Giuffre's credentials. He recognized the change of some key details of his account, including the age at which he first met Epstein.

But many parts of his story are supported by documents, testimonies and photos – with one of him and Andrew, with his arm around his bare midriff, in Maxwell's London Townhouse.

Giuffre told one of his suits that he had sex with the king three times: in London during his journey in 2001, in the Epstein New York mansion when he was 17 and the Virgin Islands when he was 18.

“Ghisline said, 'I want you to do for her what you do for Epstein,'” Giuffretold NBC News' “Dateline”in September 2019.

Andrew rejected Giuffre's allegations and said he did not remember he met him.

His refusalexploded on his faceIn an interview at November 2019 BBC. Viewers saw a prince who was curious of the curious rebuttals – such as arguing with Giuffre's sweat dancing by saying he was incapable of sweating – and did not show sympathy to women who said Epstein had abused them.

Within the days of interviewing, AndrewDropped from his duties to the king. She isLiving with GiuffreIn 2022 for an unspecified total, it was advisable to make a “big donation” in his survivors. A statement filed in court that the prince recognized Epstein was a sex trafficker and Giuffre was “an established victim of abuse.”

He also filed, and at least some cases were fixed, suits against Epstein and others connected to him. In one case, heDropped his claimsAgainst a well -known US lawyer, saying that he may have mistakenly recognized him as one of the men Epstein had given him.

Epstein's suicideEnd the hope of his reportersof handling him responsible for the criminal.

Maxwellwas convictedIn 2021 with federal sex trafficking and conspiracy andpenalized in 20 yearsIn prison. He said he was not blamed for Epstein's abuse.

ProsecutorsElected not to include Giuffre's allegationsIn the case of Maxwell, but later Giuffresaid to the courtThat British's sociality “opened the door to hell.”

Giuffre, born Virginia Roberts, told interviewers that her childhood was broken when she was sexually abused as a grade-schooler of a person who her family knew. Eventually he ran away from the house and endured more abuse, he said.

He said he met him today-married in 2002 while conducting massage training in Thailand at the Behest of Epstein. He got married, moved to Australia and had a family.

Giuffre founded a charity charity, soar, in 2015.

Giuffre separated from his wife and children this year. He was charged with violating a violence of family violence in an incident in February, and was scheduled to be in court in June in the city of Perth, where his estranged wife and children lived.

He has not yet entered a plea plea. A belief will bring a potential maximum sentence of two years to prison.

Giuffre was hospitalized after a serious accident, his publicist said last month. He did not answer the questions on time about the date, location, nature or other details of the accident and about the accuracy of an Instagram post appearing derived from the giuffre. The post said he was in a car that was on a school bus and his prognosis was terrible.

He survived his three children, described by the statement as “light of his life.”

Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for Giuffre, said in a statement, “His bravery pushed me to fight harder, and his strength was surprising. The world lost amazing man today. Rest in peace, my sweet angel.”

The AP does not recognize people who say they are victims of sexual attacks unless they are in public.

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