{"id":21109,"date":"2025-04-26T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/virginia-giuffre-voice-in-epstein-sex-trafficking-scandal-dies-at-41-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:12:17","slug":"virginia-giuffre-voice-in-epstein-sex-trafficking-scandal-dies-at-41-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/virginia-giuffre-voice-in-epstein-sex-trafficking-scandal-dies-at-41-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/nyregion\/jeffrey-epstein-suicide.html\" title=\"\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>\u2019s sex-trafficking ring who said she was \u201cpassed around like a platter of fruit\u201d as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Giuffre (pronounced JIFF-ree) died by suicide, according to a statement by the family. She wrote in an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/virginiarobertsrising11\/p\/DH0vvDKzDvu\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> post in March that she was days away from dying of renal failure after being injured in an automobile crash with a school bus that she said was traveling at nearly 70 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2019, Mr. Epstein was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York with sex-trafficking and conspiracy, accused of soliciting teenage girls to perform massages that became increasingly sexual in nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Barely a month after he was apprehended, and a day after documents were released from Ms. Giuffre\u2019s successful defamation suit against him, Mr. Epstein was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/nyregion\/jeffrey-epstein-suicide.html\" title=\"\">found hanged in his cell<\/a> in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan. His death, at 66, was ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2009, Ms. Giuffre, identified then only as Jane Doe 102, sued Mr. Epstein, accusing him and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/28\/nyregion\/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-epstein.html\" title=\"\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, his co-conspirator and the daughter of the disgraced British media magnate Robert Maxwell, of recruiting her to join his sex-trafficking ring when she was a minor under the guise of becoming a professional masseuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2015, she was the first of Mr. Epstein\u2019s victims to give up her anonymity and go public, selling her story to the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBasically, I was training to be a prostitute for him and his friends who shared his interest in young girls,\u201d Ms. Giuffre was quoted as saying in Nigel Cawthorne\u2019s 2022 book, \u201cVirginia Giuffre: The Extraordinary Life Story of the Masseuse Who Pursued and Ended the Sex Crimes of Millionaires Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGhislaine told me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Giuffre accused Mr. Epstein, a multimillionaire financier, and Ms. Maxwell, a British socialite, of forcing her to have sex with Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of York. He flatly denied the accusations, but he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/20\/world\/europe\/prince-andrew-quits-epstein.html\" title=\"\">relinquished<\/a> his royal duties in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2021, she sued the prince, who is the younger brother of King Charles III of England, contending that he had sexually assaulted her at Ms. Maxwell\u2019s home in London and at Mr. Epstein\u2019s homes in Manhattan and Little St. James, in the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A widely published photograph showed Prince Andrew with his hand around her waist. He said he had no memory of the occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Prince Andrew agreed to settle the suit by Ms. Giuffre in 2022, he praised her in a statement for speaking out and pledged to \u201cdemonstrate his regret\u201d for his association with Mr. Epstein \u201cby supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The settlement included an undisclosed sum to be paid to her and to her charity, now called Speak Out, Act, Reclaim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In interviews and depositions, Ms. Giuffre said she was recruited to the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump\u2019s resort in Palm Beach, Fla. By her account, she was reading a massage therapy manual when she was approached by Ms. Maxwell and invited to become Mr. Epstein\u2019s traveling masseuse. She said the two of them then groomed her to perform sexual services for wealthy men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Giuffre sued Ms. Maxwell for defamation in 2015 for calling her a liar; they settled for an undisclosed sum in 2017. Ms. Maxwell was convicted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/28\/nyregion\/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-epstein.html\" title=\"\">in 2021<\/a> of sex trafficking and other counts. The verdict was viewed as the legal reckoning that Mr. Epstein had denied the judicial system, and his victims, by hanging himself. Ms. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Virginia Louise Roberts was born on Aug. 9, 1983, in Sacramento to Sky and Lynn Roberts. When she was 4, the family moved to Palm Beach County, where her father was a maintenance manager at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She said she ran away from home after having been molested by a close family friend since she was 7. She was placed in foster homes; boarded with an aunt in California; fled to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, the former hippie haven; lived on the streets when she was 14; and spent six months with a 65-year-old sex trafficker, who abused her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Compared with living on the streets and earning $9 an hour for her summer job at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Epstein\u2019s offer to make $200 a massage several times a day was, Mr. Cawthorne wrote, one that \u201cVirginia had determined for herself she could not refuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But her mandate went well beyond those duties, she told the BBC in 2019: She said that she was \u201cpassed around like a platter of fruit\u201d to Mr. Epstein\u2019s friends and ferried around the world on private jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2002, when she was 19, Ms. Giuffre enrolled in the International Training Massage School in Thailand to become a professional masseuse. There she met Robert Giuffre, an Australian martial arts instructor, and they married.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The couple had three children and lived in Australia, Florida and Colorado before settling in Perth in 2020. They have since separated. Information on her survivors was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Giuffre told The Miami Herald in 2019 that the birth of her daughter in 2010 prompted her to speak publicly about her victimization. She explained why she had originally agreed to let Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell groom her as a masseuse and to provide sexual services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey seemed like nice people,\u201d she said, \u201cso I trusted them, and I told them I\u2019d had a really hard time in my life up until then \u2014 I\u2019d been a runaway, I\u2019d been sexually abused, physically abused. That was the worst thing I could have told them, because now they knew how vulnerable I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources for a list of additional resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Hank Sanders<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/26\/us\/virginia-giuffre-dead.html\">Source link 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