Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, said she was “emitted like a bunch of fruit” to wealthy and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of England, died Friday on her farm in western Australia. She is 41 years old.
Ms. Jivre died of suicide, according to a statement from her family. Ms Giuffre (pronounced Jiff-ree) wrote in a March Instagram post that she said she traveled at nearly 70 mph after she suffered injuries on a school bus after a few days of experiencing kidney failure
In 2019, Mr. Epstein was arrested by federal prosecutors in southern New York and charged with sexual trafficking and conspiracy, and was accused of inviting teenage girls to massage, which became increasingly sexual in nature.
A month after his arrest, a few months later, the day after Ms. Jofrey successfully released documents in a defamation lawsuit against him, Mr. Epstein was found hanging in a cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan. His death at the age of 66 was ruled to be suicide.
In 2009, Ms. Giuffre was identified as Jane Doe 102 at the time.
In 2015, she was the first of Mr. Epstein’s victims to give up anonymity and openly sell her story to the British tabloid.
“Basically, I'm in training to be a friend who shares his interest in young girls,” Ms. Gifrey said in Nigel Cawthorne's book, “Virginia Giuffre: A remarkable life story of Masseuse, who pursues and ends the millionaire sex crimes and ends the millionaire sex crimes of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstestein.
“Ghislaine told me that I had to do what I did for Andrew,” she said.
Ms Giuffre accused the millionaire financier Mr. Epstein of forcefully compelling her to have sex with Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of York. He frankly denied the allegations but waived royal duties in 2019.
In 2021, she sued King Charles II’s younger brother Prince, who sexually assaulted her at Ms. Maxwell’s home in London and at Mr. Epstein’s home in Manhattan and St. James of the Virgin Islands.
A widely published photo shows Prince Andrew's hand wrapping around his waist. He said he had no memory of the occasion.
After Prince Andrew agreed to settle the lawsuit in 2022 by Ms. Giuffrey, he praised her in a statement and promised to “show his regret” by supporting his relationship with Mr. Epstein, “by supporting the evil fight against sexual trafficking and supporting the victims.”
The solution includes an undisclosed amount to be paid to her and to her charity (now known as speaking out, behaving, taking back).
Ms Giuffre said in an interview and the Seal that in 2000, she was recruited for sex rings while working as a locker room waiter at the President Trump Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Her account read a massage therapy manual through her account when she was approached by Ms. Maxwell and invited to be Masseuse for Mr. Epstein's trip. She said the two then modified her to provide sexual services to the rich.
She sued Ms. Maxwell for defamation in 2015; they settled in 2017 with undisclosed payments. Ms. Maxwell's trial and conviction in 2022 are considered legal estimates, believing that Mr. Epstein denied the judicial system and its victims – hanging herself. Ms. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Virginia Louise Roberts was born on August 9, 1983 in Sacramento 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.
She said she fled her hometown after being harassed by a close family since she was 7 years old. She was placed in a foster care home in California, and fled to former Hippie Haven in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, where she lived on the street when she was 14 and spent six months with 65-year-old sex traffickers who were abused by her 65-year-old sex traffickers.
Compared to earning $9 per hour in Mar-A-Lago’s summer work, Mr. Epstein’s proposal to massage $200 (a few times a day) is, Mr. Cathorne wrote, “It’s “Virginia is sure it can’t refuse, and it’s one.”
But her mission is far beyond that. She told the BBC in 2019 that she was “emitted like a pieced-up fruit to Mr. Epstein’s friends and travelled the world on a private jet.
In 2002, when she was 19 years old, she attended an international training massage school in Thailand, became a professional masseur, and was assigned to recruit a young girl to participate in the ring. There, she met Australian martial arts coach Robert Giuffre, and they got married.
The couple has three children, reside in Australia, Florida and Colorado, before settling in Perth in 2020. The full list of survivors is not immediately available.
Ms Giuffre told the Miami Herald in 2019 that her daughter’s birth in 2010 prompted her to speak publicly about her victimization. She also explained why she initially agreed to have Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell use her as a masseur and provide sexual services.
“They looked like good people, so I trusted them, and I told them that until then, my life was very difficult – I was always an out of control, I was sexually abused, physically abused,” Ms. Givray said. “That was the worst thing I told them because now they know how vulnerable I am.”
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