Virginia Giuffre, the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking victim who accused Prince Andrew, has been laid to rest in a private funeral.
The mom-of-three, who was pictured in an infamous photograph with the prince and Ghislaine Maxwell, was found dead at her home in Western Australia last month at age 41.
She is believed to have taken her own life on a farm she shared with her husband in Neergabby, around 50 miles north of Perth.Cops were called to her family’s home on April 25 just before 10 p.m. after she was found unresponsive and she died at the scene.
Giuffre, who was trafficked as a minor by Epstein and Maxwell, was cremated this week at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in Padbury, The West Australian reported.
The funeral was not publicly advertised and was a small, private affair, the outlet reported.
Her death came just weeks after she claimed she had just “four days to live” in a cryptic social media post.
She said she had been involved in a major crash with a school bus near her home, although police later dismissed this as a minor incident.
Police gave said Giuffre’s death was not suspicious. They are currently compiling a full report for the coroner, the Sun reported.
When she died, Giuffre was facing a charge of breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by her estranged husband, Robert Giuffre.
That charge was discontinued earlier this month, after a court was told the allegation related to claims she sent her husband several text messages.
The couple moved to Perth in 2020 and bought a $1.2 million, six-bedroom, four bathroom oceanfront property.
Giuffre leaves behind three children — Christian, Emily and Noah.
Giuffre was inspired to “fight back against those who had abused her and so many others” when she held her newborn daughter for the first time, her family said in a statement.
“She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
Giuffre became the most prominent of Epstein’s victims after she filed a lawsuit in a New York court in 2015 alleging that the billionaire Wall Street financier and his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, had recruited her as a teenager.
She claimed she was kept as a “sex slave” by the pair after being groomed while she was working at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
Giuffre alleged she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” to Epstein’s rich and powerful friends in a 2019 interview with the BBC.
One of those friends, she claimed, was Prince Andrew, the favorite son of Queen Elizabeth II.
She alleged that she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17, and that the encounters took place in London, the US, and on Epstein’s private island, Little St. James.
The prince — who has always strenuously denied the allegations against him — nevertheless agreed to a civil sexual abuse lawsuit settlement with Giuffre for an estimated $16.3 million.
Andrew and Giuffre were pictured together arm-in-arm in an infamous photo reportedly taken at Maxwell’s London home, although the prince claimed he had no recollection of meeting her in a 2019 interview with the BBC.
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