Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein's Sex Trafficking Ring, said she was “delivered like a platter of fruit” as a teenager of rich and powerful predators, including the British prince. She was 41 years old.
According to a family statement, Jufre (pronounced “Gifrey”) died of suicide. She wrote in an Instagram post in March that she was several days away from dying of kidney failure after being injured in a car crash on a school bus that she said was traveling near 70 mph.
In a statement, her family called her “a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking” and “a light that lifted so many survivors.”
In 2019, Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, and accused of recommending a teenage girl to have a natural, sexually sexualized massage.
Just a month after his arrest, the day after the documents were released from Ms Giuffre's honor loss lawsuit, it was discovered that Epstein had been hanged by his cells at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. His death, 66, was ruled as a suicide.
In 2009, Giuffre identified only as Jane Doo 102, denounced Mr. Epstein and his co-conspirator, his co-conspirator, Githraine Maxwell, daughter of disgraceful British media massive Robert Maxwell, and recruited her to join his sex traffic ring when she became a minor under professional Matthews.
In 2015, she was the first of Mr. Epstein's victims, abandoned her anonymity, published it, and sold her story to the British tabloid on Sunday.
“Essentially, I was trained to become a prostitute for his friends who shared his interest in young girls,” was quoted as saying in Nigel Cowthorne's 2022 book, Virginia Giuffre: The extraordinary life story of Masseys who pursued and ended the sexual crimes of billionaire Magislaine Maxwell.”
“Gislaine told me I had to do what I did for Jeffrey for Andrew,” she said.
Juhull accused billionaire financier Epstein and British socialite Maxwell of forcing him to have sex with Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of York. He completely denied the charges, but in 2019 he abandoned his royal duties.
In 2021, she sued the prince, the younger brother of King Charles III of England, claiming that she sexually assaulted her at Maxwell's house in London, Epstein's house in Manhattan, Virgin Islands, and Little St. James.
The widely publicized photo shows Prince Andrew holding his hands over his waist. He said he had no recollection of the opportunity.
After Prince Andrew agreed to settle Giuffre's lawsuit in 2022, he praised her in a statement of his remarks, pledging to “show regret” about his relationship with Epstein “by supporting the fight against the evil of sex trafficking and supporting the victims.”
The settlement included private amounts paid to her and her charity.
In an interview and deposition, Giuffre said she was hired by the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. She said the two groomed her to provide sexual services for wealthy men.
Giuffle sued Maxwell in 2015 for losing her reputation for calling her a liar. They settled on private amounts in 2017. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other numbers in 2021. The verdict was seen as a legal calculation that Epstein hanged himself to deny the justice system and his victims. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Virginia Louise Roberts was born in Sacramento on August 9, 1983 to Sky and Lynn Roberts. When she was four years old, the family moved to Palm Beach County, and her father was the maintenance manager at Mar-A-Lago.
She said she ran away from home after being abused by a close family friend since she was seven years old. She was placed in foster care. I got on board with my aunt in California. He fled to the Hate Ashbury area of San Francisco, a former hippy haven. She lived on the streets when she was 14 years old. She spent six months with a 65-year-old sex trafficker and abused her.
Epstein's offer to earn $200 a massage several times a day compared to living on the streets for $9 an hour from a summer job at Mar-a-Lago, wrote that “Virginia decided that she couldn't refuse.”
However, her duties were far beyond those duties, she told the BBC in 2019. She said she ferries around the world on a private jet, saying that Epstein's friend “was handed it like a platter of fruit.”
In 2002, when she was 19 years old, Juhule signed up for an international training massage school in Thailand and became a professional masseur. There she met Robert Giuffre, an Australian martial arts instructor, and they got married.
The couple had three children, Christian, Noah and Emily, and lived in Australia, Florida and Colorado before settling in Perth in 2020. They are then separated. Full information about the survivors was not immediately available.
Giuffle told the Miami Herald in 2019 that the birth of her daughter in 2010 encouraged her to speak publicly about her sacrifice. She explained why she originally worked as a masseuse for Mr. Epstein and Maxwell and agreed to provide sexual services.
“They seemed like lovely people,” she said, “I trusted them and said I had really struggled with my life up until then – I was out of control, I was sexually abused, I was physically abused.
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Hank Sanders contributed the report.
