Virginia Giuffre’s final weeks were rife with grief and sadness, with her family providing more insight into her life in a series of recent interviews.
Before she died by suicide on Thursday, April 24, Giuffre appeared to be in a custody battle with her estranged husband. The two shared three children aged 19, 16, and 15. Her brother, Sky Roberts, told People earlier this month that Giuffre hadn’t had access to her kids in months because of her husband’s restraining order filing. (7 News reported in February that Giuffre violated the rules of the restraining order when she texted her husband.)
“It’s the worst pain in the world to not have access to your children,” he said. “Can you imagine the pain? I will tell you, all the physical (pain) will never amount to the pain of being separated from your children in that way.”
Sky’s wife, Amanda Roberts, alleged to the outlet that Giuffre’s husband was physically abusive. “I think the last incident that they had, she almost died,” Amanda claimed of an incident in January. “And we had to speak that truth with her on the phone. And I think she had acknowledged that if she had one more instance with him, she wasn’t making it out of there.”
Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her as a teen, says she only has a handful of days to live. Giuffre, 41, posted a disturbing photo via Instagram on Sunday, March 30, and explained that she was hit by a school bus traveling at 110 kilometers per hour (approximately 70 […]
The pair’s marital problems allegedly date back to at least August 2023. While on a trip to celebrate one of their children’s birthdays in January, Giuffre’s husband allegedly cracked her sternum and perforated one of her eyes — and then filed a family violence restraining order against her. “He just put his in place first,” Sky told People at the time. “Now she’s on the defense.”
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Giuffre endured significant abuse and mistreatment throughout her life. She was allegedly groomed by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for years and trafficked to powerful men around the world, including Prince Andrew. Andrew denied having any memory of meeting Giuffre in a now notorious November 2019 interview with the BBC. “I never saw them. I mean you have to understand that his house, I described it more as almost as a railway station if you know what I mean in the sense that there were people coming in and out of that house all the time,” he told Emily Maitlis at the time. The pair settled their lawsuit in 2022.
Giuffre addressed the alleged abuse earlier this month, telling People: “I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein who abused and trafficked me. But I was unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently. After my husband’s latest physical assault, I can no longer stay silent.”
Her husband’s lawyer replied “no comment” when People published the allegations at the time.
Weeks earlier, Giuffre made headlines when she posted a photo of her battered body on Instagram and said she had only days to live after being hit by a bus.
“This year has been the worst start to a new year, but I won’t bore anyone with the details but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” she wrote.
“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology,” she continued. “I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes. S**T in one hand and wish in the other & I guarantee it’s still going to be s**t at the end of the day. Thank you all for being the wonderful people of the world and for being a great part of my life. Godbless you all xx Virginia 😔🙏🦋.”
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