Virginia Giuffre, voice in Epstein’s sex traffic scandal, dies at 41

Virginia Giuffre, former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring who said she was “transmitted as a fruit tray” in adolescence of wealthy and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Great Britain, died on Friday in his farm in Western Australia. She was 41 years old.

Ms. Giuffre (pronounced Jiff-Ree) died by suicide, according to a family statement. She wrote in an Instagram post in March that she was far from dying of kidney failure after being injured in a car accident with a school bus which, she said, traveled nearly 70 miles per hour.

In the press release, his family called her “a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sexual traffic” and “the light that has raised so many survivors”.

In 2019, Mr. Epstein was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors in the South New York district for sex trafficking and the conspiracy, accused of having asked teenagers to perform massages that have become more and more sexual.

Barely a month after his apprehension, and one day after the release of the successful defamation documents of Mrs. Giuffre against him, Mr. Epstein was found hanged in his cell in the metropolitan correctional center in the Lower Manhattan. His death, at 66, was judged to suicide.

In 2009, Ms. Giuffre, only identified as Jane Doe 102, continued Mr. Epstein, accusing him and Ghislaine Maxwell, his co-conspirator and the daughter of the British media Magnnat Robert Maxwell, to recruit her to join her sexual trafficker ring when she was a minor under the trend of becoming a professional mass.