High-profile Jeffrey Epstein survivor farewelled at Perth funeral

Perth Now

25-05-2025

Virginia Giuffre — a high-profile survivor of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein who alleged she was sex trafficked to Prince Andrew — has been farewelled by her family in Perth.
Ms Giuffre, 41, is believed to have taken her own life at her farm in Neergabby, about 80km north of Perth, last month.
The West Australian understands Ms Giuffre was cremated in recent days at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in Padbury.
Ms Giuffre's death attracted worldwide headlines, but it is understood she was farewelled in private, with no funeral being publicly advertised.
WA Police confirmed at the weekend that officers have concluded her death is not being treated as suspicious. Major crime detectives are in the process of preparing a report to give to the coroner.
Police were called to Ms Giuffre's property about 9.50pm on April 25 after she was found unresponsive. There was nothing that could be done to save her, and she was declared dead at the scene.
Her death came less than a month after she posted to social media that she had just 'four days to live' after a crash with a school bus near her home, which police later dismissed as a minor incident.
Ms Giuffre shot to prominence in 2015 after filing a lawsuit in a New York court against Epstein's longtime companion and confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell, alleging the pair kept her as a 'sex slave' for the rich and powerful.
She said she was recruited by Maxwell when she was 16 or 17 and working at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's club in Palm Beach.
Ms Giuffre told the BBC in 2019 she was 'passed around like a platter of fruit' to Epstein's friends, flown around the world on private jets.
Prince Andrew was among those powerful friends, and she claimed she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17. He strongly denies the allegations.
A now-infamous photograph shows him arm-in-arm with Ms Giuffre yet in a television interview with the BBC, he said he had no memory of meeting her.
When she died, Ms Giuffre was facing a charge of breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by her estranged husband, Robert Giuffre.
The charge was discontinued earlier this month, with a court told the allegation related to claims she sent Mr Giuffre several text messages. Prince Andrew pictured with Virginia and Ghislaine Maxwell, right, in 2001. Credit: unknown / twitter
The former couple moved to Perth from Cairns in 2020, buying a $1.9m six-bedroom, four-bathroom ocean-front property in Ocean Reef with her husband, Robert.
Ms Giuffre left behind three children — Christian, Noah and Emily.
Her family said holding her newborn daughter had inspired her to 'fight back against those who had abused her and so many others'.
'She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit,' they said. 'In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.'
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