(This story has been updated with new information.)
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most famous Jeffrey Epstein victims to speak out, says she is within four days of dying after her car was hit by a bus in Australia.
Giuffre was working in the spa at Mar-a-Lago at age 15 when Ghislaine Maxwell approached her about doing massages for Epstein. Her father was the maintenance manager at the property. Her family had moved to Loxhatchee from Californina when she was 4. She attended Royal Palm Beach High School.
Giuffre said Epstein forced her to sleep with Prince Andrew when she was 17. He denied it, but they settled a lawsuit she filed against him for an undisclosed amount.
Virginia Giuffre says she has renal failure
Giuffre’s spokesperson Dini von Mueffling told Forbes she is “receiving medical care in the hospital” and “greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.”
Giuffre said on Instagram that she had renal failure and was being transferred to a specialty hospital.
“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time,” she said.
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Police in western Australia confirmed a “minor crash” between a bus and a car involving a 71-year-old woman at the wheel and a 41-year-old woman in the passensger seat of the car, People magazine reported.
They couldn’t yet say whether the younger woman was Giuffre. No injuries were reported in the crash.
Giuffre met Maxwell in 2000 and spent about two years being trafficked to many famous men, she has said. She managed to escape by convincing Maxwell and Epstein to send her to massage training in Thailand. There she met martial arts instructor Robert Giuffre and then moved to Australia, where she has lived ever since.
Epstein was arrested in 2006 after Palm Beach police found nearly two dozen girls and young women who said they’d been sexually abused by him. Then-Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer, in a highly unusual move, took the case to a grand jury, which emerged with only a single charge of solicitation of prostitution charge.
The Palm Beach Post sued in 2019 to make the transcripts public after sources said that Krischer had undermined his own case during the proceedings. After nearly five years of vociferous opposition by the then-current state attorney, Dave Aronberg, and then-Clerk of Court & Comptroller Joseph Abruzzo, a judge released the transcripts in July 2024.
The Florida Legislature had changed a law that, as a result of The Post’s reporting, paved the way for the release.
The contents of the transcripts were stunning. Krischer’s chief prosecutor, Lanna Belohlavek, told the two victims testifying that they had committed the crime of prostitution themselves. Grand jurors, taking her cue, chided the girls about their reputations. Little was said by prosecutors about Epstein’s crimes.
Giuffre was contacted by the FBI in 2007 after Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter became frustrated with Krischer’s handling of the case and turned his department’s evidence over to the federal law enforcement agency.
Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, not even a month after he was arrested by federal authorities on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking charges, is serving her 20-year term in a Tallahassee prison.
Holly Baltz is the investigations editor at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at hbaltz@pbpost.com.
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Reporting by Holly Baltz, Palm Beach Post / Palm Beach Post
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