Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer makes bombshell claim about Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser’s shock death

Perth-based barrister Karrie Louden, who has acted as Ms Giuffre’s legal representative since the start of the year, said there was no indication of suicide in the lead-up to her passing.

Western Australia Police were called to the 41-year-old’s rural property on Friday evening following concerns for her welfare and found her unresponsive.

The family of Ms Giuffre, who said the late billionaire financier Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficked her when she was 16, released a statement saying she had died by suicide.

“Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” it read.

“She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright.

“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight. She will be missed beyond measure.”

But in a bombshell interview with British newspaper The Sun, Ms Louden said she found the explanation surprising.

“When I got the phone call, I was like, are you joking? Because there was no sign that was something she was considering,” Ms Louden said.

“We’ve got big question marks over it.”

In late March, Ms Giuffre shared an image of her heavily bruised face to social media, saying she’d had a head-on collision with a bus and suffered severe injuries, including renal failure.

She wrote: “This year has been the worst start to a new year … when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110kmh as we were slowing down for a turn, that no matter what your car is made of, it might as well be a tin can.”

She said doctors had given her days to live, sparking global news headlines.

Shock turned to confusion when Ms Giuffre was later released from hospital and police said they had only received a report a day after the crash and that it was deemed minor with no injuries.

Swirling questions about the collision and her condition went unresolved.

Ms Giuffre was still recovering a month on, Ms Louden told The Sun.

“She was in a lot of pain but she was looking forward to things in the future,” she said. “She wanted to renovate [her] house and all sorts of things like that.

“The family said what the family has said, but I’m not going to speculate whether it was suicide or accidental.

“There’s suicide and then there’s misadventure.”

For several years, Ms Giuffre has alleged one of the men Epstein and Maxwell trafficked to her to was Prince Andrew – a claim he has strenuously denied.

She alleged she was forced to have sex with him on several occasions in London, New York and on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean when she was 17.

In 2022, the controversial royal paid to settle a civil suit brought by Ms Giuffre to the tune of £12 million (AU$25 million), according to UK reports at the time.

As part of the settlement, which did not include any admission of liability or truth, Prince Andrew committed to demonstrating “his regret for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting victims”.

He has yet to honour that commitment.

Epstein died in prison while awaiting trial in 2019, in what was ruled a suicide. Maxwell was tried and sentenced for sex trafficking and conspiracy and jailed for 20 years.

As indicated in Ms Giuffre’s post about the bus crash, it had been a challenging few months for the mother of three.

She and her husband of two decades Robert separated in mid-2023. In February, he accused her of breaching a family violence restraining order.

The matter was heard in court in April but adjourned until June 11.

Following her death, Ms Giuffre’s final social media posts were unearthed, including a link to the haunting Gotye song ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ and a black screen with broken heart emoijis.

Despite the emphatic statement from her family, conspiracy theorists – including prominent allies of US President Donald Trump – quickly spread a host of wild theories.

Laura Loomer, an influential confidant of Mr Trump, took to X and wrote: “I don’t believe Virginia Giuffre committed suicide. Just like I don’t believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. First she gets in a car crash, now they say she killed herself? Sounds like someone wanted her dead.”

Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene further fanned the flames by posting on Instagram that “the truth needs to come out – no matter who is responsible”.

In recent, an eerie 2019 post by Ms Giuffre has resurfaced and gone viral, in which she wrote that “in no way, shape or form am I suicidal”.

“I have made this known to my therapist and GP. If something happens to me … [for] the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quiteted (sic).”