Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager, left the United States to start a fresh chapter two decades before she died by suicide in a tiny town in Western with a population of less than 300 people.
Just weeks after a string of mysterious social media posts, her family confirmed on Friday that she had died by suicide in the remote town of Neergabby, 80km north of Perth, at the $1.3million farmhouse where she had been living.
Ms Giuffre, née Roberts, was born in Sacramento, California, in 1983 but moved Down Under after meeting her n husband in Thailand.
She previously said she escaped Epstein’s clutches at the age of 19 after he bought her a plane ticket to the southeast Asian country, where he enrolled her in a massage course.
Ms Giuffre and her husband, martial arts expert Robert, reportedly met in Thailand, fell in love and were married 10 days later.
The pair moved to Cairns in far north Queensland in 2002 before relocating to Perth in 2020 with their three children. But, at the beginning of 2025, she and Robert separated after more than two decades of marriage.
Robert and the couple’s three children remained at the family home, a lavish $1.9million mansion in Ocean Reef, Perth, they had purchased in 2020.
Giuffre moved to the isolated, rented, 40-acre country bolthole in Neergabby, with its population of just 268 people.
The family had moved into the Perth home before Giuffre filed her claim against Prince Andrew in New York on August 9 of 2021.
The 4,400km move from their home in Cairns was an opportunity to get away from the spotlight while Giuffre prepared for the court case.
‘Our new home,’ Ms Roberts wrote on Instagram at the time alongside a photo of her with husband, three children, and family dog in front of the house.
In the lawsuit, she alleged Prince Andrew sexually abused her at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and a number of other locations when she was 17 years old – accusations he has strongly denied.
She also accused the Duke of refusing to engage with her legal team or explore alternative methods to resolve the dispute.
Giuffre had told Nine’s 60 Minutes program in 2019 about her life as Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave.
The Duke of York vigorously denied her allegations – while Buckingham Palace labelled her claims ‘false and without foundation’ – and the Duke spent six months fighting to have her legal case dismissed.
Maxwell – who is a convicted sex offender – has also denied the allegation, while Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019. After settling the matter out of court in 2023, for an undisclosed amount rumoured to be in the multimillions.