Virginia Giuffre has been found dead at her family farm in Australia at the age of 41. On Friday, Virginia’s family confirmed that she had taken her own life after being a “lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking”. Virginia alleged that she had sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17, having been trafficked by billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew vehemently denies all of the allegations. In 2022, Giuffre settled a US civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew, without any admission of guilt.
Before her death, Virginia gave a chilling account of Epstein’s home in New York City. He reportedly had a room known as “the dungeon”. The details were unveiled when hundreds of pages of previously sealed documents were released in the lawsuit brought by Virginia against Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. The pages detailed the abuse that the victim had suffered as an underage girl. Amongst this was the claim of a “dungeon” in his Manhattan home where a sexual image of her was pinned on the wall, next to the picture of another victim.
During Virginia’s testimony, she said: “There was pictures on his desk in the office and around that room, and then there’s this room that I refer to as the dungeon and that had a huge photograph of me and another girl, I mean huge as in bigger than that wall cabinet.”
“There’s a painting of both of us doing salacious acts together,” clarifying that these were “sexual acts”.
Virginia also detailed the “nude photographs” of all of Epstein’s victims around his property, which included the main house on his private island in the Caribbean, his Palm Beach house, the New York townhouse and the ranch in New Mexico.
On the island, named Little Saint James, she explained how “there is nude photographs all over”. She said guests to the island would have seen those images, with at least 50 images displayed on the hallway table of the Palm Beach home.
In Epstein’s massage room, Virginia also testified that there were nude photos plastered from the floor to the ceiling over a “hidden room”.
“And then there’s boxes and boxes and boxes of nude photographs,” she said.
Virginia filed a defamation lawsuit against Maxwell in 2015 after she accused the victim of lying about the abuse she had suffered. It was later settled in 2017, but the suit was placed under a protective seal.
However, in 2019, around 2,000 sealed pages were released with further documents being unveiled throughout the following years.