Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre fighting for her life after car accident

Virginia Giuffre — whose story about being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager put her at the center of one of the biggest sex scandals in history — is fighting for her life following a car accident in Australia.

Giuffre, 41, on Sunday posted a graphic photo of herself from her hospital bed covered in bruises on Instagram, where she wrote doctors said she has four days to live, according to the post, which was first published by the British media.

“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure,” she said. “They have given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist in urology. I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time…”

She said she was struck by a speeding bus after she tried to swerve her car to avoid the collision. She did not say when or where the crash happened.

Giuffre was among the first and most outspoken victims of Jeffrey Epstein to speak out about her abuse by Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew and several other prominent men. She later formed a non-profit to educate and advocate for sex trafficking victims.

‘EVERYTHING CHANGED’

Born in Sacramento, California, Giuffre had been sexually abused since she was a child. She is the daughter of Lynn Trude Cabell and Sky William Roberts, who wrote on social media that he was praying for his daughter’s recovery.

When she was in grade school, the family moved to Loxahatchee, Florida. At age 7, she was first molested by a family friend. The abuse, she said, “turned my entire life around. Everything changed.”

She began running away from home, at one point, hitching a ride to San Francisco. She was 14 when she was picked up on the streets of Miami by the owner of a modeling agency who began trafficking her. After his arrest, she returned home to Loxahatchee, and began working at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach country club owned by President Donald Trump where her father was a maintenance supervisor.

In 2000, when she was 16, she met Maxwell, Epstein’s partner, while working as a spa attendant at the club. Giuffre, who uses the nickname Jenna, was introduced by Maxwell to Epstein, who sexually abused and trafficked her for years.

Among the people she said she was forced to have sex with was Prince Andrew, whom she later sued. The suit was settled in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, said to be in the millions, though Andrew denied that he was ever involved with Giuffre. He was later stripped of his military titles and royal patronages.

She fled Epstein’s control in 2002, married an Australian martial arts instructor, Robert Giuffre, and moved to Australia. The couple has three children who are now teenagers.

PALM BEACH INVESTIGATION

While she was getting settled in Australia, police in Palm Beach began investigating Epstein in 2005. Several girls reported that they had been recruited to give him massages at his Palm Beach mansion and instead were sexually abused. The case grew as more high school girls told investigators that they had been abused by Epstein as teenagers.

But Barry Krischer, the Palm Beach State Attorney at the time, didn’t want to prosecute Epstein, who had a long list of powerful friends, including former president Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

The case was referred to the FBI in 2007. But Epstein escaped federal charges when a secret plea deal was reached between his high-powered lawyers and the U.S. Attorney in Miami, Alex Acosta. Acosta allowed Epstein to plead guilty to less serious state charges, and Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail in 2008. During that time, however, he was allowed to come and go almost freely, spending most days at his office or his home in Palm Beach.

Giuffre was initially reluctant to cooperate with the FBI probe. But in 2010, after the birth of her daughter, she reached out to the Justice Department again in the hopes that she would get justice.

In 2011, Giuffre told the British tabloid Mail on Sunday that she was a victim of a vast sex trafficking operation run by Epstein and Maxwell in which she traveled to and from Epstein’s various homes in Manhattan, New Mexico, Palm Beach, France and to his island off of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands where she had sex with multiple men, including Prince Andrew. Maxwell denied the allegations and sued Giuffre for defamation. Giuffre countersued in federal court in New York.

EPSTEIN GETS SWEETHEART DEAL

The 2015 defamation case was settled two years later and most of the evidence was sealed. The Miami Herald sued that same year to unseal the entire case file as part of its investigative series “Perversion of Justice,” published in 2018. Giuffre was interviewed as part of the series, along with three other victims. The story caught the attention of the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, which opened a new probe into Epstein’s sex trafficking.

Epstein was subsequently arrested in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges brought in New York. But he was found dead in his jail cell a month later, just one day after some of the evidence in the defamation case was unsealed. His death was ruled a suicide, although his brother and a private forensic pathologist who was at the autopsy remain convinced his death was not a suicide.

Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 and convicted of child sex trafficking a few years later. Now 63, she is serving a 20-year jail sentence.

In recent years, Giuffre has advocated the release of the Epstein case files, which the FBI has kept mostly sealed for almost 20 years. Trump, elected to a second term as president in 2024, has promised to unseal the files, but his attorney general, Pam Bondi, was widely ridiculed in March when she led the public to believe she was releasing substantial evidence, then only released a binder of dated material that was already public.

TRAUMA, HEALTH ISSUES

In recent years, Giuffre has focused on her non-profit and leading a quiet life in Australia. She has been estranged from her husband and children, posting on Instagram a week ago: “My beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them and they’re being poisoned with lies,” she wrote.

Giuffre has also spoken a lot about how trauma has affected her well being. She has been ill off and on over the years, and frequently posts about her mental and physical health struggles on social media.

Dini von Mueffling, Giuffre’s representative, confirmed Virginia’s accident in a statement.

“Virginia has been in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital. She greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.”