Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre hinted at marriage breakdown before alleged bus crash

The estranged father of Virginia Giuffre – the Australian woman who accused the royal of sex abuse – has spoken out.

The father of Australian woman Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who was allegedly sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew, has spoken out after his daughter claimed she had four days to live following a collision with a bus driver.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 41, shared a photo of her bruised face taken from a hospital bed on Instagram Monday, saying she was involved in a crash with a school bus. Giuffre alleged the driver was travelling at a speed of “110km.”

“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live,” Giuffre wrote, adding she had been transferred to a “specialist hospital in urology”.

There are questions over where exactly the incident occurred, though it’s understood Giuffre has been living in a small town north of Perth since 2020. The mother-of-three last shared a photo from the city on March 2.

Giuffre’s father Sky Roberts, who is based in Florida, told DailyMail.com that he was “sick to my stomach” after hearing the news, and couldn’t afford to travel to Australia to be by his daughter’s side.

“I feel like crying because I love my daughter more than life,” Roberts said.

“If there’s anything I could do, I’d do it.

“I’m on Social Security so I can’t fly out. I’d love to be by her side and support her.”

Virginia Giuffre has claimed she is dying after a collision with a bus driver. Picture: Instagram

Roberts told the publication he hadn’t spoken with his daughter since her accident, but that Giuffre had been in contact with her brother.

“She’s in really bad shape,” he continued.

“She’s very depressed… There’s everything else she’s been going through with the divorce and not being able to see her kids.”

Her father went on to urge his daughter, who he’s had a strained relationship with in recent years, to seek further medical advice.

“When someone tells you you’re going to die in four days, you don’t want to hear from just that person. You need to get a second opinion. You need a third opinion.”

Giuffre had also become estranged from her children recently amid her “messy” divorce with her husband, Roberts went on to claim.

A spokesperson for Western Australia Police told news.com.au they had one recent record of a “minor” bus and car collision with “no reported injuries” in the state, which occurred in Neergabby, 20km north of Perth, on March 24 just after 3pm.

“The collision was reported by the bus driver the following day. The car sustained approximately $2000 worth of damage,” a spokesperson said.

“There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.”

News.com.au is not suggesting this is the crash Giuffre says she was involved in.

In a statement shared with the BBC, Giuffre’s spokesperson Dini von Mueffing said: “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.”

Days before the alleged accident, Giuffre, who purchased a $1.9 million beachside property in Ocean Reef in December 2020 with her husband Robert, suggested her marriage of 22 years had broken down.

In an Instagram post dated March 22, Giuffre shared several photos of her kids, writing she was “shattered” and “miss[es] them so very much.”

“My beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them,” Giuffre wrote.

“I miss them so very much. I have been through hell & back in my 41 years but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else.

“My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens.”

Virginia Giuffre and her three children. Picture: Instagram

Pictured with her son. Picture: Instagram

Giuffre and her husband Robert are thought to have recently separated.

It comes four years after Giuffre filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew, accusing the royal of sexually abusing her when she was 17.

She had made accusations of being sex trafficked by Epstein and his co-accused, Ghislaine Maxwell, before ultimately filing the papers in federal court in New York in August 2021.

The Duke of York has repeatedly denied all allegations.

Just weeks before Andrew was scheduled to sit for a deposition with Giuffre’s lawyers, the lawsuit was privately settled in February 2022, sparing the prince from a public court battle.

While the sum of money is yet to be disclosed, it was speculated to have been upwards of £14 million (A$26.5 million, not adjusted for inflation).

Prince Andrew settled the lawsuit in 2022. Picture: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP

In Giuffre’s most recent post, she said it had been “the worst start to a new year” and she was “ready to go.”

“I won’t bore anyone with the details,” she continued in the caption of her hospital bed photo.

“But I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can.

“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.

“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes. S**T in one hand and wish in the other & I guarantee it’s still going to be s**t at the end of the day.

“Thank you all for being the wonderful people of the world and for being a great part of my life. Godbless (sic) you all xx Virginia”.

Giuffre was born in California before moving to Australia in the early 2000s with her husband, an Australian martial arts instructor she met during a trip to Thailand in 2002.

She relocated to Perth from Cairns, Queensland, in late 2020.

Originally published as Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre hinted at marriage breakdown before alleged bus crash