Bus crash mystery as Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre ‘lies dying’
Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre says she is dying after a school bus slammed into her car in Western Australia.
The shock announcement by Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre that she is dying after a school bus slammed into her car has triggered an outpouring of sympathy and a flurry of inquiries into her whereabouts and prospects of recovery.
In Ms Giuffre’s home town of Perth, Western Australia, the St John Ambulance service could find no record on Tuesday that it had recently transported the victim of a school bus crash to hospital.
Media around the world began asking for details about Ms Giuffre’s condition and about the crash in calls and messages to WA police and Perth hospitals in the early hours of Tuesday morning local time.
This was after Ms Giuffre shared a photo of herself on Instagram in which her face was heavily bruised.
She was in a hospital bed.
“I think it is important to note when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km/h as we were slowing for a turn, that no matter what your car is made of, it might as well be a tin can,” Ms Giuffre wrote in the social media post.
“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.”
Ms Giuffre’s spokesperson, Dini von Mueffling, told The Australian by email on Tuesday: “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.”
Ms Giuffre was a teen victim of notorious trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
She alleged Epstein trafficked her to his friend the Duke of York in 2001 when she was 17.
She reached a settlement with Andrew in 2022. The prince denies the allegations.
Ms Giuffre’s social media posts have recently documented her sadness at being apart from her children.
“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes,” she wrote on Instagram in the bus crash post.
Her father, Sky Roberts, told the British Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday: “She’s not doing good. She’s depressed because she misses her kids.
“It could be that she could pass away in four days, like she said,” he added.
“But if she gets another doctor, they could probably do other things for her. So that’s what I’m waiting to hear.”
Neither Ms Giuffre nor Ms Mueffling revealed where the school bus crash occurred or where Ms Giuffre was being treated.
At first, the WA Police Force was unable to find records of a crash matching the one described in Ms Giuffre’s post.
Then acting police commissioner Kylie Whitely confirmed that police were aware of a minor crash that occurred between a bus and a car in the semi-rural area of Neergabby on March 24.
The car sustained approximately $2000 worth of damage.
There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.
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