Virginia Giuffre’s father speaks out as family reveal contents of handwritten letter
Virginia Giuffre’s father has insisted his daughter didn’t die by suicide, as heartbroken loved ones shared the handwritten message the Jeffrey Epstein survivor left.
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The father of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre does not believe his daughter died by suicide, insisting instead that “somebody got to her.”
Grieving his daughter’s death, Sky Roberts refuted his family’s claim that Giuffre — the most prominent victim of the disgraced financier — could have taken her own life.
“No way,” Roberts said on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
“I can’t believe that this is happening. It’s just, it’s impossible.”
“And then for them to say that she committed suicide, there’s no way that she did. Somebody got to her.”
Giuffre, 41, was found dead in her home in Neergabby, Western Australia, last week, with her family confirming that she had committed suicide and left a note behind with a final message for sexual abuse survivors.
Mr Roberts said he continues to sob over his daughter’s death, describing Giuffre as a survivor who stood strong for others despite the horrors she experienced when she was a teenager taken by Epstein.
“As someone who actually got out of a bad situation and made a good situation out of it, that she was helping a lot of other young girls that were feeling the pain of what goes on with people like that … I think she’s strong, very strong, and that’s why I don’t think she committed suicide,” Roberts said.
“She had too much to live for. She had her foundation,” he added, referencing Giuffre’s advocacy work.
In a 2019 tweet, Giuffre stated that she was not suicidal.
“I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal,” she wrote.
“I have made this known to my therapist and GP – If something happens to me – in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them,” she wrote “Too many evil people want to see me [quieted].”
HAUNTING FINAL NOTE REVEALED
Virginia Giuffre penned a passionate call to arms for sexual assault survivors shortly before her death, her family has revealed.
Giuffre took her own life at her rural property in Neergabby, north of Perth, just before 10pm last week.
Her family said her death was suicide, saying the abuse she suffered at the hands of wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his assistant Ghislaine Maxwell was “unbearable”.
Ms Giuffre’s sister-in-law Amanda Roberts, who is married to the Jeffrey Epstein survivor’s brother Sky, posted a copy of the letter to Facebook.
The family believe Ms Giuffre, 41, intended to share the words with sexual assault survivors taking part in a rally opposite the White House today (Thursday AEST).
One version of the note being circulated shows the partially obscured first line which reads: “We are not going to go away.”
“Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers need to show the battlelines are drawn and we stand together to fight for the future of victims,” Ms Giuffre’s letter continues.
“Is protesting the answer? I don’t know, but we’ve got to start somewhere.”
Ms Roberts accompanied the post with a note of her own.
“Hello world. We found a handwritten note that our sister Virginia wrote,” Ms Roberts wrote on Facebook.
“I think it’s important that the survivors know that she’s with you and her voice will not be silenced. I know that it’s so important, and her wish is that we continue to fight.”
Ms Giuffre was the most prominent and outspoken victim of wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and her testimony was considered instrumental in bringing them to justice.
For several years, Ms Giuffre had alleged one of the men Epstein and Maxwell trafficked to her to was Prince Andrew, a claim he has vehemently denied. He has never been arrested or charged.
She alleged she was forced to have sex with him on several occasions in London, New York and on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean when she was 17.
When Epstein was jailed for sex trafficking offences, and subsequently died in custody, she feared his associates, who worried about being exposed, were out to silence her.
In 2019, she wrote a post on X, saying: “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP – if something happens to me, [for] the sake of my family, do not let this go away and help me to protect them.
“Too many people want to see me quieted.”
The tragedy is a bleak window into how her life spiralled in five short years. Within that time, her marriage to Robert Giuffre broke down, she was estranged from her children and was living away from the family home in Perth.
In 2022, Prince Andrew, according to British media reports, paid £12 million (AU$25 million) to settle a civil suit brought by Ms Giuffre.
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