The father of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s late victims has cast doubt on claims that she died by suicide.
Sky Roberts, the father of Virginia Giuffre, who lost her life last Friday, said that ‘somebody got to her’.
Giuffre, 41, was one of the most outspoken accusers of convicted sex offenders Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
She alleged they trafficked her to the Duke of York when she was 17, which Prince Andrew has strenuously denied.
She died at her farm in Western Australia last week, with police saying that the ‘early indication is the death is not suspicious’.
But in a dramatic intervention, Roberts, who said he met Epstein and saw the photo of his daughter with Prince Andrew before it entered the public domain, said there was ‘no way’ she took her own life.
He told Piers Morgan Uncensored: ‘First of all, I couldn’t even believe it. I mean, I started crying right away. I’m still crying.
‘I can’t believe that this is happening. It just, it’s impossible.
Sky Roberts, the father of Virginia Giuffre , who lost her life last Friday, said that ‘somebody got to her’
Roberts, who said he met Epstein and saw the photo of his daughter with Prince Andrew before it entered the public domain, said there was ‘no way’ she took her own life
Giuffre died at her farm in Western Australia last week, with police saying that the ‘early indication is the death is not suspicious’
‘And then for them to say that she committed suicide, there’s no way that she did. Somebody got to her.’
Giuffre, he claimed, ‘had too much to live for’ and was already ‘helping a lot of other young girls that were feeling the pain of what goes on with people like that’.
Relatives of Giuffre said in a statement last week that she had lost her life ‘after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking’.
They also released an handwritten letter which they claimed she wrote before her death, which said ‘battle lines are drawn’ and urged people to ‘stand together to fight for the future of victims’.
The mother of three, who said she was injured in a car accident a few weeks prior to being discovered unresponsive by police, had been living with her family in North Perth, Australia.
She said she became a victim of sex trafficking when she was a teenager, and met Maxwell in 2000.
From then on, she claimed she was introduced to American financier Epstein and alleged years of abuse by him and his associates.
This included Prince Andrew, she said. The two reached an out-of-court settlement in 2022 on the basis that the royal did not admit liability.
Roberts said that he had seen the infamous picture of Giuffre with the Prince years before it became public knowledge.
Giuffre said she became a victim of sex trafficking when she was a teenager, and met Maxwell in 2000
She claimed she was introduced to American financier Epstein (R) and alleged years of abuse by him and his associates
Roberts said that he had seen the infamous picture of Giuffre with the Prince years before it became public knowledge
‘Virginia sent the original picture, so I know it wasn’t faked, but the original picture of Prince Andrew and her with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background, so I know that’s true that she did,’ he added.
‘She was there with him.’
Contrary to the legal agreement, he takes the view that the settlement ‘admits guilt’ on Prince Andrew’s part, adding: ‘When you pay somebody off like that, just, when Jeffrey Epstein paid, when Maxwell paid, it’s admitting guilt.
‘I mean, why would he spend 12 or 15 million to give to her?
‘I don’t care for him at all. I mean, he’s a, I guess, a powerful royal figure, and he just thinks he can do what he wants to do.
‘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. She had too much to live for. She had her foundation.’
Roberts said he ‘believed everything’ Giuffre said about the abuse claims and was ‘really angry’ when he found out Epstein was involved.
Giuffre, he claimed, ‘had too much to live for’ and was already ‘helping a lot of other young girls that were feeling the pain of what goes on with people like that’
Giuffre, 41, was one of the most outspoken accusers of convicted sex offenders Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
But he was later told the billionaire had threatened that if she said anything ‘he has the power to do anything he wanted’ to her family, he told the show.
Epstein took his own life in prison in 2019, where he was being held awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
He was previously convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US for her role in Epstein’s trafficking and abuse.
