Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, announced on Sunday that she is dying after being in a car crash.
Giuffre, 41, said in an Instagram post that she is in renal failure and doctors have given her four days to live. She claimed a school bus driving at about 70mph crashed into her vehicle, leaving her seriously injured.
“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time,” Giuffre wrote on the Instagram post, which was accompanied by a picture of herself covered in bruises.
In 2022, Prince Andrew reached a settlement with Giuffre, who accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. The settlement included an unsigned letter in which Andrew acknowledged that Giuffre suffered trauma due to being sex trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew’s settlement with Giuffre was reached a month after the terms of a 2009 settlement between Epstein and Giuffre was publicized. Epstein paid Giuffree $500,000 in that case.
Prince Andrew contended that the 2009 settlement legally shielded him from civil lawsuits like the one Giuffre has filed against him. While he was not mentioned by name in that settlement, he presumably argued that he was referenced in it as a “potential defendant.”
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years.
Epstein was jailed without bond in July 2019 following allegations that he sex-trafficked dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005. The billionaire financier was found hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on August 10, 2019 — sparking skepticism about the circumstances surrounding his death.
[Feature Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File]
