Virginia Giuffre, Epstein Accuser and Non-Profit Founder, Dies at 41

variety.comPublished: 4/26/2025

Summary

Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of sexual abuse and a founder of the nonprofit SOAR, passed away by suicide at her farm in Western Australia on April 25 after posting about renailing failure and injuries from a car crash involving a school bus where she was hit nearly 70 mph. She had accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell years earlier under a pseudonym when she was younger. Giuffre founded SOAR to support abuse victims, leaving an unpublished memoir as evidence in her lawsuit against Maxwell.