Virginia Giuffre has been laid to rest at a private cremation in Perth.
A funeral service for the 41-year-old is believed to have taken place at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in Padbury.
Prince Andrew’s accuser took her own life at her $1.3million farmhouse in Neergabby, north of Perth, Western Australia, on April 25.
Her tragic death came just weeks after she posted on Instagram that she had been injured in a crash.
Police had disputed the severity of the crash with Ms Giuffre later saying she did not mean to make the post public.
Ms Giuffre, who was one of the most prominent accusers of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, was laid to rest this week, reported The Western Australian.
She alleged they trafficked her to the Duke of York when she was 17 and was three times sexually assaulted by him – a claim which Prince Andrew has denied. The prince reached an out-of-court settlement with her in 2022.
It was reported that he paid her around $12million in February 2022, a figure which has since been disputed.
Virginia Giuffre, one of the public faces and advocates for the victims of historical paedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, died by suicide last month. She was 41 years old
Virginia Giuffre claimed she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew after being introduced to him by Epstein’s associate, jailed British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, when she was just 17
Her family said in a statement at the time: ‘It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia.
‘She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.
‘Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors.
‘Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.’
Her family added that ‘the light of her life’ were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily.
‘It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others,’ they said.
Ms Giuffre, born Virginia Roberts, grew to prominence after she went public with allegations against the late financier and called for charges to be brought against him.
‘There are no words that can express the grave loss we feel today with the passing of our sweet Virginia,’ the statement continued.
‘She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit.
Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking
Virginia Giuffre, with a photo of herself as a teen, when she alleged she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, among others
Originally born in Florida, Giuffre had moved to Australia with her husband Robert in 2019 prior to Epstein being arrested, she is seen here alongside her brother earlier this month
‘In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight. We know that she is with the angels.’
It is believed that Ms Giuffre was ‘extremely distressed’ in the lead up to her death and feared she would lose millions in a court battle with another Epstein victim.
Ms Giuffre was being sued by artist Rina Oh for falsely describing her as a girlfriend of Epstein and one of the convicted sex offender’s recruiters.
The £7.5million lawsuit will now pass on to Ms Giuffre’s estate following her death by suicide on April 25.
Sources close to Ms Giuffre have reportedly said that she feared losing her wealth in the weeks leading up to her death.
They also said that the mother-of-three had become depressed over the collapse of her marriage and losing her teenage children to her husband.
‘Virginia was extremely distressed in the weeks before she died,’ a source close to Ms Giuffre told the Mirror. ‘She felt like everything she had fought so hard for was going or gone.’
The source added that the distress she felt compounded ‘with the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of Epstein.’
Prince Andrew’s legal team was reportedly set to use Ms Oh’s lawsuit to attack Ms Giuffre after she sued the royal for sex abuse in 2021.
He has strongly denied the allegations, and Ms Giuffre received an out-of-court settlement in February 2022.
The payout figure, which has never been disclosed, may become clear as her estate is bequeathed to her estranged husband and three children.
Born in California in 1983, Ms Giuffre’s life was shattered as a grade-schooler when she was sexually abused by a man her family knew.
She spent time as a runaway, was shuffled through foster homes and lived on the streets at just 14. She was first trafficked by Miami sex trafficker Ron Eppinger.
Eventually, Giuffre got free of Eppinger reunited with her father Sky, according to The Miami Herald.
At 16, her father was working in maintenance at Mar-a-Lago resort, the private club owned by Donald Trump, and got her a job as a locker room attendant.
It was there she said she met Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a former MP and publisher of several British newspapers.
Ms Giuffre said that Maxwell offered her the opportunity to work as a massage therapist for Epstein.
‘They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I’d had a really hard time in my life up until then – I’d been a runaway, I’d been sexually abused, physically abused,’ she told the BBC.
‘That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was.’
Epstein and Maxwell groomed her to sexually service both of them as well as other clients, she said in an interview and a sworn court affidavit.
She claimed in 2011 that she was sex trafficked to Prince Andrew on three occasions by Epstein and Maxwell, the first time being when she was 17.
‘It started with one and it trickled into two and so on and before you know it, I’m being lent out to politicians and academics and royalty,’ she said.
The Duke of York has consistently and vehemently denied her claims, as has convicted sex offender Maxwell, who Giuffre claims acted on Epstein’s behalf. Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019.
