Virginia Giuffre‘s suicide note that she left behind for her children has today been revealed, as excerpts from her diary accuse her husband of domestic violence and making her a ‘prisoner’ in her own home.
Ms Giuffre, who led the fight to bring paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to justice and claimed she was twice trafficked to have sex with Prince Andrew, died by suicide aged 41 at her farm in western Australia in April.
She had recently split from her husband of 22 years Robert, who it is now claimed beat her when she was pregnant and stopped her from seeing her children.
The diary, which Ms Giuffre kept from the beginning of 2025, detailed her memories of her marriage breaking down as well as photos, texts and legal filings alleging Robert had been violent and abusive.
In a final message to her children written before her death, she wrote: ‘Every day that I don’t see your faces has a little less light.
‘The world is dimmer without you in it.’
She also wrote out what appeared to be lyrics from a song, which read: ‘It’ll all be alright, you’ve always had a rainbow over your head, angels by your side and God in your heart.’
Ms Giuffre added: ‘I’m here for you here and everywhere.’
Virginia Giuffre ‘s suicide note that she left behind for her children has today been revealed, as excerpts from her diary accuse her husband Robert (left) of domestic violence
Ms Giuffre, who led the fight to bring paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to justice and claimed she was twice trafficked to have sex with Prince Andrew (left, with a young Virginia and Ghislaine Maxwell, right), died by suicide aged 41
Other excerpts from her diary included a text message to a friend, in which she described how Robert allegedly beat her while she was holding their newborn child.
She said: ‘Even when I had Emily in my arms as a baby, Rob was coming down off a 3-day bender and punched me in the face which dropped me to the floor and continuously kicking me in the stomach.’
Two years after the message, Robert was arrested in Colorado in June 2015 over an alleged assault with the crime marked as ‘domestic violence’. The couple kept the incident private.
Elsewhere in her diary, she claimed in 2017 her husband had been ’emotionally and physically controlling’, such as by forbidding her to go downstairs whenever a man was visiting the house, which she said made her into a ‘prisoner’ in her home.
The entry read: ‘Not allowd [sic] to go downstairs when any male was ovr [sic] and that was everyday, I became a prisoner’.
She added her husband was drinking most days from 8am in the morning, and in her most recent diary from this year said he was no longer employed and was ‘gambling away’ their money.
The couple separated in 2024 and began living in different homes – but Ms Giuffre’s diary claimed Robert beat her as recently as January after she denied his request for sex.
Ms Giuffre’s sister-in-law told the Times: ‘Her death was a terrible ending to this story, but there is a big part of it she never got to tell.
Ms Giuffre’s final weeks were mired in controversy after she shared an Instagram post following a traffic accident in which she claimed she had ‘days to live’
Virginia Giuffre (pictured) was found dead at her Perth farmhouse – her diary has now revealed the final message she sent to her children
‘[Virginia] may have fought battles with some of the most powerful men in the world, like Epstein and Prince Andrew, but what people didn’t understand was that [in her final days] the hardest battle of her life was at home.’
Ms Giuffre had become estranged from her three teenage children, but towards the end of her life, she is said to have desperately tried to make contact with them.
This included changing the name of the family Netflix account to ‘Mommy still loves you’, and reaching out directly to her daughter Emily by sending her a link to a song they both liked.
Ms Giuffre’s final weeks were mired in controversy after she shared an Instagram post following a traffic accident in which she claimed she had ‘days to live’.
She said her car had been hit by a school bus travelling at over 60mph and the accident had left her with kidney failure.
The photograph showed discoloration to Giuffre’s face and chest which has been described as severe bruising.
In the post after the crash, she expressed that she was ready to die.
‘I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology,’ she said.
Virginia Giuffre was last seen in public being driven by her brother Danny Wilson close to her farmhouse just over a fortnight before her death
Ms Giuffre escaped Epstein’s influence after she met her husband-to-be Robert (pictured together) while on a masseuse training course in Thailand, that Epstein had paid for
‘I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time.’
Three days after the picture emerged, a spokesman for Giuffre said she had ‘made a mistake’ and had not intended to share the post publicly.
Her family now say they see the post as a ‘way to reach her children’ and a ‘desperate plea for help’.
Among the final diary entries in which she told supporters: ‘We are not going to go away.’
She added: ‘Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers need to show the battlelines are drawn and we stand together to fight for the future of victims.
‘Is protesting the answer – I don’t know, but we’ve got to start somewhere.’
It’s believed Giuffre wrote the message for organisers of the Washington rally of sexual assault survivors being held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, ahead of Denim Day on April 30.
Giuffre became famous as a victim of Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who she accused of sex trafficking her to Prince Andrew when she was just 17.
The Royal has always denied the allegations but reportedly paid her millions to settle a lawsuit over her claims against him.
The settlement did not involve any admission of liability on his behalf, and he denies any sexual contact with her.
The scandal led to Prince Andrew stepping back from royal life after a disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis, then working for the BBC.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in a Florida federal prison following her conviction for helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019 before trial.
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