However, her father has publicly rejected the idea that she took her own life, telling Piers Morgan, “For them to say that she committed suicide, there’s no way that she did,” and claiming instead that “somebody got to her.”

Giuffre’s Australian lawyer, Karrie Louden, said she does not believe the death was suspicious, adding: “The Coroner will determine in due course the cause of death, and that will be established based on the evidence.”

At the time, the BBC noted that “there is still much that is not known about Ms Giuffre’s last days or her personal circumstances.”

Giuffre was an Australian-American advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and became one of the most high-profile accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. And now, it appears that her cause of death may have been confirmed in documents released from the Epstein files

Documents from the massive Epstein files release reveal that 41-year-old Virginia Giuffre died by suicide at her Neergabby farmhouse, about an hour north of Perth, on April 25, 2025.

The files, part of the Department of Justice’s final release of 3.5 million records from the Epstein investigation, accidentally included private emails that were briefly made public before being redacted, according to Daily Mail. Among these were deeply personal messages from fellow Epstein survivor Maria Farmer, offering a heartbreaking glimpse into Giuffre’s emotional state in the months leading up to her death.

In an email dated May 8, 2025, Farmer allegedly wrote:

“She died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last week at her home in Australia.”

The email was reportedly sent to several of Giuffre’s attorneys, including David Boies and Sigrid McCawley, who had represented her in the long-running legal battles stemming from the Epstein scandal.

Farmer, one of Epstein’s earliest known victims, has long claimed she tried to alert authorities to Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes in the 1990s.

Her email, with the subject line “Abusing public victims has real consequences,” reflected the deep grief and frustration felt by those closest to Giuffre:

“I have no idea how to survive now. She was our leader, our purpose. This is agonising for her children, especially her little girl. No one should ask so much of public victims… My raison d’être was Virginia. I’m an old woman without children. I wanted to have a child like V, brave and strong. She was pure LIGHT.”

Farmer also criticized law enforcement, writing:

“The FBI needs to feel DEEP SHAME and cough up my reports. They need to apologise, though now nothing matters… I reported to FBI TEN YEARS PRIOR TO THIS HERO BEING KIDNAPPED AND RAPED AS A CHILD!!! This is the most devastating sorrow and now nothing will ever be ok again. Nothing will be ok without Virginia here loving her children and animals. I will never be ok. The FBI really damaged society when they refused to listen to the fact children were being harmed!”

The documents also highlight the personal struggles Giuffre faced in her final months. In January 2025, police were called to a domestic dispute at a separate location in Dunsborough, where she and her husband, Robert Giuffre, were holidaying with their children.

While no charges were laid, Robert obtained a restraining order preventing Virginia from seeing her children for six months. Virginia publicly described the impact on Instagram:

“I have been through hell and back in my 41 years but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else.”

Shortly before her death, her lawyer and close friend Karrie Louden spoke to the press outside Giuffre’s farmhouse, expressing shock and sorrow:

“This has been a complete shock to all of us… If any of us had thought she was going to commit suicide, of course we would have taken more steps, put her into a clinic or got her some more help. When I got the phone call, I was like, ‘Are you joking?’ Because there were no signs that was something she was considering.”

Louden emphasized she would not speculate on the exact circumstances, saying:

“It’s inconclusive. I’m a defence lawyer and I don’t like to speculate about things until the evidence is in [and] the evidence is not in… The police told me nothing, they didn’t even confirm she was dead. It wasn’t suspicious circumstances – it’s suicide or misadventure. I didn’t see her in the room. I wasn’t in there. I’m not going to speculate whether it was suicide or accidental. You’ll all be aware that she’s been in hospital. She’s been on medications. Has she just taken too many painkillers? Was she intentionally doing it? I just, you know… I don’t even know what the cause of death was.”

Giuffre’s body was laid to rest at her Neergabby home, part of a multi-million-dollar estate, and while the official cause of death has never been publicly confirmed, the documents and private emails offer a window into the immense personal toll the Epstein saga took on one of its bravest voices.

Her death, coupled with the accidental release of confidential correspondence, has cast a stark new light on the immense pressures faced by survivors of sexual abuse, and on the long fight for justice in one of the most infamous scandals of the 21st century.

The FBI has disputed several of Giuffre’s claims, including her allegation that Epstein trafficked girls to other powerful men, which other victims did not corroborate. An FBI memo noted that Giuffre provided “shifting accounts” that were “sensationalized if not demonstrably inaccurate characterizations of her experiences.”