Donald Trump has mentioned the demise of Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, is “a horrible thing”.
Her household mentioned Ms Giuffre “lost her life to suicide” at her farm in Western Australia on Friday, aged 41.
And responding to a reporter’s query at a New Jersey airport, the US president mentioned: “That whole situation is very sad – her and others.
“Actually, that is a horrible factor.”
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Donald Trump was requested about Ms Giuffre’s demise at a New Jersey airport. Pic: Reuters
On Monday, a Western Australia Police spokeswoman confirmed Ms Giuffre’s demise was nonetheless below investigation, however didn’t seem like suspicious.
Ms Giuffre sued the Duke of York for sexual abuse in August 2021.
The duke has repeatedly denied the claims and has not been charged with any legal offences.
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Prince Andrew, Ms Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured in a photograph believed to have been taken in 2001. Pic: Shutterstock
In March 2022, it was introduced Ms Giuffre and Prince Andrew had reached an out-of-court settlement.
American-born Ms Giuffre was some of the outspoken accusers of convicted intercourse offenders Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
She turned an advocate for survivors of intercourse trafficking after rising as a central determine within the extended downfall of Epstein, who was a financier.
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Virginia Giuffre: What we all know
In subsequent civil lawsuits, Ms Giuffre mentioned she was a spa attendant as an adolescent at Mar-a-Lago – Mr Trump’s Palm Seashore membership – when she was approached in 2000 by Maxwell.
Ms Giuffre was employed as a masseuse for Epstein and was flown all over the world for conferences with males at his behest whereas she was 17 and 18.
Maxwell, the British socialite, was convicted in 2021 on federal intercourse trafficking and conspiracy prices and was sentenced to twenty years in jail.
Ms Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to Prince Andrew when she was 17, a declare he has denied.
Her household mentioned in a press release that Ms Giuffre was a “fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse” however that the “toll of abuse… became unbearable”.
