Revisiting Our Virginia Giuffre Interview Following Ghislaine Maxwell Conviction

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Virginia Giuffre died on Friday, April 25, 2025. According to the New York Times, which obtained a statement from Giuffre’s family, the cause of death was suicide. She was 41. The below interview was originally published on December 29, 2021.

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Early Thursday morning at her home in Perth, Australia, Virginia Giuffre woke up to her husband shaking the bed, saying, “Wake up!