Anyone who’s followed the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse/sex trafficking saga will be familiar with the name Virginia Giuffre, one of the best known victim-survivors of Epstein’s criminal enterprise with cohort Ghislaine Maxwell. As my colleague Jennifer Van Laar wrote in February, Attorney General Pam Bondi made a partial release of the FBI’s files on Epstein.
READ: BREAKING: DOJ Releases (Partial) Epstein Files
Late Friday night, Giuffre died by suicide, according to a statement released by her family to NBC News. She was 41:
Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for several years.
Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein and his enablers. Other Epstein abuse survivors later credited her with giving them the courage to speak out.
She also provided critical information to law…