In the weeks preceding her untimely suicide, Virginia Giuffre sent a number of enigmatic messages on social media.
The 41-year-old Giuffre, who was trafficked as a child by the late American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Caused a social media uproar in March when she posted a picture of herself looking “battered and bruised” and claimed to be dying after being struck by a school bus.
Her family tragically revealed on Friday that she had committed suicide in Neergabby, Australia, where she had lived for a number of years, just weeks following a series of enigmatic public posts.
“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family stated in a statement.
In the battle against sex trafficking and sexual assault, Virginia was a valiant fighter. It went on to say, “She was the light that lifted so many survivors.”