Virginia Giuffre's final words revealed in suicide note she left for her kids

Her family have spoken out months after the 41-year-old’s death (Pictures: Getty/Rex/Reuters)

Virginia Giuffre’s family have spoken publicly for the first time since the 41-year-old died by suicide earlier this year and shared a note she left for her children.

Virginia,who settled a sexual assault lawsuit against Prince Andrew in 2022,was found dead at her home in Western Australia on April 25.

Her suicide came less than a month after she posted on Instagram that she had been in a road accident and had four days to live due to ‘kidney renal failure.

For the first time since her death,her family have spoken out to honour her ‘last wishes’ – and say she never got to tell a large part of her story.

Speaking to The Times,Amanda Roberts,the wife of Virginia’s brother Sky Roberts,said: ‘Her death was a terrible ending to this story,but there is a big part of it she never got to tell.

‘She may have fought battles with some of the most powerful men in the world,like Epstein and Prince Andrew,but what people didn’t understand was that [in her final days] the hardest battle of her life was at home.’

Virginia left behind a note for her children (Picture: AFP)

Prince Andrew has denied all allegations against him.

The Times gained exclusive access to Virginia’s final diary entries and the heartbreaking note she left for her children.

In the months leading up to her death,she had been embroiled in a fierce custody battle with her ex-partner and the father of her three children,Robert Giuffre.

Weeks before her death,she said her husband physically assaulted her,and spoke about being unable to see her children.

She wrote in her final note to her kids: ‘Every day that I don’t see your faces has a little less light. The world is dimmer without you in it.

‘It’ll all be alright,you’ve always had a rainbow over your head. Angels by your side,and God in your heart.

‘I’m here for you here and everywhere.’

Her family said they shared the note in hopes that her children,whom they have not been able to see since her death,know how much Virginia loved them.

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Her family’s fight for victims of abuse

After her death,Virginia’s brothers and sister-in-law began working with the charity Soar,which campaigns to pass laws to help victims of abuse.Amanda added: ‘As a culture,we are so quick to dismiss women experiencing violence,and we’ve got to stop doing that.’Shortly before her death,Virginia wrote: ‘I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein,who abused and trafficked me.‘But I was unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently. After my husband’s latest physical assault,I can no longer stay silent.’Further diary entries shared with The Times,Virginia appeared to detail the alleged abuse from her former partner: ‘[The abuse was] manifesting in small ways at first,monitoring my daily activities.‘Instead of praising his wife’s accomplishments,he began to be jealous,trying to make me stop advocating for victims of trafficking. Robert’s behaviour became more controlling. The stronger I became,the scarier he became.’Robert’s attorney told that Virginia’s passing was ‘tragic’,but said they were unable to comment on abuse allegations due to an ongoing case in Western Australia courts.

Virginia Giuffre’s life

Virginia lived in Australia with her former partner,Rober,t after escaping Epstein (Picture: X)She was born Virginia Louise Roberts in Sacramento,California,on August 9,to parents Sky and Lynn Roberts.The family relocated to Loxahatchee in Palm Beach County,Florida,when she was four,where her father was a maintenance manager at Mar-a-Lago.She said she was sexually abused as a child and spent some time as a runaway. As a teenager,Virginia got a job at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as a locker room attendant.She said she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate and a British socialite,while working there.‘They seemed like nice people,so I trusted them,and I told them I’d had a really hard time in my life up until then — I’d been a runaway,I’d been sexually abused,physically abused,’ she said in a 2019 interview with The Miami Herald.She eventually escaped Epstein and married Robert,before welcoming three children with him.Later in the 2010s,she came forward with allegations against Epstein,before becoming a very public face after her allegations against Prince Andrew.She had been living in Western Australia with her family until her death.