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On April 25, 2025, the family of Virginia Giuffre — who accused Prince Andrew and convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually abusing her as a teenager — announced that she had died by suicide.
She was one of the first and most prominent accusers of Epstein, a New York financier, first suing him in 2009 under a pseudonym.
"She was one of the most beautiful souls you would ever have the chance to meet," Giuffre's sister-in-law, Amanda Roberts, told People (archived) on April 26. "But I think sometimes, that load and that weight becomes too much to carry."
In the days following her death, however, users across multiple platforms including X (archived), Instagram (archived) and Reddit (archived), claimed that she once posted, "In no way, shape or form am I suicidal," garnering tens of millions of views and reactions.
It is true that, in 2019, Giuffre did post that she was not suicidal, and wrote that "too many evil people want to see me quiteted" (archived).
(X user @VRSVirginia)
However, several posts (including the X post above) did not include the date in the image of her post, which could mislead people into thinking she posted the statement more recently than she did.
In sum, Giuffre did publicly state on X on Dec. 10, 2019, that she was not suicidal. However, several posts that circulated after her death regarding this statement did not include the date.