Virginia Giuffre: Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking victim discharged from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

Virginia Giuffre has been discharged from a Perth hospital almost a week after she claimed she had just days to live. Ms Giuffre made headlines around the world last week when she told her followers she was dying after the car she was in crashed with a school bus in Neergabby, 80km north of Perth, on March 24. However, police said there were no reported injuries from the crash. After spending six days at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Ms Giuffre was discharged on Monday. It is understood she was taken off the hospital campus out of the view of a press pack. The 41-year-old, who now lives in Perth, was first thrust into the spotlight after it emerged she was sex trafficked by billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago. She also made allegations of sexual assault against Prince Andrew. In her post on Instagram, Ms Giuffre said she had “four days to live” and was suffering kidney failure after a bus smashed into her car at 110km/h. Posted alongside a photo of her looking battered and bruised in a hospital bed, she said it had been the “worst start to a new year”. “I think it is important to note when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km/h as we were slowing for a turn, that no matter what your car is made of, it might as well be a tin can,” she wrote. “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.” Police, after initially being unable to find any record of the incident, later confirmed the crash happened, describing it as minor and saying it caused $2000 worth of damage to the car. Ms Giuffre’s family later said the post was initially intended to be shared on her private Facebook page. “Virginia and her family thank everyone for their concern,” her family said. Ms Giuffre’s brother flew in from the US on Thursday to visit her in hospital. It came as court records revealed Ms Giuffre was accused of breaching a family violence restraining order at an Ocean Reef property on February 2. She faced Joondalup Magistrates Court for the first time on March 14 and is next due in court on Wednesday. It is understood Ms Giuffre and her husband, Robert, recently separated. Lancelin bus driver, Ross Munns, last week said the crash had been “blown out of proportion”. “It’s just nothing,” Mr Munns said. Ms Giuffre has been living a quiet life in Ocean Reef for years with her three children. A photograph of Ms Giuffre as a teenager standing with Andrew and Epstein’s fixer, convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, has been central to a host of court proceedings. In a civil lawsuit filed in the US in 2021, Ms Giuffre alleged Epstein forced her to have sex with the Prince. Prince Andrew repeatedly denied the allegations and in 2022 agreed to a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement.