Virginia Giuffre's cause of death has been confirmed among documents released from the Epstein files.
Giuffre, who was one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, died by suicide at the age of 41 in April 2025.
She alleged that Epstein, aided by Ghislaine Maxwell, ran a sex trafficking ring which provided girls for sexual services to other powerful men.
The investigation ran across several years, with many other high-profile names being accused of involvement, and a massive push for all of the files relating to the case being made public.
The Department of Justice released the final drop of 3.5 million files relating to the investigation, containing documents and images which were previously unreleased.
Among the release were documents which allegedly briefly exposed Giuffre's cause of death, as well as "deeply personal emails from her closest confidant", per the Daily Mail.
The private messages were reportedly mistakenly made public before they were quickly redacted, and are said to have given an insight into Giuffre's state of mind in the months before her death.
According to the outlet, private emails from fellow Epstein survivor Maria Farmer were mistakenly made public amid the release, in which Farmer appeared to reveal Giuffre's cause of death.
Farmer allegedly wrote on May 8, 2025: "She died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last week at her home in Australia," following Giuffre taking her own life at her farmhouse in Neergabby, north of Perth, on April 25, 2025.
The alleged email was reportedly sent to several people, including US lawyer David Boies and attorney Sigrid McCawley, who both represented Giuffre during lengthy court battles.
Farmer is among the earliest known Epstein victims, who has long claimed she tried to raise the alarm about the disgraced financier's alleged abuse several years before the claims were made public.
The artist claimed she reported Epstein and Maxwell to the authorities in the 1990s after alleging she had been sexually assaulted, but claimed her complaints were ignored.
The subject line of her email allegedly read: "Abusing public victims has real consequences", and she wrote within it: "I have no idea how to survive now. She was our leader, our purpose. This is agonising for her children, especially her little girl.
"No one should ask so much of public victims. I struggle hour to hour to remain tethered to earth. Now we are hero-less.
"My raison d'être was Virginia. I'm an old woman without children. I wanted to have a child like V, brave and strong. She was pure LIGHT."
She also reportedly expressed her frustration that the files had not been released at the time, writing: "The FBI needs to feel DEEP SHAME and cough up my reports. They need to apologise, though now nothing matters.
"My entire fight was to get justice for this young lady. She was ALWAYS ON MY MIND, like Willie Nelson sang. Always. On. My. Mind.
"I reported to FBI TEN YEARS PRIOR TO THIS HERO BEING KIDNAPPED AND RAPED AS A CHILD!!! This is the most devastating sorrow and now nothing will ever be ok again.
"Nothing will be ok without Virginia here loving her children and animals. I will never be ok.
"The FBI really damaged society when they refused to listen to the fact children were being harmed!"
Giuffre's official cause of death has never been publicly released.
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