23 hours Ago By Evening Standard
Prince Andrew ’s accuser Virginia Giuffre was charged with breaching a restraining order just days before she was injured in a bus crash and claimed she was dying. The 41-year-old posted a picture of her badly bruised face on Instagram on Sunday, saying she was in a hospital bed and had been told she has just four days to live. However her spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday that Ms Giuffre is not dying, she had “made a mistake”, and insisted that she had not intended to make the Instagram post public.
It has now emerged that Ms Giuffre was listed to appear at a magistrates court in Perth, Australia, ten days before the bus crash, over an allegation of breaching a family violence restraining order. Her marriage to husband of 22-years Robert Giuffre has recently broken down, and they are no longer living together at their beachside mansion in the Ocean Reef suburb of Perth, the Mail reports. Mr Giuffre has been separately charged with an allegation of “providing inadequate storage facility for firearms”.
Ms Giuffre fell victim to sex trafficking at the hands of paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was a teenager. She accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, in a case that was eventually settled with a reported £12 million payout. The Duke denied the allegations against him.
On Sunday, Ms Giuffre suggested in her Instagram post that the car she was in had been hit by a school bus travelling at 110km/h. “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology”, she wrote. “I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes.
” Two days before the car crash , Ms Giuffre posted a picture of her children on a beach with the caption: “My beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them and they’re being poisoned with lies. “I miss them so very much. I have been through hell and back in my 41 years but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else.
“Hurt me, abuse me but don’t take my babies. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens.” Ms Giuffre met her husband when she was 19 and training as a masseuse in Thailand.
Police in Western Australia have confirmed the car crash, and said they have received “no report of any serious injuries”..
