Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, who alleged Britain’s Prince Andrew abused her when she was a teenager, has died bysuicide, her family said. She was 41.

維吉尼亞·吉弗雷是金融家杰弗里·愛潑斯坦性犯罪案的一位知名幸存者，她曾指控英國安德魯王子在她十幾歲時對她實施了性侵。她的家人稱，吉弗雷已自殺身亡，年僅 41 歲。

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” read a statement from the family.

“我們懷著無比悲痛的心情宣布，弗吉尼亞昨晚在西澳大利亞州的農場去世了。”弗吉尼亞的家人在一份聲明中寫道。

▲照片從左至右分別是：英國安德魯王子、弗吉尼亞·朱弗雷、愛潑斯坦前女友吉斯蘭·麥克斯韋爾

Police confirmed that emergency services found a woman unresponsive in her home near Perth, Western Australia, on Friday night. She was pronounced dead at the scene after first aid was unsuccessful.

警方證實，當地時間周五晚間，急救人員在西澳大利亞珀斯附近一處住宅內發現一名女子失去意識。盡管現場緊急施救，但最終無力回天，該女子當場被宣告死亡。

Her death is not being treated as suspicious, police said.“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim ofsexual abuseandsex trafficking,” her family said in the statement.

警方表示，初步調查后認定此案不存在可疑之處。家屬在聲明中沉痛表示：“弗吉尼亞因長期遭受性虐待與性交易的折磨，最終選擇以自殺結束了自己的生命。”

“Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors.”“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

聲明中稱：“弗吉尼亞是打擊性虐待與性交易斗爭中的堅定戰士，她的存在曾為無數幸存者帶來光亮與希望。”“然而，長期侵害帶來的痛苦與重負最終壓垮了她，使她再也無法承受。”

Giuffre, a mother of three, was one of the most vocal accusers of the wealthy and well-connected sex offender Epstein. In 2019, she publicly alleged Epstein trafficked her and forced her to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew, when she was 17 years old.
弗吉尼亞是一位三個孩子的母親，也是公開指控富有且人脈廣泛的性侵犯者愛潑斯坦的最積極的受害者之一。2019 年，她公開聲稱愛潑斯坦對她實行性交易，并在她 17 歲時強迫她與他的朋友們發生性關系，其中包括英國的安德魯王子。

She also claimed the prince was aware she wasunderagein the US at the time.Prince Andrew repeatedly denied the claims.

她還聲稱安德魯王子當時知道她在美國還是未成年人。然而，安德魯王子多次否認這些指控。

In July 2019, Epstein was indicted on one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking ofminors, to which he pleaded not guilty. One month later, he died by suicide in prison.

2019年7月，愛潑斯坦因涉嫌未成年人性交易及合謀拐賣未成年人性交易兩項罪名被起訴，然而他對這些指控表示不認罪。一個月后，他在監獄中自殺身亡。

A 2009 settlement agreement, unsealed in 2022, showed that Epstein paid Giuffre $500,000 to drop a case without any admission of liability or fault.

一份2009年的和解協議在2022年公開，顯示愛潑斯坦曾向維吉尼亞·吉弗雷支付了50萬美元，要求她放棄訴訟，但并未承認任何責任或過錯。

His ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in 2020 and accused of facilitating Epstein’s abuse scheme. A jury in 2021 convicted her on five federal counts, including sex trafficking a minor and conspiracy. She was sentenced to 20 years in jail a year later.

愛潑斯坦的前女友吉斯蘭·麥克斯韋爾于2020年被逮捕，因涉嫌協助愛潑斯坦實施性侵而遭到指控。2021年，陪審團裁定她犯有未成年人性交易及合謀拐賣未成年人性交易在內的五項聯邦罪名。2022年，她被判處20年監禁。

雖然這些施暴者們都得到了懲罰，但是維吉尼亞·吉弗雷的人生并未徹底好轉。外媒采訪了她的家人，曝光了她去世前的痛苦經歷。

In late March, Virginia said in an Instagram post that she was near death and in the hospital after a car she was in days earlier was struck by a school bus going more than 49 mph.

3月下旬，維吉尼亞在Instagram上發布消息稱，因幾天前她所乘坐的汽車被一輛時速超過49英里的校車撞擊，她目前正處于瀕死狀態，在醫院接受治療。

“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure," Virginia wrote alongside a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed, her face covered in bruises. "They’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.”

她在一張自己躺在醫院病床上、臉上布滿瘀傷的照片旁寫道：“我已經惡化到腎衰竭。他們說我只有四天可活了，正將我轉到一家泌尿科專科醫院。”

Shortly after, Virginia came forward with allegations of abuse against her husband of 22 years, Robert Giuffre.

不久后，維吉尼亞公開指控與她結婚22年的丈夫羅伯特·吉弗雷實施家庭暴力。

She told PEOPLE in an exclusive statement, "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."

在接受《人物》雜志獨家采訪時，她表示：“我曾經成功反抗過吉斯蘭·麥克斯韋爾和杰弗里·愛潑斯坦，他們曾對我進行性虐待和性交易。但直到最近，我才終于擺脫了婚姻中的家庭暴力。在最近一次家暴后，我再也無法保持沉默。”

Sky and Amanda told PEOPLE that Virginia had been having marital issues for a while and had separated from Robert — the father of her three children, ages 19, 16 and 15 — sometime around August 2023.

斯凱和阿曼達告訴《人物》雜志，維吉尼亞和丈夫羅伯特（她三個孩子的父親，孩子們分別為19歲、16歲和15歲）之間的婚姻問題已持續了一段時間，他們在2023年8月左右已經分居。

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重點詞匯解析

suicide/?su??sa?d/自殺：指一個人故意結束自己生命的行為。

sexual abuse/?s?k?u?l ??bju?z/性虐待：指對他人進行性方面的傷害、侵犯或強迫行為，通常涉及未成年人或無法反抗的人。

sex trafficking/s?ks ?tr?f?k??/性交易：指通過強迫、欺騙、威脅等手段將人販賣至從事性工作，通常是非法和剝削性的。

underage/??nd?re?d?/未成年：指年齡尚未達到法定成年年齡（通常是18歲以下）。

minor/?ma?n?r/未成年人：指年齡未滿法定成年年齡的人，通常指18歲以下的青少年。

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