Key Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre died without a will, sparking a legal battle between her relatives over her mammoth settlements, including at least $12 million from disgraced then-Prince Andrew.
When Giuffre, 41, took her own life at her family’s Western Australia farm in April, she left behind a multi-million-dollar estate, including four properties and the separate settlements she received from Andrew as well as Epstein and his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
However, she died intestate, meaning without a formal will, according to the Telegraph.
That has left her relatives preparing to fight for it, with an interim administrator overseeing the estate ahead of a case management hearing scheduled Friday at the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
Under Australian law, her estranged husband, Robert Giuffre, could be entitled to up to a third of her estate — even though Virginia Giuffre emailed her lawyer to say she didn’t want her ex to get any of it, according to the report.
The pair were getting divorced at the time of her death.
Giuffre’s younger brother, Sky Roberts, and her half-brother, Danny Wilson, are challenging Robert’s right to her estate, while also battling for control of the charity she was launching, Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, according to the report.
Other relatives are fighting their claim.
“We don’t believe they have a right to it. The estate should go to her children only,” Giuffre’s aunt, Kimberly Roberts, told the Telegraph.
The bulk of Giuffre’s estate is the settlement, reported to be at least $12 million, that she received in 2022 from then-Prince Andrew to settle a lawsuit accusing him of having sex with her three times, starting when she was 17.
The payment, thought to have been part-funded by the late Queen Elizabeth II, came despite Andrew vehemently denying the claims, which led to him losing his royal titles.
Andrew, who was forced to give up his royal titles in October, has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing, and the settlement came with no admission of liability.
Giuffre also received $500,000 from Epstein in 2009 when she settled sex trafficking and sexual abuse claims against him, along with an undisclosed sum from Maxwell in 2017.
It is unclear if royalty payments from Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” are part of the dispute.
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