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A lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre — who killed herself at her home in Australia — has now cast doubt on her suicide, insisting “We’ve got big question marks over it.”
Karrie Louden claimed the 41-year-old mother had shown no sign she wanted to harm herself before she was found dead at her farm in Western Australia last Friday.
“When I got the phone call, I was like, ‘Are you joking?’ Because there was no sign that that was something she was considering,” the lawyer told The Sun.
Louden, who had represented Giuffre since January, expressed skepticism over her family’s shock announcement she had taken her own life.
“There’s suicide and then there’s misadventure,” Louden claimed.
“I didn’t see her in the room. I wasn’t in there. The family said what the family has said but I’m not going to speculate whether it was suicide or accidental.”
Giuffre’s death came just weeks after she took to social media to claim she had just “days to live” after allegedly being injured in a March 24 collision with a school bus.
Giuffre, who was allegedly sex-trafficked by Epstein to have sex with the UK’s Prince Andrew when she was a teen, had posted a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed covered in bruises.
“She was in a lot of pain but she was looking forward to things in the future,” her lawyer insisted.
“She wanted to renovate this house and all sorts of things like that.”
It comes after her family released a statement confirming news of her death, saying “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
“She was the light that lifted so many survivors,” the statement continued. “Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.”
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