Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre wanted files released, her family say
Virginia Giuffre, who sued Prince Andrew for sexual abuse in 2021 and died earlier this year, wanted the Jeffrey Epstein files released, her siblings have said.
"She had a little bit of hope in her because it was said that the files were going to be released," Amanda Roberts, Ms Giuffre's sister-in-law, said in an interview reported by Sky News' US sister outlet, NBC News.
Ms Giuffre became a household name after she sued Prince Andrew for sexual abuse in August 2021 - saying he had sex with her when she was 17 and had been trafficked by his friend Epstein.
Prince Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with Ms Giuffre but has repeatedly denied the claims and has not been charged with any criminal offences.
Discussing the potential release of the files, Ms Roberts said: "She was fighting for that to happen right up until the very end.
"She wanted the public to know the crimes that they had committed."
President Donald Trump faces mounting pressure from politicians within his own party as well as Democrats to release the so-called Epstein files.
"We've constantly had to relive, since my sister's passing, these things from her past," Danny Wilson, one of Ms Giuffre's brothers, said in the interview reported by NBC.
It comes after President Trump told reporters about an alleged falling-out with Epstein over employees taken from his business.
"He took people that worked for me. And I told him, 'Don't do it any more.' And he did it," Mr Trump told reporters while on board Air Force One as he returned to the US from Scotland.
"I said, 'Stay the hell out of here'," the US president added.
Pressed about whether any of the employees he referred to were young women, Mr Trump said many of them worked in the spa at Mar-a-Lago.
"The answer is yes, they were in the spa," he said. "I told him, I said, 'Listen, we don't want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa.' ... And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again."
Asked if Ms Giuffre was one of the employees poached by Epstein, the US president replied: "I think she worked at the spa... I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her and, by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."
Epstein was ruled to have taken his own life in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
-SKY NEWS
