Emotional moment when Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer breaks down while she remembers her disbelief after the victim of Jeffrey Epstein took her own life

The American lawyer of Survivor of Sexual Abuse Virginia Giuffre Says that the world will never be the same again after the death of her client.

Giuffre, 41, took her own life on April 25 in her farm in Neergabby, north of Perth After the ‘toll of abuse …, according to her family, became unbearable.

She was one of the most prominent accusators of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine MaxwellClaiming that the pair kept her as a teenager as a teenager.

She claimed she Acted her to the Duke of York when she was 17 and was sexually abused by him – a claim that Prince Andrew has always refused vigorously. The prince reached an extrajudicial settlement with her in 2022.

Sigrid McCawley was not only the lawyer of Giuffre, but also a friend who fought in a tear in one 60 minutes interview broadcast on Sunday evening.

“I used to say that we had break the line of the lawyer-client because she would sign her e-mails,” I love your Siggy, “she remembered.

“She was just a dear person in my life. And I think the world won’t be the same without her. It just won’t be. ‘

The news from Giuffre’s death shocked Mrs. McCawley.

‘Overwhelming surprise and disbelief. Really unbelief, “she remembered.

“It took me a few hours to even come to terms with the fact that it was real.”

Mrs. McCawley never feared that Giuffre would take her own life, despite the deep physical and mental scars that her client wore.

Her marriage to Robert Giuffre had recently broken and she seemed to have been alienated from the teenage children of the couple.

Then, less than a month before her death, Giuffre went to social media and claimed that she had kidney failure and ‘four days to live’ after a crash with a school bus.

“I was worried about her physical health,” said Mrs. McCawley.

‘Virginia is always someone to gather, so every time I spoke with her, she could find the sunny side of something.

So she was very, still very lifted and we were aimed at getting her care in the United States.

“That’s why I think it was disbelief so strong.

‘I keep thinking that I will see her again.

“I think that although Virginia could experience many demons in her life and many villains, that moment of hardship, I think that was something more than she can handle.”

Giuffre said she was only 16 when she was first abused by Epstein and Maxwell.

Mrs. McCawley said that Giuffre left a powerful legacy.

“She left us a feeling that regardless of whether you are a president, a politician, a billionaire or a prince, that you can be held responsible. You are not above the law, “she said

“She put Epstein in prison. She brought Maxwell to prison.

She Prince Andrew had stripped his titles.

“Her words, her actions were incredible and they started a movement of change.”

60 minutes also looked back on the 2019 interview with Giuffre after Epstein took his own life while he was behind bars.

Traumatic memories came back while she was outside his former Mansion in New York almost 20 years earlier.

“It’s difficult. It is really difficult to be back here … Many scars are hidden behind those walls, “Giuffre remembered.

‘It must be torn, it must be burned on the ground

“Some of my worst memories are of this place.”

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