Jeffrey Epstein victim and Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre showed ‘no signs’ that she would take her own life, her lawyer has revealed.
Karrie Louden, who had represented Ms Giuffre, 41, since January, addressed the media outside her client’s farmhouse on Monday as she spoke out on the conspiracy fears surrounding her death.
Giuffre took her own life on Friday night at her farmhouse in Neergabby, north of Perth after the ‘toll of abuse… became unbearable’, according to her family.
Ms Louden said she was ‘in shock’ and was in contact with her client in the days before her death.
‘This has been a complete shock to all of us,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
‘If any of us had thought she’s going to commit suicide, of course we would have taken more steps, put her into a clinic or got her some more help.
‘When I got the phone call, I was like, ‘are you joking?’ Because there was no signs that was something she was considering.’
Ms Louden wouldn’t speculate on the circumstances surrounding the mum-of-three’s death.
‘It’s inconclusive. I’m a defence lawyer and I don’t like to speculate about things until the evidence is in [and] the evidence is not in,’ she said.
‘The police told me nothing, they didn’t even confirm she was dead. It wasn’t suspicious circumstances – it’s suicide or misadventure.
‘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.
‘You’ll all be aware that she’s been in hospital. She’s been on medications.
‘Has she just taken too many painkillers? Was she intentionally doing it? I just, you know… I don’t even know what the cause of death was.’
Ms Louden said there were no suspicious circumstances ‘as far as we are aware’.
She is unaware whether a suicide note was left.
‘Given the recent activities, it’s very likely that we will never know. The police were just very, very vague. I know that she’s gone but how that happened, I don’t know,’ Ms Louden said.
‘I’m not sure we’ll ever know. I mean, sometimes the coroner might say it was suicide, the coroner might say it was misadventure, the coroner might say inconclusive.’
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