Police in Western Australia have confirmed a bus crash described by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who sued Prince Andrew for alleged sexual assault in 2021, but say they received no reports that anyone was injured went to the hospital as a result of the collision.
Roberts, the most well known of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage “sex slaves,” made global headlines Monday by posting an Instagram photo of herself in a hospital bed, bruised and claiming that she was in renal failure and given just “four days to live.” She said she was in the hospital following a car crash.
But in her post, Giuffre didn’t reveal where, when or how she was injured, except to say that she was driving somewhere when a school bus driver came at her vehicle traveling 110 kilometers per hour (68 miles an hour) “as we were slowing for a turn.” The 41-year-old Sacramento native, who moved to Australia in the early 2000s, said she hoped to live long enough to see her three teenage children, from whom she is reportedly estranged.
“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time,” Roberts said.
Police have since confirmed there was a crash crash involving a bus and a car on March 24 in Neergabby, a farming area north of Perth, People magazine and Australian news outlets reported.
But a police spokesperson told People that there were “no reported injuries” as a result of the crash, which occurred at 3 p.m. The spokesperson also said no one was taken to the hospital.
The spokesperson told the West Australian news outlet that the bus driver had reported the crash the following day, and also said that a car had sustained $2,000 in damages, according to the New York Post. Acting Police Commissioner Kylie Whitely also confirmed during a news conference Tuesday that the incident involved a 71-year-old woman at the wheel of the car and a 41-year-old woman in the passenger seat, news.com.au reported.
Roberts’ spokesperson Dini von Mueffling told the BBC on Sunday that she she had been “in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital. She greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.”
Giuffre’s father, Sky Roberts, also told the U.K. news outlet The Telegraph that his daughter is “not doing good. She’s depressed because she misses her kids. She’s got four days unless she gets another opinion from another doctor,” People reported. However, Sky Roberts is estranged from his daughter and has not seen her since the crash, according to People.
The Daily Beast previously reported that Giuffre moved to a beachfront property in Western Australia after receiving a reported $14 million settlement from Prince Andrew in 2022.
Her lawsuit against Andrew had effectively destroyed his career as a working member of the royal family. His settlement with Giuffre led to the late Queen Elizabeth II removing her second son from the ranks of the working royal family and stripping him of his HRH title and military honors.
Giuffre had filed a lawsuit against Andrew in New York City, alleging that she met the prince through Epstein and his girlfriend and alleged madame, Ghislaine Maxwell. As one of the notorious financier’s “sex slaves,” Giuffre alleged that she was forced to have sex with Andrew in London in March 2001, when she was 17, and then two more times at the his Manhattan mansion and on his private island in the Caribbean.
Andrew has always said he doesn’t remember meeting Giuffre, despite a widely circulated photograph, showing him grinning with his arm around Giuffre’s waist in Maxwell’s London townhouse. Andrew’s supporters, including Maxwell, tried to claim that the photo is fake, but forensics experts and other commentators believe that the photo is genuine.
Following Epstein’s reported death by suicide in August 2019, Andrew faced growing scrutiny over his longtime friendship with the billionaire financier and convicted pedophile.
Maxwell, the socialite daughter of the British media mogul Robert Maxwell, subsequently was tried and convicted of child sex trafficking charges in relation to her association with Epstein. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
In February 2022, Andrew agreed to an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre by paying an undisclosed sum of money.
Andrew has long considered trying to overturn his settlement with Giuffre, with his friends thinking that he settled the case too quickly, according to the Daily Beast. It’s been speculated that he settled the case so as to not overshadow celebrations for his mother’s Platinum Jubilee in June 2022.
Two years after Giuffre’s alleged encounter with Andrew, she said she traveled to Thailand to study massage and, at Maxwell’s request, recruit another girl for Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. There, she met Robert Giuffre, an Australian martial arts trainer, married him, cut ties with Epstein and Maxwell, and settled in Australia to raise a family, according to the BBC. But the Daily Beast said Giuffre had become estranged from her three children since separated from her husband last year.
Earlier this month, Giuffre suggested that her children have been taken away from her amid the marital breakup.
“My beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them and they’re being poisoned with lies,” she wrote on Instagram. “I miss them so very much. I have been through hell & back in my 41 years but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else. Hurt me, abuse me but don’t take my babies. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens.”