• Virginia Giuffre recently posted a picture of her bruised face on Instagram, saying she had been in a road accident and was told she had four days to live
• Giuffre has alleged she has been abused by her husband of 22 years, Robert
• Giuffre has said she was a sex abuse victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew. Epstein died by suicide in jail and Andrew has denied the allegations
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre was released from the hospital on Monday, April 7, a week after saying she was suffering from renal failure after being in a vehicle accident with a bus.
Virginia, 41, was released from the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. The rep didn’t provide additional information about her health.
On Sunday, March 30, Virginia said on Instagram that she was in the hospital and near death after the car in which she was riding on March 24 was struck by a school bus going more than 49 mph.
“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure,” she wrote next to a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed, with her face covered in bruises. “They’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.”
While she was in the hospital, she came forward with allegations of abuse against her husband of 22 years, Robert Giuffre.
In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Virginia said, “I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who abused and trafficked me. But I was unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently. After my husband’s latest physical assault, I can no longer stay silent.”
Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE, Virginia’s brother, Sky Roberts, and his wife Amanda, both 36, say Virginia is speaking out about the allegations because of the severity of her injuries.
“I think the last incident that they had, she almost died,” Amanda says about the alleged Jan. 9 beating. “And we had to speak that truth with her on the phone. And I think she had acknowledged that if she had one more instance with him, she wasn’t making it out of there.”
The last time Robert allegedly beat Virginia was on Jan. 9, which left her with a cracked sternum and a perforated eye, among other injuries. She was transported to the hospital for her injuries, her spokeswoman says.
His attorney told PEOPLE in an email, “Unfortunately, as the issues you raise are before the Courts in Australia both he and anyone associated with the case including Ms Giuffre or her agents are prohibited from discussing or utilizing the media. Therefore, there is no comment.”
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Sky and Amanda note that they don’t know whether Virginia’s medical issues were caused by the crash, a recent beating she allegedly suffered, or a combination of the two.
“Let’s be clear, she never stated in the bus accident the cause of all her other injuries,” says Sky. “But I do think that the bus crash in some way, shape, or form saved her life. It could have been a blessing in disguise.”
Adding that he doesn’t know specifically “what happened internally to her,” Sky, an auto claims adjuster, says Virginia’s bruising “is consistent [with a car crash].”
Robert recently filed a family violence restraining order against her, alleging that she had become violent with him, they say.
“He just put his in place first,” Sky alleges. “Now she’s on the defense.”
She was accused of breaching the restraining order by texting Robert on Feb. 2 in Perth, 7 News was the first to report.
She is scheduled for a court hearing on the matter on Wednesday, April 9.
Virginia, 41, previously spoke out as an alleged victim of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, 66, who died in his jail cell in 2019, and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, who is currently serving a prison sentence for child sex trafficking in connection with Epstein.
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