SERIES EXAMINES HOW JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAILING WOMEN SUFFERING DOMESTIC ABUSE
Virginia Giuffre is known for taking on the world’s most famous paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Lesser known was the battle she fought behind closed doors, including what happened in the months leading up to her death in Perth, Western Australia. This is at the centre of a gripping new podcast from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and WAToday.
The four-part investigative series, titled Virginia, by Good Weekend senior writer and Walkley Award winner Melissa Fyfe and WAToday journalist Carla Hildebrandt, launches tomorrow, Saturday, July 11, with weekly episodes available on all major podcast platforms.
With access to Virginia’s diaries, court documents, personal texts to her friends and family and exclusive interviews with those with her until the end, the series pieces together what happened in those last months before she took her life in April 2025.
Virginia examines the violence both she and her husband reported against each other, the interim restraining order filed against her, the removal of her children by a magistrate, and the system she turned to for protection that ultimately let her down.
Journalist Carla Hildebrandt said:
”The series raises questions about how police and the courts treat domestic violence victims and how far we have to go. It explores the systemic failures that preceded her death and...
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