Rosanna Arquette has raised questions over the death of her friend and late Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.
“I knew Virginia. I don’t think she killed herself,” Arquette, 66, told London’s The Times in an interview published on Saturday, March 7.
Members of the Giuffre family announced in April 2025 that Virginia had died by suicide at age 41. Viriginia had previously shared numerous alarming messages about her health in the days leading up to her death. (Virginia was survived by her and estranged husband Robert Giuffre’s three children Christian, Noah, and Emily.)
“Giuffre lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family said at the time. “Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure. The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily.”
Discussing her friendship with Virginia, Arquette told The Times that she identified with all of Epstein’s victims because of her own experience with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. (Arquette accused Weinstein, now 73, of grabbing her hand “and pull[ing] it toward his penis” at The Beverly Hilton in the 1990s. Weinstein denied those allegations.)
“I had many conversations with the Epstein women,” she said. “Those women are warriors right now, and we need to protect them.”
Asked directly if she believed Virginia died by suicide, Arquette replied, “I do not.”
Arquette is not the first person to raise questions over Virginia’s 2025 death. Her father, Sky Roberts, called for an official inquiry into Virginia’s death last April and pointed to past social media posts stating that she had no suicidal ideation.
Virginia’s lawyer Karrie Louden told The Sun in April 2025 that she also had “big question marks” about how her client died.
“When I got the phone call, I was like, ‘Are you joking?’” Louden recalled. “Because there was no sign that that was something she was considering.”
Virginia accused Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually trafficking her to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Britain’s Prince Andrew, three times, including when she was 17 in 2001. Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, told Newsnight in 2019 that he had “no recollection of ever meeting” Virginia and denied any wrongdoing towards her.
Mountbatten-Windsor later reached a private settlement with Virginia in 2022 after she sued him for sexual assault. The former prince did not make any admission of guilt as part of the settlement.
Epstein died by suicide at age 66 in August 2019 following his arrest on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, 64, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 after being convicted on sex trafficking charges. (Maxwell maintains her innocence to this day and has asked President Donald Trump for clemency.)
Meanwhile, Giuffre’s family most recently spoke out following Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest in February on suspicion of misconduct in a public office. Mountbatten-Windsor has been accused of sharing confidential information with Epstein while serving as a U.K. trade envoy from 2001 and 2011.
“At last,” Sky and Amanda Roberts and Danny and Lanette Wilson told NBC’s Today on February 19. “Today our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty. On behalf of our sister, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we extend our gratitude to the Thames Valley Police for the investigation and arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.”
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