India, April 26 -- Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's sex abuse scandal's most well-known survivors, died by suicide, said her family on Friday, reported NBC News. Giuffre was a prominent voice in bringing the Jeffrey Epstein's sex abuse case to light and encouraged many survivors to speak up.

In a statement to NBC News, Giuffre's family confirmed that she had died by suicide after she could not take the weight of the sex abuse she had endured during her lifetime. She was 41 at the time of her death.

"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking," the family's...