SYDNEY, April 26 -- Virginia Giuffre, who accused disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein and Britain's Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has taken her own life at her home in Australia, her family said Saturday.

"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in statement provided to AFP by her agent.

"She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking."

Giuffre, a US and Australian citizen, was 41.

She accused the late US billionaire Epstein of using her as a sex slave.

Prince Andrew repeatedly denied her allegation of sexual assault when she was 17 and avoided trial by paying a multimillion-dollar set...