New Delhi, April 27 -- Virginia Giuffre, the woman whose accusations against Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, and others helped expose a global sex trafficking network, has died by suicide at the age of 41. Her death, confirmed by her publicist, comes at a time when significant parts of her story - and the broader Epstein scandal - remain unresolved, raising questions that are now unlikely ever to be answered.

Giuffre's allegations placed her at the center of one of the most explosive scandals involving powerful global figures. She detailed how, as a teenager working at Mar-a-Lago, she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell to work as a masseuse for Epstein, only to become trapped in a cycle of sexual exploitation.

She claimed she was traffi...