Giuffre’s paternal aunt, Kimberley Roberts, told the London Telegraph that the half-brothers were seeking a sizeable chunk of the estate.
“The estate should go to her children only,” she said.
Virginia Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, left, with his wife, Amanda, in Washington this month.Credit: Leigh Vogel for Sydney Morning Herald
The brothers are also said to want to assume control of Giuffre’s charity Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, which she did not manage to get off the ground before she died.
Up to $US3 million ($4.64 million) of the settlement paid by Andrew was ring-fenced for the charity and is still being held in an escrow account managed by a third party.
But other family members are against the brothers’ involvement and would rather it was run by experts in the charity sector.
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In June, it emerged that Giuffre’s two elder children – Christian, 19, and Noah, 18, who live with their father – had successfully applied to the court to be appointed administrators of the estate.
The pair published a public notice in the Western Australian Government Gazette calling for creditors to apply.
The split in the family ranks stretches to disagreement about how Giuffre died, with sources on both sides expressing frustration over the tearful television interviews given by various family members “seeking pity”.
“I know they’re trying to get as much press as they can get,” one source said of Giuffre’s brother, Sky.
“I’m not really happy about what he’s doing, and I’m not really happy about any of this stuff that’s happening.
Andrew with Giuffre (centre) in 2001 and Jeffrey Epstein’s then-personal assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell.
“He wants the whole family to say it’s suicide, without question.”
As well as the settlement from Andrew, Giuffre received $US500,000 from Epstein in 2009, when she settled her sex-trafficking and sexual abuse claims against him.
She also received an undisclosed payment after settling a civil case with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2017. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021 and is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence.
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Giuffre also owned four properties, including a six-bedroom seafront home in Ocean Reef, Perth, and a ranch in the nearby town of Neergabby, where she died.
She met Robert Giuffre, a martial arts instructor, in Thailand in 2002, during a trip funded by Epstein to undergo professional massage training.
The pair married just 10 days later, and she told Epstein she was not coming home, instead moving to Australia to start a family.
But before she died, Giuffre had become estranged from her husband of 22 years, who she alleged had become “emotionally and physically controlling”.
In January, she was admitted to hospital following an alleged assault. Her PR team said later that her husband had “brutally assaulted” her.
Giuffre in the Nteflix documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.Credit: Netflix
But it was Robert who was granted a restraining order and temporary custody of their two younger children, then aged 16 and 15 – who Virginia was banned from seeing.
Her mental health deteriorated and she had been due to appear before a Perth magistrate for the alleged breach of the order.
