The battle over the estate of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre intensified in Western Australia’s Supreme Court on Friday after a registrar signalled her husband and other previously uninvolved figures may need to be brought into the increasingly messy dispute.
The legal fight centres on Giuffre’s two teenage sons, her long-time Perth-based lawyer and her former housekeeper, who are all contesting who should inherit and control her estate following her sudden death in April.
Virginia Giuffre died in Perth in April.Credit: Getty
Giuffre, who received a widely reported £12 million ($24 million) out-of-court settlement from disgraced royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2022, died without a valid will, leaving the future of her assets in dispute.
A statement of claim filed in September shows her estate has a listed value of at least $500,000, which included company shares, trust interests, two vehicles, jewellery, a horse and her Neergabby farm property in the WA Wheatbelt.
Her sons Christian and Noah applied to be appointed administrators, but this was challenged by a counter-claim in the Supreme Court from Guiffre’s lawyer, Karrie Louden, and her carer, Cheryl Myers.
Their counter-claim includes what they say is an informal will created by Giuffre weeks before her death, with handwritten notes they argue record her true wishes, including naming Louden and Myers as her executors.
The son’s filings argue their mother lacked “testamentary capacity” when the informal will was created.
Registrar Danielle Davies told the court on Friday that Giuffre’s former husband, Robert Giuffre, had earlier signed a consent form to not be part of proceedings when the matter was not contested.
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