WA court appoints administrator to oversee estate after lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein victim and her housekeeper contest Giuffre’s sons being granted authority
An interim administrator has been appointed to oversee the estate of Virginia Giuffre after she died without a valid will, meaning multiple lawsuits that had been on hold can now resume.
Giuffre, 41, died on a small Western Australian farm, 80km north of Perth, in April.
On Monday, the Western Australia supreme court appointed lawyer Ian Torrington Blatchford to take interim control of her estate, thought to be worth millions.
The estate is likely to include what is left of a reported £12m out-of-court settlement Giuffre received in 2022 from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – formerly Prince Andrew – after she alleged he sexually abused her when she was 17. He has denied the allegations.
