Family pushes for Virginia’s Law, Epstein files release
Sky Roberts, 37, and his wife Amanda are speaking from their home in Colorado Springs, a room filled with photographs and mementoes bearing the butterfly motif Giuffre adopted for her cause. They have a background in retail management and property investing, not politics, Roberts said.
“We got thrust into it, within months [after Giuffre’s death], we were in advocacy work,” Roberts told The Guardian in an interview published Sunday. “A lot of it was driven by a sense of purpose. Virginia used to say, ‘How do you turn pain into purpose?’ And I couldn’t allow her story to be narrated by people that didn’t either know her or really understand who she was.”
Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 at age 41. At the time of her death, she was separated from her husband Robert Giuffre and had not been allowed to see her three children. Roberts said the family has no contact with the children. An ongoing legal battle over her estate continues.
In the months before her death, Giuffre told People magazine she had experienced domestic violence in her marriage. Her husband’s attorney said at the time that the case was still pending and that Robert Giuffre and the children were “very limited in their ability to respond to the various unfounded allegations.” Roberts said the domestic abuse allegations were “one of the hardest parts” for the family.
“We knew that there was another battle,” Roberts said.
Giuffre’s family asked the Western Australia police commissioner to open an investigation into her domestic abuse claims. Last month, the police agreed to a review. MSI previously reported that Police Commissioner Col Blanch confirmed the review would examine how authorities handled the dispute before Giuffre’s death.
The posthumous publication of Giuffre’s memoir “Nobody’s Girl” in October 2025, co-written with journalist Amy Wallace, detailed for the first time the full scope of abuse she alleged she suffered at the hands of Epstein and his associates beginning when she was a teenager. The book also disclosed that her father had sexually abused her starting around age seven, according to Giuffre’s account. Her father has denied the allegations, writing to Wallace: “Just to straighten this out, I never abused my daughter.”
“I always say I wholeheartedly believe my sister,” Roberts said. “Virginia has been proven to be a truth-teller time and time again.”
Roberts said it sickened him when their father came forward after Giuffre’s death to suggest she had not died by suicide. Roberts said he found his sister’s body and is convinced she took her own life.
“I think a survivor’s journey is complicated, and why she made that decision I will never fully understand,” Roberts said. “It’s also why we fight so hard, because there doesn’t need to be more Virginias out there who have the systems work against them for so long.”
The memoir’s publication added to mounting pressure on Prince Andrew, who gave up his titles days before the book was released. King Charles officially stripped him of his HRH style and his prince title the following month. In February 2026, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, with allegations he shared confidential information with Epstein in his role as trade envoy. He was released and has not been charged. Thames Valley police have separately said they are investigating claims a woman was taken to Windsor for “sexual purposes.”
Roberts expressed support for the Thames Valley police investigation, which he said is “building that plane while they’re flying it” because investigating a senior royal has never been done before.
A near-unanimous congressional vote passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, leading to the publication of documents. But the Justice Department has continued to refuse to release unredacted versions, with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the country should move on from Epstein.
“It’s brazen, this administration’s refusal to do what’s right,” Wallace said. “It’s shameful.”
The couple is about to relaunch Giuffre’s organization SOAR — Speak Out, Act, Reclaim — and are campaigning for “Virginia’s Law,” which would remove the federal statute of limitations in sexual abuse cases. Roberts said they are also maintaining pressure for the release of the remaining Epstein documents.
“We have to keep the pressure on,” Roberts said. “This is the moment where we set a precedent across the world that money and power do not buy you a different set of laws any more.”
Wallace, who spent about a month total with Giuffre in Australia while working on the memoir, said Giuffre insisted that a suicide attempt she made in 2022 be included in the book.
“She really understood, because of what she’d gone through, how she needed to describe herself honestly in order to be really of service to other victims,” Wallace said.
“Part of the tragedy for me is that she almost got to that finish line,” Wallace added. “And then she just couldn’t keep going.”