Explosive new developments are expected in the increasingly bitter legal fight over the estate of Virginia Giuffre, the late victim of Jeffrey Epstein, whose multimillion-dollar fortune is now the focus of competing claims, counterclaims, and newly implicated parties.
During a brief case-management hearing in Perth, Australia, on Friday, Supreme Court Registrar Danielle Davies signaled that more players may soon be pulled into the battle, including Virginia’s husband, Robert Giuffre.
Davies suggested he should “be joined or at the very least notified” before the next hearing, an indication that the court sees potential relevance in his role as both spouse and possible guardian of the couple’s minor daughter.
Virginia’s adult sons, Christian, 19, and Noah, 18, are already locked in a legal standoff with two women who were deeply embedded in Virginia’s life at the time of her death: former lawyer Karrie Louden and longtime carer and housekeeper Cheryl Myers.
According to attorney J.B. Patty, who represents the Giuffre brothers, Robert had originally consented to his sons receiving authority over their mother’s estate.
But that was before Louden and Myers filed sweeping counterclaims that could upend the distribution of assets and remove his entitlement entirely.
Davies pointed out the additional complication posed by the couple’s youngest child, a teenage daughter who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
If Robert is formally added to the case, she said, “he could also be joined in his capacity as guardian for (his daughter).”
But she cautioned that this could create a conflict “between Robert’s interests and the interests of the minor,” a signal that the court may be anticipating rival claims within the same family.
The public will soon see the full details of the counterclaims, which are expected to shed significant light on the internal fractures between Giuffre’s former lawyer, her housekeeper, and her children.
Those documents are likely to be unsealed next week.
At stake is a fortune exceeding $25 million, including:
• A $24.5 million settlement paid in 2022 by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former British prince and younger brother of King Charles III
• A $770,000 payment from Jeffrey Epstein in 2009
• An undisclosed payout from Ghislaine Maxwell in 2017 after a defamation suit
Sources have long suggested that Virginia feared losing this money amid escalating turmoil within her failing marriage.
Those fears reportedly intensified in the months leading up to her death on April 25, seven months ago.
At the time, she was living under a restraining order filed by Robert in the Perth courts, an order she said prevented her from seeing her children.
She also owned four properties, including a $2.5 million Perth beach house overlooking the Indian Ocean where Robert now resides with the couple’s three children, and a $1.3 million rural farmhouse north of Perth where she ultimately took her life.
Louden and Myers, now the primary challengers to the Giuffre brothers, are represented by prominent commercial litigator Craig Hollett, who declined to comment beyond acknowledging the court’s discussion about adding additional parties, including Robert.
The case is scheduled to continue in early 2026, with far-reaching family, financial, and reputational consequences still ahead.
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