Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who also alleged that Britain's Prince Andrew abused her when she was a teenager, died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

"We would like to clarify that it was convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell who targeted and preyed upon our then 16-year-old sister, Virginia, from Mar-a-Lago, where she was working in 2000, several years before Epstein and President Trump had their falling out," the family said.