The eldest son of Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent accuser of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has been seen for the first time since entering a legal battle over his late mother's substantial fortune.
Christian Giuffre, 19, was photographed by The Daily Mail in Perth, Western Australia, just days after he and his younger brother Noah, 18, filed a legal claim arguing their mother lacked the capacity to make a valid will before taking her own life.
The Emergence in Perth
A day after the brothers sought control over their mother's estate, Christian was seen taking a break with friends at The Breakwater, a popular hotel and dining spot overlooking the Indian Ocean in Perth's northern coastal suburbs.
The 19-year-old arrived holding hands with a young woman with long red hair, accompanied by four other young people. The group had departed from the oceanfront Perth mansion of Christian's father, Robert Giuffre - Virginia's estranged husband - just before 3pm on Saturday in a two-vehicle convoy.
Christian's blue Toyota Hilux carried three passengers as they made their way to the waterfront venue. The group appeared happy and relaxed as they followed Christian into the hotel's front bar, where they sat around a table drinking for approximately an hour before departing around 4.15pm.
The Legal Battle Intensifies
The brothers find themselves embroiled in a legal dispute with two women who were their mother's closest confidantes at the time of her death: Virginia's former lawyer Karrie Louden and Cheryl Myers, her carer and housekeeper at the Neergabby farm where the 41-year-old took her life on April 25.
The existence of an unsigned will has emerged as the central point of contention between Giuffre's sons and Ms Myers and Ms Louden. Court documents reveal that in the weeks before her death, Giuffre wrote a will and requested Karrie Louden have it formally drawn up.
Neither Ms Louden nor Ms Myers dispute that Giuffre died at her farm in Neergabby, 80km north of Perth, before she could sign the will or have it witnessed as required by the Wills Act, leaving the estate officially intestate.
Competing Claims Over the Estate
Louden and Myers are arguing the court should recognise verbal and written instructions they received as an 'informal will'. Under Western Australian law, this provision allows certain documents or notes to be validated as expressing a person's intentions for their estate.
Their defence counterclaim states: 'On 27 February 2025, the deceased created an informal will in writing. On 2 April 2025, the deceased provided verbal instructions to the first defendant [Louden], in the presence of the second defendant [Myers], to prepare a will to be executed in accordance with the Wills Act.'
An attachment to the counterclaim, possibly a note written by Giuffre, reads: 'I appoint Cheryl Myers and Karrie Louden as my executors and trustees.' Another states simply: 'Karrie/Cheryl to be executor'.
Virginia's sons firmly reject these claims, arguing in court documents that 'such instructions were preliminary instructions in contemplation of preparing a will, which was not prepared' and that their mother 'did not intend for such instructions to constitute her will'.
The Value of the Estate
One of the WA Supreme Court documents states Giuffre's estate is worth more than $472,000 - the legal threshold in Western Australia that governs how assets are divided when there is no valid will.
However, the real value of what Virginia Giuffre left behind is estimated to include what remains of the reported $24.5 million settlement she received from Prince Andrew. The Duke of York has consistently denied all allegations made by Giuffre about being sex trafficked to him when she was 17 years old. Notably, the substantial payout included no admissions of liability.
Additional assets include $770,000 received from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison, and an undisclosed sum from jailed sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell following a defamation suit. Profits from Giuffre's recently published memoir, 'Nobody's Girl', are also included in the estate.
When approached by the Daily Mail, Christian Giuffre politely declined to comment on his legal claims regarding his mother's estate, though he did mention in general terms that he believed the proceedings would become 'a lawyer fest' and that he didn't particularly like lawyers.
The WA Supreme Court has recommended that Robert Giuffre join his sons in the civil proceedings to take control of his late wife's will, adding another layer to this complex legal battle over the estate of one of the most famous accusers in recent history.
