Lady Clare Guinness, a British socialite linked to Jeffrey Epstein, has died of brain cancer at age 51, leaving victims without potentially crucial information about the paedophile's abuse network. She passed away just before Christmas, days after the Sunday Mirror first revealed her involvement with Epstein in May 2020.
Flight records show Lady Clare accompanied Epstein on over 30 journeys between 1998 and 2000, travelling on his private jet, the Lolita Express, to his Caribbean island and properties in New York, Ohio, and New Mexico. The National Crime Agency (NCA) contacted the FBI in 2020, flagging her as an alleged close contact of Epstein and noting an investigation by the NSPCC into her role as president of its West Suffolk branch, from which she later resigned.
A newly unearthed photograph from early 1999 shows Lady Clare alongside Prince Andrew, Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and others at a shooting party at Sandringham. The image was obtained by French police investigating claims that model agency boss Jean-Luc Brunel recruited underage girls for Epstein. Lady Clare was named in court filings by Virginia Giuffre as a witness with knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell's sexual trafficking.
Lady Clare married Arthur Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh, in 2001, becoming Countess of Iveagh. Before marriage, she worked as a model and was part of Epstein and Maxwell's inner circle, helping manage Epstein's horse stable in New Mexico. She and the earl later divorced. Her private funeral was held at the Church of St Andrew and St Patrick in Elveden, on the Guinness estate.
