Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre remains in an Australian hospital following a crash with a school bus on March 24. Her condition remains serious, according to her spokeswoman.

Western Australian police said that a 71-year-old woman was driving, and a 41-year-old woman, presumably Giuffre, was a passenger in the vehicle when the accident happened on the afternoon of March 24 in Neergabby, a rural community about 12 miles north of Perth, where she has been living. There have been conflicting reports about whether anyone was injured.

The Daily Mail Australia newspaper reported that police said the crash was described as “minor” -- causing about $2,000 damage to the car. That account seemed to contradict Giuffre’s Instagram post on Monday in which she said she was plowed into by a school bus traveling 110 kilometers per hour, or 68 miles per hour, at an intersection where she said her car had slowed to make a turn.

“I won’t bore anyone with the details, but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110 km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” Giuffre wrote, along with sharing a photo of herself in a hospital bed covered in bruises.

The identities of the drivers were not released.

Giuffre said she had been told at the hospital that she was in kidney failure and had four days to live. Her spokeswoman, Dini von Mueffling, told the Miami Herald Tuesday that, at the time of the crash, police were called but no one was available to respond to the scene. They advised that anyone who may have been injured should go to a hospital.

“The school bus driver had a bus full of distraught children and left the scene to get them back, saying he would file a police report, which he did later. Virginia was banged up and bruised and returned home,” von Mueffling said in a text.

She explained that Giuffre’s condition worsened, and she was later admitted to the hospital. She did not address the dire nature of Giuffre’s Instagram post -- except to say that Giuffre mistakenly thought she was posting it on her private Facebook page.

“Virginia thanks everyone for the outpouring of love and support,” von Mueffling said.

“She remains in serious condition while receiving medical care.”

Giuffre — whose story about being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager put her at the center of one of the biggest sex scandals in history — has been at the forefront of a movement to expose others who were involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. She formed a non-profit to educate and advocate for sex trafficking victims. She also sued Epstein; his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell; his lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew, whom she claimed had sex with her when she was 17. All the cases ended in settlements.

In Dershowitz’s case, she later admitted she had been mistaken in identifying him as one of the people Epstein directed her to have sex with. In the past, she has named several other prominent men who were Epstein’s clients, all of whom have also denied her allegations.

Prince Andrew has also said Giuffre’s allegations are untrue. Giuffre, however, was able to produce a photograph of them together when she was 17. Despite his denials, he settled with Giuffre in an agreement that is said to be in the millions. He was later stripped of his military titles and his royal patronages.

Giuffre, 41, has long struggled with her health. In interviews, she has said she was molested from the time she was 7 and trafficked from the age of 14. When she was 16, she was introduced to Epstein by Maxwell, whom she had met while working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s country club in Palm Beach.

She was sexually abused by Epstein and Maxwell for years, according to her sworn statements in court records.

Finally, in 2002, she met and married her husband, Robert Giuffre, a martial arts instructor, in Thailand. They moved to Australia and had three children who are now teenagers.

She found some semblance of justice with Epstein’s 2019 arrest on sex trafficking charges in New York. However, Epstein was found dead in a jail cell a month after his arrest. His death was ruled a suicide. A year later, in 2020, Maxwell was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. She is serving a 20-year jail sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida.

Giuffre and other victims have been trying to pressure the federal government to unseal the FBI case files on Epstein, believing that there could be evidence in the files implicating others who were involved.

Over the past year, she has kept a lower profile.

Roberts, her father, told the the Daily Mail that his daughter has been recently estranged from her husband and going through a bitter divorce.

“She’s very depressed… there’s everything else she’s been going through with the divorce and not being able to see her kids.”

She referred to her agony in not seeing her children in her Instagram post.

“They’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology. I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time,” she wrote.

Her father said her family has encouraged her to get a second opinion about her condition.

‘I’m hoping she can hang on,’ he told the Daily Mail.

‘She’s only 41. She’s got a lot of life to live. She’s got a lot of things left to do - she’s helping people and helping other girls.”

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