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Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and Hollywood producer Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, died on Friday at the age of 41. Her family said her death was caused by suicide.

In a statement, her family said she had been a “fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse” and that the “toll of abuse… became unbearable”. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” they said.

Giuffre was one of the first of many people who accused convicted sex offenders Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking and called for their criminal prosecution. Epstein was charged with sex trafficking in July 2019 and authorities say he committed suicide a few weeks later while imprisoned in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.

She alleged that one of the men they trafficked her to was Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, when she was 17 years old. She filed a lawsuit against him in New York in 2021 and in 2022, they settled the case for an unspecified sum. One of the terms of the agreement was that the British royal would make a “substantial donation” to a charity established by Giuffre that supports sex trafficking victims.

After her accusations were made public, Giuffre became a well-known campaigner and a central figure in the Me Too movement.

A mother of three, Giuffre died on her farm in Western Australia. Police said they were called to the home Friday night where she was found unresponsive. Though the death is being investigated, the police do not believe it is suspicious.

A few weeks ago, Giuffre revealed that she had been seriously injured in a car crash. In an Instagram post, she said she had suffered kidney failure after her car collided with a school bus, adding that doctors had given her four days to live. Her family later claimed she had not intended for the post to become public and local police disputed the severity of the incident.