Which law enforcement or medical examiner’s office handled Virginia Giuffre’s case and issued the findings?

1. The scene and the first official responder: Western Australia police recorded the death

Australian authorities — specifically Western Australia state police — were the first official agency publicly identified as handling Virginia Giuffre’s death; Reuters reported that state police received a late-night report of a 41-year-old woman found dead at a residence near Perth and said first aid was attempted and that “foul play was not suspected” ^[1]. That statement establishes the police as the initial investigative authority on the scene and the public source for preliminary facts about how the death was discovered and the absence of overt signs of criminality according to their initial assessment ^[1].

2. Family statement and cause-of-death language used in reporting

Giuffre’s family issued an emailed statement saying she “died by suicide,” and major outlets relayed that family claim alongside the police account ^[1]. Reuters repeated the family’s characterization and ABC News also carried the family’s description of suicide while contextualizing Giuffre’s role as a prominent Epstein accuser ^{[1] [2]}. Those competing sources — a family statement and a police press note — are typical in early reporting: the family can provide a cause as they understand it, while police limit public statements to observable facts and investigative posture ^[1].

3. No published coroner or medical examiner report for Giuffre in the supplied reporting

The materials provided do not include any coroner’s certificate, formal coroner finding, or a named medical examiner’s office that issued a final cause-and-manner determination for Giuffre’s death. Reuters and ABC attribute the cause as “died by suicide” based on family and police accounts, but neither article cites a coroner’s report or a medical examiner’s office in Western Australia issuing an official ruling in the excerpts supplied ^{[1] [2]}. Because coronial systems vary by jurisdiction and formal determinations can be delayed, absence of such a citation in the provided sources means a definitive, sourced attribution to a coroner’s office cannot responsibly be asserted here.

4. Watch out for conflation with other high‑profile deaths and U.S. medical examiners

Several widely cited reports about Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death reference the New York City medical examiner’s conclusion that Epstein died by suicide; ABC News explicitly mentions the New York Medical Examiner ruling in that separate context ^[2]. That U.S. medical examiner finding is unrelated to the handling of Giuffre’s death in Australia, but the proximity of the two stories in reporting can create confusion — the New York Medical Examiner had jurisdiction over Epstein’s death in Manhattan, not over deaths that occur in Western Australia ^[2].

5. Legal and procedural context: coronial reporting is jurisdiction-specific

General information about medical examiner and coronial practice in Virginia and statutory rules about report admissibility (included in the provided sources) underscore that formal cause-and-manner determinations are matters for an official medical examiner or coroner’s office and that such offices control release of investigatory findings ^{[3] [4] [5]}. However, those U.S.-centric materials (Virginia Department of Health pages and Virginia code) are procedural context and do not identify a specific office that issued a report in Giuffre’s case; they instead illustrate how coronial offices typically handle and release death determinations when they do so ^{[3] [5] [4]}.

6. Bottom line and limits of the record supplied

Based on the supplied reporting, Western Australia police handled the initial response and publicly said foul play was not suspected, and Giuffre’s family stated she died by suicide; the provided sources do not include a named coroner’s or medical examiner’s office in Australia issuing a formal, published finding ^{[1] [2]}. Without a cited coroner’s report or a local medical examiner’s certification in the available material, it is not possible to authoritatively name which coronial office — if any publicly recorded at the time of these reports — issued a certified determination.