What was the official cause and time of Virginia Giuffre's death according to autopsy reports?

1. What the official reports and mainstream outlets say

News organizations including NBC News, the BBC and People report that Giuffre’s family announced she died by suicide and that she was found unresponsive at her property near Perth on April 25, 2025 ^{[5] [2] [1]}. BBC reporting notes Western Australia police were called to a Neergabby-area home on a Friday night and said Major Crime detectives were investigating, with an early indication that the death was “not suspicious” ^[2]. People’s reporting also states the family said she died by suicide in the early morning hours of April 25 at her farm ^[1]. NBC’s article similarly reports the family’s statement that she died by suicide ^[5].

2. Timing: date and context provided in the sources

All cited outlets give the date of death as April 25, 2025, and reference that she was 41 at the time ^{[1] [2]}. The BBC explicitly ties the discovery of her unresponsive body to a police call on the Friday night in Neergabby and notes police comment about the investigation’s early findings ^[2]. People’s account specifies “the early morning hours of April 25” as the time she died ^[1].

3. Autopsy details — what the public sources do and do not say

Available sources in the provided results report the death as suicide and reference police investigation, but they do not publish a detailed autopsy report in these items. None of the supplied articles include or quote a coroner’s formal autopsy findings with cause-of-death language beyond the family’s statement and police preliminary description ^{[1] [5] [2] [3]}. Therefore: an official autopsy document or its precise medical wording is not present in the current reporting provided here — not found in current reporting.

4. Disputes and skepticism from family and lawyer

Despite wide reporting of suicide, some of Giuffre’s relatives and her lawyer expressed doubt publicly. People published that Giuffre’s Australia-based attorney later said some of her remarks "have been misinterpreted" and that she had expressed doubts about whether Giuffre took her own life ^[1]. The Independent reported Giuffre’s father insisting she “didn’t die by suicide” and saying “somebody got to her,” signaling family skepticism of the official characterization ^[4]. These statements show competing public narratives: family and a lawyer raising questions, while media outlets and police commentary report suicide and a non-suspicious early indication ^{[1] [2] [4]}.

5. Medical and situational background noted in reporting

Reporting before and after her death describes Giuffre had recent health and personal crises that reporters and family members cited as context. People reported that she had claimed on Instagram to be hospitalized and near death with kidney failure after a March 24 car crash involving a school bus, and that she had legal and family conflicts in the months prior to her death ^[3]. PBS, NBC and other outlets likewise refer to her struggles and activism career, but these pieces do not link those medical claims to a published autopsy ^{[5] [6]}.

6. How to interpret the discrepancy in public statements

There are two distinct threads in public reporting: (A) family statements and police comments reported by major outlets that the death was by suicide and that police saw no immediate sign of suspicious circumstances ^{[1] [2]}; and (B) expressions of doubt from family members and an attorney who say questions remain about how she died ^{[1] [4]}. The available sources do not resolve that tension because a formal coroner’s autopsy report with cause-of-death determinations and mechanism is not included in the supplied items — not found in current reporting.

7. What a reader should expect next and caveats

If you need the precise language from an official autopsy or coroner — for example, the medical cause (mechanism) and manner of death as recorded by a coroner’s office — those documents were not published in the supplied sources. Follow-up reporting from the Western Australia coroner or Major Crime unit, or direct publication of the autopsy/coroner’s findings, would be the authoritative source to cite; such a document is not present among the provided results (not found in current reporting).