Interactions between Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre and Australian police prior to her death will be reviewed, Western Australia's police commissioner has confirmed.
Giuffre, 41, died by suicide at her semi-rural property north of Perth in April of last year.
The investigation will focus on officers' handling of a dispute between Giuffre and a former partner, commissioner Col Blanch said.
Giuffre was at one point charged with breaching a restraining order in relation to the dispute.
She had long alleged she was trafficked for sex to former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and others when she was a teenager.
Giuffre was one of Epstein's most prominent accusers and was an advocate for survivors of sex trafficking.
The review would be carried out in response to a letter sent by Giuffre's family, Blanch said.
"We respond to over 100,000 family violence incidents every year," he told a Western Australia parliament hearing on Wednesday morning.
"I'd love to give assurance on every single one, but I can't — but that one will be subject to a review."
The state's coroner and ombudsman could also launch investigations, he said.
Family, advocates push for inquest
Members of Giuffre's family have called for a coronial inquest into her death, which has been backed up by a group of domestic violence experts.
An open letter signed by 16 experts in domestic violence, family violence and violence against women was sent to the WA coroner earlier this month.
"Virginia Giuffre spent much of her adult life in courageous pursuit of accountability for the abuse she suffered, taking significant personal risk to expose a network of exploitation and in doing so helping to protect other women," the letter read.
"It would be a profound injustice if the question of whether systems failed her in her final months were not examined with equivalent rigour."
It said she may have been a victim of domestic violence in the lead up to her death, and cited a 2022 WA Ombudsman investigation that found 56% of women and children who died by suicide in the state had previously been identified as victims of domestic and family violence.
"Her public profile means there is an unusually detailed record of her final months – and what that record shows is deeply consistent with what our research tells us about how these deaths occur, and how they are too often overlooked.
"Conducted with full attention to the domestic and family violence context of her death, such an inquest has the potential to generate findings and recommendations that reach far beyond this one case and that could prevent future deaths."
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