Virgina Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring and the first of Epstein’s victims to go public in 2015, died by suicide on Friday, her family announced. The 41-year-old’s death is a stark reminder of the all-too-human cost of professional negligence, and why ethics and compliance are such critical issues in any organization or industry prone to corporate greed.

Giuffre’s death comes almost six years after the disgraced financier was found hanged in his New York prison cell awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. 

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...