After Milania Giudice’s best friend died following a fatal fall in Florida on July 24, the reality TV star shared that Victoria saved multiple lives through organ donation.
“They’re packing up Victoria’s room right now,” Milania said from Victoria’s hospital room in a recent TikTok video. “She just went in, she's saving eight people's lives.”
Sharing deeper insight into the momentous effect, Victoria’s mom Maritza Zardoya clarified, “Normally she would have saved eight lives, but one donor is taking two organs.”
Victoria died after she "sustained fatal injuries due to a devastating fall” while exploring the ruins of Fort Dade from the Spanish-American War in the Tampa area, according to a statement shared on social media by Victoria’s friend Victoria Silberbusch, who was at the historic site during the “unimaginable and unexpected tragedy.” She was 20.
“I’m spreading awareness about Victoria,” Milania—daughter to Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice—continued in the TikTok video. “I can’t really say much right now because this is, obviously, really new. I just can’t believe this is real, like, seriously just hug your loved ones.”
One week after her death, Milania opened up about the grief she feels after losing her lifelong friend.
“My best friend. My sister. My soulmate. My partner in crime,” Milania wrote on Instagram August 1 alongside throwback and recent photos with Victoria. “There are no words in any language that could ever describe losing you. I still wait for your name to pop up on my phone, I still expect to hear your laugh, and I still catch myself wanting to tell you something.”
“My heart keeps forgetting what my mind already knows,” she added. "But one thing I know for sure is that every chapter of my life has your name in it.”
Milania and Victoria grew up on the same street in New Jersey just two doors apart from each other, where they met at the age of 4 before creating unforgettable memories together alongside Victoria’s twin sister Alexandra Zardoya.
More than a decade later, Milania and Victoria’s bond only got stronger with time as they enrolled in the University of Tampa in 2024.
Now, Milania can’t help but think about the milestones they had yet to reach together.
“Victoria, I am so sorry this happened to you,” she wrote. “You never deserved this. I would do anything to change it. We had too many plans, too many dreams, and too much life left to live together.”
“Even though you aren’t here the way I wish you were, you are still here,” she added. “In every story. In every laugh. In every memory.”
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In a throwback pic, Milania Giudice hung out at home with her friend Victoria Zardoya and her dad Joe Giudice, who grieved the loss of his daughter’s best friend in July 2026, writing on Instagram, “You were like a daughter to me. I watched you grow up with my daughter Milania. We were neighbors for years, and you became part of our family. I can’t believe you’re gone.”
Giudice and Zardoya coordinated their festival ‘fits during the Breakaway Music Festival in Tampa in April 2026. The besties posed alongside their friends and danced until the sun set.
Giudice and Zardoya had their arms wrapped around each other as they soaked up the sun together on Easter Sunday 2026 in Tampa, Fla., where they attended the University of Tampa together.
The pair were all smiles as they attended a costume party in November 2025 with friends dressed in caveman attire,, matching their fur boots and bone-inspired jewelry.
Giudice and Zardoya wore their New Jersey best as they attended the Haskell Stakes horse-racing tournament in July 2025.
The BFFs embraced their love for each other on Valentine’s Day 2024, matching their red tops and posing together with friends at a party. Giudice captioned her Cupid-inspired Instagram post, “Keep the good ones close.”
Zardoya and Giudice’s friendship was on par with any famous pairing, including Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Indeed, Zardoya celebrated her bestie’s February 2023 birthday with pictures from some of their many vacations together, writing in the caption, “It’s my best friends birthday. I love you. The Paris to my Nicole 4L.”
These two were jetsetters through and through and never found a body of water they didn’t love, including the coastal waters of Jamaica, where they visited in September 2022.
Their style matched their sisterhood, as Giudice and Zardoya sported coordinated black-and-white swimsuits during a trip to Cancún, Mexico, in August 2021.
Zardoya’s friendship with Giudice was on display yet again in her February 2020 birthday tribute, as she detailed their bond in the caption.
“Happy birthday to the girl who has never left my side,” Zardoya wrote on Instagram. “No matter what happens i will always love you like the triplet i never had. cheers love u m money.”
Besties from day one, Zardoya smiled with Giudice at the ice rink in a throwback picture that the Real Housewives of New Jersey alum shared after the news of her friend's death.