Fund set up to compensate victims of sexual abuse from $630 million estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein opens for claims
Alleged Jeffrey Epstein sexual assault victim Kiki looks on at a news conference in New York, US, on February 5, 2020. opened for claims on Thursday, enabling dozens of women attacked by the financier when they were as young as 14 to seek a cut of his $630 million estate.
“One of the most attractive features of this program is confidentiality and the ability to keep this information private,” she said. After Epstein, 66, killed himself in August in a Manhattan lockup, over a dozen lawsuits against his estate said that women and teenage girls suffered sexual abuse, sometimes for years, from Epstein and his enablers at homes in Manhattan, the Virgin Islands, Paris, New Mexico and Florida.Women willing to forgo the spate of lawsuits have nine months to file claims with the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program.
“We have confidence that the program will be the most successful of its kind,” said Brad Edwards, an attorney for numerous Epstein victims who helped develop it. "Of course, if any victim is not satisfied with the program, she is free to pursue her remedy though litigation.” Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in New York are continuing to investigate claims that decades-long abuse was enabled by a network of co-conspirators.Epstein’s former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, was described in a 2017 lawsuit as the “highest-ranking employee” of Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking enterprise.
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