Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses began by 1985, targeted 13-year-old, lawsuit claims

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls and young women began as early as 1985 and targeted victims as young as 13 years old, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by nine accusers against his estate.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS.

The accusers, known as Jane Doe I through Jane Doe IX, are among more than 20 women so far to formally seek compensation from Epstein’s $577 million estate, after he killed himself on Aug. 10 in a Manhattan jail cell.

Epstein’s death at age 66 was ruled a suicide, and came five weeks after his arrest on federal charges he trafficked dozens of underage girls from at least 2002 to 2005. He had pleaded not guilty. Many accusers have said his abuses occurred last decade.

Lawyers for Epstein’s estate did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit, which was filed in a New York state court in Manhattan.

The nine women said Epstein’s abuses spanned more than two decades, often with help from associates, and six said they were raped.

One accuser, Jane Doe II, said Epstein sexually assaulted, abused and battered her starting around 1985, when she was 23.

Another accuser, Jane Doe I, said she was 14 when abuse began around 1990, while Jane Doe III said she was just 13 when her abuse began around 2003.

Jordan Merson, a lawyer for the nine women, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Nov. 14, the executors of Epstein’s estate, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, asked a judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands to establish a voluntary restitution fund to compensate Epstein’s victims.

The fund’s administrators would include Kenneth Feinberg, who has overseen payments on claims tied to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the BP oil spill in 2010, and General Motors Co vehicles with defective ignition switches.

Epstein had originally escaped federal prosecution by pleading guilty in 2008 in a Florida state prostitution case. That plea is now widely considered too lenient.

ThomaspaineCruyff on December 4th, 2019 at 01:32 UTC »

Also Ghislaine Maxwell stands accused of personally raping over 20 of the accusers. In addition to arranging, pimping, procuring, issuing death threats if they talk.

How in the fuck has she not been arrested yet?

in_the_bumbum on December 3rd, 2019 at 22:43 UTC »

Just an FYI, Jeffery Epstein was a highschool teacher for a prominent NYC private school in the 70's. I suspect that abuse was happening even then.

cyfiawnder on December 3rd, 2019 at 22:31 UTC »

targeted victims as young as 13 years old

Virginia Roberts (the girl that Prince Andrew has his arm around in that infamous photo) has already testified in court filings that Epstein boasted to her about sexually abusing three 12 year old girls he had flown in for his birthday. https://nypost.com/2019/08/19/jeffrey-epstein-was-sent-three-12-year-old-french-girls-as-birthday-gift/