Jeffrey Epstein’s estate agrees to $35 million settlement in victim class action

Jeffrey Epstein’s property has agreed to salary arsenic overmuch arsenic $35 cardinal to resoluteness a people action suit that accused 2 of nan disgraced financier's advisers of aiding and abetting his activity trafficking of young women and teenage girls, according to a tribunal filing connected Thursday.

Boies Schiller Flexner, a rule patient representing Epstein victims, announced nan colony successful a little revenge successful national tribunal successful Manhattan.

The deal, if approved by a judge, would bring an extremity to a 2024 suit revenge against Epstein's erstwhile individual lawyer Darren Indyke and erstwhile accountant Richard Kahn, who are co-executors of Epstein's estate.

Epstein's property antecedently group up a restitution money that paid retired $121 cardinal to victims. The property besides paid retired $49 cardinal successful further settlements to victims.

Neither Indyke nor Kahn "made immoderate admittance aliases concession of misconduct" arsenic portion of nan colony made nationalist connected Thursday, their lawyer Daniel H. Weiner said.

"Because they did thing wrong, nan co-executors were prepared to conflict nan claims against them done to trial, but agreed to mediate and settee this suit successful bid to execute finality arsenic to immoderate imaginable claims against nan Epstein Estate," Weiner said.

Weiner said nan colony would supply "a confidential avenue for financial relief" for Epstein victims who person not already resolved claims against nan estate.

Epstein died successful a New York jailhouse successful August 2019. His decease was ruled a suicide.

In nan 2024 lawsuit, lawyers astatine Boies Schiller Flexner said Indyke and Kahn helped Epstein create a analyzable web of corporations and slope accounts that fto him hide his abuses and salary victims and recruiters, while leaving them "richly compensated" for their work.

The Boies rule patient antecedently helped get $365 cardinal of settlements pinch JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank aft accusing them of missing reddish flags astir Epstein, erstwhile a lucrative client.