Two women filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, claiming their photographs were found in his vast collection of child pornography.Identified in court papers only as Jane Doe and Amy, the women allege that “few if any” of those whose photos were in Epstein’s collection were informed that these photographs are in the hands of federal investigators.And, in addition to unspecified damages, they are asking the court to “design and supervise a single, coordinated program for identifying and notifying” the other women whose “unlawful sexualized images” were part of Epstein’s collection, according to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Southern District of New York.“One of Epstein’s most horrific but often overlooked crimes was his possession, transportation, production, and distribution of child pornography and/or child sexual abuse material (together ‘CSAM’) of countless children,” the lawsuit says.“Beginning in the early 1990s until his death in 2019, Epstein, along with his co-conspirators, created and participated in a multi-decade, vast CSAM conspiracy,” it says.The lawsuit alleges that Epstein kept a “modeling book” containing “sexualized images of children” in a locked safe.No CSAM charges were filed against Epstein, and according to the lawsuit, Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators alleged the images “were for the purposes of developing child models for Victoria’s Secret.”“This lawsuit holds Jeffrey Epstein’s estate accountable for a crime that has never been fully addressed on its own terms,” one of the accusers’ lawyers, Hillary Nappi of AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys, said in an emailed response to questions.
Named as defendants in their capacities as co-executors of Epstein’s estate are his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn.Their lawyer, Daniel Weiner, declined to comment.Epstein died by suicide in 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New ...