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Epstein was facing sex trafficking charges. AP/PA Images

Two more women file $100 million lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's estate

The lawsuit also mentioned 10 women who are also accused of being accomplices of Epstein

TWO MORE WOMEN have come forward filing a $100 million lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, accusing the billionaire of sexual abuse  15 years ago. 

The lawsuit, filed in a Manhattan federal court, did not identify the two alleged victims. 

It also did not name some 10 women also accused of being accomplices of Epstein, a convicted pedophile who died last weekend after reportedly taking his own life in a New York prison cell, where he was being held on charges of trafficking minors for sex.

The age of the accusers was not listed in the lawsuit, but their lawyer Lisa Bloom said in a statement Friday they were 18 and 20 at the time of the alleged abuse.

They were working as hostesses in a Manhattan restaurant in 2004 when a woman described in the lawsuit as a “recruiter” for Epstein approached them.

The recruiter allegedly offered the pair, who were hoping to launch careers as models, hundreds of dollars each to go to Epstein’s home and give him a massage, assuring them there would be no sexual contact.

Two days later they went to Epstein’s mansion near Central Park. Once they were in the massage room, the eight-page lawsuit said, Epstein was sexually aggressive towards them before giving them several hundred dollars.

The complaint said the women were so “terrified” by Epstein and his power at the time that they did not report the abuse. It was only after his arrest in July that they realized the seriousness of the charges against him.

Last week, a 32-year-old woman filed a similar suit against Epstein’s estate, saying he had sexually abused and raped her when she was a teenager. 

The lawsuit by Jennifer Araoz was also directed at Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and three other unidentified accomplices.

Bloom said the estate should set up a special fund to address the growing number of lawsuits against Epstein if it wanted to avoid years of court battles. 

Epstein’s death is still under investigation. US media reported that the coroner found broken bones in his neck, consistent with hanging or strangulation but the coroner has warned against jumping to conclusions.

US media today reported that Epstein died by hanging.

© – AFP 2019

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:43 PM

    Wouldnt be suprised if these 2 women are only doing this because he is dead and just want some money, making a mackery of his real victims

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:52 PM

    @Karl Charlie: Could be because they now feel safe enough to do so either. Let the courts decide.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:58 PM

    @Diarmuid Hunt: They wouldn’t be “ Safe “

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    Aug 16th 2019, 11:03 PM

    @Colette Kearns: Would you feel safer making allegations against a powerful, well connected billionaire or a dead man? I’m not saying the way it has happened is right, or even that these allegations are true but try putting yourself in the shoes of a woman in their situation.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 11:38 PM

    @Karl Charlie: let them name all of involved

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    Aug 17th 2019, 12:17 AM

    @Diarmuid Hunt: I think you might have misunderstood what I’m saying ( but probably my fault for not explaining it properly) what I mean is , there’s an awful lot of extremely high profile people involved with all this & any of them might be wondering if their names might be dragged into it, & the more that might win their cases could entice more victims to come out, I don’t think any of them can rest easily yet! ( well hopefully not)

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    Aug 17th 2019, 8:21 AM

    @Karl Charlie: and your evidence for this is?…………………

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    Aug 17th 2019, 8:59 AM

    @Karl Charlie: you can see these women might become a victim of an accident .

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:56 PM

    Gravediggers

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    Aug 17th 2019, 6:18 AM

    @Martin Brennan: hardly,
    The man was a monster.

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    Aug 16th 2019, 10:57 PM

    100 million, I thought he was a billionaire, are they not leaving themselves a bit short only asking for 100 million??

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    Aug 16th 2019, 11:04 PM

    @Devilsavocado:

    Former billionaire. I think he was worth half a billion

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    Aug 16th 2019, 11:28 PM

    This case will go on for some time.

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    Aug 17th 2019, 9:51 AM

    @Mairead1990: what is there a few hundred million up for grabs . #metoo

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    Aug 17th 2019, 9:26 AM

    I remember when this was a right wing conspiracy and nobody believed it. Now suddenly everyone is a conspiracy theorist. Next thing people will start thinking Russiagate was a hoax. Funny how things turn out.

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    Aug 17th 2019, 9:36 AM

    @Burn_the_Witch: He was already convicted of a charge so how was it a conspiracy?, he cut a deal but everyone knew what he was doing, he was rich and that is how they went easy on him first time…..rich people usually don’t get proper justice lets face it.

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    Aug 17th 2019, 1:25 PM

    @Peter Hughes: The conspiracy was that he was trafficking minors for the entertainment of the elites. Most people in fairness thought that was pie in the sky.

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    Aug 17th 2019, 1:30 PM

    @Burn_the_Witch: even though he named the private jet The Lolita Express and the island as Paedophile Island ?? ha ha ha you cannot be serious.

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    Aug 18th 2019, 11:35 AM

    @Dave Hammond: They weren’t the official names, that was just the nickname’s given to them by the so-called ‘Conspiracy theorists’. Do you honestly think he called them those names and had an address of Jeffrey Epstein, pedophile island, St.Thomas. You’re a gas man. Don’t take everything so literally.

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