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JEFFREY EPSTEIN SIGNED a will just two days before his suicide in prison, new court records show.
The court papers filed last week in the US Virgin Islands do not list details of beneficiaries but valued his estate at more than $577 million (€520m), including more than $56 million (€50m) in cash.
The existence of the will, first reported by the New York Post, has raised new questions about Epstein’s final days inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.
Epstein signed the will on 8 August, less than 48 hours before he was found dead in his cell. Prosecutors yesterday moved to dismiss the indictment against him but said they are considering charging others with facilitating his alleged abuse of dozens of girls.
Lawyers representing women who claim they were sexually abused by Epstein as teenagers have vowed to go after his assets now that there will be no trial on the criminal charges against Epstein. One woman filed proceedings against the estate last week, claiming Epstein repeatedly raped her when she was a teenager.
“Give his entire estate to his victims. It is the only justice they can get,” one of those lawyers, Lisa Bloom, wrote in an email. “And they deserve it. And on behalf of the Epstein victims I represent, I intend to fight for it.”
Epstein had more than $112 million (€101m) worth of equities, according to the will. He owned a Caribbean island, homes in Paris and New York City, a New Mexico ranch and a fleet of high-price cars.
As part of his 2008 plea deal to Florida state charges, Epstein made undisclosed financial settlements with dozens of his victims. It’s unclear how those settlements might affect any claims made on his estate.
William Blum, a lawyer for Epstein’s estate, said in a statement that any debts or claims against the estate will be “fairly administered.”
He said the document was Epstein’s original last will.
- With reporting from Associated Press.
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Am sure the same lads who helped with his suicide helped with the will. Hope his victims get every cent and justice finds his guilty peers.
@GrahamMManning: That’s likely correct. He also instructed the lawyers to pressure the jail to remove him suicide watch after his first suicide attempt on July 23rd, he was removed from suicide watch on Monday July 29th. I think his lawyers knew his plans.
Also, the jail had reduced the number of guards to two per wing by early 2018 due to a federal hiring freeze that caused staff shortages, over arguments involving Trump’s funding the southern border wall. The New York Times reported in early 2018 that Teachers and Secretaries were being forced to fill in for prison guards at the jail. One guard was in his 8 day of overtime and the second was on mandatory overtime. It’s claimed they both fell asleep, which is believable if they did indeed work so much overtime.
His lawyers knew how poor the staffing at the jail was, how they were unprepared for someone rationally determined as Epstein.
@David Jordan:
BS, Epstein, along with El Chapo, were probably the highest profile prisoners in the country, everybody knew about them, you really thing that these guys are going to be under lax watch, Epstein had too much dirt on too many “elites”, there was no way he was making trial.
I wonder did he leave Andrew anything.
@Seriously stunned: Problably something minor
@Wade Wilson: brilliant
@Wade Wilson: Elite-Level Punning.
@Seriously stunned: No, he left everything to his identical Twin brother who was recently discovered living in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
@Seriously stunned:
Yes. A fourteen year old girl.
@Seriously stunned: yeah a s**t storm to deal with and rightly so
No doubt left everything to a shell company who’s owner now lives on an billionaire’s island with a new face….
@Mairead1990: “Hmm, plenty of photos of him and Donald Trump at parties with teenage girls, but none of him with Bill or Hillary?”
The only photo I’ve seen is the one that has been debunked as a Photoshop.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-trumps-photo/
Bill Clinton was on Epstein’s jet, the Lolita Express, 26 times. His name is in the flight manifests. There’s even a picture of Bill Clinton on the plane with a young girl. Is there evidence of Trump having been on the island or the plane? You know Epstein was permanently banned from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for soliciting minors, right?
@jacquoranda: there’s a genuine picture in the article you linked. And honestly are you saying that turning a blind eye to Epstein is worthy of applause? You’re saying Trump knew and just said keep it away from my house. There is evidence that he was on the plane in that he said he was.
@Dave O’Keeffe: I was responding to the OP who said that there are lots of pictures of Trump with Epstein and teenage girls. I haven’t seen any genuine ones. The minor in question in the article I linked is Ivanka Trump.
@jacquoranda: and the part where you applaud him for turning a blind eye?
That’s a fair bit of deleting this early in the morning journal?
@GrahamMManning: Yes, I notice a comment was deleted that defamed a former president.
@David Jordan: somebody has to foot the Bill
Saying he didn’t get help in killing himself and changing his will is like saying the Journal doesn’t delete comments.
That’s some chestnut
Show me the body with independent DNA results and I might believe he’s dead.
His lawyers are now in charge of an obscene amount of wealth and will do there best to keep it from his victims . They will be paid a minimum of 250k each for handling the estate alone . His lawyers sleep sound on this money and the victims, well there victims !
Hopefully a Judge will frezze his assets until a judicial hearing and then share his assets to all affected by this Childmolster . He did not act alone .
@David Jordan: I didn’t say that there weren’t. The OP said “plenty of photos of him [Epstein] and Donald Trump at parties with TEENAGE girls”.
I haven’t seen any genuine ones.
@jacquoranda: There are many photos of Epstein and Trump that are genuine…
That makes it even more likely that he faked his death somehow.
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