Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Epstein Estate Sued Again Over Alleged Trafficking and Sexual Abuse (8/20/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Over the years, we have seen several lawsuits
- 0:08Speaker 1: filed against the Epstein estate, namely the one that was
- 0:12Speaker 1: filed by Danny Benski and multiple other Epstein survivors who
- 0:17Speaker 1: sued not only the estate but also the executors Darren
- 0:21Speaker 1: Endyke and Richard Kahn. Well, we have another lawsuit now
- 0:25Speaker 1: that's been filed against the estate Darren Endyke and Richard Kahan.
- 0:30Speaker 1: And this lawsuit has been filed by Audra Christiansen, Glendy's Espinal,
- 0:36Speaker 1: Sarah Martinetti, Jenildyth Romera, mel Gorzata Lesnuwisky, and Kirsty Ferguson.
- 0:46Speaker 1: And this complaint's been filed with the New York Supreme Court,
- 0:49Speaker 1: and the allegations line up with everything else that we've
- 0:52Speaker 1: heard from everybody else that has sued the estate. So
- 0:57Speaker 1: today we have an article from Bloomberg and the headline
- 1:01Speaker 1: Epstein estates sued in New York over trafficking and sex abuse.
- 1:05Speaker 1: The author of this article is Beth Wang. Six women
- 1:09Speaker 1: who say that they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein
- 1:12Speaker 1: are assuing as a state and co executors for damages
- 1:15Speaker 1: under New York City law. And I'll tell you what,
- 1:19Speaker 1: the whole entire compensation fund turned out to be a
- 1:22Speaker 1: big ass hustle. Those women hardly got any money when
- 1:27Speaker 1: we're talking about on a per case basis, not very much. Now.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Of course, some women got more than others, right, but
- 1:35Speaker 1: the average payout was minimal. And considering how much money
- 1:39Speaker 1: and how much wealth Jeffrey Epstein had, you would think
- 1:41Speaker 1: that those payouts would be a bit more robust, you know,
- 1:45Speaker 1: back the Brinks truck up onto my front lawn kind
- 1:48Speaker 1: of deal. But I guess that's only for the USVII, right,
- 1:51Speaker 1: they're the only ones that get that kind of service,
- 1:53Speaker 1: the back that shit up onto my lawn and give
- 1:56Speaker 1: me two hundred million dollars type of shit. Because member,
- 2:01Speaker 1: when all said and done, the USVII walked away with
- 2:04Speaker 1: more money than anybody else. And I think there needs
- 2:07Speaker 1: to be an investigation into all of that. Why did
- 2:10Speaker 1: they benefit on both ends? Not only did they benefit
- 2:14Speaker 1: when Jeffrey Epstein was alive and they were using them
- 2:17Speaker 1: to get money whatever, but in his death they also
- 2:22Speaker 1: sat down at the table to have a bite. That
- 2:26Speaker 1: doesn't sit right with me. It never has and it
- 2:29Speaker 1: never will. The only people who should have been made
- 2:32Speaker 1: whole here are the people who were abused, not anybody
- 2:36Speaker 1: that was involved, not anybody that was helping Jeffrey Epstein
- 2:40Speaker 1: out in any way, shape or form. And let's be real,
- 2:44Speaker 1: that's what happened in the USVII. That's what they were doing,
- 2:48Speaker 1: and everybody knows it, from people working at the airport
- 2:52Speaker 1: to the people that hardly follow the story. The women
- 2:58Speaker 1: brought their claims under New York City these Gender Motivated
- 3:01Speaker 1: Violence Act, a broad civil rights law that allows survivors
- 3:05Speaker 1: of such violence who were harmed prior to January ninth,
- 3:08Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, to sue their abusers. Darren ky En
- 3:13Speaker 1: Dyke and Richard Kahn, co executors of Epstein's estate, played
- 3:17Speaker 1: critical roles in enabling Epstein's acts of gender and motivated
- 3:21Speaker 1: violence against plaintiffs by providing Epstein the necessary financial and
- 3:26Speaker 1: legal support for a sex trafficking operation by which plaintiffs
- 3:30Speaker 1: were victimized. The complaint, filed in New York Supreme Court
- 3:34Speaker 1: on Wednesday, says, and I have the actual complaint and
- 3:37Speaker 1: we're going to dive into that too. And as we
- 3:40Speaker 1: await the just daily deposition to become public, you know
- 3:44Speaker 1: the transcript. We're going to dive into some of these
- 3:47Speaker 1: other lawsuits that have been filed. Epstein's estate in Dyke
- 3:52Speaker 1: and Khan agreed earlier this year to pay thirty five
- 3:54Speaker 1: million to resolve outstanding legal claims by at least forty
- 3:58Speaker 1: victims who sued federal court. That agreement followed a payment
- 4:02Speaker 1: by the Epstein Victims Compensation Program of one hundred and
- 4:06Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars two one hundred and thirty six claimants,
- 4:09Speaker 1: and later forty eight million dollars settlement on behalf of
- 4:13Speaker 1: fifty nine victims, not even a million each. And when
- 4:16Speaker 1: you factor in a lifetime of pain, a lifetime of suffering,
- 4:20Speaker 1: doctor's bills, et cetera, how much money is it really
- 4:24Speaker 1: not that much? Right, So all the people out there
- 4:27Speaker 1: are talking about, Oh, this is all about the money.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Wake the fuck up. Okay, nobody's getting rich here. The
- 4:34Speaker 1: only person who got a gigantic payout was Virginia, and
- 4:38Speaker 1: that's because she won multiple lawsuits and she had to
- 4:41Speaker 1: fight tooth and nail for every last bit of that.
- 4:44Speaker 1: But the peanuts that most of these women received ridiculous.
- 4:48Speaker 1: It's almost offensive. Each of the women in Wednesday's complaints
- 4:53Speaker 1: say they ranged from sixteen to twenty four years old,
- 4:57Speaker 1: when between two thousand and one and five, if Epstein
- 5:01Speaker 1: began committing acts of gender and motivated violence against them
- 5:04Speaker 1: in New York, and I know there's people out there
- 5:06Speaker 1: that are going to say, well, they were of age,
- 5:09Speaker 1: why didn't they just leave? Why didn't they just this
- 5:11Speaker 1: that or the other thing. Well, until you're in that position,
- 5:15Speaker 1: you have no idea. You don't know what kind of
- 5:17Speaker 1: motivation quote unquote they're using to keep you there. You
- 5:22Speaker 1: don't know about their immigration status, you don't know about
- 5:25Speaker 1: their lives, you don't know about the secrets that Epstein's
- 5:27Speaker 1: holding over their heads. You don't know any of that.
- 5:32Speaker 1: But yet people have opinions about what these women should
- 5:35Speaker 1: or shouldn't do when it comes to lawsuits. And it's wild.
- 5:39Speaker 1: And I don't care if you're a man, a woman, whatever,
- 5:42Speaker 1: If you're caught up in human trafficking, whether it's sexual
- 5:45Speaker 1: or otherwise, you're somebody that deserves help. No, don't get
- 5:48Speaker 1: me wrong. Obviously the most vile, disgusting thing you can
- 5:51Speaker 1: do is her children. But that doesn't mean adults aren't
- 5:55Speaker 1: at risk, and that doesn't mean that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't
- 5:58Speaker 1: praying on adults, because the most certainly was. The complaint
- 6:03Speaker 1: cites a similar state court lawsuit brought by seven other
- 6:06Speaker 1: women earlier this year under the GMVA. The trial judge
- 6:11Speaker 1: in that case, Adam Silvera, largely rejected in Dyke and
- 6:14Speaker 1: Khan's motion to dismiss the matter, disagreeing with the co
- 6:17Speaker 1: executors that the city law claims are preempted by state law.
- 6:22Speaker 1: He did dismiss the punitive damages claim saying it's not
- 6:25Speaker 1: an appropriate remedy against an estate. So that means they
- 6:29Speaker 1: can refile against in Dyke and Khan, but not the
- 6:33Speaker 1: estate when it comes to that portion of the lawsuit
- 6:36Speaker 1: punitive damages. So that's going to be pretty interesting to
- 6:40Speaker 1: see how that ends up lining up and how that
- 6:42Speaker 1: house of cards comes falling down, because that's a very
- 6:45Speaker 1: interesting lawsuit, and that's the one I was just mentioning
- 6:48Speaker 1: that was being led by Danny Bensky, So we're definitely
- 6:52Speaker 1: keeping an eye on that one too. By the way,
- 6:56Speaker 1: in Dyke, the financiers attorney in khn Epstein's longtime account
- 7:00Speaker 1: violated the GMVA by enabling Epstein's violent acts. The plaintiffs say, Look,
- 7:05Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. I think I've been very
- 7:09Speaker 1: very clear, very clear when it comes to Indike in
- 7:12Speaker 1: con Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell
- 7:14Speaker 1: you that either of them were involved in the actual abuse.
- 7:17Speaker 1: But when it comes to enabling Epstein, when it comes to,
- 7:21Speaker 1: you know, being a co conspirator in the plot, my
- 7:24Speaker 1: opinion is that these two dudes are right in the
- 7:27Speaker 1: center of all of it. And if it wasn't for
- 7:30Speaker 1: Conn and Indyke, Epstein would have never been as successful
- 7:33Speaker 1: as he was. In Dyke conspired with Epstein by managing
- 7:38Speaker 1: and facilitating the financial side of his sex trafficking operation,
- 7:42Speaker 1: counseling the financier Pedophile on general financial and legal matters
- 7:47Speaker 1: pertaining to the operation and funding the facilities where Epstein
- 7:51Speaker 1: sexually abused the plaintiffs. The complaint says Con was a
- 7:55Speaker 1: de facto financial manager of Epstein's sex trafficking operation. Continues,
- 8:01Speaker 1: that's a fact too, and I think that's been proven
- 8:04Speaker 1: time and time again through the emails. If you're the
- 8:08Speaker 1: accountant and you're the guy that's right in the mix
- 8:10Speaker 1: with the money. Well, you have some responsibility. How many
- 8:13Speaker 1: accounts do you see getting dragged out and going to
- 8:16Speaker 1: prison over tax fraud? A whole shit ton every tax season,
- 8:21Speaker 1: there's at least ten or twelve on TV. And if
- 8:24Speaker 1: you think that in Dyke and Con weren't up to
- 8:26Speaker 1: the same bullshit, you're crazy. They were. In my opinion,
- 8:30Speaker 1: there is no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein's books were cooked.
- 8:34Speaker 1: And who do you think was cook in the books?
- 8:36Speaker 1: Was it the butler or was it the accountant? While
- 8:41Speaker 1: Cohn managed the expenses in Dyke with drew cash and
- 8:44Speaker 1: amounts that didn't trigger federal reporting. The complaint says Epstein
- 8:49Speaker 1: and entities he owned paid more than sixteen million to
- 8:52Speaker 1: Indyke in ten million to Con. Seems like a lot
- 8:55Speaker 1: of money, A whole lot of money and for what
- 9:00Speaker 1: on basic legal advice A guy to do some quarterly taxes,
- 9:04Speaker 1: which is wild considering that Jeffrey Epstein was supposedly some
- 9:08Speaker 1: kind of tax guru. Is not why Leon Black employed them? Oh,
- 9:13Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein the greatest tax man in the history of
- 9:15Speaker 1: tax men. Irvin R. Schister over here another just gigantic
- 9:20Speaker 1: jerk off like everything else we heard about this dude
- 9:24Speaker 1: from all these people that were around them, all these
- 9:26Speaker 1: lies they told us about their relationship with them, but
- 9:29Speaker 1: sure continue to bullshit us. Much of the background information
- 9:32Speaker 1: in the plaintiff's complaint comes from the twenty twenty five
- 9:36Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal article detailing Cohn and Indykes Epstein ties.
- 9:40Speaker 1: The plaintiffs have and will continue to incur medical expenses
- 9:44Speaker 1: and other economic damages as a result of the physical injury,
- 9:47Speaker 1: psychological and emotional distress, mental anguish, and embarrassment that they've
- 9:52Speaker 1: sustained from Epstein's violent acts. The complaint says Cohn and
- 9:57Speaker 1: Indyke are liable for compensatory and punitive damages. The plaintiffs
- 10:01Speaker 1: say in Dike and Khan emphatically reject the allegations that
- 10:06Speaker 1: they were complicit or in any way knowingly facilitated mister
- 10:09Speaker 1: Epstein's sexual abuse or trafficking conduct that, by all accounts,
- 10:14Speaker 1: occurred behind closed doors, in secluded locations, and at times
- 10:19Speaker 1: when neither mister Dyke or mister Khan was present. Daniel H. Wiener,
- 10:23Speaker 1: a lawyer for the Epstein estate, said in an email, Well, yeah,
- 10:28Speaker 1: just like the mob bosses who weren't around when somebody
- 10:31Speaker 1: got killed. They still go to jail for that right.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Same within Dyke and Khan, they were all part of
- 10:37Speaker 1: a gigantic conspiracy, a criminal conspiracy, with the sole goal
- 10:41Speaker 1: to make sure that Epstein's operation kept moving as smoothly
- 10:45Speaker 1: as possible. But of course this was never Rico, so
- 10:48Speaker 1: that gives them that cover and it lets them say that.
- 10:53Speaker 1: But the truth is, if this was a Rico case
- 10:56Speaker 1: in Dike and Khan would be in so much trouble
- 10:59Speaker 1: that is not even funny. Not a single woman has
- 11:02Speaker 1: ever accused mister Dyke or mister Kahan of committing sexual
- 11:05Speaker 1: abuse or witnessing sexual abuse, nor claimed at any time
- 11:10Speaker 1: that she or anyone else reported to them any allegation
- 11:13Speaker 1: of mister Epstein's abuse, added Wiener, who's a partner at Hughes,
- 11:17Speaker 1: Hubbard and Read LLP. Hughes Hubbard, Patterson, Bell Knap Webb
- 11:22Speaker 1: and Tyler Lop The Chopman Pepperlock LLP have represented, respectively,
- 11:27Speaker 1: in Dyke and Khan and the Epstein estate. In similar
- 11:30Speaker 1: cases in federal and state court. The plaintiffs are represented
- 11:34Speaker 1: by Mrson Law PLLC. The case is Christiansen Verse indyke
- 11:40Speaker 1: New York Supreme Court docket number unavailable and as far
- 11:44Speaker 1: as that Canplank goes, I actually have a copy of it,
- 11:47Speaker 1: so we're going to dive into that as well. But
- 11:51Speaker 1: as for this one, that's going to do it. All
- 11:53Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
- 11:57Speaker 1: in the description box.