A new legal action against the disgraced financier’s estate has been launched by the US Virgin Islands.
Image: AP/PA Images Image: AP/PA Images FINANCIER JEFFREY EPSTEIN may have sexually abused and trafficked girls as young as 12 on his private island until as recently as 2019, according to a new lawsuit.
The a wealthy hedge fund manager was convicted in 2008 of paying young girls for massages, but served just 13 months in jail under a secret plea deal struck with the then state prosecutor. Prosecutors also allege that he kept a computerised list of potential victims, and ran a “trafficking pyramid scheme” whereby underage victims were forced to recruit other women to perform sexual acts.
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