1 of 4 | Chair of the House Democratic Women’s Caucus Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., speaks during a press conference with advocates and survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including the family of Virginia Giuffre, at the U.S. Capitol on February 10. Two executors of Epstein’s will have settled with survivors for at least $25 million. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
The executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against them by survivors of the disgraced billionaire’s abuse for at least $25 million, though they admit no wrongdoing.
Darren Indyke, Epstein’s personal lawyer, and Richard Kahn, his personal accountant, were sued for “facilitation, participation, and concealment of Epstein’s illegal conduct” for financial gain, federal court records said.
The settlement, agreed upon Thursday, will come from the remainder of Epstein’s assets and not directly from Indyke and Kahn, though they are named in the suit.
“Neither of the co-executors has made any admission or concession of misconduct,” said Dan Weiner, the defendants’ attorney, to ABC News. “That is not surprising — not a single woman has ever accused either man of committing sexual abuse or witnessing sexual abuse, nor claimed at any time that she reported to them any allegation of Mr. Epstein’s abuse.”
Epstein updated his will two days before his death by suicide in 2019.
Victims getting settlement money must agree to release any future claims and can’t have gotten any previous settlement from the Epstein estate or the Epstein Victims Compensation Fund, ABC reported.
The estate will pay out $25 million if the number of eligible class members is less than 40. If it’s more than 40, it will pay out $35 million.
The suit was filed in 2024 and alleged that Indyke and Kahn helped Epstein conceal his sex trafficking operation by structuring bank accounts so that they could “access large amounts of cash in furtherance of sex trafficking.”
“Knowing that they would earn millions of dollars in exchange for facilitating Epstein’s sex abuse and trafficking, Indyke and Kahn chose money and power over following the law,” the complaint said.
The suit alleges Indyke and Kahn “organized, controlled, and directed almost every aspect of the Epstein sex-trafficking enterprise.”
It also alleges the pair coerced at least three of Epstein’s victims into “sham marriages in order to obtain immigration status for the foreign women so that they could continue to be available to Epstein for his abuse,” the complaint said.
Indyke and Kahn have denied any knowledge of or role in the sex trafficking operation.
“Neither Mr. Indyke nor Mr. Kahn socialized with Mr. Epstein, and both men reject as categorically false any suggestion that they knowingly facilitated or assisted Mr. Epstein in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that they were aware of his actions while they provided professional services to him,” Weiner told ABC News in December.
Survivors of Epstein, Maxwell speak out at Capitol rally
Lisa Phillips, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, speaks out during a rally with other survivors on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 3, 2025. Photo by Anna Rose Layden/UPI | License Photo
