Lawsuit Seeks Accountability and Identification for Victims in Jeffrey Epstein’s Child-Sexual-Abuse Collection

Two women, identified in court filings as Jane Doe and “Amy,” have filed a proposed class-action suit in the Southern District of New York against the estate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. The complaint, filed in September 2026, names Epstein’s former lawyer Darren Indyke and former accountant Richard Kahn—both serving as co-executors of the estate—as defendants. The plaintiffs allege that Epstein possessed, transported, and distributed child sexual-abuse material (CSAM) that includes partially nude photographs taken of them when they were minors. They request a court-supervised program to identify and notify every person depicted in the seized collection, as well as monetary damages.

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Epstein died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. He had previously been convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor for sex and was never prosecuted for creating or distributing CSAM. Federal investigators seized thousands of images and videos from his New York home in 2019, including a “modeling book” kept in a locked safe. Earlier lawsuits have focused on sexual-assault claims; this action expands the legal reckoning to victims whose images were captured in the CSAM collection.

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Attorney Hillary Nappi of AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys said the goal is “accountability and identification” of all survivors depicted in Epstein’s seized material.

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The Independent reports the plaintiffs seek at least $6 million on behalf of more than 40 people and request $150,000 per class member, while the Guardian article does not specify a monetary amount. Both sources agree the lawsuit aims to create a notification program, but the precise damages sought remain unclear.

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• “We want the estate to preserve and account for everything seized from Epstein’s properties, and we want a real, court supervised process to identify and notify every survivor depicted in that collection,” — Hillary Nappi, of AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys

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• “This lawsuit holds Jeffrey Epstein’s estate accountable for a crime that has never been fully addressed on its own terms,” — Hillary Nappi, of AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys

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