Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend has sued his estate, claiming part of the dead financier’s personal fortune.
Ghislaine Maxwell has not appeared in public for months following Epstein’s suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in August, yet on Friday, she filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the New York Times. Maxwell is alleged to have aided Epstein in trafficking and abusing young girls.
Maxwell’s suit claims that she had no knowledge of Epstein’s illegal activities and that she “has incurred significant legal fees, personal security costs, and other expenses” over her work with the dead financier and convicted sex offender. The lawsuit says that Epstein made multiple verbal and written promises to take care of her financially, and those promises have not been kept.
Epstein’s partner all but disappeared after he was arrested last summer on charges of sex trafficking. The financier was found dead in August in his cell in the Manhattan correctional facility after the guards assigned to watch him fell asleep. New York City’s chief medical examiner later ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.
Maxwell is one of the central figures in an ongoing investigation into Epstein’s actions and his associates. She separated from the dead financier after he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008.
Epstein’s estate is facing lawsuits from nearly three dozen women who claim Epstein abused them at his properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico, and the Virgin Islands.
