A New York woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein at the a...
NEW YORK - A New York woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 14 sued the disgraced financier’s estate and a former associate on Wednesday, in the start of an expected wave of lawsuits.
Epstein, who once counted Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Bill Clinton as friends, died at age 66 on Saturday of an apparent suicide. A lawyer who had represented Epstein did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond to similar requests.Araoz told reporters on a conference call she was “angry” that Epstein’s death meant he would never face her in court but wanted to exercise her legal rights in civil court.
The other three unnamed defendants in Araoz’s lawsuit, all women who allegedly worked for Epstein in New York, include a maid, a secretary, and a “recruiter” who helped procure underage girls for him. To obtain damages in civil lawsuits against Epstein’s estate, victims would need to prove claims by a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt as in a criminal case.In 2008, Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of solicitation of prostitution from a minor in a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors that has been widely criticized as too lenient.
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