An estate worth almost a billion dollars, armored trusts and possible hidden heirs: what really remains of Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy
A cumbersome legacy: as conspicuous as it is cursed and uncertain. What, how much and to whom did Jeffrey Epstein leave? Estimates are conflicting: between 600 million and one billion dollars, plus 500 real estate properties.
However, much of the assets would have been eroded by taxes, compensation and penalties. The Zorro ranch and the Palm Beach villa were seized, while the island of Saint James was acquired by the Virgin Islands. The inheritance is “locked” in a trust administered by Epstein’s former personal lawyer, Darren Indyke, and his former accountant, Richard Kahn. Who are doing three actions. The first is to defend the assets from compensation suits brought by victims of abuse; a class action proposed by Boies Schiller Flexner is underway; the second is to verify the number of heirs; the third is to hunt for other funds. For example, nothing is known about an account at Deutsche Bank – for decades in business with the pedo-financier – of which there are traces until 2019, the year of Epstein’s more or less spontaneous suicide. To defend the estate from compensation lawsuits, the two professionals have proposed a settlement that now must be approved by a federal judge in New York. It is expected to pay 25 million dollars
if fewer than 40 women join the collective cause and 35 million if there are more. The person who pays is the trust which will sooner or later have to implement the will. Initially it was said that the universal heir was Jeffrey’s brother, Mark Lawrence Epstein, then a 100 million bequest emerged for the pedo-financer’s last girlfriend, the Belarusian Karyna Shulyak, to whom the “1953 Trust”, established by Epstein shortly before his suicide, left properties (villas in New York, Florida, Paris), jewels and money. Another “hidden” heir is a biological son who should have been born in 2011. Sarah Ferguson testifies to this in an email, complimenting Epstein on his paternity. Another victim claims to have given birth to a baby girl in 2002, when she was 16, who was stolen from her by Ghislaine Maxwell. Over one hundred are the alleged paternity of Epstein, who however does not name any children in his will, claimed after his suicide. They would instead be named in the will
Mona Juul, Norwegian ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, a position from which she resigned as soon as the Epstein files were published, and her husband, the former diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen. They are under investigation for corruption because Epstein gives them a legacy of 5 million dollars. Confirming that Jeffrey’s money is cursed.
