New Mexico sues Epstein estate co-executors over alleged role in abuse network

  • New Mexico sued Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn, Epstein’s estate and the 1953 Trust.
  • The state seeks to stop Indyke and Kahn from receiving executor payments.
  • Their lawyers denied complicity and said the attorney general’s office did not interview them.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn, seeking to prevent them from receiving payments for serving as executors of Epstein’s estate. The suit also names Epstein’s estate and the 1953 Trust, and alleges that Indyke and Kahn knowingly helped sustain and conceal Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, including abuse at Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe. The state seeks to direct estate assets to victims. Court filings value the estate at $107.6 million, down from $655.1 million when Epstein died in 2019, after operating costs, victim compensation and legal settlements. Indyke and Kahn’s lawyers emphatically denied that the men knowingly facilitated abuse or trafficking and said the attorney general’s office did not interview them before filing. In March congressional testimony, the men said they were unaware of Epstein’s crimes beyond his 2008 guilty plea on prostitution charges. Six survivors praised the lawsuit, which follows New Mexico’s renewed investigation into alleged crimes at Zorro Ranch.

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