Tag - survivor litigation

The convicted architect of a $1.2 billion fraud used real Epstein survivor files to sell fictitious legal settlements. Jeffrey Epstein then sued Rothstein and survivor attorney Bradley Edwards, but later admitted that his accusations against Edwards were false and retaliatory. Content Warning This profile discusses sexual abuse of minors, survivor litigation, financial exploitation, intimidation, alleged ... Read more

Snapshot The principal law within this category is the New York Child Victims Act, which revived civil claims that had expired under earlier statutes of limitations. The law allowed adult survivors to sue over sexual abuse committed against them when they were younger than eighteen. The Child Victims Act became especially important after Jeffrey Epstein ... Read more

Snapshot Jeffrey Epstein employed house managers, housekeepers, drivers, chefs, pilots, assistants, maintenance workers, and security personnel across residences in Palm Beach, Manhattan, New Mexico, Paris, and the United States Virgin Islands. Released employment records, household manuals, witness interviews, depositions, and testimony from the criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell document a highly controlled workplace. Employees were ... Read more

Snapshot Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassell v. Alan M. Dershowitz was a Florida defamation case arising from the legal battle over the federal nonprosecution agreement granted to Jeffrey Epstein. Edwards and Cassell represented Epstein survivors in proceedings under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. In December 2014, they submitted a filing containing Virginia Giuffre’s ... Read more