A new civil suit has been filed against Jeffrey Epstein's heirs and his alleged accomplices by two women he allegedly abused 15 years ago and who are now claiming $ 100 million in damages.
The complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, does not identify the two alleged victims or the 10 or so women also assigned for possibly helping the financier, who died in prison on Saturday.
The two women approached by a "rabateuse"
The complainants' age is not in the complaint, but their lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said Friday in a statement that they were then 18 and 20 years old.
The two women were working as hostesses in the same Manhattan restaurant in June 2004, when they were approached by a "rapper" of the financier. The latter would have offered the two girls, penniless and looking for work as models, several hundred dollars to come and do massages at home Epstein.
She would have assured them that the massage would not involve touching.
"Terrified" by Epstein
They then went, two days apart, in the luxurious residence of the financier near Central Park. Once in the "massage room", Epstein would have sexually assaulted them, before giving them several hundred dollars.
The eight-page complaint, filed under a federal law on sexual exploitation, claims that the two women were so "terrified" by Epstein and his power at the time that they did not think of filing a complaint.
It was after his indictment in early July in New York that they would have understood the seriousness of the crimes suffered.
"Another complaint filed Wednesday in New York State Court"
The move comes on the heels of another lawsuit filed Wednesday in the New York State Court against Epstein's heirs and his alleged friend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
It comes from Jennifer Araoz, who claims to have been sexually assaulted and raped by the financier in 2004 and 2005 when she was 14 and 15 years old.
Faced with the possibility of an influx of complaints and to avoid years of legal battle, lawyer Lisa Bloom on Friday called on Epstein's heirs to create a "compensation fund for victims", which would examine the demands of repair of "fair and fast manner".