Jeffrey Epstein case: Woman sues financier's estate and says she was 14 during abuse

Epstein's alleged victims have filed multi-million dollar lawsuits against his estate
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Bronwen Weatherby30 December 2019

A woman who says she was 14 when she had a sexual encounter with financier Jeffrey Epstein at his mansion has sued his estate for coercion, inflicting emotional distress and battery.

The lawsuit filed in a Florida court on Monday asks for an undisclosed amount of money.

Court documents do not give the woman's name and only refers to her as "JJ Doe."

The woman went to Epstein's Florida mansion in 2003 when she was "a vulnerable child without adequate parental support," the lawsuit filed with Palm Beach County said.

The teenager was allegedly first approached by another teenage girl who offered her $200 to give Epstein a massage at his mansion. At the mansion, she was led to a bedroom where there were a massage table and oils. It is claimed Epstein entered the room in a towel, laid on the table and instructed her to take off her clothes as she massaged him.

Epstein was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
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"Out of fear, plaintiff complied with Jeffrey Epstein's commands," the lawsuit said.

Epstein then pinched the teenager's nipples, fondled her, touched her between her legs and masturbated, the lawsuit said.

"During the encounter, plaintiff resisted Jeffrey Epstein's advances and demands, yet was assured if she complied, then he would stop and it would end soon," the lawsuit said

Darren Indyke, an attorney for the estate, was contacted but did not return an email inquiry for comment.

More than a dozen lawsuits are seeking millions of dollars in compensation for women who say they were sexually abused by Epstein, sometimes for years, at his homes in Manhattan, Florida, New Mexico, the Virgin Islands and Paris.

Epstein, 66, killed himself in his New York City prison cell in August after he was arrested on sex trafficking charges. The wealthy financier had pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida in the early 2000s. In lawsuits, women say the abuse spanned decades.