{"id":24005,"date":"2026-02-20T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/epstein-estate-agrees-to-35-million-settlement-in-victim-class-action\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:45","slug":"epstein-estate-agrees-to-35-million-settlement-in-victim-class-action","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/epstein-estate-agrees-to-35-million-settlement-in-victim-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein estate agrees to $35 million settlement in victim class action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Boies Schiller Flexner, a law firm representing Epstein victims, announced the settlement in a brief filed in federal court in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The deal, if approved by a judge, would bring an end to a 2024 lawsuit filed against Epstein&#8217;s former personal lawyer Darren Indyke and former accountant Richard Kahn, who are co-executors of Epstein&#8217;s estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Epstein&#8217;s estate previously set up a restitution fund that paid out $121 million to victims. The estate also paid out $49 million in additional settlements to victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/sabc-plus.com\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/zaf01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsabc-plus.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CDlaminiSD%40sabc.co.za%7C2c17646b66ac4b3c982408de705460ad%7C17694f0c19394195913e8542ec6bea22%7C0%7C0%7C639071704873146368%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BVB%2B6f9wjHH7kk9ro1gXOQhh5qjYBjIoIFSZY8Z5tOg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"x__x0000_i1025\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBTAA7\" border=\"0\" data-imageproxyendpoint=\"\/actions\/ei\" data-imagetype=\"External\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23521,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-24005","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate has agreed to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier's advisers of aiding and abetting his sex trafficking of young women and teenage girls, according to a court filing on Thursday","published_date":"2026-02-20 00:00:00","news_description":"Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate has agreed to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier's advisers of aiding and abetting his sex trafficking of young women and teenage girls, according to a court filing on Thursday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26817,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24005\/revisions\/26817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}