New Mexico Sues Epstein Estate Executors to Block Tens of Millions in Payments

The state of New Mexico has filed a civil lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's personal attorney, Darren Indyke, and accountant, Richard Kahn, accusing them of facilitating, financing, and concealing the late financier's sex trafficking ring, including operations at his Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe.

The lawsuit, brought under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the New Mexico Racketeering Act, seeks to bar Indyke and Kahn from receiving payouts as co-executors and beneficiaries of Epstein's estate, currently valued at roughly $107 million. Court filings indicate Indyke and Kahn are eligible to receive bequests of $50 million and $25 million, respectively.

Speaking at a press conference alongside Epstein survivors Julia Molchanova and Anouska De Georgiou, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez argued that remaining estate funds should go to victims:

"Those resources rightfully belong in the hands of survivors - there should be no distribution of Mr Epstein's remaining assets to people like Mr Indyke and Mr Kahn for participation in what I think is one of the most horrific criminal enterprises in modern America."

Indyke worked as Epstein's attorney for roughly two decades, while Kahn managed financial accounts. Epstein revised his will just two days before his death in August 2019, naming both men as sole executors of his estate.

Defense attorney Daniel Weiner, representing both Indyke and Kahn, rejected the lawsuit's claims, emphasizing that the New Mexico Attorney General's office did not interview either man prior to filing and that "they are confident that they will prevail on the claims asserted against them".

"Both Mr Indyke and Mr Kahn reject as categorically false the allegations that they knowingly facilitated or assisted Mr Epstein in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that they were aware of Mr Epstein's actions while they provided legal or accounting services to him,"

Weiner added that any criminal actions occurred "behind closed doors, in secluded locations" without his clients' knowledge or presence.

The civil action runs parallel to a separate criminal investigation into Zorro Ranch reopened by New Mexico in February. State officials have also sued the U.S. Department of Justice to secure unredacted federal files related to the site, which was sold by the estate in 2023.

Applauding the state's action to block payments to the two executors, survivor Anouska De Georgiou, who previously testified at the trial of convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, stated:

"Accountability cannot end with Epstein and Maxwell, it must extend to those who knowingly made their abuse possible, especially those who stand to profit from it".