by Priscilla DeGregory and Ben Feuerherd
The longtime financiers of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate were hit with a lawsuit by authorities in the Virgin Islands on Wednesday — alleging they facilitated his sick lifestyle by forcing his victims into arranged marriages to secure their immigration to the US.
Epstein preferred women who didn’t speak English because “they spoke less,” according to the updated civil complaint filed by the US Virgin Island’s attorney general, which accuses Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the co-executors of Epstein’s estate, of being “captains” in his criminal enterprise.
One of Epstein’s victims was flown by the multi-millionaire pedophile and his business partners from New York to Palm Beach to his private island dozens of times between 2004 and 2017, AG’s office claims in the suit.
“During the latter part of his period, she was forced into an arranged marriage to another victim that was facilitated by Defendant/Co-Executor Indyke to prevent the other victim from being deported,” the complaint states.
Epstein allegedly forced three female American victims into marriage with foreign victims, using a threat of “reputational and bodily harm” if they did not agree to the unions or tried to opt out of them, the suit alleges.
“In each instance, Indyke and Kahn knowingly facilitated…
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