Darren Indyke worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein for decades, handling his legal affairs and helping manage his business interests. Now, Epstein’s longtime lawyer and estate executor is facing a lawsuit in New Mexico over allegations that he helped conceal Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
He supported Epstein’s financial consulting firm. Epstein, who had become kind of my mentor. Indyke left the firm around 1996 to work only for Epstein, according to WSJ. He said at a 2009 hearing in the US Virgin Islands: “I was given an incredible opportunity and that was to go join and work closely with Mr. When Epstein went to jail in 2008, he asked Indyke to run his financial consulting business.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a federal judge allowed another lawsuit against the two men to proceed, saying allegations suggested they knew about the abuse and helped it continue. Torrez said the estate holds more than $100 million, according to AP. Epstein’s victims’ compensation program paid more than $121 million to 136 women, while those who accepted payments had to give up their right to sue Indyke and Kahn. Epstein took his own life in August 2019 in a New York jail. His former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction.
Indyke is now facing a new legal fight. The lawsuit accuses them of hiding Epstein’s sex trafficking operation at his Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe. The suit asks the court to stop the two from accepting any payments from Epstein’s estate. Torrez also accused them of being aware of the sexual abuse of girls and young women at the ranch. Both men have denied knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking. He was waiting for trial on sex trafficking charges.
New Mexico’s attorney general, Raul Torrez, sued Indyke and Kahn, according to AP. Both men told a congressional committee they did not know about Epstein’s abuse, though Torrez has a different view. He said Indyke and Kahn “stand to benefit substantially” unless a court steps in. “Those resources rightfully belong in the hands of survivors,” he said.
