Wave of sex-trafficking lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein begins
The US attorney-general William Barr says the criminal investigation into Epstein and the role of possible co-conspirators will continue
14 August 2019 - 16:54
New York — A New York woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 14 sued the disgraced financier’s estate and a former associate on Wednesday, in the start of an expected wave of lawsuits.
Jennifer Araoz said in her complaint that she was starting out in high school when an Epstein associate brought her to the financier’s massive mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, beginning a grooming process that led to months of sexual abuse, including what she called a “brutal rape”...
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