Who is doing anything to protect Epstein's survivors from very rich, powerful and well-connected men?

[AZJonnie]

5. Not counting individual suits like VG's against Maxwell/Andrew, the total sum is about $321,000,000

150 victims were paid about $121M from the Epstein Estate after his death, but it was not set aside by a court. There were many lawsuits pending, so the Estate caved before the actual suits hit to keep them from going to discovery (presumably). Or maybe his brother is just a much more decent guy than Jeffrey

The disbursements were low-6-digits to low-7-digits per victim. About 75 applicants were rejected for not meeting the "criteria". I have to say, I'd be QUITE interested to see the documentation on how they made the decisions on "who to pay what". I wonder what the "minimum standard" was? Seems like it'd be quite a valuable trove of information, those "applications" they looked at, no?

And then a large group of victims (estimated, but not known for sure, to be around 200 claimants) settled a class action suit for $290,000,000 against JPMC in 2023 (iirc). The attorneys collected a tidy $90,000,000 for themselves. There was discovery, but in the end, it did not go to court. This money is also being disbursed according to severity of the abuse by a Claims Administrator named Simone Lelchuk, so one would again expect the most severely impacted victims to receive multiple millions of dollars here. Again, what do the applications say/claim, I wonder?

Thus, the large majority of the victims, in particular the ones who would be most "in the know", are now (deservedly) multi-millionaires. Which means they thankfully should able to pay for security.

The US Virgin Islands has also received a similar amount from Epstein Estate, and about $75M from JPMC in a separate suit. And $10,000,000 of the money won by the USVI is earmarked to pay for mental health care for the victims.

This brings the total known payout over the allegations against Epstein/Maxwell to about $525,000,000. And there are no doubt more huge suits coming, against every financial outfit that ever serviced an Epstein account for any purpose. The lawyers will be dipping in this well for as long as the dipping is good.

Interestingly, not one single allegation in any of these suits ever had to be proven in a court of law, unless evidence from the DoJ's Maxwell trafficking case (which delivered exactly one charge of trafficking, from Maxwell to Epstein, proven of course) was part of the filing. FWIW.