OUT FOR $LICE OF EPSTEIN
130 claim him as dad
At least 130 people have come forward claiming to be Jeffrey Epstein’s secret offspring — hoping to get a cut of the late pedophile financier’s $634 million estate, according to a report.
The flood of potential kids of the late sex trafficker have contacted a Web site called Epsteinheirs.com, which was started by a Floridabased legal service.
The site launched hours after Prince Andrew’s pal was found hanged in his Manhattan lockup last year — and nearly 400 calls have streamed in since, with some 130 respondents claiming they were due money, founder Harvey Morse told The Sun newspaper of London.
“Jeffrey Epstein was sexually promiscuous for so long that there is a reasonable chance he may have fathered a child,” Morse said. “He could even be a grandfather.”
Calls have come in from around the world, including the United States, the Caribbean and France. Epstein had residences in all three locales.
The callers include a British woman who claims she got pregnant after a one-night stand in the 1990s — and an uncorroborated report from someone who says they were at an Epstein sex party with government officials and royalty.
Morse said anyone with a believable case would have to petition a
US court for a DNA test to confirm their claim and could be called to give testimony.
“About a quarter of the calls have required investigation but so far, we have not felt confident to take any further,” Morse said.
“Having said that, you never know who is going to call each day.”
Epstein hanged himself in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan federal court.
Alleged victims of the financier — who previously pleaded guilty to procuring an underage prostitute — have sued his estate and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, for monetary damages.
After his death, Epstein’s lawyers proposed a first-of-its-kind compensation fund for his victims in an attempt to limit the number of lawsuits lodged against his estate.
The attorneys pitched the fund in an effort to “timely resolve these claims through a process that is sensitive to the experiences and concerns of claimants and treats them with compassion, dignity and respect,” according to court documents.
Victims who agree to take money from the fund would be barred from suing Epstein’s estate.
Lawyers for several victims said the fund was a positive step after it was proposed, but so far, no payments have been made.