Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who’s in them

爱泼斯坦持有海量儿童色情图片；受害者起诉以查明身份

On Tuesday, two survivors of child sex abuse accused the Justice Department of failing to notify dozens of victims found in Jeffrey Epstein’s massive collection of child sex images. In a proposed class action, survivors explained that Epstein apparently started collecting child sex images in the 1990s, many of which the DOJ recovered after his arrest.

周二，两名儿童性虐待幸存者指控美国司法部未能通知在杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）海量儿童色情图片收藏中发现的数十名受害者。在一项拟议的集体诉讼中，幸存者解释称，爱泼斯坦显然从20世纪90年代就开始收集儿童色情图片，其中许多图片是在他被捕后由司法部追回的。

In 2025, the FBI started reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” containing illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and issued a memo confirming that “a large volume of images” seized depicted likely minors. Some of these victims may have had contact with Epstein, as the disgraced financier kept a “modelbook” of nude photos of young girls roped into his ring. However, the FBI also identified hundreds of CSAM images in cache, which include approximately 15–20 images of known CSAM dating back to the 1990s.

2025年，联邦调查局（FBI）开始审查包含非法儿童性虐待材料（CSAM）的“数万段视频”，并发布备忘录确认，查获的“大量图片”中描绘了疑似未成年人。其中一些受害者可能与爱泼斯坦有过接触，因为这位声名狼藉的金融家曾保留一本“模特手册”，里面装有被诱骗进入其圈子的年轻女孩的裸照。然而，FBI还在缓存中识别出了数百张CSAM图片，其中包括约15至20张可追溯至20世纪90年代的已知CSAM图片。

And so far, the DOJ has largely ignored those victims, who likely never met Epstein and have no way of knowing if he possessed, transported, or traded their images, survivors alleged. “Few if any CSAM survivors have been notified that Epstein had their unlawful sexualized images,” survivors alleged. To correct that, survivors are suing the Epstein estate, as well as Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn, who are named solely in their roles as co-executors of the estate.

幸存者声称，到目前为止，司法部在很大程度上忽视了这些受害者，他们很可能从未见过爱泼斯坦，也无法得知他是否持有、传输或交易过她们的图片。“几乎没有CSAM幸存者收到通知，告知她们的非法性化图片曾被爱泼斯坦持有，”幸存者指控道。为了纠正这一点，幸存者正在起诉爱泼斯坦遗产管理委员会，以及仅以遗产共同执行人身份被列为被告的达伦·K·因迪克（Darren K. Indyke）和理查德·D·卡恩（Richard D. Kahn）。

Survivors are hoping that a US district court in New York will agree that the estate must “provide needed notice to Epstein’s CSAM survivors and to afford them with a long-overdue and overlooked remedy for his pernicious CSAM crimes.” If granted, the proposed class would cover any person under 18 at the time they appeared in child sex images found in Epstein’s collection. Excluded are any victims who experienced hands-on sexual contact and were never victims depicted in CSAM found in the Epstein files. Subclasses may be added following discovery in the lawsuit.

幸存者希望纽约的一家美国地方法院能够同意，遗产管理委员会必须“向爱泼斯坦的CSAM幸存者提供必要的通知，并为他恶劣的CSAM罪行提供迟来且被忽视的补救措施。”如果获得批准，拟议的集体诉讼将涵盖任何在爱泼斯坦收藏的儿童色情图片中出现时未满18岁的人。经历过实际性接触但未出现在爱泼斯坦档案中CSAM图片的受害者被排除在外。诉讼取证后可能会增加子类别。

Survivors estimated that there are about 40 victims in the class whose “identities are ascertainable through records in the possession of Defendants and the United States, including through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Victim Identification Program.” They claimed that NCMEC has flagged some victims. However, NCMEC allegedly only ran reports on “a small number” of child sex images “that were addressed in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial,” but “full review, reporting, and notice to CSAM survivors were not provided.” Ars could not immediately reach NCMEC to verify the survivors’ claims.

幸存者估计，该集体中约有40名受害者，她们的“身份可以通过被告和美国政府持有的记录来确定，包括通过国家失踪与受剥削儿童中心（NCMEC）的受害者识别计划。”她们声称NCMEC已经标记了一些受害者。然而，据称NCMEC仅对“在吉丝莱恩·麦克斯韦（Ghislaine Maxwell）审判中涉及的”“少量”儿童色情图片进行了报告，但“并未提供全面的审查、报告和对CSAM幸存者的通知。”Ars无法立即联系到NCMEC以核实幸存者的说法。

Remedies sought include damages for a range of CSAM violations that could perhaps cost the estate $150,000 per victim per image per violation. Survivors have also asked the court to consider imposing punitive damages. “This lawsuit holds Jeffrey Epstein’s estate accountable for a crime that has never been fully addressed on its own terms,” Hillary Nappi of AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys, who is representing survivor plaintiffs.

寻求的补救措施包括针对一系列CSAM违规行为的赔偿，每名受害者每张图片每次违规可能使遗产管理委员会损失15万美元。幸存者还要求法院考虑判处惩罚性赔偿。“这场诉讼让杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的遗产管理委员会为一项从未得到充分解决的罪行负责，”代表幸存者原告的AWK幸存者权益律师事务所的希拉里·纳皮（Hillary Nappi）表示。

“For decades he possessed, transported, and distributed child sexual abuse material, and that conduct has largely gone unexamined even as other aspects of his abuse became public. Survivors have waited years for accountability, and this case opens the door for others depicted in his collection who don’t even know they’re in it.”

“几十年来，他持有、传输和分发儿童性虐待材料，尽管他虐待行为的其他方面已公之于众，但这种行为在很大程度上仍未受到审查。幸存者等待问责已经多年，而此案为那些出现在他收藏中却甚至不知道自己身在其中的受害者打开了大门。”

Epstein allegedly stole CSAM

爱泼斯坦涉嫌窃取CSAM

Neither survivor suing is sure if their images are in Epstein’s collection. “It is not yet known whether Plaintiffs’ images were among those found,” the complaint said. Both victims are suing to find out if they’re one of Epstein’s overlooked victims. In the complaint, they used pseudonyms to ensure their privacy, since searching their names could subject them to further distribution of harmful images.

两名起诉的幸存者都不确定她们的图片是否在爱泼斯坦的收藏中。“目前尚不清楚原告的图片是否在发现的图片之列，”诉状称。两名受害者起诉是为了查明她们是否是爱泼斯坦被忽视的受害者之一。在诉状中，她们使用了化名以确保隐私，因为搜索她们的名字可能会导致有害图片被进一步传播。

Jane Doe is pretty sure that Epstein had her images. She alleged that Epstein stole “partially nude photographs” taken by an artist when she was 12 years old. The photos were allegedly “taken as part of an artist study” and kept by the artist in a lockbox. Little detail is provided about the alleged theft, apart from alleging that another minor’s images were also taken and that both were images converted into CSAM used for Epstein’s “own sexual gratification and the sexual gratification of others.”

简·多伊（Jane Doe）非常确定爱泼斯坦持有她的图片。她声称爱泼斯坦窃取了她12岁时由一位艺术家拍摄的“半裸照片”。据称这些照片是“作为艺术家研究的一部分拍摄的”，并由艺术家保存在一个保险箱中。关于这起所谓的盗窃案细节很少，只是声称另一名未成年人的图片也被窃取，且两者的图片都被转化为CSAM，用于爱泼斯坦“他自己的性满足以及他人的性满足”。

A police report was made, but “no one in law enforcement took action to prosecute anyone or even investigate these reports,” Doe alleged. The other plaintiff, known as “Amy,” is a “victim of actively traded legacy CSAM which has been in distribution since the late 1990s to present day.” Because Amy appears in one of the “most widely circulated legacy series” and “consistently” appears “in collections maintained by individuals who possess child pornography,” she suspects that Epstein probably had her images in his collection.

多伊声称，当时曾报过警，但“执法部门没有人采取行动起诉任何人，甚至没有调查这些报告。”另一名原告“艾米”（Amy）是“自20世纪90年代末至今一直在流通的活跃交易遗留CSAM的受害者。”由于艾米出现在“流传最广的遗留系列”之一中，并且“持续”出现在“持有儿童色情制品的个人所维护的收藏中”，她怀疑爱泼斯坦的收藏中很可能也有她的图片。

After years of waiting for the DOJ to send out alerts that seemingly never came, survivors have turned to the court to help them answer their biggest questions. Are their images in the collection, and if they are, did Epstein ever trade them? And if their claims survive his death, should his estate be held liable for perhaps dozens or even hundreds of CSAM violations?

在等待司法部发出似乎永远不会到来的警报多年后，幸存者转向法院寻求帮助，以回答她们最大的疑问。她们的图片是否在收藏中？如果存在，爱泼斯坦是否交易过它们？如果她们的索赔在爱泼斯坦死后依然有效，他的遗产管理委员会是否应该为可能存在的数十甚至数百起CSAM违规行为承担责任？

If the survivors win, they’ve asked the court to require the estate to preserve the full record of what’s in the collection so that each survivor can find out exactly how many of their images Epstein exploited. “Our goal with this lawsuit is accountability and identification,” Nappi said. “We want the Estate to preserve and account for everything seized from Epstein’s properties, and we want a real, court supervised process to identify and notify every survivor depicted in that collection. Many of them have no idea their images exist in his files, and they deserve to know, and they deserve the chance to seek justice.”

如果幸存者胜诉，她们已要求法院要求遗产管理委员会保留收藏品的完整记录，以便每位幸存者都能确切查明爱泼斯坦利用了她们多少张图片。“我们提起这场诉讼的目标是问责和身份确认，”纳皮说。“我们希望遗产管理委员会保存并清点从爱泼斯坦房产中查获的所有物品，我们希望有一个真实的、受法院监督的程序来识别并通知该收藏中描绘的每一位幸存者。她们中的许多人根本不知道自己的图片存在于他的档案中，她们有权知道，也有权获得寻求正义的机会。”