New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke, accountant Richard Kahn, Epstein’s estate and the 1953 Trust, alleging that Indyke and Kahn knowingly helped facilitate, finance and conceal Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, including abuse connected to Zorro Ranch. The complaint portrayed the two men as far more than ordinary professional advisers, alleging that they managed the financial and corporate machinery that kept Epstein’s operation functioning, made cash available from his accounts, handled payments and expenses involving young women, administered Epstein-controlled companies and helped structure ownership of properties including Zorro Ranch. New Mexico alleged that Indyke received more than $16 million from Epstein-related entities between 2011 and 2019, while Kahn received more than $10 million, and argued that both men continued working for Epstein even after his 2008 sex-offense conviction. The suit was brought under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act and New Mexico’s Racketeering Act and sought to prevent people the state alleges enabled Epstein’s crimes from ultimately profiting from his estate.
The financial stakes were substantial because Indyke and Kahn were not only Epstein’s longtime advisers but also became co-executors of his estate and trustees and beneficiaries of the 1953 Trust. The complaint alleged that Indyke could receive as much as $50 million and Kahn as much as $25 million from an estate currently valued at more than $107 million, creating what survivors described as an extraordinary conflict in which the same men helping administer victim settlements could eventually inherit what remained. Torrez’s office said the goal was to recover damages for survivors, prevent defendants from benefiting from an alleged trafficking enterprise and hold accountable people who allegedly helped sustain Epstein’s operation long after his crimes should have been obvious. Indyke and Kahn emphatically denied the allegations, calling the lawsuit baseless and stressing that no survivor had accused either man of committing or witnessing sexual abuse or of being directly told about Epstein’s abuse. Neither man had been criminally charged in connection with Epstein’s crimes, making the New Mexico lawsuit a major new attempt to test their claimed lack of knowledge against the financial and corporate record surrounding Epstein’s operation.
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