Epstein Survivor Sues Two More US Banks, Accusing Them of Enabling Trafficking Network

A woman identified as Jane Doe has filed new lawsuits against Bank of America and BNY Mellon, claiming both financial giants knowingly helped Jeffrey Epstein run his long-standing sex-trafficking network.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, alleges that the banks “enabled and profited” from Epstein’s crimes by handling transactions that should have raised red flags years before his 2019 death.

Bank of America declined to comment. BNY Mellon, for its part, hasn’t responded yet.

Doe is represented by Boies Schiller and Edwards Henderson, the same firms that helped secure major settlements, $75 million from Deutsche Bank and $290 million from JPMorgan — in similar cases. Neither bank admitted wrongdoing at the time.

Epstein, who died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, remains a source of political and public anger in the United States, especially as Congress reopens investigations into his operations and possible enablers.

“As Congress works toward unraveling how Jeffrey Epstein was able to orchestrate his criminal sex trafficking enterprise for decades without detection, we are taking another important step forward toward justice for survivors,” said Sigrid McCawley, Doe’s attorney.

The lawsuit claims Doe met Epstein in 2011 while living in Russia. Over the next eight years, she says, he raped her, assaulted her, and forced her into sexual acts “at least 100 times.”

She also alleges that Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, directed her to open a Bank of America account in 2013 and later placed her on the payroll of a “sham company.” The transactions, the lawsuit argues, should have triggered federal suspicious activity reports.

A second suit against BNY Mellon says the bank extended credit to a modeling agency called MC2, allegedly used by Epstein and French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel to traffic women.

Court documents claim BNY processed roughly $378 million in payments tied to Epstein’s victims. Brunel himself was arrested in 2020 and later found dead in his Paris jail cell in 2022.

Both suits argue the banks ignored or failed to report transactions that might have helped law enforcement stop Epstein much earlier.

The Epstein case continues to shadow Washington. President Donald Trump’s administration is under fire for reversing its promise to release the Department of Justice’s full files on Epstein. The House Oversight Committee has since launched its own probe.