NEW YORK (NY)
The New York Times
August 14, 2019
By Jennifer Araoz
Ms. Araoz has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
The first time I stepped into Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side in the fall of 2001, I noticed his security cameras. They were hard to miss. Inside the front door, he had small TVs playing the footage in real time. I was a child, just 14 at the time. But the message was clear: I was in the house of someone important and I was being watched.
I can still remember watching myself on those screens as I walked into the house of the person I came to know as a predator, a pedophile, my rapist.
I’m filing a civil action against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and accomplices today, under New York’s Child Victims Act. A key provision of the law goes into effect today and allows survivors to revive claims if the statute of limitations had expired.
Epstein was found dead, apparently by suicide, in his jail cell last week. I’m angry he won’t have to personally answer to me in the court of law. But my quest for justice is just getting started.
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