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.” 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.

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?

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.”

For Doe, the wait has been particularly long, the complaint said:

“Upon learning that Epstein had possessed sexualized images of her as a child, Jane Doe suffered and continues to suffer severe emotional distress, anxiety, hypervigilance, intrusive recollection, disrupted sleep, need for and course of mental health treatment, and the distinct and continuing injury of knowing that images of her as a child were held and used for another’s sexual gratification.”

This story was updated on September 16 to include comments from the survivors’ attorney.