By:  Daniella Doria

Thanks to a law that allows adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse to sue their abusers, two more victims of Jeffrey Epstein have come forward

The New York Post reports that the lawsuits are to be filed against Epstein’s estate under the Adult Survivors Act, which opened a one-year legal window for sex assault victims whose cases are too old to bring to court, although at least 10 others have previously been filed under the Child Victims Act, including cases by Jennifer Aroaz and multiple unnamed women.

Jacob Geanous, of The New York Post, writes that the victims, who were identified in court papers only as Mia Doe and Naomi Doe, each claim they were recruited by a young woman to give Epstein a massage at his Manhattan mansion, according to court papers. Mia Doe was recruited in 2003, when she was 18, and Naomi Doe was 20 when she was brought in in 2005, they claimed in court papers. Both women claim Epstein sexually abused them during the massages, although Mia Doe claims she broke away from Epstein’s grip and never returned, while Naomi Doe said that she was abused 10 times.

Recently a different group of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims filed a pair of class action lawsuits accusing Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase of “complicity” in his crimes, claiming the mega banks ignored reds flags of sex trafficking for their own profit, according to Law and Crime. They filed this lawsuit last month on the same day the Adult Survivor’s law went into effect.

Law and Crime reported:

Both similarly worded, the complaints accuse both of the banks of intimate knowledge of Epstein’s empire of predation.

“The Epstein sex-trafficking venture’s purpose included enticing, obtaining, harboring, and transporting the young victims without drawing unwanted attention from law enforcement,” they state in identical passages. “The venture had everything a sex-trafficking organization needed — funding, infrastructure, the appearance of legitimacy, and perhaps most importantly a complicit banking institution. It was by many accounts the most powerful and wealthiest sex-trafficking venture ever created.”

“The Epstein sex-trafficking venture knowingly used means of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion (including threats of serious harm or physical restraint), and abuse of law and the legal process, to cause Jane Doe 1 and many dozens of others similarly situated to engage in commercial sex acts,” they continue.

In other Epstein related news The New York Post reports that Beleaguered FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has reportedly tapped a key member of convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team to represent him following the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire.

Bankman-Fried hired Mark S. Cohen, a managing partner and co-founder of the Cohen & Gresser law firm in New York, Reuters reported, citing a message from the former FTX boss’s spokesperson Mark Botnick.

A former assistant US attorney, Cohen was part of a team that defended Maxwell, the longtime companion of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In June, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping Epstein abuse underage girls.