Epstein had cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them

Two survivors of child sexual abuse have filed a proposed class action accusing the Justice Department and the executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate of failing to notify dozens of people whose images were recovered from Epstein’s large cache of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The complaint says Epstein began collecting such images in the 1990s and that an FBI review beginning in 2025 found “tens of thousands” of videos and a large volume of images depicting likely minors, including hundreds of CSAM images and a “modelbook” of young girls linked to Epstein’s ring. Plaintiffs seek a court order requiring the estate to identify and notify anyone under 18 depicted in the seized files; they estimate roughly 40 victims are presently identifiable through records and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which plaintiffs say only ran limited reports tied to the Maxwell trial.

The suit names the estate and its co-executors and seeks damages, preservation of the full seizure record, and a supervised process to determine who appears in the collection and whether Epstein possessed, transported, or distributed their images. Remedies sought include statutory damages (cited at up to $150,000 per victim per image per violation) and punitive damages. The two lead plaintiffs use pseudonyms: one alleges photographs taken at 12 were stolen and became CSAM, and the other appears in a widely circulated legacy series and suspects her images were in Epstein’s files. The complaint emphasizes ongoing emotional harm and frames the litigation as a bid for accountability and identification.