The Queens woman who says she was raped by Jeffrey Epstein as a teen is asking a Virgin Islands judge to ensure she can recoup damages in her New York lawsuit — and claims the late pedophile tried to stiff her and other victims out of the cash before he committed suicide, according to new court papers.
In new filings, Jennifer Araoz, 32 — who alleged in a lawsuit that she was raped as a 15-year-old by the multi-millionaire during a massage at his East 71st Street townhouse — claims Epstein illegally transferred his over $500 million fortune into a trust before he killed himself in August
She wants the St. Thomas, Virgin Islands judge overseeing the case to “secure” assets for damages in her case.
The 66-year-old sex offender, whose primary residence was in the Caribbean, and his lawyers “conspired … to fraudulently convey and hide assets from his victims, including claimant [Araoz], by transferring assets into a recently created Trust,” the court papers filed in the St. Thomas probate case Oct. 11 allege.
This was “in fraud of his creditors and victims such as claimant, and in contemplation of his committing suicide,” she alleges.
The financier hanged himself in a Lower Manhattan jail cell two days before signing his will leaving all of his wealth to a trust.
“Ms. Araoz’s claim has a right to payment … and has an equitable lien on all unencumbered assets and property of the estate,” her lawyer, Douglas Chanco, wrote in the court papers.
Chanco asked the Virgin Islands judge to “secure sufficient assets from the estate to pay her damages and losses” and to “prevent the sale, transfer or waste of any assets in the decedent’s estate.”
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate did not immediately return requests for comment.