Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of helping procure underage girls for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, the question remains as to what will happen for the rest of Epstein’s victims as well as his powerful associates and others who may have helped facilitate the abuse. Here are five civil cases that are still in federal court against Epstein’s estate and associates.

In 2019, Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre sued Alan Dershowitz, a prominent lawyer, for defamation. She said he sexually assaulted her multiple times while she was as young as 16 and being sex-trafficked by Epstein — whom she claimed in the complaint “lent [her] out” to have sex with other men — and that he then called her a liar when she went public with the allegations. Dershowitz denied the claims and countersued Giuffre, saying her allegations were “lies, disparagement, defamation, harassment,” and that she’d been pressured by her lawyers to make false accusations against him (accusations which, themselves, drew their own defamation suit from Giuffre’s lawyer, David Boies).

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The Giuffre/Dershowitz suit will also feature a bit of a cameo from longtime Epstein associate, retail billionaire Leslie Wexner. Back in November, the judge overseeing the case ruled that Wexner would have to sit for a deposition because in his counter-suit, Dershowitz accused Giuffre of making false claims about him in an effort to squeeze money out of Wexner. Per Bloomberg, the deposition — during which...

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