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Jeffrey 
Epstein's 
Right-Hand 
Mystery Men 
THE LAWYER AND THE ACCOUNTANT 
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One of the men was described by a source as 
"Epstein's confidant and aide for decades." 
The other was his longtime accountant. Both 
could soon be questioned. 
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Kate Briquelet 
Senior Reporter 
William Bredderman 
Researcher 
Published Aug. 30, 2020 4:58AN1 ET 
The day after Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, a man wearing a red hoodie 
and L.A. Dodgers cap emerged from the dead sex offender's Manhattan 
mansion. His hat and shades obscured his face as he hauled a hefty blue gift bag 
out of the massive townhouse, where Epstein abused scores of underage girls 
for years. 
A photographer captured the scene that day in August 2019, and the pictures 
were published by the Daily Mail, which identified the mystery man as 
Epstein's longtime accountant and a co-executor of his $634 million estate: 47-
year-old Richard Kahn. The bag he was carrying, a source with close ties to 
Kahn said, contained Epstein's funeral clothes. 
Little is known about Kahn outside his work for Epstein. Or about his co-
executor, 55-year-old Darren Indyke, who served as Epstein's personal attorney 
for more than two decades and was apparently so close to Epstein that the 
money manager paid for fertility treatments for Indyke and his wife. Neither 
man has a public social media account, and both shun press interviews. 
But both could soon be questioned as part of a lawsuit filed by Jane Doe, who 
alleges she was 14 when Epstein and his former girlfriend, British socialite 
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Ghislaine Maxwell, began to groom and sexually abuse her in 1994. (Doe is 
suing Indyke and Kahn in their capacity as co-executors, and Maxwell 
individually.) 
Maxwell, who is in a federal prison in Brooklyn awaiting trial for her alleged 
role in Epstein's teen sex ring, could also sit for a deposition in Doe's lawsuit. 
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Ghislaine Maxwell 
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Last week, Doe's attorney wrote the federal judge overseeing the case and 
indicated Indyke would be deposed "in both his personal capacity and as a co-
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executor of the Epstein Estate," and would "offer extremely relevant testimony" 
relating to her claims. 
"Indeed, we have reason to believe he has firsthand knowledge of Jeffrey 
Epstein's relationship with Plaintiff while she was a minor and even acted on 
Jeffrey Epstein's behalf to communicate with Plaintiff on several occasions," 
the lawyer Robert Glassman wrote to U.S. District Judge Debra Freeman, 
responding to the estate's push to delay the under-oath grilling. 
Doe also plans to depose Kahn. In an email thread attached to his letter, 
Glassman told the lawyer for Epstein's estate, "With respect to Mr. Kahn 
testifying in his personal capacity, we would like to know to what extent he 
knew about Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell's criminal enterprise. We would like 
to know if Mr. Epstein had ever told him that he sexually abused and raped my 
client and other minor victims." 
"I trust you would agree that even if Mr. Kahn started working for Mr. Epstein 
after Mr. Epstein stopped abusing my client that doesn't mean Mr. Kahn 
wouldn't or doesn't know anything about it. Right?" Glassman added. 
The estate asked that the judge postpone Kahn's and Indyke's depositions, not 
only because they've yet to provide discovery materials requested by Doe, but 
also because Maxwell is requesting a stay in the case pending her criminal trial. 
Last week, the judge put the depositions on hold until the court resolves 
Maxwell's request and directed Doe's legal team to find a new deposition date 
for Indyke in September should Maxwell's motion be denied. 
Doe isn't the only survivor who tried to get sworn testimony from Indyke. 
Victims in other lawsuits, including a case brought by 
, were 
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scheduled to depose him, but their participation in a victims' compensation fund 
put their cases on hold. 
"One of the ironies is that as Epstein's executor, by agreeing to set up this 
claims process, he may succeed in insulating himself from discovery," one 
source familiar with the victims' litigation told The Daily Beast. The source said 
Indyke "was plucked out of obscurity by Epstein" and described him as the "in-
house counsel to Epstein's enterprise." 
"He was involved in virtually all of the legal work Epstein had," the source 
added. "He's probably the person with the most knowledge about Epstein's 
money, business relationships, assets, and legal affairs." 
"He's a mystery in part because he's been with Epstein so long," the source 
said. "He's been Epstein's confidant and aide for decades. If he had a life 
outside of Epstein, it was a very private life." 
Indyke and his criminal defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo, hired amid the 
government's ongoing probe of Epstein and his companies, did not return 
messages left by The Daily Beast. His relatives also declined to comment. 
The father of two worked as Epstein's personal attorney since the 1990s, 
serving as an officer for the financier's charities, handling feuds with unpaid 
contractors, and representing the businesses of women in Epstein's circle.. 
2012, he signed corporation paperwork for the design business of 
, 
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As The Daily Beast has previously revealed, Indyke also represented the 
women's empowerment business o 
a Russian model in 
Epstein's orbit. In 2018, Indyke filed trademark paperwork and registered the 
website for 
business, 
Records show that weeks after 
Epstein's suicide, 
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Indyke's name is also on corporation filings for the anonymous company that 
owned Maxwell's East 65th Street townhouse. In 2000, Epstein's friend Lynn 
Forester sold the residence to the LLC for $4.95 million, according to reports.
He served as a trustee of Maxwell's Max Foundation from 2001 to 2010, until 
he was replaced by 
Epstein and who also 
a woman pictured in society photos with 
Meanwhile, Indyke was listed as secretary of The Wexner Foundation—a 
nonprofit founded by Epstein's only known clients, ex-Victoria's Secret mogul 
Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail—in SEC filings from 1998 to 2001. The 
nonprofit's tax forms also listed Indyke as secretary through 2006. Two years 
later, Abigail Wexner gave Indyke power of attorney over her condominium at 
15 Central Park West, property records show. 
Friends from high school and throughout Indyke's life were surprised to see his 
name connected to Epstein in the press after the hedge-funder died. 
Indyke grew up in a middle-class family in Glen Cove, a small city on the north 
shore of Long Island. Childhood pals told The Daily Beast he was a sweet, 
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normal guy who was actively involved with theater from a young age through 
high school. 
In his 1982 senior yearbook, Indyke wrote that in 20 years, he would be 
"`performing' [his] first case for the Supreme Court quoting Al Pacino," Yahoo 
Finance reported.
He graduated from Colgate College in 1986 and Cornell Law School five years 
later. One former friend who grew up on his block said, "Even when he was in 
high school, he knew he was going to law school." 
"He was driven. Everything he did was towards becoming an attorney. It was 
something his parents wanted," the friend added. When the acquaintance got in 
trouble for selling ice cream at Jones Beach in the early 1980s, he panicked and 
told an officer his name was something like "Darrel Endike" and gave an 
address that was slightly off. 
Somehow, the pal told The Daily Beast, officials discovered the correct spelling 
and address for Indyke and appeared at his doorstep over the illegal vending. 
"His father, Bernie, was furious," the friend said, adding that "he marched over 
to my house and confronted my father. I got into all kinds of trouble. The point 
was: that [Indyke] needed an unblemished record because he wanted to go to 
law school, and something like this could have hurt him in some way, his 
chances of going to a top law school." 
"I think I apologized to him [Indyke] for sure," the friend said. "But it was 
really his father who was most upset." 
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After law school, Indyke did a four-year stint with Gold & Wachtel, a now-
defunct boutique law firm, and represented several clients  in copyright 
lawsuits. 
Gold & Wachtel represented Epstein at least as far back as 1988. Firm principal 
William Wachtel declined to discuss that but said he hired Indyke as a favor to 
the younger man's father, Bernard Indyke, whom he described as a mailroom 
employee at a financial company that had retained Gold & Wachtel. 
Court records indicate Indyke's father was in fact a manager and member of the 
board at Jackie Fine Arts, a Gold & Wachtel client that sold low-value art 
reproduction rights to the rich at high prices as a calculated tax dodge. Efforts to 
reach the founder of the company, Herman Finesod—once hailed as the King of 
Tax Shelters—were unsuccessful. 
"You find someone successful and hitch your wagon to them," a childhood 
friend of Indyke's, who last saw him when they were in their twenties, told The 
Daily Beast. "People fall into these situations and they can't extricate 
themselves... That's the benefit of the doubt I would give him." 
Indyke perhaps felt indebted to Epstein for his largesse. 
As Indyke wrote in a glowing biography of his boss—prepared for Florida 
prosecutors—Epstein paid for "prohibitively expensive in-vitro fertilization 
cycles," for him and his wife. 
"Shortly after I began working for Jeffrey, I experienced a personal and 
unexpected tragedy. After five years of marriage, my wife and I learned that I 
was infertile and we could not have children in the traditional manner," Indyke 
wrote in the bio, first reported by The Palm Beach Post. 
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"I meekly approached Jeffrey and asked him if it would be possible to drop my 
wife and me from the company's medical policy in exchange for a different one 
or cash payment," Indyke continued. "Puzzled by my request, Jeffrey naturally 
asked why. When I told him, he was visibly affected and without even a 
moment's consideration, he told me to go for treatment and send him the bills. 
Having been with Jeffrey only a few months, I was astounded by his generosity 
and hurried to my desk to call my wife to share the amazing news." 
Indyke claimed Epstein paid for five cycles of in-vitro, and that Maxwell even 
offered to look into adoption for his family. 
"At the unsuccessful completion of our fourth cycle and a failed adoption 
attempt, my wife and I were at the end of our rope and did not want to 
continue," Indyke declared. "Without Jeffrey's support and stubborn daily 
encouragement we would not have. He even recruited his then girlfriend, 
Ghislaine Maxwell, to meet with us to offer assistance with local adoption and 
overseas adoption procedures and to encourage us to try again." 
"Thankfully, after our fifth cycle, my wife and I were blessed with twin 
daughters. Although Jeffrey was adamant that we owed him nothing, Jeffrey 
honored us by agreeing to be the godfather of our children." 
In the past decade, Indyke and his wife have owned two different properties in 
Boca Raton, Florida—one of which they still own, having acquired it for $3.1 
million without a mortgage in 2015. Another, bought in 2014 and sold four 
years after, sat in the exclusive enclave of Boca Grove Plantation; it required the 
pair to shell out at least $70,000 beyond the $460,000 purchase price for a 
"social equity membership in the Boca Grove Golf & Tennis Club." 
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All the while, they maintained a residence in Livingston, New Jersey, which 
they purchased through an LLC for $1.75 million in 2003. 
In his recent book, Relentless Pursuit, longtime victims' lawyer Brad Edwards 
described Indyke as Epstein's "fixer" who "had attended important hearings as 
well as my depositions of Epstein over the years." When Edwards sat for a 2017 
deposition in his years-long court battle with Epstein, Indyke was there to take 
notes. "Darren Indyke, who was a staple at every Epstein event, was situated in 
his normal spot at the far end of the table in order to monitor and report back to 
Epstein everything that happened," Edwards wrote. 
"He wasn't a litigator, more like a fixer," Edwards noted at another point. 
"Indyke had one client: Jeffrey Epstein." 
Edwards represents a client referred to as Katlyn Doe, who alleges in a lawsuit 
that Epstein forced her to marry one of his non-citizen female recruiters—
nuptials arranged, she says, through Epstein's "long-time New York attorney." 
"The ceremony included not only signing the necessary legal paperwork 
prepared by [the attorney] but also posing for photographs to give the 
appearance that the marriage was legitimate," the complaint states. Whether 
Indyke was this attorney hasn't been publicly confirmed. Edwards could not be 
reached for comment. 
Kahn is a lesser-known figure in Epstein's world, and his name is hardly 
mentioned in litigation related to the sex-offender's victims. 
There were no public images of the accountant until the Daily Mail's photos of 
him transporting the gift bag in August 2019, along with snapshots of him 
leaving Epstein's home in February 2019 following a two-hour visit. 
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Days after the Mail published the images, an attorney for one victim wrote to 
Kahn's lawyers, demanding materials be preserved. 
"Is it true that Mr. Kahn entered Mr. Epstein's townhouse and removed 
documents?" the lawyer wrote, before requesting "a list of documents and/or 
materials Mr. Kahn removed from Mr. Epstein's townhouse that day and on any 
other occasion after Mr. Epstein's death." 
Counsel for the Epstein estate dismissed the Mail report and told the victim's 
team via email: "Our clients take their preservation obligations seriously." 
A person with knowledge told The Daily Beast that the bag contained funeral 
attire and that Kahn "was doing his obligation as an executor which is to attend 
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The source said Kahn "has never socialized with Epstein" and wasn't aware of 
Epstein's alleged abuse. Kahn first met Epstein when he began working for him 
in 2005, out of a Madison Avenue office he shared with Indyke. (An accountant 
named Bella Klein, and Epstein's personal assistant and alleged co-conspirator 
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also routinely worked in the New York office.) 
"Richard worked out of the office," the source added. "Did Epstein appear at 
those offices? Yes. Did Richard see any of the activities that were the focus of 
press attention? No." 
Kahn's name appears throughout records for Epstein's nonprofits and 
corporations and was mentioned in the 2010 deposition of Epstein's Palm Beach 
house manager, Janusz Banasiak, who described him as a senior accountant. 
"Would you say that Mr. Kahn is a key employee, like a right-hand man of Mr. 
Epstein?" one victim's lawyer asked. Banasiak replied in the affirmative. 
Kahn is listed as treasurer of Epstein's Financial Strategy Group Ltd. (FSG), 
which filed an application in 2013 to become an international banking entity 
based in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Indyke was secretary and Epstein president, 
records show. 
FSG, which changed its name to Southern Country International, was approved 
in 2014 to run a bank specializing only in offshore clients. In 2018, Erika 
Kellerhals, Epstein's tax lawyer based in St. Thomas, told territory officials the 
bank's operations hadn't yet begun. According to The New York Times, whether 
the bank actively pursued customers is unclear. But months after Epstein died, 
the estate transferred more than $12 million to Southern Country's coffers. The 
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bank's year-end value was $499,759 two weeks after the transfer, 
the Times reported, and what happened to the money isn't clear. 
According to FSG's articles of incorporation, Kahn became a certified public 
accountant in 1995. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1994 and got a 
masters in taxation from Pace University in 1999. 
Kahn and his wife, Lisa, purchased a $2.8 million co-op apartment on the Upper 
East Side in 2008, property records show, and they took out a mortgage on that 
residence in 2016. The couple also owns a six-bedroom Hamptons manse 
purchased for $1.5 million in 2015. 
Kahn, who declined to comment for this article, has been an executive with 
Epstein's shadowy nonprofits since at least 2007. 
That year, Kahn replaced Maxwell as treasurer of the C.O.U.Q. Foundation and 
held the role until the charity dissolved five years later. 
C.O.U.Q. contributed $46 million in stock and other assets to Wexner's YLK 
Charitable Fund in 2008, just before Epstein started his Palm Beach jail 
sentence. According to one CNBC report, Epstein's nonprofit gave $14 million 
to YLK in 2007. 
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Before C.O.U.Q. shut down in November 2012, Epstein created another murky 
entity called Gratitude America Ltd. 
The charity's tax filings didn't show revenues until 2015, when Kahn replaced 
Epstein as president of the group and investor Leon Black donated $10 million 
through an anonymous LLC. The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands 
recently issued civil subpoenas to Black over his relationship with Epstein. 
Deutsche Bank AG, where Gratitude America had an account, is also under fire 
over its relationship with Epstein. In July, the bank was fined $150 million for 
failing to detect millions in suspicious transactions, including payments to 
Epstein's alleged co-conspirators and more than $800,000 in withdrawals made 
by Epstein's personal attorney. 
Similar to Indyke, Kahn made political donations to the same candidates Epstein 
backed throughout the years. 
In 2007, Kahn and his wife each made $2,300 donations to the presidential 
campaign of former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a friend of Epstein. 
Indyke and his wife, Michelle Saipher, also donated $2,300 apiece to 
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Richardson that year. (One of Epstein's victims, 
claims 
Maxwell directed her to have sex with Richardson. He has denied involvement 
with Epstein's trafficking scheme.) 
Kahn donated a total of $5,400 to the campaign of Congresswoman Stacey 
Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2016, and $2,700 in 2018. He shelled out 
$2,600 to Plaskett in 2014 (as did fellow Epstein accountant, Bella Klein). After 
Epstein's July 2019 arrest, Plaskett said she'd return Epstein's money, though 
it's unknown whether she planned to return the funds of his associates. 
In the itemized receipts for the 2016 and 2018 donations, Kahn's occupation is 
listed as "attorney." He's never been registered, however, as a lawyer in New 
York state. 
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