2026-09-24T18:58:54.706Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
据报道，联邦调查人员正在调查杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的两位最亲密顾问——其长期律师达伦·因迪克和会计师理查德·卡恩，这对数百名受害者而言是一项重大进展，这些受害者一直呼吁为那些可能协助过这名臭名昭著的性犯罪者的人追究责任。
《华尔街日报》本周最先报道称，联邦当局已对因迪克和卡恩展开调查。CNN采访了一名今年早些时候就爱泼斯坦相关事宜接受调查人员询问的消息人士，其中涉及这两名男子。该消息人士称，调查人员正在与曾与爱泼斯坦有过往来的潜在证人谈话，包括受害者。他们补充道，包括美国纽约南区联邦检察官办公室（SDNY）在内的多个机构的官员正在征集与爱泼斯坦相关的文件，比如电子邮件和支票。
这位因担心遭到报复而匿名接受CNN采访的消息人士表示，调查人员对因迪克和卡恩可能知晓的广泛议题表现出兴趣，其中包括爱泼斯坦的众多空壳公司，比如佛罗里达科学基金会。该非营利组织成立于2007年11月，多名受害者告诉CNN，爱泼斯坦在那里对她们实施了性侵，当时他正因相关罪行在服刑。
美国司法部一名发言人在发给CNN的声明中表示：“我们不会对调查是否存在发表评论。我们一直表示，就爱泼斯坦案而言，如果有证据出现，我们就会展开调查。”纽约南区联邦检察官办公室的一名发言人拒绝证实该调查或置评。
CNN已联系因迪克和卡恩的律师，请他们就二人正接受调查的报道置评。两人此前均否认有不当行为，并声称自己对爱泼斯坦的性贩运活动一无所知，也未参与其中。
因迪克和卡恩是爱泼斯坦核心圈子中最具争议、最遭诟病的两人，众所周知，他们多年来深入了解爱泼斯坦商业运作的来龙去脉。除了共同担任爱泼斯坦遗产的执行人外，如果爱泼斯坦的信托基金最终得以兑付，他们也是首批能从该基金中获得数百万美元收益的受益人之一。
这一安排引发了受害者的审查，目前爱泼斯坦遗产一方面就受害者提起的民事诉讼进行辩护，另一方面还在为这两位共同执行人在相关民事诉讼中支付辩护费用，这些民事诉讼要求他们为协助爱泼斯坦犯罪的所谓行为承担损害赔偿责任。
爱泼斯坦2019年在等待联邦性贩运指控审判期间死于狱中。在美国境内，仅有他的同谋吉斯莱恩·马克斯韦尔因爱泼斯坦大规模性贩运活动被起诉。
受害者和维权人士长期以来一直呼吁对爱泼斯坦的罪行展开更多调查和起诉，并要求各机构多年来收集的关于爱泼斯坦的大量信息保持透明。去年通过的一项新法律迫使司法部公布了数百万份与爱泼斯坦相关的文件，但司法部手中仍有数百万份文件尚未公开。
“无剥削世界”组织联合创始人劳伦·赫什在一份声明中表示，爱泼斯坦的罪行“之所以能够实施，是因为围绕他的一群人和机构为其剥削行为提供了便利，保护了有权势者，辜负了受到伤害的女性和女孩”。该组织与爱泼斯坦受害者密切合作。
“我们欢迎联邦检察官正在调查达伦·因迪克和理查德·卡恩的消息，也欢迎他们提出了本应在多年前就提出的问题，”赫什说道，“受害者理应全面了解爱泼斯坦及其圈子内的人如何能够长期逍遥法外，并为所有纵容或参与其剥削行为的人追究责任。”
近几个月来，因迪克和卡恩也都成为诉讼的对象，包括爱泼斯坦受害者在8月份提起的集体诉讼，该诉讼指控二人纵容爱泼斯坦的犯罪行为。
“两人在纵容爱泼斯坦的犯罪行为中都发挥了关键作用，”受害者在8月份提起的诉讼中声称，“他们为爱泼斯坦的性贩运活动提供了必要的财务和法律支持。”
他们同时作为爱泼斯坦遗产的受益人和共同执行人的双重身份，最近在法庭上引发了他们存在固有利益冲突的指控。
“他们身负诸多相互矛盾的职责。作为遗产执行人，你是受托人，这要求你恪守极高的行为标准，”代表爱泼斯坦受害者的律师詹妮弗·弗里曼上周在接受CNN采访时表示，“而且我不明白，作为遗产执行人，他们怎么还能自行认定自己是否负有任何责任。你是在为自己的个人责任做出判断，所以他们得出了自己没有责任的结论。这太出乎意料了。”
上周在曼哈顿举行的集体诉讼和解听证会上，弗里曼在一项异议中提出了这一问题。尽管法官驳回了她的论点，但这一点凸显了因迪克和卡恩所担任的不同寻常的角色——他们既是爱泼斯坦生前最亲密的顾问，也是其死后事务的核心参与者。
公开场合下，两人均表示预计不会获得遗产遗赠，因为遗产资金已经枯竭，且仍有预计中的诉讼和和解费用需要支付。
分别代表因迪克和卡恩的律师丹尼尔·韦纳和丹尼尔·鲁祖马纳近日告诉CNN，遗产的遗嘱认证程序可能至少还需要三年才能完成，两人的客户均未从遗产中收到任何资金。
两人在一份联合声明中表示：“如果因迪克和卡恩‘要从1953年信托基金中获得任何资金，他们只能在所有针对遗产的索赔最终解决且遗产完成遗嘱认证之后’才能拿到。”
因迪克今年早些时候向议员作证称，他“完全不知道”爱泼斯坦的不当行为，并驳斥了“任何关于他协助或便利其前老板犯罪的说法”。卡恩告诉国会，他与爱泼斯坦的关系“严格来说只是职业上的”。
“我从未目睹任何性虐待或贩运女性的行为，也从未收到过爱泼斯坦的任何一名受害者或其他任何人关于此类虐待或贩运的投诉，”卡恩说道。
CNN记者埃姆·斯特克为本报道贡献了内容。
Epstein’s top advisers reportedly under federal investigation, marking major development for survivors
2026-09-24T18:58:54.706Z / CNN
Federal investigators are reportedly probing two of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest advisers – his longtime lawyer Darren Indyke and his accountant Richard Kahn – marking a major development for the hundreds of survivors and victims who have pushed for accountability for those who may have aided the notorious sex offender.
The Wall Street Journal first reported this week that federal authorities have opened an investigation into Indyke and Kahn. CNN spoke with a source who was interviewed by investigators earlier this year about Epstein, including the two men. Investigators are speaking with potential witnesses who had dealings with Epstein, including survivors, the source said. Officials from a number of agencies including the US Attorney’s office for Southern District of New York (SDNY) are soliciting documentation connected to Epstein, such as emails and checks, they added.
According to the source, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, investigators appeared interested in a wide range of topics that Indyke and Kahn would have had knowledge about, including Epstein’s numerous shell companies like the Florida Science Foundation. The non-profit was created in November 2007, and multiple survivors have told CNN that Epstein abused them there while he was also serving jail time.
A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement to CNN: “We don’t comment on the existence, or lack thereof, of investigations. We have always said with regard to Epstein that if the evidence presents itself, we will investigate.” A spokesperson for SDNY declined to confirm the investigation or comment.
CNN has reached out to lawyers for Indyke and Kahn for comment on reports they are under investigation. They have both previously denied wrongdoing and claimed they have no knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
Indyke and Kahn are among the most controversial and villainized men from Epstein’s inner circle, known to have had intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of Epstein’s business dealings over many years. In addition to being co-executors of Epstein’s estate, they are also among the first beneficiaries in line to receive millions of dollars from Epstein’s trust should it ever pay out.
That arrangement has drawn scrutiny from victims as the estate defends itself against civil litigation from Epstein’s victims and pays for the defense of its co-executors in civil suits seeking damages for their alleged role in enabling Epstein.
Epstein died in prison in 2019 while waiting trial for federal sex trafficking charges. Only one person, his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, has been prosecuted in the US in relation to Epstein’s vast sex trafficking operation.
Survivors and advocates have long pushed for more investigations and prosecutions related to Epstein’s crimes, as well as transparency about the vast amount of information various agencies have collected about Epstein over the years. The passage of a new law last year forced the Justice Department to release millions of documents related to Epstein, but millions more remain in the DOJ’s possession and have yet to be made public.
Lauren Hersh, the co-founder of World Without Exploitation, which works closely with Epstein survivors, said in a statement that Epstein’s crimes were only “made possible by a network of people and institutions around him that enabled exploitation, protected powerful people and failed the women and girls who were harmed.”
“We welcome the news that federal prosecutors are investigating Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn and asking questions that should have been asked years ago,” Hersh said. “Survivors deserve a full accounting of how Epstein and those in his orbit were able to operate for so long, and accountability for everyone who enabled or participated in their exploitation.”
Indyke and Kahn have also both been the subject of litigation in recent months, including a class-action suit filed in August by Epstein survivors alleging they enabled Epstein’s crimes.
“Each played critical roles in enabling Epstein’s acts,” the victims alleged in the lawsuit filed in August, “by providing Epstein the necessary financial and legal support for his sex trafficking operation.”
Their overlapping roles as both beneficiaries of and coexecutors for Epstein’s estate has led to allegations in court recently that they have an inherent conflict of interest.
“They had all these contradictory roles. As an executor of an estate, you are a fiduciary, which is a very high standard for your conduct,” Jennifer Freeman, an attorney representing Epstein victims, told CNN in an interview last week. “And I don’t see how, as executors of the estate, they could also make the decision about whether they were responsible in any way. You’re making a decision about your own personal liability, so they decided they had no liability. Surprise, surprise.”
At a class-action settlement hearing last week in Manhattan, Freeman raised the issue in an objection. Though the judge dismissed her argument, the point underscores the unusual roles Indyke and Kahn hold, as among Epstein’s closest advisors in both life and his affairs after his death.
Publicly, both have said they do not expect to receive their bequests, given the estate’s depleted finances and expected litigation and settlements still to come.
Daniel Weiner and Daniel Ruzumna, attorneys for Indyke and Kahn respectively, recently told CNN that it will likely take at least three more years for the estate to complete the probate process and that neither of their clients have received any funds from the estate.
If Indyke and Kahn “were to receive any funds from the 1953 Trust, they would do so only after all claims against the Estate are finally resolved and the Estate is fully probated,” the two said in a joint statement.
Indyke testified to lawmakers earlier this year that he “had no knowledge whatsoever” of Epstein’s wrongdoing and rejected “any suggestion” he assisted or facilitated his former boss’ crimes. Kahn told Congress that his relationship with Epstein had been “strictly on a professional level.”
“I never observed any sexual abuse or trafficking of women and never received a complaint – either by one of Epstein’s victims or any one else – of such abuse or trafficking,” Kahn said.
CNN’s Em Steck contributed to this story.
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