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A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday approved a $72.5 million class-action settlement reached between victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Bank of America.<\/p>\n

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Manhattan Federal Court Judge Jed Rakoff greenlit the agreement at an hour-long conference, hailing the outcome as a significant step toward accountability while acknowledging nothing would ever undo the pain caused to Epstein\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo amount of money can ever fully compensate Epstein\u2019s victims for the harm they\u2019ve suffered,\u201d Rakoff said.<\/p>\n

Amid endless reporting about the need for those who facilitated Epstein\u2019s abuse to be brought to justice, Rakoff said, \u201cThere are cases, including very much this one, where that hasn\u2019t just been talk, it\u2019s reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is thanks to plaintiffs\u2019 counsel that a substantial number of Epstein\u2019s victims are receiving substantial amounts of money and that some at least modest justice is thereby being accommodated,\u201d the judge added.<\/p>\n

Bank of America admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, with a representative for Bank of America reiterating in a statement that the bank still denies it aided Epstein\u2019s abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we stand by our prior statements made in the filings in this case, including that Bank of America did not facilitate sex trafficking crimes, this resolution allows us to put this matter behind us and provides further closure for the plaintiffs,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

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Women abused or trafficked by Epstein or anyone associated with his sex trafficking ring between June 2008 and July 2019 will be covered by the settlement, attorneys for the women previously said. About 60 women are slated to receive payouts.<\/p>\n

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Before rubber-stamping the agreement, Rakoff found the settlement class had been properly certified.<\/p>\n

The suit filed in October 2025 alleged that Bank of America, for years, ignored \u201ca plethora\u201d of evidence that Epstein was sexually abusing vulnerable teenage girls and young women for the sake of making a profit. It said the financial institution showed \u201cabsolute loyalty\u201d to Epstein and conferred a veneer of institutional legitimacy that enabled him to operate an international sex-trafficking organization under the guise of noncriminal business activities.<\/p>\n

The October lawsuit accused Bank of America of waiting far too long to alert law enforcement to Epstein\u2019s suspicious behavior, endangering countless women.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until after Epstein\u2019s 2019 death in a cell at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, that Bank of America filed suspicious activity reports, known as SARs, raising concern over , according to data released last year by the Senate Finance Committee.<\/p>\n

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Similar settlements were reached in actions brought against JPMorgan Chase, which shelled out $290 million to at least 100 victims of Epstein in June 2023, and Deutsche Bank, which. Like the one approved Thursday, neither of those settlements included an admission of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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