In a bid to inherit part of deceased American financier, Jeffrey Epstein‘s $635 million estate, about 130 people have come out to claim they are his children. A website created by a DNA company to find any possible heirs to deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein’s estate had as many as 130 people claiming to be the convicted paedophile’s children.
If any are found to be the multimillionaire’s children, they could lay claim to a piece of his $635 million estate, which includes his Manhattan mansion and a luxury 75-acre estate, tagged ‘paedophile island’.
Epstein had taken his life in a Manhattan jail cell in August while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. Unmarried, he was not known to have had any children. He left his assets in a trust after his death.
“Jeffrey Epstein was sexually promiscuous for so long that there is a reasonable chance he may have fathered a child,” Harvey Morse, founder of Morse Genealogical Services tells the Sun.
The DNA firm set up the website Epsteinheirs.com shortly after Epstein’s death asking for people who thought they were heirs to his estate to signify. Since then 386 people have contacted the website and about 130 say they could be his children.