Bank of America reaches settlement in Epstein lawsuit

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Mar 28, 2026 · 436 words · By Sakshi Venkatraman

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What to know about Bank of America reaches settlement in Epstein lawsuit

Bank of America to pay out $72.5m over Epstein lawsuit Bank of America has reached a $72.5m (£54.6m) settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who had accused the bank of facilitating his sex trafficking operation.

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What happened

Why it matters

The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in October by a Florida woman who says she was abused by Epstein "on at least 100 occasions" between 2011 and 2019 and held two accounts at Bank of America at the direction of his business team.

Common ground

It alleged that the bank had "a plethora of information regarding Epstein's sex trafficking operation but chose profit over protecting the victims".

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Bank of America told the BBC in a statement on Saturday that it did not facilitate sex trafficking crimes?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Bank of America told the BBC in a statement on Saturday that it did not facilitate sex trafficking crimes”

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Claim 2: “Bank of America had previously urged the court to dismiss the lawsuit, saying it had provided routine services to people who at the time had no known links to Epstein”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to support the claim about the lawsuit against Bank of America.

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Claim 3: “Bank of America has reached a $72.5m (£54.6m) settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of victims of Jeffrey Epstein”

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Wikipedia entries provide general information about Epstein but do not mention Bank of America's involvement in a settlement with victims. No evidence confirms the $72.5m figure or the lawsuit details.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Epstein files comprise over six million pages of documents detailing the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So far about three and a half million fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_in_the_Ep…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mark Lawrence Epstein (born July 14, 1954), nicknamed "Puggy", is an American property developer and real estate investor. The brother of convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, he has b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Epstein_(property_develop…

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Claim 4: “The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in October by a Florida woman who says she was abused by Epstein 'on at least 100 occasions' between 2011 and 2019”

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Wikipedia entries describe Epstein's activities and connections but do not reference a class-action lawsuit filed by a Florida woman or specific abuse allegations. No evidence corroborates the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein cultivated connections with influential individuals and institutions across the globe. Epstein was personally connected with man…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_of_Jeffrey_Epstein

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Claim 5: “It alleged that the bank had 'a plethora of information regarding Epstein's sex trafficking operation but chose profit over protecting the victims'”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to support the claim about Bank of America's knowledge of Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

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Claim 6: “The settlement was reached earlier this month, but details of the deal had not been revealed until documents were filed on Friday in a federal court in New York”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to support the claim about the timing or details of the settlement.

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Claim 7: “She says she met Epstein in Russia in 2011, and was controlled and sexually abused by him up until his death in jail in August 2019”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to support the claim about the abuse allegations and timeline.

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Claim 8: “The lawsuit also points to more than $150m paid to Epstein by billionaire Leon Black for 'purported 'tax and estate planning advice'', via Black's Bank of America account”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm the details about the $72.5m payout or the specific allegations.

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Claim 9: “The lawsuit, brought on behalf of a 'Jane Doe', cites a record of 'incredibly alarming and erratic banking behaviour' in her own Bank of America accounts”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm the allegations about a Florida woman filing a lawsuit.

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Claim 10: “Bank of America to pay out $72.5m over Epstein lawsuit”

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Wikipedia entries only mention Jeffrey Epstein's background and connections, but none reference Bank of America's settlement in a lawsuit. No direct evidence supports the claim about $72.5m payout.

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Claim 11: “In the court documents, Bank of America says the settlement makes 'no admission of liability' or 'wrongdoing' on its part”

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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm Bank of America's statement about the lawsuit.

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