Which civil settlements connected to Epstein have been made public and who were the payors and payees?

1. The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program — estate payor, survivor payees

After Epstein’s death, his estate created the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program (VCP) to route money to survivors, and the administrator reported paying just over $121 million to more than 135 claimants through that program, making the estate the direct payor and the named survivors the payees ^{[1] [4]}.

2. JPMorgan Chase’s $290 million class settlement — bank as payor, more than 200 victims as payees

In litigation alleging the bank ignored warnings and profited from servicing Epstein, JPMorgan agreed to a $290 million settlement that a federal judge approved to resolve a class-action brought on behalf of more than 200 victims; court filings and reporting identify JPMorgan as the payor and the class plaintiffs as the payees ^{[5] [2] [3]}.

3. Deutsche Bank’s reported $75 million settlement — follow‑on bank liability

Deutsche Bank, which took Epstein on after JPMorgan cut ties, reached a separate $75 million settlement in related litigation alleging similar enabling conduct; reporting and counsel statements list Deutsche Bank as the payor and victim claimants (or the class represented in parallel suits) as payees ^{[2] [3]}.

4. Additional bank-related settlements and government claims — layered public deals

Beyond the headline settlements, reporting and legal notices indicate more than one resolution involving banks and public entities: some sources say JPMorgan also reached a $75 million deal with the U.S. Virgin Islands over its role in facilitating Epstein’s trafficking, signaling that payors can include banks while payees can be government plaintiffs asserting harms on behalf of residents ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Attorney fees and the share of settlement funds — counsel as significant recipients

Court approvals show that class counsel sought and received large fee awards from those settlements — for example, Judge Jed Rakoff approved a 30 percent fee for Boies Schiller Flexner and co‑counsel on the $290 million JPMorgan deal (roughly $87 million) and a comparable 30 percent fee on the $75 million Deutsche Bank settlement (about $22.5 million), meaning a significant portion of disclosed settlement dollars was allocated to plaintiffs’ lawyers as authorized by the court ^[3].

6. Confidential settlements and sealed files — the large unknown

Beyond the estate fund and the bank litigations, many civil settlements tied to Epstein were confidential and resolved out of court during his life; contemporaneous reporting and compiled litigation histories note that Epstein entered numerous sealed settlements with alleged victims, meaning the universe of payors and payees includes many agreements that remain non‑public ^[8].

7. Contested releases and state concerns — competing legal narratives

The public record also shows pushback against some settlement language: attorneys general from 16 states and D.C. raised worries that language in the JPMorgan settlement’s releases might hinder state civil enforcement under sex‑trafficking statutes — an example of how settlement terms can carry downstream policy and enforcement implications beyond the immediate payors and payees ^[5].

8. What public reporting does not resolve — limits of available records

Available sources document the estate payouts and multiple bank settlements and note many sealed deals, but they do not provide a full catalog of every private settlement, every individual payee’s identity in non‑public arrangements, or all government settlements; reporting therefore establishes the main public payors (Epstein’s estate, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and in one report a settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands) and primary categories of payees (survivors and government plaintiffs), while leaving many private agreements sealed and unquantified ^{[1] [2] [3] [8]}.