on february 6, 2008, an anonymous woman from virginia filed a lawsuit worth $50 million against epstein. she claims that when she was 16 years old between 2004 and 2005, she was sexually assaulted by epstein. initially, she was "recruited to give epstein a massage", but later on epstein went naked and had sexual intercourse with her. he paid her $200 immediately afterwards. in march 2008, a similar $50 million lawsuit was filed against epstein by another woman who was sexually abused. however, these lawsuits alongside similar lawsuits were dismissed (all of these lawsuits were cancelled and ignored). epstein deals with these types of lawsuits outside of court by paying the victims with compensation money.