The Last List: Every Beneficiary of the Trust Epstein Signed Two Days Before His Death

On August 8, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Two days before his death, he signed a document titled "The 1953 Trust." The name referenced his birth year. The document, preserved in EFTA00099303, distributed what remained of his fortune: more than $350 million in bequests to 41 named beneficiaries, plus loan forgiveness, property transfers, and contingent payments that pushed the total higher.

The trust was not a will. It was a restatement of an earlier instrument, "The Jeffrey E. Epstein 2019 Trust," first created on January 18, 2019, and amended on February 4, 2019. The August revision renamed it after his birth year, restated its terms, and finalized the beneficiary list. The trustees were Darren Keith Indyke and Richard David Kahn, the two attorneys who had managed Epstein's financial infrastructure for years. Two days later, on August 10, Epstein was found dead in his cell.

Fourteen of the 41 beneficiaries are redacted in the EFTA release. Nearly all of those redacted names are identified as female. The 27 names that are visible read as a roster of the inner circle: the pilots who flew the planes, the assistants who kept the schedule, the property managers who maintained the houses, the co-conspirator who ran the operation alongside him, and a handful of figures whose connections to Epstein have received almost no public scrutiny.

This is who Jeffrey Epstein chose to pay, in what amounts, in the last document he signed before he died.

The Top Three

The first bequest went to Karyna Shuliak. She received the largest allocation of any individual: $50 million outright, plus a $50 million annuity payable monthly for her lifetime. Total: $100 million. Shuliak, a Belarusian-born dental hygienist who became Epstein's last known girlfriend, had been visiting him at the MCC in the weeks before his death. At roughly a quarter of the total identified bequests, her allocation dwarfed every other individual on the list. It was also five times larger than the amount left to the woman convicted of helping him abuse children. If a separate trust had been funded for her before his death, the $50 million bequest would be reduced by that amount. The trust does not indicate whether such a trust was created.

When Shuliak died, the remaining annuity principal would be distributed pro rata to beneficiaries 4 through 41, the rest of the list.

Second was Darren Keith Indyke: $50 million. Indyke had served as Epstein's primary attorney for decades, managing over 140 bank accounts across a network of shell companies. The USVI Attorney General called him an "indispensable captain" of the Epstein enterprise. He was also named trustee and executor. His wife, Michelle Fern Saipher, received a separate $3 million bequest (item 42), structured as a real estate transaction to repay funds related to a property purchase in Livingston, New Jersey. Item 46 forgave all financial obligations Indyke, Saipher, or their entity Harlequin Dane, LLC owed to Epstein or his companies, including Southern Financial, LLC.

Third was Richard David Kahn: $25 million. Kahn served as co-executor and co-trustee alongside Indyke. Their entity, HBRK Associates, was described by the USVI AG as existing solely to "coordinate the activities of Epstein's Enterprise." Item 47 of the trust similarly forgave all of Kahn's financial obligations to Epstein, his wife Lisa Kahn, and their company Coatue Enterprises, LLC.

The two men who controlled Epstein's financial infrastructure received a combined $75 million in direct bequests, plus blanket forgiveness of all debts they owed to the estate. They were also the only two people authorized to administer the trust itself.

The Named Beneficiaries

After the top three and the redacted entries, the visible beneficiary list maps the operational hierarchy of the Epstein organization:

The pilots. Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr., Epstein's chief pilot who flew the Boeing 727 and Gulfstream for decades, received $10 million. David Rogers, the second pilot who was deposed in the Giuffre v. Maxwell case and whose flight logs documented thousands of flights and passenger manifests, received $4 million. The two men who could identify every person who boarded Epstein's aircraft received $14 million between them.

The assistants and household staff. Bella Klein, Epstein's New York assistant, received $3 million. Luciano A. Fontanilla Jr., a longtime staff member, received $3 million plus the deed to a property at 18 Teneyck Avenue in Valley Stream, New York, held through the LLC Lyn & Jojo. All loans from Epstein to Fontanilla were also forgiven. Ann Rodriguez, a house manager, received $5 million.

The Paris operation. Valdson Viera Contrin, the property manager who maintained 22 Avenue Foch, received $5 million. This is the same Valdson who coordinated with Marie-Joseph Experton on the Mercedes purchase and building maintenance in Paris.

The USVI operation. Peter St. Omer, Dupson Donissaint, and Pierre Jules each received $1 million. Jermaine Ruan, the IT administrator who installed Ubiquiti surveillance cameras on Little Saint James and maintained the Citrix communications system from St. Thomas, received $1 million. Daphne Wallace received $1 million.

The co-conspirator. Ghislaine Maxwell received $10 million. Beneficiary number 16. By the time Epstein signed this document, Maxwell had been publicly named as his primary co-conspirator in the recruitment, grooming, and abuse of minors. She would be arrested the following July and convicted on five of six federal charges in December 2021. Epstein left her $10 million anyway.

The Unexplained Names

Several beneficiaries do not fit neatly into the operational hierarchy:

Cecile de Jongh received $1 million. She is the wife of John P. de Jongh Jr., who served as Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015. During de Jongh's administration, Epstein's entity Southern Trust Company received Economic Development Commission tax benefits that reduced his effective tax rate to roughly 3.5% on income that would otherwise have been taxed at standard federal rates. The USVI Attorney General later sued the estate, arguing that Epstein's companies had largely failed to meet the employment and charitable commitments that justified those benefits. The AG cited the trust bequest to the governor's wife as evidence of the corrupt relationship between Epstein and USVI officials. AG Denise George was removed from office shortly after filing the suit.

Edward Roed Larsen received $5 million. Larsen is a Norwegian economist who has served as an adviser to the United Nations and the World Bank. His connection to Epstein has received minimal public attention.

Martin Nowack received $5 million. The spelling is consistent with Martin Nowak, the Austrian-born Harvard professor of mathematics and biology who directed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Epstein donated $6.5 million to establish the program in 2003, and a subsequent Harvard review found that Epstein had given approximately $9.1 million total to the university, much of it flowing through Nowak's program. After Epstein's 2008 conviction, Harvard returned none of the money, and Nowak continued to meet with Epstein at the PED offices and facilitated Epstein's access to other Harvard faculty. Nowak was placed on paid administrative leave in 2020. The man Epstein funded to study evolutionary dynamics at Harvard received $5 million in the trust signed two days before Epstein died.

Arline M. Toylo and Carluz N. Toylo each received $1 million. The shared surname suggests a family pair, possibly married or related. Their connection to Epstein is not documented in the public portions of the EFTA files.

Una Pascal received $1 million. Perry Bard received $3 million. Jeanne Brennan Wiebracht received $1 million. Brice Gordon received $2 million. Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, received $10 million held in trust for the benefit of his children.

The Fourteen Redacted Names

Fourteen beneficiaries are blacked out in the EFTA release. Their bequests total at least $73 million:

Thirteen of the fourteen redacted beneficiaries are identified as female by the pronoun "she" in the survival clause. Beneficiary 8 uses no pronoun. Their bequests range from $1 million to $15 million (beneficiary 5 received $10M plus $5M "to be distributed as per [her] instructions").

The redactions raise an unavoidable question. The DOJ redacted names throughout the EFTA release to protect victims of sexual abuse. If these women are victims, then the trust document shows Epstein directing payments to the people he abused. If they are not victims, the question is why their identities were protected at all.

The Loan Forgiveness

Section 45 of the trust forgives loans Epstein made to at least 21 individuals and entities. The named recipients include Fontanilla, Shuliak, Paul Krassner, David Mitchell, Lawrence Bruce Delson, and Mark Lloyd. Several entities are also listed: NLR Ventures LLC, Six Designs LLC, and JSC Interiors LLC. Multiple names are redacted, some with "A/K/A" designations indicating the borrowers used alternate names.

The amounts forgiven are not specified. The structure suggests a network of personal loans that Epstein used to bind people financially to his organization: money owed to a man whose death would erase the debt.

What the Trust Shows

The 1953 Trust is not a confession. It is a financial document, drafted by lawyers, designed to distribute assets and minimize tax exposure. But the beneficiary list, read against the rest of the EFTA files, is a map of the organization.

The two attorneys who managed the shell companies received $75 million and blanket debt forgiveness. The convicted co-conspirator received $10 million. The chief pilot received $10 million. The IT administrator who installed surveillance cameras received $1 million. The wife of the governor who approved $300 million in tax benefits received $1 million. A Harvard professor who provided academic cover received $5 million. Fourteen women whose names the government will not release received $73 million.

The total exceeds $350 million in direct bequests. The USVI Attorney General estimated the estate's total value at over $577 million at the time of death. By placing assets in the 1953 Trust, a structure under USVI law that offers strong creditor protection, Epstein made it significantly harder for victims to recover damages through civil litigation. The USVI ultimately reached a $105 million settlement with the estate. JPMorgan settled for $290 million with Epstein's victims. Deutsche Bank settled for $75 million.

The trust was signed 48 hours before Epstein's death, which has itself been the subject of sustained public doubt. Whether Epstein anticipated his own death, or whether the August 8 revision was routine estate planning, the timing transformed a financial instrument into something closer to a final statement.

These are the people Jeffrey Epstein chose to pay. The document is in the EFTA release. The amounts are on the page. The names that are visible are searchable. The names that are not visible are a question the DOJ has chosen not to answer.