National File
Virgil Abloh, the prolific black designer who worked with Louis Vuitton and was CEO of Off-White, died after he reportedly lost a “two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer” at 41 years old on Sunday, just one day before the criminal trial of alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
National File has learned that Abloh was once named in a now-dismissed sex trafficking lawsuit against Mark Epstein, the brother of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On August 21, 2020, the famous designer was named as a defendant in a civil suit filed against Jeffrey Epstein’s 1953 Trust, as well as Jeffrey’s brother Mark Epstein, by a woman named Charlene Latham, alleging that she had been a sex trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein and numerous high-profile socialites including Ghislaine Maxwell.
Mark Epstein appears to have been named in the lawsuit due to his major role in the 1953 Trust, the legal name given to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Mark Epstein was the sole beneficiary of Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious fortune, and it was speculated last year that the estate may pay out up to $100 million to settle lawsuits with alleged victims…
