Estate Withdraws Fee Request After Related USVI Resolution

MOTION TO WITHDRAW MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES Matter of the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Deceased Case No. ST-2021-RV-00005 Filed: December 20, 2022 This short filing closed the fee dispute generated by the government's unsuccessful probate intervention and asset-freeze appeal. The co-executors moved to withdraw their March 2022 motion for attorneys' fees, telling the Superior Court that the parties had reached a resolution in the related civil enforcement matter, Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Epstein Estate et al., ST-2020-CV-00014. The document is significant because it ties the probate fee fight back to the broader Virgin Islands civil case. Earlier probate filings treated intervention, emergency asset freezes, and fee recovery as separate procedural disputes. This withdrawal indicates that settlement or resolution in the related civil action changed the parties' incentives enough that the estate agreed to abandon its fee demand in the probate appeal. For archive users tracing property and estate administration, the filing marks a transition point. The dispute over whether the government could freeze estate assets had already been rejected in probate. The later withdrawal shows that the estate and the territorial government resolved enough of their broader litigation relationship to avoid further motion practice over the $112,216.90 fee request. The filing does not provide the full settlement terms, and it should not be read as a standalone explanation of the Virgin Islands resolution. Its value is documentary and chronological: it confirms the relationship between the estate appeal, the fee motion, and the related territorial civil enforcement case, and it records the procedural step that ended this fee issue in the probate docket. Source: DOJ Epstein Library / V.I. Superior Court Available at: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Court%20Records/Matter%20of%20the%20Estate%20of%20Jeffrey%20E.%20Epstein%2C%20Deceased%2C%20No.%20ST-21-RV-00005%20%28V.I.%20Super.%20Ct.%202021%29/EFTA02821963.pdf