Man who bought Jeffrey Epstein's Gulfstream IV jet sues as plane was used for ...

A businessman has sued Jeffrey Epstein's estate for fraud because the late pedophile sold him a company that owned a Gulfstream IV jet without mentioning the airplane was used in a sick crime web of girls trafficked for sex.

Thomas Huff, from Marietta, Georgia, runs a charter plane business based in Cobb County, Georgia.

He bought a controlling interest in JEGE LLC, the company Epstein once controlled and that owns the Gulfstream jet, just weeks before the sex offender's arrest in 2019.

Epstein sold Huff 'controlling interest in JEGE' without saying he 'was engaged in a massive criminal enterprise involving rape, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, physical assault, blackmail, intimidation, fraud, and deceit,' Huff's federal suit filed in Atlanta last week alleged.

Huff said the company was 'damaged by the stigma' connected to Epstein.

'JEGE's customers, some of which are very well known to the public, are tracked, surveilled, and reported to the press for using what they believed to be Jeffrey Epstein's company,' the suit said.

The lawsuit said the airline businessman 'would not have purchased JEGE' had he known of the sex ring associated with it.

Huff claimed he unsuccessfully attempted to cancel the sale once he realised Epstein had been arrested.

There was ample press coverage of Epstein's 2008 plea deal in Florida, where he acknowledged soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, and allegations in 2018 and 2019 of more alleged sex abuse victims.

However, the complaint said: 'Mr. Epstein committed fraud by failing to disclose a material fact that could not have been known through any amount of due diligence by Thomas Huff.'