Attorneys representing the victims of Jeffrey Epstein were pursuing divergent strategies in civil lawsuits against the deceased financier and accused sex trafficker's U.S. Virgin Islands estate, as a federal magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered fact discovery in the cases to proceed.

Roberta Kaplan, who is representing an unnamed Epstein accuser, said that her case would center on the testimony of her client and an expert witness. There was no need, she said, to file a new complaint or to dig into Epstein's complex web of businesses, which have been alleged to have aided the millionaire's abuses.

Lawyers from the New York firm Boies Schiller Flexner, meanwhile, said they are contemplating a far different approach. They plan to call former alleged co-conspirators who have been accused of helping Epstein procure young women and underage girls for his sex ring, and said they would rely on the testimony of supporting witnesses, as well as a range of documents that could shed light on how Epstein's corporate network operated.