An Ohio Law Firm Has Sent Six Demands to Remove Epstein Associates From Public Records. Every Client Turned Out Not to Be a Victim.

When a law firm sends a letter demanding the removal of a client's name from a public database of Jeffrey Epstein's records, the first question is straightforward: is the client a victim?

Over the past six weeks, Kohrman Jackson Krantz, a business law firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, has sent six separate demands to Epstein Exposed on behalf of six individuals. Each letter claims the client is a "survivor" of Epstein. Each demands compliance within 24 hours. Each is signed by Kyle D. Stroup, a partner whose practice specialty, according to his firm's own website, is "Internet Defamation & Content Removal."

None of the six clients turned out to be a victim.

The Pattern

The first three demands arrived on behalf of Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, and Adriana Ross. All three are named as "potential co-conspirators" in Epstein's 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. At Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing in June 2022, Judge Alison Nathan described Kellen as "a knowing participant in the criminal conspiracy." Marcinkova is described in Palm Beach police reports as having participated in sex acts with minors. Ross appeared on Epstein's flight logs alongside former President Bill Clinton.

A fourth demand came for Jackie Kalin, whose records show she was an adult, not a victim.

A fifth demand, received on February 26, 2026, concerned Johanna Thuringer. Stroup's letter claimed Thuringer was "identified as a victim in court records" but provided no evidence: no case number, no Victims' Compensation Program documentation, no DOJ victim notification letter. An investigation of the EFTA document corpus found 210 references to Thuringer's name, appearing in estate wire transfer instructions, travel itineraries, and internal correspondence between Epstein estate administrators Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn. Her public modeling portfolio identifies her as a former Miss Teen World contestant. Epstein's own schedule from April 2018, contained in EFTA02244080, lists "6:30/7:00pm Appt w/Johanna Thuringer" during a week he was in New York.

Then, on March 4, 2026, the sixth letter arrived.

The Recruiter

The latest demand was submitted on behalf of an individual "formerly known as Polina Sikorska," a Ukrainian-born professional model represented by Silent Models NY, who also appeared on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful in 2014 under the name Polina Boyd. The letter, like all the others, claimed she was "a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein" and "identified as a victim in court records."

She is not.

The publicly released DOJ documents contain 132 references to Polina Sikorska (also spelled Sikorskaya, the Russian-language feminine form). The emails span from May 2013 through at least July 2014 and reveal a relationship that was voluntary, transactional, and, in at least one documented exchange, actively predatory.

On September 28, 2013, Epstein sent Sikorska a message asking her to "find any friends for me." Hours later, she replied:

"Ahahaha.. I'm working on that :) but you know I'm picky and selective!!! If I'll find someone, she will be as good, smart and beautiful as Svetlana.. For less I won't bother you :) lol"

That email, contained in document EFTA01952701 and EFTA01952574, is a direct, written acknowledgment of recruitment activity. Sikorska was not being coerced. She was setting quality standards for the women she would find.

What She Received

The released documents paint a clear picture of the exchange. Epstein's chief assistant, Lesley Groff, booked Sikorska flights on Epstein's American Express account: a round trip from Kiev to Paris in June 2013, and a flight from Los Angeles to Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico in March 2014. Groff's scheduling email for the ranch trip reads: "Hi Polina...here is your ticket to go visit Jeffrey at his ranch!"

Epstein told Sikorska she would be visiting alongside Woody Allen. In a separate exchange, Sikorska expressed enthusiasm about Epstein's island in the U.S. Virgin Islands: "Yes I so excited to go with you guys to the island :) can't wait :)"

In exchange for her association, Epstein connected Sikorska with Hollywood producer Barry Josephson, who arranged meetings with acting agents, evaluated her modeling portfolio, and hired speech coaches to reduce her Ukrainian accent. Josephson provided detailed progress reports to Epstein, writing in September 2013: "Really nice girl! Really. I've met with her at my office, had a drink with her also this past week. I've looked at all of her photos, reels, and commercial work. Per her request, I'm in the process of introducing her to agents for acting at several agencies."

Josephson, who received over $330,000 in financial assistance from Epstein, functioned in this arrangement as a career manager for women Epstein introduced to him.

"As Good, Smart and Beautiful as Svetlana"

The name Sikorska mentioned as her recruitment benchmark, "Svetlana," appears to refer to a figure well documented in the Epstein files. In a January 2014 email, Sikorska signed off with "Kisses to you and Sveta," indicating Svetlana was physically in Epstein's orbit at the time.

Groff's scheduling records confirm a "Svet" traveling on Epstein's arrangements in early 2014. Other documents show Epstein emailing someone named Svetlana about obtaining a Schengen visa for travel to St. Barts, and photographer Antoine Verglas forwarding photographs of "Svetlana" taken in St. Barts.

The individual most consistent with these references is Svetlana "Lana" Pozhidaeva, who appears in Epstein's black book with two phone entries. Pozhidaeva graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, known as a training ground for Russian intelligence personnel. She was signed to Elite Models and later to Jean-Luc Brunel's MC2 Model Management, the agency Epstein funded with at least $1 million and which served as a primary pipeline for Eastern European women into his network.

The Pipeline

Sikorska's recruitment activity did not exist in a vacuum. Ukrainian investigative outlet Slidstvo.Info reported in February 2026 that a Ukrainian model identified as "Nastia N." maintained approximately 1,000 messages with Epstein and Groff between 2015 and 2019. Like Sikorska, Nastia N. received flights, education funding, and gifts. Like Sikorska, she sent photographs and videos of female acquaintances to Epstein. Like Sikorska, she escorted at least one woman to Epstein's island.

The DOJ files reference two Kyiv modeling agencies, L-Models and Linea 12, in connection with sourcing women. An unredacted email in the files describes these agencies and adds: "all the other small agencies if you need I will find contacts but most of all its cheap escort."

This architecture traces back to Jean-Luc Brunel, who founded a feeder agency in Kyiv called 1Mother Agency. Former employees told reporters the Ukrainian office was "obliged to send its models to MC2." Brunel was arrested in December 2020, charged with rape of a minor, and found dead in his cell at La Sante Prison in Paris in February 2022 before he could stand trial.

A Content Removal Firm, Not a Victim Advocacy Practice

KJK does not present itself as a victim advocacy firm. Its website advertises "Internet Defamation & Content Removal" services and describes using "a variety of legal theories and content removal tactics to remove damaging internet content...from search engines, social media sites, news platforms, blogs, forums, directory sites, shaming sites."

Stroup's practice group listings include eCommerce, Litigation & Arbitration, and Esports/Media/Entertainment. The firm's tagline is "A Law Firm Built for Business."

Every KJK demand has followed the same template: a claim of victim status without supporting documentation, a demand for 24-hour compliance, and a closing paragraph reserving "all legal and equitable rights." None of the six letters has included a case number, a Victims' Compensation Program reference, or any form of verification. None has used the site's posted redaction request form, despite repeated direction to do so.

The question of who is funding these demands remains open. Representation by a firm specializing in online reputation management suggests the objective is not victim protection but suppression of public records.

What Epstein Exposed Has Actually Done for Victims

The contrast with the site's actual victim protection record is stark. Epstein Exposed has processed 16,924 individual PII redactions across 1,567 documents, protecting the identities of 13 verified survivors. These redactions cover Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, and victim names. In multiple cases, the site identified and redacted PII that the DOJ's own release had failed to protect, acting faster than the government agency responsible for the documents.

The site maintains a public redaction request form, a fillable PDF intake form for attorneys, and a legal requests page with clearly posted verification requirements. Legitimate victims and their counsel have used these tools successfully.

The site does not redact the names of adult associates, co-conspirators, or recruiters who appear in official DOJ releases.

The Documents Speak

Every document referenced in this report is a publicly released DOJ record, available through the Epstein Files Transparency Act. They were released by the United States government as part of the public record. They are not fabricated, altered, or taken out of context.

Polina Sikorska was not a victim. She was a recruiter who set quality standards for the women she would bring to Jeffrey Epstein. The email proving it carries her name, her words, and a DOJ tracking number.

The law firm demanding her removal from public records knew what was in those files, or should have. Either way, the answer is the same.

No.

Key documents referenced: EFTA01952701, EFTA01952574, EFTA00678344, EFTA01934877, EFTA01936855, EFTA02137556, EFTA00655586, EFTA00981690, EFTA01960424, EFTA01952523, EFTA02244080. All documents are accessible via the DOJ Epstein Files website and indexed on Epstein Exposed.

Epstein Exposed has redacted the identities of 13 verified survivors across 1,567 documents. Legitimate redaction requests can be submitted at epsteinexposed.com/redaction-request.