Doubtful anyone picked up the payments once he died.
Who knows what
was auctioned and spread out all over who knows where
in the possession of who knows
much of which is on CDs that can't be opened without some passwords
and maybe tossed as junk.
Who would Epstein be protecting ? Not Trump.
Now, what I did with it afterwards? I could destroy it, hide it, sell it to or blackmail people that are in it ...
... but I wouldn't lose control of it by letting it go to auction.