A woman who said Tuesday that she was sexually victimized by wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein called him "a coward" for a jailhouse suicide that "robbed myself and all the other victims of our day in court" to confront him for his alleged crimes.

"Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused me for years," the woman, Courtney Wild, said in U.S. District Court in Manhattan during a hearing called for prosecutors to formally dismiss the case against the former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton as a result of his death earlier in August.

"I feel very angry and sad and justice has never been served in this case," said Wild, one of nearly two dozen Epstein accusers who were heard by the court.

"Jeffrey Epstein robbed myself and all the other victims of our day in court to confront him one by one and for that he is a coward," she said.

But one accuser, who did not give her name, said, "I cannot say I am pleased he committed suicide but I am happy he will never have the opportunity to hurt anyone else."

The accusers who spoke Tuesday described, in sometimes stomach-churning details, their experiences with Epstein and his associates. Their stories include claims of rape, other sexual misconduct, emotional manipulation, threats to ruin their lives and promises of modeling work with Victoria's Secret.

One accuser said that she fled Epstein's clutches when he groped her, and tried to use a sex toy on her. Afterward, one of Epstein's employees warned the girl "to be careful, that Mr. Epstein knew powerful people including Bill Clinton."

Lawyers for the victims said there were many more women who were abused by Epstein than were in the courtroom.

Sarah Ransome, another accuser, urged prosecutors during the hearing, "Please, please finish what you have started ... we all know he did not act alone."

"We are all survivors, and the pursuit of justice should not abate," Ransome said.

Another accuser, who did not disclose her name, told Judge Richard Berman on Tuesday, "It didn't feel good to wake up that morning and hear he allegedly committed suicide."

"I still feel like I'm learning the ways he's impacted me," that woman said.

A third woman, who also did not give her name, said, "I think that many of us will never heal from what happened to us."

"As destructive as that relationship was and as much of a villain as we've created him to be, based on facts, we've created him to be a villain, but he's a complex villain."

At the time of his death from hanging, Epstein, 66, was accused of child sex trafficking by prosecutors, who said he had sexually exploited many minor girls from 2002 through 2005 at his luxurious residences in Manhattan and Florida.

Prosecutors said his abuse was abetted by a number of unidentified conspirators who helped provide him with a stream of young girls and women to satisfy his sexual obsessions.

The case against Epstein mirrored allegations investigated more than a decade ago by federal prosecutors in Florida and state prosecutors there.

After that investigation, the federal prosecutors declined to file serious charges against Epstein in exchange for his agreement to plead guilty to relatively minor state-filed prostitution-related charges, for which he served just 13 months in jail.