New Delhi, April 24 -- Jeffrey Epstein, the late US financier and convicted sex offender, used to house women who said he abused them in different flats across London in the years after the UK police chose not to pursue an investigation, the BBC reported on Friday.

Citing evidence from receipts, emails, and bank records shared in the Epstein files, the report noted that at least four flats were rented in Kensington and Chelsea, where six women, now alleging abuse, said they were housed by the convicted sex offender.

Earlier this week, a CNN report revealed that several women accused multiple men of sexually abusing them; however, the Epstein files show little effort on the part of investigators to pursue the leads.

Most of these women ...