. . . allegations turn out to be true, then all of us, as a musical community, need to pony up somehow to help the victims.

Even a non-legal mind can figure out that if there is standing to any cases that come forward than responsibility for settlements will be encumbered on his multi-million dollar estate, not on an particular part of the public, aside from legal aid and victims funds. His estate might not be ill-gotten gains, but it is the resource that would have been tapped in civil cases that would logically have followed criminal prosecution, were the criminal cases successful. Or not (see the O.J. Simpson case, where the criminal case said "not guilty" but the lesser standard required by the civil courts found him guilty and pretty much Hoovered up all of his assets.) Even dead, I imagine there is legal wrangling to come, that may shed light on guilt or innocence.

SRS