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Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 1 of 41 EXHIBIT A EFTA00092647  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 2 of 41 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK VIRGINIA GIUFFRE, Plaintiff, v. ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Civil Action No. I :19-cv-3377 (LAP) Defendant. ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Counterclaim Plaintiff, v. VIRGINIA L. GIUFFRE, Counterclaim Defendant. AMENDED COMPLAINT EFTA00092648  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 3 of 41 Plaintiff, formerly known as 'for her Complaint against Defendant, Alan Dershowitz, avers upon personal knowledge as to her own acts and status and upon information and belief and to all other matters: NATURE OF THE ACTION 1. This suit arises out of Defendant's sexual abuse of Plaintiff, his defamatory statements of and concerning Plaintiff, and his unlawful interception of Plaintiff's communications. 2. During 2000-2002, beginning when Plaintiff was 16, Plaintiff was the victim of sex trafficking and abuse by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 3. Epstein's trafficking scheme involved recruiting young girls, often by claiming they would be paid $200 for simply providing a massage to a wealthy billionaire. The young girl would then be brought up to Epstein's bedroom where Epstein would be on a massage table; Epstein would then sexually abuse the girl. This same pattern was repeated numerous times with numerous children. 4. "From between about 1999 and 2007, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused more than 30 minor girls . . . at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, and elsewhere in the United States and overseas.... In addition to his own sexual abuse of the victims, Epstein directed other persons to abuse the girls sexually. Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him. Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others." Opinion and Order, Doc. No. 435 at 1-2, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v. United States, Case No. 9:08-cv-80736 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 21,2019) ("Order") (internal citations omitted). One of the persons with whom Epstein acted in concert was Defendant. 2 EFTA00092649  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 4 of 41 5. Like other minor children who came before and after her, Plaintiff was initially recruited to provide massages, and thereafter to engage in a variety of sexual acts, for Epstein. Plaintiff was required to be on call for Epstein for sexual purposes and frequently traveled with him both nationally and internationally. Plaintiff was regularly abused by Epstein and was lent out by Epstein to others for sexual purposes. 6. Defendant was Epstein's lawyer, close friend, and co-conspirator. Defendant was also a participant in sex trafficking, including as one of the men to whom Epstein lent out Plaintiff for sex. Between 2000 and 2002, Defendant sexually abused Plaintiff on numerous occasions, including at least once in New York. 7. When Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking in 2006, Defendant defended his friend and client by falsely attacking the truthfulness of his accusers, including calling the children whom Epstein had abused (and, in the case of Plaintiff, whom the Defendant himself had also abused) liars and prostitutes. 8. Despite his significant criminal activity, Epstein's criminal charges were resolved by a guilty plea to a single Florida state law charge and a non-prosecution agreement ("NPA") with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Unknown to the public and the victims at the time, Epstein's lawyers, including Defendant, were pressuring the Government to commit to the NPA without informing the victims. Epstein's multiple victims, including Plaintiff, were kept in the dark and many victims were told to be "patient" while Defendant participated in the drafting of the NPA and worked to protect Epstein and other "potential co- conspirators" (including himself) from prosecution. 9. On July 7, 2008, a challenge to the NPA was brought on behalf of two of Epstein's victims (not including Plaintiff) based on the fact that, contrary to the requirements of 3 EFTA00092650  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 5 of 41 the Crime Victims' Rights Act (the "CVRA"), the NPA had been concealed from Epstein's victims. 10. In December 2014, Plaintiff, who had not initially been part of the CVRA action, was asked to, and did, provide information to plaintiffs' lawyers in the CVRA case in which she discussed her sex trafficking by Epstein. On December 31, 2014, Plaintiff's lawyers in the CVRA proceeding (Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell) filed a Motion Pursuant to Rule 21 for Joinder in the Action ("Joinder Motion") on behalf of Plaintiff. Plaintiff's joinder motion described how she had been sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and was forced to have sex with, among others, Defendant. 11. Based on Plaintiff's December 2014 filing, Defendant, as he had previously done to Epstein's victims, publicly and viciously attacked Plaintiff's lawyers in the CVRA actions, Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell. Defendant, in nationally televised news interviews, wrongfully claimed that Edwards and Cassell had engaged in unethical behavior warranting disbarment for filing the Joinder Motion that described Defendant's involvement with Epstein and Plaintiff. Edwards, who is a prominent lawyer for sexually abused women and children, and Cassell, who is a former United States District Court judge who left the bench to advocate for criminal victims, sued Defendant for defamation. Edwards and Cassell asserted that the factual allegations that Defendant had knowledge of and participated in Epstein's criminal conduct were entirely proper and well founded and that Defendant's statements about Edwards and Cassell were defamatory. 12. In April 2016, Defendant settled the Edwards and Cassell defamation claims against him. As a condition of the settlement, Defendant required that the financial terms of the settlement be kept confidential. 4 EFTA00092651  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 6 of 41 13. In November 2018, after conducting a lengthy investigation that involved interviewing over eighty (80) women, the Miami Herald published the first in a series of articles exposing how Epstein and his lawyers had corrupted the legal system to obtain the NPA and referring to Defendant's sexual abuse of Plaintiff. Defendant's response on behalf of himself and his client and co-conspirator Epstein has been a desperate barrage of false and increasingly defamatory attacks on Plaintiff. The purpose and effect of these attacks has been to damage Plaintiff's reputation and credibility and to try to intimidate her into silence. 14. Defendant's central assertion is that Plaintiff has committed perjury, and that in December 2014, Plaintiff and her lawyers hatched a scheme to falsely accuse Defendant of sex trafficking as part of a criminal attempt to extort a settlement from another party. 15. As Defendant well knew, Defendant's assertion was false. Defendant knew that he had in fact had sex with Plaintiff. Defendant also knew that Plaintiff's assertions about Defendant were not part of any criminal extortion plot. Indeed, Plaintiff had identified Defendant as a sexual predator years before December 2014. 16. Defendant's knowledge of the falsity of his attacks on Plaintiff have not, however, limited the scope or scale of those attacks. 17. Examples of Defendant's knowingly false and malicious defamatory statements are: (a) November 28, 2018, in an interview with the Miami Herald: "[T]he story was 100 percent flatly categorically made-up," and "Roberts and her attorneys fabricated the assertion in order to get money from other powerful, wealthy people ...." I 1 Julie K. Brown, Evenfrom jail, sex abuser manipulated the system. His victims were kept in the dark, MIAMI HERALD (Nov. 28, 2018), https://hrld.us/38X1HYW. 5 EFTA00092652  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 7 of 41 (b) December 1, 2018, in a letter to the editor of Raw Story: "I never met Roberts; I never had sex with her; she simply made up the entire story for money."2 (c) December 2, 2018, in a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald: "I was 'deliberately framed for financial reasons"; Plaintiff made her claims about Defendant "in order to obtain money from a wealthy businessman, and . . . Roberts had never previously included me among the people with whom she claimed to have had sex"; "one of Roberts' own lawyers has acknowledged in front of witnesses that her claims against me are `wrong' simply wrong"; "I never met Roberts; I never had sex with her; she simply made up the entire story for money.s3 (d) December 4, 2018, in an interview on the Law&Crime Network: Plaintiff is a "certified, complete, total liar"; "I can prove conclusively that she made the whole thing up." At the same time Defendant claimed "that the FBI recognized the evidence showed he was not where she said he was."' (e) December 5, 2018, in a letter to the editor of The Harvard Crimson: "Roberts made up the accusation out of whole cloth in order to obtain millions of dollars from Leslie Wexner," and "[t]here is evidence that directly proves I was framed. These include emails between Roberts and a journalist, a book manuscript by Roberts and a legal brief that are smoking guns showing that I was `deliberately framed for financial reasons?'S 2 Letter to the Editor: Alan Dershowitz responds to Raw Slimy report,RAW STORY (Dec. 1, 2018), https://bit.ly/35P6ust. 3 Alan Dershowitz, Letter to the Editor, MIAMI HERALD (Dec. 2, 2018), https://hrld.us/35HFR8s. 4 Ronn Blitzer, Dershowitz Goes Off on Woman Who Made Underage Sex Allegations, LAW & CRIME (Dec. 4, 2018), https://bit.ly/2EASaYl. 5 Alan M. Dershowitz, Letter to the Editor: Article Misrepresented Dershowitz, THE HARVARD CRIMSON (Dec. 5, 2018), https://bit.ly/2S81Se5. 6 EFTA00092653  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 8 of 41 (ft March 2, 2019, on Twitter: "My perjuring accusers are and Sarah Ransomme [sic] [who reported that Epstein lent her out to Defendant for sex at the same time as Defendant was, at Epstein's request, representing Ransome as her lawyer]. Both have long records of lying."6 (g) April 16, 2019, in an interview with The Daily Mail: 7 i. "They [FBI agents] just have to walk down the block from the New York FBI headquarters, sit in on the trial and they will hear perjury being committed in their presence in a Federal court. The result will be [Plaintiff] will be prosecuted for perjury. This is a Federal crime being committed in a Federal courthouse.... This is an opportunity for me finally to have a judicial forum to prove that she made up the whole story and that she's a perjurer." it "[Plaintiff] hurts the Me Too movement terribly because when it's proved she lied for money the real victims will be people who have really been abused. She is a fake victim." May 2, 2019, on The View: "I support the Me Too movement, but when a women falsely accuses, for financial reasons-she was hoping to get a third of a billion dollars suing Leslie Wexner, the owner of Victoria's Secret. She also accused him in private, after accusing me in public, hoping to get a third of a billion 6 Alan Dershowitz (®AlanDersh), TwirrER (Mar. 2, 2019, 6:42 PM), https://bit.ly/35G OHd. 7 Ben Ashford & Cheyenne Roundtree, EXCLUSIVE: Defiant Alan Dershowitz brands a 'fake MeToo victim' as shefiles defamation suit claiming the lawyer who defendedpedophile Jeffrey Epstein had underage sex with her and repeatedly called her a liar, DAILYMAIL.COM (Apr. 16, 2019), https://dailym.ai/2ScPyrF. 7 EFTA00092654  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 9 of 41 dollars. Where do I get that figure from? She told that to her best friend. I have that on tape."s (i) July 5, 2019, on Twitter: Materials unsealed by the Second Circuit "prove that my false accuser—who I never even met—was told to include me in her manuscript describing her alleged sexual encounters, in order to help her market her book, despite her admitted knowledge of my total innocence. ... When the materials are unsealed , [sic] the public will see the evidence in my accuser's own words that ... prove I was framed for financial reasons & that I'm totally innocent, as I've consistently asserted since the day I was falsely accused."' (j) July 10, 2019, on CBS This Morning: "This is a woman with a long, long record of lying for money."1° (k) July 12, 2019, on Fox News: "Let me repeat categorically, she made up the whole story. I never met this woman. It was part of an extortion plot to obtain a billion dollars from Leslie Wexner."11 (1) July 15, 2019, on NPR: "She made up the whole story out of whole cloth for financial reasons. The goal was to try to get a billion dollars from Leslie Wexner. The plan was to accuse me in public and then accuse Leslie Wexner in private of the identical conduct and say to him, essentially, if you don't want to have happen to you what happened to Dershowitz, there are ways of resolving it." 12 8 The View, Alan Dershowitz on Epstein Case and Current Lawsuit, YOuTuRE (May 2, 2019), https://bit.ly/2McRSeF. 9 Alan Dershowitz (gAlanDersh), TWITFER (Jul. 5, 2019, 6:50 AM), https://bit.ly/2EE9Hyl. I° CBS This Morning, Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein'sformer lawyer, claims to have proofhis accuser is lying, YOuTuRE (Jul. 10, 2019), https://bit.lyl38UNevs. 11 The Ingraham Angle, Alan Dershowitz responds to Epstein accuser's defamation suit, sexual assault allegations, Fox NEWS (Jul. 12, 2019), https://bit.ly/35GIQOZ. 12 Transcript: Alan Dershowitz Denies Epstein Rape Accusations And Defends Role In Sweetheart Deal, NPR (July 15, 2019), https://n.pr/2PYsv0U. 8 EFTA00092655  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 10 of 41 (m) July 18, 2019, on Newsmax TV: "In the end, I hope David Boies goes to prison, because he has done terrible things in this case. All the women who have accused me started to commit their perjury only after they met David Boies. In other words, in every case, the woman said, 'I didn't have anything to do with Dershowitz. I never met him or had no association with him.' And then they meet David Boies, and suddenly they make accusations. There's a term for that, and I want the federal government to be examining whether Boies is guilty of subornation of perjury. I want the federal government to examine whether Boies is guilty of extortion, of trying to get a billion dollars from Leslie Wexner by essentially saying to Wexner privately, if you don't want to have happen to you what happened to Alan Dershowitz in public, there are ways of resolving this.s13 (n) July 19, 2019, on Fox News:14 1. "1 have emails from the accuser in which she admits she didn't have sex with me and that she put me in her book in order to help sell the book and then she puts me in the book as somebody she didn't have sex with.... These are the most tainted, serial liars imaginable, and they all started telling their lies after they met David Boies." ii. "Each of the two accusers had said I didn't do it, and then they met David Boies, and he changed their minds. So they committed perjury after meeting David Boies. There's no coincidence about that." 13 Newsmax TV, Alan Dershowitz Discusses Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, YOuTuBE (July 18, 2019), https://bit.ly/2PEMenA. 14 The Ingraham Angle, Dershowitz: Accusers said I didn't do it untilDavid Boies changed their minds, FOX NEWS (Jul. 19, 2019), https://bitly/2EEIAgQ. 9 EFTA00092656  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 11 of 41 (o) July 19, 2019, in an interview with New York Magazine: "I know that I am a victim of a serious crime, a crime of perjury."15 (p) July 26, 2019, on Newsmax TV: 16 i. "The women first indicate they never had sex with me; then they meet Boies. Then they suddenly `remember' they had sex with me. Boies must know that both Accusers cannot be believed and that they made up the stories about me in the hope of getting money (which they got). Yet, he submitted their false affidavits, vouching for their credibility without disclosing to the courts their documented history of lying about prominent people." ii. "In all three instances, my false Accusers have refused to make their accusations to the media on the record. They have made them only in court papers, hiding behind the litigation privilege, which precludes defamation suits for false statements. This is a tactic developed and employed by David Boies to prevent any legal accountability for false accusations." July 29, 2019, on NewsmaxTV: "I'm gonna continue to call them liars and perjurers. That's the truth. It's not victim shaming; it's criminal shaming. They're criminals. They belong in jail."17 15 Andrew Rice, Alan Dershowitz Cannot Stop Talking, NY MAGAZINE (Jul. 19, 2019), httpsJ/nym.ag/2Q2f6oJ. 16 Alan Dershowitz, Open Letter to The New Yorker Exposes False Allegations, NEWSMAX (Jul. 26, 2019), https://nws mx/2PHXe3r. 17 Newsmax TV, Alan Dershwitz fsicJ Responds to New Yorker Article, YOUTUBE (Jul. 29, 2019), https://bit.ly/36T5eoc. 10 EFTA00092657  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 12 of 41 (r) August 9, 2019, on Twitter: "The unsealed documents prove Roberts made up accusations after being pressured by her lawyers."'8 (s) August 10, 2019, on Fox News:19 i. "She told her best friend she didn't want to name me because I was innocent but she was pressured to do it by her lawyer because she saw a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. She is a complete and total liar." ii. "We're gonna go to court and we're gonna prove that this woman is a liar who was put up to it by her lawyers.... We're gonna prove that for years and years and years she said she never had sex with me.... Now I don't know whether she is making up and fantasizing about these other people. I can tell you she is totally fantasizing about me. She's made up the whole story. There is no truth to it." (t) August 12, 2019, in a press statement issued after the Second Circuit's ruling in Giuffre v. Maxwell: "She invented the false accusation against me only in 2014, when her lawyers `pressured' her to do so for financial reasons."2° (u) August 30, 2019, on NewsmaxTV:2' "[A]s soon as [Plaintiff] met David Boies and the other lawyers, suddenly she remembered having had sex with me. It's totally made up. I never met her." (v) October 19, 2019, on Twitter: "I will prove that Giuffre never falsely claimed to have had sex w/ me until she was pressured by her lawyers. I will also Alan Dershowitz (®AlanDersh), TwrrrEit (Aug. 9, 2019, 3:52 PM), https://bit.ly/38UL6Uv. 19 The Ingraham Angle, Alan Dershowitz responds to new allegationsfrom Epstein case, FOX NEWS (Aug. 10, 2019), https://bit.ly/38T1V3r. 20 David A. Patten, Dershowitz: New Documents 'Categorically Prove' No Epstein-Related Sex, NEWSMAX (Aug. 12, 2019), https://nws.nucaMdIOEZ. 21 Newsmax TV, Alan Dershowitz Denies Claimsfrom Epstein Accuser, You'rusE (Aug. 30, 2019), https://bit.ly/2s3vLjQ. 11 EFTA00092658  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 13 of 41 prove I never met her and she invented the entire story for money. Now she will have to give back all the money she made from her lies."22 (w) November 16, 2019, on BBC Radio: "She is lying about me. I have recorded evidence from her own lawyer admitting that she was wrong about me. I am a victim of her perjury."23 (x) November 19, 2019, in Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo:24 i. "Although I am the victim here—the victim of a deliberate frame-up motivated by money—I am being treated as a perpetrator, despite the fact that I have done absolutely nothing wrong." (1-2) ii. "[T]he decision to accuse me in public, while accusing others in private, was part of a carefully calculated shakedown plot to get money from a wealthy individual who was not publicly named—at least not yet." (21) iii. "Giuffre's lawyers had to be aware of her history of lying when they vouched for her credibility by submitting perjured affidavits by her falsely accusing me of sexual misconduct with her." (36) iv. "After meeting with her lawyers—and `feeling pressure' from them— Giuffre suddenly `remembers' having sex with me seven times between 2001 and 2002 (when she was 18 and 19)." (45) v. "Even after it was proved conclusively that she had committed numerous acts of perjury, she remained a free woman, unpunished for n Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh), Twitter (Oct. 19, 2019), https://bit.ly/2Z5VqV2. 23 BBC Radio Broadcast 16/11/2019, BBC RADIO 4 (Nov. 16, 2019) (audio on file with counsel). 24 ALAN DERSHOWITZ, GUILT BY ACCUSATION: THE CHALLENGE OF PROVING INNOCENCE IN THE AGE OF #METOO (2019). 12 EFTA00092659  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 14 of 41 repeatedly lying under oath and deliberately seeking to destroy the reputation of an innocent victim of a financially motivated frame-up. Nor was I the only victim of her perjury. Every real victim of sexual assault suffers when a false 'victim' is caught in a lie, as Giuffre has been." (57-58) vi. "It is these realities that incentivized Giuffre and her lawyers to falsely accuse me of a crime with complete impunity: they believed that I could not sue them, because their allegations were contained in a court filing, and were thus immune from a defamation suit." (58) (y) December 8, 2019, on Fox News:25 i. "She remembered after telling everybody she didn't have sex with me; she had an exchange of emails with somebody in which she said she never met me, she never met me. And then she meets her lawyers and suddenly she remembers not only having sex with me, but on seven occasions in places that I never was during the relevant time period." ii. "This was all part of an extortion plot against Leslie Wexner. ... The plot was to accuse me publicly, and then privately go to Leslie Wexner, which they did and essentially say to him look if you don't want to have happen to you what happened to Dershowitz, there are ways of resolving this." 25Alan Dershowitz Defends HimselfAgainst tiMeToo Accusation in Interview with Mark Levin, YOuTusE (Dec. 8, 2019), https://bit.ly/35HTINCT. 13 EFTA00092660  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 15 of 41 18. In addition to these examples, in countless public statements, Defendant has accused Plaintiff of being a liar, of lying, and has otherwise impugned her integrity and reputation for truthfulness. 19. Defendant knew his assertions about Plaintiff, including his assertions referenced in paragraph 17 above, were, and would be taken by persons who read and heard them to be, specific statements of fact. 20. Defendant has repeatedly, publicly claimed that he wanted to have a trial that would determine the facts concerning his conduct. He said on national television that he would waive the statute of limitations so that Plaintiff could sue him for sex abuse. However, when Plaintiff's lawyer asked Defendant to do so, Defendant refused—and continues to refuse. 21. When Defendant was faced with an actual case brought by Plaintiff's then- lawyers Edwards and Cassell, which would have determined the veracity of Plaintiff's claims, however, Defendant settled to avoid that determination. 22. More recently, Defendant has again taken to claiming publicly that he demands a trial on the question whether Plaintiff committed perjury and made up her statements about him for money. For example, on March 2, 2019: My "accusers are and Sarah Ransomme [sic]. . . . I hereby accuse my false accusers of committing the felony of perjury and challenge them to sue me for defamation." 23. Defendant now has what he claims to have been looking for. JURISDICTION AND VENUE 24. This is an action for damages in an amount in excess of the minimum jurisdictional limits of this Court. 14 EFTA00092661  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 16 of 41 25. This Court has jurisdiction over this dispute pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (federal question jurisdiction) and 28 U.S.C. § 1367 (supplemental jurisdiction) because one claim in this action arises under the laws of the United States, and the remaining claims are so related to the claim within this Court's original jurisdiction that they form part of the same case or controversy under Article III of the United States Constitution. This Court also has jurisdiction over this dispute pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (diversity jurisdiction), in that Plaintiff and Defendant are citizens of different states, and the amount in controversy exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), exclusive of interest and costs. 26. This Court has personal jurisdiction over Defendant. Defendant resides in New York City; Defendant conducts regular business in New York City; and this action arose, defamatory statements were made, and abuse occurred, within the Southern District of New York. 27. Venue is proper in this Court under 28 U.S.C. § 1391(6) because (1) Defendant resides within this District, and (2) a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to Plaintiff's claims occurred within this District. PARTIES 28. Plaintiff an individual who is a citizen of the State of Colorado. 29. On information and belief, Defendant Alan Dershowitz is an individual who is a citizen of the State of New York and resides in the Southern District of New York at 2 Tudor City Place Apt. 10EN, New York, New York 10017. 15 EFTA00092662  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 17 of 41 FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS A. Epstein's Sex Trafficking Enterprise 30. Plaintiff became a victim of sex trafficking and repeated sexual abuse after being recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein when Plaintiff was under the age of eighteen. 31. Between 2000 and 2002, Epstein sexually abused Plaintiff at numerous locations including his mansions in West Palm Beach, Florida, New Mexico, the Virgin Islands, and this District. Epstein also flew Plaintiff on his plane nationally and internationally numerous times when she was under the age of 18. Only portions of the flight logs of Epstein's private planes are yet known, and Epstein also flew Plaintiff frequently on commercial airlines to meet him and others. However, the chart below, which shows Plaintiff's flights on Epstein's private plane from the limited logs that are available, illustrates the international scope of Epstein's sex trafficking. 4114K- Swim Van 32. Between 1999 and 2007, with the assistance of numerous co-conspirators, Epstein abused more than thirty (30) minor underage girls, a fact confirmed by state and federal law enforcement. 16 EFTA00092663  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 18 of 41 33. After years of abuse, Epstein sent Plaintiff to Thailand in September 2002. One of Plaintiff's assignments from Epstein was to bring a young girl back to Epstein in the United States. Fearing for her life, and not wanting to subject another young girl to the abuse she was forced to endure, Plaintiff fled from Thailand to Australia to escape from Epstein. B. Defendant's Role with Epstein and Abuse of Plaintiff 34. Defendant has been "a close friend of Mr. Epstein" for many years. In 2003, Defendant said "I'm on my 20th book... The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Vicky Ward, The Talented Mr. Epstein, VANITY FAIR (Jun. 27, 2003), https://bit.ly/2S9MzQU. Defendant also described Epstein as his friend. "I would be as interested in him [Epstein] as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas." Ray Gustini, Vanity Fair Reminds Us When Jef•ey Epstein Wasn't a Creep, THE ATLANTIC (June 21, 2011), https://bit.ly/38ZwHGK. Defendant frequently traveled with Epstein, including on Epstein's private plane. In addition, Epstein's employees have confirmed that Defendant visited Epstein's Palm Beach and New York City mansions often, would stay overnight, and was present when the victims of Epstein's sex trafficking were there. Defendant also visited Epstein's other homes. 35. In addition to their close friendship, Defendant represented Epstein as his lawyer. On or about December 2, 2018, Defendant stated that he was still Epstein's lawyer. 36. During the time period that Plaintiff was being trafficked by Epstein, she was forced to have sex with Defendant. Plaintiff was forced to engage in sexual acts with Defendant in various locations. 37. On one such occasion, in late 2000 or early 2001, Defendant sexually assaulted Plaintiff at Epstein's mansion located at 9 East 70 Street, New York, New York 10021. 17 EFTA00092664  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 19 of 41 38. At the time of the incident, Plaintiff was under the age of 18. Epstein had taken her from her home, family, and friends in Palm Beach, Florida, and flown her to New York, New York, where he repeatedly sexually abused her. In the weeks immediately prior to the incident, Defendant had met Plaintiff in circumstances that would have put a reasonable person on notice that she was being sexually trafficked. 39. Defendant entered Epstein's bedroom immediately after one incident of abuse by Epstein, while Plaintiff was alone and unclothed. Without obtaining her consent to the contact. he proceeded to engage in sexual intercourse with her. 40. As Defendant knew, Plaintiff did not consent to the sexual intercourse but rather was under the coercive influence of Epstein and/or his co-conspirators. C. The Arrest and Prosecution of Epstein 41. Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution and was a registered sex offender until his death on August 10, 2019. 42. In September 2007, while Defendant was representing him, Epstein entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement ("NPA") in which the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida agreed not to prosecute Epstein for numerous federal sex crimes committed in that District. 43. In the NPA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida additionally agreed that it would not institute any federal criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein. 44. Epstein flippantly referred to his sexual abuse of multiple minors, and the slap on the wrist he had received for it, in a 2011 interview with the New York Post: "Billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein is back in New York City—and making wisecracks about his just-ended jail stint 18 EFTA00092665  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 20 of 41 for having sex with an underage girl. `I am not a sexual predator, I'm an "offender,"' the financier told The Post yesterday. `It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,' said Epstein." See Amber Sutherland, Billionaire Jef•ey Epstein: I'm a Sex Wender, Not A Predator, NEW YORK POST (Feb. 25, 2011), https:/Ibit.ly/2s3ebwk. D. The Criminal Victims' Rights Act Proceeding 45. Rather than confer with the victims about the NM. the U.S. Attorney's Office and Epstein, who was represented by Defendant at that time, agreed to a "confidentiality" provision in the Agreement barring its disclosure to anyone—including Epstein's victims. As a consequence, the victims were not told about the NPA. 46. On July 7, 2008, a young woman identified as Jane Doe No. 1, one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims (other than Plaintiff), filed a petition to enforce her rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act ("CVRA"), 18 U.S.C. § 3771, alleging that the Government failed to provide her the rights promised in the CVRA with regard to the plea arrangement with Epstein. 47. On February 21, 2019, the Court found that the victims' rights had been violated and granted summary judgment in favor of the victims finding: "It was a material omission for the Government to suggest to the victims that they have patience relative to an investigation about which it had already bound itself not to prosecute." Order at 31. In its Order the Court acknowledged that: "Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused more than 30 minor girls." Id. at I. The Court also found: "Among other provisions, the NPA expanded immunity to any `potential coconspirator' of Epstein's: `In consideration of Epstein's agreement to plead guilty and to provide compensation in the manner described above, if Epstein successfully fulfills all of the terms and conditions of this agreement, the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to 19 EFTA00092666  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 21 of 41 .. From the time the FBI began investigating Epstein until September 24, 2007—when the NPA was concluded—the Office never conferred with the victims about a NPA or told the victims that such an agreement was under consideration." Id. at 8. E. Victims Refuse Silence 48. Ultimately, as a mother and one of Epstein's many victims, Plaintiff concluded that she should speak out about her sexual abuse experiences in hopes of helping others who had also suffered from sexual trafficking and abuse, and of possibly protecting future potential victims. 49. On December 23, 2014, Plaintiff incorporated an organization called Victims Refuse Silence, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation. 50. Plaintiff intended Victims Refuse Silence to change and improve the fight against sexual abuse and human trafficking. The goal of her organization was, and continues to be, to help survivors surmount the shame, silence, and intimidation typically experienced by victims of sexual abuse and to help others to escape becoming victims of sex trafficking. F. Defendant Acted Maliciously to Defame, Discredit, and Intimidate Plaintiff 51. Defendant made his false and defamatory statements as set forth above in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, in a deliberate effort to maliciously discredit Plaintiff and silence her efforts to expose the sexual abuse she suffered. Defendant did so with the purpose and effect of having others repeat such false and defamatory statements and thereby further damaged Plaintiff's reputation. Defendant knew his statements were false. 52. Defendant made his statements to discredit Plaintiff in concert with Epstein and others, including Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Epstein's long-time procurers, as part of a 20 EFTA00092667  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 22 of 41 conspiracy to discredit and try to silence Plaintiff. Epstein was particularly interested in discrediting and silencing Plaintiff because he feared a reopening of a federal criminal investigation of him. 53. Defendant made his statements pursuant to his conspiracy with Epstein and Maxwell maliciously as part of an effort to conceal sex trafficking crimes committed around the world by Epstein and other powerful persons. 54. Defendant intended his false and defamatory statements set out above to be broadcast around the world and to intimidate and silence Plaintiff from making further efforts to expose sex crimes committed by Epstein and other powerful persons, including Defendant. 55. Defendant intended his false statements to be specific statements of fact. Defendant's false statements were, as he intended, broadcast around the world and were reasonably understood by those who heard them to be specific factual claims by Defendant that he had not had sex with Plaintiff, that Plaintiff was intentionally lying about having sex with Defendant, that Plaintiff committed the crime of perjury, that Plaintiff had committed the crime of extortion, and that Plaintiff had intentionally fabricated her assertions about Defendant to extort money from others. 56. Epstein also worked with other of his lawyers to attack Plaintiffs allegations, including in a false statement they made in a letter to the editor to the New York Times asserting: "The number of young women involved in the investigation has been vastly exaggerated, there was no `international sex-trafficking operation' and there was never evidence that Mr. Epstein 'hosted sex parties' at his home." Kenneth W. Starr, Martin G. Weinberg, Jack Goldberger, and Lilly Ann Sanchez, Jeffrey Epstein 's Attorneys: A Fair Plea Deal, NY TIMES (Mar. 4, 2019), https://nyti.ms/2EGHpnf. 21 EFTA00092668  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 23 of 41 G. Defendant's Lies 57. From the beginning, Defendant has sought to hide his crimes behind a curtain of lies. In response to Plaintiff's description of Defendant's participation in Epstein's sex trafficking, Defendant began a series of intentional, outright lies designed to distance himself from Epstein, to cover up his own wrongdoing, and to discredit Plaintiff and intimidate her into silence. 58. Defendant's repeated lies are compelling evidence both of his lack of credibility and his guilt. Only a person seeking to conceal improper conduct would have engaged in the pattern of lies which has characterized Defendant's statements since his sex trafficking was revealed. 59. In an attempt to conceal his relationship with Epstein, Defendant in January 2015 asserted that "my relationship with him was entirely professional. It is a total bum rap to say that I...was 'chummy' with him." That was a lie, as Defendant knew (see, e.g., paragraphs 34-35). 60. Both to conceal Defendant's relationship with Epstein and to discredit Plaintiff, Defendant has repeatedly asserted that he was not at Epstein's residence in Palm Beach at all during the period when Plaintiff was trafficked. However, Juan Alessi, a long time Epstein household employee whose tenure with Epstein included the period of Plaintiffs trafficking, has confirmed that Defendant visited Epstein "pretty often. I would say at least four or five times a year and that he would "typically" stay two or three days. Similarly, Alfredo Rodriguez, who worked for Epstein in Palm Beach approximately only six months several years later, confirmed that during that six-month period, Defendant visited Epstein twice. 61. Again, both to conceal his relationship with Epstein and to discredit Plaintiff, Defendant has repeatedly asserted that he was never in Epstein's residence in the presence of 22 EFTA00092669  Case 1:19-cv-03377-LAP Document 101-1 Filed 12/20/19 Page 24 of 41 young women. As Defendant knows, that assertion was also false. As Mr. Rodriguez has confirmed, there were "also young ladies in the house at the time he [Defendant] was there." Mr. Rodriguez also confirmed that "Mr. Dershowitz was there" when "women came to Mr. Epstein's home to give a massage." Mr. Rodriguez also confirmed that "Alan Dershowitz was at the house" with "the local Palm Beach girls" whom he was "told to call masseuses," although he did not himself know whether Dershowitz personally received a massage. 62. vas an employee of Epstein responsible for manning the front door at his New York mansion and keeping records of people who came to the home. (a) Ms. Farmer witnessed a number of school-age girls coming to the house; some of the young girls would be wearing their school uniforms and would be escorted upstairs. (b) Ms. Farmer was told these young girls were interviewing for modeling positions even though it did not seem credible to her that these young girls were interviewing for modeling positions. 63. Ms. Farmer asserts that she witnessed Defendant visit Epstein at his New York mansion a number of times when she was working for Epstein. Defendant was very comfortable at the home and would come in and walk upstairs. On a number of occasions, she witnessed Defendant going upstairs at the same time there were young girls under the age of 18 who were present upstairs in the house. 64. Ms. Farmer, like other victims of, and witnesses to, Epstein's and Defendant's sex trafficking and abuse, has been subjected to attacks and intimidations. Her courageous testimony, together with the sworn testimony of victims such as land witnesses such as Mr. Alessi and Mr. Rodriguez, show that Defendant's claims that he was never present where