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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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Plaintiff,
Case No.:
-against- 15-cv-07433-RWS

GHISLAINE MAXWELL,

Defendant.

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**CONFIDENTIAL**

Continued Videotaped Deposition of
GHISLAINE MAXWELL, the Defendant herein,
taken pursuant to subpoena, was held at
the law offices of Boies, Schiller &
Flexner, LLP, 575 Lexington Avenue, New
York, New York, commencing July 22,
2016, 9:04 a.m., on the above date,
before Leslie Fagin, a Court Reporter
and Notary Public in the State of New
York.



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2 APPEARANCES:
3 On Behalf of the Plaintiff:
4 BOIES SCHILLER & FLEXNER, LLP
333 Main Street
5 Armonk, New York 10504
BY: DAVID BOIES, ESQUIRE
6
BOIES SCHILLER & FLEXNER,LLP
7
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
8 BY: MEREDITH SCHULTZ, ESQUIRE
SIGRID McCAWLEY, ESQUIRE
9 SANDRA PERKINS, PARALEGAL
10
FARMER JAFFE WEISSING EDWARDS FISTOS &
11 LEHRMAN,

12 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
BY: BRAD EDWARDS, ESQUIRE
13
14 PAUL G. CASSELL ES UIRE

15 at ace ity, to
16
J. STANLEY POTTINGER PLLC
17
South Salem, New York 10590
18 BY: STAN POTTINGER, ESQUIRE
19
On Behalf of Defendant:
20
HADDON MORGAN FOREMAN
21 Attorneys for Defendant

22 Denver, Colorado 80203
BY: JEFFREY S. PAGLIUCA, ESQUIRE
23 LAURA A. MENNIGER, ESQUIRE
24
Also Present:
25




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2 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: This is DVD No.

3 1, Volume II, of the continued video

4 recorded deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell

5 in the matter against

6 Ghislaine Maxwell, in the United States

7 District Court, Southern District of New

8 York.

9 This deposition is being held at

10 New York, New

11 York, on July 22, 2016 at approximately

12 9:04 a.m.

13 My name is Rodolfo Duran. I am the

14 legal video specialist. The court

15 reporter is Leslie Fagin, and we are

16 both in association with Magna Legal

17 Services.

18 Will counsel please introduce

19 themselves.

20 MR. BOIES: This is David Boies, of

21 Boies, Schiller & Flexner, counsel for

22 plaintiff.

23 MS. SCHULTZ: Meredith Schultz,

24 from Boies Schiller & Flexner, counsel

25 for plaintiff.




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2 MR. EDWARDS: Brad Edwards, also

3 representing the plaintiff,

4

5 MR. POTTINGER: Stan Pottinger,

6 also representing the plaintiff.

7 MR. CASSELL: Paul Cassell, from

8 Salt Lake City, Utah, also representing

9

10 MR. PAGLIUCA: Jeff Pagliuca and

11 Laura Menninger, on behalf of Ms.

12 Maxwell.

13 And Ms. McCawley has also entered

14 the room, and we have an assistant from

15 Boies Schiller from the Fort Lauderdale

16 office here today as well today.

17 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Will the court

18 reporter please swear in the witness.

19 GHI SLAINE MAXWEL L,

20 called as a witness, having been duly

21 sworn by a Notary Public, was

22 examined and testified as follows:

23 EXAMINATION BY

24 MR. BOIES:

25 Q. Good morning, Ms. Maxwell. When




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2 MR. PAGLIUCA: Why don't we both

3 stop making speeches.

4 BY MR. BOIES:

5 Q. Ms. Maxwell, let me use the term

6 that your lawyer used of sexual activities.

7 We've been talking about intercourse and

8 we've been talking about oral sex.

9 Did you engage in any sexual

10 activities with Mr. Epstein other than sexual

11 intercourse and oral sex?

12 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

13 and foundation.

14 A. Can you ask the question again,

15 please?

16 Q. Sure.

17 Did you engage in any sexual

18 activities with Mr. Epstein other than what

19 you have referred to as sexual intercourse

20 and oral sex?

21 A. No.

22 Q. Did you engage in any sexual

23 activities with anyone other than Mr. Epstein

24 at his home in New York?

25 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form




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2 and foundation.

3 A. No.

4 Q. As you understand the term sexual

5 activities, what does that encompass?

6 A. In what context are you asking?

7 I'm not sure I understand the question.

8 "Sexual activities" meaning kissing or

9 something?

10 Q. Kissing, touching with hands or

11 mouths or other parts of your body.

12 A. That would form sexual activity

13 Q. Using sexual activity in that

14 sense, did you engage in sexual activities

15 with anyone other than Mr. Epstein at his

16 home in New York?

17 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

18 and foundation.

19 A. No.

20 Q. Whenever I use the term sexual

21 activities, I will be using it in the way we

22 just defined it. Do you understand that?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. Did you engage in sexual activities

25 with anyone other than Mr. Epstein at Mr.




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2 Epstein's home in Palm Beach?

3 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

4 and foundation.

5 A. I did.

6 Q. With whom?

7 A. I don't actually have a name.

8 Q. Did you know the name at the time?

9 A. At the time I did.

10 Q. When was this?

11 A. Sometime in the '90s, the late '90s

12 and early 2000s.

13 Q. Was there more than one person with

14 whom you engaged in sexual activities other

15 than Mr. Epstein at Mr. Epstein's home in

16 Palm Beach? If the question is unclear, I

17 will rephrase it.

18 A. Yes.

19 Q. How many people other than

20 Mr. Epstein were there with whom you engaged

21 in sexual activities at Mr. Epstein's home in

22 Palm Beach?

23 A. A few.

24 Q. How many?

25 A. I don't have a number.




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2 Q. Approximately?

3 A. A few.

4 Q. More than ten?

5 A. A few is a few.

6 Q. Is a few more than ten?

7 A. A few is not more than ten.

8 Q. Is a few more than five, as you use

9 the term?

10 A. No.

11 Q. So it would be fewer than five

12 people?

13 A. It's a few people.

14 Q. But I'm saying, I'm trying to get

15 an understanding of what you mean by a few?

16 A. I understand that.

17 Q. And as you use the term few, can

18 that include more than five people?

19 A. I just said it's five or less and

20 it's a few. I'm not prepared to characterize

21 a number because I just don't have a number.

22 Q. Do you remember the names of any of

23 the people with whom you engaged in sexual

24 activities at Mr. Epstein's home in Palm

25 Beach?




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2 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

3 and foundation.

4 A. I do not.

5 Q. Can you describe any of the people

6 with whom you engaged in sexual activities at

7 Mr. Epstein's home in Palm Beach?

8 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

9 and foundation.

10 A. The description that I have is

11 somebody who is roughly my age, and I recall

12 a blond and I recall a brunette, and that's

13 pretty much what I recall.

14 Q. And the people that you recall as

15 people with whom you engage in sexual

16 activities at Mr. Epstein's home in Palm

17 Beach, male or female or both?

18 A. Female.

19 Q. Where in Mr. Epstein's home in Palm

20 Beach were you when you engaged in sexual

21 activities with the females that you have

22 referred to?

23 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

24 and foundation.

25 A. Master bedroom.




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2 only area that the witness was precluded

3 from talking about in the first

4 deposition. So that's where we're at.

5 MR. BOIES: I think that directly

6 misreads the judge's order, including

7 where it says: Defendant is ordered to

8 answer questions relating to defendant's

9 own sexual activity with or involving

10 Jeffrey Epstein, with or involving

11 plaintiff, with or involving underage

12 females, involving or including massage

13 with individuals defendant knew to be or

14 believed might become known to Epstein.

15 MR. PAGLIUCA: All of it is

16 preceded by the word sexual activity.

17 MR. BOIES: I think your point of

18 view is an interesting one, but we will

19 see what the judge rules on it.

20 BY MR. BOIES:

21 Q. The women that you have described

22 as joining you and Mr. Epstein in three-way

23 sexual activities, were these people who you

24 believed were professional masseuses?

25 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form




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2 and foundation.

3 A. No.

4 Q. Did any of the women that you have

5 said engaged with you and Mr. Epstein in

6 three-way sexual activities give Mr. Epstein

7 massages?

8 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

9 and foundation.

10 A. I don't know.

11 Q. Did any of them give you massages?

12 A. No.

13 Q. Did you engage in any sexual

14 activities with either of these two people

15 that you've identified as the blond and the

16 brunette in the Virgin Islands?

17 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

18 and foundation. Asked and answered.

19 A. No.

20 Q. Were they ever in the Virgin

21 Islands?

22 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

23 and foundation.

24 A. No.

25 Q. Did you ever see any of the women




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2 with whom you and Mr. Epstein engaged in

3 three-way sexual activities outside of Mr.

4 Epstein's Palm Beach home?

5 A. Not that I recall.

6 Q. Had you met either of them prior to

7 the time that you and Mr. Epstein engaged in

8 the three-way sexual activities with them?

9 A. I don't recall.

10 Q. Had you met them before the date,

11 is what I'm asking you?

12 MR. PAGLIUCA: You already asked

13 that and she answered it.

14 A. I don't recall.

15 Q. When you and Mr. Epstein were

16 engaged in sexual activity that included

17 these other women, were any devices or sex

18 toys used as part of the sexual activity?

19 A. No.

20 Q. Were you ever involved in sexual

21 activities in Mr. Epstein's Palm Beach house

22 that included the use of sex toys or any kind

23 of mechanical or other device?

24 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

25 and foundation.




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2 A. No.

3 Q. Were you ever involved in sexual

4 activities in any of Mr. Epstein's properties

5 other than Palm Beach that included the use

6 of sex toys or any kind of mechanical or

7 other device?

8 A. No.

9 Q. Were you aware of the presence of

10 sex toys or devices used in sexual activities

11 in Mr. Epstein's Palm Beach house?

12 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

13 and foundation.

14 A. No, not that I recall.

15 Q. Were you aware that there were sex

16 toys or devices used in sexual activities in

17 Mr. Epstein's New York house?

18 A. No.

19 Q. Were you aware that there were sex

20 toys or devices used in sexual activities in

21 Mr. Epstein's property in the Virgin Islands?

22 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

23 and foundation.

24 A. No.

25 Q. Were you aware whether or not there




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2 were sex toys or devices used in sexual

3 activities in Mr. Epstein's property in the

4 Virgin Islands?

5 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

6 and foundation.

7 A. No.

8 Q. Do you know whether Mr. Epstein

9 possessed sex toys or devices used in sexual

10 activities?

11 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

12 and foundation.

13 A. No.

14 Q. Did you ever assist Mr. Epstein in

15 obtaining sex toys or devices used in sexual

16 activities?

17 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

18 and foundation.

19 A. No.

20 Q. In the 1990s and 2000s, did you

21 ever have possession of or use sex toys or

22 devices used in sexual activities?

23 A. No.

24 Q. Did you, in the 1990s and 2000s,

25 engage in sexual activities other than




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2 intercourse with women other than what you

3 have testified to already?

4 MR. PAGLIUCA: First of all, I

5 object to the form and foundation and

6 it's also outside of the court's order

7 because it's unclear as you question,

8 and I specifically direct you to the

9 last line of the court's order: Sexual

10 activity of third parties who bear no

11 knowledge or relation to key events,

12 individuals or locations in this case.

13 MR. BOIES: This simply asks yes or

14 no, and I think that it is an

15 appropriate question given some of the

16 witness' prior answers, but there is no

17 point in debating it, because if you

18 instruct her not to answer, the judge

19 will decide whether it's appropriate.

20 MR. PAGLIUCA: I'm just telling you

21 if you tie it to something in this case,

22 I will let her answer.

23 MR. BOIES: Are you instructing her

24 not to answer?

25 MR. PAGLIUCA: Yes, unless you tie




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2 it to something in the case.

3 MR. BOLES: I think it's tied, but

4 if you instruct her not to answer, it

5 goes into the --

6 MR. PAGLIUCA: Meat grinder.

7 BY MR. BOIES:

8 Q. At any time in any of Mr. Epstein's

9 properties, did you engage in sexual

10 activities with any woman other than when you

11 had three-way sexual activities with

12 Mr. Epstein?

13 MR. PAGLIUCA: Object to the form.

14 A. Can you repeat the question?

15 Q. At any time, in any of Mr.

16 Epstein's properties, did you engage in

17 sexual activities with any woman other than

18 when you had three-way sexual activities with

19 Mr. Epstein?

20 MR. PAGLIUCA: Same objection.

21 A. No.

22 Q. Other than yourself and the blond

23 and brunette that you have identified as

24 having been involved in three-way sexual

25 activities, with whom did Mr. Epstein have




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2 sexual activities?
3 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form
4 and foundation.
5 A. I wasn't aware that he was having

6 sexual activities with anyone when I was with

7 him other than myself.

8 Q. I want to be sure that I'm clear.

9 Is it your testimony that in the 1990s and

10 2000s, you were not aware that Mr. Epstein
11 was having sexual activities with anyone

12 other than yourself and the blond and

13 brunette on those few occasions when they
14 were involved with you?

15 A. That is my testimony, that is

16 correct.
17 Q. Do you remember testifying earlier

18 today that Mr. Epstein had, on a number of

19 occasions, tried to have you join in

20 three-way sexual activities with women other
21 than the blond and brunette that you

22 identified?

23 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form
24 and foundation.

25 A. I don't know who he was wanting me




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2 to have a three-way with. It was in general

3 he wanted to have a three-way. It was
4 nothing specific talked about.

5 Q. Is it your testimony that other

6 than the blond and brunette that you have

7 referred to, you don't know of any particular
8 person with whom he wanted you and he to have

9 sex with?

10 A. Correct.
11 Q. But he talked to you generally

12 about wanting to do that?

13 A. Correct.
14 Q. And it is your testimony that you

15 believed that you were the only person that
16 he was having sex with or engaging in sexual

17 activities with other than on these few

18 occasions, this blond and brunette, is that

19 correct?

20 MR. PAGLIUCA: Object to the form.
21 Asked and answered.
22 A. That's what I said.

23 Q. Is that still what you say?

24 A. Yeah, that is still what I say.

25 Q. Do you know the reporter by the




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2 ever see

3 A. I don't recall ever seeing her.

4 Q. Did ever engage in any

5 sexual activity with you?

6 A. No.

7 Q. Did ever engage in any

8 sexual activity with Mr. Epstein?

9 A. I wouldn't know. I would assume

10 not, but I don't know.

11 Q. Do you have any reason to believe

12 that Mr. Epstein engaged in any sexual

13 activity with

14 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

15 and foundation.

16 A. I wouldn't know.

17 Q. Did you ever give a massage to

18 anyone other than Mr. Epstein at any of Mr.

19 Epstein's properties?

20 A. First of all, I never said I gave

21 Mr. Epstein a massage.

22 Q. I will ask that question if you

23 want, but I was focusing on people other than

24 Mr. Epstein right now.

25 A. I don't give massages.




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2 Q. Let's just tie that down. It is

3 your testimony that you've never given

4 anybody a massage?

5 A. I have not given anyone a massage.

6 Q. You never gave Mr. Epstein a

7 massage, is that your testimony?

8 A. That is my testimony.

9 Q. You never gave a

10 massage is your testimony?

11 A. I never gave a

12 massage.

13 Q. Did you, or to your knowledge,

14 Mr. Epstein pay for to go to

15 Thailand?

16 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form

17 and foundation.

18 A. I am not aware.

19 Q. Do you know whether

20 went to Thailand?

21 A. I have no knowledge of anything

22 like that.

23 Q. Did you ever give anyone

24 instructions as to how to give a massage?

25 MR. PAGLIUCA: Objection to form




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2 closed.

3 If there are questions that I have

4 instructed the witness not to answer and

5 it later turns out the judge disagrees

6 with my characterization, we will be

7 back to revisit it, but we are done as

8 far as I'm concerned.

9 MR. BOIES: The deposition is not

10 closed. There are a number of

11 instructions not to answer. I think it

12 is a fair point that if the court were

13 to conclude that none of the questions

14 that have been instructed need to be

15 answered, we're not going to be

16 continuing the deposition, barring some

17 additional information coming to light.

18 MR. PAGLIUCA: I think we agree

19 then.

20 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: The time is 2:51

21 p.m., and we are going off the record.

22 (Time noted: 2:51 p.m.)

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