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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO.: CACE 15-000072
BRADLEY J. EDWARDS and PAUL G.
CASSELL„
Plaintiffs,
vs.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ,
Defendant.
CONTINUED VIDEOTAPE DEPOSITION OF
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
VOLUME 2
Pages 180 through 333
Friday, October 16, 2015
9:18 a.m. - 12:26 p.m.
Cole Scott & Kissane
110 Southeast 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Stenographically Reported By:
Kimberly Fontalvo, RPR, CLR
Realtime Systems Administrator
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1 APPEARANCES:
2
On behalf of Plaintiffs:
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SEARCY, DENNEY, SCAROLA
4 BARNHART & SHIPLEY, P.A.
2139 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard
5 West Palm Beach, Florida 33402-3626
BY: JACK SCAROLA, ESQ.
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8 On behalf of Defendant:
9 COLE, SCOTT & KISSANE, P.A.
Dadeland Centre II - Suite 1400
10 9150 South Dadeland Boulevard
Miami, Florida 33156
11 BY: THOMAS EMERSON SCOTT, JR., ESQ.
12 BY: ST ISAFRAG. (Via phone)
13 --and--
14 SWEDER & ROSS, LLP
131 Oliver Street
15 Boston, MA 02110
BY: KENNETH A. SWEDER, ESQ.
16 •
17 --and--
18 WILEY, REIN
17769 K Street NW
19 Washington, DC 20006
BY: RICHARD A. SIMPSON, ESQ.
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BY: NICOLE A. RICHARDSON, ESQ.
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1 APPEARANCES (Continued):
2 On behalf of Jeffrey Epstein:
3 DARREN K. INDYKE, PLLC
575 Lexington Ave., 4th Fl.
4 New York, New York
BY: DARREN K. INDYKE, ESQ. (Via phone)
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6 On behalf of
7 BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER, LLP
401 E. Las Olas Blvd., Ste. 1200
8 Fort Lauderdale Florida 33301
BY:
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11 ALSO PRESENT:
12 Joni Jones, Utah Attorney General Office
13 Travis Gallagher, Videographer
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1 INDEX
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Examination Page
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4 VOLUME 2 (Pages 180 - 333)
5 Direct By Mr. Scarola 184
6 Certificate of Oath 330
Certificate of Reporter 331
7 Read and Sign Letter to Witness 332
Errata Sheet (forwarded upon execution) 333
8 PLAINTIFF EXHIBITS
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1 Television Interview Transcript 193
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2 Except from Deposition of Alan M. 193
12 Dershowitz
13 3 Photograph - 8x10 - Color 194
14 4 Photograph - 8x10 - Color 197
15 5 Flight Log Information Sheet 198
16 6 Composite - Flight logs 240
17 7 Composite - Flight manuals 240
18 8 Photograph - 8x10 - Color 305
19 9 Composite - Calendar entries 306
20 10 Composite - Calendar entries 307
21 11 Composite - Calendar entries 307
22 12 Composite - Calendar entries 307
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1 VIDEOGRAPHER: Going on the record. This
2 is day two of Alan Dershowitz's deposition.
3 The date is October 16, 2015, and the time is
4 approximately 9:18 a.m.
5 MR. SCAROLA: Would you please reswear the
6 witness.
7 THE COURT REPORTER: Would you raise your
8 right hand, please?
9 Do you swear or affirm that the testimony
10 you are about to give will be the truth, the
11 whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
12 THE WITNESS: Yes.
13 Thereupon:
14 ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
15 having been first duly sworn, was examined and
16 testified as follows:
17 DIRECT EXAMINATION
18 BY MR. SCAROLA:
19 Q. Mr. Dershowitz, what is rhetorical
20 hyperbole?
21 A. Rhetorical means verbal and hyperbole
22 means exaggeration.
23 Q. Something other than the truth, correct?
24 A. Truth --
25 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form, relevancy.
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1 A. Truth has many, many meanings and is a
2 continuum. The Supreme Court has held that
3 rhetorical hyperbole cannot be the basis, for
4 example, of perjury prosecutions or generally of a
5 defamation prosecution.
6 So it depends on the context. You might
7 just look at the dictionary and probably get a
8 variety of definitions for it.
9 BY MR. SCAROLA:
10 Q. Well, what I'm concerned about,
11 Mr. Dershowitz, is not a dictionary definition. I
12 want to know what your understanding of rhetorical
13 hyperbole is.
14 And do you agree that pursuant to your
15 understanding of rhetorical hyperbole, it is an
16 exaggeration beyond the facts?
17 MR. SCOTT: Objection, argumentative and
18 compound, three questions.
19 A. No --
20 MR. SCOTT: You can answer.
21 A. -- I would not agree with that definition.
22 BY MR. SCAROLA:
23 Q. Okay. Then define it for us, if you
24 would, please.
25 A. I think I have already.
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1 Q. I'm sorry, I missed the definition. Could
2 you tell us what rhetorical hyperbole is?
3 MR. SCOTT: Objection, repetitious. He's
4 done it.
5 A. Why don't we just read back my answer.
6 BY MR. SCAROLA:
7 Q. Because I didn't understand it, so I would
8 like you to try to give us a direct response to that
9 question if you're able to.
10 A. I will repeat exactly what I said. A
11 rhetorical means verbal and hyperbole means some
12 exaggeration of the facts for political or other
13 reasons, but generally it is truthful in a literal
14 sense but perhaps -- it all depends on context.
15 And if you tell me the context in which I
16 used it, I will be happy to describe what I meant in
17 that context. But I don't think you can really
18 answer a question about what two words put together
19 mean without understanding the context.
20 Q. Okay. Well, we're going to talk about
21 some context.
22 Do you recall having been interviewed on
23 on
24 A. I have no current recollection of --
25 MR. SCOTT: Do you have a copy of the
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1 transcript of the interview? We'd like to see
2 it.
3 MR. SCAROLA: That's exactly what I gave
4 you, the photocopy.
5 MR. SCOTT: We're doing it right now.
6 Maybe we can move on and come back then.
7 MR. SCAROLA: No, I would like to proceed.
8 MR. SCOTT: Then let's stop until I get a
9 copy of it. Because he -- I want --
10 MR. SCAROLA: I don't think that's
11 necessary because your client has told us that
12 he has a superb memory and one of the things I
13 would like to know is what he's able to recall.
14 If he needs to refresh his memory, the
15 transcripts will be here in just a moment, but
16 I don't want to delay going forward.
17 MR. SCOTT: Do you need the transcript to
18 refresh your memory?
19 THE WITNESS: Well, I have no memory of
20 what specifically I said on a particular day in
21 a particular interview.
22 MR. SCOTT: Since you have a copy in front
23 of him, why don't you just show him your copy
24 then? Read the -- ask your question and let
25 him read it.
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. Do you recall having been interviewed on
3 by
4 A. Yes, I do.
5 Q. Do you recall having been interviewed on
6 by in early
7 where you spoke about matters that have become the
8 subject of this litigation?
9 A. Yes, I do.
10 Q. Did you make the following statement
11 during the course of that interview: "As to the
12 airplanes, there are manifests that will prove
13 beyond any doubt that I was never on a private
14 airplane with this woman or any other underage
15 girl"?
16 MR. SCOTT: You need to see the
17 transcript?
18 THE WITNESS: No. No.
19 A. That is a truthful statement. I would
20 repeat it right now. I've reviewed the manifests.
21 First, I know I was never on the airplane
22 with any underage woman. I know that for a fact. I
23 have absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. And
24 the records that I have reviewed confirm that.
25 They have on a number of
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1 airplane flights with Jeffrey Epstein. They have me
2 on a number of flights, none -- let me emphasize,
3 none within the relevant time period, none within
4 the relevant time period. That is, there are no
5 manifests that have me on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane
6 during the time that claims to
7 have -- falsely claims to have had sex with me.
8 So, yes, not only recall making that
9 statement, but I repeat it here today. And it is
10 absolutely true. And it just confirms what I know,
11 and that is that made up the entire
12 story.
13 BY MR. SCAROLA:
14 Q. Your statement --
15 MR. SCOTT: What page are you reading
16 from?
17 MR. SCAROLA: Page 5.
18 Q. Your statement was that you were never on
19 a private airplane with this woman, which I assume
20 was a reference to , correct?
21 A. It is, yes.
22 Q. Or any other underage girl?
23 A. That's right.
24 Q. All right. How many times --
25 A. Well, let me be very clear. I have no
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1 idea who was in the front cabin of the airplane with
2 the pilots. Obviously what I intended to say and
3 what I say here now is I never saw an underaged
4 person on an airplane.
5 Now, when I -- when I flew with Jeffrey
6 Epstein to the launch, my recollection is that there
7 may have been a couple on the plane with their child
8 who was going to see the launch. But that was
9 certainly not the context in which I made the
10 statement.
11 I never saw any underage, young person who
12 would be the subject or object of any improper
13 sexual activities. Had I seen Jeffrey Epstein ever
14 in the presence of an underage woman in a context
15 that suggested sexuality, I would have, A, left the
16 scene; B, reported it; and, C, never had any further
17 contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
18 Q. You have also made the statement that you
19 were never on a private airplane with any underage
20 women or any young women, correct?
21 A. The context was underage women in a sexual
22 context. If it was a -- you know, a four-year-old
23 child being carried by her mother, that would not be
24 included in what I intended to say.
25 Q. Your sworn testimony yesterday, according
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1 to the transcription, the official transcription of
2 that testimony, was that, quote:
3 "Let me emphasize that the manifests that
4 do exculpate me do not show me flying with
, they do not show me flying with any young
6 women."
7 That was the testimony you gave under
8 oath. Do you stand by that testimony today?
9 A. The manifests that I saw corroborate my
10 own memory -- my own memory is as clear as could
11 be -- that I never saw any inappropriately aged,
12 underaged women on any airplane to my knowledge that
13 were visible to me at any time that I flew. That is
14 my testimony, yes.
15 Q. Well, that's not a response to the
16 question that I asked. Is it your testimony today
17 that you never flew on a private airplane with,
18 quote, "any young women"?
19 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form.
20 A. By young women, I obviously meant in that
21 context underage women. And underage women in the
22 context of sexuality. And, yes, I I stand by
23 that statement.
24 BY MR. SCAROLA:
25 Q. All right. So your your clarification
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1 of your earlier testimony is that you never saw any
2 young women in a sexual context?
3 A. That's not clarification. I think that's
4 what I initially said. That's what I initially
5 intended. And that's the way any reasonable -- any
6 reasonable person would interpret what my original
7 testimony was. So I don't believe my original
8 testimony required any clarification.
9 Q. So what you meant to convey by the
10 statement that you made when you said you never flew
11 with any underage girl or any young women was you
12 never flew with any underage girl or young women in
13 a sexual context?
14 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form.
15 BY MR. SCAROLA:
16 Q. Is that correct?
17 A. Let me simply repeat the fact and that is,
18 to my knowledge, I never flew on an airplane or was
19 ever in the presence on an airplane with any
20 underage woman who would be somebody who might be in
21 a sexual context. I say that only to eliminate the
22 possibility that some four-year-old was on the lap
23 of a mother or somebody was on the airplane with
24 family members.
25 But, no, I do not recall -- and I'm very
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1 firm about this -- being on an airplane with anybody
2 who I believed could be the subject of Jeffrey
3 Epstein or anyone else's improper sexual activities.
4 MR. SCAROLA: All right. Let's mark the
5 transcript that we've been referring to as
6 Exhibit Number 1, please. That's the
7 transcript of the television interviews that
8 we'll be discussing.
9 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff Exhibit
10 1.)
11 MR. SCOTT: This is actually 2, right? We
12 had one yesterday, an article from the British
13 newspaper?
14 MR. SCAROLA: No. It was not marked as an
15 exhibit. This is the first exhibit that's been
16 marked.
17 MR. SCOTT: No, I know that, but I thought
18 we were going to mark that one. Maybe I was --
19 I asked for that. Okay.
20 It was an answer and counterclaim about
21 the allegation shown to the witness.
22 MR. SCAROLA: And Exhibit Number 2 will be
23 the transcript from yesterday's proceedings
24 that I have just referenced.
25 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
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1 Exhibit 2.)
2 MR. SCOTT: You don't have a copy of that,
3 do you, of the transcript?
4 MR. SCAROLA: No. Got sent to you. I
5 assume you have it.
6 BY MR. SCAROLA:
7 Q. I'm going to hand you what we'll now mark
8 as Exhibit Number 3.
9 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
10 Exhibit 3.)
11 MR. SCOTT: There's no question.
12 MR. SWEDER: Yes.
13 BY MR. SCAROLA:
14 Q. Do you recognize that young woman,
15 Mr. Dershowitz?
16 A. No.
17 Q. Never saw her?
18 A. Not that I know of.
19 Q. Never flew on an private airplane with
20 her?
21 A. Not that I know of.
22 Q. Do you recognize the name
23 A. I do recall that Jeffrey Epstein had a
24 friend named
25 Q. That you flew with?
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1 A. I don't remember that I flew with her or
2 not. I may have. But I don't recall necessarily.
3 But I did meet I remember meeting a woman named
4 . This does not look like , like the
5 woman I met.
6 Q. Okay. So that's a -- that's a different
7
8 A. No, I don't know.
9 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form,
10 argumentative.
11 A. I have no idea. I do not recognize this
12 woman. She's not familiar to me at all.
13 I can tell you this: Without any doubt, I
14 never met anybody dressed like this on any airplane
15 or in the presence of Jeffrey Epstein or in any
16 context --
17 BY MR. SCAROLA:
18 Q. Did she have
19 A. -- related to this case.
20 Q. -- more clothes on or less clothes on when
21 you met her?
22 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form. He said he
23 never met her. Misrepresent --
24 BY MR. SCAROLA:
25 Q. When you met the woman that you're
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1 referencing, did she have more clothes on or less
2 clothes on than that woman?
3 A. Every woman that I met in the presence of
4 Jeffrey Epstein was properly dressed, usually in
5 suits and dresses and -- and appropriately covered
6 up. I never met any women in the context of Jeffrey
7 Epstein who were dressed anything like this.
8 Q. Would you agree that that is a young woman
9 in that photograph?
10 A. I have no idea what her age is.
11 Q. So you don't know whether she was underage
12 or overage or a young woman or not a young woman?
13 A. I don't --
14 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form.
15 A. -- know this woman, so I have no idea how
16 old a woman in a picture is. She could be -- she
17 could be 30. She could be 25. I have no idea.
18 BY MR. SCAROLA:
19 Q. Or she could be 15 or 16?
20 A. I don't think so.
21 Q. But you don't know?
22 A. This doesn't -- well, I don't know how old
23 you are. This does not strike me
24 Q. Old enough to know that
25 MR. SCOTT: You're cutting --
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. -- that's a young woman.
3 MR. SCOTT: Objection. You're cutting the
4 witness off. You're not letting him finish.
5 A. This looks like a picture out of a Playboy
6 or Penthouse magazine. It does not look to me like
7 a person who is under the age of 16 or 17 or 18.
8 But I don't think you can tell anything from the
9 picture. I think you can tell much more from
10 meeting somebody and being with them and having a
11 conversation with them.
12 MR. SCAROLA: Let's mark this photograph,
13 if we could, as Exhibit Number 4.
14 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
15 Exhibit 4.)
16 BY MR. SCAROLA:
17 Q. Does Exhibit Number 4 help you at all to
18 recognize this young woman?
19 A. I've never -- I have no -- no recollection
20 of this young woman at all.
21 Q. All right. Would you describe for us,
22 please, the that you flew with Jeffrey
23 Epstein on November 17, 2005?
24 A. First, I want to emphasize that that's
25 three years later than any of the issues involved in
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1 this case. I have no recollection of flying with
2 this woman. I saw the name on a manifest.
3 And my recollection of -- I have
4 no recollection of flying with her, but my
5 recollection of is that she was a serious,
6 mid 20s woman friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who I may
7 have met on one or two or three occasions when he
8 was with her in -- perhaps at Harvard University
9 where he was meeting with academics and scholars, or
10 perhaps -- I think that's probably the context
11 where -- where she might have been.
12 Q. But you never flew with her?
13 A. I have no recollection of flying with her.
14 Q. Okay. Well, let me see if this helps to
15 refresh your recollection, Mr. Dershowitz.
16 MR. SCAROLA: Let's mark this as Exhibit
17 Number 5, please.
18 THE WITNESS: Uh-huh, yes.
19 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
20 Exhibit 5.)
21 BY MR. SCAROLA:
22 Q. Do you see that the name of the woman in
23 the photographs I have handed you is
24 a model?
25 The photographs, sir, look at the
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1 photographs. The photographs identify the woman as
2 , correct?
3 A. Yes, but --
4 MR. SCOTT: Mr. Dershowitz, take your
5 time --
6 THE WITNESS: Yeah.
7 MR. SCOTT: -- review the exhibits. Don't
8 be rushed by Mr. Scarola.
9 A. Yes, it's a different different
10 spelling of the name. The on the manifest
11 is spelled
12 The in the photograph is
13 . I have no idea whether --
14 BY MR. SCAROLA:
15 Q. The last name --
16 A. they are the same person.
17 Q. is the same, , right?
18 A. There's no last name.
19 Q. Well, read down a little bit further, if
20 you would, Mr. Dershowitz.
21 A. You mean as to a different flight?
22 Q. Yes, sir. Identifying the return flight
23 for the same
24 A. I have no idea that it's a return flight.
25 I have nothing on the record that suggests that it's
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1 a return flight. And it has different people on it.
2 So I have no reason to believe it's a return flight.
3 Q. Is the last -- the question that I asked
4 you, Mr. Dershowitz, is: Is the last name spelled
5 exactly the same as the last name is spelled in the
6 two photographs I have shown you?
7 A. Let me look. So, on the 20th of
8 November
9 Q. Is the last name --
10 MR. SCOTT: Whoa, whoa
11 BY MR. SCAROLA:
12 Q. -- spelled the same way on both the flight
13 log and the two photographs I have shown you?
14 A. On -- you mean on a flight log that I was
15 not on the flight? Is that right? You're talking
16 about a flight log that I was not on the flight,
17 right?
18 Q. That flight log shows you on multiple
19 flights, does it not?
20 A. It shows me not on that flight. It shows
21 me on a number of flights, but not on that flight.
22 MR. SCOTT: What's the date of the
23 flights?
24 THE WITNESS: The date of that flight
25 is -- looks like November 20th, 2005, more
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1 than three years after left
2 for --
3 BY MR. SCAROLA:
4 Q. Mr. Dershowitz --
5 MR. SCOTT: You're cutting the witness
6 off.
7 MR. SCAROLA: He's not answering my
8 question, Tom.
9 MR. SCOTT: Well --
10 MR. SCAROLA: I want to know whether the
11 last name is spelled the same or it isn't
12 spelled the same on the flight log marked as an
13 exhibit and on the photographs. That's a very
14 direct question. It calls for a very direct
15 yes or no response.
16 And this witness has demonstrated a clear
17 refusal to respond directly to direct
18 questions, which will result, when we resume
19 this deposition, in our requesting that the
20 Court appoint a special master so that this
21 deposition doesn't take two weeks to complete.
22 MR. SCOTT: You know, Mr. Scarola, that's
23 a nice speech and I appreciate it.
24 MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
25 MR. SCOTT: I don't agree with your
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1 characterization. And if you recall, months
2 ago I suggested a special master for this
3 deposition, for your clients' depositions and
4 for ' and your response to me
5 was: I'll consider it, I won't pay for it. If
6 your client wants to pay for it -- so basically
7 you blew me off.
8 So, I appreciate you finally come around.
9 And your clients.
10 MR. SCAROLA: Your client's misconduct has
11 clearly convinced me, having now considered it,
12 that it is absolutely necessary.
13 MR. SCOTT: Okay. Now --
14 BY MR. SCAROLA:
15 Q. So now could I get an answer to my
16 question --
17 MR. SCOTT: Now that we have --
18 BY MR. SCAROLA:
19 Q. -- whether the last name on the flight log
20 is spelled exactly the same way as the last name in
21 the photographs?
22 MR. SCOTT: Now that all the lawyers'
23 speeches are done, read the question back and
24 the witness will answer it.
25 MR. SCAROLA: I will repeat the question.
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. Is the last name on the photograph spelled
3 exactly the same way as the last name on the flight
4 log?
5 A. If you're talking about a flight log that
6 I was not on that flight, the answer is yes.
7 Q. All right. Thank you very much, sir.
8 Now, that flight log also shows you flying
9 repeatedly in the company of a woman named
10 correct?
11 A. I've only seen one reference to on
12 November 17. If you want to show me any other
13 references, I'd be happy to look at them.
14 Q. All right, sir. Thank you.
15 Let's go back to the --
16 MR. SCOTT: Are we done with this exhibit?
17 MR. SCAROLA: We are done with the
18 exhibit.
19 MR. SCOTT: Okay. Then let's collect the
20 exhibits so that we don't have a big -- then
21 we'll turn them over to the court reporter to
22 keep safekeeping.
23 There you go, young lady, don't lose
24 those, don't get them wet. And we'll proceed.
25
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. Did you state during the same interview,
3 the ■ interview: "She has said that
4 Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy on Jeffrey's
5 island"?
6 A. I did state that, yes.
7 Q. Was that statement intended as fact,
8 opinion, or was it intended as rhetorical hyperbole?
9 MR. SCOTT: Do you understand the
10 question?
11 THE WITNESS: Yes, I do.
12 A. It was a statement based on what I
13 believed were the facts at the time I said them.
14 Various newspapers and blogs had placed
15 Bill Clinton on, quote, "orgy island" on -- in the
16 presence of Jeffrey Epstein when there were orgies.
17 And at the time I made that statement, I had a
18 belief that she had accused Bill Clinton of
19 participating or being -- as being a part of or an
20 observer or -- or a witness or a participant in
21 orgies on what was called Jeffrey Epstein's orgy
22 island. That was my state of belief, honest belief
23 at the time I made that statement.
24 BY MR. SCAROLA:
25 Q. Yes, sir. And what I want to know is what
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1 the source of that honest belief was? Identify any
2 source that attributed to the
3 statement that Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy
4 on Jeffrey's island.
5 A. We can provide you about, I think, 20
6 newspaper articles and blogs which certainly raise
7 the implication that Bill Clinton had improperly
8 participated in sexual activities on the island
9 either as an observer or as a participant. The
10 issue was raised on Sean Hannity's program. The
11 headlines in various British media had suggested
12 that.
13 It's my belief that
14 intended to convey that impression when she was
15 trying to sell her story to various media, which she
16 successfully sold her story to in Britain, that she
17 wanted to keep that open as a possibility.
18 And then when I firmly declared, based on
19 my research, that Bill Clinton had almost certainly
20 never been on that island, she then made a firm
21 statement that she -- which was a -- which was a
22 perjurious statement, a firm perjurious statement
23 saying that although Bill Clinton had been with her
24 on the island and had had dinner with her, the
25 perjurious statement was that Bill Clinton had been
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1 on the island with her.
2 The lie was that she described in great
3 detail a dinner with Bill Clinton and two underaged
4 Russian women who were offered to Bill Clinton for
5 sex but that Bill Clinton turned down.
6 So she then put in her affidavit that
7 although -- perjuriously, although she had seen Bill
8 Clinton on that island, she then stated that she had
9 not had sex with Bill Clinton. To my knowledge,
10 that was -- to my knowledge at least, that was the
11 first time she stated that -- that she not had sex
12 with Bill Clinton. She had certainly implied, or at
13 least some of the media had inferred from her
14 statements that she may very well have observed Bill
15 Clinton in a sexually compromising position.
16 So, when I made that statement to Don
17 Lemon, I had a firm belief, based on reading
18 newspaper accounts and blogs, that it was true.
19 Q. Can you identify a single newspaper that
20 attributed to the statement that
21 Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy on Jeffrey's
22 island?
23 A. I think there -- I don't have them in my
24 head right now. But I do recall reading headlines
25 that talked about things like, sex slave places
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1 Clinton on orgy island, things of that kind. I
2 would be happy to provide them for you. I don't
3 have them on the top of my head.
4 Q. There's a big difference between saying
5 that Bill Clinton was on Jeffrey's island and saying
6 that Bill Clinton was at an orgy on Jeffrey's
7 island, isn't there?
8 MR. SCOTT: Objection --
9 BY MR. SCAROLA:
10 Q. Do you recognize a distinction between
11 those statements?
12 MR. SCOTT: Form.
13 A. I don't think that distinction was clearly
14 drawn by the media.
15 BY MR. SCAROLA:
16 Q. I'm asking whether you recognize the
17 distinction?
18 A. Oh, I -- I certainly recognize a
19 distinction.
20 Q. Oh, so
21 A. Let me finish. I certainly recognize a
22 distinction between Bill Clinton being on the
23 island, which I believe she perjuriously put in her
24 affidavit, and Bill Clinton participating actively
25 in an orgy. I also think it's a continuum.
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1 And there is the possibility, which I
2 don't personally believe to be true, that he was on
3 the island. There was the possibility, which I
4 don't believe to be true, that he was on the island
5 when orgies were taking place. There was the
6 possibility that he was on the island and observed
7 an orgy, and there was the possibility that he was
8 on the island and participated in an orgy.
9 Newspapers picked up those stories. I'll
10 give you an example of a newspaper that actually
11 said that that she had placed or that I was on the
12 island and -- that I participated in an orgy along
13 with Stephen Hawkings [sic.), the famous physicist
14 from Cambridge University, that was a newspaper
15 published in the Virgin Islands, which falsely
16 claimed that I was at an orgy with Stephen Hawkings.
17 So, many newspapers were suggesting,
18 implying, and I inferred from reading those
19 newspapers that that's what she had said to the
20 media.
21 If I was wrong about that based on
22 subsequent information, I apologize. But I
23 certainly, at the time I said it, believed it and
24 made the statement in good faith in the belief that
25 it was an honest statement.
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1 Q. Okay. So you now are withdrawing the
2 statement that you made that said
3 that Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy on
4 Jeffrey's island; that was wrong?
5 A. I don't know whether she ever said that.
6 I would not repeat that statement and have not
7 repeated that statement based on her denial. As
8 soon as she denied it, I never again made that
9 statement and would not again make that statement.
10 Q. You --
11 A. But I did reiterate the fact that she
12 committed perjury when she said she was on the
13 island with Bill Clinton.
14 MR. SCAROLA: Move to strike the
15 nonresponsive --
16 A. That was the perjurious statement.
17 MR. SCAROLA: Move to strike the
18 nonresponsive portions of the answer.
19 BY MR. SCAROLA:
20 Q. You have made a reference during that same
21 ■ interview to this woman, referring to
23 A. That's right.
24 Q. Okay. What -- what is a criminal record?
25 A. Well, the way I used the term is that
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2
3
4
5 . And it was my
6 information that there was a
7
8 Q. How old was she at the time this alleged
9 offense occurred?
10 A. I don't know.
11
12 . To my knowledge, I -- I recall a case
13 where a 14-year-old boy was sentenced as an adult
14 for --
15 MR. SCAROLA: Mr. Scott --
16 A. -- a serious --
17 MR. SCAROLA: -- did my question ask
18 anything about a 14-year-old boy?
19 A. You asked if
20 MR. SCAROLA: Do we really need to listen
21 to this?
22 MR. SCOTT: You're asking questions, my
23 client is providing his response.
24 MR. SCAROLA: No, your client is not
25 responding. Your client is filibustering.
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1 Your client is doing everything he can to avoid
2 giving direct answers to these questions.
3 I would appreciate it if you would take a
4 break, counsel your client that the speeches
5 are not helpful to anyone, and especially not
6 helpful to him.
7 MR. SCOTT: If you want to take a break,
8 I'll take a break and I will advise my client
9 whatever I feel is appropriate, not what you
10 instruct me to do.
11 MR. SCAROLA: Okay. Well, if you think it
12 might help at all in the progress of this
13 deposition, then I do want to take a break. If
14 you don't think taking a break would be
15 helpful, I don't want to take a break.
16 MR. SCOTT: Do you want to take a break or
17 not?
18 THE WITNESS: I'm going to leave it to
19 your judgment. I'm happy to proceed --
20 MR. SCOTT: Okay. I'll be glad to take a
21 break.
22 MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
23 MR. SCOTT: I can't say --
24 MR. SCAROLA: Five minutes.
25 MR. SCOTT: -- it will help you or
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1 anything but --
2 MR. SCAROLA: I can understand that you
3 don't -- you don't have that control, but if
4 there's any reasonable --
5 MR. SCOTT: You know, Counsel
6 MR. SCAROLA: -- prospect that it might
7 help, let's give it a try.
8 MR. SCOTT: You know, I really don't
9 appreciate the comments about my abilities as
10 an attorney, like I don't have that control and
11 things of nature. It really is --
12 MR. SCAROLA: I don't have the control
13 either.
14 MR. SCOTT: It's not --
15 MR. SCAROLA: I'm not trying to disparage
16 you at all in any respect. I'm just suggesting
17 that --
18 MR. SCOTT: Okay.
19 MR. SCAROLA: -- there is reason to doubt
20 that it will do any good. But I want to give
21 it a try.
22 MR. SCOTT: Okay. Fine. Thank you.
23 MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
24 VIDEOGRAPHER: Going off the record. The
25 time is approximately 9:49 a.m.
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1 (Recess was held from 9:49 a.m. until 10:01 a.m.)
2 VIDEOGRAPHER: Going back on the record.
3 The time is approximately 10:01 a.m.
4 MR. SCOTT: If you've finished your bagel,
5 we're ready to proceed, I think.
6 MR. SCAROLA: I think we are. I was
7 actually ready to proceed a little bit earlier,
8 but we'll proceed now.
9 BY MR. SCAROLA:
10 Q. Mr. Dershowitz, do you agree with the
11 basic concept that one is presumed to be innocent
12 until proven guilty?
13 A. Yes.
14 Q. Has
15 t any time, anywhere, at any
16 age?
17 A. I don't know the answer to that question,
18 but I do know that she was
19 and
20
21
22 Q. To the extent that anyone might interpret
23 your comment that was ever
24 , they would be drawing a false
25 conclusion as far as you know, correct?
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1 A. As far as I know, I don't know of her
2 having convicted of any crime. But I do know that
3
4 And I don't think she contested that. I don't think
5 there's any dispute about the fact that
6
7 Q. When did you find out about this alleged
8
9 A. As soon as the false allegation against me
10 was made public, I got call after call after call
11 from people telling me about , about
12 your 22 clients. The calls just kept coming in
13 because there was such outrage at this false
14 allegation being directed against me.
15 MR. SCAROLA: Move to strike the
16 unresponsive portion of the answer.
17 BY MR. SCAROLA:
18 Q. You found out as soon as the CVRA
19 complaint was -- the CVRA allegations referencing
20 you were filed; is that correct?
21 A. I didn't say that. I said as soon as they
22 were made public and as soon as the newspapers
23 carried these false stories, I received phone calls
24 and I learned about -- I learned about her encounter
25 with the criminal justice system.
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1 Q. That would certainly have been prior to
2 February 23rd of 2015, correct?
3 A. Yes.
4 MR. SCOTT: Are you going back to the
5 exhibit now with the newspapers and
6 MR. SCAROLA: Not yet.
7 MR. SCOTT: Okay.
8 BY MR. SCAROLA:
9 Q. Having reviewed the available airplane
10 flight logs, you are aware that Bill Clinton flew on
11 at least 15 occasions with Jeffrey Epstein on his
12 private plane, correct?
13 A. Yes.
14 Q. Have you ever attempted to get flight log
15 information with regard to Former President
16 Clinton's other private airplane travel?
17 A. No.
18 Q. Never made a public records request --
19 A. Yes.
20 Q. under the Freedom of Information Act
21 with regard to those records?
22 A. Well, we have made a Freedom of
23 Information request. My -- my attorney in New York,
24 Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, has made a
25 FOIA request for all information that would
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1 conclusively prove that Bill Clinton was never on
2 Jeffrey Epstein's island, yes.
3 Q. And you were denied those records,
4 correct?
5 A. No, no, no.
6 Q. Oh, you got them?
7 MR. SCOTT: Well, wait a minute. Let's
8 take it slow. Ask a question.
9 A. As any lawyer knows, FOIA requests take a
10 long, long period of time. So they were neither
11 denied nor were they given to us. They are very
12 much in process.
13 BY MR. SCAROLA:
14 Q. When was
15 A. While we're talking about may I
16 complete -- I want to amend one answer I gave
17 previously.
18 While we're talking about the plane logs,
19 I must say that during the recess, my wife Googled
20 and found out that she was, in fact, •
21 years old in_, at the time she flew on that
22 airplane. So that my characterization of her as
23 about ■ years old is absolutely correct.
24 And the implication that you sought to
25 draw by showing me those pictures was not only
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1 demonstrably false, but you could have easily
2 discovered that the implication you were drawing was
3 demonstrably false by simply taking one second and
4 Googling her name as my wife did.
5 BY MR. SCAROLA:
6 Q. And so at 25 years old, she wasn't a young
7 woman?
8 A. She was not the kind of woman that I was
9 describing as underage. She was a mature, serious,
10 I think I said in my public statements a model. I
11 wasn't aware at the time that see was working for
12 , but Google demonstrates that.
13 And I described her exactly, in exactly the right
14 terms, a serious person.
15 I always saw her dressed when I saw her --
16 I saw her maybe on two or three occasions, dressed
17 appropriately. She was a serious adult worker and I
18 think you insult and demean her when you suggest
19 that anything other
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO.: CACE 15-000072
BRADLEY J. EDWARDS and PAUL G.
CASSELL„
Plaintiffs,
vs.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ,
Defendant.
CONTINUED VIDEOTAPE DEPOSITION OF
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
VOLUME 2
Pages 180 through 333
Friday, October 16, 2015
9:18 a.m. - 12:26 p.m.
Cole Scott & Kissane
110 Southeast 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Stenographically Reported By:
Kimberly Fontalvo, RPR, CLR
Realtime Systems Administrator
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1 APPEARANCES:
2
On behalf of Plaintiffs:
3
SEARCY, DENNEY, SCAROLA
4 BARNHART & SHIPLEY, P.A.
2139 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard
5 West Palm Beach, Florida 33402-3626
BY: JACK SCAROLA, ESQ.
6
7
8 On behalf of Defendant:
9 COLE, SCOTT & KISSANE, P.A.
Dadeland Centre II - Suite 1400
10 9150 South Dadeland Boulevard
Miami, Florida 33156
11 BY: THOMAS EMERSON SCOTT, JR., ESQ.
12 BY: ST ISAFRAG. (Via phone)
13 --and--
14 SWEDER & ROSS, LLP
131 Oliver Street
15 Boston, MA 02110
BY: KENNETH A. SWEDER, ESQ.
16 •
17 --and--
18 WILEY, REIN
17769 K Street NW
19 Washington, DC 20006
BY: RICHARD A. SIMPSON, ESQ.
20
BY: NICOLE A. RICHARDSON, ESQ.
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1 APPEARANCES (Continued):
2 On behalf of Jeffrey Epstein:
3 DARREN K. INDYKE, PLLC
575 Lexington Ave., 4th Fl.
4 New York, New York
BY: DARREN K. INDYKE, ESQ. (Via phone)
5
6 On behalf of
7 BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER, LLP
401 E. Las Olas Blvd., Ste. 1200
8 Fort Lauderdale Florida 33301
BY:
9
10
11 ALSO PRESENT:
12 Joni Jones, Utah Attorney General Office
13 Travis Gallagher, Videographer
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1 INDEX
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4 VOLUME 2 (Pages 180 - 333)
5 Direct By Mr. Scarola 184
6 Certificate of Oath 330
Certificate of Reporter 331
7 Read and Sign Letter to Witness 332
Errata Sheet (forwarded upon execution) 333
8 PLAINTIFF EXHIBITS
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1 Television Interview Transcript 193
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2 Except from Deposition of Alan M. 193
12 Dershowitz
13 3 Photograph - 8x10 - Color 194
14 4 Photograph - 8x10 - Color 197
15 5 Flight Log Information Sheet 198
16 6 Composite - Flight logs 240
17 7 Composite - Flight manuals 240
18 8 Photograph - 8x10 - Color 305
19 9 Composite - Calendar entries 306
20 10 Composite - Calendar entries 307
21 11 Composite - Calendar entries 307
22 12 Composite - Calendar entries 307
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1 VIDEOGRAPHER: Going on the record. This
2 is day two of Alan Dershowitz's deposition.
3 The date is October 16, 2015, and the time is
4 approximately 9:18 a.m.
5 MR. SCAROLA: Would you please reswear the
6 witness.
7 THE COURT REPORTER: Would you raise your
8 right hand, please?
9 Do you swear or affirm that the testimony
10 you are about to give will be the truth, the
11 whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
12 THE WITNESS: Yes.
13 Thereupon:
14 ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
15 having been first duly sworn, was examined and
16 testified as follows:
17 DIRECT EXAMINATION
18 BY MR. SCAROLA:
19 Q. Mr. Dershowitz, what is rhetorical
20 hyperbole?
21 A. Rhetorical means verbal and hyperbole
22 means exaggeration.
23 Q. Something other than the truth, correct?
24 A. Truth --
25 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form, relevancy.
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1 A. Truth has many, many meanings and is a
2 continuum. The Supreme Court has held that
3 rhetorical hyperbole cannot be the basis, for
4 example, of perjury prosecutions or generally of a
5 defamation prosecution.
6 So it depends on the context. You might
7 just look at the dictionary and probably get a
8 variety of definitions for it.
9 BY MR. SCAROLA:
10 Q. Well, what I'm concerned about,
11 Mr. Dershowitz, is not a dictionary definition. I
12 want to know what your understanding of rhetorical
13 hyperbole is.
14 And do you agree that pursuant to your
15 understanding of rhetorical hyperbole, it is an
16 exaggeration beyond the facts?
17 MR. SCOTT: Objection, argumentative and
18 compound, three questions.
19 A. No --
20 MR. SCOTT: You can answer.
21 A. -- I would not agree with that definition.
22 BY MR. SCAROLA:
23 Q. Okay. Then define it for us, if you
24 would, please.
25 A. I think I have already.
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1 Q. I'm sorry, I missed the definition. Could
2 you tell us what rhetorical hyperbole is?
3 MR. SCOTT: Objection, repetitious. He's
4 done it.
5 A. Why don't we just read back my answer.
6 BY MR. SCAROLA:
7 Q. Because I didn't understand it, so I would
8 like you to try to give us a direct response to that
9 question if you're able to.
10 A. I will repeat exactly what I said. A
11 rhetorical means verbal and hyperbole means some
12 exaggeration of the facts for political or other
13 reasons, but generally it is truthful in a literal
14 sense but perhaps -- it all depends on context.
15 And if you tell me the context in which I
16 used it, I will be happy to describe what I meant in
17 that context. But I don't think you can really
18 answer a question about what two words put together
19 mean without understanding the context.
20 Q. Okay. Well, we're going to talk about
21 some context.
22 Do you recall having been interviewed on
23 on
24 A. I have no current recollection of --
25 MR. SCOTT: Do you have a copy of the
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1 transcript of the interview? We'd like to see
2 it.
3 MR. SCAROLA: That's exactly what I gave
4 you, the photocopy.
5 MR. SCOTT: We're doing it right now.
6 Maybe we can move on and come back then.
7 MR. SCAROLA: No, I would like to proceed.
8 MR. SCOTT: Then let's stop until I get a
9 copy of it. Because he -- I want --
10 MR. SCAROLA: I don't think that's
11 necessary because your client has told us that
12 he has a superb memory and one of the things I
13 would like to know is what he's able to recall.
14 If he needs to refresh his memory, the
15 transcripts will be here in just a moment, but
16 I don't want to delay going forward.
17 MR. SCOTT: Do you need the transcript to
18 refresh your memory?
19 THE WITNESS: Well, I have no memory of
20 what specifically I said on a particular day in
21 a particular interview.
22 MR. SCOTT: Since you have a copy in front
23 of him, why don't you just show him your copy
24 then? Read the -- ask your question and let
25 him read it.
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. Do you recall having been interviewed on
3 by
4 A. Yes, I do.
5 Q. Do you recall having been interviewed on
6 by in early
7 where you spoke about matters that have become the
8 subject of this litigation?
9 A. Yes, I do.
10 Q. Did you make the following statement
11 during the course of that interview: "As to the
12 airplanes, there are manifests that will prove
13 beyond any doubt that I was never on a private
14 airplane with this woman or any other underage
15 girl"?
16 MR. SCOTT: You need to see the
17 transcript?
18 THE WITNESS: No. No.
19 A. That is a truthful statement. I would
20 repeat it right now. I've reviewed the manifests.
21 First, I know I was never on the airplane
22 with any underage woman. I know that for a fact. I
23 have absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. And
24 the records that I have reviewed confirm that.
25 They have on a number of
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1 airplane flights with Jeffrey Epstein. They have me
2 on a number of flights, none -- let me emphasize,
3 none within the relevant time period, none within
4 the relevant time period. That is, there are no
5 manifests that have me on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane
6 during the time that claims to
7 have -- falsely claims to have had sex with me.
8 So, yes, not only recall making that
9 statement, but I repeat it here today. And it is
10 absolutely true. And it just confirms what I know,
11 and that is that made up the entire
12 story.
13 BY MR. SCAROLA:
14 Q. Your statement --
15 MR. SCOTT: What page are you reading
16 from?
17 MR. SCAROLA: Page 5.
18 Q. Your statement was that you were never on
19 a private airplane with this woman, which I assume
20 was a reference to , correct?
21 A. It is, yes.
22 Q. Or any other underage girl?
23 A. That's right.
24 Q. All right. How many times --
25 A. Well, let me be very clear. I have no
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1 idea who was in the front cabin of the airplane with
2 the pilots. Obviously what I intended to say and
3 what I say here now is I never saw an underaged
4 person on an airplane.
5 Now, when I -- when I flew with Jeffrey
6 Epstein to the launch, my recollection is that there
7 may have been a couple on the plane with their child
8 who was going to see the launch. But that was
9 certainly not the context in which I made the
10 statement.
11 I never saw any underage, young person who
12 would be the subject or object of any improper
13 sexual activities. Had I seen Jeffrey Epstein ever
14 in the presence of an underage woman in a context
15 that suggested sexuality, I would have, A, left the
16 scene; B, reported it; and, C, never had any further
17 contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
18 Q. You have also made the statement that you
19 were never on a private airplane with any underage
20 women or any young women, correct?
21 A. The context was underage women in a sexual
22 context. If it was a -- you know, a four-year-old
23 child being carried by her mother, that would not be
24 included in what I intended to say.
25 Q. Your sworn testimony yesterday, according
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1 to the transcription, the official transcription of
2 that testimony, was that, quote:
3 "Let me emphasize that the manifests that
4 do exculpate me do not show me flying with
, they do not show me flying with any young
6 women."
7 That was the testimony you gave under
8 oath. Do you stand by that testimony today?
9 A. The manifests that I saw corroborate my
10 own memory -- my own memory is as clear as could
11 be -- that I never saw any inappropriately aged,
12 underaged women on any airplane to my knowledge that
13 were visible to me at any time that I flew. That is
14 my testimony, yes.
15 Q. Well, that's not a response to the
16 question that I asked. Is it your testimony today
17 that you never flew on a private airplane with,
18 quote, "any young women"?
19 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form.
20 A. By young women, I obviously meant in that
21 context underage women. And underage women in the
22 context of sexuality. And, yes, I I stand by
23 that statement.
24 BY MR. SCAROLA:
25 Q. All right. So your your clarification
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1 of your earlier testimony is that you never saw any
2 young women in a sexual context?
3 A. That's not clarification. I think that's
4 what I initially said. That's what I initially
5 intended. And that's the way any reasonable -- any
6 reasonable person would interpret what my original
7 testimony was. So I don't believe my original
8 testimony required any clarification.
9 Q. So what you meant to convey by the
10 statement that you made when you said you never flew
11 with any underage girl or any young women was you
12 never flew with any underage girl or young women in
13 a sexual context?
14 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form.
15 BY MR. SCAROLA:
16 Q. Is that correct?
17 A. Let me simply repeat the fact and that is,
18 to my knowledge, I never flew on an airplane or was
19 ever in the presence on an airplane with any
20 underage woman who would be somebody who might be in
21 a sexual context. I say that only to eliminate the
22 possibility that some four-year-old was on the lap
23 of a mother or somebody was on the airplane with
24 family members.
25 But, no, I do not recall -- and I'm very
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1 firm about this -- being on an airplane with anybody
2 who I believed could be the subject of Jeffrey
3 Epstein or anyone else's improper sexual activities.
4 MR. SCAROLA: All right. Let's mark the
5 transcript that we've been referring to as
6 Exhibit Number 1, please. That's the
7 transcript of the television interviews that
8 we'll be discussing.
9 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff Exhibit
10 1.)
11 MR. SCOTT: This is actually 2, right? We
12 had one yesterday, an article from the British
13 newspaper?
14 MR. SCAROLA: No. It was not marked as an
15 exhibit. This is the first exhibit that's been
16 marked.
17 MR. SCOTT: No, I know that, but I thought
18 we were going to mark that one. Maybe I was --
19 I asked for that. Okay.
20 It was an answer and counterclaim about
21 the allegation shown to the witness.
22 MR. SCAROLA: And Exhibit Number 2 will be
23 the transcript from yesterday's proceedings
24 that I have just referenced.
25 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
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1 Exhibit 2.)
2 MR. SCOTT: You don't have a copy of that,
3 do you, of the transcript?
4 MR. SCAROLA: No. Got sent to you. I
5 assume you have it.
6 BY MR. SCAROLA:
7 Q. I'm going to hand you what we'll now mark
8 as Exhibit Number 3.
9 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
10 Exhibit 3.)
11 MR. SCOTT: There's no question.
12 MR. SWEDER: Yes.
13 BY MR. SCAROLA:
14 Q. Do you recognize that young woman,
15 Mr. Dershowitz?
16 A. No.
17 Q. Never saw her?
18 A. Not that I know of.
19 Q. Never flew on an private airplane with
20 her?
21 A. Not that I know of.
22 Q. Do you recognize the name
23 A. I do recall that Jeffrey Epstein had a
24 friend named
25 Q. That you flew with?
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1 A. I don't remember that I flew with her or
2 not. I may have. But I don't recall necessarily.
3 But I did meet I remember meeting a woman named
4 . This does not look like , like the
5 woman I met.
6 Q. Okay. So that's a -- that's a different
7
8 A. No, I don't know.
9 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form,
10 argumentative.
11 A. I have no idea. I do not recognize this
12 woman. She's not familiar to me at all.
13 I can tell you this: Without any doubt, I
14 never met anybody dressed like this on any airplane
15 or in the presence of Jeffrey Epstein or in any
16 context --
17 BY MR. SCAROLA:
18 Q. Did she have
19 A. -- related to this case.
20 Q. -- more clothes on or less clothes on when
21 you met her?
22 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form. He said he
23 never met her. Misrepresent --
24 BY MR. SCAROLA:
25 Q. When you met the woman that you're
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1 referencing, did she have more clothes on or less
2 clothes on than that woman?
3 A. Every woman that I met in the presence of
4 Jeffrey Epstein was properly dressed, usually in
5 suits and dresses and -- and appropriately covered
6 up. I never met any women in the context of Jeffrey
7 Epstein who were dressed anything like this.
8 Q. Would you agree that that is a young woman
9 in that photograph?
10 A. I have no idea what her age is.
11 Q. So you don't know whether she was underage
12 or overage or a young woman or not a young woman?
13 A. I don't --
14 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form.
15 A. -- know this woman, so I have no idea how
16 old a woman in a picture is. She could be -- she
17 could be 30. She could be 25. I have no idea.
18 BY MR. SCAROLA:
19 Q. Or she could be 15 or 16?
20 A. I don't think so.
21 Q. But you don't know?
22 A. This doesn't -- well, I don't know how old
23 you are. This does not strike me
24 Q. Old enough to know that
25 MR. SCOTT: You're cutting --
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. -- that's a young woman.
3 MR. SCOTT: Objection. You're cutting the
4 witness off. You're not letting him finish.
5 A. This looks like a picture out of a Playboy
6 or Penthouse magazine. It does not look to me like
7 a person who is under the age of 16 or 17 or 18.
8 But I don't think you can tell anything from the
9 picture. I think you can tell much more from
10 meeting somebody and being with them and having a
11 conversation with them.
12 MR. SCAROLA: Let's mark this photograph,
13 if we could, as Exhibit Number 4.
14 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
15 Exhibit 4.)
16 BY MR. SCAROLA:
17 Q. Does Exhibit Number 4 help you at all to
18 recognize this young woman?
19 A. I've never -- I have no -- no recollection
20 of this young woman at all.
21 Q. All right. Would you describe for us,
22 please, the that you flew with Jeffrey
23 Epstein on November 17, 2005?
24 A. First, I want to emphasize that that's
25 three years later than any of the issues involved in
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1 this case. I have no recollection of flying with
2 this woman. I saw the name on a manifest.
3 And my recollection of -- I have
4 no recollection of flying with her, but my
5 recollection of is that she was a serious,
6 mid 20s woman friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who I may
7 have met on one or two or three occasions when he
8 was with her in -- perhaps at Harvard University
9 where he was meeting with academics and scholars, or
10 perhaps -- I think that's probably the context
11 where -- where she might have been.
12 Q. But you never flew with her?
13 A. I have no recollection of flying with her.
14 Q. Okay. Well, let me see if this helps to
15 refresh your recollection, Mr. Dershowitz.
16 MR. SCAROLA: Let's mark this as Exhibit
17 Number 5, please.
18 THE WITNESS: Uh-huh, yes.
19 (Thereupon, marked as Plaintiff
20 Exhibit 5.)
21 BY MR. SCAROLA:
22 Q. Do you see that the name of the woman in
23 the photographs I have handed you is
24 a model?
25 The photographs, sir, look at the
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1 photographs. The photographs identify the woman as
2 , correct?
3 A. Yes, but --
4 MR. SCOTT: Mr. Dershowitz, take your
5 time --
6 THE WITNESS: Yeah.
7 MR. SCOTT: -- review the exhibits. Don't
8 be rushed by Mr. Scarola.
9 A. Yes, it's a different different
10 spelling of the name. The on the manifest
11 is spelled
12 The in the photograph is
13 . I have no idea whether --
14 BY MR. SCAROLA:
15 Q. The last name --
16 A. they are the same person.
17 Q. is the same, , right?
18 A. There's no last name.
19 Q. Well, read down a little bit further, if
20 you would, Mr. Dershowitz.
21 A. You mean as to a different flight?
22 Q. Yes, sir. Identifying the return flight
23 for the same
24 A. I have no idea that it's a return flight.
25 I have nothing on the record that suggests that it's
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1 a return flight. And it has different people on it.
2 So I have no reason to believe it's a return flight.
3 Q. Is the last -- the question that I asked
4 you, Mr. Dershowitz, is: Is the last name spelled
5 exactly the same as the last name is spelled in the
6 two photographs I have shown you?
7 A. Let me look. So, on the 20th of
8 November
9 Q. Is the last name --
10 MR. SCOTT: Whoa, whoa
11 BY MR. SCAROLA:
12 Q. -- spelled the same way on both the flight
13 log and the two photographs I have shown you?
14 A. On -- you mean on a flight log that I was
15 not on the flight? Is that right? You're talking
16 about a flight log that I was not on the flight,
17 right?
18 Q. That flight log shows you on multiple
19 flights, does it not?
20 A. It shows me not on that flight. It shows
21 me on a number of flights, but not on that flight.
22 MR. SCOTT: What's the date of the
23 flights?
24 THE WITNESS: The date of that flight
25 is -- looks like November 20th, 2005, more
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1 than three years after left
2 for --
3 BY MR. SCAROLA:
4 Q. Mr. Dershowitz --
5 MR. SCOTT: You're cutting the witness
6 off.
7 MR. SCAROLA: He's not answering my
8 question, Tom.
9 MR. SCOTT: Well --
10 MR. SCAROLA: I want to know whether the
11 last name is spelled the same or it isn't
12 spelled the same on the flight log marked as an
13 exhibit and on the photographs. That's a very
14 direct question. It calls for a very direct
15 yes or no response.
16 And this witness has demonstrated a clear
17 refusal to respond directly to direct
18 questions, which will result, when we resume
19 this deposition, in our requesting that the
20 Court appoint a special master so that this
21 deposition doesn't take two weeks to complete.
22 MR. SCOTT: You know, Mr. Scarola, that's
23 a nice speech and I appreciate it.
24 MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
25 MR. SCOTT: I don't agree with your
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1 characterization. And if you recall, months
2 ago I suggested a special master for this
3 deposition, for your clients' depositions and
4 for ' and your response to me
5 was: I'll consider it, I won't pay for it. If
6 your client wants to pay for it -- so basically
7 you blew me off.
8 So, I appreciate you finally come around.
9 And your clients.
10 MR. SCAROLA: Your client's misconduct has
11 clearly convinced me, having now considered it,
12 that it is absolutely necessary.
13 MR. SCOTT: Okay. Now --
14 BY MR. SCAROLA:
15 Q. So now could I get an answer to my
16 question --
17 MR. SCOTT: Now that we have --
18 BY MR. SCAROLA:
19 Q. -- whether the last name on the flight log
20 is spelled exactly the same way as the last name in
21 the photographs?
22 MR. SCOTT: Now that all the lawyers'
23 speeches are done, read the question back and
24 the witness will answer it.
25 MR. SCAROLA: I will repeat the question.
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. Is the last name on the photograph spelled
3 exactly the same way as the last name on the flight
4 log?
5 A. If you're talking about a flight log that
6 I was not on that flight, the answer is yes.
7 Q. All right. Thank you very much, sir.
8 Now, that flight log also shows you flying
9 repeatedly in the company of a woman named
10 correct?
11 A. I've only seen one reference to on
12 November 17. If you want to show me any other
13 references, I'd be happy to look at them.
14 Q. All right, sir. Thank you.
15 Let's go back to the --
16 MR. SCOTT: Are we done with this exhibit?
17 MR. SCAROLA: We are done with the
18 exhibit.
19 MR. SCOTT: Okay. Then let's collect the
20 exhibits so that we don't have a big -- then
21 we'll turn them over to the court reporter to
22 keep safekeeping.
23 There you go, young lady, don't lose
24 those, don't get them wet. And we'll proceed.
25
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1 BY MR. SCAROLA:
2 Q. Did you state during the same interview,
3 the ■ interview: "She has said that
4 Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy on Jeffrey's
5 island"?
6 A. I did state that, yes.
7 Q. Was that statement intended as fact,
8 opinion, or was it intended as rhetorical hyperbole?
9 MR. SCOTT: Do you understand the
10 question?
11 THE WITNESS: Yes, I do.
12 A. It was a statement based on what I
13 believed were the facts at the time I said them.
14 Various newspapers and blogs had placed
15 Bill Clinton on, quote, "orgy island" on -- in the
16 presence of Jeffrey Epstein when there were orgies.
17 And at the time I made that statement, I had a
18 belief that she had accused Bill Clinton of
19 participating or being -- as being a part of or an
20 observer or -- or a witness or a participant in
21 orgies on what was called Jeffrey Epstein's orgy
22 island. That was my state of belief, honest belief
23 at the time I made that statement.
24 BY MR. SCAROLA:
25 Q. Yes, sir. And what I want to know is what
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1 the source of that honest belief was? Identify any
2 source that attributed to the
3 statement that Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy
4 on Jeffrey's island.
5 A. We can provide you about, I think, 20
6 newspaper articles and blogs which certainly raise
7 the implication that Bill Clinton had improperly
8 participated in sexual activities on the island
9 either as an observer or as a participant. The
10 issue was raised on Sean Hannity's program. The
11 headlines in various British media had suggested
12 that.
13 It's my belief that
14 intended to convey that impression when she was
15 trying to sell her story to various media, which she
16 successfully sold her story to in Britain, that she
17 wanted to keep that open as a possibility.
18 And then when I firmly declared, based on
19 my research, that Bill Clinton had almost certainly
20 never been on that island, she then made a firm
21 statement that she -- which was a -- which was a
22 perjurious statement, a firm perjurious statement
23 saying that although Bill Clinton had been with her
24 on the island and had had dinner with her, the
25 perjurious statement was that Bill Clinton had been
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1 on the island with her.
2 The lie was that she described in great
3 detail a dinner with Bill Clinton and two underaged
4 Russian women who were offered to Bill Clinton for
5 sex but that Bill Clinton turned down.
6 So she then put in her affidavit that
7 although -- perjuriously, although she had seen Bill
8 Clinton on that island, she then stated that she had
9 not had sex with Bill Clinton. To my knowledge,
10 that was -- to my knowledge at least, that was the
11 first time she stated that -- that she not had sex
12 with Bill Clinton. She had certainly implied, or at
13 least some of the media had inferred from her
14 statements that she may very well have observed Bill
15 Clinton in a sexually compromising position.
16 So, when I made that statement to Don
17 Lemon, I had a firm belief, based on reading
18 newspaper accounts and blogs, that it was true.
19 Q. Can you identify a single newspaper that
20 attributed to the statement that
21 Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy on Jeffrey's
22 island?
23 A. I think there -- I don't have them in my
24 head right now. But I do recall reading headlines
25 that talked about things like, sex slave places
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1 Clinton on orgy island, things of that kind. I
2 would be happy to provide them for you. I don't
3 have them on the top of my head.
4 Q. There's a big difference between saying
5 that Bill Clinton was on Jeffrey's island and saying
6 that Bill Clinton was at an orgy on Jeffrey's
7 island, isn't there?
8 MR. SCOTT: Objection --
9 BY MR. SCAROLA:
10 Q. Do you recognize a distinction between
11 those statements?
12 MR. SCOTT: Form.
13 A. I don't think that distinction was clearly
14 drawn by the media.
15 BY MR. SCAROLA:
16 Q. I'm asking whether you recognize the
17 distinction?
18 A. Oh, I -- I certainly recognize a
19 distinction.
20 Q. Oh, so
21 A. Let me finish. I certainly recognize a
22 distinction between Bill Clinton being on the
23 island, which I believe she perjuriously put in her
24 affidavit, and Bill Clinton participating actively
25 in an orgy. I also think it's a continuum.
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1 And there is the possibility, which I
2 don't personally believe to be true, that he was on
3 the island. There was the possibility, which I
4 don't believe to be true, that he was on the island
5 when orgies were taking place. There was the
6 possibility that he was on the island and observed
7 an orgy, and there was the possibility that he was
8 on the island and participated in an orgy.
9 Newspapers picked up those stories. I'll
10 give you an example of a newspaper that actually
11 said that that she had placed or that I was on the
12 island and -- that I participated in an orgy along
13 with Stephen Hawkings [sic.), the famous physicist
14 from Cambridge University, that was a newspaper
15 published in the Virgin Islands, which falsely
16 claimed that I was at an orgy with Stephen Hawkings.
17 So, many newspapers were suggesting,
18 implying, and I inferred from reading those
19 newspapers that that's what she had said to the
20 media.
21 If I was wrong about that based on
22 subsequent information, I apologize. But I
23 certainly, at the time I said it, believed it and
24 made the statement in good faith in the belief that
25 it was an honest statement.
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1 Q. Okay. So you now are withdrawing the
2 statement that you made that said
3 that Bill Clinton was with her at an orgy on
4 Jeffrey's island; that was wrong?
5 A. I don't know whether she ever said that.
6 I would not repeat that statement and have not
7 repeated that statement based on her denial. As
8 soon as she denied it, I never again made that
9 statement and would not again make that statement.
10 Q. You --
11 A. But I did reiterate the fact that she
12 committed perjury when she said she was on the
13 island with Bill Clinton.
14 MR. SCAROLA: Move to strike the
15 nonresponsive --
16 A. That was the perjurious statement.
17 MR. SCAROLA: Move to strike the
18 nonresponsive portions of the answer.
19 BY MR. SCAROLA:
20 Q. You have made a reference during that same
21 ■ interview to this woman, referring to
23 A. That's right.
24 Q. Okay. What -- what is a criminal record?
25 A. Well, the way I used the term is that
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1
2
3
4
5 . And it was my
6 information that there was a
7
8 Q. How old was she at the time this alleged
9 offense occurred?
10 A. I don't know.
11
12 . To my knowledge, I -- I recall a case
13 where a 14-year-old boy was sentenced as an adult
14 for --
15 MR. SCAROLA: Mr. Scott --
16 A. -- a serious --
17 MR. SCAROLA: -- did my question ask
18 anything about a 14-year-old boy?
19 A. You asked if
20 MR. SCAROLA: Do we really need to listen
21 to this?
22 MR. SCOTT: You're asking questions, my
23 client is providing his response.
24 MR. SCAROLA: No, your client is not
25 responding. Your client is filibustering.
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1 Your client is doing everything he can to avoid
2 giving direct answers to these questions.
3 I would appreciate it if you would take a
4 break, counsel your client that the speeches
5 are not helpful to anyone, and especially not
6 helpful to him.
7 MR. SCOTT: If you want to take a break,
8 I'll take a break and I will advise my client
9 whatever I feel is appropriate, not what you
10 instruct me to do.
11 MR. SCAROLA: Okay. Well, if you think it
12 might help at all in the progress of this
13 deposition, then I do want to take a break. If
14 you don't think taking a break would be
15 helpful, I don't want to take a break.
16 MR. SCOTT: Do you want to take a break or
17 not?
18 THE WITNESS: I'm going to leave it to
19 your judgment. I'm happy to proceed --
20 MR. SCOTT: Okay. I'll be glad to take a
21 break.
22 MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
23 MR. SCOTT: I can't say --
24 MR. SCAROLA: Five minutes.
25 MR. SCOTT: -- it will help you or
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1 anything but --
2 MR. SCAROLA: I can understand that you
3 don't -- you don't have that control, but if
4 there's any reasonable --
5 MR. SCOTT: You know, Counsel
6 MR. SCAROLA: -- prospect that it might
7 help, let's give it a try.
8 MR. SCOTT: You know, I really don't
9 appreciate the comments about my abilities as
10 an attorney, like I don't have that control and
11 things of nature. It really is --
12 MR. SCAROLA: I don't have the control
13 either.
14 MR. SCOTT: It's not --
15 MR. SCAROLA: I'm not trying to disparage
16 you at all in any respect. I'm just suggesting
17 that --
18 MR. SCOTT: Okay.
19 MR. SCAROLA: -- there is reason to doubt
20 that it will do any good. But I want to give
21 it a try.
22 MR. SCOTT: Okay. Fine. Thank you.
23 MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
24 VIDEOGRAPHER: Going off the record. The
25 time is approximately 9:49 a.m.
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1 (Recess was held from 9:49 a.m. until 10:01 a.m.)
2 VIDEOGRAPHER: Going back on the record.
3 The time is approximately 10:01 a.m.
4 MR. SCOTT: If you've finished your bagel,
5 we're ready to proceed, I think.
6 MR. SCAROLA: I think we are. I was
7 actually ready to proceed a little bit earlier,
8 but we'll proceed now.
9 BY MR. SCAROLA:
10 Q. Mr. Dershowitz, do you agree with the
11 basic concept that one is presumed to be innocent
12 until proven guilty?
13 A. Yes.
14 Q. Has
15 t any time, anywhere, at any
16 age?
17 A. I don't know the answer to that question,
18 but I do know that she was
19 and
20
21
22 Q. To the extent that anyone might interpret
23 your comment that was ever
24 , they would be drawing a false
25 conclusion as far as you know, correct?
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1 A. As far as I know, I don't know of her
2 having convicted of any crime. But I do know that
3
4 And I don't think she contested that. I don't think
5 there's any dispute about the fact that
6
7 Q. When did you find out about this alleged
8
9 A. As soon as the false allegation against me
10 was made public, I got call after call after call
11 from people telling me about , about
12 your 22 clients. The calls just kept coming in
13 because there was such outrage at this false
14 allegation being directed against me.
15 MR. SCAROLA: Move to strike the
16 unresponsive portion of the answer.
17 BY MR. SCAROLA:
18 Q. You found out as soon as the CVRA
19 complaint was -- the CVRA allegations referencing
20 you were filed; is that correct?
21 A. I didn't say that. I said as soon as they
22 were made public and as soon as the newspapers
23 carried these false stories, I received phone calls
24 and I learned about -- I learned about her encounter
25 with the criminal justice system.
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1 Q. That would certainly have been prior to
2 February 23rd of 2015, correct?
3 A. Yes.
4 MR. SCOTT: Are you going back to the
5 exhibit now with the newspapers and
6 MR. SCAROLA: Not yet.
7 MR. SCOTT: Okay.
8 BY MR. SCAROLA:
9 Q. Having reviewed the available airplane
10 flight logs, you are aware that Bill Clinton flew on
11 at least 15 occasions with Jeffrey Epstein on his
12 private plane, correct?
13 A. Yes.
14 Q. Have you ever attempted to get flight log
15 information with regard to Former President
16 Clinton's other private airplane travel?
17 A. No.
18 Q. Never made a public records request --
19 A. Yes.
20 Q. under the Freedom of Information Act
21 with regard to those records?
22 A. Well, we have made a Freedom of
23 Information request. My -- my attorney in New York,
24 Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, has made a
25 FOIA request for all information that would
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1 conclusively prove that Bill Clinton was never on
2 Jeffrey Epstein's island, yes.
3 Q. And you were denied those records,
4 correct?
5 A. No, no, no.
6 Q. Oh, you got them?
7 MR. SCOTT: Well, wait a minute. Let's
8 take it slow. Ask a question.
9 A. As any lawyer knows, FOIA requests take a
10 long, long period of time. So they were neither
11 denied nor were they given to us. They are very
12 much in process.
13 BY MR. SCAROLA:
14 Q. When was
15 A. While we're talking about may I
16 complete -- I want to amend one answer I gave
17 previously.
18 While we're talking about the plane logs,
19 I must say that during the recess, my wife Googled
20 and found out that she was, in fact, •
21 years old in_, at the time she flew on that
22 airplane. So that my characterization of her as
23 about ■ years old is absolutely correct.
24 And the implication that you sought to
25 draw by showing me those pictures was not only
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1 demonstrably false, but you could have easily
2 discovered that the implication you were drawing was
3 demonstrably false by simply taking one second and
4 Googling her name as my wife did.
5 BY MR. SCAROLA:
6 Q. And so at 25 years old, she wasn't a young
7 woman?
8 A. She was not the kind of woman that I was
9 describing as underage. She was a mature, serious,
10 I think I said in my public statements a model. I
11 wasn't aware at the time that see was working for
12 , but Google demonstrates that.
13 And I described her exactly, in exactly the right
14 terms, a serious person.
15 I always saw her dressed when I saw her --
16 I saw her maybe on two or three occasions, dressed
17 appropriately. She was a serious adult worker and I
18 think you insult and demean her when you suggest
19 that anything other