EFTA00313654.pdf

Case 1:17-cv-00616 Document 1 Filed 01126117 Page 15 of 21 Plaintiffs financial dependence on, emotional vulnerabili ty to, and sexual compliance with Defendants Epstein and Maxwell and their demands. The other Defendants intentionally repeated those representations and inten tionally attempted to convince Plaintiff that the representations were true and could be relied upon. 51. In January 2007, Defendants sent Plaintiff from the Unite d States to South Africa in part to recruit, for a promised fee, one or more aspiring female models supposedly for Defendant Epstein to use as an alleg ed personal assistant. Defendants Epstein and Maxwell continuously and frequ ently demanded that Plaintiff fulfill this task as a condition of her receiving the education, career and related benefits promised by Defendants Epstein and Max well. Based upon Plaintiff's experience with Defendants, however, she did not believe that the requested model would be placed in a legitimate posit ion of employment with Defendant Epstein but would, instead, be forced into sexu al servitude. As a result, Plaintiff deliberately refused to perform the recruitmen assig t nment. 52. As part of their ongoing scheme, Defendants inflic ted serious emotional and psychological harm on Plaintiff as a means of coercing her to continue engaging in commercial sex acts. While Plain tiff was in South Africa, Defendants Epstein and Maxwell informed Plaintiff that she would not be permitted to return to the United States to receive her prom ised education unless she underwent a diet and lowered her body weight from 57 kilograms 15 EFTA00313654