EFTA01737510.pdf

IJOHNSONSI PT/DW/ME000100 5 th May 2011 Tatter Publishing Company Ltd Vogue House Johnson. Law Firm 1-2 Hanover Square London London Office: 21 Arlington Street WIS IJU London SWIA SRN T+ FAO: The Editor, TATLER F+ Belfast Office Johnson House 50156 Wellington Place BY FAX & POST Belfast BT I 6GF DX 405 Belfast I T +44 F +44 Dear Sirs, Dublin Office 4 Harbourmaster Place We have been consulted by Jeffrey Epstein in relation to your grossly inaccurate IFSC Dublin 1 and defamatory references to him being a "paedophile", in the June 2011 edition Ireland of TATLER (Vol. 306 No. 6) under the headline "GHISLAINE'S WORLD, A DX I I 20I8 Talbot Street. Dublin life on the front page". T + 353 F +353 Our client is not, as your article alleges, a convicted "paedophile". Although he Partners has been convicted of soliciting prostitutes, and procuring a person under 18 for Paul Tweed LIP • Michael McKee prostitution, he has served his time for that offence. As a matter of record, but Ken Chambers without seeking to justify the offence, the girls in question were not pre- David Craig pubescent. David Holley Selena Kerins John McMahon Furthermore, the false and distorted terminology used by you to describe our Consultants client in your vitriolic attack on his character is simply not true on any John Marshall interpretation of the word "paedophile". He has not been convicted nor been David Rogers accused of being a paedophile (a pejorative that has a very specific medical Solidtats definition), apart from by certain elements of the tabloid press in their recent George Strahan Sarah Loughran reports on his friendship with Prince Andrew. Our client however should be Alison McClung entitled to expect more accurate and credible reporting from a respected Carl Rooney Gareth Liddy publication such as the TATLER, which is supposed to have significantly higher Jennifer Greenfield standards than the sensationalised and exaggerated reporting of the tabloids. James Bad John Ken Kathy Mathews Our client is also gravely concerned at your attempts to distort and undermine Brian Connolly the basis of his financial standing. Alex 'nimble Rhys Jones Deaglan Lundy Our client is entitled, at the very least, to the publication of a categoric Mark Kernaghan Laura Cunningham clarification and apology, in terms to be first agreed with us, as a matter of some urgency. We would therefore be grateful to receive your proposals in this • Riot hayed a mender of Paul Tweed ❑f u also aerated as a It °feign Legal Conauluro by the Awe 941 of °Pomo wenr.foltasosslaw.coos Regulated by tae SoLcItort Regulatton Authogny turn PA If) 544)50 Paul Tweed LLP SRA ID 545073 EFTA_R1_00024106 EFTA01737510 regard, while our client continues to reserve all his rights including appropriate redress in relation to your defamatory allegations and malicious falsehoods. We look forward to hearing from you by return. Yours faithfully, JOHNSONS EFTA_R1_00024107 EFTA01737511