New York Daily News, August 9, 2019
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Britain’s Prince Andrew and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson were among those whose names surfaced Friday after a trove of documents were released in a case with strong ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Thousands of long-awaited court documents have been unsealed in a lawsuit against a woman accused of being Epstein’s fixer, and the papers include references to the names of seedy book titles purchased by Epstein.
The defamation lawsuit, which was brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, alleged that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell solicited young girls on his behalf.
Giuffre had alleged that she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz and “many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders.”
Dershowitz has denied that he did anything more than act as Epstein’s attorney.
Giuffre also said in a deposition that she was hired to service former New Mexico Sen. Bill Richardson and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine).
A Richardson spokeswoman denied the allegations.
“These allegations and inferences are completely false,” the spokeswoman Madeleine Mahony, told the Daily Beast. “To be clear, in Governor Richardson’s limited interactions with Mr. Epstein, he never saw him in the presence of young or underage girls. Governor Richardson has never been to Mr. Epstein’s residence in the Virgin Islands. Governor Richardson has never met Ms. Giuffre.”
Mitchell also denied Giuffre’s allegation.
“The allegation contained in the released documents is false,” Mitchell said in a statement. “I have never met spoken with or had any contact with Ms. Giuffre. In my contacts with Mr. Epstein I never observed or suspected any inappropriate conduct with underage girls. I only learned of his actions when they were reported in the media related to his prosecution in Florida. We have had no further contact.”
A flight log included in the document dump shows that President Trump rode on Epstein’s plane in the late 90s. Former President Bill Clinton was also named as someone who flew on Epstein’s plane.
“Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s,” Giuffre said in testimony, according to a court document. “He didn’t partake in any sex with any of us but he flirted with me. He’d laugh and tell Jeffrey, ‘You’ve got the life.’”
The logs from the 1997 flight list Trump alongside Glenn and Eva Dubin, a billionaire couple whose relationship with Epstein has recently come under scrutiny.
The papers also include Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg’s allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with Prince Andrew at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
“I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to get on the couch,” Sjoberg testified during one hearing. “And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put (a) puppet, the puppet on her lap. And so I sat on Andrew’s lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet’s hands and put it on Virginia’s breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.”
Giuffre had previously alleged that Epstein, who had political connections, forced her into sexual encounters with Prince Andrew.
Buckingham Palace has vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations.
Sjoberg had testified that Maxwell “lured her from her school to have sex with Epstein under the guise of hiring her for a job answering phones,” according to court papers.
Giuffre filed a defamation lawsuit against Maxwell in 2015 in Manhattan Federal Court. Giuffre claimed Maxwell defamed her by calling her a liar over her allegations against Maxwell and Epstein.
Maxwell, a British socialite, is the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell.
Maxwell and Giuffre settled the lawsuit in 2017, but many of the case documents had remained under seal until a federal appeals court ordered their release.
The document dump comes in the wake of Epstein’s arrest last month on sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges for alleged sexual abuse of underage girls between 2002 and 2005, at his homes in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida.
He has pleaded not guilty.
Epstein, 66, served 13 months in jail a decade ago after pleading guilty to soliciting a minor. Prosecutors allege some of Epstein’s victims were just 14 years old.
Court documents also revealed that Epstein ordered books about sex slave books on Amazon, including such titles as “SM 101: A Realistic Introduction,” “SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude,” and “Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners.”
A receipt for the books, dated Sept. 4, 2005, was found by a Palm Beach Police detective in Epstein’s trash.
Detailed Palm Beach County police logs from 2005 and 2006 include multiple interviews with girls who said they were recruited for Epstein by Haley Robson, a high school student at the time. According to a 2006 Palm Beach Police probable cause affidavit for Epstein, Robson admitted to detectives she acted as one of his recruiters, although she was never arrested or charged in connection to him.
Police documented the girls explicit “massage” encounters with Epstein in which he would often fondle them and masturbate. They were told upfront that they would have to be topless. Some encounters involved sex with him and another woman in his harem. Encounters involved vibrators and other sex toys, which Epstein had at the ready.
“Robson would approach females who wished to work for him,” one said. In exchange Robson got a $200 referral fee, according to accounts.
Girls as young as 14 and 15 were in the mix, according to the logs.
Palm Beach house employee Alfred Rodriguez told cops in 2005 that Epstein scheduled morning and afternoon massages daily.
He said it was his “responsibility to keep the identities of the masseuses private.”
Maxwell has long denied she solicited girls for Epstein. Last month, her lawyers told the appeals court that the media’s “furious feeding frenzy” justified keeping the documents sealed.
Giuffre also sued Dershowitz, accusing him of defaming her by calling her a liar and denying her claims that he also sexually abused her.
Dershowitz denies that he defamed her and says he was defending himself against her allegations.
More documents are under review by a judge and may be unsealed soon.
See the pics here: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-epstein-documents-lawsuit-20190809-lzf23pfgxrhwbn66al2rebicya-story.html
“The defamation lawsuit, which was brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre,…”
Why is THIS one still breathing… after opening THAT can of worms???
“These allegations and inferences are completely false,” the spokeswoman Madeleine Mahony, told the Daily Beast. “To be clear, in Governor Richardson’s limited interactions with Mr. Epstein, he never saw him in the presence of young or underage girls. Governor Richardson has never been to Mr. Epstein’s residence in the Virgin Islands. Governor Richardson has never met Ms. Giuffre.”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
‘Nuff said.
Monica didn’t comment on this, except to say that the whole thing left a bad taste in her mouth.
I read that somewhere. 🙂
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While her story is difficult to verify, I’m a proponent of a “hang them just in case” approach.