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Mr. Herman in the presence of IMO" 
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None. 
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What discussions did you have in the 
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presence of her aunt? 
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Of my aunt? 
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MR. GOLDBERGER: It's the witness's aunt. 
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BY MR. TEIN: 
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Oh, of your aunt. 
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The only one that we've ever discussed or 
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ever had. 
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And so you were in a conversation with 
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Mr. Herman and your aunt? 
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A. 
Yes, sir. 
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Q. 
And you discussed privileged matters during 
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that conversation? 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Object to the form. I think 
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you might have to educate her on that question. 
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You discussed the lawsuit? 
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Yes. 
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Did IMO 
tell you about any 
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conversations that she had with Mr. Herman? 
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As far as I'm concerned, she's never spoken 
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or she's never had a conversation. She only opened the 
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door and then left. She's the one who answered the door. 
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No. 
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And we've learned that many of the girls, 
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some of whom are as old as 23, were told by the 
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government that they would get money at the end of the 
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criminal prosecution. Does that sound familiar to you?' 
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No, sir. 
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Other than Mr. Leopold here -- I'm not 
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asking about Mr. Herman either --
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Uh-huh. 
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-- did anyone ever discuss with you that 
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you could get reimbursement for your damages? 
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No, sir. 
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Did you or any member 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Are you referring to a 
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criminal matter or a civil matter? 
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Did you or any member --
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MR. LEOPOLD: Excuse me. Let me object to 
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the form of the question. 
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BY MR. TEIN: 
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Did you or any member of your family ever 
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get a victim notification letter from anyone? 
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I no longer live at that residence and I 
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wouldn't know. 
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So your testimony is that you have never 
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it back at the end of the meeting? 
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No. They -- yeah. No. They have it. I'm 
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guessing. I don't have it. 
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How much money are you hoping to get out of 
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Mr. Epstein? 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Objection to the form of the 
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question. Attorney/client privilege. 
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BY MR. TEIN: 
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How much money are you hoping to get, you, 
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yourself, hoping to get out of Epstein? 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Same. Same objection, 
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attorney/client privilege. 
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Don't answer the question. 
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BY MR. TEIN: 
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I'm not asking about what your lawyer told 
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you. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: I'm instructing her not to 
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answer the question, because any of those 
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conversations involve her counsel. 
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MR. TEIN: Certify that. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Please. 
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BY MR. TEIN: 
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Q. 
Now, 
you lied to get out of this 
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deposition, didn't you? 
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CERTIFIED QUESTION 
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You asked your co-workers --
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MR. LEOPOLD: it's vague and ambiguous. 
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BY MR. TEIN: 
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You asked your co-workers at the 
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Quarterdeck Tavern to lie for you, didn't you? 
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A. 
No. I informed my boss about what was 
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going on and he told me that he would help in any way 
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that he can. 
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Q. 
Okay. You got your friend 
to lie 
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by switching name tags with you, correct? 
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A. 
Incorrect. It was a coincidence that same 
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night she was not wearing her name tag; she was wearing 
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mine. But I was also not wearing -- I was wearing my 
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name tag. Everyone switches name tags. It just so 
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happens it was a coincidence that same night the people 
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came with the papers. 
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MR. TEIN: Will you put up Exhibit 18-001? 
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MR. GOLDBERGER: And mark 18-001 for 
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identification purposes to this deposition. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: None of them have been marked 
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yet. Can we mark them and put them as attachment 
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A. 
Yes. 
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Q. 
your friend, who you say the day 
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that the process servers went to serve you with a 
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subpoena for this deposition, just happened -- just by 
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coincidence, was wearing your name tag? 
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A. 
Yes, sir. 
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Q. 
And just by coincidence, you were wearing 
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her name tag, correct? 
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A. 
Yes. 
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Q. 
Your testimony under oath is that's just a 
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coincidence, right? 
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A. 
Total honesty. 
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Q. 
It just happens to be the day that you were 
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going to be served with a subpoena, correct? 
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A. 
That wasn't the first day that --
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just answer the 
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question. It calls for a yes or no. 
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THE WITNESS: Yes. 
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You said that wasn't the first day you were 
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going to be -- you thought you were being served with a 
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subpoena, correct? 
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A. 
Correct. 
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Q. 
You knew before the day that you switched 
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name tags with 
that the process servers were 
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MR. LEOPOLD: I'll certify it. 
 
CERTIFIED QUESTION 
She's answered that question. She's explained it five 
tines already. The fact that Counsel doesn't like the 
answer, that's a different query. 
MR. TEIN: Stop making speaking objections. 
MR. LEOPOLD: I'm not. I'm not going to 
put up with it, because it's in appropriate, Jack, 
and you know it. I will not allow Counsel to 
berate a witness, whether it's in a criminal case 
or a civil case, whether my client or --
MR. TEIN: Calm down. 
MR. LEOPOLD: Excuse me. 
No, I'm not going to allow it. That is not 
proper. 
MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. 
MR. LEOPOLD: If he wants to say that she's 
lying after asking it five times and her 
explaining in great detail, he can do that. But 
I'm not going to allow her to answer, nor be 
harassed by him. It's improper. 
MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. But your response 
that Counsel doesn't like the question -- or 
doesn't like the answer -- just let me finish. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: This is really big stuff that 
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you're going through. But that's fine; just ask 
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your question and move on. But do it one time. 
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If you don't understand it, 
let you follow 
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up, but I'm not going to allow you to ask the same 
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question time and again and then call her a liar. 
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Just ask the question, get the answer and move to 
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the next subject matter. 
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MR. TEIN: Ted, I'm sitting right across 
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the table from you. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Yes, sir. 
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MR. TEIN: Please be quiet. Don't yell. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: I will not be quiet. 
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MR. TEIN: Stop yelling. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Lewis, when I'm yelling 
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you'll know it. I will not 
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MR. TEIN: My name is not Lewis. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: I thought your first name was 
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Lewis, Mr. Tein. 
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MR. TEIN: You watched me for three days at 
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the evidentiary hearing where you sat in the back 
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of the courtroom. You should know who I am. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Well, that's the impression 
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you must have made in the courtroom. 
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I will not be quiet. 
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Q. 
Where were you when IIIIIIptold this 
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soreone that you were not at the Quarterdeck Tavern? 
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A. 
Eating nachos. 
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Q. 
At the Quarterdeck Tavern? 
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A. 
Yes. 
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Q. 
What did you do so that IIIIIIPwould lie to 
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the process servers for you? 
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A. 
Nothing. 
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Q. 
You just got him to lie for you, didn't 
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you? 
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No. I had no influence on him saying I 
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wasn't there. 
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Q. 
Be took that upon himself? 
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Isn't it true that Mr. Epstein's process 
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servers had to ask the police to get you out of the 
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restaurant so that they could serve you? 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Objection. Lack of 
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foundation, predicate. 
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You can answer the question. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: If you know. Don't guess. 
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THE WITNESS: No. Can you repeat the 
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question? 
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MR. TEIN: Don't coach. 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Don't guess. 
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When did you delete your MySpace page? 
A. 
A couple days ago. 
Q. 
Who told you to take your MySpace page down 
a couple of days ago? 
A. 
Nobody. I'm sick and tired of MySpace. 
Q. 
You all of a sudden got sick and tired of 
MySpace and just a few days before this deposition you 
decided to delete your MySpace page, correct? 
A. 
Correct. 
Q. 
Is that your testimony under oath? 
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Yes. 
Q. 
Did you take your MySpace page down because 
you thought the government might subpoena it? 
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Incorrect. 
Q. 
Hadn't your MySpace page been up for over 
three months before you took it down? 
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Correct. But I also had made tons of 
MySpaces over the last years. I just get tired of them 
and delete them because -- drama -- and make new ones. 
Q. 
We're going to talk about that. 
So you deleted your MySpace page after you 
were already under subpoena for this deposition, correct? 
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Correct. 
Q. 
What about the MySpace page didn't you want 
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And where is the one body piercing? 
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Belly. 
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When did you get that? 
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For my birthday, with my stepmother and my 
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father. 
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And when was that? 
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When I was 14. 
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Okay. So you had that body piercing when 
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you met Epstein, correct? 
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It might have been, or maybe that 
yeah, 
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either my 14th birthday or my 15th. I honestly don't 
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remember. 
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Now you've lied about your age to get into 
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bars by using driver's licenses that aren't yours, 
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correct? 
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Incorrect. 
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Are you swearing under oath that you've 
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never done that? 
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Yes, I swear under oath. 
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And you've lied about your age to buy beer, 
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correct? 
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Incorrect. 
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You're swearing under oath that you've 
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never lied to stores about your age? 
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I've never lied to a store about my age or 
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Now you can explain your answer. 
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I know that I have seen all of these and I 
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know that this one is mine. 
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Can you go down? 
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MR. LEOPOLD: Just for the record, you're 
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pointing to the photo. 
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You're pointing to the one where it says 
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Correct. 
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That's yours, right? 
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Correct. That's mine from a couple years 
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ago that I have not been on, because I don't use that. 
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Please keep going down, please. And I think that's it, 
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because there's no one -- just that one is mine. 
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So the one you pointed to where it says 
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your age is 18, that's yours, correct? 
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Correct. 
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And when you wrote 18 as your age on your 
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MySpace page, that was a lie, wasn't it? 
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Correct. 
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Did you lie about your MySpace page back 
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THE WITNESS: I don't know which MySpace 
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The MySpace page that you're just pointing 
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Yes. 
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And you were lying about your age, right? 
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Uh-huh. 
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Why did you finally post your true age on 
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your MySpace profile --
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Uh --
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testify before the Grand Jury? 
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I honestly don't know which MySpace, 
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because I've had like a bazillion MySpaces, and in that 
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year, I had two, that one and another one, and that one's 
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been deleted. So I don't know which one you're referring 
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to. 
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Q. 
You remember that you changed your age on 
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your MySpace page from 18 to your true age just four days 
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before you went and testified in the Grand Jury? 
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No. 
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Q. 
You don't remember that. 
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No. 
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Do you remember Detective Recarey? Did you 
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THE WITNESS: No. I'm pretty sure my dad 
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drove me, because he was there with me. 
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Did any detective tell you to change your 
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age on your MySpace page, to put your true age? 
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No, sir. 
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Now you also lied on your MySpace page 
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about your income, didn't you? 
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Yes. 
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And you lied, saying that you made a 
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quarter million dollars a year and higher, correct? 
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As a joke, yes. 
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That was a lie, wasn't it? 
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Yes. 
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And you also lied on your MySpace page, 
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saying that you were married, didn't you? 
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Possibly. And that might have been an 
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error on my part. 
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Now you also lie to the police, don't you? 
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No. 
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Well, you lied to the police in your 
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tape-recorded statement that you gave to Detective 
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Michelle Pagan three years ago, didn't you? 
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To my knowledge, no, I did not. 
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Well, you lied to the police when you 
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA 
08-80804-Civ-MARRA/JOHNSON 
CASE NO.: 
JANE DOE, 
a/k/a JANE DOE N1, 
Plaintiff, 
Vs. 
JEFFREY EPSTEIN 
and 
Defendants. 
NOTICE OF REMOVAL 
July 18, 2008 
STEVEN M. LARIMORE 
CLERK U.S. GIST. CT. 
S.D. OF FLA. • MIAMI 
In accordance with 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441, 1446, and 1332(a)(1), the defendants, 
Jeffrey Epstein, 
, and 
hereby remove this action) from 
Palm Beach County Circuit Court to the United States District Court for the 
Southern District of Florida, and respectfully state as follows: 
Introduction 
Six months ago, this plaintiff filed virtually the identical lawsuit in this 
Court. See Jane Doe #1 v. Epstein, Case No. 08-cv-80069-KAM (S.D. Fla. filed 
Doe v. Epstein et at, Case No. 50 2008 CA 006596 XXXX MB (Fla. 15th Cir. Ct. 
filed Mar. 6, 2008). 
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Jan. 24, 2008) (the "First Federal Action"). The First Federal Action named 
Jeffrey Epstein as the sole tortfeasor, made the identical operative allegations as 
the instant Amended Complaint, and demanded damages of $50 million. (The 
amount of the demand against Epstein is evidently the product of recent reports in 
the press that Epstein is wealthy.) 
The First Federal Action was quickly followed by a series of substantially 
identical "Jane Doe" lawsuits, all filed by the same attorney in a three-month span. 
Compare Jane Doe #1 v. Epstein, Case No. 08-cv-80069-KAM (S.D. Fla. filed 
Jan. 24, 2008), with Jane Doe #2 v. Epstein, No. 08-CV-80119-KAM (S.D. Fla. 
filed Feb. 6, 2008) (asserting identical causes of action based on the same operative 
allegations), Jane Doe 113 v. Epstein, No. 08-CV-80232-KAM (S.D. Fla. filed Mar. 
5, 2008) (same), Jane Doe #4I. Epstein, No. 08-CV-80380-KAM (S.D. Fla. filed 
Apr. 14, 2008) (same), and Jane Doe #5 v. Epstein, No. 08-80381-CV-KAM (S.D. 
Fla. filed Apr. 14. 2008) (same). 
On February 20, amid these filings, Jane Doe #1 was deposed in State of 
Florida v. Jeffrey Epstein, 502006CF009454AXXXMB (Fla. 15th Cir. Ct., filed 
Jul. 19, 2006), a parallel state-court criminal action. During that deposition, she 
made numerous admissions that completely undermined the allegations against 
Epstein that she had pled in her complaint. A copy of her deposition, with names 
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redacted, is attached hereto (Exhibit A). Two days later, counsel for Jane Doe # I 
filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice in the First Federal Action. 
See Doe #1 v. Epstein, Case No. 08-CV-80069-KAM, DE 9. 
Two weeks later (March 6, 2008), having changed lawyers, Jane Doe #1 
refiled her complaint in Florida Circuit Court as the instant case, adding two 
nominal defendants: Mr= 
Mr. Epstein's personal secretary, and MI 
one of Jane Doe #1's contemporaries. These defendants have nothing to 
do with the plaintiff's case against Mr. Epstein, except that the presence of Ell 
MIEas a defendant in this new case, because she is a citizen of Florida (Am. 
Compl. ¶ 4), would ostensibly prevent complete diversity? 
As discussed below, however, 
was named in the refiled 
lawsuit only to destroy diversity jurisdiction, and to prevent any application of 18 
U.S.C. § 3509(k), a mandatory stay provision applicable in federal court .3 Haley 
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Defendant Kellen is a citizen of New York (Am. Compl. ¶ 5), and is therefore a 
nonresident defendant for purposes of diversity jurisdiction and removal. 
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Section 3509(k) of Title 18, United States Code, provides as follows: 
If, at any time that a cause of action for recovery of compensation for 
damage or injury to the person of a child exists, a criminal action is pending 
which arises out of the same occurrence and in which the child is the 
victim, the civil action shall be stayed until the end of all phases of the 
criminal action and any mention of the civil action during the criminal 
proceeding is prohibited. As used in this subsection, a criminal action is 
pending until its final adjudication in the trial court. 
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Robson, besides having nothing to do with the substantive allegations of the 
plaintiff's $50,000,000 case, is a community-college student with no assets 
whatever. 
Even if this case purports to identify a new (and strategically nondiverse) 
tonfeasor, the refiled lawsuit is still directed against only one defendant—Jeffrey 
Epstein. Then and now, the operative allegations are the same: Jane Doe alleges 
that Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her "in violation of Chapter 800 of the Florida 
Statutes."4 (Am. Compl. ¶ 18.) To sharpen her lawsuit, the plaintiff says she is 
seeking damages in connection with a "conspiracy" (Am. Compl. ¶ 22), a "plan" 
(Am. Compl. ¶ 32), a "scheme" (Am. Compl. ¶ 32), and an "enterprise" (Am. 
Compl. ¶ 32), These theories of liability, however, cannot be supported by the 
allegations in the Amended Complaint. Even if everything in the Amended 
Complaint were true, recovery against 
, under any formulation, is 
impossible under Florida law. 
Focusing on the real parties to this controversy, the instant case could have 
(once again) been brought here in federal court—just like the four other "Jane 
18 U.S.C. § 3509(k) (emphasis added). 
4 Chapter 800, Florida Statutes, is entitled, "Lewdness; Indecent Exposure." 
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Doe" lawsuits presently pending against Epstein, filed by this plaintiff's former 
lawyer. 
This case is properly removed to federal court, first, because there is 
complete diversity among the real parties-in-interest, second, because the amount 
in controversy exceeds $75,000, and third, because this Notice complies with the 
requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 1446. 
Discussion 
A. This case is properly removable because it falls within the original 
jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern 
District of Florida. 
A state-court case is properly removable when "it could have been brought, 
originally, in a federal district court." Lincoln Prop. Co. v. Roche, 546 U.S. 81, 83 
(2005) (citing 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a)). This case was originally filed in federal 
district court, and it is the same case today. Even though it was reconfigured to 
look like a state-court lawsuit, this action falls squarely within the bounds of the 
diversity-jurisdiction statute. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(1) (establishing that federal 
district courts have original jurisdiction over cases where the amount in 
controversy [is more than $75,0001 . . and [when the controversy] is between 
citizens of different states"). 
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I. The amount in controversy in this action exceeds $75,000. 
This case is a duplicate of the First Federal Lawsuit. In that case, Jane Doe 
pled "damages in excess of $50 million." See Doe v. Epstein, No. 08-80069-KAM 
(S.D. Fla. filed Jan. 24, 2008) (Compl. ¶ 6). That allegation is now deleted and the 
Amended Complaint substitutes a generic prayer for relief.5 It is clear, however, 
that Jane Doe still seeks more than $75,000 in damages. 
This case, precisely like the First Federal Action, seeks damages in 
connection with an alleged assault. (Am. Compl. ¶¶ 16-19.) 
The Amended 
Complaint alleges that Jane Doe "has suffered and will continue to suffer severe 
and permanent traumatic injuries, including mental, psychological, and emotional 
damages." (Am. Compl. ¶ 19.) These are the identical injuries Jane Doe asserted 
in the First Federal Action, and are no less serious simply because pled under a 
state-court caption. Cf., e.g., Woods v. Southwest Airlines, Co., 523 F. Supp. 2d 
812, 820 (N.D. III. 2007) (determining, in the context of diversity jurisdiction, that 
the $75,000 threshold had been satisfied, and "clearly [surpassed]," based on "the 
nature of the injuries alleged" in the complaint). 
5 The Complaint seeks damages for "[more than] . . . $15,000." (Am. Compl. ¶ 6.) This 
boilerplate is routinely used in Florida pleading practice to trigger application of section 
26.012, Florida Statutes, the statute that establishes the jurisdictional amount required for 
filing in Florida's Circuit Court (as opposed to County Court). 
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To cement this point, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has said that 
"Ewlhen [a] complaint does not claim a specific amount of damages, removal from 
state court is proper if it is facially apparent from the complaint that the amount in 
controversy exceeds the jurisdictional requirement." Williams v. Best Buy Co., 
Inc., 269 F.3d 1316, 1319 (1 1 th Cir. 2001). This case meets that standard, and 
satisfies the first prong of diversity jurisdiction. 
2. There is complete diversity among the real parties to this 
controversy. 
Diversity jurisdiction requires complete diversity. 
Carden v. Arkoma 
Assocs., 494 U.S. 185, 187 (1990) ("Since its enactment, we have interpreted the 
diversity statute to require `complete diversity' of citizenship." (citing Strawbridge 
V. Curtiss, 7 U.S. (3 Cranch) 267, 267-68 (1806))). See also MacGinnitie v. Hobbs 
Group, LLC, 420 F.3d 1234, 1239 (11th Cir. 2005) (stating that "[c]omplete 
diversity requires that no defendant in a diversity action be a citizen of the same 
state as any plaintiff"). As demonstrated below, this case satisfies the statutory 
requirement of complete diversity. 
(a) Plaintiff Jane Doe is a citizen of Florida. (Am, Compl. ¶ 1.) 6
'Jane Doe may, in fact, be a citizen of Georgia, not Florida, as she pled in her Amended 
Complaint. See New York Post, Jul. 1, 2008 (reporting that "On his way into court [for 
his state-court guilty plea on June 30], Epstein was served with a copy of a lawsuit by 
Doe, who has since moved to another state."); Jane Doc Depo. at 77, 112 (indicating that 
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