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- Volume II October 20, 2009 149 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 that time. A I was tidying the living room, then not really -- there was like part of the wall, so I saw one female there but not really, I saw it like this side (indicating), so... Q She was at the pool, or inside the house? A This side, not really frontal, but on the side I saw only -- I saw her side, not really like... MR. REINHART: His question was, was she inside the house or out by the pool when you saw her from the side. THE WITNESS: The question -- they were in the pool. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q Okay. So she was not wearing a bathing suit top, correct? A Yes. Q Was she wearing a bathing suit bottom? A I did not know. Q And how did you -- did you do anything in response to this? A No. I went to, what's this, to kitchen and I told Alfredo not to go to the pool. Q And this was the only time you ever remember seeing a girl who wasn't wearing a top at the pool? • 0 ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 rune WU 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, R. 33410 VAritesquIresolutions.com EFTA00182496
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 150 A Yes. Q Were there frequently females at the pool to the house? A No. Not frequently. Q Not frequently. Sometimes? A Sometimes. Q Mr. Epstein would travel with some females, I think they would come on the plane with him to the house; is that correct? MR. CRITTON: Form. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q You can answer. A I cannot remember if they -- let me see. remember . Because when Mr. Epstein arrives, most of the time I'm already off. • Let me ask the question this way: Were there females other than who would come with Mr. Epstein on the plane and stay at the house? MR. CRITTON: Form, predicate. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q Stay overnight at the house? MR. CRITTON: Same. THE WITNESS: I did not know if they came with Mr. Epstein, I did not see. 0 ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182497
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- Volume II October 20, 2009 151 • 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q Okay. There were females who would stay overnight at the house, but you're not sure how they got Lu Lite house; is that fait to say? A Yes. Q Did any of the females who came to the kitchen entrance to give a massage, did any of them stay overnight? A No, sir. Q Never, correct? A Yes, sir. MR. CRITTON: Did you say correct and she said yes? MR. MERMELSTEIN: Yes. MR. CRITTON: Okay. Thank you. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q The girl at the pool who was topless, do you recall what her name was? A No. • Do you recall how she got to the house or, you know, what her purpose was in being there? A I cannot remember. • Was she a girl who had come to give Mr. Epstein a massage? MR. CRITTON: Form. • 0 ESQVII37tlE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutions.corn EFTA00182498
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 152 THE WITNESS: No. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q The females who came to give Mr. Epstein a massage, did they ever use the pool? MR. CRITTON: Form, predicate. THE WITNESS: I did not see. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q You don't know? A I don't know. Q And again, this girl you saw topless was the only one you ever saw who was in any stage of undress in the pool area at the house; is that fair? A Yes. Q You mentioned in your testimony earlier that there was a back massager that was in Mr. Epstein's bedroom, correct? A In the massage room. Q In the massage room. It was what, on the floor, on the massage table, where did you find it? A Sometimes on the, what's this, the table, sometimes on the floor. Q So this would be a regular thing, you would go in the room to tidy up and you'd find this massager, correct? MR. CRITTON: Form. ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, Fl. 33410 www.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182499
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- Volume II October 20, 2009 153 • • 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 THE WITNESS: Yes. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q You referred to it as a back massager, correct? A Yes. Q And did you do anything to this, did you put strike that. Did you put away this massager? A I return it to the drawer. Q Was that a drawer in the armoire? A No. In the bathroom. Q In the bathroom cabinet? A Yes. Q Were there other items in the drawer? A Lotions. Q So those wore maccagc itemo MR. CRITTON: Form. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q -- that were in the drawer? MR. CRITTON: Sorry. Form. THE WITNESS: From Bodyworks, aroma massage therapy. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q So there was Bodyworks lotions and this back massager; is that correct, in the drawer? • 0 ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182500
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 154 A Yes. • Anything else in the drawer? A That's all. And I put some, like, hand towels. Q In the drawer? A Yeah. On the side. Q Was there any -- was there just one drawer that was used for these massage materials, or was there more than one drawer? A There is only one drawer. Q Would you do anything to this massager before ycu put it in the drawer? A No. I just return it there. • Did you ever clean it? A There was one time I clean it. Q One time you clean it. About how many times did this happen that you picked up the massager and put it in the drawer; did it happen many times? A Yes. Q So on this one occasion why did you clean it? A Because I thought it was, like, dirty, so I clean it. • Explain to me how it was dirty. A There is -- the color is -- like you know when -- like there is stains or something, you know, ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esouiresolutions.00m EFTA00182501
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- Volume II October 20, 2009 • • 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 155 when something is not clean. So I very particular about cleanliness, so I... O Did you believe that there was a sexual fluid on it and that's why you cleaned it? A No. MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: No. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q Mr. Rodriguez testified that you disliked the task of putting away the massage items because you had to clean them of sexual fluids and that was unpleasant. Is that not true? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: Not true. BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q So Mr. Rodriguez would be lying about that, correct? A Yes. Q The way I asked that question was sexual fluids, and that may be an ambiguous term. What if I used the term "body fluids," does that change your answer at all? A No. Q It's the same, you never cleaned body fluids off of a massager, correct? • 0 Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite OUU ESQUIRE 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 wvnv.esquiresolutions.corn EFTA00182502
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I 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - volume II October 20, 2029 156 A No. MR. CRITTON: Wait. You said -- when he said correct, you said no. Does that mean he's not correct? MR. REINHART: Did you ever clean body fluids off of a massager? THE WITNESS: I don't know if it's fluid, so.. . BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: Q Did you ever clean body fluid off of any massager? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: No. MR. MERMELSTEIN: I pass the torch. CROSS ( BY MR. HILL: Q I'm the mysterious voice that was on the phone before, and now you get the privilege of seeing me in person. I'm teasing, the privilege is mine. I won't be very long with you, I promise. I want to follow up on this line of questioning, though. The single time of the many instances in which you put back what you believed to be some kind of massage implement into the bathroom drawer, you only cleaned it one time? 0 ESQUIR.,g, Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esqulresdutlons.com EFTA00182503
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• • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 157 A One time. Q All right. And you said that it appeared to you to be stained? A Yes. Q Did you have any idea of what it was that caused the implement which you believed to be a massager to become stained? A No, sir. Q So when you were asked questions about whether it was bodily fluid or not, you had no idea what it was that you were cleaning off that item that you believed to be a back massager? A Correct. Q Okay. How did you clean the item that one time that you believed to be a back massager? A I use a paper towel, wet the paper towel and wipe it. Q All right. Where was the item stained? A On the tip of the massager. Q All right. And if someone has asked you this and I missed it, I apologize. Describe for us what the item looked like that you believed to be a back massager. A It's an elongated piece with a thing Q Elongated what? • 0 ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, Fl. 33410 vnvw.esquIresolutions.com EFTA00182504
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 158 A Elongated thing, and then on the tip is like a round part. So I thought it's used for massaging. Q Did this implement have any kind of electrical power, did it have a cord, did it have batteries, did it move; do you know? A I don't know. • And the area that it was stained was where, ma'am? A On the tip of the, what's this. • Can you describe for us what the stain looked like? A It looks like it's dirty, like brown thing. Q Was there any kind of material other than -- did it look like it was some kind of dried liquid on there? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: I really don't know. I just, what's this, dirty, so I just clean it. Because I thought it was lotion because he have lotion there for... BY MR. HILL: Q And it's a true statement you never complained to anybody about your responsibilities for having to put back an item which you believed to be a back massager into the cabinet drawer in the bathroom? ESQUIRE loll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 vnvw.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182505
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- Volume II October 20, 2029 159 • • 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A No, sir. MR. REINHART: Hold on. I think your question was, was it a true statement that. BY MR. HILL: • That you never complained to anybody? MR. REINHART: Did you ever complain? THE WITNESS: I never complain, because it's my job to, so... BY MR. HILL: • Was it always the same item, did you put it back these many many times but only cleaned it once? A Yes. • And you've never seen it in use, you had no idea how it operates, if it operates at all? A No. • I want to talk to you about the folks, the ladies, the young girls, the young ladies, the women, however you want to describe them, and ask you if you can sit here today, close your eyes, and remember the face of any of the folks that would come over and give your boss, Jeffrey Epstein, massages? A If I remember? • As you sit here today, if I asked you to close your eyes, can you bring up in your mind's eye the faces of any of the young ladies that would come over to • 0 ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite OM 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182506
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 160 Epstein's house and give him massages? MR. CRITTON: Form. BY MR. HILL: • Do you understand the question? A Yes. • Okay. A If you'll show me a picture then. Q No, ma'am. What I'm asking you to do, as an employee of Jeffrey Epstein's for many many years, and for many many years these ladies, young ladies, these females would come to his house and give him massages, do you remember the faces of any of them? A Maybe one or two. • All right. Earlier you testified that sometimes the same girl would come back, the same young lady would come back more than one time? A Yes. • How many young ladies can you recall making multiple visits to Jeffrey Epstein's house for the purpose of giving him massages? A Maybe two. Q Maybe two? A Yes. • And you can recall certainly their faces? MR. CRITTON: Form. ESQUIRE loll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esothreSOlutions.com EFTA00182507
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• • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 161 THE WITNESS: Yes. BY MR. HILL: Q Okay. So far there are at least two young ladies who you can close your eyes and remember their faces, right? A Yes. Q Are there more than two young ladies that you can close your eyes and remember their faces? A No. Maybe two. Q Just two? A Two. • Do you recall the names of any of these young ladies A No, sir. Q -- who would come over? A No. • The name ( doesn't ring a bell to you at all? A Excuse me? A NO, sir. MR. HILL: Let me show you a photograph and see if you MR. CRITTON: Are you going to mark that Exhibit 3? • Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 ESQUIRE Suite 000 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 vovw.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182508
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- Volume II October 20, 2009 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 162 (Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 3 was marked for identification.) BY MR. CRITTON: Q Pursuant to Mr. Critton's suggestion, we marked that as Plaintiff's Exhibit 3, and ask you to take a look at that photograph and tell me if you recognize this individual depicted on Plaintiff's 3. A I'm not sure. Q All right. Earlier you were shown a binder with a bunch of photographs in it? A Yes. Q Some of those photographs were of young ladies, yes? A I don't know their age. Q Well, I didn't -- MR. REINHART: Listen to the question. He's just asking if you saw a binder with pictures of young ladies in it. THE WITNESS: Yes. BY MR. HILL: Q Okay. And many of those young ladies you were able to say without any kind of doubt that you did not recognize them, right? A Yes. Q You don't have that same degree of certainty ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutlons.com EFTA00182509
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- Volume II October 20, 2009 • 2 3 4 5 6 7 a 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 163 for the young lady pictured in photograph Plaintiff's Exhibit 3? A That's right. Q You don't know whether you've seen her or not? A No. Yes. MR. REINHART: Hold on. She said no, yes. THE WITNESS: I'm not so sure if I've seen her, but you know, the face seems familiar. BY MR. HILL: • You don't know how you would have met this young lady anywhere else other than Jeffrey Epstein's house, do you? MR. CRITTON: Form, speculation. THE WITNESS: What was the question again? BY MR. HILL: Q Sure. We were talking earlier about your being unsure whether you had met this particular young lady pictured in Plaintiff's 3, and my question is you wouldn't have seen her someplace other than Jeffrey Epstein's house, right? A I'm not sure. Q Okay. But she is someone who very well may be familiar to you? A Yes. Q Okay. Describe for me the two young ladies • 0 ESQUIRE, Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182510
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 164 that you can remember when you close your eyes as being one of the young ladies that would come over to Epstein's house and give him massages. What do they look like? Let's start with number one, what did she look like? A The picture that he showed me, what's her name, Haley or something? I recognize that one. Q Let me ask you, the two young ladies that you can imagine that you can see in your mind's eye that provided Epstein massages when you were working there, were those young ladies both in the binder that was shown to you earlier that was Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 1, or are we talking about different ladies? A I remember that lady there. MR. EDWARDS: Just so that you're clear, I don't know that she said that the first time. THE WITNESS: Not this one. MR. REINHART: Not that one? THE WITNESS: Not that one. MR. EDWARDS: She said that. BY MR. HILL: Q She said that. Which one is this, so we're clear? MR. MERMELSTEIN: And for the court reporter. MR. CRITTON: What did she refer to? E SQVAll Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquiresolutions.com EFTA00182511
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• • 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 165 MR. HILL: No, no, no. Let's get the exhibit number rather than provide names. MR. REINHART: This should be 1-N from my notes, "N" as in Nancy. BY MR. HILL: O So you recognize 1-N there? A I recognize one, that's the one that... Q So you recognize this one lady, 1-N? A No. I did not say I recognize her. Q You don't recognize her. Okay. So why don't we go hack through the booklet and you can tell me who it is that you recognize as the young lady who would come over and give Epstein massages? MR. CRITTON: Object to the form. I think it misstates her testimony. It was 1-P. THE WITNESS: This one. What's her -- I remember this one, but I don't know if she gives massage. MR. REINHART: Let's get a number for that one. MR. HILL: 1-F. MR. REINHART: I'm showing you what has 1-F next to it, right? THE WITNESS: Yes. • ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4140 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esqu resolunons.com EFTA00182512
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 166 BY MR. HILL: Q And you remember this person as someone who would come over and give Mr. Epstein massages? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: I don't know if she give massage, but I saw her in the house. BY MR. HILL: Q Okay. When I started the line of questioning a few minutes ago, I asked you to close your eyes and imagine the faces of any of the young ladies that would come to Epstein's house and give him massages. You said that you can recall two such young ladies, right? A Yes. Q All right. And so you don't remember whether this lady in 1-F provided massages to Epstein, correct? A Correct. • So this 1-F lady isn't one of the two that you can close your eyes and see as one of the young ladies who would come over to provide massages, right? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: So I can only picture maybe one. I thought this BY MR. HILL: Q I'm sorry. I cut you off, that was rude, I apologize. ESQUIRE a Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 Suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esquIresolutions.com EFTA00182513
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- Volume II October 20, 2009 • • 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 167 A Okay. Your question was if I can recall two persons? Q That was your testimony, yes, ma'am. A I remember this one. • You remember this one, pointing to 1-F, you remember this young lady? A Yes. Q But you don't know whether this young lady provided massages to Mr. Epstein, correct? A Correct. O And I guess back to my original line of questioning, I asked you whether about young ladies you can close your eyes and recall their faces as being girls, young ladies, excuse me, who would provide Epstein massages. Remember that? MR. CRITTON: Form. BY MR. HILL: • And you said that there were two such young ladies that you recall in your mind picturing their faces as young ladies who would come over and give Mr. Epstein massages? That's what you testified to, right? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: I get confused, because there are some visitors come or female come, and • ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 suite 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Bead' Gardens, FL 33410 vAvw.esduiresolutIons.com EFTA00182514
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 l'/ 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Volume II October 20, 2009 168 then -- so I get confused, so I can't remember this, and I'm telling you that I don't know if she gives massages. BY MR. HILL: Q Let me give you chance to answer it again. Okay. If you close your eyes and think back, are you able to see in your mind's eye the faces of any of the young ladies that would come over to your boss, Jeffrey Epstein, for the purpose of giving him massages? MR. CRITTON: Form. THE WITNESS: No. BY MR. HILL: Q And how many years are we talking about where these women would come, excuse me, these females would come to Mr. Epstein's house for the purpose of providing him massages, how many years are we talking about? MR. CRITTON: Form. MR. REINHART: When she worked there. BY MR. HILL: Q When you worked there. A If you show me pictures, then -- MR. REINHART: No. Listen and answer the question you're being asked. How many years do you remember females coming to give massages to Mr. Epstein during the time you worked there? 0 ESQUIRE Toll Free: 866.709.8777 Facsimile: 561.394.2621 State 600 4440 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 www.esqulresolutions.com EFTA00182515