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Billionaire's lawyer tried to discredit teen girls, 
police say 
By Larry Keller 
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
Saturday, July 29, 2006 
Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach County 
State Attorney's Office and provided damaging information about teenage girls who 
say they gave his client, Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged 
massages, according to police reports. 
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The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed 
Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney denies this happened. 
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for felony solicitation of 
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And the documents also reveal that the 
father of at least one girl complained that 
private investigators aggressively followed 
his car, photographed his home and chased 
off visitors. 
Police also talked to somebody who said 
she was offered money if she refused to 
cooperate with the Palm Beach Police 
Department probe of Epstein. 
The state attorney's office said it presented 
the Epstein case to a county grand jury this 
month rather than directly charging Epstein 
because of concerns about the girls' 
credibility. The grand jury indicted Epstein, 
53, on a single count of felony solicitation 
of prostitution, which carries a maximum 
penalty of five years in prison. 
Police believed there was probable cause to 
charge Epstein with the more serious 
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and lewd and lascivious molestation. Police 
Chief
r was so angry that he 
wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. 
The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was postponed after 
Dershowitz produced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged 
victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective 
a 20-year-old Royal Palm Beach woman who told police she recruited girls for Epstein, 
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on myspace.com. Her page includes photos of her and her friends, including one using 
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who was not charged in the case, is a potential prosecution 
witness. 
According aprosecutor 
Lanna Belohlavek offered Epstein attorneys Dershowitz and Guy 
Fronstin a plea deal in April. Fronstin, after speaking with Epstein, accepted the deal, in which Epstein 
would plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, be placed on five 
years' probation and have no criminal record. The deal also called for Epstein to submit to a psychiatric 
and sexual evaluation and have no unsupervised visits with minors, according to 
report. The 
plea bargain was made in connection with only one of the five alleged victims, the report states. 
Fronstin — who declined to comment on the case — was subsequently fired and veteran defense 
attorney Jack Goldberger was hired. He denies there was any agreement by any of Epstein's attorneys to 
a plea deal. 
"We absolutely did not agree to a plea in this case," he said. Neither Belohlavek nor a state attorney's 
spokesman could be reached for comment. 
The parent or parents of alleged victims who complained of being harassed by private investigators 
provided license tag numbers of two of the men. Police found the vehicles were registered to a private 
eye in West Palm Beach and another in Jupiter, according to Recarey's report. 
"I have no knowledge of it," defense attorney Goldberger said. 
The report also says a woman connected to the Epstein case was contacted by somebody who was still 
in touch with Epstein. That person told her she would be compensated if she didn't cooperate with 
police 
report says. Those who did talk "will be dealt with," the woman said she was told. 
Phone records show the woman talked with the person who allegedly intimidated her around the time 
she said, 
reported. 
Phone records also show that the person said to have made the threat then placed a call to Epstein's 
personal assistant, who in turn called a New York corporation affiliated with Epstein, the report states. 
The issue in the Epstein case is not whether females came to his waterfront home, but whether he knew 
their ages. 
"He's never denied girls came to the house," Goldberger said. But when Epstein was given a polygraph 
test, "he passed on knowledge of age," the attorney said. 
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After the indictment against Epstein was unsealed this week, Police Chief 
referred the matter to 
the FBI. "We've received the referral, and we're reviewing it," said FBI spokeswoman -in 
Miami. 
The chief himself has come under attack from Epstein's lawyers and friends in New York, where he has 
a home. The New York Post quoted Epstein's prominent New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, as saying 
his client was indicted only "because of the craziness of the police chief." 
as declined to comment on the case. 
Prosecutors have not presented a sex-related case like Epstein's to a grand jury before, said Mike 
Edmondson, spokesman for the state attorney's office. "That's what you do with a case that falls into a 
gray area," he said. 
The state attorney's office did not recommend a particular criminal charge on which to indict Epstein, 
Edmondson said. The grand jury was presented with a list of charges from highest to lowest, then 
deliberated with the prosecutor out of the room, he said. 
"People are surprised at the grand jury proceeding," West Palm Beach defense attorney Richard Tendler 
said. "It's a way for the prosecutor's office to not take the full responsibility for not filing the (charge), 
and not doing what the Palm Beach Police Department wanted. I think something fell apart with those 
underage witnesses." 
Defense attorney Robert Gershman was a prosecutor for six years. "Those girls must have been 
incredible or untrustworthy, I don't know," he said. 
Other attorneys said Epstein's case raises the issue of whether wealthy, connected defendants like 
Epstein — whose friends include former President Clinton and Donald Trump — are treated differently 
from others. Once he knew he was the subject of a criminal probe, Epstein hired a phalanx of powerful 
attorneys such as Dershowitz and Lefcourt, who is a past president of the National Association of 
Criminal Defense Lawyers. 
Miami lawyer Roy Black — who became nationally known when he successfully defended William 
Kennedy Smith on a rape charge in Palm Beach — also was involved at one point. 
Said defense attorney Michelle Suskauer: "I think it's unfortunate the public may get the perception that 
with power, you may be treated differently than the average Joe." 
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