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Palm Beach Post (Florida) 
January 25, 2008 Friday 
FINAL EDITION 
SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. IB 
LENGTH: 735 words 
HEADLINE: PALM BEACH MAN FACES LAWSUIT IN TEEN SEX CASE 
BYLINE: By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
DATELINE: WEST PALM BEACH 
BODY: 
The parents of a teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million on 
Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money manager had her brought to his mansion for a massage, then engaged in 
sexual activity with her. 
The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 at the time. She was the youngest of several alleged victims of 
Epstein, according to Palm Beach police, who spent II months investigating him. 
The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman, says "Epstein has a sexual preference and obsession 
for underage minor girls." Epstein "gained access to primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted 
these girls, and then gave them money." 
Herman, who specializes in child sex abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother on 
grounds of sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of parental consortium. 
"Jane Doe ... fell into Epstein's trap and became one of his victims," the lawsuit says. 
"We're dismayed by the filing of the lawsuit, but not surprised," said Jack Goldberger, one of Epstein's attorneys. 
"We think this shows what this case is all about: money." 
He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez, launched an immediate counteroffensive, even showing up at 
Herman's news conference outside the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. They distributed copies of documents 
showing that the girl's father and stepmother have prior arrests for financial crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is 
financially motivated. Another Epstein lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York criminal defense attorney, 
provided some of those documents to Goldberger. 
"Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman," Sanchez said. 
Herman suggested that Epstein masturbated in front of the alleged victim and used a vibrator on her after she was 
brought to his home in February 2005. The girl is now 17. 
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"This was a typical 14-year-old girl at the time she met Epstein," Herman said. "What happened here was 
despicable." 
The girl told police investigators that she informed Epstein she was 18 when she met him, and she said that was her 
age on her Web page, Sanchez said. 
The girl's father and stepmother also attended the news conference. 
"We're very angry," the father said. "It's not right that this wealthy man can fly into town and destroy my daughter's 
innocence." He did not take questions. 
Epstein, 55, is a mysterious New York money manager who owns a Manhattan mansion, as well as homes in Palm 
Beach, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. 
A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted him in July 2006 on one count of felony solicitation of prostitution 
stemming from alleged incidents between Aug. I and Oct. 31, 2005. 
Epstein is scheduled to enter a plea in the case on March 10, but he has postponed other court dates to resolve the 
case. 
His indictment followed an exhaustive investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department, which concluded that 
Epstein paid underage girls and young women to be brought to his five-bedroom, 7 I/2-bath Intracoastal home for 
massages and sometimes sex play. Much of the language in the Jane Doe suit mirrors that of police reports in the case. 
Herman's client said her meeting with Epstein was set up by 
of Loxahatchee, who was a Palm Beach 
Communit Colle e student at the time. When Jane Doe arrived at Epstein's home, she was escorted by an Epstein 
assistant, 
to a room with a massage table, police reports and the lawsuit say. 
Epstein walked in wearing only a towel, removed it and lay naked on the massage table, the lawsuit says. He 
demanded that Jane Doe remove her clothing, and she did, except for her underwear, the lawsuit alleges. The sexual 
activity followed, the suit says. 
Epstein paid her $300 afterward, and 
got $200 for bringing the girl to him, the lawsuit says. 
and 
helped Epstein arrange other liaisons with girls, Palm Beach police concluded. Neither was 
charged. 
This is not the first time Epstein has been sued over purported activities with teenage girls. He was sued in New 
York in October by a woman who says she had sex with Epstein when she was 16 and had sought his help in becoming 
a model. 
The lawsuit filed Thursday also alleges that Epstein has assaulted girls on his private island in the Virgin Islands. 
Herman declined to elaborate on that assertion. 
NOTES: Ran all editions. 
GRAPHIC: PHOTO (C & B&W) 
I. (C) BILL INGRAM/Staff Photographer Lawyer Jeffrey Herman (left) conducts a news conference Thursday with the 
father and stepmother of a girl who claims wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her in 2005. The parents 
seek more than $50 million in their lawsuit. Epstein, who faces a prostitution solicitation charge, is scheduled to enter a 
plea March 10. 2. (B&W) Jeffrey Epstein (mug) 
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