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FBI VOL00009
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 16 of 29 74. Additionally, Defendant greeted Plaintiff on the occasions when Plaintiff arrived at Epstein's home and personally lead Plaintiff to Defendant Epstein's bathroom where Epstein appeared for the purposes of committing crimes against Plaintiff 75. Defendant Epstein's battery against Plaintiff was facilitated by Defendant and the conspiracy resulted in the various aforementioned crimes being committed against Plaintiff ■ as well as many other underage minor females. 76. As a direct and proximate result of Defendant, participation in the aforementioned conspiracy, Plaintiff,. she has in the past suffered and will in the future suffer injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, psychological and psychiatric trauma, mental anguish, humiliation, confusion, embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, loss of dignity, loss of enjoyment of life, invasion of her privacy and other damages associated with Defendant's manipulation and leading her into a perverse and unhealthy way of life. Plaintiff will incur medical and psychological expenses. Plaintiff has suffered a loss of income, a loss of the capacity to earn income in the future, loss of proper and complete education. These injuries are permanent in nature and Plaintiff■ will continue to suffer these losses in the future. WHEREFORE, Plaintiff■ demands judgment against Defendant for compensatory damages, punitive damages and such other relief as this Court deems proper and hereby demands trial by jury on all issues triable as of right by a jury. COUNTS IV THROUGH XXIII CAUSES OF ACTION AGAINST DEFENDANTS EPSTEIN AND PURSUANT TO 18 USC 82255 IN VIOLATION OF VARIOUS ENUMERATED OFFENSES CONTAINED WITHIN THAT FEDERAL STATUTE 77. Plaintiff,. adopts and realleges paragraphs I through 60 above. 78. The allegations contained herein in Counts IV through XXIII are separate and distinct legal remedies. I6 EFTA00729623
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-X)OO( Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 17 of 29 79. As a condition of Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein's criminal plea, and in exchange for the Federal Government not prosecuting the Defendant for numerous federal offenses, the Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the Federal Government; that agreement governed not only Defendant Epstein's conduct but also the conduct of his "co-conspirators" including Defendant as she played an essential and criminal role in the commission of these offenses. 80. The Plaintiff,■ was in fact a victim of one or more offenses enumerated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2255, and as such asserts a cause of action against the Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, and against Defendant pursuant to this Section of the United States Code and the agreement between the Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, and the United States Government. 81. Specifically, Defendants Epstein and (a) knowingly conspired with others known and unknown to use a facility or means of interstate commerce to knowingly persuade, induce, or entice minor females, including Plaintiff MJ, to engage in prostitution, in violation of title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b). (b) knowingly and willfully conspired with others known and unknown to travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors, including Plaintiff MJ, as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2423(f), with minor females, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2423(b); all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2423(e); (c) used a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce to knowingly persuade, induce, or entice minor females, including Plaintiff MJ, to engage in prostitution; in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b); 17 EFTA00729624
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 18 of 29 (d) traveled in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2423(0, with minor females, including Plaintiff MJ; in violation of Title l8, United States Code, Section 2423(b). 82. As a direct and proximate result of the aforementioned criminal offenses enumerated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2255, being committed against the then minor Plaintiff, Plaintiff, MJ, she has in the past suffered and will in the future suffer injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, psychological and psychiatric trauma, mental anguish, humiliation, confusion, embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, loss of dignity, loss of enjoyment of life, invasion of her privacy and other damages associated with Defendant's manipulation and leading her into a perverse and unhealthy way of life. Plaintiff will incur medical and psychological expenses. These injuries are permanent in nature and Plaintiff Ewill continue to suffer these losses in the future. Plaintiff= has also incurred attorneys' fees. 83. With regard to each of the following counts, Plaintiff suffered personal injury, as outlined above from the acts above, as a result of the violations of federal criminal law by Defendant Epstein enumerated in paragraph 33, on approximately 20 occasions, and while the dates are not all precisely documented or diaried by Plaintiff, Defendants Epstein and committed these crimes and inflicted said injuries on or about the following dates: COUNT IV August 2002 COUNT V September 2002 COUNT VI October 2002 COUNT VII November 2002 COUNT VIII December 2002 COUNT IX January 2003 18 EFTA00729625
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 19 of 29 COUNT X February 2003 COUNT Xi March 2003 COUNT XII April 2003 COUNT XIII May 2003 COUNT XIV June 2003 COUNT XV July 2003 COUNT XVI August 2003 COUNT XVII September 2003 COUNT XV III October 2003 COUNT XIX November 2003 COUNT XX December 2003 COUNT XXI January 2004 COUNT XXII February 2004 COUNT XXIII March 2004 WHEREFORE, with regard to each and every one of these counts, Plaintiff, ■ demands judgment against Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, for compensatory damages, loss of income, a loss of the capacity to earn income in the future, attorney's fees, and such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper, and hereby demands trial by jury on all issues triable as of right by a jury. COUNT XXIV Civil Remedy for Criminal Practices 84. Plaintiff realleges paragraphs I through 60 above and for the purposes of this count incorporates and alleges the RICO Statement that has been filed contemporaneously herewith as Exhibit "A." 19 EFTA00729626
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 20 of 29 85. The allegations contained herein in Count )O(1V are a separate and distinct legal remedy brought pursuant to Florida Statute 772.104(1) and (2). 86. Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, was associated with an enterprise, a group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, which was comprised of at least Defendant Jeffrey Epstein, Jean Luc Brunel, Ghislaine Maxwell, and (and likely many other yet unknown persons); Defendant Epstein participated in this enterprise, or conspired or endeavored to so participate, through a pattern of criminal activity in violation of Florida Statutes §772.103(3)-(4), as further outlined in detail in the RICO statement filed with this court. 87. This enterprise was separate and distinct from Epstein himself and had a definite hierarchical structure. Epstein served informally but effectively as the leader, C.E.O, or "boss" of this organization similar to the way an experienced mob boss runs his organized crime family, directing his underlings how to recruit and procure underage girls for his sexual actii. 'tics and the sexual activities of others, developing the use of slang or code words to be used to discuss the illegal activities of the organization, designing a plan or scheme to gain the cooperation of underage minor females, developing methods and techniques to otherwise avoid detection from law enforcement including making large charitable donations to law enforcement agencies, powerful politicians, businessmen and world leaders, associating with powerful social people and highly influential politicians and attorneys, gathering information to blackmail or extort powerful people, devising a plan to attack the credibility and character of anyone that dare unveil the illegal operations of the enterprise and to take an oath to remain silent and/or lie when confronted by law enforcement about the illegal operations and activities of the criminal organization. Epstein's key "lieutenant" in the local Palm Beach branch of the National 20 EFTA00729627
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 21 of 29 organization was who served as both his scheduler and a recruiter/procurer of the girls. also served as a recruiter and helped Epstein satisfy his criminal sexual desires by, on occasion, directly participating in sexual abuse and prostitution of the minor girls. Epstein also used otherwise-legitimate business activities to help further the purpose of the criminal enterprise. These apparently legitimate activities provided "cover" for Epstein and his associates to commit the crimes. Epstein and his associates maintained the appearance of running an upstanding investment business, as well as other legitimate businesses with connections to modeling agencies and other powerful business and political people, to discourage the minor girls from reporting the abuse to law enforcement. Ghislane Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel helped to provide "cover" by creating the impression that legitimate modeling opportunities were available for the girls. There are many other known and unknown associates of the criminal organization, that worked throughout the country and possibly internationally, who performed functions to perpetuate the criminal activities of the organization. 88. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein participated in this enterprise through a pattern of criminal activity in that he engaged in at least two incidents of criminal activity, as defined and required in Florida Statute 772.102 and as described below, that have the same or similar intents, results, accomplices, victims, or methods of commission and are not isolated incidents. 89. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein engaged in criminal activity by committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit or soliciting, coercing or intimidating another person to commit one or more of the following predicate acts as outlined and defined in Florida Statute 772.102: (a) Procuring for prostitution, or causing to be prostituted, any person who is under the age of 18 years in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 796.03; (b) Acts of battery in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 784; 21 EFTA00729628
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 22 of 29 (c) Forcing, compelling or coercing another to become a prostitute in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 796.04; (d) knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing or otherwise obtaining by any means a person, knowing that coercion would be used to cause that person to engage in prostitution in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 796.045; (e) tampering with a witness in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 914.22; (f) altering, destroying, removing, or concealing records or documents or other evidence with the purpose to impair its verity or availability in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 918.13; (g) maintaining a place (or more accurately "places") for the purpose of lewdness or prostitution; offering or securing another for the purpose of prostitution or for some other lewd or indecent act; receiving persons into his Palm Beach mansion for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness; directing, taking or transporting or agreeing to direct take or transport persons to his Palm Beach mansion with knowledge or reasonable belief that the purpose of such directing, taking or transporting was prostitution or lewdness; all in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 796.07. 90. The criminal acts of Defendant Epstein occurred repeatedly over a substantial period of time and were not isolated events. 91. Under Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein's plan, scheme, and enterprise, Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein. paid employees and underlings, including but not limited to to bring him minor girls to his Palm Beach mansion in order for the Defendant to solicit, induce, coerce, entice, compel or force such girls to engage in acts of prostitution and sexual misconduct with 22 EFTA00729629
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 23 of 29 Defendant Epstein and sometimes and to otherwise commit acts of sexual battery thereon, and further Defendant Epstein worked in concert as part of the enterprise with those who were free to act independently and advance their own interests, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel, to obtain minor girls for sexual purposes. 92. Plaintiff,. was the victim of Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein's plan, scheme, and enterprise and was so injured by reason of his violations of the provisions of s. 772.104. Plaintiff,. was called on the telephone by Defendant Epstein and other employees of his, including and transported to the Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein's residence, where she was placed in a room along with the Defendant, enticed to commit acts of prostitution, and had acts of sexual battery and sexual exploitation committed against her. Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, conspired with his assistants and employees in order to accomplish their common motive or intent of seeking out, gaining access to, and exploiting minor children such as the Plaintiff,■ in the aforementioned ways, and he further conspired with his employees, assistants and underlings to ensure that the crimes of this criminal enterprise were concealed or undetected by law enforcement. Those who were free to act independently and advance their own interests, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel, also worked with the enterprise to conceal the activities of the enterprise. 93. After law enforcement began to detect the criminal activities of Defendant Epstein and the other persons involved in the criminal enterprise, the enterprise used resources and information to conceal the illegal activities of the enterprise, threaten the victims of the crimes of the enterprise if they revealed the scope of the enterprise to law enforcement, and concealed or destroyed documents relevant to the prosecution of the various members of the enterprise. The enterprise also made various efforts to discourage the victims from cooperating with law 23 EFTA00729630
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 24 of 29 enforcement and from filing civil lawsuits to vindicate their rights. Epstein and other members of the enterprise made cash payments and gave gifts to the victims of the enterprise in order to discourage them from reporting crimes to law enforcement and other authorities. 94. Through information and belief, this criminal enterprise gained valuable consideration from the practice of sex-trafficking underage children and providing underage children to other adults and otherwise derived valuable consideration for running a national and oftentimes international sex-trafficking and underage prostitution ring, typically by coercing and introducing the economically disadvantaged underage minor females into prostitution and sometimes into being underage sex slaves for the enterprise. 95. The evidence clearly and convincingly establishes that Plaintiff MJ was injured by reason of violations of the provisions of 772.103, and as such is entitled to threefold the actual damages sustained and a minimum of $200, and reasonable attorney's fees and court costs. 96. In the alternative, and pursuant to s. 772.104, Plaintiff-was injured due to sex trafficking committed in violation of s. 772.103 and is thus entitled to threefold the amount gained from the sex trafficking and to a minimum amount of damages not less than 5200, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs. 97. Plaintiff has suffered a loss of income, a loss of the capacity to earn income in the future, loss to her property and business opportunities and other losses. WHEREFORE, under the provisions of Florida Statutes Chapter 772, Plaintiff, MJ, demands judgment against Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, for any minimum damages authorized by law, all actual damages sustained (to be trebled as authorized by law), court costs and attorneys' fees, and such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper, and hereby demands trial by jury on all issues triable as of right by a jury. 24 EFTA00729631
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 25 of 29 COUNT XXV Cause of Action Pursuant to Florida Statute 796.09 Against Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein 98. Plaintiff adopts and realleges paragraphs 1 through 60 above. 99. The allegations contained herein in Count XXV are a separate and distinct legal remedy. 100. Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, was a wealthy and powerful man, and Plaintiff was an economically disadvantaged and impressionable minor. 101. Plaintiff MJ had never engaged in any act of prostitution prior to meeting Epstein or being introduced to any of the members of the criminal enterprise of which Defendant Epstein was an operating member and leader. 102. Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, used his vast wealth and power to coerce Plaintiff into prostitution and/or coerced her to remain in prostitution. 103. Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, coerced Plaintiff into prostitution in one or more of the following ways: A. Domination of her mind and body through exploitive techniques; B. Inducement; C. Promise of greater financial rewards; D. Exploitation of a condition of developmental disability, cognitive limitation, affective disorder, and/or substance dependency; E. Exploitation of human needs for food, shelter or affection; F. Exploitation of underprivileged and vulnerable economic condition or situation; G. Use of a system of recruiting other similarly situated minor girls to further coerce and induce Plaintiff into the lifestyle of prostitution; and 25 EFTA00729632
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 26 of 29
H.
Exploitation through demonstration of abundant wealth and power to
impress a young and vulnerable then minor Plaintiff and to coerce her into prostitution.
104. As a direct and proximate result of the offenses committed by Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein,
against Plaintiff pursuant to Florida Statutes §796.09, the Plaintiff has in the past suffered, and
will in the future suffer, injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, psychological trauma,
mental anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, loss of dignity, invasion of her
privacy and other damages associated with Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, controlling, manipulating
and coercing her into a perverse and unconventional way of life for a minor. The then minor
Plaintiff incurred medical and psychological expenses and Plaintiff will in the future suffer
additional medical and psychological expenses. Plaintiff has suffered a loss of income, a loss of
the capacity to earn income in the future, and a loss of the capacity to enjoy life. These injuries
are permanent in nature and the Plaintiff will continue to suffer these losses in the future.
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, Jane Doe, demands judgment against the Defendant, Jeffrey
Epstein, for compensatory damages, punitive damages as specifically allowed by this and other
statutes and by law, attorney's fees, and such other and further relief as this Court deems just and
proper, and hereby demands trial by jury on all issues triable as of right by a jury.
COUNT XXV
Cause of Action Pursuant to Florida Statute 726.101
Against Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein
105. This count alleges an action for redress of fraudulent transfers brought under Florida's
Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, sections 726.101, et seq., Fla.Stats. ("FUFTA").
106. Plaintiff adopts and realleges paragraphs I through 60 above.
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 27 of 29 107. M.J. is a creditor of defendant Jeffrey Epstein. She has various claims against him for repeated sexual molestation of her when she was a minor, as alleged in the other counts of this complaint. 108. Given the egregious acts of sexual molestation the defendant perpetrated against her, M.J. has a claim against defendant, once punitive damages are added, is worth in excess of $50,000,000. Therefore, he is facing judgments in excess of $50,000,000 from her. Epstein is thus a debtor of M.J., as defined in the FUFTA. 109. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein has numerous overseas contacts and sophistication in international business transactions. He previously served as a trader at Bear Stearns and founded his own financial management firm, J. Epstein and Col. (later called Financial Trust Co.) located on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands where, until his recent incarceration, he managed the assets of billionaire clients. 110. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein has transferred, is transferring, and intends to transfer in the near future his assets, to locations overseas and elsewhere and/or to nominee individuals who conceal Epstein's interest in the assets, with the actual intent to hinder, delay and defraud- To prevent■ from satisfying any judgment that she might obtain in her pending lawsuit again him, Epstein has moved and intends to move his significant financial assets to locations overseas (i.e., to Israel) or in other unreachable areas and to title his assets (including real property, aircraft, boats, vehicles, and financial instruments) in the names of other persons or entities, even though he maintains (directly or indirectly) control over those assets. These transfers arc designed by Epstein to prevent from being able to collect on any judgment she might obtain against him, including any punitive damages judgment. 27 EFTA00729634
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 28 of 29 111. In recent lawsuits against him very similar to those filed by ■, defendant Epstein has refused to answer and taken the Fifth when asked whether he intends to conceal assets from those with claims against him. 112. In recent lawsuits against him very similar to those filed by defendant Epstein refused to answer and took the Fifth Amendment when asked whether he intends to remain in the country in the future. 113. Epstein could currently post a $15 million bond to satisfy a judgment in this case without financial or other difficulty. WHEREFORE plaintiff-demands judgment against defendant Epstein as follows: (a) An accounting by defendant Jeffrey Epstein of all of his significant financial assets, whether held in this country or overseas, and all significant transfer of assets in the last three years; (b) Avoidance of the fraudulent transfers or obligations to the extent necessary to satisfy M.J.'s claims; (c) An attachment or other provisional remedy against the asset transferred or other property of the transferee in accordance with applicable law; (d) An injunction against defendant Jeffrey Epstein and such transferees as may be appropriate, or both, against further transfers of any assets pending further order of the Court and posting of a bond to protect (e) Appointment of a receiver to take charge of the assets of defendant Jeffrey Epstein until the Court is satisfied that interests in having assets available from the defendant to satisfy any judgment are fully protected; 28 EFTA00729635
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 29 of 29 (t) Posting by defendant Jeffrey Epstein of a S15,000,000 bond to satisfy any judgment obtained b). in her pending lawsuits; and (g) All other relief that the circumstances may require to protect and her ability to satisfy any judgment she might obtain. Plaintiff also demands a jury trial on all issues so triable by jury. Dated: Respectfully submitted, FARMER, JAFFE, WEISSING, EDWARDS, FISTOS & LEHRMAN, PL Attorneys for Plaintiff(s) 425 North Andrews Avenue, Suite 2 Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33301 (954)524-2820 TELEPHONE 954 524-2822 BY: Bradley J. Edwards Florida Bar No. 542075 29 EFTA00729636
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Case 9:10-cv-811114000( Document 1-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 1 of 10 CIVIL RICO CASE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 12.1 1. Plaintiffs alleges a violation of Florida Statutes §§ 772.103(3) (participation in an enterprise through a criminal activity) and 772.103(4) (conspiracy to do so). The following information describes both the § 772.103(3) claim and the § 772.103(4) conspiracy claim with the additional note that the conspiracy was between defendant Jeffrey Epstein, MI ME a Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean Luc Brunel and other persons whose identity is, at this time, unknown to M.J.. Epstein, ME and others all conspired together to violate the provisions of § 772.103(3), doing so willfully and with Ml knowledge of the criminal activities that were planned as part of the criminal enterprise. For convenience in this statement, Florida Statutes §§ 772.103(3) and (4) will be referred to as the "Florida Civil RICO provisions." 2. Epstein served as the leader, boss. and "C.E.O." of the criminal enterprise. He also II. criminally sexually abused and prostituted and other minor A were s who victims of the criminal enterprise. He also paid for and and numerous other associates to be a part of the enterprise and conspired with them to commit criminal acts of sexual abuse and prostitution of minors. The basis for Epstein's liability is also described in complaint. 3. The other wrongdoers and criaarticipants included MOM Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jean Luc Brunel. 's uncertain as to the precise spelling of their names and their full legal names.) They assisted defendant Jeffrey Epstein in recruiting and procuring minor girls to satisfy Epstein's criminal sexual purposes and for prostitution, as described in Mcomplaint, and to satisfy their own sexual interests. For example, to further the interests of the local Palm Beach chapter of this expansive criminal enterprise they helped to arrange for minor girls to travel to West Palm Beach mansion to satisfy his sexual desires for minor girls. and many others also conspired with Epstein to commit acts of sexual abuse and prostitution with minor girls and aided and abetted Epstein in the abuse and prostitution. a and other members of this criminal organization had full knowledge of the crimes of the enterprise; they knew full well that the girls who were coming to Epstein's mansion were minors and that Epstein was sexual! abusin and prostituting these minors, some of whom were as young as 12. and willfully and knowingly participated in the activities of the enterprise and intended to make the criminal activities of the enterprise succeed. Among other things, helped arrange for recruiters of the minor girls. She also spoke personally to the recruiters as well as to the minor girls who were victims of Epstein's sexual abuse. At Epstein's specific direction, spoke to the recruiters about subjects such as finding more minor girls to satisfy Epstein's criminal sexual appetite. also served as Epstein's scheduler, scheduling appointments for the minor girls to ostensibly do "work" when in fact (as she well knew) she was scheduling them to be sexually abused and prostituted by Epstein. thus procured minor girls for prostitution and caused them to be prostituted and the term "work" was a code or slang word used b the various criminal enterprise members to avoid detection by law enforcement. who is known to be Epstein's bisexual sex slave, also directly participated in the sexual abuse of the minor irls b artici ting in unlawful sexual activities and prostitution with the girls. Both and assisted Epstein in attempting to keep Epstein's criminal sexual abuse unknown EFTA00729638
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-)OO(X Document 1-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 2 of 10 to law enforcement and other authorities and in discouraging the minor girls from reporting the crimes to law enforcement and other authorities. Maxwell and Brunel participated by helping to create the impression that the girls would be going to meet with Epstein for legitimate "modeling" purposes. Maxwell and Brunel specifically intended to have Epstein abuse the girls and acted with full awareness of Epstein's intentions. Both Brunel and Maxwell recruited minor females for Epstein as well as for themselves in an effort to further the goals of the criminal organization — to sexually abuse and molest underage minor females and avoid detection of law enforcement. Brunel used his modeling agency to locate underage girls for Epstein and others to sexually abuse. Maxwell personally brought underage girls to Epstein for him to sexually abuse, she also presented him with underage girls for him to maintain as sex slaves and to travel the globe with him and others, prostituting underage sex slaves to others. Maxwell was also a participant in sexually abusing minor females. Maxwell served many additional purposes for the criminal organization and was highly ranked within the organization, thus she was able to act on her own accord, without needing orders from Epstein. Maxwell's roles and actions on behalf of the criminal enterprise have included but not been limited to: procuring minor females for her and Epstein and others to sexually abuse, hiring personnel to work for Epstein and for the various positions in the criminal organization, developing relationships with politically connected individuals to protect the organization, managing and organizing the records of the enterprise, maintaining computer records and images of underage minor females with their names and phone numbers, threatening witnesses who have information that could hurt the enterprise, and assisting Epstein and other members of the criminal enterprise to continue the criminal activity of the organization and avoid law enforcement detection or prosecution. 4. The na f all of the victims are unknown to the plaintiff at this time. However, they include herself as well as the victims in the multitude of other civil cases, both filed and unfiled, against Epstein. A list of more than 30 such minor female victims was previously providelithe U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida to Epstein (but not to The injuries to those victims resulted from criminal sexual activity and prostitution with Epstein and and at times Maxwell. The injuries they suffered 'N ike those suffered by in this action, as described in her complaint. For example, and the other victims suffered grave emotional distress and financial injury from being forced to engage in unlawful sexual activities with him to which, as minors, they could not lawfully consent, and from being introduced into a deviant sexual lifestyle. They also suffered distress and financial injury from being prostituted by him. 5. The pattern of racketeering and/or criminal activity is also described in the complaint, which incorporates by reference into this statement here and at all other points in the statement. The criminal activit included Epstein using paid employees and underlings (including and to repeatedly find, procure, and bring to him minor girls in order for Epstein to solicit, induce, coerce, entice, compel or force these minor girls to engage in unlawful sexual activity and acts of prostitution and Epstein using Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel and others yet unnamed to create the impression that he was involved in legitimate modeling and other activities. a. The criminal activity and specific statutes violated are listed in the complaint and include, but are not necessarily limited to: (i) procuring for prostitution, or causing to be prostituted, minors, in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 796; (ii) acts of battery in violation of Florida Statutes Chapter 784; (iii) commercial sexual exploitation of a 2 EFTA00729639
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 3 of 10 child in violation of Florida Statues § 827.071; and (iv) tampering with a witness in violation of Florida Statutes § 914.22. The criminal activities also include violations of federal criminal statutes, including sexual trafficking of children by fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591, use of a means of interstate commerce to entice a minor to commit prostitution, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422, as well as wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. b. The dates of the events are not fully known to at this time. However, at a minimum, Epstein obtained minor girls (including for sexual purposes of the period of approximately 1998 through November 2005. Epstein could better determine than the precise dates of his abuse of her by reviewing his schedule or computer records for this period of time and looking for notations of days on which she performed "work" for him. Epstein has pled guilty to two such criminal offenses against minor girls, although the total number of indictable or chargeable offenses would easily number more than 1000. On each of these occasions, as described in the complaint, Epsin would have his underlings, co-conspirators or associates (including M) procure a minor girl to satisfy his sexual desires and then would satisfy his sexual desires throw h criminal sexual contact with the minor girls. Epstein would also watch or Maxwell sexually abuse the minor girls to satisfy his sexual desires. Epstein had a particular interest in minor girls, including girls as young as 12. On occasion, he would turn away girls who were 18 or over because of his perverse and unlawful sexual interest in young girls. Epstein recruited and paid the girls for the sexual activities. In doing so, he procured for prostitution, and caused to be prostituted, many young girls under the age of 18, in violation of (among other statutes) Florida Statute § 796.03. The pattern of criminal and unlawful sexual activity extended from at least 1998 through November 2005 and upon information and belief actually existed and operated in a criminal organizational strut many years prior to 1998. Epstein committed unlawful sexual abuse againtislikat least 20 times between Summer of 2002 to Spring 2004 while she was a minor. Other criminal activities involving tampering with and harassing witnesses occurred from June 2002 through early 2008 (and perhaps later). c. many of the occasions, the exact dates of which are not as yet determined by the Epstein would represent that he was interested in a "massage" or legitimate "work" when in fact he was interested in unlawful sexual activity with the minor girls, including fondling the girls, masturbating in their presence, and vaginally penetrating them or causing them to be penetrated. Epstein and others acting under his direction falsely represented to the minor girls that he was interested in a "massage" or "work" when in fact he was interested in procuring the girls for unlawful sexual activity and acts of prostitution. Epstein and others acting under his direction used means of interstate communications to make these false representations, including cellular telephones. Similar to all known crime families or criminal organizations that operate to commit crimes, this criminal enterprise made use of seemingly innocuous code words such as "message" and "work" to describe the continuous criminal activity of procuring underage girls to sexually molest, abuse and exploit. d. Epstein has pled guilty to two Florida felony criminal offenses against minor girls, as alleged in the complaint and Epstein is a Registered Sexual Offender for life. 3 EFTA00729640
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 4 of 10 e. The relationship of the criminal activity to the enterprise is also described in the complaint. The Florida offenses to which Epstein pled guilty are but a few of the many instances of his plan succeeding. The acts are all related to each other, are arranged, and are part of common plan for these reasons: they have the same intent (to gratify Epstein's unlawful sexual interest in minor girls as well as to gratify the unlawful sexual interests in minor girls of others at times); the same results (the unlawful sexual abuse and prostitution of minor girls); the same accomplices (including and frequently Maxwell, and Brunel); the same victim was herself victimized more than 20 times, and many other girls were also victimized repeatedly); the same means (there was a standard payment of several hundred dollars for going to the mansion, and standard escalation feature depending on the nature of the sexual acts that Epstein performed); the same methods of commission (Epstein obtained young, skinny, and attractive girls to satisfy his sexual desires while they were economically disadvantaged and lacked a stable family life and therefore, he perceived, would be interested in obtaining money and unlikely to report his crimes to law enforcement); and the same frequency (remarkably Epstein's criminal enterprise operated constantly to procure underage minor females to be sexually abused by Epstein every single day, oftentimes 2 or 3 different underage females in a single day). The acts were also interrelated b common characteristics, namely the identity of the perpetrator (Epstein and often or sometimes Maxwell) and the common results of his crimes (sexual abuse and acts of prostitution with minor girls). The acts also constituted a clear pattern of criminal activity, including giving the impression to the girls who were being recruited that they would have legitimate modeling opportunities. 6. The criminal acts of Epstein occurred repeatedly over a substantial period of time and were not isolated events. Iiiticular, Epstein committed repeated (more than 20) criminal acts of sexual abuse against from approximately Summer 2002 to Spring 2004. He committed similar criminal acts of unlawful sexual activity and prostitution against other minor girls for a period of time from at least 1998 to November 2005. The acts occurred frequently during this time, so frequently that it is impossible to calculate how many different illegal sexual acts were committed by Epstein and his criminal enterprise, but it is fair to say that serious felonies were committed by this criminal organization on an everyday basis. The acts were part of Epstein's regular way of doing business (e.g., obtaining sexual gratification from li ) during this period of time. Epstein and others acting at his direction (including made hundreds of telephone calls in furtherance of these illegal activities. The sexual acts against minors may have temporarily ceased in approximately November 2005 when Epstein learned that law enforcement authorities were investigating his crimes. Given Epstein's long history of sexually abusing minors and the frequency at which he has done so and the fact that despite his arrest and jail sentence his criminal organization remains intact, it is highly likely that he will continue his sexual desires for minor girls. In addition, Epstein committed criminal acts of tampering with witnesses in violation of Florida Statutes § 914.22. For example, Epstein paid the minor girls money not only with the intent to prostitute them but also with the specific intent of causing the minor girls not to communicate to law enforcement officers information about the sexual abuse committed against them. Epstein made bigger payments to the minor girls depending on the degree of force he used towards them, making larger payments when he was more concerned about the 4 EFTA00729641
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Case 9:10-cv-81111-XXXX Document 1-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/17/2010 Page 5 of 10 fact they might report the crimes committed against them. Without specifically detailing acts committed against certain known minors, Epstein has paid $1000 on occasion after forcibly holding the head of a minor down and pumping his penis inside her against her will. Epstein has also intimidated and reprimanded his co-conspirators and associates for any cooperating with law enforcement and has made it known that his associates must stay loyal to the criminal enterprise above all else. These obstructions may interfere with the ability of law enforcement to discover and prosecute all of Epstein's crimes. They may likewise interfere with the ability ofM to discover all of the information supporting her claim. Epstein also selected impoverished girls for his crimes, believing that the payments would be more effective in obtaining their silence and that their economic circumstances might make them less likely to report to law enforcement. If all else failed, after having unlawful sex with the minor girls, Epstein would tell them not to tell anyone about their unlawful encounter or "bad things" would happen. In addition, since November 2005 and through the early part of 2008 (and perhaps later), Epstein and others acting at his direction have attempted to discourage the victims of his crimes from reporting his crimes and cooperating with law enforcement. For example, persons acting at the direction of Epstein have aggressively attempted to "interview" the victims or to "tail" the victims in their cars. They also harassed a victim shortly before she was to testify at a grand jury investigating Epstein and aggressively intimidated a victim to scare her away from proceeding to trial against him. These efforts have been made not for legitimate investigative reasons but rather for the purpose of discouraging the victims from cooperating with law enforcement (and, in at least one case, the investigating grand jury) and from filing civil lawsuits to vindicate their rights. 7. The enterprise is also described in the complaint, which allegations expressly incorporates into this statement as part of the description of the enterprise. The enterprise included, at a minimum, a group of individuals associated in fact to assist Epstein in recruiting and procuring minor girls and obtaining criminal gratification of his illegal sexual interest in minor girls and at least two individuals (Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel) who were free to act independently and advance their own interests, including their own sexual interests. a. The persons constituting the enterprise includeciaroirindividuals associated in fact. These individuals include Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jean Luc Brunel, as well as other yet unnamed persons whose names M.J. intends to identify during the discovery phase of this case. b. The criminal enterprise had a definite hierarchal structure, although all the details of that structure are not completely know to Through discovery, intends to ascertain the precise structure of the enterprise that enabled Epstein to commit sexual crimes against here. While does not currently know all of the details of the structure, she does know that the enterprise operated together on a continuing basis, in an extremely efficient and organized manner, with largely the same personnel for a common purpose. The shared purpose of the enterprise was to satisfy Epstein's, as well as certain other individual's, illegal interest in having sexual activities with minor girls as well. The enterprise was not a mere informal conspiracy, but had a definite clear structure. Epstein served effectively as the leader, C.E.O. or "Boss" of this organization, directing his various levels of underlings how to recruit and procure young girls for his sexual activities and when to bring the girls to his mansion as well as how to avoid law enforcement 5 EFTA00729642