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FBI VOL00009
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 35 of 46 Case 9:O8•cv 80811-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 5 of 14 13 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 this sexual assault and whatever occurred during these events is that -- has caused her damage. d therefore damagoo in the code sunk' as the emotional, mental, psychiatric-type damages are completely subjective, I mean' separate and apart from any medical bills !that may be -- which are clearly intangible. tho these are intangible damages. And the jury is instructed, you know, you advise the greater weight of the evidence, what's fair and reasonable under the circumstances. So what we would have is basically this young lady's testimony as to what she claims her damages are and what the circumstances are with her situation with Mr. Epstein. She claims on page 13, you know, I love this guy, I'm dating this guy Chris. On page 15 -- THE COURT: Is this part of a diary for treatment? MR. CRITTON: I have no idea what it is. It was just produced in response to discovery. And she apparently started in, I think this is December of '08. You know I took Jay Lyntenis' girl to the zoo, had an amazing day, I love her, i.e., the girl. We have so much fun. I want a U.S. Le al Sue ort EFTA01070521
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 36 of 46 Case 9:08-cv 80811-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2006 Page 6 of 14 14 1 2 .1 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 baby especially with him. Okay. So I know who this person is. We are all so open together, I love him. III day and Lynn, whdL du I du wILl. Chris, who is another guy in her life. All right. This is circumstances where this young lady is saying, look, Jeffrey Epstein has ruined my life from a damage standpoint, okay. Let me depose other individuals with whom you've had a relationship. And what if 1..c turns out -- as with some of these girls did --'is they had relationships or had escapades or circumstances with individuals, older men similar to Mr. Epstein well before Mr. Epstein. And this girl, I don't know onefway or the other, but let's assume she had a situation where she was assaulted or molested or raped, ' that all is going to affect her emotional:and her mental pain and anguish and it will all fitbtor into evaluating damages. You know, it's not something that I'm going to spread around. I'm happy to keep it, you know, within the confines of the discbvery of this case. But if she says every other relationship in my life has been perfect but Jeff Epstein has done this to me and it has affected U.B. Legal Support EFTA01070522
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 37 of 46 Case 9:08-cv-80811-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 7 of 14 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 my ability to trust men and my sexual relationships with other men, which is part of lk her interpersonal retationsnips, ukay, ley-a to to Sam Smith. THE COURT: When does your client allege • that she had her first encounter with • Mr. Epstein? MR.. GARCIA: At what age? THE COURT: Well, what year? MR. CRITTON: June of '03. MR. GARCIA: June of '03, Judge. 'MR. CRITTON: She claims from June o£ '03 through November of '04. MR. GARCIA: She was I believe 16at.the beginning and ended at 17. She was a minor during all this time. THE COURT: June of '03 to now is six years. Let me hear from Mr. Garcia. MR. GARCIA: Judge, in the criminal case that was filed against Mr. Epstein, he would not have had a right to do this type of discolflarY and I -- if I could hand up -- THE COURT: They wouldn't care about:the women. MR. GARCIA: Right. Well, I mean --; U.S. Legal Su ort EFTA01070523
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 38 of 46 Case 9:08-cv-80811-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 8 of 14 16 2 3 4 THE COURT: This is damages. There'S no they weren't seeking damages at the time.! 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MR. GARCIA: Right. And we nave not.aiseged in the complaint or in the answers to interrogatories that her ability to have a relationship with a man has been affectedby Mr. Epstein's conduct. We have alleged that she has been hospitalized for depression, anxiety but 4e have not alleged any damages concerning -- the:only reason this would be relevant is if we were making a claim at her ability to have either sexual relations or to have emotional relations with men was effected by her experience with Mr. Epstein. So this damages' claim is just a smoke screen to attempt to get evidence to show:the jury that this woman has had other consensual relationships with young men that are approximately her age what I would characterize as a slut defense. She had it coming to her because she engaged in other voluntarily consensual -- THE COURT: Mr. Critton wouldn't try the slut defense in my courtroom, I'm sure. U.S. Legal Support EFTA01070524
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 39 of 46 Case 9:08-cv-80811-KAM Document 54-5 • Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 9 of 14 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1B 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MR. GARCIA: Maybe not, but certainit that's the way this discovery is going. And, Judge, what -- THE COURT: What are the damages you think your client is seeking? MR. GARCIA: She is seeking emotional distress damages for depression and anxiety and she has been hospitalized at the Oakwood Center. Her friend -- she was on the phone to a friend who called the sheriff's office because she thought she was suicidal. The sheriffs responded. They Baker Acted her that day:and they took her eventually to the Oakwood Center. THE COURT: How do we know it's not intertwined with her rejection by three other men since Mr. Epstein? MR. GARCIA: Well, even if it was related to her rejection by three other men -- you mean other men's rejection of her? THE COURT: Yeah. Well, how do you not know that? I mean you can't do it until you do discovery. Has anybody attempted to review the records from Oakwood to find out what's going on? MR. CRITTON: It's like a one-time visit when she was Baker Acted and then there's:some U.S. Legal Support EFTA01070525
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 40 of 4q.. Case 9:08-cv-80811-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 10 of 14 18 1 2 other -- THE COURT: She didn't receive treatment? that day and she's been back a couple of times. She's on medication. Again, I don't know:what or the extent but she's got -- her medical bills are de minimis. Again as an example, Judge, didlthe Court have an opportunity to look at the case that I also attached to the motion? BecaUse there's a case that's almost on all fours.with 4 5 6 ' 7 9 9 to 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 this which I attached to our motion which;is called Belles versus Russo. THE COURT: Right. MR. CRITTON: It was a case where the plaintiff was sued -- the plaintiff sued ihe former owners of a house of prostitution. ` So that part is different, but within it there were a number of claims including a sexual assault claim and they sought emotional pain, humiliation and emotional distress. Within the complaint that was filed in this particular case, she is seeking severe emotional distress, mental anguish, humiliation, embarrassment, past and future, compensatory U.B. Legal Su >ort EFTA01070526
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 41 of 46_, • . Case 9:08-cv-80811-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 11 of 14 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 humiliation, loss of reputation, mental anguish, pain and suffering, the same type of damades. Ana what: tht CuuLL acid THE COURT: How old is she now? MR. GARCIA: She's 21 no*. MR. CRITT0N: She's 21 now. What the Court said is, you know, if you'd only brought this claim under 796 evidence of past issues, it's not an issue. You can't use this defense for, anything, but because you brought these other claims which include, you know, sexual assault and you're seeking damages for other causes of action since the information sought by discovery may be relevant or may lead to the discovery of admissible evidence in one or more of the other causes of action or determination of damages, we cannot conclude the trial:court parted fr#a essential requirements of law in granting'-- THE COURT: So in other words, she's'not only seeking -- she's seeking current emotional damage as a result of this relationship and you're trying to find out if she had prior relationships, that perhaps could be intertwined with it so that it's not just Mr. Epstein's -- MR. CRITTON: Right. A perfect exorable is U.S. Legal' Support EFTA01070527
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 42 of 46 Case 9:08-cv-80B11-KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 12 of 14 20 1 2 one of the cases that I have is there's ECyoung lady who claims that she was molested in the past 4 5 6 7 a 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 and raped, pretty signiticant issues, welt in advance of her even meeting with Mr. Epstein. And they seem to play a large role in her' psychiatric and psychological evaluation.: We're going to come to the Court in this case as we have others and ask for a: psychological evaluation of this lady, and if she was raped or if she was molested or just she had a bad experience or some -- whether it we's a young or old man assaulted her in some fabhion, that may play a role in her damages and what -- THE COURT: What I'm going to allow for discovery purposes only not necessarily getting it in at the time trial are two years before her first encounter with Mr. Epstein and anything subsequent. MR. GARCIA: Judge, I just wanted to!say on the record because I forgot to mention it., there's also -- I did state an objection to the identity of people that are unrepresented' in this courtroom. They have rights too. So what I -- ; THE COURT: Well, my suggestion is that you send thoee people a letter and tell them that U.S. Legal Support EFTA01070528
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 43 of 46 . _ . . Case 9:08-cv-80811 -KAM Document 54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2003 Page 13 of 14 21 2 3 you're going to disclose them and if they have a problem with it that they come to see me before 4 5 6 7 B 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 you disclose lt. So I'm going to give you 20 days to respond to this rather than the usual five and that will give you time to put these people on notice and if they want to come visit with me and have a John Doe, I'll have a John Doe heaking but, you know, this is her case. She's doing it. She's the one seeking damages, and he is entitled to be able to confront other individuals to find out information that may be relevant to the damages she's seeking or she can drop the. damages. That's her choice. If you seeki damages, you've got to do it -- if you could put that in an order so that we have a time far him to do this. Just fill out an order, hand it back up to me and I'll deal with it. (The proceedings were concluded1) U.S. mI iimai al rt EFTA01070529
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207-4 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 44 of 46 Case 9:08-cv-80811-KAM Document,54-5 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/02/2009 Page 14 of 14 22 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 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE THE STATE OF FLORTDA. COUNTY OF PALM BEACH. I, Teresa Bell, Court Reporter, certify that I was authorized to and did stenographically report the foregoing proceedings and that the transcript is a true and complete record of my stenographic notes. I further certify that the proceedings were taken at the time and place shown herein and that all counsel and persons as hereinabove shown were present. •I I further certify that I am not a relative, employee, attorney or counsel of any of the patties, nor am I a relative or employee of any of the parties' attorney or counsel connected with the action, nor am I financially interested in the action. Dated this 11th day TERESIf BELL, Court Reporter U.S. Legal Support EFTA01070530
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 8 of 9 and Gloria C. Hakkarainen, M.D. until such time as the Court decides whether the statutory damages pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2255 are available to a victim of an enumerated sexual offense on a per incident basis. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL RULE 7.1 Counsel for the movant conferred via telephone with counsel for the Defendant and counsel for the Defendant is not in agreement with Plaintiff's Motion For Protective Order Regarding Treatment Records From the Parent-Child Center, Inc., Dr. Serge Thys, Dominique Hyppolite/School District of Palm Beach County, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Florida Atlantic University and Gloria C. Hakkarainen, M.D. and Incorporated Memorandum of Law. /s/ Jack P. Hill CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 20th day of July, 2009, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court by using CM/ECF system, which will send a notice of electronic filing to all counsel of record on the attached service list. /s/ lank P Hill Jack Scarola Florida Bar No.: 169440 Jack P. Hill Florida Bar No.: 0547808 Searcy Denney Scarola Bamhart & Shipley, P.A. 2139 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard West Palm Beach. 409 Phone: Fax: Attorneys for Plaintiff 8 EFTA01070531
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Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 207 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/20/2009 Page 9 of 9 COUNSEL LIST Richard H. Willits, Esquire Richard H. Willits, P.A. 2290 10th Avenue North, Suite 404 Lake Worth, FL 33461 Phone: Fax: Robert Critton, Esquire Burman Critton Luttier & Coleman LLP 515 North Flagler Drive, Suite 400 West Palm Beach FL 33414 Phone: Fax: Jack A. Goldberger, Esquire Atterbury, Goldberger & Weiss, P.A. 250 Australian Avenue South West Palm Beach FL 33401 Phone: Bruce E. Reinhart, Esquire Bruce E. Reinhart, P.A. 250 South Australian Avenue Suite 1400 West Palm B h F 3401 Phone: Fax: 9 EFTA01070532
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