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FBI VOL00009
EFTA01158588
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2 this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 3 effective representation. Accordingly, as I've done 4 with most of your questions, I must assert my federal 5 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 6 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. 7 Q. Mr. Epstein, are you aware that after 8 September 11, 2001 that the Federal Government started 9 tracking all flights of all public and private aircraft? 10 MR. PIKE: Form, relevance. 11 BY MR. KUVIN: 12 Q. Are you aware of that? 13 A. No. 14 Q. Okay. Are you aware that the FAA keeps track 15 of all flights that are made both within the continental 16 US and from the continental US abroad? 17 MR. PIKE: Same objection. 18 THE WITNESS: No. 19 BY MR. KUVIN: 20 Q. Do you know whether or not -- let me ask it 21 this way: Have you ever seen the flight tracking 22 information for any planes that you may own? 23 A. I don't believe so. 24 Q. Is JEGE, Inc. a company that is owned by you? 25 A. I'll have to answer that question the way I've 0220 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 0221 1 Q. Isn't is true, sir, that you flew to Thailand 2 in 2001? 3 MR. PIKE: Form. 4 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 5 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 6 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 7 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 8 to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk 9 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 10 representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal 11 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 12 and 14th Amendment to the United States answered most of your other questions here today, which is, I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Q. The plane that is identified in the FAA registry in the document marked Exhibit 19, just so we're clear, because I don't think I asked it exactly, but is this your plane? A. I'm going to answer that question the same way I've answered most of your questions today, Mr. Kuvin, which is, I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. EFTA01158608
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13 14 BY 15 16 with 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0222 1 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 2 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 3 Constitution. 4 BY MR. KUVIN: 5 Q. Isn't it true that you went to Thailand in 6 2001 so that you could engage in sexual relations with 7 girls under the age of 16 with Prince Andrew without any 8 fear of any legal recourse? 9 MR. PIKE: Same objection. In addition, 10 improper hypothetical, lack of predicate, 11 foundation, argumentative, harassing. 12 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 13 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 14 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 15 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 16 to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk 17 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 18 representation. Accordingly, I must assert my 19 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 20 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 21 Constitution. 22 BY MR. KUVIN: 23 Q. Have you seen the photographs of you and 24 Prince Andrew while you were in Thailand with half naked 25 women, some of which were under the age of 16? 0223 1 MR. PIKE: Same objections. 2 THE WITNESS: I intend -- 3 MR. PIKE: Relevance as well, excuse me. I'm 4 sorry. 5 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 6 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 7 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 8 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 9 to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk 10 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 11 representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal 12 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 13 and 14th Amendments to the United States 14 Constitution. 15 BY MR. KUVIN: 16 Q. Did you bring any young women on the plane 17 with you when you went to Thailand in 2001? 18 MR. PIKE: Same objection. 19 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 20 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 21 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 22 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 23 to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk Constitution. MR. KUVIN: Q. Is it true that you went to Thailand in 2001 Prince Andrew? MR. PIKE: Form. THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant to this lawsuit, and as I've done for most of all your questions today, Mr. Kuvin, I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my EFTA01158609
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24 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 25 representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal 0224 1 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 2 and 14th Amendments to the United States 3 Constitution. 4 BY MR. KUVIN: 5 Q. Have you bragged to people before that you 6 bought -- brought to the United States 7 to be your Yugoslavian sex slave? 8 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 9 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 10 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 11 any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept 12 their advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 13 effective representation. Accordingly, I must assert my 14 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 15 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States 16 Constitution. 17 Q. Have you had -- 18 MR. GOLDBERGER: You raised the same objection 19 to that question, right? 20 MR. PIKE: Yeah, I did. 21 BY MR. KUVIN: 22 Q. Have you had sex with numerous girls under the 23 age of 18 in the presence of 24 MR. PIKE: Same objections. 25 THE WITNESS: I'm going to answer that the 0225 1 same way I've answered most of your questions here 2 today, Mr. Kuvin, which is, I intend to respond to 3 all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; 4 however, at the present time, my attorneys have 5 counseled me I cannot provide answers to any 6 questions relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept 7 their advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right 8 to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert 9 my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by 10 the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments to the United 11 States Constitution. 12 BY MR. KUVIN: 13 Q. What is MC2? 14 MR. PIKE: Same objection. 15 THE WITNESS: I don't understand the question. 16 BY MR. KUVIN: 17 Q. MC and then a number 2, what is that? 18 MR. PIKE: Lack of predicate, foundation. 19 THE WITNESS: What is that? 20 MR. PIKE: Irrelevant. 21 BY MR. KUVIN: 22 Q. Do you know what it is? 23 A. No. 24 Q. You've never heard of that before? 25 A. MC2? 0226 1 Q. Yeah. Capital M, capital C, number 2; sound 2 familiar at all? 3 A. No. 4 Q. Okay. Are you part owner in a teen modeling 5 agency? 6 A. No. 7 Q. Do you own any interest in any modeling 8 agencies currently? EFTA01158610
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9 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 10 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 11 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 12 any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept 13 this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 14 effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my 15 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 16 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States 17 Constitution. 18 Q. Do you know what a sexual device called a Twin 19 Torpedo is? 20 MR. PIKE: Same objections, irrelevant as 21 worded. 22 THE WITNESS: Would you like to ask me a bunch 23 of questions or are we going to -- do you want to 24 individual answers to these? Do you want a 25 compound question? 0227 1 BY MR. KUVIN: 2 Q. I can do it that way, it doesn't matter to me. 3 THE WITNESS: It's up to you. 4 MR. KUVIN: It's up to you guys. 5 MR. PIKE: As I've said, Mr. Kuvin, if you 6 want to limit the time that we spend here today and 7 ask a compound question if you're going to list 8 various items or list individuals by name and ask 9 questions, I won't have a compound objection to 10 that type of inquiry if it's in light of attempting 11 to save time. 12 MR. KUVIN: Sure. 13 BY MR. KUVIN: 14 Q. All righty. 15 MR. PIKE: But that's limited to the compound 16 objection. 17 MR. KUVIN: Oh, no, that's fine. 18 BY MR. KUVIN: 19 Q. All right. Did you purchase something called 20 a Twin Torpedo, a soap made in the shape of a penis, and 21 a soap in the shape of a vagina? 22 A. I'm going to answer that question like I've 23 answered most of your questions here today, which is, I 24 intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding 25 this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys 0228 1 have counseled me that I cannot provide answers to any 2 questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept this 3 advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 4 effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my 5 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 7 Constitution. 8 MR. PIKE: Additionally, just for the Court's 9 record, you're questioning the witness on Exhibit 10 No. what? 11 MR. KUVIN: It's not an exhibit. It's the 12 Town of Palm Beach Incident Report with respect to 13 Jeffrey Epstein, of which I gave you a copy before. 14 And that was referencing, just so the record is 15 clear, page 46. 16 MR. PIKE: Then I would add additional 17 privileges and objections in addition to what 18 Mr. Epstein has already raised underneath Florida 19 Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.220 and work product. EFTA01158611
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20 Not necessarily the document in front of you, but 21 the questions and the answer you're attempting to 22 elicit. 23 BY MR. KUVIN: 24 Q. Whose mobile wireless number is ? 25 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 0229 1 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 2 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 3 any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept 4 this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 5 effective representation. Accordingly, I hereby assert 6 my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 7 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States 8 Constitution. 9 Q. I'm going to read you, for speed's sake, three 10 separate phone numbers, and it's the same question for 11 each. Do you recognize the following phone numbers? 12 They all have Area Code III. The first one is . 13 the second is , and the third is . 14 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 15 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 16 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 17 any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept 18 this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 19 effective representation. Accordingly, I must assert my 20 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 21 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States 22 Constitution. 23 Q. Did have the phone number 24 or or III -- I'm sorry, same number 25 again. So two numbers: Either or ? 0230 1 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 2 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 3 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 4 any questions relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept 5 this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 6 effective representation. Accordingly, I must assert my 7 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 8 6th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. 9 Q. Do you have an egg-shaped penis? 10 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 11 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 12 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 13 any questions that may be relevant to this lawsuit. I 14 must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment 15 right to effective representation. Accordingly, I must 16 assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by 17 the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 18 Constitution. 19 Q. Do you have any identifying marks on your 20 penis? 21 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 22 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 23 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 24 any questions relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept 25 their advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 0231 1 effective representation. Accordingly, I hereby assert 2 my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 3 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States 4 Constitution. EFTA01158612
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 BY 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0232 1 BY MR. KUVIN: 2 Q. Did you ever utilize Dollar-Rent-a-Car to rent 3 cars while you were here in Palm Beach at any time? 4 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions, 5 Mr. Kuvin, regarding this lawsuit; however, at the 6 present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot 7 provide answers to any questions that may prove relevant 8 to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk 9 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 10 representation. Accordingly, I must assert my federal 11 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 12 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. 13 Q. What was your personal cell phone carrier back 14 in 2004? 15 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 16 regarding this lawsuit. 17 Q. Let me make this quicker. I'm sorry for 18 interrupting you, I apologize. Let's say, what was your 19 cell phone carrier back from 2004 through 2006. 20 MR. PIKE: And I'm not objecting to compound; 21 however, there are various allegations in your 22 complaint regarding a time frame. So therefore, 23 with regard to the allegations in your complaint, 24 relative to your question, I'm not objecting to the 25 compound, I'm saying it's overbroad. 0233 1 MR. KUVIN: 2004 to 2006? 2 MR. PIKE: Overbroad and irrelevant based upon 3 the allegations that you've alleged. 4 MR. KUVIN: All right. Well, let me clarify 5 the question then. 6 BY MR. KUVIN: 7 Q. What was your cell phone carrier from 2004 to 8 2005? 9 MR. PIKE: Same objections. 10 BY MR. KUVIN: 11 Q. Well, let me try and fix it again. What was 12 your cell phone carrier from 2005 to 2006? 13 MR. PIKE: Relevance. 14 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 15 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, MR. PIKE: In addition, same objection and privilege which regard to the Florida Rule of Procedure 3.220 and work product. Not necessarily the document you're talking or speaking from, but the testimony. MR. KUVIN: I was just reading this. I wasn't asking questions from this at the moment. MR. KUVIN: Q. Does your penis have any deformities? MR. PIKE: Form. THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers the any questions relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the Constitution, as I've done with most of your questions here today. EFTA01158613
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16 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 17 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 18 to this lawsuit. I must accept their advice or 19 risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 20 representation; therefore, I must assert my federal 21 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 22 and 14th Amendments to the United States 23 Constitution. 24 BY MR. KUVIN: 25 Q. What were the cell phone carriers of or Ghislaine Maxwell from the 2 years 2005 to 2006? 3 MR. PIKE: Relevance. 4 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 5 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit. As I've 6 answered most of your questions the same way today, 7 Mr. Kuvin, at the present time, my attorneys have 8 counseled me I cannot provide answers to any of 9 your questions that may be relevant to this 10 lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing 11 my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. 12 Therefore, accordingly, I assert my federal 13 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 14 and 14th Amendment to the United States 15 Constitution. 16 May we take a break, please? 17 MR. KUVIN: Sure. 18 MR. PIKE: Yes. 19 MR. GOLDBERGER: Yes. 20 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Going off the record at 21 3:21. 22 (A brief recess was taken.) 23 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We're back on the record at 24 3:30. 25 0235 1 BY MR. KUVIN: 2 Q. Here, let me move this out of the way. 3 A. You can take your Joy Jelly home now. 4 Q. It's actually an exhibit to your deposition. 5 A. Sorry. 6 Q. Have you read the police department's, the 7 Palm Beach Police Department's, probable cause 8 affidavit? Have you ever read it? 9 MR. PIKE: Attorney-client, work privilege. 10 BY MR. KUVIN: 11 Q. Have you ever read the police department, Palm 12 Beach Police Department's incident report regarding you? 13 MR. PIKE: Same objection. 14 MR. GOLDBERGER: Same objection. 15 MR. PIKE: And instruction, I'm sorry. 16 BY MR. KUVIN: 17 Q. Are you circumcised? 18 MR. PIKE: Objection, relevance. 19 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 20 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 21 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 22 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 23 to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk 24 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 25 representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal 0236 EFTA01158614
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1 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 2 and 14th Amendments to the United States 3 Constitution. 4 BY MR. KUVIN: 5 Q. Was a search warrant performed and executed at 6 your home on Palm Beach Island? 7 MR. GOLDBERGER: Attorney-client, work 8 privilege. 9 I'll instruct you not to answer. 10 BY MR. KUVIN: 11 Q. Do you know spelled , 12 ; Daniel Estes, spelled E-S-T-E-S; or Douglas 13 Schoettle, S-C-H-O-E-T-T-L-E? 14 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 15 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 16 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 17 any questions relevant to this lawsuit. And as I've 18 answered most of your questions today, Mr. Kuvin, I must 19 accept this advice and risk losing -- or risk losing my 20 6th Amendment right to effective representation. 21 Accordingly, I assert my federal constitutional rights 22 as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments to the 23 United States Constitution. 24 Q. Did you have a chef working for you at your 25 Palm Beach home back in 2005? 0237 1 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 2 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 3 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 4 any questions relevant to this lawsuit at this time. I 5 must accept their advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment 6 right to effective representation. Accordingly, I must 7 assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by 8 the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 9 Constitution. 10 MR. PIKE: Additionally, predicate and 11 foundation. 12 BY MR. KUVIN: 13 Q. Did you own or do you currently own a 2004 14 black Chevy Suburban, bearing Florida tag X99-EGL? 15 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 16 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 17 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 18 any questions that may be relevant to the lawsuit. I 19 must accept their advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment 20 right to effective representation; therefore, I assert 21 my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 22 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 23 Constitution. 24 Q. I think I asked this before, and I apologize 25 if I did, but your date of birth is January 20, 1953, 0238 1 correct? 2 A. You asked that before. 3 Yes, correct. 4 Q. Okay, I'm sorry. 5 Do you own a -- or did you own -- let me 6 clarify. 7 A. Do you want to do compound again? 8 Q. Yeah. Did you or do you currently own a 2005 9 black Cadillac Escalade ESV, bearing Florida license tag 10 Q29-9GT? 11 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions EFTA01158615
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12 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 13 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 14 any questions that may be relevant to the lawsuit. I 15 must accept their advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment 16 right to effective representation. Accordingly, I 17 assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by 18 the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 19 Constitution. 20 Q. Have you hired attorneys for either 21 , Ghislaine Maxwell, or any 22 other -- 23 MR. GOLDBERGER: Attorney-client, work 24 product. 25 Are you done? I'm sorry. 0239 1 BY MR. KUVIN: 2 Q. -- or any other women in this case? 3 MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. Now attorney-client, 4 work product. 5 I direct you not to answer. 6 BY MR. KUVIN: 7 Q. Do you know the name of the girl that was with 8 l'i. when she was brought to your home? 9 MR. PIKE: Form, lack of predicate, 10 foundation. 11 THE WITNESS: Like I've done to many of your 12 other questions and responded to many of your other 13 questions today, Mr. Kuvin, that question -- I must 14 answer that, I intend to answer all relevant 15 questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the 16 present time, my attorneys have counseled me I 17 cannot provide answers to any questions that may be 18 relevant. I must accept this advice or risk losing 19 my 6th Amendment right to effective representation; 20 therefore, I assert my federal constitutional 21 rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th 22 Amendment to the Constitution. 23 BY MR. KUVIN: 24 Q. Did you, in fact, give III. $200 for a -- for 25 her to get naked and give you a massage while you were 0240 1 naked and, in addition, touch her in her vagina without 2 her permission in 2005? 3 MR. PIKE: Predicate, foundation -- 4 THE WITNESS: I believe that's been asked and 5 answered. 6 MR. PIKE: Harassing. And I believe as 7 worded, that question has been asked and answered 8 in sub parts. I believe you've asked those 9 questions initially at the beginning of this 10 deposition. The same objections would, therefore, 11 apply and be incorporated. 12 MR. KUVIN: I disagree, but... 13 THE WITNESS: Like most of your other 14 questions here today, I intend to respond to all 15 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 16 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 17 I cannot provide answers to any questions that may 18 be relevant. I must accept this advice or risk 19 losing my 6th Amendment privilege. Accordingly, I 20 assert my federal constitutional rights as 21 guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to 22 the US Constitution. EFTA01158616
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23 BY MR. KUVIN: 24 Q. Do you agree, sir, that your conduct, with 25 respect to caused her severe emotional distress? 0241 1 MR. PIKE: Same objection. In addition, it's 2 argumentative, harassing and calls for a 3 conclusion. 4 THE WITNESS: I'm going to have to answer that 5 the same way I've answered most of your questions 6 today, Mr. Kuvin, which is, I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I must assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment. BY MR. KUVIN: Q. Do you have gray chest hair? A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any of those questions that may be relevant. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0242 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 0243 Q. Have you told young ladies -- girls under the age of 18, when they came to your house and got naked to give you a massage, quote, the more you do, the more you get paid? MR. PIKE: Objection, form, predicate, foundation, improper hypothetical and assumes facts not in evidence, relevance. THE WITNESS: Like most of your questions, Mr. Kuvin, today, I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. BY MR. KUVIN: Q. Do you have any tattoos? A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 1 effective representation. Accordingly, I must assert my 2 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 3 6th and 14th Amendments to the United States 4 Constitution. 5 Q. Do you have a steam room in your home on Palm 6 Beach Island? 7 MR. PIKE: Same objections. EFTA01158617
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8 THE WITNESS: I'm going to answer that 9 question the same way I've answered most of your 10 questions here today, which is, I intend to respond 11 to all relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; 12 however, at the present time, my attorneys have 13 counseled me that I cannot provide answers to any 14 questions relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept 15 this advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right 16 to effective representation. Accordingly, I must 17 assert my constitutional rights as guaranteed by 18 the 5th -- 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments to the 19 United States Constitution. 20 BY MR. KUVIN: 21 Q. Did you provide payments to underaged girls by 22 utilizing cash and wire transfers through Western Union 23 in 2004 or 2005? 24 MR. PIKE: Same objections as raised to the 25 previous last three questions incorporated here. 0244 1 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 2 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 3 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 4 I cannot provide answers to any questions relevant 5 to the lawsuit. I must accept this advice or risk 6 losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 7 representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal 8 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th 9 and 14th Amendment to the United States 10 Constitution. 11 BY MR. KUVIN: 12 Q. Did you -- excuse me. Did you take any 13 videotapes of girls that were under the age of 18 in 14 your home on Palm Beach Island? 15 MR. PIKE: Same objections incorporated. 16 THE WITNESS: As I have with most of your 17 questions today, I'm going to have to answer that, 18 I intend to respond to all relevant questions 19 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present 20 time, my attorneys have counseled me I cannot 21 provide answers to any questions that may be 22 relevant to this lawsuit. I must accept this 23 advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 24 effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my 25 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 0245 1 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 2 Constitution. 3 BY MR. KUVIN: 4 Q. Have you ever provided a dozen roses to a 5 young girl under the age of 18 who came to your house to 6 give you a massage? 7 MR. PIKE: Form, vague, ambiguous, assumes 8 facts not in evidence. 9 THE WITNESS: I intend to respond to all 10 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 11 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 12 that I cannot provide answers to any questions that 13 may be relevant. I must accept their advice or 14 risk losing my 6th Amendment right to effective 15 representation. Accordingly, I must assert my 16 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 17 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment. 18 BY MR. KUVIN: EFTA01158618
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19 Q. Did you ever instruct anyone to deliver a 20 bucket of roses after a high school drama performance to 21 an underaged girl? 22 MR. PIKE: Same objection. In addition, lacks 23 predicate and foundation. It's overbroad as well. 24 THE WITNESS: I fully intend to respond to all 25 relevant questions regarding this lawsuit; however, 0246 1 at the present time, my attorneys have counseled me 2 that I cannot provide answers to any questions 3 relevant to the lawsuit. I must accept their 4 advice or risk losing my 6th Amendment right to 5 effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my 6 federal constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 7 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment to the United States 8 Constitution. 9 BY MR. KUVIN: 10 Q. Hold on a second. I may be done. 11 Do you know a Dr. Kaku, K-A-K-U? 12 A. I intend to respond to all relevant questions 13 regarding this lawsuit; however, at the present time, my 14 attorneys have counseled me I cannot provide answers to 15 any questions that may be relevant. I must accept this 16 advice or risk losing my 6th right to effective 17 representation. Accordingly, I assert my federal 18 constitutional rights as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th and 19 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. 20 MR. PIKE: Can you hold on one second? 21 MR. KUVIN: I'm almost done. 22 MR. PIKE: No, no. We're not going anywhere. 23 MR. KUVIN: Okay. 24 MR. PIKE: Okay. 25 0247 1 MR. KUVIN: Okay. All right, I appreciate 2 your patience. That's all the questions that I 3 have right now. I know that Mr. Goldberger needs 4 to deal with an issue right now with Ms. Ezell 5 regarding any further questions. 6 MR. GOLDBERGER: I think we clarified that. 7 Ms. Ezell, are you there? 8 MS. EZELL: I'm here. 9 MR. GOLDBERGER: Yeah. You had a discussion 10 with Bob Critton already concerning the question 11 you raised with me earlier, right? 12 MS. EZELL: Yes, I did, and I don't have any 13 questions. 14 MR. PIKE: Ms. Ezell, this is Michael Pike. I 15 don't know what your conversation was with Bob, but 16 did you cross notice this deposition? 17 MS. EZELL: No, I did not. 18 MR. PIKE: So what is your purpose of being 19 here? 20 My position is that these are closed 21 proceedings and your client, your client did not 22 cross notice this deposition and/or your clients. 23 So what is your purpose of sitting in on this 24 deposition? 25 MS. EZELL: Well, I received a notice of it, 0248 1 and I just thought I would listen to it while I was 2 doing some other work. And I don't know why it 3 would be a closed proceeding. EFTA01158619
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4 MR. PIKE: Discovery proceedings are closed if 5 it's a pre-trial discovery, ma'am, it's not a court 6 proceeding. 7 Nonetheless, do you have any questions for the 8 witness? 9 MS. EZELL: No, I don't. 10 MR. PIKE: And Ms. Holmes, who are you here on 11 behalf of? Which clients? 12 MS. HOLMES: III. and III. 13 MR. PIKE: Are you also here on behalf of Jane 14 Doe in the case 80893? 15 MS. HOLMES: I believe so, yes. 16 MR. PIKE: Do you have any questions for the 17 witness? 18 MS. HOLMES: No, I do not. 19 MR. GOLDBERGER: Katherine, we're going to 20 end. Do you want me to disconnect you now? 21 MS. EZELL: Yes, thanks. 22 MR. GOLDBERGER: Okay. 23 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Conclude the deposition and 24 go off the record at 3:00 -- 25 MR. PIKE: Wait one second. 0249 1 MR. KUVIN: Oh, wait. 2 MR. GOLDBERGER: He's just going to read. 3 MR. PIKE: You didn't give the witness a 4 chance to read or waive and he'll read. 5 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Conclude the deposition and 6 go off the record at 3:48. This will be the end of 7 tape No. 3. 8 9 (Witness excused.) 10 (Deposition was concluded.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0250 1 CERTIFICATE OF OATH 2 THE STATE OF FLORIDA 3 COUNTY OF PALM BEACH 4 5 6 I, the undersigned authority, certify that 7 JEFFREY EPSTEIN personally appeared before me and was 8 duly sworn on the 8th day of October, 2009. 9 10 Dated this 8th day of October, 2009. 11 12 13 14 EFTA01158620
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15 Jeana Ricciuti, RPR, FPR, CLR 16 Notary Public - State of Florida My Commission Expires: 2/17/2013 17 My Commission No.: DD 854778 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0251 1 CERTIFICATE 2 THE STATE OF FLORIDA 3 COUNTY OF PALM BEACH 4 5 I, Jeana Ricciuti, Registered Professional Reporter and Notary Public in and for the State of 6 Florida at large, do hereby certify that I was authorized to and did report said deposition in 7 stenotype; and that the foregoing pages are a true and correct transcription of my shorthand notes of said 8 deposition. 9 I further certify that said deposition was taken at the time and place hereinabove set forth and 10 that the taking of said deposition was commenced and completed as hereinabove set out. 11 I further certify that I am not attorney or 12 counsel of any of the parties, nor am I a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel of party connected 13 with the action, nor am I financially interested in the action. 14 The foregoing certification of this transcript 15 does not apply to any reproduction of the same by any means unless under the direct control and/or direction 16 of the certifying reporter. 17 Dated this 8th day of October, 2009. 18 19 20 21 Jeana Ricciuti, RPR, FPR, CLR 22 23 24 25 0252 1 DATE: October 22, 2009 2 TO: JEFFREY EPSTEIN c/o Michael J. Pike 3 BURMAN, CRITTON, LUTTIER & COLEMAN, P.A. 303 Banyan Boulevard 4 Suite 400 West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 5 IN RE: 'gm. v. EPSTEIN 6 Please take notice that on Thursday, the 8th EFTA01158621
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7 of October, 2009, you gave your deposition in the above-referred matter. At that time, you did not waive 8 signature. It is now necessary that you sign your deposition. 9 As previously agreed to, the transcript will be furnished to you through your counsel. Please read 10 the following instructions carefully: At the end of the transcript you will find an 11 errata sheet. As you read your deposition, any changes or corrections that you wish to make should be noted on 12 the errata sheet, citing page and line number of said change. DO NOT write on the transcript itself. Once 13 you have read the transcript and noted any changes, be sure to sign and date the errata sheet and return these 14 pages to me. If you do not read and sign the deposition 15 within a reasonable time (i.e., 30 days unless otherwise directed) the original, which has already been forwarded 16 to the ordering attorney, may be filed with the Clerk of the Court. If you wish to waive your signature, sign 17 your name in the blank at the bottom of this letter and return it to us. 18 Very truly yours, 19 20 Jeana Ricciuti, RPR, FPR, CLR 21 Prose Court Reporting Agency, INC. 250 S. Australian Avenue, Ste 1500 22 West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 23 I do hereby waive my signature. 24 25 JEFFREY EPSTEIN 0253 1 CERTIFICATE 2 3 THE STATE OF FLORIDA 4 COUNTY OF PALM BEACH 5 I hereby certify that I have read the 6 foregoing deposition by me given, and that the 7 statements contained herein are true and correct to the 8 best of my knowledge and belief, with the exception of 9 any corrections or notations made on the errata sheet, 10 if one was executed. 11 12 Dated this day of 13 2009. 14 15 16 17 18 19 JEFFREY EPSTEIN 20 21 22 23 24 25 0254 1 ERRATA SHEET 2 IN RE: Ili. v. EPSTEIN CR: JEANA RICCIUTI EFTA01158622
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3 DEPOSITION OF: JEFFREY EPSTEIN 4 TAKEN: October 8, 2009 5 DO NOT WRITE ON TRANSCRIPT - ENTER CHANGES HERE 6 PAGE # LINE # CHANGE REASON 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Please forward the original signed errata sheet to this office so that copies may be distributed to all parties. 18 Under penalty of perjury, I declare that I have read my 19 deposition and that it is true and correct subject to any changes in form or substance entered here. 20 21 22 23 24 25 DATE: SIGNATURE OF DEPONENT: EFTA01158623
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