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Prof. Dershowitz, Tell Me How You Really Feel
Harvard's legendary law professor chats with the Careerist about the recent sex allegations, his enemies and the "cesspool."
By Vivia Chen | January 15, 2015 at 06:19 PM | Originally published on The American Lawyer
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Alan Dershowitz, arguably the most famous—and maybe infamous—law professor in the land, wants to set the record straight. When he heard that | was writing about his relationship with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the related allegation that Dershowitz engaged in sex with a minor, he tracked me down to tell his side of the story.
The backdrop: Dershowitz was part of a legal team that had negotiated a plea deal in 2008 in which Epstein pleaded guilty to felony charges in Florida for soliciting prostitution
from a minor. Epstein served 13 months in prison but was spared federal charges under
the deal. Last December, lawyers Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassellfiled suit against
the U.S. government, arguing that the plea deal violated the rights of Epstein’s alleged sex victims; the suit also alleges that Dershowitz had sex with one of the victims when she was under age. Dershowitz has denied all the allegations, and Edwards and Cassell have filed a defamation suit against Dershowitz for calling them liars.
The following are excerpts from my two phone conversations with Dershowitz:
From what I’ve read, your relationship with Epstein seemed chummy. You socialized with him and you and your family stayed at his various homes. Isn’t ita
bad idea for a lawyer to be so close to a notorious client?
Let me tell you how | met him. | was introduced to him by Lady de Rothschild as an academic colleague. He was friendly with Larry Summers. . . He was in the process of
contributing $50 million to Harvard for evolutionary biology.
So Epstein was friendly with all sorts of Harvard muckety-mucks.
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