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‘This was a typical 14-year-old girl. ... What happened here was despicable.’ JEFFREY HERMAN, lawyer for parents of girl, now 17, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault
Palm Beach man faces lawsuit in teen sex case
By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH — The parents of a teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resi- dent Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million on Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money manager had her brought to his mansion for a massage, then engaged in sexual activity with her.
The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 at the time. She was the youngest of sev- eral alleged victims of Epstein, according to Palm Beach police, who spent 11 months investigating him.
The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami at- torhey Jeffrey Herman, says “Epstein has a sexual preference and obsession for under
" age minor girls.” Epstein “gained access to
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primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted these -girls, and then gave them money.”
Herman, who specializes in. child sex -
abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother on grounds of sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of parental con- sortium. . Jane Doe ... fell into Epstein’s trap and became one of his victims,” the lawsuit says. “We're dismayed by the filing of the law- suit, but not surprised,” said Jack Goldberger,
‘xgone of Epstein; attorneys. “We think this
shows what this case is all about: money.”
He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez, launched an immediate. counterof- fensive, even. showing up at Herman’s news conference outside the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. They distributed copies of documents showing that the girls father and
Lawyer Jeffrey: Her- man (left) conducts a news conference Thursday with the fa- ther and stepmother of a girl who claims wealthy money man- ager Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her ind 2005. The parents seek more than
$50 million in their lawsuit. Epstein, who faces a prostitution solicitation charge, is scheduled to enter a plea March 10.
BILL INGRAM Staff Photographer
stepmother have prior arrests for financial
crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is fi- -
nancially motivated. Another Epstein lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York crim- inal defense attorney, provided some of those
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