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y. And that I was named as an llionaire what could happen to sed of sexual misconduct. And settle a lawsuit or pay money in being mentioned or revealed. I | didn’t —1 didn’t ask about this. 2n corroborated the fact that she rything she had said to me.
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the evening news, and the show Nightline. ...1 then was in communication with ABC and helped to persuade them that they would be putting false information on the air if they allowed Virginia Roberts to tell her false story. So I was able to corroborate that. I then also corroborated the fact that she had never mentioned me when her boyfriend appeared on television and publicly stated that she had never mentioned me in any of her description[s] of people who she had sexual contact with. So I was then completely satisfied that Rebecca was telling me the complete truth. And that in my view, there was an extortion plot directed against Leslie Wexner, a crimi- nal extortion plot directed against Leslie Wexner, and that your clients were involved in that extortion plot.
: Let's see if we can make sure that we're understanding one another, sir, Do you recognize that there’s a distinction between Virginia Roberts having met you, having been sexu- ally abused by you on multiple occasions, but not wanting to name you as opposed to Virginia Roberts never having met you and never having been sexually abused by you...? Are those two things different in your mind?
: Not in the context of this case. Because Virginia Roberts said
that she was going to seek justice from everybody that had
abused her. And if she didn’t want to name me, I think the inference is inescapable that I was not among those people
that she had had any sexual contact with. So that was cer- tainly the inference I drew. ...
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