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sexual contact with Virginia Roberts. I know that it was alleged that I was a witness to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged abuse, and that was false. I was never a witness to any of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse. And I wrote that to you, something that you have falsely denied. And I stand on the record. The record is clear that I have categorically denied I was ever a witness to any abuse, that I ever saw Jeffrey Epstein abusing anybody. And—and the very idea that 1 would stand and talk to Jeffrey Epstein while he was receiving oral sex from Virginia Roberts, which she swore to under oath, is so outra- geous, so preposterous, that even David Boies [a prominent
lawyer associated with the firm representing Virginia Rob- erts] said he couldn't believe it was true.
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fore December of 2014, when the that your name had come up
1 Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minors,
-e 2014, end of December, was it acted in any way inappropriately 12:24 p.m. erts, that I ever touched her, that
1x been with her. I was completely Q: You engaged in a mass-media campaign to convince the
world that Bradley Edwards and Professor Paul Cassell were
unethical lawyers who had fabricated false charges against you, correct?
never been any allegation. She ~ told you that secretly in 2011, but 3 i ‘s of any such conversation. You, . ris allegation and will be deposed on. I believe it is an entirely false J in 2011 that she had had any sex- 4 nk she’s lying through her teeth 3 doubt that your notes will reveal if she did tell you that, she would” lying. So I am completely aware
: No, that’s not correct. I responded to press inquiries by tell- ing the truth. My goal was to let the world know that Vir- ginia Roberts's allegations against me were totally false. These two stories appeared, as far as I can tell, in every single newspaper in the world and on every media, which was part of their plot and the plan of your clients, which is why they absurdly mentioned Prince Andrew, claiming in the most absurd way—that they mentioned him because he was try-
ing to lobby prosecutors to get a reduced sentence for Jeffrey
were put in a legal pleading at - was never alleged that I had any
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