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The Coach, the Accuser, and the Epstein Network Allegation · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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In today's episode, we're gonna be talking a little bit
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more about Leon Black and the lawsuit that he has
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going on with his accuser, who says that she was
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trafficked to Leon Black by her cheerleading coach. Well, now
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that cheerleading coach has responded to those allegations and she
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says none of it ever happened. So let's dive into
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this article from the Daily Beast and let's see what
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Kate Bricklett has for us headline, cheerleading coach, I never
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trafficked teen girl to Leon Black. This article was authored
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by Kate Bricklett, And what is she supposed to say? Oh, yeah,
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I was engaging in that I trafficked that girl to
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Leon Black. I brought her over to Leon Black's house.
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That would be incriminating and she'd be setting herself up
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for criminal charges if she admitted that. So taking what
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she has to say here at face value is probably
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not the right way to go. We're gonna need some
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evidence one way or the other. Not long after, a
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woman sewed Leon Black, claiming he raped her at sex
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trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's New York townhouse when she was just
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sixteen years old. The billionaire targeted her lawyers with a
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request for sanctions. The private equity moguls attorneys argue that
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Whigdor LLP, the firm representing Jane Though, failed to properly
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vetter claims, and that Doe's own family has questioned her
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accusations and said she has a long history of dreaming
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up alternate realities. Wigdor denies Black's allegation, and there's a
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lot to unpack here, There's no doubt about it. We
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always have to keep in mind people making false claims.
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That does happen. But when we're dealing with Jeffrey Epstein
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and his bullshit, I am much more inclined to listen
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to what people have to say and believe what they
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have to say because there's such a track record here
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of this happening. So whenever anybody comes out with claims
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against Epstein or his pals, you better believe that I'm listening. Now,
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that doesn't mean that every single claim that is made
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is true, So we have to make sure that we're
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paying attention to what's going on and that people aren't
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trying to benefit personally off of other people's tragedy, and
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unfortunately we have seen that several times here when it
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comes to Jeffrey Epstein. While Black's lawyer Susan Estrich submitted
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a memorandum in support of sanctions in September, a redacted
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version of the document was filed to the court docket
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this week, along with declarations from Black's private investigator and Elizabeth,
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a former cheerleading mentor of the accuser who is a
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central figure in those lawsuits. As The Daily Beast reported,
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those can plaint alleges that Elizabeth groomed her before sending
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her into the clutches of predator Epstein and his accomplice
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Gallainne Maxwell, who then handed her off the Black to
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be a used in twenty twenty two. According to the suit,
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Doe's abuse began soon after she signed up for the
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then forty something Elizabeth's cheerleading program. The filing alleges that
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while Doe live with Elizabeth in high school, the coach
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and her male partner forced her to watch them have sex.
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So Doe has made a whole bunch of claims. She
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has said that this cheerleading coach was the person the
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conduit who sent her into the clutches of Maxwell and
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of Epstein. Well, according to this cheerleading coach, none of
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that happened. Now. Like I said in the opening, we
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have to keep in mind that if the cheerleading coach
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admitted to any of this, she'd be leaving herself open
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took criminal charges. So for self preservation purposes, the obvious
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move is to deny that it ever happened. Now. In
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a newly unsealed declaration, one of Doe's former mentors says
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she believes she's the Elizabeth referenced in the complaint and
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challenge those claims as untrue. I have never physically, sexually
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or psychologically abused plaintiff, the woman stated in the court filing,
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before denying some of Thoo's other claims, including that she
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threatened Doe with a gun and force Doe to watch
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her have sex. And those are some serious, serious claims,
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claims that can ruin people's lives. So if these allegations
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are not true and that's provable, well, the person who's
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making the claims, they should face some justice as well,
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because if this lady isn't involved here and you're dragging
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her name in the mud, like this, she should have
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some kind of recourse. No. Now, look, I'm not saying
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that that's the case. I don't know. I wasn't there.
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But anybody who would make false claims like this is
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somebody that should be punished because there's way too many
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stories out there of this really happening for people to
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go and make false claims and make it harder for
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actual victims to really come forward and get the help
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they need. So there has to be some kind of
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penalty for people that are messing around. During the entire
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time I knew her plaintiff never mentioned Jeffrey Epstein, Glene Maxwell,
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Sarah Kellen, or Leon Black. I have no reasonab believe
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she has ever met any of them, let alone that
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she was abused by them, as alleged in her complaint.
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The mentor claimed Dough participated in the cheerleading program as
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a sixteen year old and could not have fit into
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a uniform for eight to twelve year olds, as Dough
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claimed in her suit. Now, look, the court's going to
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look at all of this, and they're going to take
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a look at what everybody's saying as far as testimony,
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and that's how they're going to render their decision, and
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if anybody thought that Leon Black, of all people, was
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going to take this laying down, they have not been
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paying attention to who Leon Black is and to what
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Apollo Global used to be under him. She added that
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Dough briefly live with her after graduate wedding high school
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in two thousand and three, since her home was close
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to Doe's college. To be clear, plaintiff never live with
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me or stayed overnight with me while she was in
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high school, the mentor continued. The woman said that if
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those allegations are referring to her, they're completely untrue. In
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her own legal memorandum filed on Wednesday night, Doe's lawyer,
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Gene M. Christensen argue that Black's use of Elizabeth's declaration
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to try to show that Whigdor failed to reasonably investigate
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is absurd. As evident by Miss Doe's complaint, the conduct
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that Elizabeth engaged in could potentially subject Elizabeth to criminal charges.
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Christiansen stated, one thousand percent, you say something like that,
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you're leaving yourself open to a whole host of criminal
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charges come in your way. A self serving declaration from
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a person who helps sexually exploit Miss Doe is not
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proof of anything in connection with Whigdor's preltigation to do diligence.
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This is material for Black's public relations and media outlet
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tor So basically, she's saying that all of this has
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to do with trying to sway public opinion and trying
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to make it look like Leon Black is getting railroaded.
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The sanctions motion, Christensen added, was intended to publicly disseminate
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the message that those allegations are false. While injecting his
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own counter statements of fact, Christiansen said the glaring omission
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of an affid David from a single person referenced as
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the family and friends upon whom Black's private investigator relied
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to create his conclusion of fact speaks volumes. Christensen told
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The Daily Beast that Black's motion for sanctions is a
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blatant attempt to punish and intimidate our client, who was
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a miner when she alleges Black violently sexually assaulted her
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at Epstein's townhouse. Black wants to punish Whigdor for representing
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her and and he hopes his bullying will deter other
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lawyers and victims. Christiansen added, Black shamefully acts as if
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he is a victim, as if a billionaire who paid
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Epstein one hundred and fifty million dollars for purported legal
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and tax advice, even though Epstein was a human sex trafficker,
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not a lawyer or tax advisor, has nothing to hide.
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She's not wrong about any of that either. There needs
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to be a serious inquiry into Leon Black's relationship with
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Jeffrey Epstein. And I don't mean that bs we see
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in the Senate. This is why I get so aggravated
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that there wasn't a Rico case here, because all of
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this would have been squared away by now. Christiansen repeated
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her assertion that Black's attempt at sanctions were meant to
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intimidate and retaliate against Doe in a September seventh letter
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to Estrich Fild As an exhibit Black's position that declarations
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and statements from parties directly opposed to Miss Doe, including
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her a strange birth parents, the woman she alleges facilitated
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her trafficking, and close associates of Jeffrey Epstein, conclusively establishes
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that her claims are untrue. For purposes of Rule eleven,
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would be laughable were it not so reprehensible, Christensen wrote,
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and I do agree with Christensen about the bullying. There's
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no doubt that Leon Black brought in the big guns
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for this purpose. He wants you to feel like you
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have nowhere to go, like the walls are closing in
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on you, your own family, they're turning on you, your friends,
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they're turning on you. And that's all part of the
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big intimidation campaign that people like Leon Black engage in
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whenever they're accused of something. Christensen then referred to an
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August twenty fifth letter from Mestrich, who wrote that references
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to certain individuals like Epstein's assistance, Leslie Groff, and Sarah
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Kellen were pure fiction. Estrich said that Groff and Kellen's
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representatives informed them that they had never heard of d Oh.
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So we're gonna believe Sarah Kellen Vickers, We're gonna believe
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Leslie Groff. Sure, the Core four not exactly what I
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would call or consider reliable narrators. It is confounding that
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you are suggesting someone such as Sarah Kellen would admit
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to doing the thing she has been accused of, Christensen wrote,
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especially since such acts may subject her to potential criminal charges.
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We are fully confident in our investigation and inquiry that
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was more than reasonable of our client's claims. Christensen continued,
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you repeated hyperbolic narrative about Whigdor filing the action recklessly
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or without any factual basis is utter nonsense. Still, Estrich
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told The Daily Beast that the cheerleading coach's declaration is
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just one that throws cold water on those accusations. We
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have said all along that Jane Doe's claims are false
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and made up, Estridge said in a statement. This declaration,
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like others, which include statements made by family members and friends,
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confirms that this has been made up and totally fabricated
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all along. Estrich said, Black is seeking Rule eleven sanctions
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penalties district courts can impose for the filing of frivolous
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lawsuits based on the knowing falsity of these claims. She added,
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this has been an abuse of the legal system and
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a miscarriage of justice from the get go. What you
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really mean is what all of the victims of Epstein
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went through. That's a miscarriage of justice. This is just
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a little bump in the road for your rich ass,
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punk ass client, Leon Black. Those lawsuit alleges that she
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is autistic and has a rare condition known as mosaic
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down syndrome, resulting in developmental disabilities and health issues. Although
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Miss Doe has an above average intelligence quotient, her developmental
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age is around twelve years old, the complaint says, adding
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that she was a perfect target for Jeffrey Epstein and
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his accomplished glene Maxwell Black's team has previously suggested that Doe,
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as an adult, has faked having these medical issues. In
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a separate declaration filed by Black, his eighty three year
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old private eye said he taped interviews with the cheerleading coach,
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Doe's parents, sister, and and cousin, as well as high
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school classmates and others who contradicted those claims in her lawsuit.
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Eighty three year old private investigator. Shouldn't that dude be
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sitting at his retirement home eating pudding? What do you mean?
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Eighty three year old private investigator. The investigator claims that
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some interviewees told him that Doe has a history of
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using different names and personas, never traveled to Florida, New York,
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or the usviwhall in high school and didn't miss school
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or fell a grade. Doe's lawsuit, however, says that Elizabeth
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farmed her out to Epstein and Maxwell so long, often
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sending her to the Palm Beach in US virgin Islands,
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that she failed her junior year of high school. According
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to the complaint, Doe first met Maxwell in the summer
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of two thousand and one, after Elizabeth and her male
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partner transported her to a party in Washington, d C. Suburbs.
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The following week, Dough claims Elizabeth put the teenager on
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a private plane from Virginia to Palm Beach, where Maxwell
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and Epstein would train her to sexually service the multi millionaire.
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In late spring or early summer of two thousand and two,
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the complaint states, Elizabeth informed Doe that she would be
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heading to New York City to meet Epstein's special friend,
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Leon Black. The lawsuit goes on to describe Black allegedly
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throwing the teen down on a massage table and violently
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attacking her to the point that she began bleeding. Although
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Epstein traffic plaintiff to other men both before and after Black,
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she was never again taken to NYC. The violent and
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sadistic nature of Black's rape left an indelible mark on
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her both physically and psychologically. The lawsuit says Doe isn't
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the only person to accuse Black of sexual assault in
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recent years. Sherry Pearson sued a multi billionaire last November,
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accusing him of raping her at Epstein's Manhattan mansion in
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two thousand and two, and former model Guzell Ganieva claimed
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in a twenty twenty one defamation lawsuit that he abused
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her for years and coerced her into signing an NDA.
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All three women were represented by Whigdor LLP, though Ganieva
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parted ways with the litigation firm before her suit was
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dismissed two months later. Black denies the women's accusations and
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claimed he was in a consensual relationship with Ganijeva before
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she allegedly extorted him for millions of dollars. He has
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two pending lawsuits, one alleging malicious prosecution against Ganieva and
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Whigdor LLP in New York State court. A third federal suit,
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accusing Kanieva of conspiring with a former business partner, Apollo
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Global Management co founder Josh Harris, to destroy his reputation,
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was dismissed by a judge who called it glaringly deficient,
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and the whole entire battle with Josh Harris had to
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do with the fact that, after Leon blackstepped down, that
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Josh Harris was passed over for that position. The litigation
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underscores how Black's friendship with Epstein continues to haunt him.
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In twenty twenty one, Black step down as chairman of
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the Museum of Modern Art and the CEO of Apollo
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after his firm's internal review of his ties to Epstein.
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Apollo's report revealed that Black paid Epstein one hundred and
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fifty eight million dollars from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen
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for financial advice. In January, Black paid the US Virgin
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Island sixty two and a half million to settle claims
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related to the government's probe into Epstein's trafficking scheme. The
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New York Times, which first reported on the payout, noted
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that Black agreed to pay in cash. Of course he did.
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Dude has more money than you could possibly imagine. And
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it's because he has all that money that he's never
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ever gonna really get into trouble. We all know that
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him and Epstein were in bed big time. And we
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all know that there was a ton of financial malfeasance.
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The problem is the DOJ refuses to go after these people.
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And you know why, right because when all is said
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and done, it's the financial sector that's really running this country, hell,
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that's really running the world. So all these little goofy
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politicians everybody's fighting over all the time. You're just spinning
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your wheels in neutral honestly, because they're not even making
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the decisions. Like everything else in life, he who pays
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the bills makes the decisions, all right, everybody that's gonna
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do it for this one. All of the information, including
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my contact information, can be found in the description box
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