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Theresa Helm And Her Lawsuit Filed Against The Epstein Estate (Part 2) (5/2/26) · 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 this episode, we're going to continue taking a look
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  at the Teresa Helm allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and the
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  Jeffrey Epstein of state. So let's get right back to it. B.
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  The arrest, prosecution, and death of Epstein twenty seven. The
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  sexual trafficking ring described here in started at least as
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  early as nineteen ninety five and continued up until at
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  least July second, twenty nineteen, when the US Attorney's Office
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  for the Southern District of New York charged Epstein with
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  sex trafficking, conspiracy, and sex trafficking in violation of US
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  Code eighteen, Section fifteen ninety one. He was arrested on
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  July eighth, twenty nineteen, pursuing to the sdnyse sealed to
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  count indictment, which is attached as Exhibit A twenty eight.
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  The indictment described Epstein's conduct and his abuse and trafficking
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  of females in the same trafficking operationation he used to
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  abuse in Traffic Plaintiff twenty nine, Epstein's last will and testament.
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  The will was executed on August eighth, twenty nineteen at
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  the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The witnesses were Mariel Cologne Miro
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  and Gulnara Tali. The will included abid davids from Darren
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  ky Endyke and Richard D. Con in which they swear
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  an oath of willingness to serve as executor and the
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  appointment of local council thirty. Epstein was found dead in
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  his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August tenth
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  of twenty nineteen thirty one. Epstein's last will and testament
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  was filed on August fifteenth, twenty nineteen, in the Probate
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  Division of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. Thirty two.
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  Darren Kyendyke and Richard D. kN filed a certificate of
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  trust in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands for
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  Epstein's nineteen fifty three trust on August twenty six, twenty nineteen.
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  See Certificate of Trust in the Matter of the Estate
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  of Jeffrey Epstein, Probate Number st Dash nineteen Dash PB
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  Dash eighty, Superior Court, Virgin Islands, August twenty six, twenty
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  nineteen thirty three. Epstein's will was entered in the probate
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  on September sixth, twenty nineteen, and the Superior Court of
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  the Virgin Islands accordingly authorized Darren k Endyke and Richard D.
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  Con to administer Epstein's estate. See Order for Probate in
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  the Matter of the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, Probate Number
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  st Dash nineteen Dash PB Dash eighty, Superior Court, Virgin Islands,
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  September six, twenty nineteen, Letters Testamentary thirty four. The will's
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  first article directs Epstein's executors to pay from my estate
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  all expenses of my last illness, my funeral and burial expenses,
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  and administration expenses of my estate, and all of my
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  debts duly proven and allowed against my estate. The will
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  further directs that, after the payments and distributions provided an
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  article first, Epstein gives all of my property, real and personal,
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  wherever situated to then acting trustees of the nineteen fifty
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  three Trust thirty five. Following Epstein's death, SDNWY submitted a
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  proposed an order in the criminal matter against them, because
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  it was required by law to do so. After Epstein
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  was deceased on August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, US District
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  Judge Richard Berman formally dismissed sdnwy's indictment against Epstein, terminating
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  the criminal action against them. Plaintiff's claims are therefore timely
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  under NYCPLR Section two fifteen eight and ay. Teresa Helm
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  thirty six. In or around September two thousand and two,
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  Teresa was twenty two years old and living in Santa Monica, California.
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  She was working towards obtaining her certificate in massage therapy
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  at California Healing Arts College. A fellow massage therapy s
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  student approached Teresa and asked if she would be interested
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  in a traveling masseuse's position. The student explained to Teresa
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  that the position involved traveling around the world on a
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  private jet with a wealthy couple. Teresa expressed interest. Thirty seven.
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  The student arranged for Teresa to meet an employee of
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  the couple at Santa Monica Beach. That woman was Sarah Kellen,
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  one of Epstein's co conspirators and recruiters. Thirty eight, Teresa
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  and Kellen discussed the position for about an hour. Kellen
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  made the job sound like a dream, explaining that Teresa
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  would be working for a highly educated and a worldly
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  couple in New York with her own private jet. Kellen
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  told Teresa that she would be taken to lavish parties,
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  receive expensive clothes, travel all over the world in luxury,
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  and receive the best education available all around the world.
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  Thirty nine, about two weeks after her initial interview with Kellen,
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  Kellen told Teresa that the couple wanted to fly her
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  to New York for another interview. The couple bought her
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  a ticket for a flight from California to New York
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  City forty. When she arrived, a driver brought Teresa to
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  an apartment building in Manhattan, where he said Teresa would
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  be staying upon information and belief. That apartment building was
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  on sixty sixth Street and is where Epstein housed many
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  of the models and young women he was abusing. Forty one.
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  Once she arrived, Teresa received instructions by telephone to go
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  to Glen Maxwell's home the following day. Maxwell is a
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  British socialite and one of Epstein's primary recruiters of young women.
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  Teresa did as she was told and went to Maxwell's
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  home the next day. She was greeted by a butler
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  and shown into a large sitting room. She noticed a
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  frame photograph of Maxwell and a former high US government
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  official in the bathroom. Forty two. When Teresa went back
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  into the sitting room, Maxwell came in wearing only a bathrobe.
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  She and Teresa spoke for about an hour. She had
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  to set up the massage table, and Teresa proceeded to
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  give Maxwell a massage as she had been trained to do.
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  Forty three. After the massage, Maxwell informed Teresa that she
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  would be meeting Epstein for a massage and an interview.
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  Maxwell bragged about Epstein's mansion and called it the largest
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  brownstone in Manhattan. She then paid Teresa one hundred dollars
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  for the massage and told her to give Epstein whatever
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  he wants during his massage, because Epstein always gets what
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  he wants. Forty four, when Teresa returned to the sixty
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  sixth Street apartment building, she received a call with instructions
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  to go to Epstein's mansion. She walked to Epstein's mansion
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  as instructed and was overwhelmed by its lavishness. She was
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  told to wait in what appeared to be in office
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  forty five. Eventually, Epstein led Teresa upstairs and down a
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  hallway to his personal office. Forty six, Epstein asked Teresa
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  to sit down and began asking her personal questions. He
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  eventually asked her to give I'm a foot massage. She
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  agreed and placed his foot in her lap so that
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  she could begin the massage. As Teresa began massaging Epstein's foot,
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  he started pressing his foot against intimate parts of Teresa's body.
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  Teresa became uncomfortable, adjusted her position and moved Epstein's foot
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  up to keep it away from her body, but Epstein
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  continued pushing his foot into her body. Forty seven. Teresa
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  tried to remain calm and professional despite Epstein's non consensual touching.
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  She asked Epstein to change his position so she can
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  massage them at a different angle, but Epstein continued to
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  push his foot into her intimate parts of Teresa's body.
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  Forty eight, While still on the couch in Epstein's office,
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  Epstein got close to Teresa, grabbed her chin with his hand,
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  turned her face toward him, and said that he knew
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  he could trust Teresa. Specifically, he said, I know I
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  can always trust a woman who shows her gums when
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  she smiles. Epstein's actions tear cify Teresa forty nine. Epstein
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  then got up to walk Teresa out of the room.
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  Teresa was walking in front of Epstein when he abruptly
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  grabbed her and proceeded to sexually assault her against her will.
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  Teresa stopped walking, and Epstein then forcefully grabbed her and
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  sexually assaulted her again. Teresa was frozen with shock and fear.
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  Once Epstein released her, she continued walking towards the front
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  door of the mansion fifty Just before Teresa stepped out
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  the front door, Epstein grabbed her, bought ox and said,
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  don't do anything I wouldn't do. Teresa proceeded to leave
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  Epstein's mansion and went back to the sixty sixth Street
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  apartment building fifty one. Teresa was devastated that the traveling
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  masseuse's position was not what she had anticipated. She was
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  also scared because she recognized Epstein was a very powerful person.
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  On what Kellen had told her and the photographs and
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  other clear displays of wealth in his home fifty two,
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  Epstein made very clear to Teresa that he was incredibly wealthy, powerful,
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  and regularly in contact with world leaders. In fact, in
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  his New York mansion he had photographs displayed of significant
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  political figures to ensure that any young female entering the
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  home would know that he had extensive government connections. Epstein
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  was not to be disobeyed, and he made clear by
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  his words and actions that there would be consequences if
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  Teresa did not comply with his demands. Fifty three. When
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  Teresa got back to California, she received an email from
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  one of Epstein's co conspirators thanking her for her visit
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  to New York and letting her know that Epstein and
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  his co conspirators would need to decide whether or not
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  they wanted to hire her. She did not respond to
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  the email. Fifty four. Due to the distress caused by
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  Epstein's assault, Teresa did not finish massage therapy school with
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  the same certification that she initially set out to achieve.
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  Teresa also ended up leaving California and moving back to
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  Ohio a few short months after the assault. Fifty five.
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  Teresa was deeply affected by the assault, and she suffered
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  severe emotional distress from an experience that has affected her
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  for her entire life. Fifty six. Epstein's sexual assault and
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  battery of Teresa continues to cause her significant distress and harm.
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  First cause of action battery fifty seven. Plaintiff repeats and
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  realleges the allegation stated above and paragraphs one through fifty six,
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  as it fully set forth herein fifty eight, Epstein intentionally
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  committed battery by sexually assaulting plaintiff when she was a
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  young woman. As described above, Epstein intentionally touched intimate parts
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  of Plaintiff's body in an offensive and sexual manner without
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  her consent. Fifty six. A criminal action against Epstein with
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  respect to the same sex trafficking enterprise from which Plaintiff's
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  first cause of action arises was terminated on August twenty ninth,
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  twenty nineteen, less than a year prior to the filing
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  of this complaint ce NYCPLR Section two fifteen eight A
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  sixty As a direct and proximate result of Epstein's conduct,
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  Plaintiff has in the past and will in the future
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  continue to suffer extreme emotional distress, humiliation, fear, psychological trauma,
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  loss of dignity and self esteem, and invasion of her privacy.
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  Second cause of action intentional infliction of emotional distress sixty one.
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  Plaintiff repeats and re alleges the allegation stated above in
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  paragraphs one through fifty six, as it fully set forth
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  here in sixty two. As a direct result of these allegations,
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  as stated, Epstein committed intentional infliction of emotional distress against plaintiff.
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  Sixty three. Epstein's actions described above constitute extreme and outrageous
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  conduct that shocks the conscience. Epstein's plan to recruit, entice
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  and assault plaintiff goes beyond all possible bounds of decency
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  and as intolerable in a civilized community. Sixty four, Epstein
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  knew or disregarded the substantial likelihood that these actions would
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  cause plaintiff severe emotional distress. Sixty five a criminal action
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  against Epstein with respect to the same sex trafficking enterprise
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  from which Plaintiff's second cause of action arised as was
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  terminated on August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, less than one
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  year prior to the filing of this complaint CNYCPLR. Section
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  two fifteen eight A sixty six. As a direct and
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  proximate result of Epstein's conduct, Plaintiff has, in the past
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  and will in the future, continue to suffer extreme emotional distress, humiliation, fear,
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  psychological trauma, loss of dignity and self esteem, and invasion
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  of her privacy prayer for relief. Wherefore, Plaintiff respectfully requests
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  judgment against defendants awarding compensentory, consequential, exemplary, and punitive damages
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  in an amount to be determined at t cost of
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  suit attorney's fees, and such other and further relief as
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  the Court may deem just and proper jury demand. Plaintiff
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  hereby demands a trial by jury on all causes of
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  action asserted within this pleading, dated November twelfth, twenty nineteen,
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  and signed by Joshua Schiller. It's unfortunate that they can't
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  demand trial by combat because I'd love to fuck up
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  any one of these people who was involved with Epstein's
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  bullshit on behalf of the survivors, and to do it
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  in a manner where it's like sanctioned by the state,
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  like in the Middle Ages. Your boy will be all
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  over it. Unfortunately that's not the case, and instead we're
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  stuck waiting for a justice system that just don't give
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  a fuck. All right, everybody that's going to do it
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  for this one. All of the information that goes with
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  this episode can be found in the description box