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The Bill Gates Epstein Related Congressional Transcripts (Part 15) (7/2/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off with the Bill Gates testimony that
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  he gave to Congress. Asking the questions now is miss Randall?
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  Thank you, mister Gates. I'm Emily Randall from Washington sixth.
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  I appreciate you being here and answering our questions, and
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  I want to follow up a little bit on a
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  question that ranking Member Robert Garcia asked to begin with
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  about who the men were in Epstein's orbit that you
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  may have seen or engage with at any of these meetings,
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  and you said, you know that you didn't see anyone
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  engaging an illegal or I listed activities, and you didn't
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  want to cast dispersions of any of these men, which
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  I understand. But I think some of what we've seen
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  in our investigative work and in our conversations and in
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  the files is that, you know, it became very easy
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  for a lot of people to say that they didn't
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  see anything, and that's part of how he continued to
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  have such a long history of abuse. And so I
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  just want to ask you if there are any other
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  names or people that you haven't mentioned yet. You mentioned
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  doctor Nikolch, Larry Summers, Jess Daley, Leon Black, Josh Harris,
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  Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Pritzker were the other men that were involved,
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  maybe not necessarily men that he was trying to introduce
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  into the Global Health network. But folks in any of
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  these meetings that we should ask follow up questions on,
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  not saying that you're accusing them of anything, but to
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  make sure that we're uncovering every stone in this work
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  to find transparency and justice. Gates. Yeah, I believe that
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  today I mentioned the name of every single individual who
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  was in a meeting with myself and Epstein. And you know,
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  beyond that, you know all these emails released in January
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  have other names in there. I don't bring any personal
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  knowledge to that, but you know, I'm here to help
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  in any way I can. I can't think of anyone
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  whose name I haven't mentioned that I knew had some
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  relationship with Epstein. Miss Randall, thank you. And you know,
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  Miss Stansbury asked about the woman young woman who worked
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  for mister Epstein, and we've established that's some of these
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  women who were employed by him were also being trafficked
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  and abused. Whether you know, though he may not have
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  been your knowledge at the time, I understand. I do
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  want to ask because of my conversation with some survivors
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  who were under age when they were pulled into mister
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  Epstein's world. They have relayed to us that no one
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  ever mister Epstein knew how old they were. But you know,
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  no one in the room at parties, at events, at
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  meetings ever asked how old they were. They assumed they
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  were adults because they looked like adults. A seventeen year
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  old young woman, you know, is not always spottable as
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  a seventeen year old young woman. Just thinking about any
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  woman who were at any of these meetings, who were
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  working at mister Epstein's home, who were engaged in any coordination.
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  Can you think of, you know, any young woman who
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  we should talk to, mister Gates. No, the only thing
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  I did with Epstein that was of casual entertainment nature
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  was when he had David Blaine come over after we
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  had a dinner meeting. And as I've said, as you've
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  seen in the photograp there were two of the women
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  around Epstein who were standing around during the David Blaine performance.
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  But you know, you've heard from everything I know about
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  the women around Epstein, and I'm sorry to hear that
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  some of them were victims. Randall, thank you so much
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  for your answers and joining us, mister Gates. Next question
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  by redacted question mister Gates, did you ever meet Gallaine Maxwell? Answer?
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  I met her one time. I was at a hotel
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  restaurant and she and Ted Waite were there, and that
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  was the one time I was introduced to her. Question
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  one was that answer? It's a good question. She clearly
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  had left time with Epstein and was with Ted Waite.
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  Ted Waite is someone I knew fairly well because he
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  created a company called Gateway that was in personal computer business.
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  But you know, it was just a few minutes introduction
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  because we happened to be in the same place. But
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  other than that, I never met her. Question and that
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  was simply an introduction rather than a substantative conversation. Answer,
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  not a substantive conversation. No question. And was this during
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  the period of your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or after? Answer? No,
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  I think it was after, but we would have to
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  dig out the date. Question and did miss Maxwell ever
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  come up in conversations with Jeffrey Epstein. Answer never question
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  did she ever come up in conversations with Melanie Walker?
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  Answer never question? Okay, mister Gates. A few minutes ago,
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  in a response to mister krishnil Morty's questions, you mentioned
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  there were two skype calls. Is that right answer to question?
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  Skype calls? Answer right question? And I think we discussed
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  one earlier, which occurred on February twenty seventh, twenty fourteen.
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  Is that right answer? Well, we inadvertently discussed it question
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  sure answer because there was a question about February twenty seventh,
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  twenty thirteen thing. And I accidentally saw February twenty seventh
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  and said, oh, that meeting was a Skype call. The
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  February twenty seventh, twenty thirteen meeting is in person meeting
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  in New York. And the February twenty seventh, twenty thirteen
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  meeting is a skype call. Question understood? And when was
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  the second skype call? Answer? The second Skype call is
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  May twenty first, twenty fourteen. Question and what was the
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  purpose of that call? Answer? You know, everything in this
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  timeframe is focusing on who are these donors? Is this
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  going to be real? And so right after the second
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  Skype call is when he suggests the names of people
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  that we would end up meeting in September, which is
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  the second to last meeting I had with Epstein. Question
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  and do you recall the exact discussions of that call
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  with mister Epstein? Answer? I do not. Question was anyone
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  else on that call? Answer? Larry Cohen may have come
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  for some part of the call, they go off the record,
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  they're back on gates. Yeah. My note chow Larry as
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  being on the first of the two Skype calls, but
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  not on the second call. Question not on the second one?
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  And I have in my notes, and I could have
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  this incorrect, but I believe you testified earlier that it
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  was the first Skype call was just you and mister Epstein?
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  That's not true. Answer, No, the first Skype call Larry
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  Cohen is part of that. Question understood? And who was
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  on the second Skype call? Answer? It looks like just
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  myself in Epstein question just you and Epstein? Okay? Why
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  was this conducted over Skype? Answer because we weren't in
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  the same physical location. Question why the sky platform? Answer
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  of Microsoft owned Skype? Question did you suggest Skype? Answer?
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  I mean, I'm capable of using probably several different video
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  calling platforms. I don't think there's any unique feature of
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  Skype that caused it to be used. You know, Subsequently,
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  I've shifted ninety percent of my use to teams and
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  perhaps ten percent to Zoom, so this may have. Indeed,
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  the second meeting may have been my final Skype call.
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  Question understood, And I guess the reason that I'm asking
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  is because Jeffrey Epstein does have a demonstrated history of
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  using Skype, and so my question to you is did
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  he recommend that this meeting be conducted on Skype? Answer?
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  I don't know. Question. Okay, mister adacted, we can go
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  off record. Question, we can go back on record. Mister Gates.
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  We briefly discussed your relationship or your one interaction that
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  you recall with Glenn Maxwell during the last hour. Just
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  to be clear, that's the only interaction with her that
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  you recall. Answer, the only time I ever met her. Yeah. Question.
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  She did tell the Department of Justice in an interview
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  that she did with them last summer that she met you.
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  It sounds like briefly at a TED conference. Do you
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  have any recollection of that? Answer? Yeah, there was a
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  Ted dinner with about forty or fifty people, and she
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  was an attendee there. I don't know if I shook
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  her hand, and I didn't have a conversation with her. Question,
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  but do you recall that she was there? In general? Answer?
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  I think she attended a dinner around the TED conference. Yes. Question,
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  do you recall any other I'll call them interactions, but
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  any other times you were in the same place as
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  Glenn Maxwell, other than the meeting with Ted Waite, the
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  brief meeting with Ted Waite and this very brief meeting
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  at a dinner at a TED conference. Answer, as I
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  say on the Ted thing, I don't know that I
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  shook her hand. I'm not sure, but I didn't have
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  a conversation with her other than those two times. No,
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  I never met her. Mister Emer's asking questions now question,
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  mister Gates, We're at a point in our questioning where,
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  unfortunately I do have to make you repeat yourself just
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  to make sure that the record is crystal clear. During
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  the first hour, I believe you had mentioned that at
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  some point you were invited to mister Epstein's island. Is
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  that right? Answer? Yes, Several times he had issued an invitation.
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  Question and approximately when you extended those invites. Answer we
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  can dig through the emails. I don't know the timing. Question.
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  And he himself directly invited you. Is that right answer,
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  that's right question? And you rejected those invites? Answer that's
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  correct question right? And as far as his other properties go,
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  you've testified numerous times to have had dinners at his
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  Manhattan townhouse. Is that right answer? That's right question. Have
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  you ever visited his Paris apartment? Answer? Yeah, I talked
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  about that one meeting I had there. Question What about
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  Zoro Ranch in New Mexico? Answer never went there? Question
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  How about the pom Beach home? Answer never went there?
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  Question any other properties owned by mister Epstein? Answer no,
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  it was, as you said, several meetings at his New
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  York residence and the one meeting in Paris, and then
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  the one time we flew together on a plane from
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  New York to ponm Beach. Question, so let's talk briefly
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  about the Manhattan town home. Did you notice anything unusual
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  during your visits there? Answer? Well, I never went above
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  the first floor. You know, there's kind of a fancy door,
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  and then you go up some stairs and to the
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  left is a room where we had dinner and most
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  of the meetings, and then to the right is a
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  large area I think he called his office area, and
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  then there's a bathroom on that floor. And that's what
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  I remember about the residence. Question, And there's been allegations
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  that Epstein had cameras that he would use to blackmail visitors.
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  Did you notice any cameras when you visited? Answer I
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  did not. Question. During the committee's review of documents produced
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  by the estate, as well as photos that had been
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  released as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, this
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  is my own characterization, but it seems that mister Epstein
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  had an unusual creepy taste in artwork. Did you notice
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  any unusual weird artwork when you visited the home? Answer?
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  I know there was one thing he had that was
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  a bit strange. Was it like Bill Clinton in address?
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  That was one thing that it was Bill Clinton in
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  address I think, which I think fits your description. Question
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  did you ask him about that specific portrait? Answer? I
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  did not question. And to be clear, did you notice
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  any nude photos displayed at his property? Answer no, I
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  mean the only two properties I ever saw were New
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  York and the Paris one. And I didn't see any
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  nude photos in either location. Question and back to the
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  photo of Bill Clinton, where was that? Answer? I don't
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  think it was a photo, honestly. Question or the painting
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  excuse me? Answer? Yeah, the artwork that was on the
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  wall inside his office. Question. Now, you mentioned that you
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  visited the property in Paris as well. Did you notice
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  anything unusual when you visited the property? Answer? I did not. Question.
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  A couple of weeks ago, the committee interviewed Sarah Kellen,
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  a survivor, and she said and mentioned that mister Epstein
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  had a painting or a photo or a naked photo
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  of her displayed at the property. You didn't see a
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  photo of miss Kellen? Is that right? Answer? No, you know,
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  I don't know the extent of that property. We went
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  into this room or we sat in the excess food
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  was brought to us there, but we didn't go to
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  other rooms. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap up right here,
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  and in the next episode, we're gonna pick up where
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  we left off. All the information that goes with this
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