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Judge Sweets Opinion Denying Maxwell's Request For Summary Judgement (Part 1) · 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 dive right back into
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  the core documents and we're going to start taking a
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  look at the memorandum of law in support of Gleid
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  Maxwell's attempt to get that summary judgment. Preliminary statement of
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  the facts, The following facts are undisputed. Additional undisputed facts
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  are set forth in specific argument sections. All paragraphs containing
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  undisputed facts will be sequentially numbered one. Miss Maxwell's response
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  to publication of Plaintiff's false allegations the March twenty eleven statement.
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  In early twenty eleven, plaintiff, in two British tabloid interviews,
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  made numerous false, in defamatory allegations against Miss Maxwell Exhibits
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  A and B one. In the articles, plaintiff made no
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  direct allegations that miss Maxwell was involved in any improper
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  conduct with Jeffrey Epstein, who had pleaded guilty in two
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  thousand and seven to procuring a minor for prostitution. Nonetheless,
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  plaintiffs suggested that miss Maxwell worked with Epstein and may
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  have known about the crime for which he was convicted.
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  See generally, Exhibits A and B two. In the articles,
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  plaintiff alleged she had sex with Prince Andrew, a well
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  known businessman, a world renowned scientist, a respected liberal politician,
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  and a foreign head of state idea at five three.
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  In response to the allegations, Miss Maxwell's British attorney, working
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  with mister Gow, issued a statement on March ninth, twenty eleven,
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  denying the various allegations about Miss Maxwell that have appeared
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  recently in the media. These allegations are entirely false. The
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  exhibits C five plaintiff's gratuitous and lurid accusations. In an
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  unrelated action, in two thousand and eight, two alleged victims
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  of Epstein brought an action under the Crime Victim's Rights
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  Act against the United States government, purporting to challenge Epstein's
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  plea agreement. They alleged the government and violent there's CVR
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  rights by entering into an agreement with Epstein see Exhibit
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  d A two. Six Seven years later, on December thirtieth,
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  twenty fifteen, Miss Roberts moved to join the CVRA action,
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  claiming she too had her CVRA rights violated by the government.
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  On January first, twenty fifteen, Miss Roberts filed a corrected
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  joint her motion Exhibit D at one O nine seven.
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  The issue presented inner joinder motion was narrow whether she
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  should be permitted to join the CVRA action as a
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  party under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure twenty one, specifically
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  whether she was a known victim of mister Epstein and
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  the government owed them CVR duties Exhibit E at five. Yet,
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  the court noted the bulk of the motion consists of
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  copious factual details that plaintiff enter co movement would prove
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  if allowed to join. Id brackets obmitted. Miss Roberts gratuitously
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  included provocative, end lurid details of her alleged sexual activities
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  as an alleged victim of sexual trafficking. Eight. At the
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  time they filed the motion, Miss Roberts and her lawyers
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  knew that the media had been following the Epstein criminal
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  case and the CVR action. While they deliberately filed the
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  motion without disclosing Miss Roberts's name, claiming the need for
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  privacy and secrecy, they made no attempt to file the
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  motion under seal. Quite the contrary, they filed the motion
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  publicly Exhibit D at one and and one. Nine. As
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  the District Court noted in ruling on the joined her motion,
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  miss Roberts named several individuals, and she offers details about
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  the type of sex acts performed and where they took
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  place Exhibit E. At five. The Court ruled that these
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  lured details are unnecessary. The factual details regarding whom and
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  where the Jane those engaged in sexual activities are immaterial
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  and impertinent, especially considering that these details involved non parties
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  who are not related to the responding government. Accordingly, these
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  unnecessary details shall be stricken. The Court then struck all
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  Miss roberts factual allegations relating to her alleged sexual activities
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  and her allegations of misconduct by non parties at five
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  and six. The court said striking of the lurid details
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  was a sanction for Miss Roberts in proper inclusion of
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  them in the motion. Number ten. The District Court found
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  not only that the lurid details were unnecessary, but also
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  that the entire joined motion was entirely unnecessary idea at seven.
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  Miss Roberts under lawyers knew the motion with all its
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  lurid details was unnecessary because, as the Court pointed out
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  the motion itself recognized that she would be able to
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  participate as a fact witness to achieve the same results
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  she sought as a party See id at seven and eight.
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  See also Ida at eight, noting that in the motion,
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  Miss Roberts lawyers said that regardless of whether this Court
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  grants the motion, they will call her as a witness
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  at any trial. The court denied Plaintiff's joined her motion eleven.
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  One of the non parties Miss Roberts named repeatedly in
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  the joinder motion was Miss Maxwell Exhibit D at three
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  and six. According to the lurid details of Miss Roberts
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  included in the motion, Miss Maxwell personally was involved in
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  a sexual abuse and sex trafficking scheme created by Epstein.
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  Miss Maxwell approached plaintiff in nineteen ninety nine, when plaintiff
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  was fifteen years old. A recruiter into the scheme. Miss
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  Maxwell was one of the main women Epstein used to
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  procure underage girls for sexual activities. Miss Maxwell was a
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  primary co conspirator with Epstein in his scheme. She persuaded
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  plaintiff to go to Epstein's mansion in a fashion very
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  similar to the manner in which Epstein and his other
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  co conspirators coerce dozens of other children at the mansion.
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  When plaintiff began giving Epstein a massage, he and Miss
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  Maxwell turned it into a sexual encounter. Epstein, with the
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  assistance of Miss Maxwell, converted plaintiff into a sex slave.
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  Plaintiff was a sex slave from nineteen ninety nine through
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  two thousand and two. Miss Maxwell was a co conspirator
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  in Epstein's sexual abuse id at four, Miss Maxwell appreciated
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  immunity she acquired under Epstein's plea agreement because the immunity
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  protected her from prosecution for the crime she committed in Florida.
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  Miss Maxwell took numerous sexually explicit pictures of underage girls
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  involved in sexual activities, including the plaintiff. She shared the
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  photos with Epstein. As part of her role in Epstein's
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  sexual abuse ring, Miss Maxwell connected Epstein with powerful individuals
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  so that Epstein good traffick Plaintiff to these persons. Plaintiff
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  was forced to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew in
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  Miss Maxwell's apartment in London. Miss Maxwell facilitated Plaintiff's sex
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  with Prince ada Andrew by acting as a madam for Epstein.
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  Miss Maxwell assisted in internationally trafficking plaintiff and numerous other
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  young girls for sexual purposes. Plaintiff was forced to watch Epstein,
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  Ms Maxwell and others engage in illegal sexual acts with
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  dozens of underage girls twelve the jointer motion. Plaintiff also
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  alleed she was forced to have sex with Harvard law
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  professor Alan Dershowitz, model scout Jean Luke Brunel, and many
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  other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives,
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  foreign presidents, a well known prime minister, and other world
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  leaders Idea at four and six thirteen. Plaintiff said after
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  for four years as a sex slave, she managed to
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  escape to a foreign country and hide out from Epstein
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  and his co conspirators for years. Idea three fourteen. Plaintiff
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  suggested the government was part of Epstein's conspiracy when it
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  secretly negotiated a non prossecu acution agreement with Epstein precluding
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  federal prosecution of Epstein and his co conspirator's id at six.
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  The government secrecy plaintiff alleged was motivated by its fear
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  that plaintiff would raise powerful objections to the agreement that
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  would have shed tremendous public light on Epstein and other
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  powerful individuals idea at six and seven fifteen. Notably, the
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  other Jane, Though who joined the plaintiff's motion, who alleged
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  she was sexually abused on many occasions by Epstein, was
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  unable to corroborate any of Plaintiff's allegations see id at
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  seven and eight sixteen. Also, notably, in her multiple and
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  lengthy consensual interviews with Miss Churchier three years earlier, Plaintiff
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  Totlemis Churchier virtually none of the details she described in
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  the joined her motion see Exhibit A and B seventeen.
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  Miss Maxwell's response to Plaintiff's lurid accusations the January twenty
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  fifteen statement as plaintiff na lawyers expected before District Judge
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  Mara in the CVRA action, could strike be lur details
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  of plaintiff's allegation in the joinder motion. Members of the
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  media obtained copies of the motion see Exhibit g at
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  thirty one, two, Dash thirty six and four, and deposition
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  examples three and four eighteen. At mister Barden's direction on
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  January two, twenty fifteen, Mister gal sent numerous representatives of
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  British media organizations and email containing a quotable statement on
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  behalf of Miss Maxwell Exhibit F Exhibit G at thirty
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  three A through twenty three. The email was sent to
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  more than six and probably less than thirty media representatives
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  see Exhibit G at thirty three eight through thirty four
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  and three. It was not sent to non media representatives
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  cee ID at thirty one, two, thirty five through twenty
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  one nineteen. Among the media representative sives were Martin Robinson
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  of The Daily Mail, p Peach of The Independent, Nick
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  Summerland of The Mirror, David Brown of The Times and
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  Nick Always and joe Ane Pugh of the BBC, and
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  David Mercer of the Press Association c EG Exhibit F.
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  These representatives were selected based on their request after the
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  joint her motion was filed for a response from Miss
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  Maxwell the plaintiff's allegations in the motion cee EG Exhibit
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  G at thirty twenty three through thirty five twenty one
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  and Deposition example three twenty. The email to the media
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  members read to whom it may concern, please find attached
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  the quotable statement on behalf of Miss Maxwell. No further
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  communication will be provided by her on this matter. Thanks
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  for your understanding. Best, Ross Rosco acuity reputation. Jane do
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  three is Virginia Roberts, so not a new individual. The
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  allegations made by Victoria Roberts against Glenn Maxwell are untrue.
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  The original allegations are not new and have been fully
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  responded to and shown to be untrue. Each time the
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  story is retold, it changes with new salacious details about
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  public figures and world leaders. And now it is alleged
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  by miss Roberts that Alan Dershowitz is involved in having
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  sexual relations with her, which he denies. Miss roberts claims
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  are obvious lies and should be treated as such and
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  not publicized as news, as they are defamatory claim Maxwell's
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  original response to the lies and the defamatory claims remains
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  the same. Maxwell strongly denies allegations of unsavory nature which
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  have appeared in the British press and elsewhere, and reserves
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  her right to seek redress at the repetition of such
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  old defamatory claims. All right, We're going to wrap up
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  this episode here and then the next episode we'll pick
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  up where we left off. All the information that goes
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  with this episode can be found in the description box.
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