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Epstein Files Unsealed: Juan Alessi And The Deposition Given To Detective Recarey (Part 1) · The Epstein Chronicles

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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 begin taking
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  a look at the sworn statement or deposition of Juana
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  Lessi all the way back in two thousand and five.
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  And now, for those of you who may not know,
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  Juan Alessi was Jeffrey Epstein's former house manager and somebody
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  that was around during the early days, and he also
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  played a key role at the Glenn Maxwell trial. So
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  let's dive into this deposition and let's see what he
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  had to say all the way back in two thousand
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  and five. And it looks like Detective Roccari is the
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  one doing the questioning, so let's get started. Question, mister Alessi,
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  I'm Detective Joe Riccary with the Palm Beach Police Department.
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  As I explained to you on the telephone, I'm conducting
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  an investigation on a former employer of yours. I just
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  spoke with your wife and she told me you guys
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  worked for mister Epstein for eight years. Answer. Yes, she
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  did work for eight years. I work longer. I was
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  there before my wife came. Question, before your wife came. Answer.
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  I started full time with them on January first, nineteen
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  ninety one, and we both left December thirty first, two
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  thousand and two. So I worked eleven years exactly prior
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  to that. Prior to working full time forum, I worked
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  part time for him on an on and off basis.
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  Question what were your responsibilities? Answer in the full time basis,
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  I started as a houseman, and I became a major
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  domo and butler and everything else, driver and did everything.
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  We both did all the chores in the house, but
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  I was in charge of the house. I was above
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  my wife and above the cleaning crew, the gardener's pool people.
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  So I was house manager major domo. Question you would
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  have been the go to guy for the house? Answer yes,
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  and the one who would get the blame. Question are
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  we talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Answer of course. Question do
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  you remember the address of the house? Answer five poin
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  fifty eight l brio. Question was it in the beginning
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  of the street? Answer at the end of the street
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  on the left hand side? Question we're talking about the
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  same house? Answer yeah, Question your wife said the same
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  number you did? Answer five p fifty eight, three fifty eight,
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  five fifty eight It was three fifty eight. Answer we
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  left three years ago. Question, and I understand it's been
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  some time since then. So the questions I'm going to
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  ask you basically is, during your time, did you deal
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  directly with mister Epstein. Answer yes, and her and her
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  girlfriend manager. She was the manager of all the households
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  because he has homes all over the world. Question right answer,
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  so we have She was my boss, and I deal
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  directly with her. Question who was he gets cut off?
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  Answer Glenne Maxwell. Question Miss Maxwell, that's his girlfriend. Correct answer,
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  Uh huh. Question. During the eleven years he would come down,
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  she would inform you that they were coming down. Answer
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  right question, Make arrangements to have the house ready. Answer
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  right question. During the time that he was here, you
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  prepared the house, did all the chores, did all of
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  the cleaning. Answer sometimes many times I did. Last two
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  or three years, the work was so much that we
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  have to hire we have to hire a cleanup crew
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  that came twice a week or once a week. Then
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  it was twice a week, depends upon a schedule. Because
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  he did not allow anybody at the house except us
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  when he was in town. So when he was in town,
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  it was just us doing the cleaning and the cooking.
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  The driving, the shopping everything else. Question did you stay
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  on property in the guest house? Answer yes and no.
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  We had an apartment right across the bridge. We had
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  an apartment in Tower five point fifteen on Flagler, and
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  we had an apartment at the house. Question why would
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  you stay at the house then? Answer, we stay at
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  the house house mostly when he was there. When he
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  was not in town, we went home. We went to
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  our apartment when he was there. It was the job
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  was just too much to go home nine o'clock, ten
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  o'clock and come back five o'clock in the morning. We
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  would just stay and sleep and get up and go
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  to work. Question When he was in town, did he
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  receive a lot of guests at the house? Answer yes, many, many,
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  many guests. It was never with no guests. Question did
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  he have assistance with him? Answer assistance. At the last year,
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  he had an assistant just for him. They would travel
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  with them all the time. At the last in the
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  last two years and I stayed there. He also have
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  a chef, a gourmet chef that he would travel with,
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  and that's it. Question do you remember the chef's name?
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  Answer there were quite a few. The last one I
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  know is Adam Perry Perry, I think, and he was
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  from New York and of course that's Adam Perry Lang.
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  And there was another French chef, did he er? I
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  don't know his last name. And there was another English chef.
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  But they went quickly. They would come and go, come
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  and go. What about the assistant that was his personal
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  assistant that would fly with them? Answer Annie Taylor. It
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  was an English girl that would travel with them a
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  lot and become the personal assistant. But most of the
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  time it was miss Maxwell that travel with them all
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  the time. And he means Emmy Taylor, not Annie Taylor.
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  Just so we're correct. Question she was basically like his
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  answer girlfriend whatever it was, boss girlfriend. She was our
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  immediate superior. Question did he have girls come over to
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  give massages? Answer yes. Question how many massages would he
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  have in a day? Answer sometimes one, sometimes two, sometimes three.
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  Question was it the same girl that would come back
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  to do the massages? Answer? Yeah, yeah, not the same girl.
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  I mean during eleven years, I probably saw one hundred
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  two hundred different massage therapists. Question did they seem young
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  to you? Answer no, sir, you know, I mean we
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  saw one or two young ones in the last year
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  before that, it was all adults. Question during your last
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  year when you were working with them, what do you
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  mean that they looked young? Did they look like they
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  were still in high school? Answer? I remember one girl
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  was young. We never asked how old she was. It
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  was not my job. Question right, I understand answer, but
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  I imagine she was sixteen seventeen. In my judgment, she
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  was sixteen or seventeen. Question and where would the massages
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  take place? Answer? All the time, it was in his room.
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  Sometimes it was on the balcony of his quarters. His
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  room was a wrap around balcony facing the pool, so
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  the massages were in the balcony outside in the sun,
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  or inside in his bathroom or her bathroom. Question would
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  you set up the room for the massages? Answer? Many
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  times yes, he will tell me set up the room
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  inside my bathroom or in the bedroom, or in Glene's bathroom,
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  or outside on the balcony, and I would go and
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  set up, or my wife would go and set up
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  to take So we have a table, massage table, and
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  basically every room, every guest room. Question the girls that
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  would come over to do massages, they would massage them first,
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  or massage guests. Answer different times that were mostly they
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  were his massage. Mostly he would get massages. Question would
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  miss Maxwell be in the room with them when he
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  was getting a massage? Answer, we don't know. Apparently we
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  saw her going upstairs because it was when they went
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  upstairs they closed his quarters. It had a double door,
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  so it was a door on top of the stairs.
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  I don't know if you've ever been in the house.
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  And then there was another door going into his room,
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  so it was a long corridor, so everything was closed
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  and nobody saw anything. Question would you clean up after
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  Answer once in a while, yes, I did. Most of
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  the times I did, I did the cleanup. Question did
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  it appear as if there was going to be more
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  than one massage going on in the room? Answer? More
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  than one massage? I don't know. It was massage. There
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  was massages because it was hot oil, and it was
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  you know this vibrator, the neck vibrators with the long
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  handles and towels, A lot of towels. We used a
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  lot of towels in the house, used like maybe forty
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  or fifty towels a day because every time he go
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  into the pool, it was two or three towels. Everything
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  had to be cleaned up. I went most of the
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  time to pick up the room and get it ready.
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  Question did it ever appear to you that more went
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  on in the room other than a massage? Answer? I
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  just imagine. I never saw anything, but I imagine there
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  was more. I never saw anything because it was closed doors.
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  It was never done outside. Question based on the cleanup.
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  Answer based on the cleanup at the end, I cannot
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  say there was. At the end, it was a few
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  times that the bed was undone. You know, we make
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  the beds three or four times a day, and something.
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  We went to clean up the massage, to put it
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  back the massage table, to pick up the towels, but
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  the bed was undone again. So either he took a
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  nap or went for a nap, I don't know. Question
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  or something else occurred? Answer or something else I can't question.
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  Did the girls would they bring their own stuff or
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  would they use his stuff? Answer? No, we had everything.
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  We had gallons of stuff. Different stuff question, different massage oils, answer,
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  different all kinds question, different massages answer, different stuff that
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  would buy all over the world, different types for a
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  different question, did any of these massagers look like sex toys? Answer?
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  At the end, at the last year that we were there,
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  they had like sex toys, some of them. I can
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  say that maybe three or four occasions that I saw
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  in the sink they were left out on the sink.
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  And just question where would he keep the massagers? Answer?
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  When I was there, we keep all the stuff in
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  a basket inside Miss Maxwell's closet. It was a big
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  basket about this round, indicating with a cover on it,
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  and we used to pick up from the towel and
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  just dump it in there. And that's it. That's the standard.
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  We went through. Question what sink would you find those
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  massagers in? Answer? Mostly his sink, question his bathroom sink?
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  Was Miss Maxwell still his girlfriend at the time? Answer?
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  Oh yeah, Question still his girlfriend that you know of
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  right now? Answer? Yeah, we left she was still his girlfriend.
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  I don't know now, but she was still there. Question
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  why did you leave at the end? Answer it was
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  a hard job. It was an incredibly hard job, so
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  demanding hours were terrible, from five o'clock in the morning
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  to ten o'clock at night, constantly on your feet. I
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  got very sick. My health went down the drain. I
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  was diagnosed with cancer. With cancer a kind of blood
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  cancer and we had to leave. It was just too
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  much for me. Question sounds like a lot. Answer Yeah,
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  for me and my wife. We both left. Question it
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  was very demanding when he was in town. Answer it
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  was terrible. Bad job. Pay was good, but we had enough.
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  Question I know you guys had a falling out a
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  couple of years ago. I guess you aren't working with
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  him anymore. This would have been in two thousand and three.
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  You guys had of falling out, remember, Answer Yeah, we
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  settled that. Question that was settled. Answer that was settled
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  between him and us. Question was that Kerry's interrupted here
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  by a LESSI answer? It was amicable. It was an agreement,
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  mutual agreement. It was a mistake on my part. Question
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  are there any questions you have of me? Answer? No,
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  I told you the truth. We just imagined things that
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  could have happened. I used to talk to my wife
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  all day, working and under that environment, but we didn't
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  know for sure what was going on. We never heard anything.
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  We never heard a complaint or a girl crying. All right, folks,
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  we're going to wrap up the first episode here and
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  in the next episode we're going to pick up where
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  we left off. All of the information that goes with
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  this episode can be found in the description box.