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Virginia Robert's Repsonds To Ghislaine Maxwell's "Undisputed Facts" (Part 5) (5/31/26) · 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 dive right back in
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  to the Virginia Roberts response to Elaine Maxwell and her
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  so called undisputed facts Defendants Purported Facts Number thirty four.
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  Miss Maxwell and her agents exercised no control or authority
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  over the media organization, including the media identified in Miss
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  Roberts's response to interrogatory number six in connection with the
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  media's publication of portions of the January twenty fifteen statement,
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  Miss Robert's statement controverting defendant facts. Miss Roberts disputes this
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  statement in its entirety, as it's completely devoid of record evidence.
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  In fact, the record establishes the contrary first defendant hired
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  Gal because his position allowed him to influence the press
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  publish her defamatory statement, and the sampling of Gal's testimony
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  establishes just that. Question did miss mac retain the services
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  of you or your firm? Answer? Yes, she did. Question
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  is it your belief that the agreement was in effect
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  on January two, twenty fifteen? Answer yes. Question do you
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  recall the terms of that agreement? Answer well, it was
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  a re establishment of an existing agreement. So if we
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  go back to the original agreement, it was to provide
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  public relations services to Miss Maxwell in the matter of
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  Roberts and her activities. Question you can answer to the
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  extent that anything you testify to is not protected by
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  a privilege. Answer. Miss Roberts first came to my attention
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  on or around March twenty eleven when I was called
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  into a meeting with Philip Barton and Miss Maxwell at
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  Devonshire's law office. She said that she made Miss Roberts
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  had made extremely unpleasant allegations about Miss Maxwell's private life.
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  We were Acuity Reputation. My firm was called in to
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  protect Miss Maxwell's reputation and to set the record straight.
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  That was and that work immens on or around March
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  of twenty eleven. Question does this document fairly depict pages
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  from your Acuity Reputation's website? Answer it does. Question do
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  you see where it says we manage reputation and forge
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  opinion through public relations, strategic communication and high level networking?
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  Answer I do. Question is that a true statement? Answer?
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  Say it again? Sorry? Question is that a true statement?
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  Answer it is, yes, I wrote that statement. Question Okay,
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  do you see where your website claims that your company
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  has excellent relationships with the media. Answer I do. Question
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  is that a true statement? Answer that is true. Yeah.
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  Question is it correct that you advertise your excellent relationships
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  with the media because your services often include giving communications
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  to the media on behalf of your clients. Answer yes.
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  See McCaulay declaration at Exhibit six. Gal deposition. In addition
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  to testimonial evidence, the proof is also in the result.
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  By using GAO to issue her press release, defendant caused
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  her statement to be published by numerous major news organizations
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  with wide readership all over the globe. Accordingly, the record
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  evidence shows that Miss Maxwell, through her agent, had immense
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  control and authority over the media, convincing major news outlets
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  to publish her words based on nothing more than a
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  single email from Gal. The defendants purported facts thirty five
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  Miss Roberts defamation action against Miss Maxwell, eight years after
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  Epstein's guilty plea, Miss Roberts brought this action, repeating many
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  of the allegations she made in her cvra Joineder's motion
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  Miss Roberts's statement controverting defendants facts agreed, but noting that
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  the defamation cause of action against defendant did not accrue
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  until the defendant defamed her In January of twenty fifteen.
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  The same year, Miss Roberts filed suit against defendant for
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  defamation Number thirty six, The Defendants Purported Facts. The complaint
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  alleged that the January twenty fifteen statement contained the following
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  deliberate falsehoods. A that Roberts sworn allegations against Maxwell are untrue.
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  B that the allegations have been shown to be untrue.
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  See that Robert's claims are obvious lies. Miss Robert's statement
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  controverting defendant facts agreed. However, in discovery, defendant was finally
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  forced to produce the complete press release. She issued c
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  mcauleay declaration at Exhibit twenty six The Defendants Purported Facts
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  thirty seven. Miss Roberts lived independently from her parents with
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  her fiance long before meeting Epstein or Miss Maxwell. After
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  leaving the Growing Together drug rehabilitation facility in nineteen ninety nine,
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  Miss Roberts moved in with the family of a fellow patient. There,
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  she met and became engaged to her friend's brother, James
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  Michael Ostrich. She and Ostrich thereafter rented an apartment in
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  Fort Lauderdale area with another friend than both work at
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  various jobs in that area. Later, they stayed briefly with
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  Miss Roberts's parents in the Palm Beach locks a Hatchie,
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  Florida area, before Ostrich rented an apartment for the couple
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  on Benoak Drive in the Royal Palm Beach. Although Miss
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  Roberts agreed to marry Ostrich, she never had any intention
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  of doing so. Miss Robert's statement controverting the defendant's facts.
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  Miss Roberts did not voluntarily live independently from her parents
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  with her fiance. Rather, Miss Roberts was a troubled minor
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  child who was not truly engaged prior to meeting defendant
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  and Epstein. Where Miss Roberts lived and who she lived
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  with or not relevant to the issue being decided in
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  this action. Again, this is merely a transparent distraction from
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  the case that is actually at issue and is being
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  used for the sole purpose of inserting conjecture in an
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  effort to distract the court and ultimately the jury. Although
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  Ostrich testified that he proposed to Roberts on Valentine's Day
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  see Ostrich at page nineteens, Roberts was a troubled teen
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  who could not realistically be considered a fiance in the
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  true sense of the word, nor was she of legal
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  age to marry. In fact, as accurately described by defendant,
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  Miss Roberts never had any intention of marrying Ostrich Roberts
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  Deposition at one twenty seven. Given that Miss Roberts was
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  a child with limited legal capacity at this point, and
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  that she did not have any intention of marrying Ostrich,
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  a reasonable person could not assert that Miss Roberts was engaged.
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  Defendants Purported Facts number thirty eight. Miss Roberts re enrolled
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  in high school from June twenty first, two thousand, until
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  March seventh, two thousand and two. After finishing the ninth
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  grade school year at Forest Hills High School on June ninth,
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  nineteen ninety nine, Miss Roberts re enrolled at Wellington Adult
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  High School on June twenty first, two thousand, again on
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  August sixteenth, two thousand and on August fourteenth, two thousand
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  and one. On September twentieth, two thousand and one, Miss
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  Roberts then enrolled at Royal Palm Beach High School. A
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  few weeks later, on October twelfth, two thousand and one,
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  she articulated at Survivor's Charter School. Survivor's Charter School was
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  an alternative school designed to assist students who had been
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  unsuccessful at more traditional schools. Miss Roberts remained enrolled at
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  Survivor's Charter School until March seventh, two thousand and two.
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  She was present fifty six days and absent thirteen days
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  during her time there. Miss Roberts never received her high
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  school diploma or ged. Miss Roberts and Figueroa went back
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  to school together at Survivor's Charter School. The school day
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  there lasted from morning until early afternoon. Miss Robert's statement
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  controverting the defendant's facts. Miss Roberts denies this statement. Either
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  defendant is blatantly misleading the court or defendant simply does
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  not understand how to interpret Miss Robert's school records. The
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  record produced by defendant GM zero eight eight eight is
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  specifically titled A zero seven Assignment History, which flex semester
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  start and end dates per each one hundred and eighty
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  day school year, not dates that Miss Roberts physically enrolled
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  or withdrew from school. Seem Acaulay declaration at Exhibit twenty
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  seven while grade thirty indicates adult education, Miss roberts attendance
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  records indicate that she was not a president in school
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  between six twenty one and nine twenty oh one. Withdrawal
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  codes adult students W twenty six any student who withdraws
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  from school to enter the adult education program prior to
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  completion of graduation requirements. W thirty two. Any adult student
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  who left the class program to enter another training program.
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  W forty seven. Any adult student who is procedurally withdrawn
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  at the end of the term or school year who
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  will continue the class or program the next term or
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  a school year. More importantly, Miss roberts school transcripts clearly
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  indicate no courses taken from nineteen ninety nine two thousand
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  and two thousand, two thousand and one school years. Ce
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  McCauley declaration at Exhibit twenty seven. Mss Roberts attempts to
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  work and resume school at Survivor's charter school as a
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  tenth grader in two thousand and one. Two thousand and
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  two school year was limited to a portion of the
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  school year ten twenty oh one through three seven two,
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  and further substantiates Miss roberts testimony that she attempted to
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  get away from Epstein's abuse, along with the following testimony
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  by Figueroa. Question, was there a period of time between
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  two thousand and one and when she left in two
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  thousand and two where she was not working for Jeffrey? Answer? Yes,
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  question what period of time was that? Answer? It was
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  pretty much like when she was actually working as a server,
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  like basically because we were trying not to have her
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  go back there, like she did not want to go
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  back there, and we were trying to just work without
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  needing his money, you know. Ce McCauley declaration at Exhibit four.
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  Figueroa deposition. Question, So the thing that Virginia was tired of?
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  What was it that Virginia was trying to get away
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  from and stop with respect to working at Jeffrey Epstein's house.
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  Answer to stop being used and abused. Even still, if
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  the records are correct, which Miss Roberts does not concede,
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  The records indicate that Miss roberts attendance was poor, with
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  sixty nine days present and thirty two days absent out
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  of her required one hundred and eighty days school year,
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  and that she was not enrolled at the end of
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  the school year. Cee mccauleay declaration at Exhibit twenty seven.
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  Miss Roberts obvious gap in her school attendance, her presence
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  verified by Epstein's pilot on Epstein's logs, and an abundance
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  of witness testimony all corroborator story that she was. Miss
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  Roberts was flying domestic and internationally with Epstein at least
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  thirty two times between twelve eleven of two thousand and seven,
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  twenty eight of two thousand and one and six twenty
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  one oh two and eight twenty one oh two. Defendants
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  purported facts thirty nine during the year two. Miss Roberts
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  worked at numerous jobs. In two thousand, while living with
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  her fiance, Miss Roberts held five different jobs at Agriculture
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  Breeding and Research Center, Southeast Employee Management Company, the Club
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  at mar A Lago, Oasis Outsourcing, and Neiman Marcus. Her
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  taxable earnings that year totaled nearly nine thousand dollars. Miss
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  Roberts cannot now recall either the South East Employee Management
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  Company or the Oasis Outsourcing job. Miss Roberts statement controverting
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  defendants facts. Miss Roberts disputes this statement. During two thousand
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  Miss Roberts shared an apartment with her then boyfriend James
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  Michael Ostrich and his friend Mario. C. McCauley declaration at
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  Exhibit two. Austrich deposition at page forty nine. Although Ostrich
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  testified that he proposed to Miss Roberts on Valentine's Day
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  see Ostrich at page nineteen, miss Roberts was a troubled
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  teen who could not realistically be considered a fiance in
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  the true sense of the word, nor was she of
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  legal age to marry. While Miss Roberts held various jobs
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  in two thousand, records do not show the exact date
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  of employment, month and day because they do not need
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  this information to figure Social Security benefits CEE McCaulay declaration
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  at Exhibit forty six. The reason that Miss Roberts cannot
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  recall to companies listed on her SSA records is simply
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  because they were not her employers. C. McCauley, Declaration five.
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  Had defendant bothered to run a simple Google search, she
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  could have ruled them out as being payroll and benefit
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  administration companies. Miss Roberts has testified that she believes she
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  worked at Taco Bell at Avery then mar A Lago
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  see McCauley declaration at exhibit five. Ostrich also testified that
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  Miss Roberts worked with them at Taco Bell as well
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  as a pet store for over a month before working
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  at mar A Lago cemacaulley declaration at exhibit five. Neither
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  Taco Bell nor the pet store are listed on Miss
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  Roberts SSA records because they were most likely paid through
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  payroll companies seamacaulley declaration at exhibit forty six. Miss Roberts
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  also testified that she volunteered at an avery where they
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  eventually put her on their payroll but paid her very little.
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  Robert's deposition at page fifty two. Aviculture Breeding and Research
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  Center taxable earnings for two thousand is ninety nine dollars
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  and forty eight cents seemacaulley declaration at exhibit forty six.
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  All right, folks, we're going to wrap up 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.