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Virginia Robert's Repsonds To Ghislaine Maxwell's "Undisputed Facts" (Part 6) (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 diving right back in to Virginia
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  Roberts and her response to Glanne Maxwell and her so
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  called undisputed facts. So let's get right back to it.
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  The defendants purported facts number forty. Miss roberts employment at
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  the mar A Lago SPA began in the fall of
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  two thousand. Miss Roberts father Sky Roberts, was hired as
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  a maintenance worker at the mar A Lago Club in
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  Palm Beach, Florida, beginning on April eleventh, two thousand. Mister
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  Roberts worked there year round for approximately three years. After
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  working there for a period of time, mister Roberts became
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  acquainted with the head of the spy area and recommended
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  Miss Roberts for a job there. Mar A Lago closes
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  every Mother's Day and reopens on November first. Most of
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  the employees are seasonal and work when the club is open,
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  i e. Between November first and Mother's Day. Miss Roberts
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  was hired as a seasonal SPA attendant to work at
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  the mar A Lago Club in the fall of two thousand,
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  after she had turned seventeen, Miss Robert's statement controverting the
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  defendant's facts. Miss Roberts disputes this statement. Defendant cannot simply
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  infer Miss roberts employment history and claim it to be undisputed.
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  The mar A Lago Club produced one hundred and seventy
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  seven pages of records in response to the defendants subpoena. However,
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  not one page indicated Miss roberts actual dates of employment,
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  nor whether she was a full time or seasonal employee.
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  In fact, the only significant record produced was a single
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  vague chart entry indicating that Miss Roberts was terminated in
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  two thousand. Job hostings and job descriptions produced by mar
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  A Lago from two thousand and two and later are
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  irrelevant to Miss roberts employment because they are from after
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  she worked there. Miss Roberts testified that mar A Lago
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  was a summer job see mccaulay's declaration at exhibit five.
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  In fact, her father, Sky Roberts, testified that he referred
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  his daughter for employment and she did not get the
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  job through a posting seamacaulley declaration at Exhibit seventeen. He
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  drove his daughter to and from work consistent with his
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  full time schedule Seemacaulley Declaration at seventeen. He believed the spa,
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  like the kitchen dining room, was opened to local guests
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  in the summer Seemacaulley Declaration at Exhibit seventeen, and that
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  his daughter was not attending school when she worked at
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  mar A Lago Seamacaulley Declaration number seventeen. In addition, Juana
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  Lessi testified that it was summer when the defendant approached
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  Miss Roberts at mar A Lago, because he specifically remembered
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  that day I was sweating like hell in the car
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  waiting for Miss Maxwell to come out of the massage
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  Seamaccaulley Declaration at Exhibit one. The defendants purported facts forty one.
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  Miss Roberts represented herself as a maszeus for Jeffrey Epstein.
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  While working at the mar A Lagos Spa and reading
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  a library book about massage, Miss Roberts met Miss Maxwell.
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  Miss Roberts thereafter told her father that she got a
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  job working for Jeffrey Epstein as a massuse. Miss Roberts's
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  father took her to Epstein's house on one occasion around
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  that time, and Epstein came outside and introduced himself to
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  mister Roberts. Miss Roberts commenced employment as a traveling massuse
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  for mister Epstein. Miss Roberts was excited about her job
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  as a messuse, about traveling with him, and about meeting
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  famous people. Miss Roberts represented that she was employed as
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  a massuse beginning in January two thousand and one. Miss
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  Roberts never mentioned Miss Maxwell to her then fiance, Ostrich.
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  Miss Roberts's father never met Miss Maxwell. Miss Robert's statement
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  controverting defendants facts. Miss Roberts denies defendant's false and factually
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  unsupported narrative. In Florida, a person cannot work as a
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  massuse unless she is at least eighteen years of age
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  or has recive the high school diploma or a high
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  school equivalency diploma Florida Statute Section four point eighty dash
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  zero four to one. Miss Roberts was a minor child
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  under the age of eighteen when she was working at
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  mar A Lago as a spa attendant Robert's deposition at
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  sixty one nine sixty one twenty four, she was approached
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  by the defendant, who told her she could make money
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  as a masseuse. A profession in which Miss Roberts had
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  no experience see McAuley declaration at Exhibit five. Sky Roberts,
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  Miss Roberts's father verified Miss roberts account that defendant recruited
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  his daughter to learn massage therapy cea McAuley declaration at
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  Exhibit seventeen. Miss Roberts's father drove her to Epstein's house,
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  the address of which was given to her by the
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  defendant seamccauley declaration at Exhibit five. Robert's deposition at one seventeen.
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  Miss Roberts was led into the house and was instructed
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  by the defendant on how to give a massage, during
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  which Epstein and the defendant turned the massage into a
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  sexual encounter and offered Miss Roberts money and a better
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  life to be compliant in the sexual demands of defendant
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  and Epstein Seemacauleey declaration at Exhibit five. The minor Miss
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  Roberts then began traveling with defendant and Epstein on private
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  planes and servicing people sexually for money, working not as
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  a legitimate massuse but in a position of sexual servitude
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  Seemacauleey declaration at Exhibits five and one Epstein's house manager,
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  Juana Lessi, described defendant's methodical routine of how she prepared
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  a list of places ahead of time, then drove to
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  each place for the purpose of recruiting girls to massage
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  Epstein Seemacaulley declaration at Exhibit eighteen. Alessi also stated that
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  on multiple occasions he drove defendant to pre planned places
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  while she recruited girls for massage. He further testified that
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  he witnessed Miss Roberts at Epstein's house on the very
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  same day that he witnessed defendant recruit Miss Roberts from
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  mar A Lago Sea McCauley declaration at Exhibit eighteen. A
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  Lessi deposition. Johanna Schoberg, through her sworn testimony, demonstrated that
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  defendant recruited her in a similar fashion by driving to
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  the college campus where she attended school and approaching her
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  to work at Epstein's home answering phones Seamacaulley declaration at
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  Exhibit sixteen. Schoberg testified that she answered phones for one
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  day before defendant propositioned her to a rub feat for
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  one hundred bucks an hour seeamcauley declaration at Exhibit sixteen.
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  The following day, Schoberg was paired with defendant's assistant Emmy Taylor,
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  who provided her with massage training on Epstein. Schoberg at
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  thirteen through fifteen. Miss roberts then boyfriend Austrich testified that
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  he could not recall the name of the person who
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  recruited Miss Roberts. However, he did say that she was
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  recruited by someone to work for Epstein as a massage therapist,
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  but that Miss Roberts did not have any experience see
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  McCauley declaration at exhibit two. Neither Miss Roberts nor Schoberg
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  were licensed or trained in massage, but were invited soon
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  after being recruited to travel with Epstein on his private
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  plane to massageum see McCauley declaration at Exhibit sixteen. The
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  defendants purported facts forty two. Miss Roberts resumed a relationship
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  with convicted felon Anthony Figueroa in spring two thousand and one,
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  while living with Ostrich, Miss Roberts lied to and cheated
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  on him with her high school boyfriend, Anthony Figueroa. Miss
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  Roberts and Ostrich thereafter broke up, and Figueroa moved into
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  the Bentoke apartment with Miss Roberts. When Ostrich returned to
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  the Bento apartment to check on his pets and retrieve
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  his belongings, Figueroa, in Miss Robert's presence, punched Ostrich in
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  the face. Figueroa and Miss Roberts fled the scene before
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  police arrived. Figueroa was then a convicted felon and a
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  drug abuser on probation for possession of a controlled substance.
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  Miss Robert's statement controverting Defendant's facts. This entire statement is
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  wholly irrelevant to the case being tried and is improperly
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  being inserted to tarnish the record. Miss Robert's dating history
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  as a young teen bears no relation to the allegations
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  made within Miss Robert's complaint against the defendant. As previously stated,
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  defendant is attempting to muddy the record with nonsensical teen
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  drama in an effort to detract from her salacious sexual
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  abuse of a minor child. Such statements bear no relation
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  to the issues presented through her motion for summary judgment
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  and should be given weight reflecting the same as specifically
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  set forth in Miss Robert's objections to designate testimony. The
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  alleged information would be excluded by multiple rules of evidence
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  and contested by Miss Roberts Seemacaulay declaration at Exhibit five. Moreover,
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  it was the defendant who solicited Anthony Figueroa to recruit
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  high school age girls for Epstein see McCauley declaration at
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  Exhibit four. Defendants purported facts number forty three. Miss Roberts
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  freely and voluntarily contacted the police to come to a
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  raid in two thousand and one and two thousand and two,
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  but never reported to them that she was Epstein's sex slave.
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  In August two thousand and one, at age seventeen, while
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  living in the same apartment, Miss Roberts and Figueroa hosted
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  a party with a number of guests. During the party,
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  according to Miss Roberts, someone entered Miss roberts room and
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  stole five hundred dollars from her shirt pocket. Miss Roberts
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  contacted the police. She met and spoke with police officers
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  regarding the incident, and filed a report. She did not
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  disclose to the officer that she was a sex slave.
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  A second time, in June two thousand and two, Miss
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  Roberts contacted the police to report that her former landlord
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  had left her belongings by the roadside and had lit
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  her mattress on fire. Again, Miss Roberts met and spoke
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  with law enforcement officers, but did not complain that she
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  was the victim of any sexual trafficking or abuse, or
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  that she was then being held as a sex slave.
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  Miss Robert's statement controverting Defendant's facts. This statement is misleading
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  in several respects and irrelevant. The fact that Miss Roberts
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  did not contact police on two occasions for specific purposes,
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  and did not take that opportunity to also inform the
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  police of everything else that was going on in her
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  life at the time is immaterial. Defendant implies that anytime
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  someone calls the police for one thing, they should tell
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  the police about every other crime, regardless of the relevance
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  to the crime to which the police responded, and regardless
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  to the threat to herself should she report on these
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  powerful people. Moreover, as Professor Conan explained, popular understanding of
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  the term sex slave might still connote images of violent pimps,
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  white slavery, or victims chained to a bed in a brothel.
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  In the minds of some people, to call Miss Roberts
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  a victim of sex trafficking, would however, very accurately convey
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  the reality that she, along with a great many other
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  victims of contemporary forms of slavery, are often exploited by
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  the invisible chains of fraud and psychological coercion. Ceamacauleey declaration
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  at exhibit number twenty three. Miss Roberts specifically testified that
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  she was fearful of defendant at Epstein, and accordingly she
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  would not have reported her abusers. She also knew that
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  Epstein had control over the Palm Beach Police see McCaulay
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  declaration at exhibit number five. All Right, folks, we're gonna
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  wrap this episode up right here, and in the next
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  episode we'll pick up where we left off. All of
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  the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  in the description box.