Palm Beach Post article on $50 million lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein

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Palm Beach man faces lawsuit in teen sex case¶

By LARRY KELLER¶

Palm Beach Post Staff Write¶

JEFFREY HERMAN, lawyer for parents of girl, now 17, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault¶

WEST PALM BEACH — The parents of a teenage girl sued part-time Palm Beach resident Jeffrey Epstein for more than $50 million on Thursday, alleging that the wealthy money manager had her brought to his mansion for a massage, then engaged in sexual activity with her.¶

‘This was a typical 14-year-old girl. … What happened here was despicable.’¶

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Lawyer Jeffrey Herman (left) conducts a news conference Thursday with the fa¶

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“This has been a big year for FAU. We won the New Orleans Bowl and now this is happening,” said Krysta Barrett,¶

Thursday with the father and stepmother of a girl who claims¶

wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein¶

The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was 14 at the time. She was the youngest of several alleged victims of Epstein, according to Palm Beach police, who spent 11 months investigating him.¶

$$50 million, in their lawsuit. Epstein, who faces a prostitution¶

solicitation charge, is scheduled to enter a plea March 10.¶

The federal lawsuit, filed by Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman, says “Epstein has a sexual preference and obsession for underage minor girls.” Epstein “gained access to primarily disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted these girls, and then gave them money.”¶

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He and another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez, launched an immediate counteroffensive, even showing up at Hernan’s news conference outside the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. They distributed copies of documents showing that the girl’s father and¶

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stepmother have prior arrests for financial crimes the lawyers say show the lawsuit is financially motivated. Another Epstein lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, a prominent New York criminal defense attorney, provided some of those¶

Herman, who specializes in child sex abuse litigation, sued on behalf of the girl, her father and her stepmother on grounds of sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of parental consortium.¶

“Jane Doe … fell into Epstein’s trap and became one of his victims,” the lawsuit says.¶

“We’re dismayed by the filing of the lawsuit, but not surprised,” said Jack Goldberger, one of Epstein’s attorneys. “We think this¶

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Epstein paid girl $300, suit claims¶

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documents to Goldberger:¶

“Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman,” Sanchez said.¶

Herman suggested that Epstein masturbated in front of the alleged victim and used a vibrator on her after she was brought to his home in February 2005. The girl is now 17.¶

“This was a typical 14-year-old girl at the time she met Epstein,” Herman said.¶

“What happened here was despicable.”¶

The girl told police investigators that she informed Epstein she was 18 when she met him, and she said that was her age on her Web page, Sanchez said.¶

The girl’s father and stepmother also attended the news conference.¶

“We’re very angry,” the father said. “It’s not right that this wealthy man can fly into town and destroy my daughter’s innocence.” He did not take questions.¶

Epstein, 55, is a mysterious New York money manager who owns a Manhattan mansion, as well as homes in Palm Beach, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands.¶

A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted him in July 2006 on one count of felony solicitation of prostitution attempting from alleged incidents between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31, 2005.¶

Epstein is scheduled to enter a plea in the case on¶

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March 10, but he has postponed other court dates to resolve the case.¶

His indictment followed an exhaustive investigation¶

by the Palm Beach Police Department, which concluded that Epstein paid underage girls and young women to be brought to his five-bedroom, 7½-bath Intracoastal home for massages and sometimes sex play. Much of the language in the Jane Doe suit mirrors that of police reports in the case.¶

Herman’s client said her meeting with Epstein was set up by of Loxahatchee, who was a Palm Beach Community College student at the time. When Jane Doe arrived at Epstein’s home, she was escorted by an Epstein assistant, Sarah Kellen, to a room with a massage table, police reports and the lawsuit say.¶

Epstein walked in wearing only a towel, removed it and lay naked on the massage table, the lawsuit says. He demanded that Jane Doe remove her clothing, and she did, except for her underwear, the lawsuit alleges. The sexual activity followed, the suit says.¶

Epstein paid her $300 afterward, and got $200 for bringing the girl to him, the lawsuit says.¶

Epstein arrange other liaisons with girls, Palm Beach police concluded. Neither was charged.¶

This is not the first time Epstein has been sued over purported activities with teenage girls. He was sued in New York in October by a woman who says she had sex with Epstein when she was 16 and had sought his help in becoming a model.¶

The lawsuit filed Thursday also alleges that Epstein has assaulted girls on his private island in the Virgin Islands. Herman declined to elaborate on that assertion.¶

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Spare us the outrage¶

So maybe Mr. Epstein is satisfied that he’s getting his money’s worth from his large legal team, which includes Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz (remember¶

An 11-month police investigation led to an indictment on one felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. That was in July 2006, and part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein still has faced no repercussions for allegedly preying on underage girls.¶

• O.J. Simpson?) and Kenneth Starr (remember Monica Lewinsky?).

Jack Goldberger of West Palm Beach, who’s also on the team, told Post columnist Jose Lambiet in November: “This case is absolutely going to end without a trial within the next two months.”¶

He was wrong, but Mr. Goldberger remains on Mr. Epstein’s payroll, feigning moral outrage at two lawsuits filed this year against¶

the Manhattan money manager. The lawsuits allege sexual exploitation of teenaged girls, one of them as young as 14. Said Mr. Goldberger after the first lawsuit, seeking more¶

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than $50 million, was filed on Jan. 24: “We think this shows what this case is all about: money.” Yes, it is — Mr. Epstein’s effort to buy his way out of prosecution.¶

According to the lawyer of a 17-year-old whose parents are suing him, Mr. Epstein masturbated in front of her (she was 14 at the time) and used a vibrator on her at his home in February 2005. Another Epstein attorney, Lilly Ann Sanchez dismissed it: “Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman.”¶

For those girls who claim that he did, Mr. Epstein’s lawyers maintain that he did not know their ages, despite a police search of his home and garbage that found phone messages about the girls’ school schedules and even a high school transcript. For all of his money, Mr. Epstein’s best defense remains “I didn’t know that I was a criminal pervert”?¶

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