## UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

Plaintiff, CASE NO: 19-cv-10475-LGS-DCF

v.

DARREN K. INDYKE and RICHARD D. KAHN, in their capacities as the executors of the ESTATE OF JEFFREY EDWARD EPSTEIN and GHISLAINE MAXWELL,

Defendants.

## DECLARATION OF SABINA MARIELLA

SABINA MARIELLA, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, declares under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct:

- I. I am an associate at the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LIP and am duly licensed to practice law in the State of New York and before this Court. I represent PlaintiS in this matter.
- 2. I respectfully submit this Declaration in support of Plaintiff's Motion to Approve Alternate Service Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(e)(I).
- 3. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of an email that I sent to gmax@ellemax.com on December 23, 2019, which attached a copy of the Complaint in this matter (ECF No. I) and the summons as to Ghislainc Maxwell (ECF No. 6). I did not receive a response to that email. I also did not receive any indication that the email had not been delivered.

SM

4. Attached hereto as Exhibit 13 arc true and correct copies of two emails that I sent Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys, Jeffrey S. Pagliuca, Laura A. Menninger, and Ty Gec of Haddon, and, P.C., on December 6, 2019. and December 16, 2019. The December 16. 2019 email attached a copy of the Complaint in this matter (ECF No. I ) and the summons as to Ghislaine Maxwell (ECF No. 6). I did not receive a response to either email.

1. On January 16, 2020, I attended a conference in.. v. Maxwell, I 5-cv-7433- LAP (S.D.N.Y.). The conference was held in the Honorable Loretta A. Preska's courtroom in the Daniel = Moynihan United States Courthouse. 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007. Laura A. Menninger of Haddon,= and P.C., was present at that conference on behalfof her client, Ghislaine Maxwell. I asked Ms. Menninger whether she would accept service on behalf of Maxwell in a case that my client, had filed against her. Ms. Menninger told me that she was not authorized to accept service on behalf of Maxwell and that she represents Maxwell only in v. Maxwell.

Dated: January 27. 2020 Ncw York, New York

Mariella