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This document is Jeffrey Epstein's Answer and Affirmative Defenses to a civil complaint filed by Jane Doe II in the Southern District of Florida in October 2009. Epstein pleads the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination in response to most factual allegations. He asserts multiple affirmative defenses, claiming the plaintiff consented to the acts, that he believed she was 18 years or older, and that the claims are barred by the statute of limitations and various constitutional challenges to the retroactivity and application of 18 U.S.C. §2255.