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JAMES PATTERSON

19. In addition to constantly finding underage girls to
satisfy their personal desires, Epstein and Maxwell also got
girls for Epstein’s friends and acquaintances. Epstein specifi-
cally told me that the reason for him doing this was so that
they would “owe him,” they would “be in his pocket,” and he
would “have something on them.” I understood that Epstein
thought he could get leniency if he was ever caught doing
anything illegal, or that he could escape trouble altogether.

Roberts submitted her declaration in support of a motion to
be added as a plaintiff in a suit (ongoing, as of this writing) that
sought to overturn a non-prosecution agreement that Jeffrey
Epstein would reach with the government. Roberts was seeking
to join a case brought against the government by two other vic-
tims, but a judge denied her motion in April of 2015, explaining
that the case had already been pending for several years, and it
was unneccesary to add an additional plaintiff.

Roberts’s declaration, which goes on for another eight pages, and
makes twenty-four additional points, was stricken from the record—
the judge explained that the “lurid” and “unnecessary details”
involving “non-parties” to the lawsuit against the government, were
“immaterial and impertinent” to the proceedings.

Through a representative, Ghislaine Maxwell called the
allegations against her “obvious lies,” after which Roberts filed a
defamation suit against Maxwell. In an answer filed in the suit,
Maxwell elaborated that Roberts’s “story of abuse at the hands of
Ms. Maxwell” was “fabricated” for financial gain.

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Alicia: May 20, 1997

D onald Trump’s instin
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into Epstein’s myster
ther, there’s a chance they w
not just in Palm Beach.
In California, for instan
from the Santa Monica Police
In the spring—almost the
the police. The young woman
appeared on Baywatch and Ge
ally assaulted at a trendy hotel
The officer who took th
Alicia* —and her voice. A w

* Alicia’s name, some identifying

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