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...he could provide potential protec-
...happened.
...his supposed FBI agent made me
...left the old life of sexual slavery
...v life in a new country in hopes
...ose illegal activities I knew all

...ported FBI call, I was contacted
...o appeared clearly to be working
...me about an investigation into
...f the girls being questioned were
...sexual contact with them. After
..., the man said they were being
...nd prostitutes, but in my case, if
...l "be looked after." The fact that
...after the supposed FBI call rein-
...man I had talked to earlier was
...BI but for Epstein. I didn't think
...uld both be working together and
...mber at almost exactly the same
...d this person that I had gotten a
...t I didn't tell him anything. The
...ased to hear [that].
...ne of Epstein's lawyers (not Alan
...l then got Epstein on the line at
...his lawyer basically asked again
...g. The clear implication was that
...vere talking to me, I was afraid of
...ln't keep quiet. My thought was

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that if I didn't say what they wanted me to say, or not to say, I might get hurt.
42. I promised Epstein and his lawyer that I would keep quiet. They seemed happy with that and that seemed to me to [be the] way to keep me and my family safe. And I did what Epstein and his lawyer told me. I kept quiet.

This declaration, stricken from the record by the judge in the victims' lawsuit against the government, also set in motion events that led to Dershowitz's and Roberts's lawyers becoming involved in spectacular lawsuits, which included a complaint by Dershowitz that these allegations were false and had defamed him, and a complaint by Edwards that Dershowitz's accusations against him were false and defamatory.

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