ABOUT THE AUTHORS TO Ci lh James Patterson received the Literarian Award for Outstand- ing Service to the American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards ceremony. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most number one New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. John Connolly has been an investigative reporter for twenty-five years, the last twelve of them with Vanity Fair. He has written scores of nonfiction pieces for numerous national magazines. | Tim Malloy is a thirty-year veteran of print and television jour- nalism. He has won eight Emmys as an investigative reporter, documentary maker, and war correspondent. He appears in print, on the Web, and on TV as a political analyst. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009369

JAMES PATTERSON The Cops Michele Pagan is now a sergeant for the Palm Beach Police Department. In early 2012, at a reception at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe Recarey received the first Palm Beach Police Foundation Police Officer of the Year award— one of several honors he received in the course of his twenty-three-year career in Palm Beach. Two years later, he left the department and took a job as director of loss prevention for the Gold Coast Beverage company. “lye been [at the Palm Beach Police Department] longer than my children have been alive,” he told a reporter for the Palm Beach Daily News when he left. “I’m going to miss a majority of the people I’ve worked with, and, obviously, I'm going to miss the work. This is my extended family. Like many families, you have disagreements with some family members. But you over- look that, and you work together and you're a team. I'm going to look back and miss a lot of the people I've worked with.” Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter left the department in 2008 after twenty-eight years on the job. He now runs his own security company in Palm Beach. Jean-Luc Brunel In January of 2015, Jean-Luc Brunel sued his old friend Jeffrey Epstein, claiming that Epstein’s fall from grace had cost him mil- j ” a lions of dollars in business and caused him “severe emotional stress. 4 The lawsuit claimed, “Plaintiff Brunel is emotionally destroyed Z _ Senne as a result of Epstein’s actic ness. He has been on medic It continues: “Defend

JAMES PATTERSON Kellen might have gone along with that. But in the end she didn’t need to. Sources say she found another rich man as Epstein whiled away his hours in and out of the Palm Beach Stockade. She reinvented herself, and when her relationship with the wealthy man fell apart, she played the field until she met and married a race-car driver named Brian Vickers. Along the way she reinvented herself yet again, changing her name to Sarah Kensington. Nadia Marcinkova Nadia Marcinkova changed her surname to Marcinko and, after training at a Palm Beach flight school, became a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor. Calling herself Gulfstream Girl on Facebook, she cultivated her social media presence until 2013, when the Gulistream company filed a trademark infringe- ment lawsuit against her. When the suit was settled out of court, in 2014, Marcinko changed “Gulfstream” to “Global.” “As a child.” she wrote for the “About Me” page on her web- site, “Nadia channeled her entrepreneurial spirit by selling invi- sible pets to neighboring kids. She continued on to manage a successful family marketing business and soon she was disco- vered by a modeling agency and immersed into the marketing and advertising world as a spokesperson and international fash- ion model.” There is no mention of Jeffrey Epstein. But on her YouTube channel, Marcinko appears in the cockpit of a Gulfstream II that 4 looks very much like Epstein’s Gulfstream, sitting beside a man = who looks

JAMES PATTERSON More than a decade had passed since Epstein’s case first landed on the state attorney’s desk. “The New York Times has called me,” said Krischer. “The British papers. I'm not interested in being pulled into that con- versation. I know that the police chief didn’t think the case was handled right, but that’s why he’s a cop and I’m a prosecutor.” Krischer, who left the state attorney's office in 2009, is stilla member of the Criminal Justice Commission in Palm Beach County. Since his retirement, he’s volunteered one morning a week at the office of the state attorney and two mornings a week at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. He still remains active in child welfare issues, working with the Florida Department of Children and Families. Despite his continued involvement with local law entorce- ment, he hasn’t spoken to Michael Reiter in yeats. Bradley Edwards In December of 2009, Jeffrey Epstein filed suit, under Florida’s RICO act, against Scott Rothstein, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley Edwards, the lawyer who'd worked, briefly, in Rothstein's law firm, RRA, and represented several of Epstein’s victims; and one of those victims, an individual referred to in the lawsuit as Be: “| MM.” RRA as a front for the massive Ponzi scheme and/or were Se an alleged interest or investment in the Civil Actions (and other ‘ claims) involving Epstein.” The suit also claimed that, “By usimg = 278 “Upon information and belief,” the suit stated, “EDWARDS © knew

JaMes PATTERSON Prince Andrew had long since sold the home, which he and Sarah had received as a gift after their 1986 wedding. He got into hot water when it was revealed that the buyer, a Kazakh billion- aire named Timur Kulibayev, had paid three million pounds more than the home’s asking price. For her part, Sarah Ferguson announced that she was mov- ing into a thirteen-million-pound ski chalet in Switzerland. It was a fitting end to the long, sometimes sordid story of the prince’s marriage. But it was not the end of the scandals that seemed always to be swirling around the prince. On January 2, 2015, Virginia Roberts's allegations about her relationship with the prince—and the photo of him with his arm around Roberts's waist—appeared in the press. Prince Andrew was forced to cut short a skiing holiday to confer with his mother, the queen, and to issue a statement denying Rob- erts’s allegations —a step that was widely seen as being without precedent for a member of the royal family. That same month, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the prince was again forced to “reiterate and to reai- firm” the repeated denials made by Buckingham Palace that he had any sort of sexual relationship with Roberts, who had announced in papers filed at the start of the year that Prince Andrew has a “sexual interest in feet.” “My focus is on my work,” Prince Andrew said at the time. ~ Asked by a reporter, “Will you be making a statement?” the prince refused to answer.

JAMES PATTERSON his team reviewed refuted the accusations of sexual misconduct against Dershowitz. , For Alan Dershowitz, the long nightmare he’d had to endure asa result of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein finally seemed to be over. Ghislaine Maxwell Trying to put her troubles with Epstein behind her, Ghislaine Maxwell took up a new calling. “She’s doing something to save the oceans now,’ a socialite says over the din of cocktail-party chatter at a private Palm Beach Club, Maxwell's nonprofit, the TerraMar Project, describes itself as “a platform for citizenship and transformation of the high seas.” Its focus is on cleaning up the eight million metric tons of plastic debris—garbage—that are dumped into the world’s oceans each year. (Sources say that an earlier enterprise, the Seed Media Group, was funded by Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 to the tune of two million dollars.) “Is anybody here staying awake at night because they're frightened about the ocean?” she asks in 2014 at a TEDx talk in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Are you scared about what could hap- pen? Are you trying to think about what could you do that would help the ocean and all its myriad of troubles?” But although her efforts on behalf of the environment are sin- cere and articulate, Ghislaine still appears in the society pages. In 2010, she attends Chelsea Clinton's icine in Rhine- a beck, New York. In 2014, New York journalist Richard Johnson reports that she’s newly back from running in an Iditarod d

James PATTERSON and his own wife, Kimmie, who was arrested for hiding more than one million dollars’ worth of jewelry. All in all, more than thirty people involved in Rothstein's schemes were arrested and sentenced. Thanks, in part, to his cooperation with the feds, his was the only Ponzi scheme in history in which all the victims recovered their money. In return, Rothstein was put into a witness protec- tion program and is serving his fifty-year sentence anonymously, in an undisclosed prison location. Alan Dershowitz On November 10, 2015, Alan Dershowitz arrived at Shriver Hall, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, im Baltimore, to talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict. “The outlines for peace are so obvious,” he said. “There has to be a two-state solution.” Fifteen minutes into the talk, a group of women—students belonging to a group called Hopkins Feminists—stood up in protest. Dressed all in black, with duct tape over their mouths, they held up a sign and marched out of the hall. YOU ARE RAPE CULTURE, the sign read. Afterward, a reporter for the student paper asked Dershowitz about Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein’s victims. Wasn't it true that Der showitz had implied that one of those victims was “asking for it?” “Tm a defense attorney,” Dershowitz replied. “I have an obliga- us defense to © d,1 tion under the Constitution to provide a full and zealo my clients. If I have failed to do all the things you had just liste could be disbarred. I could be found in

James PATTERSON All these possibilities seemed bizarre. And yet everything CE connected with Epstein’s story seemed to be bizarre. Bill Clinton got the use of a jet out of Epstein—a trip to Africa. But he and Epstein weren't bosom buddies. As for Prince Andrew, we already know how he feels about women. But what did Dershowitz get out of Epstein, aside from Epstein’s wise counsel on all the books he'd written? One advantage Dershowitz had, as he laid out his argument, was that when it came to Jeffrey Epstein, all bets were off. He didn’t have to establish his innocence. All he had to do was make ] sure that the waters stayed muddy. The more complicated things ; seemed to be, the better they were for Dershowitz. a Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein’s actions, and the endlessly compli- Scott Rothstein On October 27, 2009, Floric cated cycle of suits and countersuits those actions inspired, Rothstein a voice-mail mess os A 7? ‘ . «4 q . — 7 4 Or, re oe those waters were very muddy indeed. “Hey, Scott,” the gover Greek governor. Hope you’ 7 touch base and let you kno | twenty-fourth, and it is ge brother.... Really enjoyed ; watchling] a little football a me. We love you. Take care. That same day, Rothstei Casablanca, Morocco. For a Tunning. But a few days late 4 Fort Lauderdale. The Ponzi! q j The moment he did, he s for a lenient sentence. Roths ] the list included people at hi 270 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009351

JAMES PATTERSON Association. By all outward appearances, he could afford it: sev- enty lawyers worked in his firm, which had offices in Florida, New York, and Venezuela. But Rothstein's millions actually came from a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme he’d been running since 2005. In April of 2009, Bradley Edwards joined Rothstein's firm. The lawyer brought his papers along, and Rothstein showed those pertaining to Epstein to potential investors. In exchange for a lump sum up front, Rothstein said, investors would receive a far larger chunk of money later, which Epstein would pay in future settlements. Edwards and Rothstein both say that Edwards had no knowl- edge whatsoever of the Ponzi scheme. (Prosecutors, and the Florida Bar, agree.) Edwards left as soon as he caught wind of the scheme, in November of 2009. But the few months he spent in Rothstein’s company gave Dershowitz the opening he needed to pry open Virginia Roberts's accusations. It was at Edwards’s insistence, Dershowitz would say, as well as Paul Cassell’s, that Virginia Roberts added Dershowitz's name to the list of men she claimed had abused her. According to Dershowitz, he'd been pulled into a billion-dollar extortion plot Edwards had hatched. And for Edwards and Cas- sell, there had been a secondary benefit: Dershowitz had helped to work out Epstein’s confidential non-prosecution agreement with the government. By implicating him directly in Epsteins abuse of underage women, Dershowitz claimed, Edwards and ~ Ca

James PATTERSON Epstein; they obviously put Prince Andrew in there in order to get massive publicity around the world. And every media in the world, practically, called me, from the BBC to CBS to ABC to CNN, and I responded to lies with the truth. - And the truth that you attempted to convey was that Bradley Edwards and Professor Paul Cassell were unethical lawyers who fabricated false charges against you, right? - The truth that I intended to convey was that the charges against me were false and fabricated, that I never had any sexual contact— - Fabricated by whom, sit? - Please don't interrupt me....that l never had any sexual con- tact with Virginia Roberts. Because Professor Cassell insisted on conveying to the public that he was a former judge and © that he was a professor and that he was using — improperly, in my view—the stationery and name of his university to add credibility to his claims, | felt that it was imperative for me to indicate that he was engaging in impropet and unethi- cal conduct. It would have been improper for me to have allowed his use of his credibility as a former federal judge, as a professor who uses, misuses, his university imprimatur — it was very important for me to attack the credibility of the messengers of the false information. And it was important ey: for me to also remind the public that Bradley Edwards was 4 partner of [Scott] Rothstein, a man who is spending fifty years in jail for fraudulently creating a Ponzi scheme to se

JaMEs PATTERSON 11:35 a.m. Q: Who are the people that Rebecca says Virginia had previ- ously told her that Virginia was abused by? | A: [never asked her that question. Q: Did you ask her was Les Wexner one of the people that j abused Virginia? A: I told you I never asked her the question. Q: Are you aware that years before December of 2014, when the PA CVRA pleading was filed, that your name had come up repeatedly in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minors, correct? A: 1am aware that never before 2014, end of December, was it ever, ever alleged that I had acted in any way inappropriately with regard to Virginia Roberts, that I ever touched her, that | ever met her, that I had ever been with her. I was completely aware of that. There had never been any allegation. She claims under oath that she told you that secretly in 2011, but you have produced no notes of any such conversation. You, of course, are a witness to this allegation and will be deposed ~ as a witness to this allegation. ! believe it is an entirely false F allegation that she told you in 2011 that she had had any sex 4 ual contact with me. | think she’s lying through her teeth : ; , when she says that. And I doubt that your notes will reveal 4 any such information. But if she did tell you that, she would ih be absolutely, categorically lying. So I am completely aware that never—until the lies were put in a legal pleading at the | end of December 2014, it was never alleged that | had any & 264

> O James PATTERSON paying a large sum of money. And that I was named as an effort to try to show the billionaire what could happen to somebody if they were accused of sexual misconduct. And that would encourage him to settle a lawsuit or pay money in exchange for his name not being mentioned or revealed. | had no idea about this. And I didn’t—I didn't ask about this. She just stated this. And I then corroborated the fact that she was absolutely correct in everything she had said to me. - You corroborated the fact that she was absolutely correct in everything that she had said to you? - That’s right. : How? : Okay. Let me answer that question. I was very —I wasn't sure, so I called Leslie Wexner. I got his wife on the phone, Abigail Wexner. Obviously I knew that the only billionaire in Colum- bus, Ohio, who owned Limited Too and who owned Victoria's Secret was Leslie Wexner. I had met Leslie Wexner on two occasions, I think, and his wife. I called Abigail on the phone and I said, “I think you ought to know that there is an extor- tion plot being directed against your husband by unscrupu- lous lawyers in—in Florida.” And she said, “Oh, were aware of that; they’ve already been in contact with us,” which sur prised me. But [her statement] was confirmation of that. I a then also —I can’t give you the chronology of that. I then was in touch with ABC and found out she was absolutely correct ~ about her efforts to try to get interviewed on ABC television. 3 In fact, I lear

JaMES PATTERSON A: 1 left that to my lawyers. I know that we did produce tele- phone records during the relevant periods of time when Vir- ginia Roberts knew Jeffrey Epstein, and those telephone records established that I could not have been at the loca- tions and at the times that Virginia Roberts claimed to have had—falsely claimed to have [had] sexual contact with me. Q: I promise you we're going to get to those. A: Good. Q: Promise you. Along with all the flight logs that you claim exonerate you. 11:11 a.m. : Let’s go to the very second contact that you had with either Michael or Rebecca. Who initiated the second contact? - 1 think I did. I called and got Michael on the phone. - Where did you call from? : [think New York. - Tell me in as much detail as your superb memory allows you to recall everything that was said during the course of that Q Oro>r phone conversation. [Dershowitz’s lawyer]: Let’s object to the form and the continued use of the word superb. He’s described his memory. That's your characterization. Go ahead. Q: No, I think that that was Mr. Dershowitz’s characterization, ~ which I have adopted. [Lawyer]: Okay. Go ahead. A: I called, spoke to Michael. I asked Michael if he had spoken og his wife. She said yes, and she was still reluctant to talk to mg 4 260 Fy Q: I'm sorry—she said yes spoken to his wife? A: He said yes. And that sh suggested to him that p just so that she hears wh and remain on the phone wanted. And there cam when she

James PATTERSON number and they called, is my recollection. That’s my best recollection. 10:45 a.m. Q: So from the very first conversation that you had with this person, you had information indicating that this person was informing you that Bradley Edwards had engaged in unethi- cal conduct, correct? A: Let me just be very clear what she said to me. She said to me that she had been told directly by her friend Virginia Rob- erts, who stayed with her overnight for a period of time, that she never wanted to mention me in any of the pleadings. And that her two lawyers in the pleadings, or her lawyers who filed the pleadings, pressured her into including my name and details. Q: Did’Rebecca ever suggest to you that the details sworn to by Virginia Roberts were false? A: She certainly suggested that, yes. She mentioned to me that Virginia Roberts had never, ever mentioned [me to herl, among any of the people that she ha until she —until she was pressured into doing so by her law- © yers, yes. , Q: So from the very first conversation, the impression yo was that this was a witness who could provide information 4 that Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell had acted unethically ; and dishonestly, correct? A: | wasn’t sure she could provide the information becau was very reluctant to come forward. She di 258 d had any contact with, § y had © se she © dn’t want to be’ F involved. But I knew shi i yes, but I didn’t know, < prepared to be a witne: 7 question. ; q 11:08 a.m.

JAMES PaTTERSON 10:23 a.m. Q: Would you tell us how many phone conversations [you had] with this person Rebecca? A: More than six. Probably between six and ten, maybe closer to ten. The first few [times] she called me, and after I got their number I called her a number of times. Q: What is her husband’s name? A: Michael. Different last name from hers, but again. Q: Where do they live? A: Palm Beach. Or West Palm Beach, in the Palm Beach area. They have been friends of Virginia Roberts since she was a young child. Q: Were there any witnesses to any of these phone conversa- tions other than Rebecca, Michael, and you? As “Yes. Q: Who? A: My wife. | Q: When did the first conversation occur? A: Ican probably get you specific information about that. But it was months ago. When the story was in the newspapers, she called and related the entire story to me and related to me 7 that it was part of a massive extortion plot. 10:25 a.m. Q: Did you take contemporaneous notes of those phone conver” sations? 256 A: No. I took note of naj stance, no. Q: Have you ever made n any cOMmmunications t and/or Michael? A: I didn’t “allegedly” have versations. And I don’t: tions. 10:44 a.m. Q: How many phone calls d before she informed yor ing you? She informed me the fir: The very first conversati Yes. How many phone calls w She never asked me for n ioe oO How many phone calls y for money? > : I was never asked for mo: _ Do you know how it is t tact you? q A: They to

JAMES PATTERSON 10:18 a.m. Q: (: A: Which of my clients are you swearing under oath encour- aged Virginia Roberts to include allegations of an encounter with you at the New Mexico ranch? - Both of them—both of your clients, both Judge Cassell and Mr. Edwards—were both involved in encouraging [their] client to file a perjurious affidavit that they knew or should have known was perjurious recently when they sought to file another defamatory allegation in the federal proceeding. : Was the arrangement such that what you are charging Brad- ley Edwards and Professor Paul Cassell with doing was sub- orning perjury? - Absolutely. If you ask me the question, I am directly charging Judge Cassell and Bradley Edwards with suborning perjury. | have been advised that Virginia Roberts did not want to mention me, told her friends that she did not want to men- tion me. And was, quote, pressured by her lawyers into including these totally false allegations against me. Yes, your clients are guilty of suborning perjury. Who told you that Bradley Edwards pressured Virginia Rob- q erts into falsely identifying you? A friend of Virginia Roberts who called me out of the blue 3 and told me that she was horrified by what was happening to ~ me and that she recently had meetings with Virginia Roberts i and Virginia Roberts had told her that she never mentioned” f me previously. That the lawyers pressured her into mention i 254 ing me. And mentioni me, yes. 10:20 a.m. Q: What was t

James PATTERSON “Pm thrilled they sued me,” he'd told reporters. “In the end, someone will be disbarred. Either it will be me or the two lawyers.” But if Dershowitz was swinging for the fences in his struggle to keep his hard-earned reputation afloat, he still had a bomb- shell to drop. When deposed by Scarola, he proposed his own theory about why Virginia Roberts had named him, along with Prince Andrew, as one of the men who had sexually abused her at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, in New York City, and in Palm Beach. A theory that implicated the lawyers who were suing him ina much larger conspiracy. According to Dershowitz, Brad Edwards pressured Virginia Roberts into identifying Dershowitz as one her assailants. Dershowitz said that Edwards did this so that they could blackmail Jeffrey Epstein’s patron Leslie Wexner for one billion dollars. Roberts lied about him, Dershowitz maintained, to give Wexner an idea of what would happen to him if Edwards's demands weren't met. Furthermore, Dershowitz said, he had proof. 252 | 4 oll ve .. F< oOo , onl yee SO Excerpts from the Deposi October 15, 2015 9:46 a.m. Q: In an interview with Hala broadcast on CNN Live, yo Do you acknowledge havir A: I have asuperb memory, sc My mother had an extraorc college and I was on the de to debate on the Sabbath, w the condition that I not tak I discovered that I have a v to—generally didn’t have ously, at the age of seventy have a very good memory, } NS HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009333

JaMEs PATTERSON and would have shown how he could provide potential protec- tion from Epstein. That never happened. 39. Getting a call from this supposed FBI agent made me scared all over again. I had left the old life of sexual slavery behind me and started a new life in a new country in hopes that the powerful people whose illegal activities I knew all about would never find me. 40. Shortly after this purported FBI call, I was contacted by telephone by someone who appeared clearly to be working for Epstein. The caller told me about an investigation into. Epstein and said that some of the girls being questioned were saying that Epstein had had sexual contact with them. After they made these allegations, the man said they were being discredited as drug addicts and prostitutes, but in my case, if I were to keep quiet, I would “be looked after.” The fact that this call was made shortly after the supposed FBI call rein- for[cled my concern that the man I had talked to earlier was not really working for the FBI but for Epstein. I didn’t think that the FBI and Epstein would both be working together and would both get my phone number at almost exactly the same time. I played along and told this person that I had gotten a call from the “FBI” but that I didn’t tell him anything. The person on the phone was pleased to hear [that]. 41. A short time later, one of Epstein’s lawyers (not Alan Dershowitz) called me, and then got Epstein on the line at the same time. Epstein and his law

JAMES PATTERSON this trip as well. I was supposed to interview a girl and bring her back to the United States for Epstein. 31. [Left blank in the original] 32. I did the massage training in Chiang Mai. While I was there, I met a great and special guy and told him hon- estly what I was being forced to do. He told me I should get out of it. I told him that the people I was working for were very powerful and that I could not walk away or disobey them without risking serious punishment, including my life. He told me he would protect me. I had confidence [in] him and I saw his love and help as my opportunity to escape and to be with someone who truly loved me and would protect me. I married him and flew to Australia. 33. I called Epstein and told him I was not coming back. He asked why? I said “I’ve fallen in love.” Epstein basically said “good luck and have a good life.” I could tell he was not happy. I was afraid of what he was going to do to me. I thought he or one of his powerful friends might send some- one to hurt me or have me killed. 34, From that point onward, out of concern for my safety and general well-being, I stayed in Australia with my hus- band. I was in Australia from late 2002 to October 2013. To be clear, I was never in the United States during these years, not even for a short trip to visit my mother. And my absence from the United States was not voluntary—I was hiding from Epstein out of fear of what he would do to me if I returned to the United States. 35

JaMES PATTERSON , r “| don't know this woman. I've never been in the same place with Alan Dershowitz also § her. She’s made the whole story up out of whole cloth.” q are part of a plot to exto Bradley Edwards had already become involved in lawsuits : Edwards and Cassell have { against Epstein. In 2007, working with a former federal judge | he’s ever seen. and University of Utah law professor named Paul Cassell, he had 4 ; “They manipulated a y Gled a lawsuit on behalf of another unnamed woman. Six years 3 interested in money,” Ders later, that case is still pending, and now, Edwards and Cassell } offense, and they will be d: petition to have the two suits combined. ever made this false charge Allin all, four Jane Does take part in the lawsuit. = «Cute then, the allegations m Jane Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts, the girl who says that Ghis- i 15, 2015, in a declaration laine Maxwell recruited her for Epstein at Trump’s resort, : q attempt to overturn Jeffrey I Mar-a-Lago. f me re highly disturbing. Epstein had “lent” her and other young girls to prominent businessmen, important politicians, world leaders, and other 4q powerful men in order “to ingratiate himself with them for busi- ness, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain blackmail information,” Roberts claims. She says that Epstein forced her and other underage girls to take part in an orgy In the Virgin Islands. She names Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz as two of the 4 3 men she'd been forced to h