James PATTERSON - How many times would you say you went? - Hundreds. Hundreds. I was—he used to tell me | was his favorite. He bought me a car. He bought me— - This Jeep that youre driving? - No. I had a brand-new Dodge plane ticket to New York; I got spending money whenever wanted. Like, 1 was in there deep. 1 was—he asked my par- ents to emancipate me so | could live with him. Or he didn't o ask my parents, I'm sorry. He Neon. I got a plane—lI got a ask my parents, he asked me t actually wanted me to come live with him. . As, like, a girlfriend? . Sex slave, whatever you want escalated—he, he just increased my pay, aS touch me. I wouldn't let him put anything inside of me. And then one day he just did, one day he just put his hand, like, to call it. Yeah. Um, but it long as he could his fingers—and, um... - How long, would you say, from the very first time you went? ike, of, of what happened - Months. Honestly, I never kept track, l when. | just can tell you in which order things progressed. It was—it was, like, towards the middle and end of my school year. But I remember that for the last, like, six or eight weeks of high school, I didn’t have a car ‘cause I gave it back have sex with him and, like, no. to him. Because he—he asked me to like, like suck him and stuff [giggles], and 1 was just Definitely not. I was like, “T'1] let you touch me, but I’m not gonna do that." Yeah, the car was a Dodge Neon 2005. He got i the New Year, because I remembe 42 t fo

JAMES PATTERSON my underwear off: I told him no. And he still paid me the same amount. And that was that. | went home. D: So, in other words, he— , V: Finished with himself and that was it. Yeah, he ejaculated. Specifically. D: That was the first time you went there? Vv: Mm-hmm. D: And—!I know, take a deep breath, I know, | can see it in your eyes already. From then on, you went there multiple times? V: [had problems with it. [With] what happened the first time. But three hundred dollars for forty minutes—that was a lot for a sixteen-year-old girl making six bucks an hour. D: So you're saying youre sure you were sixteen now? Vy: Um, 1 don’t want to say I'm sure of my age. I was under seven- teen, one hundred percent. D: Okay. Um, when you— the first time you went, when he masturbated, did you see? V: [giggles] D: His member? Vy: Oh, 1 thought you were going to ask me if I saw, like, his come. D: No. V: I saw all of the above. D: You saw him naked, fully naked? Fully naked? Vy: Yeah, a hundred percent naked. He had a towel on for some of it, but that doesn’t mean anything. Like, he was naked. D: He took off the towel? V: Lsaw everything, yeah. i I mean, I'm sorry, cised, a hundred a has some sort of bi | it is [giggles]; I've n ; done anything wh: it—out of the who | his penis. Like, he- but I’ve never ever | or “I’m gonna do tk I don’t know—do 5 ’'m just really emb : drop of water. It’s r ; top, where it’s attac . Like, I just could te i” can obviously t

D: Well, ah, start from, like, how yo JAMES PATTERSON u met him, and then ru— (ll take you through. - Okay. Um, we [Alison and a female friend] worked at Hollister together in the Wellington Green mall,.and I was mentioning y to go to Maine.. | wanted to go camping for the summer, and | couldn't afford a plane ticket. And—she goes, “Oh, well, you can get a plane ticket in ” 1 said, “What are you talking about?” Like, what are you—that didn't make any sense to me, 4 plane ticket in two hours, what are you talking about? And she goes, “Oh, we can go give this guy a massage, and, um, he'll pay two hundred 5 or an hour.” And that’s all dollars for, like, forty-five minute she told me—no details, no nothing. to her how I wanted extra mone two hours. She said that he wanted cute girls, so | looked cute, did my best. I didn't —1 didn't think that it was what it was. I wasnt naive enough to think that he was gonna pay me two hun- for nothing—l, I don't know, like, I dont my head. | absolutely don't d was thinking, oh, well, thinking, you know, at y? Like, this guy's nol not letting him dred dollars just know what was going through know, And I—the back of my min +t could be legitimate, but I was also the same time, is she fucking craz gonna pay you money for not doing anything, cop a feel or nothing. You know? So I didn’t know what to think, I was like, “Oh.. if he does something that I have a problem with, then I'll leave.” D: Who were you introduced to? Vv: One of hi

James PATTERSON “Where, exactly?” a producer asks. “He didn't say, exactly,” an intern replies. “He said that a very rich man was involved.” “Who?” “Didn't say.” “Did he leave a call-back number?” “No. The kid sounded really young. Fo old.” The producer thinks for his dog-eared notepad. “Okay,” he says. “Pm not sure what we can the moment.” At some point, some enterprising journalist will put enough f the picture. Sooner OF later, aybe a cop's girlfriend gets nd mentions it to her hus- buddy in turn. Maybe the urteen, fifteen years a moment, makes a few scratches in pieces together to get a sense O someone will talk. Maybe a parent. M giddy at lunch. The girlfriend's girlfrie band, who says something to a golfing golfing buddy knows a reporter. Or maybe some lawyer goes off the rez, at the Palm Beach Grill. alk. At that point, Chief Reit- blitzed off those mar- tinis they serve Sgoner or later, there’s always t er’s job will get much, much harder — with Epstein on one side, the press on the other, and the chief taking flak from all sides. But right now, two months into Reiter’s investigation, the press is still speaking 10 whispers. Right now, Reiter wants to keep it that way- And, in the meantime, new into place. do with that for - pieces of the puzzle keep falling - On September 11, over by the police. : The patrol officer | | vehicle. But Alison she’s cocky and c: from the dime bag | remarkable story a ties with high sch: says. She's been gi was

James PATTERSON a— other victims had to be s neighbor reported: m as quickly as pos- And—Reiter can’t shake the ide out there. That lined up with what Epstein e were many girls. He needed to find the Ce ge pe et ee ee ee warts - 5 a al ther sible. It was a race against time. As long as Epstein was free in Palm Beach, arrive at the side of the house on El Brillo Way. more girls were 4 sure to i Alison: September 11 | t might start with th ba covers charity balls, Reporters there woul so juicy. On top of that, ¢ freelance paparazzi and : They'd kill for the stc Heat. Over at WPTV, the one day. It's a tip from a kid, s« from a local high school. , There’s a prostitution > The tip gets brought _ the Producers divvy up 'hewscasts. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009089

ss 2 ‘ ee a! pe ore James PATTERSON > oop Something an old cop would notice. nineteen-year-old bez Reiter’s officers had told him about compl a few months earlier — young women hanging of the block or coming and going at all hour house. “There was some follow-up to that,” Reiter said in a depo- a victim, that h sition for B.B. vs- Epstein, a civil suit, brought by “| think we may have encountered one Jeffrey eventually settled. or two of them. [We] may have done a little bit of surveillance Or arms simulator yet? aints they'd gotten , described, by anothe around at the end : tive Recarey, as one 0: s from Epstein’s In September, sever ee ee eS calls Reiter directly < talked to neighbors as to whether or not they had seen that. I Cautiously, Reiter think we were of the general understanding that, yes, there were } If the departmen men coming and going from Mr. { happy to provide ther very attractive young W° Reiter thanks hir Epstein’s residence. “We did some level of further inquiry, and we were of the 4 now that Epstein knc belief that they were all adults. And [we] were also of the belief q Epstein’s crimes in P that there was a possibility that there could be prostitution. But | ! { knows, if the charge mean that’s just not something that we heavily pursued— a public. prostitution in private residences; it's common everywhere in . Cops like Reiter America. We didn't believe that they were underage at that point, = : that they’re no longe: and so we had n

SS JAMES PATTERSON Jeffrey Epstein'’s garbage will never arrive at Mount Trashmore. Pierre thinks about As he drives to the police station, St. hat he’s been told. It’s a wonder to him that Ameri- d do what the police say these kids have done. e rich, after all. Some of them just don’t know it, Epstein and w can kids woul American kids at he guesses. Americans always want more than they have. dren do stupid things. They do Then again, chil better. And St. Pierre’s trips to the house make one t These girls are young. Really young. “I hope you can stop this man,” St. Pierre tells the cop. The detective shoots him a sharp look, and St. Pierre nods. “Please,” he says, more softly this time. “Can we count on seeing you here tomorrow?” y, impatient again. In his hand he’s t Noel St. Pierre has pulled from s name is on it. Mary's name is on n't know any hing clear. The detective looks ants holding a scrap of paper tha <p at ie a ee pang al Michael Reiter: Sep here’s a sense Ir foundation. Fro Epstein trash. Wendy Dobbs’ : it as well. a residents will w The detective can’t wait to get it to Chief Reiter's office. 2 ‘a How much more wot a remarkably safe comm “As long as it takes, sir.” St. Pierre tells him. “Tomorrow, the next day. Whenever you need me.” uy ‘tee ey A tax write-off? Su genuine gesture. One 0 the department's effort ciously, gratefully. In 2 Jeffrey Epstein—the : Beach PD—for ninety | generous standards of 4 delivered personally, w . ulator.

JAMES PATTERSON they were nothing like the demons he’d heard about in church. Noel had never forgotten the way those kids looked. The way they'd turned into old men and old women. They were like zom- bies trapped in children’s bodies. And now, in America, Noel's been given a chance to help other kids. That’s what the police have told him, at least. Noel is a sanitation worker. Still strong at fifty, and lucky enough to have found his way to Palm Beach, he gets in to work else and keeps his white compactor truck clean, before anyone His pickup route runs hot and cold with the almost glistening. seasons. But even in the summer, with much less to do, he’s on the job early, braced for a six-hour shift that would break a lesser ck. In the winter, the job gets even harder. The Estate busy. Some of the parties have hundreds man’s ba Section gets especially of guests. They leave behind mountains of refuse. That garbage gets picked up daily, or twice a day when requested. It’s carried ~ by workers who slip, silently, under the porte cocheres. Then it gets whisked twenty miles away to a landfill that the garbage- men call Mount Trashmore. Noel’s stretch of the Estate Section runs from the Everglades Club to the southernmost tip of the island. It encompasses Ban- yan Road, Jungle Road, El Bravo Way, and El Brillo Way. His pert- formance record is spotless. As far as the Palm Beach PD is concerned, he’s the perfect man for the job. Chief Reiter’s authorized a “trash pull’ —a l

| | | James PATTERSON “Nothing,” says Mary. «t talked to Jeffrey, and I'm going to his house tomorrow morning, says Wendy. “I’m going to set something up for you.” “Cool. Like, what do you think?” “1 don’t know. I’m going to talk to him tomorrow morning when I go to his house about it.” “Um, how much would | get paid?” “Talk to him. I'll talk to him tomorrow, and then [ll bring you in the next day. You can talk to him about it.” So far, so good, thinks Officer Pagan. But she needs more. She looks at Mary expectantly, but not too expectantly, she hopes. She can imagine how hard it must be for the girl. Or maybe she cant imagine it at all. But either way, Mary seems [Oo have gotten the message. Straightening up in her chair, she begins to press Wendy. “| don’t know,” Wendy says In response. “t don't know. Youre going to have to talk to him about it. I mean, | don't really work tor him like that. I just bring girls to him and they work for him... . You can ask him, like, ‘What can 1 do to make more money?’” Mary keeps pressing. | “The more you do, the more you get paid,” Wendy says finally. “want me to bring my sister for you? So that we can get paid. more or something?” “Well, yeah. That’s what [’m saying. I’m working tomorrow, and me and him are going to put a schedule together for you and your sister. SO I'll call you tomorrow when 1 leave Jeffrey with a schedule.” “Okay, well, I dont have a phone. So if you guys call me, I'd have to know what time so I could ge

James PATTERSON “We're here to see Jeff,” says Wendy. The guard nods—of course you are—and leads them to the side door. They're in the kitchen now. Mary, Wendy, some middle-aged man. The man has a long face, bushy eyebrows, and thick-silver hair—and he’s fit. As fit as the jocks that Mary goes to school with. Not attractive, exactly. He’s way too old for that. But confi- dent, in a way that makes an impression. Standing behind the man there's a woman. She’s blond, very pretty, much taller than Wendy. What a strange scene, Mary thinks. She can't shake the feeling that the man is studying her. Then he nods, and he and Wendy walk out of the kitchen. A little while later, they’re back. “Sarah.” the man says to the tall woman. “You can take Mary upstairs.” Sarah takes Mary up a wide winding staircase carpeted in pink. Together they walk down a hall that’s got photographs on the wall_-naked women. Long curtains cover windows and don't let in much light. In the air, there’s a strong lavender fragrance. Then they come to a room containing a green-and-pink sofa. There’s a large bathroom off to one side and doors on either side of the sofa. There’s a wooden armoire with sex toys on it. There's a massage table, too, and a mural of a naked woman. «Wait here.” says Sarah. “Jeff will be up in a moment.” Mary’s too freaked out to do anything else. Fidgeting with her belt loops, she sits on the sofa, jumps up again. 16 — . : ala POA Pa Awe 2") £5rr A, pe 7 . 7 ——- nahin, eee *

} bd | A oe James PATTERSON making,* And it’s not like she’s running off to do something crazy. After all, Wendy's assured her already that there’s nothing to worry about. Mary’s father is Cuban—an immigrant—a self-made man who runs a contracting business. He’s wise to the ways of the world and highly protective of his two daughters. They're good girls, he knows. Almost angels. As far as he knows, they don’t drink. They've never tried drugs. They love clothes and, especially, music—Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado, Maroon 5, the boy band with that dreamy lead singer. Mary loves California, which she's never seen but daydreams about. She just knows she'll live there someday—a plan that’s okay with her father as long as Mary keeps up with her homework and chores. What he worries about, in the meantime, is the crowd that Mary runs with. Joe is a fine boy. More responsible than most American boys his age. But Joe’s cousin, Wendy, is another story. Mary’s father doesn’t like Wendy at all and would have liked her even less had he known about Wendy’s intentions. In just one hour, Wendy’s told Mary, she can make more money than her father makes in a day: “This guy in Palm Beach. He’s rich. Very rich. He has an airplane. He owns an island, you know?” Like a lot of kids who live inland, away from the Florida coast, Mary’s dreams reach way beyond the dull, scrubby flat- * Wendy Dobbs’s name, some identifying details, and dialogue have been changed. 10 ee ae rt lands and str

JAMES PATTERSON But is Jeffrey thinking about that trip now? is due that morning at nine, and that leaves His first guest few phone calls him enough time for a shower, a lunch, and a before the second girl arrives. Sarah has scheduled that girl for one. | For Jeffrey, it’s just part of the daily routine. But on this day, there’s a delicious twist. One of the girls is a first-timer. Mary: February 200: ownstairs, the dc | gruffly: | “Ella esta aqui | “She’s here. Your frie Mary runs down the got the TV on. Her steprr sister has gone out, too, I “Going shopping,” sh | Bubble into her mouth. ‘ % “éDice quién?” - “Says who?” : Mary’s already halfv : et again, but on Sundays t. - Besides, Mary knows he she’s made. Real mone} i ee tee == Pe a wk* Sle i Setup te Fe —_ Win: 5 << Co } . 7 LN) a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009063

Se Sees Seed RRL ee ee i 1 Sai JAMES PATTERSON come up, and Mary’s head drops dramatically in anticipation. Then a loud, sexy throb spills out of the earbuds: Britney Spears. The bass line takes over, and she starts to dance, moving her hips as she lip-synchs the lyrics: With a taste of a poison paradise... Mary’s swept away by the song. She's twirling around and around, flinging her arms out to grab the clothes hanging up in her closet —it’s like embracing ten thousand fans! Then she stops and pulls out the earbuds. Suddenly she’s become fourteen again. Just a girl, jittery, nervous. What she’s thinking about now is what she will wear to the big fancy house. Mary desperately wants to make an impression. This will be her first trip to the house. She does not want to look like a child on this outing. She picks out a pair of skinny white jeans, puts on a freshly washed halter top that leaves her flat stomach bare. The cross that Joe gave her last Christmas hangs from her neck. Think of the money, she thinks. For Mary, it’s incredible money. Several weeks’ wages at Mickey D’s. And just for giving some old man a massage? She twists the earbuds back in, dives into the closet, sings along with Britney Spears: Don’t you know that you're toxic? The tight white jeans fit Mary perfectly. She turns to check herself out in the mirror, cropping the scene with her fingers to x os + = — 6343 add OT ee Cee ere — = anes ot ~ Sa ve wa ae 8 =~ a es oe a r ' \ na, ge AF el eee r

Soe). & SFr. ree es = ef a ‘ ee Fe 3 - P ‘ AutrHor’s Note ve conducted by Connolly’s Vanity Fair colleague Vicky Ward, we ie began to put the pieces together. is In a few instances, we have re-created brief scenes and ee snatches of dialogue. These are based on interviews, police ne investigation documents, and court filings. We changed the ; a: | names and identities of the girls, hoping to protect them from : 4 more embarrassment and harm. : ‘ There never was any doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was guilty. He a, admitted as much in the non-prosecution agreement he agreed it to sign in 2007. The question is, what exactly was he guilty of? y This book attempts to answer that question and many others pr about this strange and mysterious man. These days people all Be around the world are angry about and suspicious of the super | ee rich and powerful. The story of Jeffrey Epstein is an object lesson < about why we ought to be. To put it simply, some people think > wk 2. 8 yes they can operate outside the law. And that’s what they do. —James Patterson, Palm Beach, February 20, 2016 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009056

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James PATTERSON advised he had witnessed nude girls whom he believed were ia underage at the pool area of his former employer's home, | knew that his former employer was engaging in sexual con- j tact with underage girls, and had viewed pornographic i images of underage girls on computers in his employer’s home. Rodriguez was then released from custody for further = investigation. The items that Rodriguez had attempted to sell to the UCE for $50,000.00 were reviewed by an agent familiar with ig a the underlying criminal investigation. As Rodriguez had Ag 4g described, the items contained information material to the underlying investigation that would have been extremely use- ful in investigati[ng] and prosecuting the case, including the Prince Andrew: 2011 names and contact information of material witnesses and additional victims. Had those items been produced in response to the inquiries of the state law enforcement officers rince Andrew also fares or the FBI Special Agents, their contents would have been imprisonment presented to the federal grand jury. The two men are old { Ghislaine Maxwell introduced | : time in the 1990s. In 2000, Eps ; Castle to celebrate the queen’s t flew to Sandringham, the queer 4 party Prince Andrew threw for The prince had also visited _ Palm Beach as well as in New { Roberts made in her 2015 decla LA Following his release, Alfredo Rodriguez was arrested again. He appeared in court on June 18, 2010, facing charges of cor 4 ruptly conceal

James PATTERSON Jeffrey Epstein. Finally, desperately, he tried to sell the informa- tion he'd stolen. The papers named underage girls and the places where Epstein had taken them. The list included locations in Califor- nia, Paris, New Mexico, New York, and Michigan. The papers also included the names, addresses, and phone numbers of famous individuals— Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoft- man, Ralph Fiennes, David Koch, Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, — | i Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, and former Israeli prime minister E Ehud Barak among them. This was intriguing, if not at all damning. Epstein madea EP habit of collecting such information for future use. But informa- ae 4 tion pertaining to the girls would have bolstered the state's case against Jeffrey Epstein, and by withholding it from the Palm Beach PD and the FBI, Rodriguez had committed a crime. In his defense, Rodriguez would say that the papers were an “insurance policy.” Without them, he believed, Epstein would have made him “disappear.” But now Rodriguez needed the money. And so a few weeks F after Epstein’s release from the Stockade, he approached a lawyer i who was representing some of Epstein’s masseuses. He had the (a “holy grail,” he insisted. A “golden nugget.” The names of hun- 4 dreds of girls, he said, who had been abused by Epstein. j The lawyer told Rodriguez in no uncertain terms that he was E obliged to turn whatever he had over to the authorities. By 4 demanding money for the information,

JAMES PATTERSON approval, on his own planes to New York and to Little Saint Jeff's, where the locals have taken to referring to Epstein’s 727 as the Lolita Express. There are other restrictions, of course, that Epstein is sup- posed to abide by. He has to provide the state of Florida with a list of all the motor vehicles, boats, and airplanes he owns. The full list includes two Escalades, six Suburbans, two Ford F-150s, two Harley-Davidsons, a Land Rover, a Hummer H2, a thirty- four-foot JVC boat, and a thirty-five-foot Donzi powerboat. Three of his five planes turn out to be registered to a com- pany called Air Ghislaine, Inc. As a registered sex offender, Epstein 1s legally obliged to undergo psychiatric treatment. This is a restriction he'll get around by having his own psychologist submit a report to law enforcement officers. Epstein is also prohibited from accessing pornography on the Internet and using social networking for sexual purposes. For Jeffrey Epstein, there will be no Bangbros, Tinder, or Swingles.com. There will be lawsuits. Six weeks before probation ends, he settles with seven women 4 who sue him in civil court. But Epstein can easily afford the se tlement payments. He won't be going back to jail, and in regard to further prosecution for any criminal actions, his troubles are © behind him. Not everyone who's spent time in his company will be sO lucky. 216 Alfredo Rodriguez: Aug pstein’s houseman, Al prison sentence. In a sworn statem maid,