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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 779 Filed 08/22/22 Page 76 of 101 76 M6SQmaxS1 1 in New York and Florida during a three-year period. Things 2 happened that were so traumatizing that to this day I am unable 3 to speak about them. I don't even have the vocabulary to 4 describe them. In the most literal sense of the word, Epstein 5) and Maxwell terrified me. They told me that if I told anyone, 6 no one would believe me; and if they did, they would kill me 7 and the people closest to me. I believed them. 8 I was once bright, fun, outgoing and kind. I loved 9 life and people genuinely enjoyed being around me. After 10 meeting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, it felt like 11 someone shut off the lights to my soul. My secrets became too 12 much for me to handle, and I began doing whatever I could to 13 try to get away from Maxwell and Epstein. I changed jobs, 14 apartments, cities and even states to try to get away. 15 Everywhere I went, they found me. 16 In 1997 I moved to Philadelphia with the hopes of 17 finally starting law school. They found me again, and it was 18 more than I could take. I was hospitalized with a nervous 19 breakdown. It would be the first of over two dozen 20 hospitalizations in a decade following my involvement with 2] Epstein and Maxwell. 22 In addition to my escalating mental health problems, 23 began to experience physical symptoms that doctors could never 24 quite put their fingers on. I could no longer even pretend to 25 be able to hold down a job or take care of myself in any SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.» (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00014823