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Case 18-2868, Document 273-2, 08/09/2019, 2628218, Page6é of 25 agreement, alleging that the Government failed to fulfill its legal obligations to inform and consult with them in the process leading up to Epstein’s plea deal.! On December 30, 2014, two additional unnamed victims—one of whom has now self-identified as Plaintiff-Appellee Virginia Giuffre (“Giuffre”)— petitioned to join in the CVRA case. These petitioners included in their filings not only descriptions of sexual abuse by Epstein, but also new allegations of sexual abuse by several other prominent individuals, “including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well- known Prime Minister, and other world leaders,” as well as Dershowitz (a long-time member of the Harvard Law School faculty who had worked on Epstein’s legal defense) and Defendant-Appellee Ghislaine Maxwell (“Maxwell”).2 Dershowitz moved to intervene, seeking to “strike the outrageous and impertinent allegations made against him and to request a show cause order to the attorneys that have made them.”? Exercising its authority to “strike from a pleading an insufficient 1 On February 21, 2019, the Florida District Court ruled that federal prosecutors had violated the CVRA by failing to adequately notify the two victims- plaintiffs of the plea deal. The District Court has not yet determined the appropriate remedy. See Doe 1 v. United States, 359 F. Supp. 3d 1201, 1204-17 (S.D. Fla. 2019). ? Doe 1 v. United States, No. 08-CV-80736-KAM, 2015 WL 11254692, at *2 (S.D. Fla. Apr. 7, 2015) (internal quotation marks omitted). 3 Id. (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted).