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Case 18-2868, Document 280, 08/09/2019, 2628232, Page19 of 74 Kellen testified as follows: Q. Did Ghislaine Maxwell work as a recruiter for young girls for Jeffrey Epstein when you met her? A. On advice of my counsel I must invoke my Fifth and Sixth Amendment privilege . . . RK Q. Isn’t it true that Ghislaine Maxwell would recruit underage girls for sex and sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein? A. On advice of my counsel I must invoke my Fifth and Sixth Amendment privilege . . .'” Similarly, Jeffrey Epstein invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked about Defendant’s involvement in procuring underage girls for sex with him. Q. Maxwell was one of the main women whom you used to procure underage girls for sexual activities, true? THE WITNESS: Fifth. RK Q. Maxwell was a primary co-conspirator in your sexual abuse scheme, true? THE WITNESS: Fifth. Q. Maxwell was a primary co-conspirator in your sex trafficking scheme, true? THE WITNESS: Fifth. Q. Maxwell herself regularly participated in your sexual exploitation of minors, true? THE WITNESS: Fifth.’® 8. It is an undisputed fact that Juan Alessi testified that Defendant was one of the people who procured some of the over 100 girls he witnessed visit Epstein, and that he had to clean Defendant’s sex toys. Juan Alessi was Epstein’s house manager. He testified as follows: Q. And over the course of that 10-year period of time while Ms. Maxwell was at the house, do you have an approximation as to the number of different females — females that you were told were massage therapists that came to house? A. I cannot give you a number, but I would say probably over 100 in my stay there. RK Q. I don’t think I asked the right — the question that I was looking to ask, so let me go back. Did you go out looking for the girls — A. No. Q. — to bring — A. Never Q. — as the massage therapists? A. Never. Q. Who did? '7 See McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 8, Kellen Dep. Tr. at 15:13-18; 20:12-16. '8 See McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 3, Epstein Dep. Tr. at 116:10-15; 117:18-118:10. 11