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Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1328-6 Filed 01/05/24 Page 7 of 32 PRELIMINARY STATEMENT At nearly 78 years of age, Alan M. Dershowitz, the highly regarded Harvard Law professor, criminal defense lawyer, and author, is entitled to enjoy the reputation for strict personal rectitude that he has earned. Unfortunately, however, over the course of the last year and a half, that reputation has been unfairly sullied, tainted by false and grotesque allegations of pedophilia and rape peddled to the press by Virginia Giuffre, the plaintiff in this lawsuit, and republished all over the world. Professor Dershowitz has done everything in his power to combat this assault on his reputation, from proclaiming his innocence in public, to marshalling every bit of information within his control to demonstrate that the allegations cannot be true, to submitting to a full investigation of the charges by former federal judge and FBI Director Louis Freeh, who exonerated him. And still the stories keep coming. Now, having been named as a witness in this action by both plaintiff and defendant, Professor Dershowitz has been granted access to certain materials subject to this Court’s stipulated Protective Order and filed under seal—and those materials, some of them in Ms. Giuffre’s own words, confirm his absolute innocence. They demonstrate that Ms. Giuffre did not accuse Professor Dershowitz of sexual misconduct until years after she first named other prominent men who she claimed had abused her; that there was “no proof” that Professor Dershowitz had ever done anything wrong; and that Ms. Giuffre concocted her malicious allegations against Professor Dershowitz, and used his name in her statements and book proposal, not because he abused her—he didn’t—but because he is famous and she believed that his name would help sell the book. In this application, Professor Dershowitz seeks to intervene in this case for the limited purpose of obtaining relief that is modest and narrowly tailored: the unsealing of portions of a brief filed in connection with a motion to quash a subpoena (“Reply Brief”), and certain emails