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Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1328-20 Filed 01/05/24 Page 4 of 14 Factual Background Through sheer investigative determination, and in the face of Plaintiffs sworn denial that she has had any contact with law enforcement officials from 1996 to the present apart from supposed “active investigations involving Ghislaine Maxwell,” counsel for Defendant unearthed numerous records of such contacts. In the time period just before and during her alleged “sexual slavery” to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Plaintiff interacted with law enforcement on numerous occasions. November 1997 - Plaintiff, then 14 years old, was observed by law enforcement officers drunk in the backyard of a home during the middle of the school day. She was not “raped,” as the Motion claims. She was observed engaging in a simulated sex act with her boyfriend who was then 17 years old. As all of the witnesses described, Plaintiff had voluntarily become intoxicated, made numerous passes at various members of their group, almost fallen into a canal, and then, when spotted by the school truancy officer, offered to have sex with him in exchange for not telling her parents she had failed to go to school that day. Both Plaintiff and her 17-year old boyfriend verified they had had sexual intercourse in the days before the report, and the boyfriend was charged with having sexual contact with a minor. Those were not the false allegations of sexual contact. Rather, on the way to the detox unit at the hospital, Plaintiff claimed she had been forcibly sexually assaulted by her friends. Plaintiffs claim of forced sexual assault was expressly refuted by the witnesses, who also verified Plaintiff's attempt to get out of trouble by offering to have sex with the truancy officer. While the young man was charged with statutory rape based on the admitted sexual intercourse, charges against him were ultimately dropped. Declaration of Laura A. Menninger (“Menninger Decl.””), Ex. A (GM00784- 00801). Consistent with Florida law, the records were redacted by the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office for the identities and other identifying information of all juveniles as well as Plaintiffs parents. January 1998 — In contradiction to Plaintiff's sworn testimony that she ran away from home at the age of 13, lived on the street for “months” without word from her family, and ultimately was rescued by the FBI in a SWAT raid from the clutches of a sexual predator named Ron Eppinger, the police documented a call from Plaintiff's mom that she ran away from home due to her recent “attitude change,” “drug use” and “possible cult activities,” was found four days later by her brother and returned to her family who had decided to involuntarily place her in a drug rehabilitation facility. Menninger Decl., Ex. B (GM00750-00754, 00783-00785). No reference to Ron Eppinger, an FBI SWAT raid, or months without family contact are reflected in the reports.