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Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1330-4 Filed 01/05/24 Page 24 of 27 57. Critically, Ms. Giuffre also lied about her age—specifically, the age she was during the time period in which she was associated with Jeffrey Epstein. Contrary to previous statements that she was fifteen when she was trafficked by Mr. Epstein, Ms. Giuffre could not have even have met him until 2000, the year she turned seventeen. There is documentary evidence, recently discovered and undisputed, that Ms. Giuffre’ father—who arranged her employment at The Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach—did not begin working there until April 11, 2000. Ms. Giuffre has repeatedly stated that she first met Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-A-Lago where she had a summer job as a changing room assistant—indeed it is one of the few aspects of her story that has remained consistent from the outset.'” Ms. Giuffre turned seventeen in the summer of 2000. By the time Mr. Epstein is alleged to have begun trafficking her to his acquaintances—six to nine months after their first encounter,"' or in at least one telling wo years later,'* Ms. Giuffre may have been over eighteen. 58. The issue of Ms. Giuffre’s age at the time of certain events is important as a legal matter—and her lack of credibility about it is telling. The age of consent in New York is seventeen. As to the other locations with varying ages of consent—in Florida it is eighteen— it is impossible to know whether Ms. Giuffre is claiming to have been a minor because she has never specified—presumably even to her own lawyers—when the alleged acts were supposed to have occurred. She has not even provided the year in which she claims specific events occurred. So it cannot be presumed—by her lawyers or by anyone else—that she was a minor when she '° See for example, Zachary Davies Boren, Virginia Roberts: Who is the woman at the centre of the Prince Andrew sex allegations?, The Independent (Jan. 5, 2015), available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home- news/virginia-roberts-what-do-we-know-about-the-woman-at-the-centre-of-the-prince-andrew-sex-allegations- 9958539.html. " See for example, Ex. V at 10 (Telephone Interview with Virginia Roberts, April 7, 2011). 12 See Sharon Churcher, Prince Andrew and the 17-year-old Girl His Sex Offender Friend Flew to Britain to Meet Him, DailyMail.com (Mar. 2, 2011) (‘After about two years, he started to ask me to ‘entertain’ his friends.””). Available at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- 136 1039/Prince-Andrew-girl-17-sex-offender-friend-flew- Britain-meet-him.html?ito=feeds-newsxml. 24