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b> EPSTEIN from 1B | docunients to Goldberger. “Jeffrey Epstein did not have sex with this woman,” Sanchez said. Herman suggested that Epstein masturbated in front of the alleged victim and used a vibrator on her after she was brought to his home in February 2005. The girl is : now 17. “This was a typical 14- year-old girl at the time she ’ met Epstein,” Herman said. - “What happened here was despicable.” The girl told police inves- tigators that she informed Epstein she was 18 when she met him, and she said that was her age on her Web page, Sanchez said. The girls father and step- mother also attended the ; Mews conference. “We're very angry,” the _ father said. “It’s not right that . this wealthy man can fly into : town and destroy my daugh- ter’s innocence.” He did not take questions. Epstein, 55, is a mysteri- Epstein paid girl peer ager who owns a Manhattan mansion, as well as homes | in Palm Beach, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands.. A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted him in July 2006 on one count of felony solicitation of prostitu-' tion stemming’ from alleged: incidents between Aug. 1 and | Oct. 31, 2005. . Epstein is scheduled to: | set a plea in the case on | : ous New York money man-* he has post- poned other court dates to resolve the ‘case. ‘His dictment followed an exhaustive investigation by the Palm Beach Police De- partment, which concluded that Epstein paid underage girls and young women to be brought to his five-bedroom, 7s-bath Intracoastal home for massages and sometimes sex play. Much of the language in the Jane Doe suit mirrors that in- Epstein of police.reports in the case. Herman's client said her meeting with Epstein was set up by Haley Robson of Loxa- hatchee, who was a Palm Beach Community College student at the time. When Jane Doe arrived at Epstein’s home, she was escorted by an Epstein assistant, Sarah Kel- len, to aroom with a massage table, police reports and the lawsuit say. Epstein walked in wear $300, March 10, but suit claims ing only a towel, removed it and lay naked on the mas- sage table, the lawsuit says. He demanded that Jane Doe remove her clothing, and she did, except for her under- wear, the lawsuit alleges. The sexual activity followed, the suit says. Epstein paid her $300 af terward, and Robson got $200 for bringing the girl to him, the lawsuit says. Robson and Kellen helped Epstein arratige other liai- sons with girls, Palm Beach police concluded. Neither was charged. This. is not the first time ; Epstein has been sued. over purported activities with teenage girls. He was sued in New York in October by a woman who says she had sex with Epstein when she was 16 and had sought his help in becoming a model. The lawsuit filed Thurs- day also alleges that Epstein has assaulted girls on: his private island in the Virgin Islands. Herman declined to elaborate on that assertion. ‘© larry_keller@pbpost.com ~- HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021522