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= Mew Q search LAW.COM : Publications Law Topics Surveys &Rankings Events ALM Intelligence Verdicts Legal Dictionary LawFirms Lawjobs.com Legal Recruiters Client Who Stood Up for Boies Goe Public in Sex Trafficking Case After first outing herself to defend David Boies in a letter to The New York Times, Sarah Ransome is giv pseudonym "Jane Doe 43" in a sexual trafficking lawsuit against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. By Miriam Rozen Jan 09,2018 at 12:21PM — Originally published on The American Lawyer David Boies, Boies Schiller Flexner Diego M. Radzinschi/The National Law Journal “Jane Doe 43" has formally identified herself as Sarah Ransome in a sexual trafficking lawsuit that her lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner are pursuing against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. In a notice to change the case caption filed Friday in Manhattan federal court, Ransome’s attorneys said she “no longer intends to proceed by way of pseudonym” in the case, which claims Epstein forced her to have sex for money. Defense lawyers for Epstein had argued that Ransome must litigate under her own name after she wrote a Nov. 15 letter to The New York Times, which the Times published, in which she defended Boies Schiller and firm chairman David Boies against criticism stemming from Boies’ work for Harvey Weinstein. Ransome identified herself as Jane Doe 43 in the Times letter, which said Boies “heard me and came to my rescue” when others refused to take her allegations against Epstein seriously. “For the first time in 10 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022811