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allegations, he notes, was brought by the imprisoned Rothstein’s former partner, Brad Edwards, part and parcel of the settIment industry that has grown up around him. This new chapter relies entirely on the testimony and the memoir—excerpts of which were published by the Daily Mail—of Virginia Roberts, who claims that Ghislaine Maxwell met her, when she was 17, at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach resort and got her a job in the Epstein house, which she held for several years, traveling in the Epstein entourage. It is Roberts—who refused to cooperate with the FBI’s 2007 investigation of Epstein—who has propounded the “sex slave” narrative. She claims that “massage” was a code word for sexual acts, and that she worked for Epstein for TK years for $TK, having sex with him and his friends, and reporting on the details to Epstein so he would have blackmailable details about them. In the laundry list of big names, she also claims to have met (though not had sex with) Bill Clinton and Al and Tipper Gore through Epstein. This is all, says Epstein, utterly false, including that she met Clinton and the Gores, who Epstein says he has never met. Indeed, there has been no corroboration of the Roberts charges nor any new evidence or further prosecution and Dershowitz is suing her for libel. Roberts who was part of the original settlement is now seeking an additional suing Epstein for an additional $50 million from Epstein, and planning a book on her HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022891