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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 382 Filed 10/29/21 Page 46 of 69 ae once mentioned Ms. Maxwell.?> See 3505-005. Instead, she told Special Agent iS that (|) i would call her on the phone from New York to schedule the massages, (2) Jgled her upstairs to the massage room and prepared the massage table, (3) called her on one occasion to tell her that Epstein had bought her concert tickets, and (4) J took nude photographs of her for Epstein when she was 16 years old. See 3505-005 at 2-4. On the basis of I testimony and other related documentary evidence, the USAO-SDFL charged Epstein gg, and not Ms. Maxwell, with a substantive count of sex trafficking in a proposed indictment that Special Agent HEE presented to the grand jury on March 18, 2008. See 3505-018 at 28 (Count Two of the proposed SDFL indictment alleged that “Jeffrey Epstein gg procured [Accuser-4] to engage in commercial sex acts knowing that she was under 18”). HE 2007 testimony stands in stark contrast to her first interview with the New York FBI almost thirteen years later, on July 17, 2020, when she specifically recalled that on her first visit to the residence she was greeted at the door by “Ghislaine Maxwell” and recounted what Ms. Maxwell said to her. See 3505-068 at 1-2. ] further described seeing Ms. Maxwell multiple times at the residence and having “multiple conversations” with her about sexual topics, and claimed, among other things, that Ms. Maxwell called her to schedule massages, paid her for the massages on a few occasions, sent her gifts, and offered to help her get a passport so that she could travel with Epstein. See id. at 2-4. In subsequent a made a passing reference to “an older lady with short black hair and an unknown accent” whom she saw at the Palm Beach residence the first time she went. 3505-005 at 1. But even assuming, arguendo, that Accuser-4 was referring to Ms. Maxwell (which we do not concede), she did not implicate Ms. Maxwell in Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking in any way. 38 DOJ-OGR-00005501