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From: ' (USANYS)" ci To: "Berman Geoff re SANYS (USANYS)" (USANYS)" Cc: ' (USANYS)" •cl Subject: Epstein interview updates Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:10:17 +0000 USANIYI All — we wanted to give you a rundown of (i) all the interviews we have done in the last two weeks; and (ii) where we stand with some of the employees / potential co-conspirators. Descriptions are below: Employees/Associates • (Employee-1 in Indictment): We gave a reverse proffer toast week and she is weighing whether to come in. • (Employee-2 in Indictment): We will receive an attorney proffer from attorneys next week. • (Employee-3 in indictment): We interviewed her in Florida and learned the following: met Epstein around 2004, while in her early 20s, through the modelling community. Around December 2004, Epstein offered a job working as an assistant, which she accepted and maintained until early 2006. Her responsibilities included running errands and scheduling massages and other appointments. According to.. Epstein expected to have two massages every day: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. IM and were responsible for coordinating the Palm Beach massages, and was responsible for coordinating the New York massages. At some point, Epstein and began having sexual encounters, but IM was very distressed when discussing these incidents and was not prepared to describe them in detail during our first meeting. The team believes these encounters may have been coercive and/or nonconsensual. At least some of these encounters involved I= herself providing Epstein with his massages when they were in the Virgin Islands. As a result, was aware that his massages were sexual. I= described how Epstein had two groups of girls who provided massages in his homes: one group was of professional masseuses who gave actual massages to Epstein's friends, and the second group consisted of young girls who were not professional masseuses and who only gave massages to Epstein. recalled certain details that signaled that girls in this second group were minors. For example, she was asked to help find SAT prep courses for one girl, and she recalled girls mentioning school and their parents. However, at her first proffer, she stopped short of acknowledging that she knew they were minors. • Ghislaine Maxwell (friend / former girlfriend alleged to be involved in recruiting): The team met with her attorneys last week and she is assessing whether to proffer with us. • (sexual partner / involved in massages / may be an abuse victim): Has retained counsel and they have asked for a week or so to speak with her before evaluating how to proceed. • recalled that things changed dramatically during his last two years at the residence. Epstein became increasingly demanding, and staff were told not to speak to Epstein or his guests, to avoid eye contact, and to leave the room when he entered. recalled that, towards the end of his tenure, three young girls came by the house: and a third girl. He believed that was under 18 and was giving Epstein "massages," although he did not know what this entailed. During this period, was responsible for scheduling Epstein's frequent appointments with professional masseuses. During the last several weeks of his employment, was hired as Epstein's personal assistant, and began taking over answering Epstein's phones. At the very end of his EFTA00086365 tenure, told Epstein that he should slow down, that "these girls" would get him in trouble. Epstein remarked that it was fine, and that "these girls only care about money." When left Epstein's employment, Epstein told him: "I hope you keep your mouth shut." • New York Victims : Retained , which is going to give us an attorney proffer. • : Victimized beginning in 2001, when she was approximately 14 years old. Recruited by an unidentified woman her outside her school on the Upper East Side. Provided nude massages to Epstein over approximately a year, each time for $300 in cash. In fall 2002, while was massaging Epstein, he asked and without her consent and • : Gave Epstein massages at the Manhattan mansion on two occasions, during which Epstein s. She recalled that Epstein told her: "you look so young." She brought a 19 year old friend to Epstein's house to give a massage, and recalls Epstein telling her not to bring her again, because she was too old. Florida Victims • Victimized once in 2002 at the Florida estate. During the massage, Epstein She recruited one other minor girl to give Epstein a massage. • Gave Epstein at least two massages in the early 2000's at the age of 16 or 17. During the first, Epstein The second involved more extensive abuse, which she was not yet prepared to describe during the first interview. • : Gave Epstein massages twice in the early 2000s at the Florida estate, during which he . Has reservations about testifiying. • : Recruited by a friend at the age of 13 or 14 in the early 2000s, while living in a trailer park in Palm Beach. Over a period of approximately three years, gave numerous massages to Epstein at the Palm Beach residence. Epstein Estimates that she may have brought as many as one hundred underage girls to Epstein's house for massages. During the Florida investigation, she was represented by an attorney paid by Epstein. • : Florida victim who met with the team to discuss the status of the case. Indicated that she wished to cooperate with the investigation, but she was not prepared to discuss her experiences with Epstein that day. • First met Epstein through her older sister in 2007 (while Epstein was being investigated) at the age of 17. Epstein specifically asked her age and told her, in substance, that they could not interact until she turned 18. After her 18th birthday, Epstein began having give him massages, during which A short time later, Epstein took Ms. and her sister on a trip to his private island in the Virgin Islands. During that trip, Epstein Between 2007 and 2009, Epstein ; the first few were nonconsensual. When Epstein was serving his jail sentence in Palm Beach, visited him at his office on at least one occasions and engaged in sexual conduct with him. In or around 2013, Epstein paid marry a girl whom Epstein wanted to be able to stay in the U.S. The two were married forte divorced in 2017. $10,000 to then EFTA00086366 • In the early 2000s, when Ms. was 17 years old and working as a model, she was invited to Epstein's house a 19 year old model who was Epstein's girlfriend at the time. Epstein gave and cash to go shopping, and they purchased underwear together at the mall. They returned to Epstein's house, and Epstein asked to try on the underwear for him; felt as though she could not say no, and complied. That same weekend, invited to come to Epstein's house to receive a massage from a masseuse. She was told Epstein would not be there, and so she agreed. Shortly after undressed for the massage, the masseuse left the room, and Epstein entered. He insisted that , so that he could show her what he had learned from a chiropractor about "adjustments' Epstein then but did not touch her chest. After this experience, she refused to return to the house. Chief Public Corruption Unit United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York EFTA00086367