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IJOHNSONSI PT/DW/ME000100 5 th May 2011 Tatter Publishing Company Ltd Vogue House 1-2 Hanover Square London WIS IJU FAO: The Editor, TATLER BY FAX & POST Dear Sirs, We have been consulted by Jeffrey Epstein in relation to your grossly inaccurate and defamatory references to him being a "paedophile", in the June 2011 edition of TATLER (Vol. 306 No. 6) under the headline "GHISLAINE'S WORLD, A life on the front page". Our client is not, as your article alleges, a convicted "paedophile". Although he has been convicted of soliciting prostitutes, and procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, he has served his time for that offence. As a matter of record, but without seeking to justify the offence, the girls in question were not pre- pubescent. Furthermore, the false and distorted terminology used by you to describe our client in your vitriolic attack on his character is simply not true on any interpretation of the word "paedophile". He has not been convicted nor been accused of being a paedophile (a pejorative that has a very specific medical definition), apart from by certain elements of the tabloid press in their recent reports on his friendship with Prince Andrew. Our client however should be entitled to expect more accurate and credible reporting from a respected publication such as the TATLER, which is supposed to have significantly higher standards than the sensationalised and exaggerated reporting of the tabloids. Our client is also gravely concerned at your attempts to distort and undermine the basis of his financial standing. Our client is entitled, at the very least, to the publication of a categoric clarification and apology, in terms to be first agreed with us, as a matter of some urgency. We would therefore be grateful to receive your proposals in this Johnson. Law Firm London Office: 21 Arlington Street London SWIA SRN T+ F+ Belfast Office Johnson House 50156 Wellington Place Belfast BT I 6GF DX 405 Belfast I T +44 F +44 Dublin Office 4 Harbourmaster Place IFSC Dublin 1 Ireland DX I I 20I8 Talbot Street. Dublin T + 353 F +353 Partners Paul Tweed LIP • Michael McKee Ken Chambers David Craig David Holley Selena Kerins John McMahon Consultants John Marshall David Rogers Solidtats George Strahan Sarah Loughran Alison McClung Carl Rooney Gareth Liddy Jennifer Greenfield James Bad John Ken Kathy Mathews Brian Connolly Alex 'nimble Rhys Jones Deaglan Lundy Mark Kernaghan Laura Cunningham • Riot hayed a mender of Paul Tweed ❑f u also aerated as a It °feign Legal Conauluro by the Awe 941 of °Pomo wenr.foltasosslaw.coos Regulated by tae SoLcItort Regulatton Authogny turn PA If) 544)50 Paul Tweed LLP SRA ID 545073 EFTA_R1_00024106 EFTA01737510 regard, while our client continues to reserve all his rights including appropriate redress in relation to your defamatory allegations and malicious falsehoods. We look forward to hearing from you by return. Yours faithfully, JOHNSONS EFTA_R1_00024107 EFTA01737511