Allegations in civil suits link Epstein, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, and a former federal judge to sexual abuse and blackmail schemes

James PATTERSON F “1 don’t know this woman. I've never been in the same place with Alan Dershowitz also ; her. She’s made the whole story up out of whole cloth.” are part of a plot to exto Bradley Edwards had already become involved in lawsuits q Edwards and Cassell have { against Epstein. In 2007, working with a former federal judge i. he’s ever seen. and University of Utah law professor named Paul Cassell, he had “They manipulated a y filed a lawsuit on behalf of another unnamed woman. Six years \ interested in money,” Ders later, that case is still pending, and now, Edwards and Cassell i offense, and they will be d: petition to have the two suits combined. ; ever made this false charge Allin all, four Jane Does take part in the lawsuit. : But then, the allegations m Jane Doe 3 is [REDACTED], the girl who says that Ghis- 15, 2015, in a declaration laine Maxwell recruited her for Epstein at Trump’s resort, ‘ q attempt to overturn Jeffrey I Mar-a-Lago. 7 are highly disturbing. Epstein had “lent” her and other young girls to prominent : % businessmen, important politicians, world leaders, and other powerful men in order “to ingratiate himself with them for busi- ness, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain blackmail information,” Roberts claims. ae q She says that Epstein forced her and other underage girls to a 4 take part in an orgy in the Virgin Islands. - 3 She names Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz as two of the 4 men she'd been forced to have sex with and claims that Der- q showitz had been “an eyewitness to the sexual abuse of many ~ other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein’s co-conspirators.” ; This time, Prince Andrew does respond to the allegations. a “This relates to longstanding and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States, to which the Duke of York is not a party, Buckingham Palace says ina short statement. “As such we would ; not comment on the detail. However, for the avoidance of doubt, | any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is catego i cally untrue.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022139