EFTA Document EFTA01733842

DRAFT 1 Tina Brown Editor Daily Beast New York, NY Re Jeffrey Epstein Dear Ms. Brown This letter is written for the purpose of requesting that you review both the accuracy of a series of ast articles on "natin with the Dail Beast each authored by , and the appropriateness of the Daily Beast disseminating any further articles about Mr. Epstein — a very real likelihood, given an email sent to our client by the writer, absent your intervention. We ask you to conduct this review for the purpose of determining (a) whether the facts as stated in the prior (and the prospective future) articles are accurate and (b) whether the intensity of multiple repetitive articles is appropriate. Mr. Epstein, as you may know, has completed his state sentence for events that occurred over five years ago. There have been no allegations of any improper conduct since the fall of 2005. Mr Epstein, instead, has returned to his life as a philanthropist and financial advisor. The series of three articles published on July 21, July 22, and July 29, 2010 have already done significant damage to Mr. Epstein. Given that they contain provably untruthful inaccuracies and omissions of material fact, we are asking you to defer any future articles authored by until such a time as you can review the articles, and, if possible, meet with us to discuss the subject matter. EFTA_R1_00009790 EFTA01733842 Without in anyway providing each inaccuracy, just several examples should illustrate the seriousness with which we view the issue, and our request for your intervention: I. One of the two principal sources fob articles is a former Miami bookeeper for the modelin a enc MC2, see eg 7-22-10 article, bulletpoint 5. Her name is . She plead guilty to grand theft in the first degree in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court for Dade County, Florida, on December 3, 2007 and was sentenced to 1 year of community control and 19 years of probation as a result of her embezzlin $148 000 from the modeling agencies for which she was employed ( . She was also charged with Organized Fraud — Scheme to Defraud. She is an untrustworthy biased source of information. The information regarding her criminal charge and conviction and its direct relationship to her motive to give false testimony was confirmed to be known to your reporter but omitted from her articles; 2. Mr. Epstein did not, as your articles claim, see eg 7-22-10 bullet point 4, give Mr Brunel $1,000,000 to start his modelin a enc 3. who is uoted b , 4. Mr. Epstein never "committed" nor even considered much less agreed) to a 10 year federal sentence com are to contention) a claim attributed to . second source plaintiff's attorney Brad Edwards. 5. deliberately omitted the important fact that attorney Edwards is being sued by Mr. Epstein for wrongdoing related to his partnership with Scott Rothstein, a perpertrator of the largest fraud in south floridas history just as she omitted an context for the allegations attributed to the prior bookkeeper , see par 1 supra; 6. 7 plaintiffs did not each receive $1s . 000 000 during the week of July 14, 2010 as claimed by . =', see 7. Mr. Epstein has not been accused of "sex trafficking", nor has he committed "sex trafficking" nor is he, to the knowledge of any of his attorneys, being investigated for "sex trafficking" des re ated allegations to the contrary, see articles of bullet point 4 and Give concession in he article that federal EFTA_R1_00009791 EFTA01733843 sources declined to comment on such an incendiary allegation we would question whether there exists a trustworthy source for this claim; We request that you conduct an independent review of the integrity of the three prior articles and delay disseminating a fourth until after the review. We remain available to meet with you YT EFTA_R1_00009792 EFTA01733844