1. In the State investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's case, the Palm Beach Police interviewed dozens of women who came to JE's Palm Beach home to perform massages on JE in exchange for money. With one exception discussed below, the ages of the witnesses interviewed by State investigators ranged from 16 or 17 years of age up to 62. Sworn testimony from the witnesses interviewed confirmed that a majority of them were 18 years old or over each time that they came to JE's home. 2. All of the women confirmed to police that they voluntarily performed massages for JE at his home, and that each time they did so, they received money in exchange. The women told police that they were brought to JE's home by their friends. Many of the women who initially gave massages later brought other friends to perform massages so that they could receive additional money from JE and their other friends could receive money as well. Some of them testified that a parent or a boyfriend accompanied them to JE's home. A great many of the women left messages at JE's home seeking to return. 3. The evidence gathered in the State's case included sworn corroborated testimony from multiple witnesses that the 16 or 17 year old women who came to JE's home were specifically warned to lie about their ages and tell JE that they were 18 years old or they would not be allowed in his home. Consistent sworn testimony given to police by these witnesses was that in fact they did lie about their ages and told JE that they were 18 years old. 4. The one 14-year old witness, SG, who gave rise to the investigation, and whose age is often cited as the basis for the erroneous assertion that the Palm Beach Police determined that JE targeted young children, gave sworn testimony flatly refuting this. As corroborated by the Palm Beach Police report, in a sworn interview with Palm Beach Police Detective Michelle Pagan and in a sworn deposition before the lead State prosecutor, Lanna Belohlavec, then a