From: Mike Sitrick > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:00 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: RE: Jeffrey The Fergie retraction is critical. One of your good friends, a member =f the Royal family, is calling you a pedophile. If gentle =ersuasion doesn't work, it is my view that we need to turn up the =eat even to the point of sending her a draft defamation lawsuit. As I =aid yesterday, this would be a major turning point and be picked up =verywhere. This is about your name and your reputation. You =eally can't worry about her, in my view, you need to worry about =ou. She certainly isn't concerned about your or your =eputation. Regardless of whether you are willing to play hardball with Fergie =08211; if the gentle persuasion doesn't work, we need to go after =he newspapers for errors, including their labeling you a =edophile. Right now no one is holding them accountable. As = said before, newspapers offering money for stories is not news. =o:p> There is a strategy: Objective: get newspapers to stop calling you a =edophile and get the truth out; tamp down and ultimately stop the bad =ress; start generating positive press about your community =nvolvement. Tactics: get Fergie to retract; hold newspapers =ccountable; filing a formal complaint with the Press Complaints Commission (we would get coverage of this and =hat the complaint says — what the facts are, as opposed to what =as been reported); get op-eds published from experts and separately from friends; get =etters to the editors/posts from friends; launch a web offense and =efense; find a friendly reporter to do a more definitive story of what =appened. This last suggestion of course carries risk, but if it =s the right reporter could influence other =edia. From:=/b> =effrey Epstein [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, =arch 13, 2011 8:19 AM To: Mike Sitrick Subject: =e: mike, we , you, cannot depend on =er doing as we would wish.. We need an alternative, =. AS i said yesterday„ as of