James PATTERSON Under “[Do] you wanna lose your virginity”: “I already lost it.” | One of the victims has been caught with drugs and arrested. She's also been caught stealing from Victoria’s Secret. From the | fs 3 TOWN OF state attorney’s perspective, these girls look like compromised ) (a POLICE D women. And if what they say about Epstein is true, wouldn't that SS AWATIONAL AND STATE ACO make them prostitutes? a As witnesses, they would be weak, while the lawyers on PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL Epstein’s side were exceptionally strong. | He Bie &. Niacin, Salton Alan Dershowitz had represented Claus von Bulow, the Brit- | aot Noth One nga ish socialite who was acquitted of the murder of his wife, Sunny. a ee “me Dershowitz had been on O. J. Simpson's team when the former i Prease nd erciosed tne probable cause football star was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Kelana May Rooson "The subrusee Brown Simpson and Nicole’s friend Ronald Lyle Goldman. And q - = Devertments presentation rich as von Balow and Simpson had been, neither one had had eno cha a ra the resources that Epstein was willing and able to deploy in his -— | cent eh seaetete at! om fres own defense. . 3 | . ian: Neither of them had been intimate friends with his lawyer. a 3 cute a ys ofc’, haaing of As far as Reiter was concerned, none of that mattered. Even if a q oa ae Epstein thought that the girls he'd molested were eighteen years a 9 e old—even if they had lied to him—it didn’t matter under Flor- a ; 4 A ida law. The chief grew worried that in Epstein’s case exceptions i q — i were being made, and he grew even more concerned with each 3 4 unreturned call that he made to the state attorney’s office. a 4q On May 1, the Palm Beach PD asked the state attorney’s office 4 q SS Seute County Rot + Pa fesh oee 324NO AMD = 6 to issue an arrest warrant for Jeffrey Epstein. q a That same day, Chief Reiter took the extraordinary step of . i writing Barry Krischer a letter all but demanding that he