JaMES PATTERSON F gotten into more fights there, growing depressed and withdrawn of America’s most famous from her sister and parents. Helplessly, her parents watched her . celebrity lawyer—Ken Sta spiral out of control. As they neared the end of their rope, they had had Bill Clinton impeac sent her out of state. But after the move, Mary had fallen apart team. completely. She used drugs, fell in with a bad crowd, ran away | As far as Mary’s parents from her relatives, and shacked up with a gang of drug dealers. walked into an ambush. Eve When the gang was busted by local police, the dealers blamed | playing defense on the side Mary for snitching and put out the word that they wanted her 7 ond girl—Alison, who cla dead. ij never testified in court at al “We had to move her again,” Mary’s father explained. “We 1 finally got her into therapy —she's still seeing the therapist. And } worst of all, she developed HPV. She’s already had to have a seri- 4 ous operation.” 2 | Mary’s troubles didn't end there. On June 28, she was brought 7 a in front of the grand jury. She hadn't been briefed by the state E 4 attorney —she hadn't even met the prosecutors—and she had 4 ’ no idea what she would be asked. 4 ; Almost immediately, she found that she was being treated a 4 more like a criminal than like a witness or victim. a 4 . “The prosecutor produced a printout of our daughter's a 4 Myspace page,” Mary’s father recalls. “Mary was stunned. She 9 4 began to cry. The prosecutor accused her of all sort of things; it q ; was like she was working for Epstein. 4 { | “All this time, we knew that we were being watched. Creepy 4 4 guys. Private investigators from Miami. They would follow us, 4 4 scaring the hell out of my wife and Mary’s sister. My car was vale a " dalized. It was like living in hell.” j 4g By this point, Epstein’s defense dream team included Jack 4 q Goldberger, Alan Dershowitz, and Gerald Lefcourt. All of them q had excellent track records. Dershowitz and Lefcourt wer