James PATTERSON | F koe # underage girls. (Upon inf | who brought Jane Doe to In the meantime, Epstein began to settle out of court with his | of Epstein, and will ther victims. | plaint.) Under Epstein’s In February of 2008, a Virginia woman who went by the alias | ostensibly to give a weal Jane Doe #2 brought a fifty-million-dollar lawsuit against Epstein. p compensation in his Pal At the time of their meeting, she claimed, Epstein was fifty-two | would be contacted when years old. She was a teenager, and her complaint, which was 3 h Palm Beach residence or made public, gave the rest of the world an early glimpse of what ; Epstein or someone on hi. Epstein, and the inner workings of his secret world, looked like : to bring one or more un from a victim’s perspective. / a recruiter, upon informatic “Epstein is a financier and money manager with a secret cli- 4 economically disadvantag entele limited exclusively to billionaires,” the lawsuit alleged. 3 q Palm Beach County who “He is himself a man of tremendous wealth, power and influ- a being offered— generally ence. He maintains his principal home in New York and also r q session—and who were p owns residences in New Mexico, St. Thomas and Palm Beach, 4 5 to authorities or have cre FL. The allegations herein concern Epstein’s conduct while at his a 4 conduct were made. Thi lavish estate in Palm Beach.” The complaint continued: ¥ 4 Epstein’s plan. . a q Epstein’s plan reflected Upon information and belief, Epstein has a sexual preference 4 ; a Upon arrival at Epstein’s and obsession for underage minor girls. He engaged in a plan 7 q would be introduced to Sar and scheme in which he gained access to primarily economi- 4 4 gathered the girl’s persona cally disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually a q and telephone number. Ms assaulted these girls, and then gave them money. In or about a B up a flight of stairs to a be 2004-2005, Jane Doe, then approximately 16 years old, fell 4 © _ table in addition to other in