12. In light of information I received suggesting that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend and long-time friend of Epstein’s, was involved in managing Epstein’s affairs and companies I had her served for deposition for August 17, 2009. (Deposition Notice attached to Statement of Undisputed Facts as Exhibit BB). Maxwell was represented by Brett Jaffe of the New York firm of Cohen and Gresser, and I understood that her attorney was paid for (directly or indirectly) by Epstein. She was reluctant to give her deposition, and I tried to work with her attorney to take her deposition on terms that would be acceptable to both sides. Her attormey and I negotiated a confidentiality agreement, under which Maxwell agreed to drop any objections to the deposition. Maxwell, however, still avoided the deposition. On June 29, 2010, one day before I was to fly to NY to take Maxwell’s deposition, her attorney informed me that Maxwell’s mother was deathly ill and Maxwell was consequently flying to England with no intention of returning and certainly would not return to the United States before the conclusion of Jane Doe’s trial period (August 6, 2010). Despite that assertion, I later learned that Ghislaine Maxwell was in fact in the country on approximately July 31, 2010, as she attended the wedding of Chelsea Clinton (former President Clinton’s daughter) and was captured in a photograph taken for US Weekly magazine. a. - 13. Epstein alleges that there was something improper in the fact that I notified him that I | intended to take Donald Trump’s deposition in the civil suits against him. Trump was ee properly noticed because: (a) after review of the message pads confiscated from Epstein’s home, the legal and investigative team assisting my clients learned that Trump called Epstein’s West Palm Beach mansion on several occasions during the time period most relevant to my clients’ complaints; (b) Trump was quoted in a Vanity Fair article about Epstein as saying "