Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 4 of 28 10. In December 2014, Roberts, who had not initially been part of the CVRA action, was asked to, and did, provide information to Plaintiffs’ counsel in the CVRA case in which she discussed her sex trafficking by Epstein. On December 31, 2014, Plaintiffs counsel in the CVRA proceeding (Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell) filed a Motion Pursuant to Rule 21 for Joinder in the Action (“Joinder Motion”) on behalf of Roberts. Ms. Roberts’s joinder motion described how she had been sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and was forced to have sex with, among others, Alan Dershowitz. 11. Based on Plaintiff’s December 2014 filing, Dershowitz, as he had previously done to Epstein’s victims, publically and viciously attacked plaintiff's counsel in the CVRA actions, Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell. Dershowitz, in nationally televised news interviews, wrongfully claimed that Edwards and Cassell had engaged in unethical behavior warranting disbarment for filing the Joinder Motion that described Dershowitz’s involvement with Epstein and Roberts. Edwards, who is a prominent attorney for sexually abused women and children, and Cassell who is a former United States District Court judge who left the bench to advocate for criminal victims, sued Dershowitz for defamation. Edwards and Cassell asserted that the factual allegations that Dershowitz had knowledge of and participated in Epstein’s criminal conduct were entirely proper and well founded and that Dershowitz’s statements about Edwards and Cassell were defamatory. 12.‘ In April 2016 Dershowitz settled the Edwards and Cassell defamation claims against him. As a condition of the settlement, Dershowitz required that the financial terms of the settlement be kept confidential. 13. In November 2018, after conducting a lengthy investigation that involved interviewing over eighty (80) women, the Miami Herald published the first in a series of articles 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017938