102 1 And so in connection with the civil cases 2 that some of the girls had filed against Mr. Epstein, 3 her deposition was set by my co-counsel, Mr. Edwards, 4 and there was some haggling over a confidentiality 5 agreement, you know, and that had all been worked out 6 and then she was set for a deposition and finally 7 agreed, you know, to deposition. And just shortly, I 8 think a couple of days before that deposition, she 9 canceled. Well, she didn't cancel, her -- her attorney 10 called to cancel the deposition, and represented that 11 Miss Maxwell was outside the United States of America 12 and had no plans to return back to the United States. 13 And so, at that point, the deposition was -- 14 was not able to go forward. But it turned out that she 15 had not left the United States for an extended period of 16 time. She was spotted later at a wedding of a prominent 17 person in New York. And so that was Maxwell fitting 18 into this pattern, you know, Epstein was being, you 19 know, Palm Beach Police Department being told by 20 Dershowitz that Epstein will answer your questions, and 21 then not getting information. 22 Maxwell evading the deposition. Jean Luc 23 Brunel “ (ph) was another person who seemed to be very 24 much involved in trafficking the girls and it was the 25 same situation. A deposition was set to try to get ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021925