JAMES PATTERSON 19. In addition to constantly finding underage girls to . . satisfy their personal desires, Epstein and Maxwell also got girls for Epstein's friends and acquaintances. Epstein specifi- cally told me that the reason for him doing this was so that they would “owe him,” they would “be in his pocket,” and he : would “have something on them.” I understood that Epstein r thought he could get leniency if he was ever caught doing | anything illegal, or that he could escape trouble altogether. 4 Roberts submitted her declaration in support of a motion to 4 a be added as a plaintiff in a suit (ongoing, as of this writing) that Es sought to overturn a non-prosecution agreement that Jeffrey ij 4 Epstein would reach with the government. Roberts was seeking . 3 Alicia: May 20, 1997 to join a case brought against the government by two other vic- -_ tims, but a judge denied her motion in April of 2015, explaining : a that the case had already been pending for several years, and it Z a onald Trump's instin was unneccesary to add an additional plaintiff. i g 1) solid. But if the repc Roberts's declaration, which goes on for another eight pages, and 4 into Epstein’s myster: makes twenty-four additional points, was stricken from the record— q a ther, there’s a chance they we the judge explained that the “lurid” and “unnecessary details” > not just in Palm Beach. involving “non-parties’ to the lawsuit against the government, were j 4 In California, for instan «:qamaterial and impertinent” to the proceedings. : ‘ 3 from the Santa Monica Police Through a representative, Ghislaine Maxwell called the j q In the spring —almost the allegations against her “obvious lies,” after which Roberts fileda % _ the police. The young woman \ defamation suit against Maxwell. In an answer filed in the suit, 7 q appeared on Baywatch and Gei Maxwell elaborated that Roberts's “story of abuse at the hands of 1 4 ally assaulted at a trendy hotel Ms. Maxwell” was “fabricated” for financial gain.