James PATTERSON ; 7 “| don't know this woman. I’ve never been in the same place with Alan Dershowitz also her. She’s made the whole story up out of whole cloth.” . are part of a plot to extoi Bradley Edwards had already become involved in lawsuits j Edwards and Cassell have { against Epstein. In 2007, working with a former federal judge he’s ever seen. and University of Utah law professor named Paul Cassell, he had | “They manipulated a y Gled a lawsuit on behalf of another unnamed woman. Six years a interested in money,” Ders later, that case is still pending, and now, Edwards and Cassell i offense, and they will be d: petition to have the two suits combined. 4 4 ever made this false charge Allin all, four Jane Does take part in the lawsuit. : But then, the allegations m Jane Doe 3 is Virginia Roberts, the girl who says that Ghise 15, 2015, in a declaration laine Maxwell recruited her for Epstein at Trump's resort, attempt to overturn Jeffrey I Mar-a-Lago. : 3 are highly disturbing. Epstein had “lent” her and other young girls to prominent aq 4 businessmen, important politicians, world leaders, and other a 4 powerful men in order “to ingratiate himself with them for busi- " q ness, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain a 4 blackmail information,” Roberts claims. a 3 She says that Epstein forced her and other underage girls to ‘# 4 take part in an orgy in the Virgin Islands. eR She names Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz as two of the 4 q men she'd been forced to have sex with and claims that Der q q showitz had been “an eyewitness to the sexual abuse of many 7 q other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein's co-conspirators.” ; q This time, Prince Andrew does respond to the allegations. a q “This relates to longstanding and ongoing civil proceedings P ' in the United States, to which the Duke of York is not a party,” E Buckingham Palace says in a short statement. “As such we would” 2 b not comment on the detail. However, for the avoidance