James PATTERSON | and would have shown how he could provide potential protec- that if I didn’t say what tion from Epstein. That never happened. I might get hurt. 39. Getting a call from this supposed FBI agent made me 42. I promised Epste scared all over again. I had left the old life of sexual slavery quiet. They seemed hap behind me and started a new life in a new country in hopes to [be the] way to keer that the powerful people whose illegal activities I knew all what Epstein and his lay about would never find me. 40. Shortly after this purported FBI call, I was contacted This declaration, strick by telephone by someone who appeared clearly to be working victims lawsuit against t for Epstein. The caller told me about an investigation into. events that led to Dershov Epstein and said that some of the girls being questioned were 4 involved in spectacular lav saying that Epstein had had sexual contact with them. After | Dershowitz that these alle they made these allegations, the man said they were being him, and a complaint by E: discredited as drug addicts and prostitutes, but in my case, if a against him were false and L were to keep quiet, I would “be looked after.” The fact that a this call was made shortly after the supposed FBI call rein- : q for[c]ed my concern that the man I had talked to earlier was a q not really working for the FBI but for Epstein. I didn’t think ih E that the FBI and Epstein would both be working together and # : would both get my phone number at almost exactly the same a E time. I played along and told this person that I had gotten a & ; call from the “FBI” but that I didn't tell him anything. The q r 4 person on the phone was pleased to hear [that]. a j 4]. A short time later, one of Epstein’s lawyers (not Alan a 3 Dershowitz) called me, and then got Epstein on the line at 4 ;. the same time. Epstein and his lawyer basically asked again a ; q . if I was going to say anything. The clear implication was that 4 I should not