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 F would “have something on them.” I understood that Epstein ta thought he could get leniency if he was ever caught doing § anything illegal, or that he could escape trouble altogether. } Roberts submitted her declaration in support of a motion to 3 be added as a plaintiff in a suit (ongoing, as of this writing) that i % sought to overturn a non-prosecution agreement that Jeffrey 4 a Epstein would reach with the government. Roberts was seeking 4 q Alicia: May 20, 1997 to join a case brought against the government by two other vic- 4 % tims, but a judge denied her motion in April of 2015, explaining 4 q - that the case had already been pending for several years, and it A 4 onald Trump's instin was unneccesary to add an additional plaintiff. a a 1) solid. But if the repc Roberts's declaration, which goes on for another eight pages, and yi: 4 into Epstein’s myster makes twenty-four additional points, was stricken from the record— "ther, there’s a chance they wc the judge explained that the “lurid” and “unnecessary details” a q _ not just in Palm Beach. involving “non-parties” to the lawsuit against the government, were E In California, for instan «;mmaterial and impertinent” to the proceedings. 3 ’ from the Santa Monica Police Through a representative, Ghislaine Maxwell called the q i In the spring—almost the allegations against her “obvious lies,” after which Roberts filed a : q the police. The young woman) defamation suit against Maxwell. In an answer filed in the suit, q appeared on Baywatch and Gei Maxwell elaborated that Roberts’s “story of abuse at the hands of 4 q ally assaulted at a trendy hotel Ms. Maxwell” was “fabricated” for financial gain. 3