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 lan about would never find me. j 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 1 for Epstein. The caller told me about an investigation into. events that led to Dershou Epstein and said that some of the girls being questioned were i 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 a him, and a complaint by E discredited as drug addicts and prostitutes, but in my case, if a against him were false and I were to keep quiet, I would “be looked after.” The fact that 7 this call was made shortly after the supposed FBI call rein- 4 3 for[cled my concern that the man I had talked to earlier was FE 4 not really working for the FBI but for Epstein. I didn’t think y ‘ that the FBI and Epstein would both be working together and a 4 would both get my phone number at almost exactly the same a ; time. I played along and told this person that I had gotten a @ 4 call from the “FBI” but that I didn’t tell him anything. The a j person on the phone was pleased to hear [that]. 3 ; 41. A short time later, one of Epstein’s lawyers (not Alan @ 4 Dershowitz) called me, and then got Epstein on the line at i Q the same time. Epstein and his lawyer basically asked again : ; . if I was going to say anything. The clear implication was that q 4 I should not. The w