JaMES PATTERSON 4 “Pm thrilled they sued me,” he'd told reporters. “In the end, ' someone will be disbarred. Either it will be me or the two | lawyers.” : But if Dershowitz was swinging for the fences in his struggle 7 to keep his hard-earned reputation afloat, he still had a bomb- : 7 shell to drop. When deposed by Scarola, he proposed his own 4 a theory about why Virginia Roberts had named him, along with 4 j Prince Andrew, as one of the men who had sexually abused her a ; at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, in New York City, and in Palm q F Beach. : 4 A theory that implicated the lawyers who were suing him ina J a much larger conspiracy. “4 4 According to Dershowitz, Brad Edwards pressured Virginia 4 q Excerpts from the Deposi Roberts into identifying Dershowitz as one her assailants. _ October 15, 2015 Dershowitz said that Edwards did this so that they could a 4 blackmail Jeffrey Epstein’s patron Leslie Wexner for one billion a % dollars. 4 q 9:46 a.m. Roberts lied about him, Dershowitz maintained, to give 4 4 Wexner an idea of what would happen to him if Edwards's = 7 Q: In an interview with Hala demands weren't met. a q broadcast on CNN Live, yo Furthermore, Dershowitz said, he had proof. 4 oa Do you acknowledge havir a | A: Ihave asuperb memory, sc § 4 My mother had an extraorc 4 ; college and I was on the de iC 7 to debate on the Sabbath, wu j 4 the condition that I not tak { 4 I discovered that I have a v F 3 to— generally didn’t have 4 ; ously, at the age of seventy F j have a very good memory, y 252 3 3 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022149