James PaTTERSON Fru paying a large sum of money. And that I was named as an | the evening news, and th effort to try to show the billionaire what could happen to 4 communication with ABC somebody if they were accused of sexual misconduct. And . they would be putting fal that would encourage him to settle a lawsuit or pay money in . allowed Virginia Roberts t exchange for his name not being mentioned or revealed. 1 P E to corroborate that. I then had no idea about this. And I didn’t—I didn't ask about this. q had never mentioned me She just stated this. And I then corroborated the fact that she : television and publicly sta was absolutely correct in everything she had said to me. i me in any of her descriptio Q: You corroborated the fact that she was absolutely correct in 4 i contact with. So I was then everything that she had said to you? i was telling me the complete A: That's right. 4 q was an extortion plot direct Q: How? ; 4 nal extortion plot directed A: Okay. Let me answer that question. I was very—I wasn't sure, y q your clients were involved i so I called Leslie Wexner. I got his wife on the phone, Abigail Wexner. Obviously I knew that the only billionaire in Colum- a a bus, Ohio, who owned Limited Too and who owned Victoria's a S 11:30a.m. Secret was Leslie Wexner. I had met Leslie Wexner on two a 4 occasions, I think, and his wife. I called Abigail on the phone ia 3 Q: Let's see if we can make su and I said, “I think you ought to know that there is an extor- ¥ q another, sir. Do you reco; tion plot being directed against your husband by unscrupu- 3 4 between Virginia Roberts ha lous lawyers in—in Florida” And she said, “Oh, we're aware @ 4 ally abused by you on multi of that; they’ve already been in contact with us,” which sur 9 | name you as opposed to Vii prised me. But [her statement] was confirmation of that. 1 : j you and never having been then also—I can’t give you the chronology of that. I then was © 3 those two things different in in touch with AB