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A Well, he wasn't a lawyer, so I'm not sure how a nonlawyer becomes someone's legal representative. Eventually, Dr. Nikolic did communicate to me that he was involving Epstein in the discussion of the -- of Dr. Nikolic's exit, and he -- I forget exactly, but he sent -- he told me that he was involving Epstein. Q Again, you didn't receive this email, but it seems what they're trying to get across to you is that, while you're correct that Jeffrey Epstein was not, in fact, a lawyer, they are representing him to have some sort of privileged communication with Dr. Nikolic seemingly in a way to make it seem like the sensitive information that -- the sensitive information that Mr. Epstein knows about is privileged. Did you ever have a conversation like that with Dr. Nikolic? A No. How could it be privileged? Q I am just as confused as you are, but I guess what I'm asking is, did they represent to you that it could be privileged? A I told you that in terms of awareness of the affairs that I had, there was no explicit reference to that, but there was some what you would call veiled reference to it in the form of, hey, we should all want to be friends. It's only later when Epstein is talking about his reimbursements to a specific woman that I was aware that -- I became fully aware of that. There was a point in the discussions with Boris where I, you know, I said I'm not going to be influenced by what you might or might not know or say. But, again, this email is complete news to me. Q Okay. The top of the email, I won't read this entire one, but it -- it seems to imply that you had already given Dr. Nikolic some kind of offer, probably related to his departure. Had you already given Dr. Nikolic some kind of exit package or offer in June of 2013? A Yeah. There was a prior agreement about -- he ended up making two investments on our mutual behalf. You know, I'd authorized him to make three, but he made two. So there was, you know, putting into writing how we would handle his payment for his share of those, and then just the termination agreement. So that was all known before he engaged Epstein in the exit