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Q And, back at the lunch, did you exchange contact information there? A Which lunch? Q The lunch where you met Mr. Epstein. Did you exchange contact information? A I don't know if it was exchanged. I certainly knew that if I wanted to get in touch with him, I could through Skip. So I have no idea whether we exchanged information. I just don't have memory of that. Q What was the typical method of your communication with him throughout the years? Was it through associates of yours? Was it directly? A I think there was some texting. I did not email. He was a rabid emailer, so he -- as you know with the 4 million emails that are in the Epstein files that have been downloaded. But I never emailed. But I did receive emails. That's why -- when I mentioned the Dechert report, they reviewed 60,000 emails, and that usually came through my assistant who then printed out the emails for me. Q Which associates of yours would communicate with Mr. Epstein? A Well, I had a family office -- as I mentioned, a nascent family office -- where I had a number of associates in it who were people in the tax department and the accounting department and some in legal handling trusts. I think they all had communications with him. Q Mr. Black, you brought up the Dechert report. Can you explain what the Dechert report is? A Of course. Dechert is a major law firm run by Andy Levander whose background is as a prosecutor. And when The New York Times in, I think, the fall of 2020 wrote a story that I had paid Epstein 50 to 75 million dollars for professional