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extraordinarily poor taste, but it was a joke about his prior criminal history. BY MR. : Q So when you wrote "Best massage ever, but not your kind of massage," you were referring to how he used massage to entice his victims? A No, that's not what I'm saying at all. Again, as we discussed at length this morning, I understood that the conduct that Mr. Epstein had engaged in, as stated by Ms. Thacker in the letter to the deputy attorney general, was that Mr. Epstein was in essence a customer or a “John.” Okay? Taking a step back for a second, I had been a prosecutor in the D.C U.S. Attorney's Office, and as a young, you know, prosecutor in that office -- Q Before we take a step back, let's take a step forward. A Okay. Q What kind of massage were you referring to? A For me? Q When you wrote "Best massage ever, but not your kind of massage" to Jeffrey Epstein, what was his kind of massage? A Let me explain the context of this email. Epstein had, I believe as a holiday Christmas gift, had given me a half day spa day at The Peninsula Hotel. Okay? And that's what he's referring -- when he's saying, "we all set for a day of joy?", he's saying are you going to have a nice day at the Peninsula spa, where I was able to, you know, to pick -- again, it was a gift -- I was able to pick whatever I wanted to do at the Peninsula spa, which is a lovely place in New York, if you haven't -- Q That's right. Your emails -- the emails between Mr. Epstein and his assistant, Lesley Groff, they call it Kathy Ruemmler's pampered weekend. And then Ms. Groff and you email, and you told Ms. Groff, quote, "Jeffrey's so thoughtful as always." So yes. A Okay. So yes. And so he then asks me, basically, you know, are you all set to go have a,