Court ruling involving Victoria's Secret founder could spill more Jeffrey Epstein dirt
Source: Miami Herald
WASHINGTON A federal judge Monday ordered the unsealing and release of correspondences from attorneys for celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Victorias Secret founder Leslie Wexner in a defamation case that is likely to reveal more about the secretive life of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled Monday that there was no cause to conceal the legal requests and responses and set an Aug. 17 date for a hearing on whether the retail magnate Wexner can be forced to testify in a defamation case involving one of Epsteins victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
Preska wrote that she saw no reason for that correspondence to remain under seal, and told the parties to file their respective letters on the public docket, which happened Monday afternoon. The documents show that Dershowitz alleges that Giuffre who is suing him for defamation is trying to extort money from him because of his relationship as a longtime friend to and lawyer for Epstein. And Dershowitz wants Wexner and his attorney John Zeiger to testify that they had privately settled a similar claim threatened by Giuffre.
Dershowitz, who is countersuing Giuffre, was not only friends with Epstein, but as his lawyer was instrumental in negotiating a nonprosecution agreement more than a decade ago that absolved Epstein, his close associates and unnamed others of potential federal charges of sex trafficking.
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matt819
(10,749 posts)Really? Thats your description, Miami Herald?
Try child molester or child rapist or pimp. Add alleged or accused of you must. But disgraced financier? I dont think so.
niyad
(113,284 posts)Eugene
(61,881 posts)From Wikipedia:
"Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring an underage girl for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
Orrex
(63,208 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I realized this when I watched Part 1 "Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" last night on Lifetime. Part 2 is on several times tonight.
I hadn't realized Wexner basically gave Epstein his mansion (listed for $88 million) as well as a plane, etc. Then he distanced himself and said he only knew Epstein for a brief time and hasn't had contact in a dozen years. This does not seem realistic to anyone.
"One Wall Streeter described it as a "weird relationship" in an interview with New York magazine in 2002.
"It's just not typical for someone of such enormous wealth to all of a sudden give his money to some guy most people have never heard of," he said.
The details of how exactly Epstein made his fortune are somewhat cloudy, but according to The Times, what is clear is that during the period in which he worked closely with Mr. Wexner, Mr. Epstein became extraordinarily rich."
https://www.businessinsider.com/les-wexner-helped-jeffrey-epstein-live-like-a-billionaire-2019-7
https://decider.com/2020/08/10/surviving-jeffrey-epstien-episode-1-episode-2-shocking-takeaways/
dawg day
(7,947 posts)And the biggest house in Manhattan.
Blackmail? Seduction? Procuring?
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Now worth $70 million.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)And Wexner "sold" the company to him, or he had power of attorney. It was complex and I can't remember the detail and neither of them were very transparent about it. But it sounded pretty illegal.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Hmmm...if so...I smell another scandal coming for OSU.