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Page 201 1 Q. With regard to III., did it ever appear to you 2 that she was forced to come to Mr. Epstein's home? 3 A. I don't think so. I don't know if it was 4 forced between them, but I never saw force. I never 5 saw -- I was there the first time Ms. Maxwell met her 6 immediately that she went into the spa, when she was 7 walking into the spa. And I was surprised to see that 8 afternoon she was at the house. 9 Q. Did you ever see anyone forcing . onto 10 the Epstein's premises; that is, either by grabbing her 11 by the arm or by the hand and dragging her in? 12 A. No. Either her or nobody else. 13 Q. Did you ever see Ms. -- III. when she came to 14 the home where she appeared to be -- that is, when she 15 arrived at the home to be upset or angry or distraught? 16 A. No. 17 Q. And specifically with regard to III., when she 18 left on those occasions where you saw her in person 19 leave the house, did she appear to be in the same, I'd 20 say, overall demeanor and mood when she left as she had 21 been when she came? 22 A. Yeah, normal. She was normal. 23 Q. Did she smile? 24 A. Yeah. 25 Q. Say hello to you? PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3efc3ca0-c86e.4b9f•8d01•ba20bcae87de EFTA00181750
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Page 202 1 A. They all smile after they got paid. 2 MR. CRITTON: All right. That's all I have. 3 Thank you, Mr. Alessi. 4 THE WITNESS: You're welcome. 5 MR. WILLITS: I don't have any questions. 6 MR. BERGER: Okay. MS. EZELL: I do. 8 RECROSS EXAMINATION 9 BY MS. EZELL: 10 Q. Sorry. Let me find my place, here. 11 First of all, forgive me. I didn't mean to • 12 mislead anyone. It is , not Santiago. I think 13 he lived on Santiago Street. 14 A. Yeah. Santiago Street in Royal Palm Beach. 15 Q. Right. And I confused the two. 16 A. My head is not going very well now, 17 Q. Do you need to take a break? 18 A. Please. No, I am fine. I am fine. 19 Q. Well, it was my head that wasn't going very 20 well then. 21 You mentioned that your wife, I believe you 22 said that -- let me start over. 23 I believe you said one reason you wanted to 24 stay was that it was causing psychological problems 25 A. Yes, it is. PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3atc3ca0-c86e-41,91-8d01-ba2Obcae87de EFTA00181751
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Page 203 1 Q. -- and problems with your marriage? 2 A. Absolutely. 3 Q. What kind of psychological problems? 4 A. I say, psychological problems. I says, 5 marital problems. That would be a better answer it. 6 Because the stressful was on me. If there was a dust, 7 spot of dust, they never came to her. And she was able 8 to -- she was over involved with the cleaning crew, but 9 it was never from Mr. Epstein or Ms. Maxwell yell, they 10 will never go to Mari to ask, hey, Mari, why this 11 doesn't look good. 12 And, so, I had all the blame. And the only 13 person I have to take it out was my wife, unfortunately. 14 And that was the worst mistake, to have my wife working 15 in there. 16 Q. Did she ever complain to you or seem disturbed 17 by what she thought was going on there? 18 A. No. She never saw anything. 19 Q. Was there ever a guest there by the name of 20 Tommy Matola? 21 A. Tommy Matola? No. Not when I was there. 22 Q. You mentioned this morning that there were 23 some visitors who were very important men, Noble Prize 24 winners? 25 A. Yes, ma'am. PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Jatc3cae-ce6e-ilbef-8d01-ba20bcae87de EFTA00181752
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Page 204 1 Q. Are you -- do you recall a Martin Nowak? 2 A. I think that sounds familiar. If he is an old 3 guy, old man? 4 Q. I think so. Mathematician? 5 A. Yes. 6 Q. Biologist? 7 A. Yes. His name Martin. I recall that, yes. 8 Q. And do you recall a guest, Murray Gell-Mann? 9 A. Mary Gell-Mann? 10 MR. WILLITS: I think you said -- 11 MS. EZELL: Murray. 12 MR. WILLITS: -- Murray and he said Mary. 13 BY MS. EZELL: 14 Q. Murray, Murray Gell-Mann. And, again, I'm 15 speaking of these -- these 16 A. Is that a man or a woman? 17 Q. I believe it's a man. 18 A. Murray Gell-Mann. Could be, but I don't 19 recall. 20 Q. Do you recall the name Jerry Edelman? 21 A. No. 22 Q. What about -- can't read my own writing 23 here Henry Risorski (phonetics)? 24 A. Henry Risorski, yes. Yes. 25 Q. Was he a frequent visitor or -- PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 ufaca-cne-ow4m-banbcaeme EFTA00181753
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Page 205 1 A. Not too frequent. But, also, he was a 2 science -- I think so, he was into the science. 3 Q. And Larry Summers? 4 A. Larry Summers. Yes. Larry Summers was a 5 lawyer? 6 Q. I think perhaps he was the president of a 7 college? 8 A. I don't know. 9 Q. No? 10 A. No. 11 Q. Well, then among those that you recall, 12 Mr Nowak, the biologist and Mr. Risorski, did they ever 13 have massages that you can recall? 14 A. I cannot recall, no. 15 Q. Was it your impression that Mr. Epstein liked 16 to surround himself with extraordinarily bright people? 17 A. Yes. 18 MR. CRITTON: Form. 19 BY MS. EZELL: 20 Q. And is it your impression, also, that he's 21 rather bright and brilliant himself? 22 A. Yes. 23 MR. WILLITS: Form. 24 BY MS. EZELL: 25 Q. Did -- did you ever gain the impression that PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3atc3ca0-c86e-4b9f4td01-ba2Obcae87de EFTA00181754
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Page 206 1 he was some sort of brain scientist? 2 MR. CRITTON: Form. 3 THE WITNESS: No. No. No. I know his 4 background. And I -- over the years I learn how he 5 come up and into the business and how he make his 6 fortune. And I don't think he was a brain 7 scientist. 8 BY MS. EZELL: 9 Q. Nobody ever told you that? 10 A. No. 11 Q. If you take a look again at page 9 of the 12 transcript, Exhibit 2? 13 A. Okay. 14 Q. Let me call your attention to line 2, which 15 begins with the question: "Did he have girls come over 16 to give massages?" 17 A. Yes. 18 Q. And you said: "Yes." 19 A. Yes. 20 Q. The next question is: "How many massages 21 would he have in one day?" 22 And I think you said earlier, maybe -- 23 sometimes they'd have three a week? 24 A. No. No. That was not the question. 25 Sometimes he had one, two or three a day. PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3aic3ca0-c86e-4b9f-8d01-baZObcae87de EFTA00181755
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1 Page 207 Q. That's what I wanted to ask you. Up to three 2 a day sometimes? 3 A. Up to three a day. 4 Q. And did that happen often? 5 A. Very often. Or he had yoga in the morning or 6 in the afternoon it was a massage. I don't know that 7 again. When it was yoga, it was in the pool house. 8 When it was massage, it was upstairs. So I don't what 9 they did when closed doors, you know. But it was a 10 couple of these girls that were yoga experts and they 11 were massage therapists at the same time, so I don't 12 know. But there were -- many times there were two, 13 three massages a day. 14 Also, she had a massage just about every day. 15 Q. Meaning, Ghislaine? 16 A. Yes. 17 Q. Then on line 12, the question was: "Did the 18 massage therapists seem young to you?" 19 And you said: "Mostly, no. You saw one or 20 two young ones in the last year." 21 A. Yeah. 22 Q. Then, again, still -- 23 MR. CRITTON: Object to form. 24 BY MS. EZELL: 25 Q. -- still talking about the massage therapist, PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3afc3ca0-c86o-4b9f8d01-ba20bcae87de EFTA00181756
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Page 208 1 they asked you: "What do you mean, when they looked 2 young?" On line 17. 3 Do you see that? 4 MR. CRITTON: Form. 5 THE WITNESS: Yeah. 6 BY MS. EZELL: 7 Q. Then you go on to say: "I remember one girl 8 was young. We never asked how old she was. It was not 9 my job." 10 And the questioner said: "Right. I 11 understand." 12 And you said: "I imagine she was 16 or 13 17," -- 14 A. That's correct. 15 Q. -- "in my judgment." 16 A. Yes. 17 MR. CRITTON: Form, I think. 18 BY MS. EZELL: 19 Q. There was -- the only people being discussed 20 in all of this conversation were the massage therapists, 21 right? 22 MR. CRITTON: Form. 23 THE WITNESS: Well, we discuss about N., this 24 girl that I mention in here. I thinking about her 25 because -- what's her name? PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3atc3ca0-O366-4b91-8d01-ba20bcae87de EFTA00181757
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Page 209 1 BY MS. EZELL: 2 Q. V.? 3 A. V. I think she was a massage therapist for 4 sure, because we set up the tables for her. But at 5 this -- 6 MS. EZELL: Let me just -- excuse me. Just a 7 minute. Let's make it III. That's all. 8 MR. CRITTON: Okay. I'm sorry. 9 THE WITNESS: III. And I lost my 10 concentration. 11 MR. CRITTON: Why don't you read his response 12 to him? 13 She can read it back to you. 14 (Previous answer was read.) 15 THE WITNESS: Yeah. I was -- in this 16 statement I was thinking of her, III. no, V. 17 BY MS. EZELL: 18 Q. R.? 19 A. Sorry again. 20 It was III. that I knew she was underage and I 21 knew it because I went to the high school and pick her 22 up. 23 Q. But she was not a massage therapist, 24 A. No, she was not. 25 Q. as far as you know? PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3afc3ca0-06e-4b91-8d01-ba2Obcao87do EFTA00181758
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Page 210 1 A. As far as I know, she was not. 2 Q. And you were talking throughout this page 3 about those girls that came to give massages? 4 MR. CRITTON: Form. 5 BY MS. EZELL: 6 Q. Correct? 7 MR. CRITTON: Form. Argumentative. Asked and 8 answered. 9 THE WITNESS: No. If I says she was a massage 10 therapist, I would says, no. But, then again, I 11 don't know if she was a massage therapist, too. 12 BY MS. EZELL: 13 Q. Okay. You do mention • on page 21 of your 14 statement. 15 If you look at line 7, you mention a young 16 girl, but she was not a massage therapist? 17 A. Let me take a look. Page 21. 18 Q. At about line 7. 19 A. Line 7. 20 MR. CRITTON: But it in the context of your 21 answer -- 22 MS. EZELL: Sure. 23 MR. WILLITS: And the question, too. 24 THE WITNESS: Question: "How" -- let me start 25 it from the beginning -- from the end. PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3a1c3ca0-c868-4b91-8d01-ba2Obcae87de EFTA00181759
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Page 211 1 Many of the -- it's been a while. It was- 2 It was II It was It was so many, II, III It was 3 so many names, that I think if you name -- if 4 you -- any girl's name, she's been there probably, 5 6 It was also a young girl but she was not a 7 massage therapist. She came to the house as a 8 friend. 9 I talking about • because I knew she was not 10 a massage therapist because she went to high school 11 and she was a singer, an opera singer and she was 12 brought to the house by her mother. So I knew they 13 had nothing to do with massages. They were friends 14 and they were going to the movie with her, dinner 15 with her. And she had -- I think she travelled 16 with her, too. They travel. 17 Q. My only point is, that on page 9 you were 18 talking about the massage therapists. And you said that 19 you remember that there were a couple of young ones the 20 last year. 21 And, so, among the young massage therapists 22 that you might remember in the last year, would II be 23 that person or -- 24 MR. CRITTON: Form. 25 BY MS. EZELL: PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3afc3ca0-c860-4b9I-8d01-ba2ObcaelNde EFTA00181760
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Page 212 1 Q. -- would be the young one? 2 A. Yeah. 3 Q. You stated that Ms. Maxwell was very hard on 4 you and you got blamed for everything, and that you -- 5 you liked the job and you liked Mr. Epstein, but you 6 didn't like working for Mrs. Maxwell? 7 A. That's correct. 8 Q. Can you tell me why, other than that she 9 blamed you for everything? 10 A. She came from a very wealthy family and she 11 was -- just my opinion; I give my personal opinion -- 12 that she was rotten spoiled and she tried to drive the 13 house like a palace and not a home. 14 I was -- I discussed it with her, many, many 15 times we have discussions. And sometimes I even refuse 16 to do her orders, knowing that I was going to be backed 17 up by Mr. Epstein or do the right thing, my thinking of 18 running the house should be. But we never had a good 19 relationship at all from the beginning, I don't think 20 so. But I was -- have to be her driver and she will go 21 and shop all over the malls and I will have to go behind 22 her, pay for it and bring the bags to the car. 23 Next day or the same day she will do shopping 24 and buy and say, John, go to this store and get it. It 25 was a lot of work. It was a lot that she created and PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3a(c3ca0-c86e-4b91-8d01-ba2Obcae87de EFTA00181761
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Page 213 1 most of this jobs that she created. 2 Q. And one of those things you also had to do 3 with her was to take her to different spas? 4 A. Yes. 5 Q. And there she would recruit young women to 6 come and do massages? 7 A. Because she was English. And she didn't know 8 the area too much as well as I knew. So she -- she 9 says, John, make a list of all the massage -- the spas 10 in the area from Jupiter to Boca Raton. And we went to 11 all the main spas. And then we went to the schools for 12 massage therapists, and all the massage parlors, and 13 massage, the small massage. 14 So I make a list from the telephone book and 15 we would go from one to the another one. I would wait 16 in the car and she goes in. 17 And sometime she took a couple minutes and 18 walk out with cards, business cards. And that -- she 19 did the recruiting. 20 And from then, she pick up the girls and that 21 was the end of it. I never did any recruiting and I 22 never really saw him doing it. 23 Q. You really never saw? 24 A. Never saw Mr. Epstein recruiting anybody. 25 MS. EZELL: All right. I have no other PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3atc3ca0-c868-4b9f-8d01-ba2Obcae87de EFTA00181762
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Page 214 1 questions. Thank you, sir. 2 MR. MERMELSTEIN: I just have a couple follow 3 up. 4 RECROSS EXAMINATION 5 BY MR. MERMELSTEIN: 6 Q. Mr. Alessi, I'll be very brief. 7 You testified that a process server came and 8 gave you the subpoena to appear here today, correct? 9 A. Yes. 10 Q. For your deposition? 11 A. Yes. 12 Q. Did you call anyone after you received the 13 subpoena to talk to them about this? 14 A. No. 15 Q. You didn't call anyone? 16 A. No. 17 Q. Did you -- how did you come in contact with 18 Mr. Critton's office to set up the meeting that you 19 discussed? 20 A. His his secretary left me a messages on 21 my -- in my machine. 22 Q. And then you called back? 23 A. Then I called back. 24 Q. And you set up the meeting that you mentioned? 25 A. And we set up a meeting for the Labor Day, PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Safc3ca0-c86e-4b91-6d01-ba2Obcael37de EFTA00181763
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Page 215 1 Labor Day, Monday. 2 Q. What about -- but you said a month and a half 3 ago -- oh, this was before you were subpoenaed, is when 4 you had the meeting at your house with Mr. 5 A. Yes, before I was subpoenaed. 6 7 8 Q. How did that meeting come about? How did that get set up? Who called who? A. Okay. Before -- I am stuck on this question. 9 I don't know. I think it was Mr. Critton office. I 10 think it was Mr. Critton office. They call me. And 11 they left me a message that I must discuss -- call Mr. 12 -- yeah. I had a message in my phone that to call 13 Mr. Critton because he would like to speak to me about 14 Jeffrey Epstein. That was the message. 15 And I call it. Then I spoke to him. We set 16 up an appointment. I was sick at that time. And he 17 came to my house and we discussed it. 18 Q. Other than Mr. Critton, 19 A. Yes. 20 Q. -- in the last few months have you spoken to 21 anyone about the civil cases or your testimony? 22 A. No, not even my kids. 23 Q. Did you discuss this with your wife? 24 A. My wife, yes. My kids, no. 25 Q. What did you and your wife talk about? PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3a1c3ca0-c86e-4b9f-8d01-ba20bcaeB7de EFTA00181764
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Page 216 1 A. Same thing, what's going on. How bad the 2 situation was. 3 Q. What do you mean, "how bad the situation was?" 4 A. How -- I guess how he got into this mess. 5 Q. How Mr. Epstein got into this mess? 6 A. (Nods head.) 7 Q. Can you be more specific as to what you and 8 your wife said? 9 A. No. It was just the publicity, you know, that 10 his name was on the -- on the magazines and the paper 11 and tv. And I thought that that would never happen. 12 Q. And you and your wife felt bad for Mr. Epstein 13 because of that? 14 A. You know, after you know somebody and he 15 becomes a friend of yours for ten years, I think you 16 feel bad, no matter how bad he has made. And I don't 17 know what he has done or what -- what the final results 18 of this will be. I still will feel bad about it, just 19 because the person that he was and how generous he was 20 with me and other people. 21 Q. Just to be clear, other than Mr. Critton and 22 your wife, you haven't spoken to anyone else about the 23 civil cases or your deposition testimony? 24 A. No, sir. 25 MR. MERMELSTEIN: All right. That's all I PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Satc3ca0-c860-4b91-8d01-ba2Obcaeflido EFTA00181765
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Page 217 1 have. 2 MR. CRITTON: I have one last question. 3 RECROSS EXAMINATION 4 BY MR. CRITTON: 5 Q. I want to just clear up one thing, Mr. Alessi. 6 Go to page 9. 7 A. Page 9, looks like the one that is important. 8 Q. That's right. We've belabored this one to 9 death. 10 MR. WILLITS: I think the ink has worn off the 11 page by now. 12 BY MR. CRITTON: 13 Q. It's Exhibit 2. This is the statement that 14 you gave to the State Attorney's Office on November 21st 15 of '05. 16 Mr. Berger asked you questions about the young 17 girl. Ms. Ezell just asked you some questions about 18 that. 19 So what I want to do is clarify, so that I 20 know what so there's no confusion, at least in the 21 record. 22 On page 9, line 16, it says: "During the last 23 year when you were working with him, what do you mean 24 they looked young? Did they look like they were still 25 in high school?" PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3afc3ca0-c860-4b9f4d01-ba20bcao87de EFTA00181766
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Page 218 1 And your answer was: "I remember one girl was 2 young. We never asked how old she was. It was not my 3 job." 4 Did I read that question and answer correctly? 5 A. That's correct. 6 Q. If I understood your testimony in response to 7 Mr. Berger, the girl that you were referring to, because 8 there's a reference to high school, was III.? 9 A. Yeah, that's correct. 10 Q. Not III.? 11 A. No. III. didn't look to me like a 16 year 12 old. 13 MR. WILLITS: All right. Thank you. That's 14 all I have. 15 MR. WILLITS: You have the right to read and 16 sign this deposition if it's typed up. I'm not 17 going to be ordering it, but if somebody types it 18 up you have the right to read and sign it or you 19 can waive that right. It's up to you entirely. If 20 you want to waive the right to read it, tell the 21 court reporter you want to waive the right. 22 THE WITNESS: Can you repeat that again? 23 MR. CRITTON: Why don't we go off the record. 24 (Discussion held off the record.) 25 THE WITNESS: I waive that right. I don't PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 Electronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3afc3ca0•c86e.4b9t.8d01•ba20bcae87do EFTA00181767
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Page 219 1 think I need to see. 2 (Witness excused.) 3 (Deposition was concluded.) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 PROSE COURT REPORTING AGENCY, INC. lectronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 'ectronically signed by Sandra Townsend (401 3afc3ca0-c86e-4b91-8d01-ba2Obcae8Tde EFTA00181768
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