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Page 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (The witness entered the grand jury room.) having been duly sworn by the grand jury foreperson, was examined and testified on her oath as follows: EXAMINATION Q Good morning, special agent you restate and spell your name for the record. A It's Could Q Can you remind the grand jury who you are employed by? A The FBI. Q I know that you testified here a few weeks ago. was there anything from that testimony that you wanted to correct? A I did. I was asked by one of you Mr. Epstein's age, and I confused him with another individual in another one of my cases. His birthdate is January 20, 1953. We are looking at the time period of 2004 and 2005. So Mr. Epstein would have been about 51 or 52-years-old, and I believe I told you he was 45. So at the time we're looking during this investigation, he is 51 or 52. Q how did this case first come to the attention of the police? EFTA00226456
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Page 4 1 A In March of 2005„ our youngest 2 identified victim -- her stepmother called the Palm Beach 3 police department and reported that she believed that her 4 stepdaughter had been molested by a male that resided in 5 the town of Palm Beach. 6 Q So today we are going to talk about ■ G? A Yes. 8 Q And we are using her initial to protect her 9 identity, correct? io A Yes. 11 Q Can you tell the grand jurdilIIIIIII date of 12 birth? 13 A 14 Q And you mentioned that the call came in from 15 stepmother in March of 2005, correct? 16 A Yes. 17 Q So how old was at that time? 18 A She was 14. 19 Q Where does live? 20 A lives in the Loxahatchee-Royal Palm Beach 21 area here in Palm Beach County. 22 Q At the time, in 2005, what school was she 23 attending? 24 A Royal Palm Beach High School. 25 Q What year was she in school? EFTA00226457
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Page 5 A She was a ninth-grader there. 2 Q You mentioned that her stepmother called the 3 Palm Beach police department. What did the police 4 department do in response to that call? 5 A They wanted to interview I believe it was 6 the next day they went out to where was attending 7 school at that time, which I think was High Ridge. They 8 interviewed ■ at High Ridge and wanted to get her side 9 of what took place. 10 Q Because we'll be referring to this throughout, 11 what was the name of the detective who conducted that 12 first interview? 13 A Detective 14 Q So in March of 2005, detective talked with 15 ever interviewed at any other times? 16 A Yes. She was interviewed -- they talked to her 17 again. She placed some controlled calls for them later 18 that month, we will talk about that later. As well as 19 she was interviewed about a year later in July of 2006. 20 Not interviewed, but she testified before the grand jury 21 for the State of Florida. So she was interviewed by 22 detective Pagan in March of 2005, and then about a year or 23 three or four months later, in July of 2006, she testified ?4 before a grand jury with the State of Florida. 25 Q In preparation for your appearance today, did SINIP•••• EFTA00226458
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Page 6 you have a chance to interview 2 A Yes, I did. 3 Q And when was that? 4 A Last night. 5 Q Back in March of 2005, you mentioned that 6 detective Pagan met with on or more than one 7 occasion? A Yes. 9 Q If you could give us sort of an overview of what reported during these interviews, and then if there 11 are specific discrepancies or differences, we will return 12 to those later. 13 A All right. On February 5, 2005, it was a 14 Saturday, and was at 'use, IIIIIIII She 16 was there with her boyfriend, And because these 16 are minors, we'll refer to them without using their last 17 names, so I'll use those initials. 18 They were ateresidence, and is 19 boyfriend, which is also cousin. So they 20 were all at house, and was on the phone with 21 an individual that ■ refers to as the assistant. 22 described the assistant as a tall blonde. 23 So throughout I'll refer to her as the blonde lady, if 24 that's okay. was unable to recall her name. So 25 is on the phone with the assistant for Jeffrey •••••••••11,6 EFTA00226459
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Page 7 1 Epstein. 2 IIIMEIverheareon the phone 3 describing describing to the lady on 4 the phone. So when gets off the phone, and 5 IIIIIItoth want to know why i was being described to 6 this lady on the phone. becomes upset when 7 asks". if she would like to go to Palm Beach and give a 8 man a massage that she knows. agrees, and this 9 upsets and an argument ensues where 10 go into the bathroom and they argue outside the presence 11 of 12 Q Let me stop you there. Was supposed to be 13 paid for giving this massage? 14 A Yes. told that she would be paid 15 $200 or $300, I believe. 16 17 is also cousin, correct? 18 A Yes. 19 Q What was 20 arguing? 21 A She has told us that she believed that ust 22 have known what was doing for this man and the work 23 that did for Mr. Epstein, and that is why vas 24 SO upset. 25 You mentioned that boyfriend, and idea about why they were So le new that this wasn't just a regular et. ...rmi.....••••••••••••••••••il.w., •••••111•1•0•1••••InT•l•••••••.•••••• EFTA00226460
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Page 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 massage that was going to take place? A Yes. Q So illlidecide to do? A decides to go. have this argument. What does Q Because she wanted to make the $200 or $300? A Yes. Q So tell us then what happened after that meeting? A The next day, February 6 -- they discussed that evening about going the next day. We do have on phone records two calls that were placed. One was placed to cell phone, and the other was placed to Jef rey Epstein's residence the night of February 5. The next dayais contacted a couple of times before Arrives. Each time prior to ill" eing contacted by... a call is placed by t o n cell phone. M M.., I should tell you, is Jeffrey's assistant. So on Sunday a call was placed to IIIIIIIIII!at and then shortly after that a call was made to El same series occurs again, but this time places a call to Mr. Epstein's residence, and then its called again. Eventually, =comes t o MI residence with EFTA00226461
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1 2 4 5 6 '7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 9 another girl in the car, So the two of them IMIS arrive atIIIIIII residence, and they continue over to Mr. Epstein's house. Q I'll'. is driving with Do you know how they were sitting? A You know, I'm not sure how they were sitting, but I know that it was a pickup truck that drove, and was the driver. I'm not sure exactly the placement of the other two girls, but they were in the truck. Q And Sas able to describe how they travelled to the island of Palm Beach? A Yes. She gave directions -- you know, the best that she could on how she was able to come to Mr. Epstein's residence. Q Once they arrived at the residence, what happened? A I should have mentioned that either the night before or the day of, there were some things that IIIIII tells One, she tells illlithat she is to tell, if asked, that she is 18-years-of-age, that she attends high school, that she's in the 12th grade, and I believe it was Wellington High School that she was to say that she went to. Talking to illillast night, ■ told us that Va....la.....o...10.0•44••••••...”.• • • EFTA00226462
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Page 10 1 once she arrived at the residence hells her that she 2 may possibly be asked to take her clothes off. She also 3 tells her that she can stay in her bra, but she may be 4 asked to take her clothes off. And told us last 5 night that that's when she knew for the first time that 6 she might have to possibly remove her clothes. 7 At this point they proceed to enter the 8 residence. IIIIIIPescribes him as a security person. He 9 approached and asked what they were doing there, and IIIIII 10 said they were there to see Mr. Epstein, or see Jeffrey. 11 He allowed them entry into the kitchen area by the pool, 12 and i describes that area. So now and 13 IIIIllare all sitting in the kitchen. A short time goes 14 by and Mr. Epstein, as well as the assistant, enter the 15 kitchen. 16 Q And I know that you mentioned thatillildid not 17 know the name of the lady who was there in the kitchen, 18 correct? 19 A Right. 20 Q She just described her as a blonde, tall lady? 21 A Yes. 22 Q Was also interviewed about what happened 23 that day? 24 A She was interviewed by the Palm Beach police 25 department. EFTA00226463
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Page 11 Did identify the person who was on the 2 phone with her as 3 A 4 5 knew 6 A Yes. 7 Q So you mentioned that the three girls are in the 8 kitchen, along with Jeffrey and the person calls the 9 blonde lady? 10 A Yes. 11 Q What happened then? 12 A follows the blonde lady upstairs to 13 Mr. Epstein's bedroom. The blonde lady proceeds to take 14 out a massage table and set it up, prepare it. She also 15 takes out some lotions to be used during the massage. 16 told me last night that the blonde lady asked her to 17 remove her clothing, and then left the room and said that 18 Mr. Epstein would be in shortly. 19 Q What happened after she left the room? 20 A Shortly after that, Mr. Epstein does come into 21 the room and shakes hand. told us last night 22 that Mr. Epstein told her to remove her clothing. He 23 leaves the room and comes back in just a towel, and he 24 tells her again to -- she is at that point -- when he 25 walked in the lirst time she had on her bra and her pants. Yes, she did. So even though name? al doesn't know her name, EFTA00226464
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Page 12 1 When he comes back in, he tells her that she needs to take 2 her pants ofI . So she took her pants of'. So now she's 3 in her bra and underwear. 4 Q At some point did tell any of the people 5 who interviewed her what was running through her mind? 6 A She stated at one point that she was upstairs 7 with him, with the man, and thatMill was downstairs. I 8 guess she says, "What could ilIlli do? She's downstairs, 9 I'm upstairs." So she did what she was asked to do. 10 Q So now you mention that Mr. Epstein is here 11 wearing just a towel, and has removed both her shirt 12 and her pants, is that correct? 13 A Yes. 14 Q Tell us what happens then? 15 A Mr. Epstein gets on the massage table lying on 16 his stomach and instructs how to do the massage. He 17 tells her to put some lotion on her hand and instructs her 18 on how to actually perform the massage. At one point 19 during the massage he tells that she would be more 20 comfortable to get on top of him, so i gets on top of 21 him and straddles Mr. Epstein's back. 22 The way describes it is Mr. Epstein is 23 laying on the table, he has a towel covering his bottom, 24 and she is straddling him with her bottom touching the 25 towel and some skin touching his lower back. She was kind ...••••• ••••••• wwl...•••••.•-m••••• •••••••••••A•i••••••••••• •...millialtIONSILWS,••C• _I 1 EFTA00226465
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• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 13 of sitting -- it sounds like sitting on his rear end, but with part of her skin touching him -- the front of him, but he had a towel across his bottom. Q What happens as she is providing the massage to his back? A The massage goes on. She said the entire massage lasted anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes. At one point Mr. Epstein excuses himself for a few minutes, one or two minutes briefly, illlistates that she can hear Mr. Epstein moaning or groaning, and states that she believes he was, in her words, "wacking off" or masturbating. She didn't say masturbating, she said "wacking off." I am going to use that she believes he was masturbating. Then he returns. At this point he gets back on the table lying on his back and asks her to start massaging his chest. So she begins to massage his chest. Q Does he keep the towel on? A No, at this point the towel is removed. When he comes back and he gets back on the table, the towel is removed and she is massaging his chest. Q What does he do as she is massaging his chest? A He moves his hand up and down his penis. So he continued to masturbate on the table. He asked at some point during this time, if she would like to make an I EFTA00226466
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Page 14 1 extra $100. He tells her that it would not involve doing 2 IIIIII 3 vibrator on her, and she does agree. describes it as 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 digitally penetrated her? ii A The vibrator is used. At some point he does 12 digitally penetrate her. And these are her words. She 13 14 is her word -- he sarcastically says, "What's the matter?" 15 And she at that point just kind of looks away, and he 16 continues on with the digital penetration. In the last 17 three to lour minutes of that, he begins to masturbate 18 again. 19 At the conclusion of the sexual activity, 20 Mr. Epstein wipes his penis ofI with a towel. i was 21 asked if he ejaculated. She did not see him ejaculate, 22 but saw him wipe his penis off with a towel. 23 Q was able to provide a physical description a massage. agrees. He asked her if he could use a a purple vibrator that was used on her vagina, and she said this goes on for about ten minutes. At some point during that massage the vibrator is not used anymore and digital penetration takes place. dillidescribes him as fingering her. Q What did she say happened when Mr. Epstein looks at him kind of funny, and he sarcastically -- which 24 of Mr. Epstein? 25 A Yes. EFTA00226467
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Page 15 1 Q Including of his penis? 2 A Yes. 3 Q Was she also able to provide a description of 4 her surroundings in that massage area? A Yes. 6 Q Was that description accurate? 7 A Yes. According to other testimony we have 8 gotten from other victims, yes. 9 Q And a search was performed on Mr. Epstein's io house? 11 A Yes. The Palm Beach police department did 12 perform a search, and several of the items that were 13 described were found in the house. 14 Q After Mr. Epstein wiped himself off, what 15 happened? 16 A He told that she was getting the extra 17 hundred dollars because he was allowed to use the vibrator 18 on her and had fingered her. The massage had been 19 concluded, the sexual activity had been concluded. He 20 gets up and leaves for a brief moment of time and comes 21 back with $300 and pays the $300. I believe he told 22 that she could see herself out. 23 Q Before we leave that room, when i was either 24 being directed to the room or was inside that room where 25 the massage took place, was there anything in particular EFTA00226468
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Page 16 1 2 3 4 5 8 6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 that she noted seeing? A She noted seeing several naked pictures of girls in the room, a mural or pictures of naked girls either exposing their breasts or completely naked. Q While the massage was going on, did Mr. Epstein talk tole A Yes, he did. Q And did he talk about sexual conquests with girls? A Yes, he did. Q Once Mr. Epstein has provided ■ with the $300, what did she do? A She went back downstairs and she, and eave the residence. In the car they k a as how much money she has made, and she tells them $300. IIIII wants to see the money. She shows the money to and illill asks what did she do. At that point itells her that he fingered her, as well as used a vibrator. Q When they left the house, where did they go? A When they left the house, they were on their way to a mall to go shopping with the money that they had received from Mr. Epstein. i had told the night before that she needed some shoes and wanted to go to the mall, and she was going to Mr. Epstein's to pick up some money. That was another reason that she had for going to EFTA00226469
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Page 17 1 Mr. Epstein's house that day, and that they were going to 2 go shopping after she got her money, and that could 3 make some money. 4 Q During that ride, did 'ill realize that 5 received money from Mr. Epstein? 6 A Yes. At some point knows that a 7 received S200, but is unsure that ver gave a a 8 massage. So at that particular times did not know why 9 she had gotten the $200, because she didn't think that 10 illillhad had time to give a massage. 11 Q In interview, did she explain what she 12 got the $200 for? 13 A told the Palm Beach police department in 14 her interview that she received her $200 for bringing 15 to the house. 16 Q You mentioned that there were these three 17 different time periods that was interviewed: Shortly 18 after the events, at the time of the state grand jury 19 proceedings, and when you met with her, correct? 20 A Yes. 21 Q And there were some discrepancies between the 22 different interviews. Can you explain some of those to 23 the grand jury. 24 A Before we go and get to that, I want to make 25 sure that -- when we discussed what was told in the 1.0•.•••••••••••.1••••.b EFTA00226470
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 car by al that we learned from Page 18 interview with the Palm Beach police department. don't know if I said that, but I want to make sure you know that we first learned that had been fingered by listening to the interview that was conducted between the Palm Beach police department and not from When I talk later, I just want to make sure you realize that that had not initially come out in interview, but through the interview with So going back. I'm sorry, discrepancies? Q Yes. A I met with last night to discuss some of the discrepancies when looking at what she had talked to detective about in March of 2005 and what she had testified to in the grand jury in July of 2006. Reading the testimony and listening to the tapes, or reading the• transcript, there were a lew discrepancies. One of the first ones we talked about was what had told her about going to Mr. Epstein's house. She tells detective that she was told about the massage, told about getting $200, but that she was not told that she would have to take her clothes ofl. She didn't know she would have to perform the massage naked. When I asked her last night that question, she told me that when she got to the house prior to going into EFTA00226471
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 19 Mr. Epstein's residence, that did tell her that she may be asked to take ofl her clothes. She also did state that told her she could stay in her bra. So I wanted you to know that there was a discrepancy in what she originally had told detective Pagan and what she told me last night. That would be one. The second discrepancy I wanted to touch on with her was going upstairs and taking off her clothing. When she is in that room, she states to detective Pagan that asked her to remove her clothing, and she took off her shirt. Then Mr. Epstein came in the room, shook her hand and told her to take off her clothes. He leaves, he all comes back in a towel. He tells her again. tells detective in a stern voice, "Mr. Epstein told me to take off my pants." Because she hadn't taken off her pants from the first time that she met him. In her testimony with the grand jury with the state, she tells the grand jury that it was who asked her to remove her clothing. So last night we went over with her who told her to remove what. She had a very hard time recalling exactly. She knew she had gotten down to her bra and underwear. And then at some point, when we're going through the sexual activity, she actually tells me that her underwear was off when he was using the vibrator and digitally penetrating her. EFTA00226472
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 B 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 20 Later in the interview, we tell her about what we have in her testimony to the grand jury and her statements made to detective Pagan. And she really is having a difficult time trying to remember who told her to take ofl her clothes and her pants. As we are walking through the sexual activity, she does recall and states that it was Mr. Epstein who told her to take ofl her pants. I guess I'll go to the third discrepancy. Is there anything I left off with that? Q Well, does she report that when the assistant leads or the blonde lady leads her upstairs, that the blonde lady also said, "Get undressed," but that ■ didn't get fully undressed? A That's what she said in her statement to the detective, when she gives her first statement. She tells us again last night that that's what she recalled. Q That the lady said first, •Get undressed," but she doesn't get fully undressed. And when Jeffrey comes back, he said, "Take your pants off.•? A Yes. And again, like I said, when we started interviewing her and asking her about this, she did have a hard time. But when we were walking through the sexual activity, that's when she recalls who told her to take off her pants. ; EFTA00226473
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Page 21 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 originally interviewed by detective Pagan about the 12 vibrator or being digitally penetrated. When detective 13 14 15 She also says that to the grand jury, she talks about the 16 purple vibrator being used on her. 17 18 being used on her. When we asked her about him digitally 19 penetrating her, and that had told the police 20 department that she had been fingered, told us last 21 night that she was fingered by Mr. Epstein, but that she 22 23 did not want her father to know that he had fingered her. 24 25 And tell you, when we talked about the sexual activity, and it comes out that she wasn't wearing her underwear when he was digitally penetrating her and using the vibrator, she does not recall how they came off. She cannot remember removing her underwear. She doesn't remember if Mr. Epstein removed her underwear. She knows her underwear was off, but she cannot tell you exactly at what point her underwear was removed. Q Let's talk about the third discrepancy. A The third is the sexual activity, when she was Pagan comes and sees her again a few weeks later, she does tell her at that time that a vibrator was used on her. Last night she told us about the purple vibrator thought only her and knew about this and that she She didn't want anybody to know, but she especially didn't want her father to know, that that was her business. That EFTA00226474
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Page 22 1 she did not know that had told anybody, she thought 2 it was only her and that knew. She was embarrassed 3 and didn't want anybody to know that. 4 Q Did she become visually upset? 5 A Yes, she began crying when we asked her about 6 being digitally penetrated. When she realized that we 7 knew about that, she became very upset and concerned about 8 her father. She mentioned that her father has read a lot 9 of the reports in the State of Florida, and has followed to the state's case. She was concerned about even telling 11 us, afraid that he would be able to read in our reports 12 about this. 13 We explained to her that the FBI's reporting is 14 a little bit different than the way the state -- those are 15 public records, and ours is part of our case file. 16 Q In addition to the fact that she had these 17 concerns about her father and she was embarrassed, in your 18 experience of interviewing victims of sexual abuse, is it 19 typical for them to not disclose all of the sexual 20 activity? 21 A Yes, it's very typical. And young girls, they 22 don't want to talk about it. This is just another case of 23 her not wanting to tell exactly what took place. 24 Q After that first visit to Mr. Epstein's house, 25 and the interviews with detective did detective EFTA00226475