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FBI VOL00009

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A. 
I'm explaining -- 
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Q. 
Is that part of the question that I 
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asked --
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A. 
I'm explaining the couch. 
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Q. 
or is that your effort to make speeches 
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in an effort to consume the limited amount of time 
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that we have? 
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MR. SCOTT: I would object to that 
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characterization. 
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A. 
I wanted to start at -- I wanted to start 
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at 12:00 -- at 1:30 today. 
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MR. SCOTT: And the speech. 
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MR. SIMPSON: Alan, Alan. 
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A. 
All the delays have been caused by you, 
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not me. And I'm ready to go to 5:30, but you're 
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quitting at 5 -- or 4:30. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
Yes, sir, I have -- 
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A. 
So don't blame any delays on me, sir. 
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Q. 
-- a commitment -- I have a commitment to 
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chair an --
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A. 
Don't we all. 
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Q. 
-- Easter Seals fundraiser. 
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A. 
We all have commitments. 
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Q. 
You've known -- 
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MR. SCOTT: Timeout. Timeout. Let's 
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everybody --
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
-- that for three days. 
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MR. SCOTT: Everybody cool down. 
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Everybody cool down. It's late in the day. 
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That includes Mr. Scarola, my client. Let's do 
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question and answer. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
New question -- 
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MR. SCOTT: Here we go, new question. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
-- did you see a bed in the plane? 
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A. 
I never saw a bed in the plane. As far as 
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I know, there was no bed in the plane. And that's 
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what I was trying to explain. That the only time 
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I've seen that couch used is when two or three 
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people were sitting in it when we went down to watch 
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the launch of the satellite because that was the 
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only time I saw the plane filled. 
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Other than that, it was a plain, ordinary 
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couch that was never used by anybody during the 
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flights. We were all sitting in our seats. I do 
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not know for a fact that that couch becomes a bed. 
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I never saw it as a bed. And the answer is 
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categorically no. 
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Q. 
Well, the question was: Is there a bed on 
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the plane? The answer to that question is not a 
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categorical no; the answer to that question is you 
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don't know; is that right? 
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A. 
The answer to that question is there is a 
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couch on the plane like it is on all -- as far as I 
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know, all Gulfstream IVs. I have no idea whether or 
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not that couch becomes a bed. 
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Q. 
You told the American lawyer on 
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January 15, 2015 a statement that you have repeated 
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on multiple occasions: "I've been married to the 
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same woman for 28 years. She goes with me 
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everywhere." 
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Do you acknowledge making that statement? 
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A. 
Yes. My wife goes with me everywhere 
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today. These days, now that our daughter is grown 
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up and went to high school and college, she travels 
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with me everywhere. It's a rare, rare occasion when 
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my wife doesn't travel with me. In fact, I have a 
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condition of my speakings engagements that the 
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speaking engagements have to pay for my wife to come 
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with me. 
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I hate traveling alone. I almost never do 
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it unless there is an absolutely essential reason 
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for Carolyn to be somewhere else, such as taking 
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care of her 96-year-old mother. But it is true, I 
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travel with my wife. 
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Q. 
In fact, the airplane manifests that have 
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been produced reflect your having traveled on 
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Jeffrey Epstein's airplane on ten separate occasions 
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and on none of those occasions --
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A. 
Is that testimony, sir? 
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Q. 
On none of those occasions -- 
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MR. SCOTT: Wait a minute. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
is your wife reflected as having been a 
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passenger at the same time that you are were on 
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Jeffrey Epstein's airplane, right? 
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MR. SCOTT: Object to the form. There's 
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no timeframe or anything of that nature. If 
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you can answer 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
All of the manifests that have been 
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produced in this litigation, the ones that you say 
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corroborate your testimony and exonerate you, 
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demonstrate that you never flew on Jeffrey Epstein's 
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plane in the company of your wife, correct? 
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A. 
No. That's not true. I flew in the 
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company of my wife and my daughter from Charleston, 
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South Carolina to Guadalupe --
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Q. 
I'm asking about what the manifests show, 
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sir --
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A. 
I'm telling you what 
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Q. 
-- the ones that you say exonerate you. 
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A. 
Well, I said that -- 
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Q. 
Is there a manifest that shows that you 
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and your wife were on Jeffrey Epstein's plane at the 
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same time together? 
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MR. SCOTT: Let me object to the -- 
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I don't know that. 
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MR. SCOTT: -- argumentative nature and 
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compound nature. He's trying to answer your 
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questions. 
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Let me go through each of the times 
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MR. SCOTT: There's nothing -- 
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THE WITNESS: Okay. Okay. 
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MR. SCOTT: There's nothing pending. Go 
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ahead. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
Is there a manifest that shows that your 
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wife ever accompanied you on a flight on Jeffrey 
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Epstein's private airplane? 
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MR. SCOTT: Let me object again. There's 
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no reference to the timeframe or the relevant 
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timeframe --
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MR. SCAROLA: Any time ever. 
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A. 
My wife accompanied me on two occasions, 
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my nephew --
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
Is there a manifest -- 
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MR. SCOTT: You're cutting him off, 
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Counsel. 
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A. 
Let me finish. 
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MR. SCAROLA: He's not answering my 
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question. 
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MR. SCOTT: Yes, he is answering your 
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question. 
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A. 
My nephew accompanied me on one occasion. 
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My research assistant, Mitch Webber, accompanied me 
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on one occasion. My son or grandson, I'm not sure 
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which, accompanied me on one occasion. 
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And the occasions that I flew on Jeffrey 
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Epstein's plane were almost always business 
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occasions during a time when my daughter, Ella, was 
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in elementary school, if we're talking about the 
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relevant period of time. And during that period of 
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time, on occasion my wife did not fly with me. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
Is there -- 
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A. 
But let me emphasize -- let me emphasize 
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that the manifests that do exculp me, do not show me 
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flying with 
, they do not show me 
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flying with any young women. 
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They know that on every trip I took, there 
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was a business reason for it, there were other 
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people on the plane, and it is inconceivable that 
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during any of those periods of time, the lies that 
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told about me could have been true. 
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Q. 
So it's your contention that no manifests 
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show you traveling outside the company of your wife; 
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is that correct? 
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A. 
Said that again, no manifest -- 
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Q. 
No manifest shows you traveling outside 
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the company of your wife? 
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A. 
I'm confused. That's a double, triple 
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negative. 
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MR. SCOTT: Do you understand the 
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question? 
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THE WITNESS: I don't, no. 
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MR. SCOTT: Rephrase it. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
There is not a single manifest of the ten 
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that shows you as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's 
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plane that shows your wife there at the same time, 
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correct? 
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I am not aware that there are ten 
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manifests 
I would be happy to look at the 
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manifests 
I have explained 
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Q. 
Unfortunately -- 
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A. 
-- each of the times -- 
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Q. 
-- we won't have time to do that this 
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afternoon --
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A. 
-- I've been -- 
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Q. 
-- but we will have time to do that 
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eventually. 
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A. 
We will -- I welcome that time, because I 
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can give complete context to every single trip I 
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took. And if you're trying to convey the impression 
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that there was any occasion on which I had any 
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improper conduct while I was on that airplane, that 
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is a categorical lie. 
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Q. 
What I am trying to do, sir, is to test 
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the veracity of your public assertions that you have 
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never traveled outside the presence of your wife. 
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A. 
That is a lie. 
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Q. 
That is what I'm trying to do. 
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That is a lie, sir, a categorical lie. I 
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challenge you to find any statement where I said I 
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have never traveled outside the presence of my wife. 
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Q. 
Well, how about this -- 
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A. 
Sir, find me that statement. 
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Q. 
-- do you -- do you remember having -- 
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having stated publicly on multiple occasions that 
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you never received a massage --
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A. 
No. 
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Q. 
-- from Jeffrey Epstein? 
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MR. SCOTT: Unless you can show them and 
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characterize them by date and time, you just 
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can't say here -- it's improper impeachment --
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that you've done this ten times. It's just 
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improper completely. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
Can you answer the question -- 
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MR. SCOTT: And it's overly broad. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
-- do you have any recollection of saying 
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that you never received a massage? 
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A. 
I did receive a massage. 
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Q. 
Do you have any recollection 
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A. 
I have no recollection -- 
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Q. 
-- of making that public statement that 
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you never received a massage? 
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A. 
I can't imagine me saying that. If I said 
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it, I was mistaken. I had one massage, to my 
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recollection. 
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Q. 
Okay. Tell us about where that occurred. 
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A. 
That occurred in my bedroom of Jeffrey 
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Epstein's home in Palm Beach. I was asked whether 
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I -- Palm Beach. I was asked whether I wanted a 
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massage. I had been asked repeatedly whether I 
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wanted a massage and I had said no. Then I was told 
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that they had a masseuse coming from Miami who was a 
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specialist of some kind, she was very good, she was 
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Russian, and she worked, I think, in the Russian 
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baths or something like that, and I agreed to have a 
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massage. 
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I regretted it. She massaged me in a very 
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tough and rough way. And she wanted to put her 
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knees on my shoulder and I said no. I immediately 
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called my wife when the massage was over and I told 
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her about the bad experience I had. And I said to 
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her, see, I really don't like massages. But my wife 
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likes massages. And she has had -- she has massages 
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frequently. 
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Q. 
This massage occurred in your bedroom in 
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Jeffrey Epstein's house; is that correct? 
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A. 
Not in my bedroom, in the bedroom that I 
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had been assigned, which was a guest bedroom. The 
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door was open. The -- a massage table was brought 
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in. I kept my undergarments on. And I was massaged 
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maybe for 20 minutes or 25 minutes. And then 
and 
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then she left and I had an unpleasant experience and 
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I called my wife and I told her about it. 
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Q. 
Was the bedroom to which you were 
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assigned, which you previously referred to as your 
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bedroom --
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A. 
No, no. I said "my bedroom" in the sense 
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that I was in it. 
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Q. 
Was the bedroom to which you were assigned 
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in the private section of the residence? 
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MR. SCOTT: Do you understand the 
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question? 
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A. 
Yeah, let me explain exactly. This 
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requires a long answer. 
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There -- when you walk into Jeffrey 
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Epstein's house, there are two areas. If you walk 
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up the left side of the stairway, there are guest 
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bedrooms, three or four guest bedrooms. Those were 
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assigned to people like Senator George Mitchell, 
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Ehud Barak, prominent guests who would stay in his 
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house. Each one had its own bathroom and its own 
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bed. I stayed there with my wife for a period of 
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time. 
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But then there was another area of the 
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house, which I have never been in, ever, and which 
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nobody was allowed basically into, which was Jeffrey 
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Epstein's part of the house, which contained his 
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bedroom and whatever other rooms. I've read about 
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them, but I've never seen them. So it was in the 
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guest area of the house over the kitchen. 
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BY MR. SCAROLA: 
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Q. 
Who told you no one was allowed in that 
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area of the house? 
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A. 
I was told by the people that that was 
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off -- off limits, that that was Jeffrey's --
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Q. 
Which people? 
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A. 
Ghislaine, 
, 
that that 
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was Jeffrey's area of the house and that the guests 
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were limited to the public areas of the house and 
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the -- and I think that's common in many houses when 
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you go and stay at somebody's house, you don't go 
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into their bathrooms and their bedrooms. 
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Q. 
And it's common for people to tell you, 
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you're not allowed in this area of the house? 
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A. 
People -- people -- guests are not 
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supposed to go to that area of the house. 
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Q. 
No, sir. That's my question. Is it 
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common for you to be told --
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A. 
Yes. 
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Q. 
-- when you enter somebody's house, you're 
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not allowed to go into this portion of the house? 
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A. 
Oh, yes. I just recently went to a -- a 
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breakfast at somebody's house after Yom Kippur and I 
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wanted to show friends of mine the art that was in 
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the house and I started walking down the house and 
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the waiter said, oh, I'm sorry, you're not allowed 
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in -- in that part of the house, that's the private 
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residence. And so I had to turn around and show my 
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friends the art that was in the public area, not the 
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private area --
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Q. 
Jeffrey Epstein's art consisted of 
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photographs of young naked girls all over the house, 
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right? 
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A. 
Are you testifying? That's false. I 
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never saw any such thing. Ever. Never saw a 
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picture, with one exception, of a nude. The one 
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exception was a sepia print of Rodin's model that 
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appeared on one of his desks. 
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But in all the times I was at Jeffrey 
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Epstein's house in Palm Beach, the one time I was in 
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his house in -- on the island, certainly the one 
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time in -- in the ranch because there was nothing 
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there, it was just a construction site, I never saw 
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a picture -- or in his house in New York, I never 
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saw a picture of a naked woman, ever. 
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Q. 
The notice for deposition with which you 
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were served both initially a few months ago and for 
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today's deposition is a notice of deposition duces 
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tecum. Could we please have the documents that 
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you --
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MR. SCOTT: We have a disk. I'll hand it 
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to you at the end of the depo with everything 
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that's responsive 
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MR. SCAROLA: I would like it now, please. 
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MR. SCOTT: Let the record reflect I'm 
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handing the disk. 
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MR. SCAROLA: Thank you. 
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MR. SIMPSON: Just for the record, it's a 
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disk of all the documents that have been 
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produced in the case subject to the objections 
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and privilege assertions that have been made in 
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the case. 
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MR. SCAROLA: All right. And so that the 
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record is clear, and hopefully you will be able 
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to make these arrangements by tomorrow, one of 
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the things that we want are the original of the 
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handwritten documents so that we have an 
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opportunity to examine those. 
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MR. SCOTT: I'll talk to him -- 
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MR. SCAROLA: Calendars. 
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MR. SCOTT: -- whether we comply or not. 
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We'll discuss it off the record. 
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MR. SCAROLA: The flight logs, anything 
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that's in handwritten form. 
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And we will reconvene tomorrow. What time 
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would you like to start? 
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MR. SCOTT: 9:30. 
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THE WITNESS: The earlier the better. 
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9:00. 
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MR. SCAROLA: 9:00? 
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MR. SCOTT: 9:00, good. 
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MR. SCAROLA: 8:00, want to go to 8:00? 
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MR. SCOTT: No, 9:00 is fine. 
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MR. SCAROLA: Okay. Thank you. 
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VIDEOGRAPHER: Going off the record. The 
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time is approximately 4:13 p.m. 
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(The proceedings ADJOURNED at 4:13 p.m., 
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and will continue in Volume 2.) 
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CERTIFICATE OF OATH 
STATE OF FLORIDA 
COUNTY OF BROWARD 
I, the undersigned authority, certify 
that ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ personally appeared 
before me and was duly sworn on the 15th day of 
October, 2015. 
Signed this 15th day of October, 2015. 
KIMBERLY FONTALVO, RPR, FPR, CLR 
Notary Public, State of Florida 
My Commission No. EE 161994 
Expires: 2/01/16 
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CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 
STATE OF FLORIDA 
COUNTY OF BROWARD 
I, KIMBERLY FONTALVO, Registered 
Professional Reporter, do hereby certify that I 
was authorized to and did stenographically report 
the foregoing videotape deposition of ALAN M. 
DERSHOWITZ; pages 1 through 170; that a review of 
the transcript was requested; and that the 
transcript is a true record of my stenographic 
notes. 
I FURTHER CERTIFY that I am not a 
relative, employee, attorney, or counsel of any 
of the parties, nor am I a relative or employee 
of any of the parties' attorneys or counsel 
connected with the action, nor am I financially 
interested in the action. 
Dated this 15th day of October, 2015. 
KIMBERLY FONTALVO, RPR, FPR, CLR 
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October 15, 2015 
Re: Bradley Edwards, etc. v. Alan M. Dershowitz 
Please take notice that on the 15th day of October, 
2015, you gave your deposition in the above cause. 
At that time, you did not waive your signature. 
The above-addressed attorney has ordered a copy of 
this transcript and will make arrangements with you 
to read their copy. Please execute the Errata 
Sheet, which can be found at the back of the 
transcript, and have it returned to us for 
distribution to all parties. 
If you do not read and sign the deposition within a 
reasonable amount of time, the original, which has 
already been forwarded to the ordering attorney, may 
be filed with the Clerk of the Court. 
If you wish to waive your signature now, please sign 
your name in the blank at the bottom of this letter 
and return to the address listed below. 
Very truly yours, 
KIMBERLY FONTALVO, RPR, FPR, CLR 
Phipps Reporting, Inc. 
1615 Forum Place, Suite 500 
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 
I do hereby waive my signature. 
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 
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ERRATA SHEET 
DO NOT WRITE ON TRANSCRIPT - ENTER CHANGES HERE 
In Re: BRADLEY EDWARDS, ETC. V. ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 
October 15, 2015 
PAGE 
LINE 
CHANGE 
REASON 
Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have 
read the foregoing document and that the facts 
stated in it are true. 
Date 
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 
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