The household of the lady who accused billionaire investor Leon Black of raping her inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion twenty years in the past when she was an adolescent has stated that they imagine the lady is mendacity — not simply in regards to the alleged rape, but additionally along with her declare that she has autism, based on court docket papers filed by Black’s attorneys.
The girl — solely recognized in court docket paperwork as “Jane Doe” — filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court last month alleging she was solely 16 years outdated when Black, then 51, pinned her down inside Epstein’s Higher East Aspect townhouse in 2002 and abused her with intercourse toys, inflicting her to bleed.
Black’s authorized workforce, which has dismissed the claims as an try and “smear” his identify “with no foundation in actual fact,” claimed to have realized the id of the lady — who Black claims he has by no means met — and subsequently claimed it had the proper to research her story, based on papers filed in Manhattan federal court docket on Monday.
The most recent submitting, which claims that investigators for Black “spoke with quite a few witnesses, together with shut and prolonged relations,” alleges that Doe doesn’t, in actual fact, have autism or Down syndrome however was as a substitute identified with borderline persona dysfunction.
“Plaintiff grew to become conscious of and studied these behaviors and started deliberately displaying them in her twenties so as to current herself as an individual with autism,” based on the court docket paperwork, which famous that Doe averted eye contact as soon as she “famous that folks with autism don’t look different folks within the eye.”
“She had by no means earlier than displayed [the behavior],” the paperwork added.
Jeanne Christensen, a companion at Wigdor Legislation who represents Jane Doe, denied the allegations in Black’s Monday submitting.
“Black hopes to shift our consideration to defending ourselves towards baseless claims in order that he can proceed to have his personal investigators bully and threaten our purchasers who’ve dared to name out his sexual violence publicly,” Christensen stated in a press release.
In keeping with the paperwork filed by Black’s attorneys on Monday, Doe’s relations additionally reportedly admitted that she “used a sequence of various names and personas, has a historical past of creating up alternate realities” — a results of her persona dysfunction analysis.
To defend Black towards the so-called “uncorroborated allegations” towards him, his authorized counsel at Perry Legislation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Estrich Goldin additionally claimed that Doe lately “posted on social media that she had been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.”
Nonetheless, based on the paperwork, “she had by no means made such allegations earlier than. Her household instructed her that they didn’t imagine this to be true, and he or she deleted the posts.”
The unidentified girl claims she was trafficked by Epstein and his longtime gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell after assembly the debauched couple at an “grownup occasion” she attended along with her allegedly abusive cheerleading coach at age 15.
Nonetheless, Doe solely “participated in a county cheerleading program when she was a senior in highschool — not when she was 15, as alleged,” the most recent submitting by Black’s attorneys claims.
It additionally famous that this system “didn’t contain in a single day journeys,” and that it was solely eligible for highschool college students. If Doe was a member of the group as a highschool senior, she would have been round 18 years outdated, based on the submitting.
The most recent court docket submitting was in response to Doe’s movement to proceed anonymously, which was filed in US District Courtroom on Friday accusing Black of stationing “a big SUV outdoors the plaintiff’s dwelling ‘to harass and intimidate Ms. Doe’” simply two days after she filed her lawsuit on July 27.
“It had nothing to do with Mr. Black,” the most recent submitting insisted, noting that investigators — led by “83-year-old adorned Military veteran” Carlos Melendez — didn’t start engaged on Black’s behalf till Aug. 7.
Investigators first spoke with Doe’s father within the early afternoon earlier than making appointments to fulfill along with her mom later that day, based on court docket paperwork.
The submitting claims the investigators went to lunch earlier than assembly with Doe’s mom, which made them late for the appointment.
“As a gesture of politeness, they introduced dessert over and apologized that they ‘made the woman wait,’” based on Black’s legal professionals.
Nonetheless, Doe claimed that her dad and mom obtained a go to from two males claiming to be fraud investigators from Florida, based on the movement to proceed anonymously, which was obtained by The Put up.
They visited “in pathetic vogue” with a cheesecake in hand within the hopes that they’d be invited inside, the submitting acknowledged.
As soon as inside, the July submitting alleges that the investigators revealed that they’d pictures of Doe’s minor baby whereas peppering her dad and mom with questions on Doe’s childhood and medical historical past.
Doe claimed that her dad and mom, aunt and shut associates had been contacted by the identical investigators, who had been reportedly working with the corporate SIC Inc., based on the submitting by Doe’s lawyer, Christensen at Wigdor Legislation.
In keeping with SIC’s website, Melendez based SIC in 1984.
After responding to Doe’s movement to proceed anonymously, Black filed a lawsuit towards Wigdor for submitting “three separate headline-grabbing lawsuits which it knew, or ought to have recognized, had been false.”
The submitting marks Black’s second grievance towards Wigdor.
Black won a previous legal fight against Wigdor client Guzel Ganieva in May who made related allegations when a New York state choose dismissed Wigdor’s accusations that Black defamed her by falsely claiming she tried to extort him after accusing him of rape.
“Since Leon simply sued us once more to deflect from his personal hideous conduct I’ve to cope with this now,” Christensen instructed The Put up.
“This newest try by Leon Black to deflect public consideration away from his personal disgusting conduct by suing legal professionals who characterize ladies he has victimized is appalling. We is not going to be deterred by such apparent techniques and are assured he shall be held accountable,” she added.
Doe has nonetheless insisted that she attended the occasion as an underage cheerleader, the place Maxwell fawned over her “stunning brilliant blue eyes, blonde hair and ideal hair” that made her appear like a dwelling “doll,” based on the lawsuit filed in July.
She reportedly met Black one yr later, after already visiting Epstein’s notorious Pedophile Island within the US Virgin Islands, his Palm Seaside mansion and his Manhattan abode, the place she was compelled to sexually “therapeutic massage” the creep, and later, his associates, based on the swimsuit.
“In 2002, at his Manhattan townhouse, 9 East 71st, Jeffrey Epstein executed a ‘hand off’ to his shut good friend Leon Black,” the submitting alleges.
“However what handed on to Black’s palms from the palms of Jeffrey Epstein was a human being – not a ball.”
The girl alleges Epstein instructed her that Black was “important” and a “special friend” to him — although the she recollects considering that the previous Apollo CEO now value $10.1 billion seemed like an “ogre,” based on the lawsuit.
She claims she was ordered to strip bare and provides Black the identical massages she gave Epstein. However Black as a substitute allegedly violently picked her up and threw her down on the therapeutic massage desk, the swimsuit states.
“She tried to scream however Black positioned his hand over her mouth and leaned over her whereas ripping off her shirt and below her skirt pulling her underwear off,” the submitting reads.
“Plaintiff was crying and terrified. Black requested her repeatedly what made her ‘Jeffrey’s particular woman’ and all through the assault known as her demeaning, shameful, disgusting names.”
When the woman tried to struggle again, Black allegedly threw her onto the ground and slammed her towards the partitions, the swimsuit claims.
Epstein discovered her crying on the ground, however refused to take her to the physician, as a substitute claiming Maxwell would “care for her” — solely to then put her on a aircraft dwelling, the submitting states.
