Jeffrey Epstein — the billionaire who spent a year in prison for soliciting teenage girls for prostitution — is playing hardball with 14 women who are suing him for alleged sexual misconduct, including one who claims to have been turned into a sex slave.
Epstein has already settled with four other “Jane Does” — each of whom claimed she was persuaded to perform topless massages and various sex acts at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion in exchange for fees of $200 and up.
Lawyer Spencer Kuvin, who repped the first woman who settled in May, said he can understand why the masseuses want to avoid trial. Epstein’s investigators have interviewed boyfriends, relatives, friends and employers to dig up dirt on his accusers.
“My client Jane Doe was beat up [emotionally] so badly . . . to be honest, she didn’t want anything to do with it anymore,” Kuvin told the Palm Beach Post. “She just wanted it over. The girls who are settling are fearful of him.”
Earlier this month, a judge admonished Epstein’s lawyers after reviewing a 446-page transcript of an eight-hour deposition. Magistrate Linnea Johnson found the lawyers “had badgered the woman by repeatedly quizzing her about having three abortions” and “the type of sex she engages in,” the Palm Beach paper said.
But Bradley Edwards, the lawyer for three of the young women, isn’t pulling punches, either. Edwards recently questioned Epstein’s pilot, Larry Visocki, about passengers who may have witnessed Epstein and the women on his private jet — including Bill Clinton, Ron Burkle, Britain’s Prince Andrew and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers. Edwards could subpoena all of them to testify.
Visocki recently offered for sale a 2003 Ferrari 575M Maranello that Epstein once owned for $159,000. But Epstein — who, as a sex offender, is required to list all the vehicles he owns — still has 21 cars, three motorcycles and a luxury motor home.