EFTA00029390.pdf

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, COUNTY OF PALM BEACH. IN RE: PALM BEACH INVESTIGATION. SWORN STATEMENT OF Monday, November 21, 2005 12:25 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. 401 N. Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 Reported By: Susan Shelling, RPR Notary Public, State of Florida Consor 6 Associates Reporting and Transcription Phone - 561.835.9738 •••••.. 3. ••••••Ga•......4.44400•ISSINI, CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.835.9738 ORIGINAL NON PARTY (VR) 000529 EFTA00029390 Page 2 APPEARANCES: 2 On behalf of the State: DALIAH H. WEISS, Esquire 3 ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY 401 North Dixie Highway 4 West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 561.355.7100 5 On behalf of the Witness: 6 DONNIE MURRELL, Esquire L.D. MURRELL, P.A. 7 400 Executive Center Drive Suite 201 8 West Palm Beach, Florida 33409 561.686.2700 9 10 ALSO PRESENT: 11 DETECTIVE Palm Beach Police Department 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 J. CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.835.9738 NON PARTY (VR) 000530 EFTA00029391 3. CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.835.9738 NON PARTY (VR) 000531 EFTA00029392 Page 4 1 Sworn statement taken before Susan 2 Shelling, Registered Professional Reporter and Notary 3 Public in and for the state of Florida at Large, in the 4 above cause. 5 - - - 6 Thereupon, 7 8 having been first duly sworn or affirmed, was examined 9 and stated as follows: 10 MR. MURRELL: I just want to repeat that 11 we're here under the State investigative subpoena 12 that was served.on Mr. although it was 13 dated for, I believe, Wednesday or something. 14 This is Monday the 21st, and we are here by 15 agreement. 16 EXAMINATION 17 BY DET. 18 Q. Mr. I'm Detective with 19 the Palm Beach P.D. As I explained to you on the 20 telephone, I am conducting an investigation on a former 21 empinyar of ynors 22 I just spoke with your wife and she told me 23 you guys worked for Mr. Epstein for eight years? 24 A. Yes, she did work for eight years. I 25 worked longer. I was there before my wife came. J. CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.835.9738 NON PARTY (VR) 000532 EFTA00029393 Page 5 1 O. Before your wife came. 2 A. I started full-time with him on January 1, 3 1991, and we both left December 31, 2002. So I worked 4 eleven years exactly. Prior to that, prior to working full-time for him, I worked part-time for him, on-and-off 6 basis. 7 Q. What were your responsibilities? 8 A. In the full-time basis, I started as a 9 houseman, and I became a major domo and butler and 10 everything else, driver, and did everything. We both did 11 all the chores in the house, but I was in charge of the 12 house. I was above my wife and above the cleaning crew, 13 the gardners, pool people. So I was house manager, major 14 domo. 15 Q. You would have been the go-to guy for the 16 house? 17 A. Yes. And the one who would get the blame. 18 Q. We are talking about Jeffrey Epstein? 19 A. Of course. 20 Q. Do you remember the address of the house? 21 A SSA Ti Arian 22 Q. Was it in the beginning of the street -- 23 A. At the end of the street, on the left-hand 24 side. 25 Q. We're talking about the same house. ). CONSOR &A&SOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.835.9738 NON PARTY (VR) 000533 EFTA00029394 1 2 3 4 A. Q. A. O. Yeah. Your wife said the same 558? 358? 558? It was 358. Page 6 number you did. 5 A. We left three years a go. 6 Q. And I understand it's been some time since 7 then. So the questions I'm going t o ask you basically 8 is! During your time, did you deal directly with 9 Mr. Epstein? 1C A. Yes. And her and her -- girlfriend, 11 manager. She was the manager of al 1 the households, 12 because he has homes all over the world. 13 Q. Right. 14 A. So we have -- she was my boss, and I deal 15 directly with her. 16 Q. Who was -- 17 A. Elaine Maxwell. 18 Q. Ms. Maxwell, that's h is girlfriend, 19 correct? 20 A. Um-hum. 21 Q nuring the. oloynn yo.t; rs ha wrollr, rnme. 22 down, she would inform you that they were coming down? 23 A. Right. 24 Q. Make arrangements to have the house ready? 25 A. Right. J. CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.835.9739 NON PARTY (VR) 000534 EFTA00029395 Page 7 1 Q. During the time that he was here, you 2 prepared the house, did all the chores. 3 Did you do any of the cleaning? 4 A. Sometimes. Many times. I did -- last two 5 or three years the work was so much that we have to 6 hire -- we hire a clean-up crew that they came twice a 7 week or once a week, then it was twice a week. Depends 8 upon his schedule, because he did not allow anybody at 9 the house except us when he was in town. So when he was 10 in town, it was just us doing the cleaning and the 11 cooking, the driving, shopping, everything else. 12 O. Did you stay on property in the guest 13 house? 14 A. Yes and no. We had an apartment right 15 across the bridge. We had an apartment in 16 and we had an apartment at the house. 17 Q. Why would you stay at the house, then? 18 A. We stay at the house mostly when he was 19 there. When he was not in town, we went home. We went 20 to our apartment. When he was there, it was -- the job 71 wa* inet tnn mulch fn ,In hnma Q n, n1ncle, 10 n'n1nnle and 22 come back 5 o'clock in the morning. We would just stay 23 and sleep and get up and work. 24 Q. When he was in town, did he receive a lot 25 of guests at the house? I I J. CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.635.9738 NON PARTY (VR) 000535 EFTA00029396 Page S 1 Yes. Many, many, many guests. It was 2 never with no guests. 3 Q. Did he have assistants with him? 4 A. Assistants? At the last year he had an 5 assistant just for him. They would travel with him all 6 the time. At the last -- in the last two years of my 7 stay there, he also have a chef, a gourmet chef that he 9 would travel with him. That's it. 9 Q. Do you remember the chef's name? 10 A. There were quite a few. The last one I 11 know is I think. And he was from 12 New York. 13 And there was another French chef, 14 (phonetic); I don't know his last name. 15 And there was another English chef. But 16 they went quickly. 17 0. They would come and go, come and go. 16 What about the assistant that was his 19 personal assistant that would fly with him? 20 A. It was an English girl that '1 wnnld travel with him a int and herame the pergnnal 22 assistant. But most of the time it was Ms. Maxwell that 23 traveled with him all the time. 24 Q. She was basically like his 25 A. Girlfriend, whatever it was. Boss, J. CONSOR & ASSOCIATES REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION 561.635.9738 NON PARTY (VR) 000536 EFTA00029397 Page 9 1 girlfriend. She was our immediate superior. 2 Q. Did he have girls come over to give 3 massages? 4 A. Yes. 5 Q. How many massages would he have in a day? 6 A. Sometimes one, sometimes two, three. 7 Q. Was it the same girl that would come back 8 to do the massages? 9 A. Yeah, yeah. Not the same girl -- I mean 10 during eleven years, I probably saw a hundred, two 11 hundred different massage therapists. 12 Q. Did they seem young to you? 13 A. No, sir. Mostly no. We saw one or two 14 young ones in the last year. Before that, it was all 15 adults. 16 Q. During your last year when you were working 17