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Case 9:09-cv-80656-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/04/2009 Page 1 of 27 Government Exhibit B Case No. 08-80736-CIV-MARRA Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 290-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/20/2015 Page 1 of 27 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JANE DOE No. 102, 09-80656 Plaintiff, vs. JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Civil Action No. ---- CIV-RYSKAMP MAGISTRATE JUDGE VITUNAC FILED by 1:JS D.C. INTAKE MAY - 1 2009 /.· STEVEN M. LAl-llMORE CLERK U.S. DIST. CT L S.D. OF FLA MIAMI COMPLAINT AND Defendant. DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL I ------------------- COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL Plaintiff, Jane Doe No. 102, brings this Complaint against Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, and states as follows: PARTIES, JURISDICTION, AND VENUE 1. At all times material to this cause of action, Plaintiff, Jane Doe No. 102, was a resident of Palm Beach County, Florida. 2. This Complaint is brought under a fictitious name to protect the identity of Plaintiff, Jane Doe No. 102, because this Complaint makes sensitive allegations of sexual assault and abuse of a then minor. 3. At all times material to this cause of action, Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, had a residence located at 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida. 4. Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, is currently a citizen of the State of Florida, as he is currently incarcerated in the Palm Beach County Stockade. 5. At all times material to this cause of action, Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, was an adult male born in 1953. Podhurst Orseck, P.A. 25 West Flagler Street, Suite 800, Miami, FL 33130, Miami 305.358.2800 Fax 305.358.2382 • Fort Lauderdale 954.463.4346 www.podhurst.com Case 9:09-cv-80656-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/04/2009 Page 2 of 27 Government Exhibit B Case No. 08-80736-CIV-MARRA Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 290-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/20/2015 Page 2 of 27 6. This Court has jurisdiction over this action and the claims set forth herein pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255. 7. This Court has venue of this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b), as a substantial part of the events giving rise to the claim occurred in this District. STATEMENT OF FACTS 8. At all relevant times, Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, was an adult male, spanning the ages of 45 and 55 years old. Epstein is known as a billionaire financier and money manager with a secret clientele limited exclusively to billionaires. He is a man of tremendous wealth, power, and influence. He owns a fleet of aircraft that includes a Gulfstream IV, a helicopter, and a Boeing 727, as well as a fleet of motor vehicles. Until his incarceration, he maintained his principal place of residence in the largest home in Manhattan, a 51,000-square-foot eight-story mansion on the Upper East Side. Upon information and belief, he also owns a $6.8 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, a $30 million 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico he named "Zorro," a 70-acre private island known as Little St. James in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, a mansion in London's Westminster neighborhood, and a home in the Avenue Foch area of Paris. The allegations herein concern Defendant's conduct while at his lavish homes and/or numerous other locations both nationally and internationally. 9. Upon information and belief, Defendant has a sexual preference for underage minor girls. He engaged in a plan, scheme, or enterprise in which he gained access to countless vulnerable and relatively economically disadvantaged minor girls, and sexually assaulted, molested, and/or exploited these girls, and then gave them money. 10. Beginning in or around 1998 through in or around September 2007, Defendant used his resources and his influence over vulnerable minor girls to engage in a systematic pattern of sexually exploitative behavior. 2 Podhurst Orseck, P.A. 25 West Flagler Street, Suite 800, Miami, FL 33130, Miami 305.358.2800 Fax 305.358.2382 • Fort Lauderdale 954.463.4346 www.podhurst.com Case 9:09-cv-80656-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/04/2009 Page 3 of 27 Government Exhibit B Case No. 08-80736-CIV-MARRA Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 290-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/20/2015 Page 3 of 27 11. Defendant's plan and scheme reflected a particular pattern and method. Defendant coerced and enticed impressionable, vulnerable, and relatively economically less fortunate minor girls to participate in various acts of sexual misconduct that he committed upon them. Defendant's scheme involved the use of underage girls, as well as other individuals, to recruit other underage girls. Upon information and belief, Defendant and/or an authorized agent would call and alert Defendant's assistants shortly before or after he arrived at his Palm Beach residence. His assistants would call economically disadvantaged and underage girls from West Palm Beach and surrounding areas who would be enticed by the money being offered and who Defendant and/or his assistants perceived as less likely to complain to authorities or have credibility issues if allegations of improper conduct were made. The then minor Plaintiff and other minor girls, some as young as 12 years old, were transported to Defendant's Palm Beach mansion by Defendant's employees, agents, and/or assistants in order to provide Defendant with "massages." 12. Many of the instances of illegal sexual conduct committed by Defendant were perpetrated with the assistance, support, and facilitation of at least three assistants who helped him orchestrate this child exploitation enterprise. These assistants would often arrange times for underage girls to come to Defendant's residence, transport or cause the transportation of underage girls to Defendant's residence, escort the underage girls to the massage room where Defendant would be waiting or would enter shortly thereafter, urge the underage girls to remove their clothes, deliver cash from Defendant to the underage girls and/or their procurers at the conclusion of each "massage appointment," and, upon information and belief, take nude photographs and/or videos of the underage girls for Defendant with and/or without their knowledge. Defendant would pay the procurer of each girl's "appointment" hundreds of dollars. 3 Podhurst Orseck, P.A. 25 West Flagler Street, Suite 800, Miami, FL 33130, Miami 305.358.2800 Fax 305.358.2382 • Fort Lauderdale 954.463.4346 www.podhurst.com Case 9:09-cv-80656-KAM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/04/2009 Page 4 of 27 Government Exhibit B Case No. 08-80736-CIV-MARRA Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 290-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/20/2015 Page 4 of 27 13. Epstein designed this scheme to secure a private place in Defendant's Palm Beach mansion where only persons employed and invited by Epstein would be present, so as to reduce the chance of detection of Defendant's sexual abuse and prostitution as well as to make it more difficult for the minor girls to flee the premises and/or to credibly report his actions to law enforcement or other authorities. The girls were usually transported by his employees, agents, and/or assistants or by a taxicab paid for by Defendant in order to make it difficult for the girls to flee his mansion. 14. Upon arrival at Defendant's Palm Beach mansion, each underage victim would generally be introduced to one of Defendant's assistants, who would gather the girl's personal contact information. The minor girl would t