WEST PALM BEACH — www.palmbeachdailynews.com- The line of civil lawsuits against billionaire financier Jeffery Epstein has grown again, with the filing of at least the twelfth claim by a young woman who also says she was lured to his Palm Beach manse as a teen and sexually abused.
Prominent Miami attorney Robert Josefsberg filed the most recent federal lawsuit last week, on behalf of the Jane Doe 101 who allegedly visited Epstein a few times while 17 years old and was paid $200 at least once for her time there, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit mirrors facts alleged in a multiple other suits: that Epstein had a predilection for teenage girls, identified poor, vulnerable ones and lured them to his home via other young women. The teens describe ascending a staircase lined with nude photographs of young girls and to the spa room where Epstein would appear in a small towel.
Miami attorney Adam Horowitz, who represents six other Jane Does, said Monday that the cases are still in the “discovery” process, with plaintiffs requesting from Epstein phone records, pictures, videos. Horowitz said Epstein is refusing to turn over the materials, citing a Fifth Amendment right not to do so. “Stonewalling and delaying,” Horowitz said. “I’m not surprised.”
Horowitz said he has asked U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra to order Epstein to turn over the information.
A local attorney for Epstein, Jack Goldberger, did not respond to a request seeking comment.
Epstein was jailed in July 2008 following a plea deal where he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution and must register as a sex offender. He is serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County Stockade, according to jail records, and is due out in September.
