Epstein Secrets

ollows: 20 DIRECT EXAMINATION 09:32:47 21 BY MR. SCAROLA: 09:32:54 22 Q. Would you please state your full name, 09:32:55 23 sir? 24 A. Alan Morton Dershowitz. 09:32:57 25 Q. And where did you live? 09:32:59 EFTA00601159 7 1 A. Well, I live in three places. We have a 09:33:00 2 home in Miami B

EOGRAPHER: This is the 15th day of 09:31:40 4 October, 2015. The time is approximately 9:31 5 a.m. This is the videotaped deposition of Alan 6 M. Dershowitz in the matter of Bradley J. 7 Edwards and Paul Cassell versus Alan M. 8 Dershowitz. This deposition is being held at 9 110 Southeast 6th Street

t privilege. 20 We've conferred on a number of occasions about the 21 ethical misconduct of your clients. 22 BY MR. SCAROLA: 10:10:43 23 Q. Rana Dershowitz? 10:10:43 24 A. Rana Dershowitz is my niece and Harvard 10:10:45 25 law school graduate, former chief counsel for the EFTA00601190 38 1 U

I certainly don't regard 9 her as a lawyer in the case. But I regard her as 10 somebody who has been a part of our kind of legal 11 team. 12 Q. Ellen Dershowitz? 10:11:29 13 A. Ellen -- 10:11:32 14 Q. Elon? 10:11:33 15 A. Elon Dershowitz is my oldest son, child, 10:11:34 16 and he has served re

ho has been a part of our kind of legal 11 team. 12 Q. Ellen Dershowitz? 10:11:29 13 A. Ellen -- 10:11:32 14 Q. Elon? 10:11:33 15 A. Elon Dershowitz is my oldest son, child, 10:11:34 16 and he has served repeatedly in a paralegal capacity 17 in this case helping me to gather information and

this case helping me to gather information and 18 evidence and doing some investigative work for me. 19 Q. Nathan Dershowitz? 10:11:52 20 A. Nathan Dershowitz is my brother. He's a 10:11:52 21 distinguished attorney in New York, had his own law 22 firm. And he and I did a lot of our legal cases 23 to

priate. 9 A. Would you like to establish the foundation 11:25:46 10 for why it's not protected? 11 MR. SWEDER: Alan 11:25:50 12 MR. SCOTT: Alan, just let it alone. Let 11:25:51 13 it alone. 14 THE WITNESS: Okay. 11:25:53 15 BY MR. SCAROLA: 11:25:55 16 Q. This second conversation y

:12 EFTA00601158 6 1 behalf of the Defendant Professor Dershowitz. 2 MR. SIMPSON: Richard Simpson on behalf of 0

at I had a 2 conflict of interest. 3 I've had consultations with a variety of 09:57:18 4 other lawyers over particular issues in the case, 5 Floyd Abrams, who is probably the leading lawyer in 6 the world on First Amendment, has advised me on my 7 First Amendment rights to have said what I said 8

e maroon volume engraved with the following words: “Chief Judge David L. Bazelon 54 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017141 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Opinions 1962-1963 Alan M. Dershowitz, Law Clerk” It is a treasured possession. A year in the life of! And what a year it was. My first case involved a man named “Daniel Jackson Oliver

, he can instantly tell whether they know me from TV or from personal interactions—whether they know what he calls “The Dersh Character” or “the real Alan.” This sharp dichotomy between my public and private personas was brought home to me quite dramatically, when a major motion picture, Reversal of Fo

ty, a burial society, the Young Israel synagogue and the Torah V’Daas Yeshiva. Their day jobs were typical for their generation of Jewish immigrants. Louis Dershowitz, my paternal grandfather, sold corrugated boxes. Naphtali Ringel, my maternal grandfather, was a jeweler. My grandmothers, Ida and Blima, took care o

could aspire to work in an advertising firm or a “funeral parlor.” My mother asked whether I could be a lawyer, to which the counselor replied, “Mrs. Dershowitz, I’m afraid you have to go to college to be a lawyer, and your boy just isn’t college material.” Many years later, following a talk I gave at a temp

fe) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017160 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Professor Dershowitz sees his job not as teaching “the specifics of la

t,” American Bar Association Journal 58 (Aug. 1972): 815. 4! AsT wrote in Why Terrorism Works: In my debates with two prominent civil libertarians, Floyd Abrams and Harvey Silverglate, both have acknowledged that they would want nonlethal torture to be used if it could prevent thousands of deaths, but they di

is future wik. Abigail. at the 1990 C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards. in New York. 1991. Larn• Summers. Hananfs current presi- dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho- witz says. "I'm on my 20th book... . The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey." Real-estate developer and p

around" when he goes to dinner elle: Epstein, and he's under the impression that Epstein's clients include the Queen of En- gland. Both Nowak and Dershowitz were thrilled to find themselves shaking the hand of a man named "Andrew" in Epstein's house. "Andrew" turned out to be Prince Andrew. who subseq

t there is some- thing innocent, almost childlike about kf• key Epstein. They see this as refreshing. given the sophistication of his surroundings. Alan Dershowitz says that. as he was getting to know Epstein. his wife asked him if he would still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed for bankruptcy. Dersh

ananfs current presi- dent. Harvard law professor Alan Dersho- witz says. "I'm on my 20th book... . The

to travel around town on a skateboard - with no sidecar for a date. DAN ABRAMS, 36. The MSNBC newsdude, the son of legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is one of the few talking heads smart enough to cover legal issues. Pro: Your mother will love him. Con: MSNBC ratings are so low, no one gets to

a mi- nor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Epstein responded by hiring a phalanx of lawyers. One of them, Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz, provided the state attorney's office with information about alcohol and marijuana use by some of the girls who said they were with Epstein.

1E-MM-108082 &Omitting Office: MM rdexing: The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February. but was postponed after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, accordin

. One of them, Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz, provided the state attorney's off

to travel around town on a skateboard - with no sidecar for a date. DAN ABRAMS, 36. The MSNBC newsdude, the son of legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is one of the few talking heads smart enough to cover legal issues. Pro: Your mother will love him. Con: MSNBC ratings are so low, no one gets to

have returned campaign contributions from him. But Mr. Epstein fought back, as- sembling a team of star lawyers, in- cluding Gerald B. Lefcourt and Alan M. Dershowitz, a friend of his, to look into the backgrounds of his young ac- cusers. Mr. Lefcourt says that the police acted "outrageously" and that his cli- e

the belief of Rutgers University biologist Robert Trivers, whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) was axed after he called Dershowitz a "Nazi-like apologist" for his "rationalization of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians." Trivers told the Harvard Crimson a PED official said he

of lawyers that also includes Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and for- mer Whitewater prosecutor Ken

to travel around town on a skateboard - with no sidecar for a date. DAN ABRAMS, 36. The MSNBC newsdude, the son of legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is one of the few talking heads smart enough to cover legal issues. Pro: Your mother will love him. Con: MSNBC ratings are so low, no one gets to