File 012103
Telephone Interview with Virginia Roberts - Legal Notice and Transcript Excerpt (File 012103)
Notice of filing and transcript excerpt from a privileged telephone interview between Virginia Roberts, Bradley Edwards, and attorney Jack Scarola, dated April 7, 2011, conducted to supplement a motion for punitive damages in the Edwards v. Epstein case.
Summary
This document contains a notice of filing by defendant Bradley Edwards' counsel regarding a telephone interview with Virginia Roberts conducted on April 7, 2011 from Australia. The transcript excerpt documents Roberts' detailed account of her initial introduction to Jeffrey Epstein through Ghislaine Maxwell at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago spa, including descriptions of Epstein's mansion layout, hidden rooms containing pornographic materials, and the circumstances of her first encounter with Epstein when she was 15 years old. The interview was conducted under attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to gather evidence supporting Edwards' motion for punitive damages.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THEFIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN ANDFOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDAJEFFREY EPSTEiN,CASE NO.: 5O2009CAO4O800XXXXMBAGvs.Plaintiff,SCOTT ROTHSTE]IN, individually,BRADLEY J. EDWARDS, individually,and EM., individually,Defendants._______________________________________________________________________/NOTICE OF FILINGCOMES NOW the Defendant/CounterClaimant, BRADLEY EDWARDS, by andthrough his undersigned counsel, and hereby files the attached transcript of the telephoneinterview of Virginia Roberts to supplement the proffer made in support of Counter-Claimant’sMotion for Leave to Amend to Assert Punitive Damages.I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been furnished byU.S. Mail to all Counsel on the attached list on this ______ day of May 2011.Jack ScarolaFlorida Bar No.: 169440Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.2139 Palm Beach Lakes BoulevardWest Palm Beach, Florida 33409Phone: (561) 686-6300Fax: (561) 383-9451Attorney for Defendant/CounterClaimantEdwardsEdwards adv. EpsteinCase No.: 5O2009CAO4O800XXXXJvIBAGNotice of Filing SupplementCOUNSEL LISTJack A. Goldberger, Esquirejgoldberger@agwpa.com;smahoney@agwpa.comAtterbury, Goldberger & Weiss, P.A.250 Australian Avenue South, Suite 1400West Palm Beach, FL 33401Phone: (561)-659-8300Fax: (561)-835-8691Attorneys for Jeffrey EpsteinMartin Weinberg, EsquireMartin Weinberg, P.C.20 Park Plaza, Suite 1000Suffolk, MA 02116Attorneys for Jeffrey EpsteinFarmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos &Lehrman, PL425 N. Andrews Avenue, Suite 2Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301Phone: (954)-524-2820Fax: (954)-524-2822Attorneys for Jeffrey EpsteinJoseph L. Ackerman, Jr., Esquirejla~fowler-white.comFowler White Burnett, P.A.901 Phillips Point West777 5 Flagler DriveWest Palm Beach, FL 3340 1-6170Phone: (56 1)-802-9044Fax: (561)-802-9976Attorneys for Jeffrey EpsteinMarc S. Nurikmarc@nuriklaw.comLaw Offices of Marc S. NurikOne E Broward Blvd., Suite 700Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301Phone: (954)-745-5849Fax: (954)-745-3556Attorneys for Scott Rothstein2Edwards adv. EpsteinCase No.: SO2009CAO4O800XXXXMBAGNotice of Filing Supplement3
TELECONPRIVILEGED PURSUANT TO FS 766.205(4) and/or WORK PRODUCTPARTICIPANTS:RE:JACK SCAROLABRAD EDWARDSVIRGINIA ROBERTSEdwards adv. Epstein291874DATE: April 07, 2011JS:BE:Virginia, Jack Scarola and Brad EdwardsHi Virginia.V: Hi Jack! Hi Brad! How you guys doing?JS: We’re doing fine, thank you. I’m sorry for all of the trouble and before we go anyfurther, let me tell you, if I have your permission, I have started a tape recorder and Iwant to be able to tape this conversation from the very beginning. Is that alright withyou?V: Sure, that’s fine, Jack. No problemJS: Ok, good, thank you. I appreciate that. Let me start off by introducing myself. I knowthat Brad has spoken to you about me but I am Brad’s lawyer, and I assume that you canconfirm that you and I have never had any communication before. Is that right?V: That’s correct.JS: Alright. I have, however, gotten some information from Brad about conversations thatyou have had with him, and that will enable me, hopefully, to make this a little bit moreefficient and take up a minimum amount of your time while still getting the informationthat we think is going to be helpful to us and to any jury that might ultimately have tohear these facts.So, let me begin by asking you first to tell us what your full name is.V: Virginia Louise Roberts. That’s my maiden name. My married name is Virginia Louise*
Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 2 of 23JS:Could you spell your last name for us? That is your married last name:V:JS:Airight, thank you, and where are you living right now?V: I live in Australia.JS:And how long have you resided in Australia.V: Thisismyl9 th year.JS:That is where you are right now, correct? We’ve reached you in Australia for this phoneconversation?V: That is correct, yes.JS:And what time is it in Australia right now?V: I think it’s about 9:00 now.JS: Ok. That’s 9am, correct?V: That’s correct.JS: Airight. Virginia, the reason for this conversation is because it is our understanding thatyou know a man by the name Jeffrey Epstein, and I want to begin by asking you please totell us about the circumstances of your first meeting Mr. Epstein.V: Ok. I was introduced to Mr. Epstein by Ghislaine Maxwell. I was working at DonaldTrump’s spa in Mar-a-Lago and I was prompted by Ghislaine to come to Jeffrey’smansion in Palm Beach that afternoon after work to make some extra money and to learnabout massage. She met me at the spa, and I was reading a book about anatomy, so I wasalready interested in massage therapy as it was and not having any of the education oryou know anything behind me, I thought this was a great opportunity to work for her andgo. So, I went to Jeffrey’s mansion about 5 or 6 in the afternoon. My dad drove methere. My dad worked at Mar-a-Lago with me, and he met Ghislaine and she seemed likea nice, proper English lady, and she knows, I mean, you know, one time then _oncebefore I left to travel overseas, she just seemed really nice and like she would like to helpme out. So my dad left, and I had no problem getting home that night, one of her driverswould take me back after my trial. So she led me upstairs, and into Jeffrey’s bedroom,and past that is Jeffrey’s massage room, which has got his steam room and a shower anda massage table, and there is actually an extra room that has, that nobody knows about it,it’s kinda like a secret room and it’s got a whole bunch of decorative pictures ofpornographic literature and sex toys and I can ? what happened in there.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 3 of 23JS:When you say that the room was hidden, Virginia, how was the room concealed?V: It wasn’t like a door that you would normally go into, like some kind of special opening,you open that and then a little door, so it looks like it’s a little closet so-to-speak, butwhen you walk in there, it’s obviously a lot bigger than just a closet. It wasn’t too big,but it was bigger, you know. It wasn’t a gigantic room, it was just like a small room,which you know, it probably could fit some shoes in there, it had racks of shoes, boxes,some sweatshirts neatly folded, and the ceiling to the floor was covered in pornographicpictures of the girls that he had met.JS:Whenyou say...V: So anyways, that was getting there, and I was introduced to Jeffrey, he was laying nakedon top of the massage table, and obviously for one, I’m a 15 year old girl and seeing himon the table was weird but, also learning about anatomy and massage, I thought thiswould be part of it. So obviously, I thought it was part of the massage program, so I saidok, this is fme. And, he then instructed me on how to touch the body, Jeffrey’s body,how to massage him, and for the first hour, it was actually a real massage, maybe not anhour, maybe like 40 minutes or something, but of something like that _and that’s when heturned over on the other side and to expose himself fully. So then Ghislaine told me thatshe wanted me to undress and began to take off my shirt and skirt, my white uniformfrom Mar-A-Lago, she also took off her shirt and got undressed, and so I was there withjust my undies on, and she was completely bare, and made some kind of little flake aboutthe underwear that I was wearing because it wasn’t my normal sexy girl underwear andjust like, I don’t know, had red hearts on it or something like that; just your normal, youknow, real cute underwear. Anyways, so during all of this I’m kind of like what’s goingon, how do I act, what do I say, I was so afraid of, not afraid or fearful for my life but_unsure of how all this started and wanting to obtain a profession_ I was so afraidthinking about upsetting and disappointing them, I don’t know, it’s a weird situation byfar and I was expected to _Lick his nipples, instructed on how to do so by J.E_ and givehim oral sex while he wanted to fondle me, and then at the end, I was told by Ghislaine toget on top and straddle Jeffrey sexually, and when we were done, we went and had ashower in the room and Jeffrey told me to wash him up and down, you know with a barof soap and make sure he was all cleaned up. And then he took me downstairs and tookme to two of the guards and told John to bring me home. John was the butler at the time.JS: Let me interrupt you for just a moment there if I could, Virginia. You mentioned as youwere recounting those details that you were 15 years old at the time. What is your date ofbirth?V: August9th, 1983JS:And can you tell us please, as best you’re able to estimate it, what the date was when thisfirst encounter occurred?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 4 of23V: I’ve got it written down. It’s like - I’m not good with math — hold on — I thought I wroteit down but I didn’t. I’m not too sure, I think it was 1998 off the top of my head andaround June of 1998, I would say as I was turning 16 at the end of the summer.JS: Alright. You talked about the room where Jeffrey had the pornographic photographs.Did you actually see that room on the occasion ofyour first visit there?V: No, I got to see that room a few visits after but I was just trying to describe that room toyou guys so you knew exactly what room I was talking about.JS: Another question for you, and I don’t mean to be prying into your personal life, and if Iask you any questions at all that you’re uncomfortable answering, then you just tell methat and we’ll move on, because I appreciate your cooperation and the last I thing I wantto do is impose upon that cooperation, but can you tell us please just generally what kindof sexual experience you had had prior to this confrontation with Jeffrey?V: Yeah, sure. A close family friend has sexually abused me, and I was on the streets at 13years old. I was picked up by a 67 year old man named Ron _Eppinger_ who did exactlywhat Jeffrey did with me abuse and violate my youthfulness — & I was with him for 6months. So, he was gone and then I had this boyfriend who was like my school friendfrom young days but we just kept in contact with each other and we were on and offconstantly, and that was Tony Figeroua_, and there was also another younger guy wasnear my age, Michael, I can’t remember his last name, but yeah, there, I mean, therewasn’t like a string of men or anything, but there was Ron, like I told you, and he was thefirst guy expecting me to do so-called disgusting affairs. Jeffrey actually knew Ron,which was quite weird when I told Jeffrey the story about Ron, and Jeffrey had actuallymet him, and yeah. Anyway, just another story, and yeah, there were a couple of men,but that gives you an idea.JS: Now when you described the photographs in the room as pornographic, tell me just alittle bit about the photographs, if you would please? First, how many of them werethere?V: At least 100, and like I said, they covered the room from the ceiling, not the ceiling butfrom the top of the edge of the wall to the bottom of the floor. I want to say at least ahundred, even more, there could have been more in the boxes _Some of them were A4_photographs, like the large size, some of naked women posing, you know, positions, sexypositions. Others were, you know, some girls had bikinis on, and it wasn’t sopornographic, but it was all women, and it was all in a sexual nature.JS:Were there photographs where more than one person appeared?V: Oh yeah, plenty of them. There were lots of naked photographs, I mean I was just tryingto give you a visual range. There was anything from 5x6s to 4x8s to 8x4s. Some of themEdwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 5 of 23had frames, some of them were out of frames, but they were all, like I said, they were allwomen, they were all sexual in nature.JS:Was it your impression that there were a hundred photos of a hundred different people orwere there multiple photos of the same woman or girl?V: There was definitely a lot of different girls. I mean it wasn’t easy to sit there and say,you weren’t finding 5 girls out of some photos, no. Were there a hundred different ones?There could have been pictures of some girls, I really couldn’t get close necessarily toactually recognize faces or anything like that. But if you, you know, the range of themwere all different, majority of them were different, yeah.JS:Did there ever come a point in time when you became aware that a photograph of youhad been added to the collection?V: Yes, there was. Ghislaine took several nude photographs of me for Jeffrey. So, yeah,there were pictures of me and there were pictures, he wasn’t shy, that wasn’t the onlyplace in his house that he kept the photos. He liked photos all over his house. If youlooked in his den or on his desk or in on the hail table, a giant hall table in his house,there were at least a hundred photos of girls in frames. Not all of them were naked, a lotof the ones that were all around his house were not naked girls posing pornographically,some were pictures of celebrities and politicians he had known_or things like that or hadpants on or whatever, but yeah, there was a lot of mixed photographs in the outside ones.JS: Were there any photographs of girls or young women that you knew or that yousubsequently came to know that you saw in the house?V: Yeah, yeah, there was. There was pictures of Nadia Bjournik , picturesSarah Keller, pictures Emmy, pictures of me, pictures of the regulars, but a lot of thegirls, sometimes Jeffrey could have like 7 girls a day, and he would only see those girlsonce if he got bored. I don’t know. These weren’t my days. I heard he’s gotten a lotsloppier since I left. So, I don’t know anyways, but when I knew him, there was just a, itseemed, there was such an influx of girls coming in and out, so did I recognize a lot ofthem? Maybe, maybe not, but then they were all definitely beautiful, they were allranging in age, some of them young, some of them older in their 20’s, I mean it was justthey were all beautiful.JS: You’ve told us about the first visit. Was there any discussion on the occasion ofthat firstvisit about your returning?V: Yes, they were very pleased with me and after the encounter was fmished, the sexualencounter, he went and told me I did well and I have a lot of potential to become amassage therapist and if I’d like I could return tomorrow, you know, and do the samething and get paid $200/hi, so Jeffrey insisted that I come after work, and over the nextfew days, I guess the relationship grew into more, and within a couple of weeks, not evenEdwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 6 of 23a couple of weeks, maybe a week, I had quit Mar-a-Lago and I was working for Jeffreyfull time.JS: Ok, let’s talk about your job .at Mar-a-Lago, if we could. You said that your Dad wasworking there. What was his position at Mar-a-Lago?V: He was a maintenance supervisor I think is what it was called? He like managed thetennis courts and air conditioners and things like that.JS:What is your Dad’s full name?V: Sky William Roberts.JS:And is he still living here in South Florida now?V: No, he’s not, he’s in California.JS: Ok. Is your Dad aware of what is currently going on with regard to your having madepublic statements about your relationship with Jeffrey?V: Yes, he is well aware of it. I told my family even before all this stuff came out, becausethey were the first ones contacted by the journalists from Mail on Sunday. I know thatthey the Mail on Sunday printed that I had gone out and tried to, I mean I think one of thephotos said that I was angry that I saw Jeffrey and the Prince walking together and that iswhy I came out and went public with everything. Not true. I mean, I am angry abouthow they are still up to their old ways together and that they’re still hanging out but Ididn’t contact the Mail on Sunday and I didn’t bring it out. I figured that everyone wasgoing to bring it out anyway and I better bring it out the right way. He’s knowneverything from the start, and my family is very supportive with everything going on.JS: I’m kind of going to jump around a little bit and I apologize for that, but since the subjecthas come up, tell me first of all why you are providing this cooperation to us, and I amcertainly very appreciative of it, but I want you to tell us why it is you’ve chosen to spendtime with us on the telephone and provide this information that you’re now providing.V: I’m out to help the bigger picture, you know, I think all of us can make a big difference ina lot of other people’s lives and I think that this has gone on long enough and it’s a bigslap in my face that he can get away with hurting me so bad let alone so many other girlsand laugh about it. I guess I talked to you guys out because I want to see the right thinghappen, not just to him, but I want people in the world to understand this is not the wayof life, you know, it’s not acceptable to go out procure young girls and make them thinkthat, this is the way you should be living and that’s all. Yeah, I guess my reason fordoing it is to help the bigger picture, you know, I’m a big believer in karma and I believethat good things will come back to you, so I guess that’s why I’m doing this.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 7 of 23JS:Just for the record, neither Brad, nor I, nor anyone representing that they have anything todo with us has made any promises to you. Is that correct?V: That is correct. I’ll tell you, since this is our first conversation, that nobody has made mefeel like I’ve been bribed or bought or had to say anything. I’ve told you anything that Iknow from my own self, not some things somebody told me. If anything, Brad’s beenextra careful not to tell me anything and let me do all the talking, so it’s quite opposite Ithink.JS: Airight. Let’s get back then to the story of your relationship with Jeffrey, and we’vetalked about your first encounter with him and how it evolved from that into your fulltime employment with Jeffrey, but what were you doing at Mar-a-Lago before you quitMar-a-Lago?V: I was just a locker room attendant and sometimes I did babysitting for the rich andfamous. So, I wasn’t anything big. I worked in the spa area. That’s why I was studyinganatomy, because I was really really interested in becoming a _massage therapist, and atthe locker room, I didn’t do much. I mean I was making tea for a living, I would, youknow, make sure the toilet paper had a little triangle in it after everybody went to thetoilet, or wipe down the water from the basin, you know, it was a very easy peasy job.JS:Did you get that job through your Dad?V: Yes, my Dad got me the job.JS:Ok, and you were only 15 years old at the time, were they aware of how old you were atMar-a-Lago?V: Of course, definitely. We had to go through extensive, you know, we even had to getdrug tested and id test and so on and so forth. I mean, Mantas (?) is very strict onemployment, yeah, everybody knew.JS: Ok. Was there ever any conversation with Ghislaine about how old you were before youwere taken to Jeffrey’s mansion?V: No. She didn’t ask me how old I was from the start, but when I did get to Jeffrey’smansion, it was discussed how old I was.JS:With whom?V: During the entire hour of what I call the legitimate massage I was giving him, it was catand mouse games getting information from me to find out who I am, am I a willingparticipant in these kind of things, and how would I react if they were about to take thenext step. But they got information off of me, they got my age, they got my, a little bit ofmy history so they knew I was, you know, not very stable at home, and they knew that,Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 8 of23you know, I was actually interested in making my life better by studying so what theywere offering me was a chance to become a legitimate masseuse but it was gettingtrained. They would have people show me how to work the body and be called amassage therapist and get me books on it, and you know, keep me interested, and everytime, you know, I was with Jeffrey, literally was about massages, I don’t mean just goingin and have sex with him. I mean massage, because it would always start out withmassage and then it would lead into sometimes other things.JS: Airight, once this evolved, into full time employment, what did full time employmentmean?V: That was entirely having to travel with Jeffrey in every city. When he was in PalmBeach, I stayed at my apartment, and he would call me to his house once or twice a daysometimes, and that’s, you know, do things with him. Sometimes we’d go out shopping,sometimes we’d go out and watch a movie. You know, simple things like that, go to anexpo or a fair, whatever it was. But when we were in other cities, I was at myapartment, I lived with him full time. What I mean by full time is even in the middle ofthe night, I could get a ring on my phone next to me and tell me to come in his room, youknow, so it was literally full time.JS:When you say that when you were in Palm Beach you were living in your apartment,were you living on your own or were you living with members of your family at thattime?V: No, after I quit Mar-a-Lago, Jeffrey offered to get me an apartment in Palm Beachsomewhere, Royal Palm Beach, and it was a nice apartment. He furnished it for me, itwas absolutely beautiful, but yeah, that’s the only time I would spend time away fromhim really.JS:This apartment was on Royal Palm Beach Boulevard or out in the Village of Royal PalmBeach?V: I so honestly don’t remember. I’ve been trying to rack my brain because the FBI wasasking the same thing and were trying to fmd it, but yeah, I’m Not sur_. I didn’t get tospend as much time in it, I was only there about an entire week out of every monthprobably, but the majority of the time I was with Jeffrey anyways. It was somewhere inRoyal Palm Beach. I don’t know about Royal Palm Beach drive. I don’t even rememberthe Royal Palm Beach drive anymore so I’m not too sure.JS: Ok, let me see if I can draw the distinction for you and maybe that will help you to helpus? Royal Palm Beach is a village that is...V: No, no, no, I got Royal Palm Beach, I just didn’t know the Royal Palm Beach Drive, likewhat street it’s off of. Were you talking about a street?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 9 of 23JS: Yes, I was talking about a street. Royal Palm Drive is on the island of Palm Beach, andit’s a street that is lined with large royal palm trees, and I’m wondering if this was anapartment on the island or was this an apartment out west oftown...V: No, it was actually in Royal Palm Beach, not on the island.JS:Airight.V: I would be driven, it was closer to my family than it was closer to him. I wanted to beclose enough to everybody else so that when I was in town, I could just go see themquickly.JS:Ok. So we’re not talking about Royal Palm Boulevard. We’re talking about the town ofRoyal Palm west of town. Jeffrey got you an apartment out there.V: That’s correct.JS:When he was in Palm Beach, you were generally not staying at the mansion, you werestaying at the apartment that he got for you out west of town.V: That’s correct.JS:Ok.V: I mean then there was times, I don’t wanna say that every time I stayed at my apartment.There was times we’d fly back from some city maybe too late at night to really want togo back home, so you know, it’s like 12:00 at night or 1:00 in the morning. I was juststaying in the yellow room, or something like that; one of the guest rooms in Palm Beach.But majority of the time, I would definitely want to get back to my own apartment.JS: Alight. What were the general hours of your full time employment when ...?V: There was not set hours. It wasn’t like logging, and you know, hitting the shift button,nothing like that. The way I would get paid would be, ok, if I was in Palm Beach, Iwould get $200 an hour to massage Jeffrey or some of his friends and then go home. Soit would be like that. If I was traveling with him, it would be per massage, so I would begetting paid per day. So I wouldn’t be getting paid on an hourly rate. He wouldn’t sayok, today you’re going to work for me from 7:00 in the morning until 8:00 at night. Itnever like that. I was on call all the time.JS:When you were here in Palm Beach, were you actually getting paid only for the timespent massaging Jeffrey or were you getting paid from your arrival at his house until youleft the house?V: From the time the massage started.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 10 of 23JS: From the time the massage started. Ok.V: Sometimes we’d go there and I would wait for a while or talk with G’hislaine and Jeffreyabout something or we’d meet somewhere and talk about something. A lot of times, I’dmeet him upstairs in his room where he was ready for me. But then there was a lot oftimes where it didn’t start right away, so he couldn’t really pay me from the time I gotthere sometimes unless it was just paid from the time I massaged him til the time themassage was over.JS: Airight. Did your duties for Jeffrey ever include anything other than providing himmassages and sex in connection with the massages? Did he ever give you any otherresponsibilities to perform?V: I was asked to do the same things that I did to Jeffrey to a few of his fellow colleagues aswell. Those were my duties. He looked at it this way is that I was going to be aprofessional massage therapist, and maybe I needed some clientele, so he had me performerotic massages on a few people.JS:Did that start here in Palm Beach County?V: It did. The first one did.JS: Ok, and how long after you first met Jeffrey did he first ask you to provide services forone ofhis friends?V: About 9 months, I think it was. It wasn’t a full year, it wasn’t 6 months, but between 6months and a year, which is why I’m saying 9 months.JS:And when you provided services to a friend of Jeffrey’s, who paid you for those services?V: Jeffrey would. I would get paid the next time I saw Jeffrey, so if I was invited to theBreakers Hotel to give a massage, I would give a massage, I would go home, and the nextday when I saw Jeffrey, he would pay me for what I did. So, it was paid always by him,it was set up by him, so he always knew what to pay me. I did get tips and things likethat, if you call it that, you know, like a hundred dollar tip or something from a few ofthem, you know, yeah.JS:Was there..V: There was always payment from Jeffrey.JS:Was there ever any discussion with Jeffrey about what was expected to happen when youprovided massage services to one ofJeffrey’s friends?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 11 of23V: In a roundabout way, yes. In so many ways, Jeffrey really really had to train me, and thatwas why Ghislaine said that she and Jeffrey enjoyed me so much was because they neverreally had to speak much to me to tell me what they wanted me to do. You know, Iwasn’t waiting for you know, their directions. Jeffrey would tell me to go give an eroticmassage to friends. He wouldn’t give me much detail about it, but he would say to treatthem like you treat me.JS:Did he refer to it as an erotic massage or are those your words?V: Erotic massage is my words. That’s exactly what it was, but he would tell me to treatthem how he wanted it, so I’d do what he wanted without having to say to me wordsmore. I mean, I complied with what he wanted because it was somewhat of a, I don’tknow, I don’t know how to say it, it was just very mindboggling how I let him have somuch control or power over me basically. The massages would be routine to what Jeffreywanted with my so called new clientele, and with their own words would ask me toprovide them with sexual pleasure after the massage.JS:Did you ever report back to Jeffrey about what happened when you provided massages tohis friends?V: Of course, of course, and I knew that his friends were reporting back to him as wellbecause there were times where he would instigate conversation by saying you know, soand so had a great time, you did wonderful, you know so and so gave me a call and toldJ.E how it went...JS:Did Jeffrey ever elicit details from you? “Tell me what happened, describe in detail whatwent on?”V: No, but he would have a laugh, he had a laugh with me a few times about some of theirdifferent mannerisms, I guess you would say, like some of them, one guy had a footfetish and that was really weird and I mentioned it to Jeffrey, and we would have a laughover it. He didn’t want to know details. He wasn’t asking me “so tell me what did youguys do exactly.” No, he just basically gave me a slap on the back and said, you know,good job. And we had some kind of conversation about it. I can’t recall any conversationoff the top of my head. I really don’t know one. It’s been that long. But yeah, we didtalk about it briefly.JS:Can you give me an estimate as to the number of friends for whom Jeffrey provided andpaid for your services?V: There was about, you know, I don’t know, 8 guys possibly.JS:And are you able to name those people for me?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 12 of 23V: No, not at this stage. I just, some of these people are really influential in power, and Idon’t want to start another shitstonn with a few of them. I’ll tell you that there was someerotic massages given to, I’m just afraid to say it to you.JS:Ok, Virginia.V: It’s like geez, I don’t know if I want to, I’m really scared of where this is gonna go.JS: Alight. I understand that, and as I told you from the beginning, if I ask you a questionthat you are uncomfortable answering, you just tell me that, and I will move on, and Iunderstand that at least right now, you are uncomfortable answering, and I am certainlygoing to respect that.V: Thank you so much, Jack.JS: No, that’s quite alight. I am very appreciate of the cooperation you are providing, and Idon’t want you at any time to feel that we are taking unfair advantage of that cooperation,so give me the information that you’re comfortable giving me, and if we get to a pointwhere you’re uncomfortable, I will respect that and we’ll move on from there.V: Ok.iS: I want to talk a little bit about the traveling that you did with Jeffi~ey. About how longinto your relationship with him did that first start?V: Immediately. I started traveling immediately. Not internationally until I think about,Gosh, I can’t remember even, I think it was a year later that we started doing internationaltravel. Maybe like 9 months to a year again. Not too sure to be honest.JS: So that would have been approximately the summer of 1999? Somewhere around there?V: Yes. Somewhere around there. Somewhere around a year, somewhere around there, Ican’t pinpoint it exactly. But like I said, we started doing domestic travelingimmediately, so my first destination with him was New York and Santa Fe and theCarribean, California, I would take trips with him occasionally. Sometimes we would goto St. Louis or New Orleans or Santa Cruz. We were traveling just about everywhere Ithink.JS:How did you travel?V: Well, we took Jeffrey’s private jet, and unless I was being sent somewhere by myself forwhat we were just talking about before, then I would travel on a what do you call, apublic jet, whatever it is...iS:commercial flight?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 13 of23V: Yes. Just a normal flight, an e-ticket.iS:Like the rest of us common folk.V: But when I was traveling with Jeffrey, the majority of the time would be on the black jet.iS:Now, when you say there would be times when you would travel by yourself because hewas sending you somewhere, tell me about that. How did that come about?V: So, one of his colleagues would be at the Carribean or Santa Fe or even New York, orwherever, and he would call me up on those days where I am not working with him or inPalm Beach with him, and he would ask me to get on the next plane to so and so and gomeet so and so, and that’s when I would take e-tickets. His secretary or special assistant,whatever, would organize it for me and give me the details and I would just walk up theline and they’d let me right through.JS: Can you give me any ideas as to how many times it happened that Jeffrey would sendyou off to meet some friend of his at some location outside of Palm Beach?V: How many times it happened? I’m not too sure. Probably about 10-15 times.JS: Ok. And on those occasions, how much time would you spend with one of Jeffrey’sfriends when you were sent to a location that you would have to travel to?V: Only a couple of days. Only 2 days, that’s it.iS:And how were you paid for those trips?V: I would be paid in cash upon my arrival back with Jeffrey. So, whenever I was back withJeffrey, he would count up how many days I’ve had, sometimes give me even more thanwhat I deserved, not deserved, but what I earned and give me a little extra.iS:Was there a daily rate for those trips or was that per massage also?V: Per massage. With Jeffrey, I would be honest. I wouldn’t tell him I did 15 massages if Ididn’t. He knew he could trust me. He could always come back to the other person thathe sent me to give massages and ask them as well, so you know, it was always by permassage.iS: Alight. When we’ve been talking about massages, tell me exactly what it is we’retalking about when we speak about massages.V: Same thing I would do to Jeffrey. Again, it would start out as a massage, which wouldstart with them being naked, and me giving him a legitimate massage to begin with, soEdwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 14 of23I’d start with his feet, go up to his calves, up his legs, buttocks, back, his neck, his head,his arms, yada yada, and then it would be time to flip over, and some of the men wouldwant me to continue on massaging the front side of them and they would instigate me tobegin having sex with them or foreplay, whatever you want to call it.iS: So routinely, these massages involved sexual activity. Is that accurate?V: That is accurate.iS: Ok. Let’s talk about the travel that you were involved in when you were on Jeffrey’sprivate plane. Generally speaking, who were the passengers on the plane when youtraveled.V: Well, Larry was the pilot, and then there was a short, small solid guy, I don’t know hisname, but he was a co-pilot, and then he changed and there was another guy brought inlater on. Generally speaking, there was always Jeffrey, sometimes Ghislaine, sometimesEmmy, sometimes a whole bunch of other girls, sometimes famous people, sometimessome politicians or yeah, just about anybody could fly on his plane. There was never noany set routine who would come and who would go. It was an influx of people onJeffrey’s airplane.is: I want to deal with these things separately in order to respect some of the reservationsthat you have, so I’m going to ask you who the people were that you remember flyingwith Jeffrey on his plane when you were personally present without regard to whetherthere was any sexual activity that occurred on the plane or not. So I’m not asking you toimplicate any of these famous people in improper conduct, but just tell me what thenames of the people are that you remember that you consider to be famous people.V: Ok, there was Naomi Campbell, Heidi Kium, there was Bill Clinton. There was Al (?)Gore, there was a whole bunch of models, I wouldn’t really honestly be able to give theirnames. There was Matt Groning the producer of the simpons cartoon, Jack CCousteau’sgranddaughter a lot of interior designers, architects, politicians. I am just trying to thinkof as many names as possible for you. Off the top of my head, that’s as good as I can getfor now.iS: Ok, alright, that’s fine. And again, I am not implying by my questions, nor do I wantyour answers to be interpreted as your suggesting that any of those people that you havejust identified were engaged in any improper activities on any particular flight, but I wantto talk to you now about what went on on occasion on the airplane. Ok?V: Ok. It was a lot of the same thing that went down on the ground. A lot oftimes, it wouldbe just be me and ieffrey, or me and Jeffrey and Ghislaine, or me and Jeffrey and someother girl, sometimes Emmy, Sarah, and Nadia Bjournik. There would be sexual conduct,there would be foreplay, there was a bed in there, so we could basically reenact exactlyEdwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 15 of23what was happening in the house. It would start off with massaging or we would start offwith foreplay, sometimes it would lead to, you know, orgies.iS:Were there occasions when you were in ieffrey’s company, whether on the ground or inthe air, where there were other girls present whom you knew to be under age 18?V: Yes. There was a constant influx of girls coming in and going out. And we were all veryyoung. On occasion, there was some older girls, and I don’t mean older as in like in their30s or anything, I mean like 28, 29, something like that, just very rarely. The majority ofthe girls that Jeffrey actually met or had on his plane or in his house were under age.iS:Do you know how it is that Jeffrey established with any ofthese underage girls?V: Yes, I do. He would send me personally or with other girls to clubs or shops, to pick upanywhere, I mean we were constantly on the look for other girls that might satisfyJeffrey.iS:What instructions were you given about what to look for?V: Young, pretty, you know, a fun personality. They couldn’t be black. If they were anyother descent other than white, they had to be exotically beautiful. That was just about it.iS:Who gave you those criteria?V: They both gave us the instructions, and it wasn’t just me, Jeffrey asked most girls to bringa friend and make extra money. They would use us young girls So that way it probablylooked a lot more safer to a girl that we were procuring to younger girls that were alreadydoing it. That was the way that Jeffrey had it.iS:Were you given any instruction at all on how to approach these girls?V: Yes. Jeffrey and Ghislaine both taught me to, depending on the circumstances,depending on the girl, you could offer them a job as a massage therapist or you could tellthem you have a really rich friend with, you know, great contacts in the acting world ormodeling world and he loves pretty girls, you should come back and meet him, makesome money, you know, we had a whole bunch of ways to be able to procure girls.JS:Can you give me any idea as to the total number of underage girls that you know engagedin sexual conduct with Jeffrey during the period of time you had your relationship withhim?V: I would have no way of estimating that whatsoever. I mean, there could be a hundred,there could be more, honestly I’m not too sure how many girls, really. I wish I did know.I mean like I said there were so many over the course of 4 years with Jeffrey.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 16 of23iS: Let me see if we can try to narrow it down a little bit. Is there any doubt in your mindthat it was more than 10?V: Yes, there was definitely more than 10.iS: Ok, what I want you to do is to give me the highest number that you are comfortable insaying there were definitely more than X number of underage girls that I know JeffreyEpstein engaged in sex with while I had a relationship with him. How would you fill inthat blank? Definitely more than how many?V: I’d say definitely more than a hundred.iS: Alight. Did ieffrey ever help to pick out your clothes?V: Oh yes. I mean he wasn’t out to dress me like a porn star or anything. He would alwaysdress me very classy, but ‘we’d just go shopping all the time together.is: Did he ever express any style preferences in terms of how he wanted you to dress?Besides dressing classy, I’m, you know, any other suggestion to you about how hewanted you dressed?V: He didn’t, like I said, wasn’t trying to dress me in any prostitute way or anything likethat. It was nice, classy outfits I was wearing like Gucci, Dolce Gabbana, Chanel, thingslike that. He was buying me a lot of very, very nice clothing. It was provocative. I meanI was wearing miniskirts, and tight short shorts and little shirts that showed my belly andmy cleavage and everything, but they were very expensive clothes.iS:Was there every any dress up role playing?V: Yes. There was. Lots of it. Jeffrey loved the latex outfits Ghislane had for us girls, hehad bondage outfits, he had all different kinds of outfits, but his favorite was theschoolgirl.iS:Tell me about that.V: Well, you know, Ghislaine would take me to dress me up to surprise i.E or Jeffrey wouldask me to get dressed up, that would include wearing a tiny little skirt with nothingunderneath, a white collared shirt that you would be wearing to school with a tie in it, tiedup _in a bow, my hair in pigtails, stockings on up to my knees, and I would go in thereand act like a kid and we’d do role playing sexing.iS: Did ieffrey ever brag to you about the age of any of the girls with whom he hadrelationships?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 17 of23V: Yes, he did. He did all the time. The worst one that I heard from his own mouth was thispretty 12 year old girls he had flown in for his birthday. It was a surprise birthday giftfrom one of his friends and they were from France. I did see them, I did meet them.Jeffrey bragged afterwards after he met them that they were 12 year olds and flown overfrom France because they’re really poor over there, and their parents needed the moneyor whatever the case is and they were absolutely free to stay and flew out. Those werethe worst ones. He was constantly bragging about girls’ ages or where he got them fromor their past and how terrible their past was and good he is making it for them.iS: Where were the 12 year old girls flown to from France? Where did they come to?V: Palm Beach.iS:And were they flown in on Jeff’s private plane or did they get transported?V: No. They were transported by somebody else.iS: Ok. Was the sexual activity that went on on the airplane conducted in such a way so thatany of the crew was aware of what was going on?V: They were told to knock if they had to come out, if the crew had to come out. They weretold, you know, to come out as little as possible, so they weren’t out there hanging outwatching everything, no, but it doesn’t take an idiot to put two and two together to saywell there’s a whole bunch of half dressed teenagers on board with this old man who isconstantly being massaged by them and he wants me to keep the door shut for whatreason? I mean, only they could put that together, but yeah, they knew.iS:Did Mr. Epstein ever talk to you about people of power and influence owing him favors?V: He would laugh about it, you know, I never really knew what to take serious from Jeffreybecause he was such a funny character at times. You never knew if what he was sayingwas true or not. Yeah, lots of people owed him favors from what he told me. He’s goteverybody in his pocket, and he would laugh about he helps people for the sole purposein the end they owe him something. That’s why I believe he does so many favors in thefirst place.iS:When and how did you first become aware that Mr. Epstein was in trouble with the law?V: I was first informed by, I think someone from the FBI called me first and started to askme questions, and I started to answer the questions but then fear took over, and I just saidlook, I don’t know what’s going on, I’ve got a young family that I don’t want to risk, youknow, please don’t bother me about this again, and it was real short simple conversation,and within a week or 2, I had gotten a call from Jeffrey’s attorney, and then a week later,Jeffrey himself.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 18 of 23is:Ok, well let’s back up before we get to those conversations and tell me approximatelywhen it was that you were contacted by the person who you believe was with the FBI.V: Ok. It’s hard for me to pinpoint, if I had to pinpoint it, it would be in 2007 sometime.iS: Alight. And you were living in Australia at that time, correct?V: Correct.iS:You were contacted by telephone?V: That’s correct, by my cell phone.iS:Ok and do you have any idea how your name came up leading to that contact.V: No idea. No idea whatsoever. When I did ask, I was told that some girls had revealedmy name, I guess, and that’s how everybody, the FBI knew to contact me.iS:OK.V: But I don’t know ofthand or sorry, I just walked into the wrong room.iS:Ok.V: Sorry go on.iS: Yes & I’ll never tell her you said that. Virginia, how long was it after that phone callfrom the FBI person were you contacted by Mr. Epstein’s lawyers.V: Like a week. It was back to back to each other. I remember being so scared after talkingto the FBI thinking what’s happening, what’s going on. It’s been like 6 years, 7 years atthat stage, how did they find me & what do I have to do with this? So yeah, I doremember that very well, and it was only about a week later I was called by his attorney.iS:Who was it that contacted you, do you remember?V: I want to say Bill Riley, but he might have been from the FBI. No, it was Bill Riley. BillRiley. Not sure ifthat’s his correct name, but that’s what is coming to mindJS:What do you remember about that conversation?V: I remember a Mr. Goldberger as well, I remember, there might have been two of them.iS:Airight.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 19 of23V: I can’t remember which one it was. I want to say Bill Riley is the good one.iS:Airight, so either Bill Riley or a Mr. Goldberger or both of them contacted you, and whatdo you remember about that?V: I don’t know if it was the same guy who contacted me that week later who put me intouch with Jeffrey. I think he was on the phone and he put speakerphone on with Jeffrey.So he connected me with Jeffrey. I don’t know if it was the same guy or different, but Idefinitely know that Bill Riley was the first guy to contact me. I’m pretty sure about that.JS:Ok. Tell me about that conversation.V: He asked me what I knew about what’s going on with Jeffrey and apparently, there wasan investigation being held about some of the girls who had come out and said thatJeffrey had sexual contact with them under the age of a minor and that he wasdiscrediting lot of these girls and making them out to be drug addicts and prostitutes andwhat have you so they wouldn’t be looked upon as worthy in the court’s eyes so to speak.And you know, he told me in the first five minutes that, you know, if I stay quiet, that“I’ll be looked after”. And that was the exact way it was said. It wasn’t like you know,I’m gonna pay you a zillion dollars or anything if you be quiet, but if I stay quiet, I would“looked after”. And I remember saying I don’t want any part to do with this. You know,this is not something I want to be a part of, I’ve got a young family. I wish the best foreverybody in this, you know, take care kind of thing. A week later, I was called after thehearing by one of Jeffrey’s lawyers. I can’t tell you exactly which one it was but he hadJeffrey on the other line and he connected Jeffrey and I, and Jeffrey tried to make somesimple conversation, “How are you? How have things been?” You know what I mean,catching up.JS:Do you know if the lawyer, did the lawyer stay on the line while Jeffrey was speaking toyou?V: I’m pretty sure he did. That’s why I think ieffrey was on speaker phone because itsounded a lot different, and I was never taken off the line to begin with or connected toanother line, so I was pretty sure Jeffrey was on speaker phone and the lawyer wasmaking the call. After the simple conversation, it led to what was going on again and youknow, Jeffrey couldn’t believe it. You know, he thought he helped all these girls out. Hedidn’t think he was wrong in any circumstance here at all. A lot of these girls were drugaddicts and just after drug money. You know, he was really putting down these womenor these girls I should say, not giving them the credit they deserved, and then he exactlyrepeated what the lawyer said the week before is that he would look after me if I stayedquiet, and if I need any help, you know, his lawyers would represent me and he would getlegal help for me, whatever I need, he would do, and I told him exactly, I said, “Jeffrey,I’m the mother of two children at that stage. I’m away from everything there, I don’twant to be a part of it. I’m not going to speak to anybody and I don’t want to speak toanybody, I don’t want to be involved.” That was the last time I heard from him. And theEdwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 20 of 23next thing I knew, I was sent my victim’s letter, my notification of being a victim throughthe US Attorney’s Office and that’s when I knew it was well out there enough not to haveJeffrey’s lawyers come back on me and discredit me in the same way he had done to allthe other girls. So, I called up Joseph Bird who was the recommended lawyers on mypaperwork that they had given me and started going from there.JS:So you contact Mr. ioseph Bergs’ office and then you were dealing with his office fromthat point forward.V: That’s correct.iS: Tell me about the ending of your relationship with Jeffrey. That is, at what point in timedid your full time employment end and how did that happen?V: Ok. So, it hadn’t really ended. I walked away from it all. Jeffrey sent me to Thailandwhere I met my husband and escaped to Australia, never to return back to the states.About 6 months prior to that, he came up with a proposition that I thought was reallydisgustingly sick. And it really showed me for the first time in 4 years I had been withhim that nothing was going to change and I was always just going to be used by him(?)which I did not like. He offered me a mansion and some of his money every month, Iforget what he called it, a monthly income of what he made to bear one of his children.The proposition was that if anything ever happened between Jeffrey and I, that I wouldhave to sign my child over to him basically and that the child would be his andGhislaine’s, and I would be looking after it as long as nothing happened between Jeffreyand I. So, I was kind of freaked out by all of that. I pushed Jeffrey more to please get mesome more training, you know, and I was getting older and not of as much interest toJeffrey anyways. I was 19 now, and he likes a female a lot younger. So he sent me toThailand, in September 2002. I was first supposed to meet a girl there and bring herback with me, but I never met up with her. I proceeded get a short course in Thai massageso that was to shut me up about my training so I went there, and one of my friends fromschool invited me to watch a fight, like a muay thai fight, which is like a formkickboxing. So I went and watched it, and I saw this guy that was a really good fighter,and a girl’s word, looked really hot, so I asked my friend who knew him to introduce me.We got introduced and fell in love immediately, 3 days later Rob proposed and 7 dayslater I was being married in a buddist temple. I called Jeffrey and told him I’m sorry, I’mnever coming back. I’ve gotten married, I’ve fallen in love. I thought he’d wish the bestfor me but he was kind of rude and he just said “have a good life” and hung up the phone,and that was the last time I’d talked to him ever until all this started again.iS: Ok. Virginia, is there anything else that you would like to add to what you have told usup to this point in time?V: I’d like to know that this time around something’s going to be done about it and thatJeffrey and a lot of his colleagues, no matter how rich they are, will know that there isEdwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage2l of23law and that there is people that still believe in it. So that’s it. Thank you guys forlistening to me, hearing me out and helping me. It’s kind ofhard to get through.iS:Thank you very much. Yes, I’m sure it has been very difficult and I am very appreciativeof the courage you have shown in doing what you have done, which really brings me tothe last subject, and that is what was it that motivated you to go public with all of this?V: Sharon Richard contacted me. I like her, I do, I like her a lot. I know she’s a journalist,and journalists are normally bloodsucking leeches, but I like her for that, but she is anhonest bloodsucking leech. She told me a lot about what was still going on, and sheshowed me a picture of Jeffrey with a little girl who looks like she could have been 12years old. I mean it was disgusting. I agreed to talk with her, I never agreed to doanything until she showed me some pictures, and at that stage, being a mother of 3children and having a daughter who I would do anything for to protect, I would put myneck on the line to make sure she never has to go through what I had to go through, andknowing all of this, and knowing that he’s still out there doing the same exact thing withno regrets, no remorse, no worry about what he’s doing to those girls, and all those girlsfeeling the same way that I did, so I, you know, I’m doing it because I believe in my heartof hearts it’s the right thing to do. It’s what I would want somebody to do for mydaughter or my sister or my friend, and it saddens me to know that it’s still going on rightnow. It’s like the seashell story. I don’t know if you’re heard the story about the little kidwho throws back a starfish, you know, the little brother tries to ask his sister, “why doyou throw them in, they’re all gonna die anyways, the little girl says “well, it’s this onethat I can help, and this one that I can help,” and that’s what I feel like I’m doing. I’mmaking a small dent in this big world we live in.iS: I certainly appreciate that courage, and I have heard that story, and you’re absolutelyright, that one person may not be able to make a difference for everyone, but one personcan make a difference for someone, and hopefully, you are making a difference forsomeone, and we’re gonna do the best we can to make sure you are making a differencefor as many people as possible.V: Thanks iack.iS: Just a few other follow up things I want to ask you and again, if any of these questionsare questions that you’re uncomfortable in responding to, then don’t hesitate to tell methat. Do you have any recollection of ieffrey Epstein’s specifically telling you that “BillClinton owes me favors”?V: Yes. I do. It was a laugh though. He would laugh it off. You know, I remember askingJeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here kind of thing, and he laughed it off and said wellhe owes me a favor. He never told me what favors they were. I never knew. I didn’tknow if he was serious. It was just ajoke.is:Where was here?Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 22 of 23V: He told me a long time ago that everyone owes him favors. They’re all in each other’spockets.iS:When you say you asked him why is Bill Clinton here, where was here?V: On the island.iS:When you were present with ieffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton on the island, who else wasthere?V: Ghislaine, Emmy, and there was 2 young girls that I could identify. I never really knewthem well anyways. It was just 2 girls from New York.JS:And were all of you staying at ieffrey’s house on the island including Bill Clinton?V: That’s correct. He had about 4 or 5 different villas on his island separate from the mainhouse, and we all stayed in the villas.is:V: Yes.Were sexual orgies a regular occurrence on the island at Jeffrey’s house?JS: If we were to take sworn testimony from the people I am going to name, and if thosepeople were to tell the truth about what they knew, do you believe that any of thefollowing people would have relevant information about Jeffrey’s taking advantage ofunderage girls? So I’ll just name a name, and you tell me yes if they told the truth, Ithink they’d have relevant information or no, I don’t think they would, or I don’t knowwhether they would or not. Ok? You understand?V: Yes.JS: Ok. Les Wexner.V: I think he has relevant information, but I don’t think he’ll tell you the truth.J5: Ok. Alan Dershowitz.V: Yes.JS:David Copperfield.V: Don’t know.iS:Tommy Matola.Edwards adv. EpsteinTelephone interview with Virginia RobertsPage 23 of 23V: Don’t know.JS:Prince Andrew.V: Yes, he would know a lot of the truth. Again, I don’t know how much he would be ableto help you with, but seeing he’s in a lot of trouble himself these days, I think he might,so I think he may be valuable. I’m not too sure of him.iS: Ok. Virginia, I think that’s all I have for you. Let me tell you what I would like to do.As I told you in the beginning of this conversation, we’ve been recording it, andhopefully, we’ve got a clear enough recording so that we’ve taken down everythingaccurately and when it’s transcribed, it will be clear and accurate, but what I would liketo do is transcribe it, send it to you, have you take a look at it, and if there’s anything thatwe got wrong in the statement, you can write back and you can make changes in thetranscript so that the transcript is accurate. Is that fair?V: No worries. That is fair. No problem.JS: Alight, great. I really do appreciate that and tell me what the best way is to send thetranscript to you.V: Email. If you just want to send it by email or if you want to send it by mail, either or.iS: Ok. Give me your email address if you would please._______________________________*JS:Let me read that back to you:V: Yepthat’sit.BE:Thank you ienna, appreciate it.V: No problem, Brad.iS:Thank you very very much. Bye Bye now.V: Take care Jack. Nice meeting you.iS:You too.*Redaction has been made at the request of the witness.