Court ruling involving Victoria's Secret founder could spill more Jeffrey Epstein dirt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Miami Herald

WASHINGTON — A federal judge Monday ordered the unsealing and release of correspondences from attorneys for celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Victoria’s Secret founder Leslie Wexner in a defamation case that is likely to reveal more about the secretive life of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled Monday that there was no cause to conceal the legal requests and responses and set an Aug. 17 date for a hearing on whether the retail magnate Wexner can be forced to testify in a defamation case involving one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Preska wrote that she saw “no reason for that correspondence to remain under seal,” and told the parties to file their respective letters on the public docket, which happened Monday afternoon. The documents show that Dershowitz alleges that Giuffre — who is suing him for defamation — is trying to extort money from him because of his relationship as a longtime friend to and lawyer for Epstein. And Dershowitz wants Wexner and his attorney John Zeiger to testify that they had privately settled a similar claim threatened by Giuffre.

Dershowitz, who is countersuing Giuffre, was not only friends with Epstein, but as his lawyer was instrumental in negotiating a nonprosecution agreement more than a decade ago that absolved Epstein, his close associates and unnamed others of potential federal charges of sex trafficking.

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[matt819]

1. Disgraced financier?

Really? That’s your description, Miami Herald?

Try child molester or child rapist or pimp. Add alleged or accused of you must. But disgraced financier? I don’t think so.

[niyad]

3. Alleged child sex trafficker

[Eugene]

9. convicted child sex trafficker

From Wikipedia:

"Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring an underage girl for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html

[Orrex]

2. womp womp

[Illumination]

4. Tis the season for court cases...

[BigmanPigman]

5. Epstein died a year ago today...

I realized this when I watched Part 1 "Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" last night on Lifetime. Part 2 is on several times tonight.

I hadn't realized Wexner basically gave Epstein his mansion (listed for $88 million) as well as a plane, etc. Then he distanced himself and said he only knew Epstein for a brief time and hasn't had contact in a dozen years. This does not seem realistic to anyone.

"One Wall Streeter described it as a "weird relationship" in an interview with New York magazine in 2002.

"It's just not typical for someone of such enormous wealth to all of a sudden give his money to some guy most people have never heard of," he said.

The details of how exactly Epstein made his fortune are somewhat cloudy, but according to The Times, what is clear is that during the period in which he worked closely with Mr. Wexner, Mr. Epstein became extraordinarily rich."

https://www.businessinsider.com/les-wexner-helped-jeffrey-epstein-live-like-a-billionaire-2019-7

https://decider.com/2020/08/10/surviving-jeffrey-epstien-episode-1-episode-2-shocking-takeaways/

[dawg day]

6. I really want to know why Wexner gave Epstein so much money-

And the biggest house in Manhattan.

Blackmail? Seduction? Procuring?

[hedda_foil]

7. Had to be blackmail.

[Klaralven]

12. If it was a gift, were gift taxes paid?

[dawg day]

13. I think he paid a dollar for it

Now worth $70 million.

[Klaralven]

14. So gift taxes would be due on the difference between $1 and the fair market value at the time.

[dawg day]

15. He finagled it somehow, like it was in a corporation or trust-

And Wexner "sold" the company to him, or he had power of attorney. It was complex and I can't remember the detail and neither of them were very transparent about it. But it sounded pretty illegal.

[roamer65]

8. Same Wexner that Ohio State named their medical center after?

Hmmm...if so...I smell another scandal coming for OSU.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. And the Wexner Center for the Arts. nt

[yardwork]

11. Wexner is a huge presence in the Columbus area.