The Down syndrome woman accusing Leon Black of raping her when she was a teenager says he sent private investigators to her home and to her parents' house after she filed her lawsuit against him.
The woman, who has not been named publicly, is suing Black over an alleged attack that she says took place in 2002 at Jeffrey Epstein's house. She filed her lawsuit anonymously, using the name Jane Doe, on July 25 this year.
Two days later, she says a woman in an SUV parked outside her home. The vehicle only left after she called police.
On August 7, Jane Doe says her parents then received a visit from two men claiming to be fraud investigators from Florida.
They visited the home with cheesecake in the hope that they would be invited inside for coffee, the legal filing claims.
Once inside, they showed revealed they had photos of Jane Doe's child from when the child was much younger.
They also peppered the couple with questions about Jane Doe's medical history and childhood, and recorded the entire meeting.
The following day, the same investigators visited Jane Doe's aunt and tried to interview her too.
She called Jane Doe and then told the men to leave, according to the filing.
One of Jane Doe's friends was also contacted by the same investigators.
In the filing, Jane Doe's attorney Jeanne Christensen says the tactics are similar to those used by Black to fight another rape lawsuit.
In that case, filed by former receptionist Cheri Pierson, Christensen says Black's investigators compiled a dossier of evidence against her that he then used to submit to the court.
The information 'had absolutely nothing to do with Black’s legal defenses to the civil claims asserted against him' and was entirely about her past, Christensen said.
In a response to the filings, Black's representatives told DailyMail.com the claims are an attempt to further smear him.
'This motion is a cynical and melodramatic attempt by Wigdor [Jane Doe's lawyers' firm] to divert attention from its unethical misconduct targeting Mr. Black.
'The truth is that we have not asked the court to reveal Jane Doe’s identity and we have no intention of doing so,' Susan Enrich, his attorney, said.
They also claim Jane Doe 'never left home at age 16' and 'has a history of making up stories and diagnoses'.
They also refute her original claim that she was trafficked by a mystery woman named 'Elizabeth'.
'There is no Svengali “Elizabeth”; and that Jane Doe never met Mr. Black and there was no assault.
'Ms. Christensen knows that the Wigdor firm is about to be exposed for using Jane Doe to peddle lies about Mr. Black in its campaign to destroy him.
'Mr. Black intends to hold Wigdor fully accountable for its unlawful behavior.'
A judge granted Jane Doe's request to remain anonymous throughout the proceedings.
SIC, the private investigators in Florida, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's inquiries.
Black and his attorneys say he never met her and that her entire allegation is a lie.
She claims in her lawsuit that he raped her in 2002 at Epstein's house on a massage table after sodomizing her with sex toys.
She was 16 at the time and claims she was trafficked to him by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
Black's connections to Epstein have become more apparent and condemning in recent months.
Between 2012 and 2017, he paid Epstein $158million for tax and estate planning advice despite owning his own financial firm.
He also gave him a $10million charity gift in the same month that one of his ex girlfriends received payments from a mysterious 'E trust'.
The money was in exchange for her silence about her romance with Black, a married billionaire with four kids.
Black also paid the US Virgin Islands' prosecutors $62million to avoid being swept up in litigation against Epstein's estate.
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