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>Jeffrey Epstein estate fighting alleged victim’s effort to videotape visit to perv’s mansion and island
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>https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-epstein-filming-fight-20200421-lslyioe6bzfq3kzp5vuyx5wlia-story.html
Jeffrey Epstein estate fighting alleged victim’s effort to videotape visit to perv’s mansion and island
No visitors allowed — even in death.
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate is fighting a legal effort by one of his alleged victims to send a video crew to the perv’s Upper East Side mansion and island retreat.
The victim, identified in papers only as Priscilla Doe, wants to film the areas where she says she was abused and show a jury, through video footage, that she could not easily escape the multimillionaire sex offender.
“The grandeur and opulence of the Epstein properties alone demonstrate the power disparity between Epstein and Doe and thus are directly relevant to critical issues to be tried in this case,” Doe’s attorney, Brad Edwards, wrote in a letter filed late Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.
“Moreover, Doe believes that the layout of the various properties will demonstrate ways in which she was manipulated by Epstein. For example, the complex web of various floors and rooms in the New York mansion created their own obstructions for girls and young women trying to avoid Epstein’s sexual depredations — particularly since Epstein’s victims were unfamiliar with how to navigate through the property. And Epstein’s island had its own nautical obstacles keeping his victims from escaping.”
Epstein attorney Bennet Moskowitz wrote that the site visits would be “unduly burdensome to carry out."
“Such inspections, which would require significant expense, are not proportional to the needs of the cases,” he wrote.
Crime
Doe is among more than a dozen Epstein victims who have sued his estate, seeking damages for his alleged abuse.
Epstein hanged himself behind bars in August while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.