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Attorney Alan Dershowitz defended himself from sex abuse claims Friday after his name appeared in a slew of related to a since-settled defamation case involving Ghislaine Maxwell.The emeritus Harvard Law professor was accused of having sex with then-minor “Jane Doe #3” — identified in court documents as Virginia Roberts Giuffre — and witnessing Jeffrey Epstein and others sexually abusing girls and young women.The allegations, lodged in a 2014 court filing, reemerged in more than 600 pages unsealed Thursday night in Giuffre’s 2015 defamation case against Maxwell.Dershowitz claims the document dump exonerates him.“I demanded release of all documents because they contain emails and manuscripts proving in Guiffre’s own words that she never met me,” Dershowitz said in “I knew they would repeat her false accusations against me, Al and Tipper Gore and others, which her own lawyers admit are ‘wrong’.”“There are no new accusations against me in the documents I got unsealed. All her accusations were made in suits she filed years ago. They were false then and now, as shown by her emails and manuscript that prove I never met her.”In 2016, former attorneys for Giuffre previously said it was a “mistake” to have accused Dershowitz of sexual misconduct.The high-powered lawyer followed up his tweet with a lengthy statement accusing Giuffre of having “a long history of lying for money” and frequently changing her story.He said she falsely told the FBI she was 15 when she met Epstein and Maxwell — but employment records prove otherwise. In the newly unsealed court papers, Giuffre admitted in a deposition that she was 16 when she met them and had been mistaken about the year.“The time has come for a full-scale investigation of Giuffre’s credibility,” he wrote in the statement. “She has roiled three continents with her accusations against politicians and other high profile individuals and yet the media has declined to conduct the kind of investigative reporting that it has rightfully done with regard to other accusers.”Giuffre alleged Epstein turned her into his “sex slave” from about 1999 to 2002, forcing her to have sex with his prominent friends.The document dump Thursday included a 2016 deposition from Giuffre former President Bill Clinton was a guest at Epstein’s private Little St. James island — which Clinton . Dershowitz also claimed in his statement that Secret Service records disprove Giuffre’s charge.She also said in the deposition that she traveled on the financier’s private plane with people like Al Gore and others, and claimed orgies were regularly held on the plane and on the island.Dershowitz helped Epstein with federal prosecutors in 2008 in which the convicted pedophile was jailed for 13 months on state prostitution charges.The famed lawyer — who is part of President Trump’s legal team — has long vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations.Last year, he he penned on the legal argument for lowering the age of consent.Epstein last August while locked up in Manhattan on sex-trafficking charges.Maxwell, meanwhile, and charged with procuring victims for Epstein. She is also accused of taking part in some of the sexual abuse.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz defended himself from sex abuse claims Friday after his name appeared in a slew of related to a since-settled defamation case involving Ghislaine Maxwell.The emeritus Harvard Law professor was accused of having sex with then-minor “Jane Doe #3” — identified in court documents as Virginia Roberts Giuffre — and witnessing Jeffrey Epstein and others sexually abusing girls and young women.The allegations, lodged in a 2014 court filing, reemerged in more than 600 pages unsealed Thursday night in Giuffre’s 2015 defamation case against Maxwell.Dershowitz claims the...

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