Jeffrey Epstein threatened an legal professional for his victims by warning him, “I’ve pals in excessive locations … Any person’s going to get harm” and placing the lawyer’s household underneath surveillance.
Bradley Edwards — the legal professional for a few of the late Epstein’s accusers — revealed how the pedophile employed folks to look at his spouse and sons.
Edwards, who penned a guide, “Relentless Pursuit: My Battle for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein,” represented ladies equivalent to Courtney Wild, who claims she was 14 when Epstein employed her as a masseuse and paid her to recruit her underage pals to his Palm Seaside, Fla., compound.
He advised a livestream for the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Youngsters that Epstein responded by suing him personally. He stated, “He referred to as me to inform me, ‘Look, I don’t like the way in which you’re prosecuting me and I don’t like the way in which you’re attempting to undo my immunity deal. You must perceive that I’ve pals in excessive locations. I’ll drop my lawsuit towards you if you’ll drop every thing that you just’re doing towards me.’”
Edwards held a string of conferences with Epstein in a Starbucks in Boca Raton, Fla., the place the financier advised him, “Brad, in the event you maintain prosecuting me on this means, someone’s going to get harm.” Edwards refused to settle, and Epstein, who died in jail in August, was lastly compelled to make a full apology in a letter learn in courtroom in 2018.
In the meantime, one other Edwards-repped Epstein accuser, recognized as Priscilla Doe, desires entry to 2 of his properties the place she was abused, in keeping with a brand new Manhattan federal submitting. Edwards has requested for permission to doc Epstein’s townhouse on East 71st Avenue and the posh compound on his non-public Caribbean island, Little Saint James, to file the “grandeur and opulence” of the houses to “reveal the facility disparity between Epstein and Doe,” and the way their complicated format made it troublesome for girls to flee.
Doe is one in every of a number of ladies to file swimsuit towards Epstein’s property after his suicide.