## CHAPTER 9

Mary: March 2005

ary's father and stepmother believe their girl. Officer M Pagan believes Mary's parents. Ergo, Mary must be tell- Ling the truth. The girl's got a sweet, high, halting voice. Pagan interviews her twice, and both times, she speaks with her chin buried deep in her chest.

"Tell me, honey," says Pagan. "What happened?"

In her notepad, Michele Pagan writes: While speaking to me, Mary became upset and started to cry.

"This white-haired guy came into the room," Mary says. "Wearing only a towel around his waist. He took off the towel. And then he was all naked, and he lay down on a massage table.

"He was a really built guy. But his wee-wee was very tiny."

Mary tells Pagan that Epstein spoke only to give her instruc- tions, which he did in a stern voice. She tells Pagan that she was alone and didn't know what to do.

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"Hey, what's up?" she

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