## JAMES PATTERSON

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A: I left that to my lawyers. I know that we did produce tele- phone records during the relevant periods of time when Vir- ginia Roberts knew Jeffrey Epstein, and those telephone records established that I could not have been at the loca- tions and at the times that Virginia Roberts claimed to have had falsely claimed to have [had] sexual contact with me.

Q: I promise you we're going to get to those. A: Good.

Q: Promise you. Along with all the flight logs that you claim exonerate you.

## 11:11 a.m.

Q: Let's go to the very second contact that you had with either Michael or Rebecca. Who initiated the second contact? A: I think I did. I called and got Michael on the phone.

Q: Where did you call from?

- A: I think New York.

Q: Tell me in as much detail as your superb memory allows you to recall everything that was said during the course of that phone conversation.

[Dershowitz's lawyer]: Let's object to the form and the continued use of the word superb. He's described his memory. That's your characterization. Go ahead.

Q: No, I think that that was Mr. Dershowitz's characterization, which I have adopted.

[Lawyer]: Okay. Go ahead.

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