## FILTHY RICH

manipulated. Then I remembered it was my present. I started to enjoy myself. But then it got rough, and that's when I opened my eyes."

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"What did you see?"

"A woman. A woman I'd never seen before."

"A woman? Dominique Moreau was twelve!"

## CHAPTER 65

r 2015

nto the ripped-from-the-headlines : SVU that was inspired by the Jef- lot takes an interesting turn: before st him, Jordan, the character mod- ¡VU headquarters.

girl raped him, Jordan says. fleece pullover like the ones favored es an evening at home.

ng," he explains. "A friend said she resent. Told me to wait in my mas-

Guy has a massage room?"
k pain," Jordan says.

"It was dark. I just wanted her off of me. I tried to stop her." "But the twelve-year-old overpowered you?"

"No. She threatened me. She said if I didn't let her... continue, she was going to scream 'Rape.""

"And there was nothing that you could do? You've got forty years and a hundred pounds on the girl."

"The party was going on right outside the door. I knew how this was going to look. I was naked. She was naked. What could I do?"

It was a brilliant plot twist-one that ultimately allowed Jor- dan to get off scot-free.

But the plot twist that Epstein's own story ended up taking on the day of Alan Dershowitz's deposition at a Broward County, Florida, courthouse was even more surprising.

"There was a criminal extortion plot," Alan Dershowitz told Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell's lawyer, Jack Scarola, on October 15, 2015.

"Your clients were involved."

Bradley and Cassell had sued Dershowitz in Broward County for defamation-payback for extremely negative comments the law professor had made in the media.

ell asleep. Now, at first I thought I used. I felt myself being manually

Dershowitz had countersued. His reputation was on the line, and he had come armed for battle.

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