The family of the girl who accused billionaire investor Leon Black of raping her inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion twenty years ago when she was a teen has said that they imagine the girl is lying — not only concerning the alleged rape, but additionally along with her claim that she has autism, in accordance with court papers filed by Black’s attorneys.
The girl — only identified in court documents as “Jane Doe” — filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court last month alleging she was only 16 years old when Black, then 51, pinned her down inside Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse in 2002 and abused her with sex toys, causing her to bleed.
Black’s legal team, which has dismissed the claims as an try and “smear” his name “with no basis the truth is,” claimed to have learned the identity of the girl — who Black claims he has never met — and due to this fact claimed it had the appropriate to analyze her story, in accordance with papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday.
The most recent filing, which claims that investigators for Black “spoke with quite a few witnesses, including close and prolonged members of the family,” alleges that Doe doesn’t, the truth is, have autism or Down syndrome but was as an alternative diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
“Plaintiff became aware of and studied those behaviors and started intentionally displaying them in her twenties with a purpose to present herself as an individual with autism,” in accordance with the court documents, which noted that Doe avoided eye contact once she “noted that folks with autism don’t look other people in the attention.”
Leon Black hired investigators who questioned Jane Doe’s family and shut friends about her claims that the billionaire raped her in Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2002. Her relatives allegedly imagine the accusations are false.REUTERS
“She had never before displayed [the behavior],” the documents added.
Jeanne Christensen, a partner at Wigdor Law who represents Jane Doe, denied the allegations in Black’s Monday filing.
“Black hopes to shift our attention to defending ourselves against baseless claims in order that he can proceed to have his private investigators bully and threaten our clients who’ve dared to call out his sexual violence publicly,” Christensen said in a press release.
In response to the documents filed by Black’s attorneys on Monday, Doe’s relatives also reportedly admitted that she “used a series of various names and personas, has a history of creating up alternate realities” — a results of her personality disorder diagnosis.
To defend Black against the so-called “uncorroborated allegations” against him, his legal counsel at Perry Law, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Estrich Goldin also claimed that Doe recently “posted on social media that she had been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.”
Nonetheless, in accordance with the documents, “she had never made such allegations before. Her family told her that they didn’t imagine this to be true, and she or he deleted the posts.”
The unidentified woman claims she was trafficked by Epstein and his longtime gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell after meeting the debauched couple at an “adult party” she attended along with her allegedly abusive cheerleading coach at age 15.
Nonetheless, Doe only “participated in a county cheerleading program when she was a senior in highschool — not when she was 15, as alleged,” the newest filing by Black’s attorneys claims.
It also noted that this system “didn’t involve overnight trips,” and that it was only eligible for top school students. If Doe was a member of the group as a highschool senior, she would have been around 18 years old, in accordance with the filing.
The most recent court filing was in response to Doe’s motion to proceed anonymously, which was filed in US District Court on Friday accusing Black of stationing “a big SUV outside the plaintiff’s home ‘to harass and intimidate Ms. Doe’” just two days after she filed her lawsuit on July 27.
“It had nothing to do with Mr. Black,” the newest filing insisted, noting that investigators — led by “83-year-old decorated Army veteran” Carlos Melendez — didn’t begin working on Black’s behalf until Aug. 7.
Investigators first spoke with Doe’s father within the early afternoon before making appointments to fulfill along with her mother later that day, in accordance with court documents.
Doe claims that she was just 16 when Black, then 51, allegedly pinned her down inside Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse (pictured) in 2002 and abused her with sex toys, causing her to bleed.KAT / SplashNews.com
The filing claims the investigators went to lunch before meeting with Doe’s mother, which made them late for the appointment.
“As a gesture of politeness, they brought dessert over and apologized that they ‘made the woman wait,’” in accordance with Black’s lawyers.
Nonetheless, Doe claimed that her parents received a visit from two men claiming to be fraud investigators from Florida, in accordance with the motion to proceed anonymously, which was obtained by The Post.
They visited “in pathetic fashion” with a cheesecake in hand within the hopes that they’d be invited inside, the filing stated.
Once inside, the July filing alleges that the investigators revealed that that they had photos of Doe’s minor child while peppering her parents with questions on Doe’s childhood and medical history.
Doe claimed that her parents, aunt and shut friends were contacted by the identical investigators, who were reportedly working with the corporate SIC Inc., in accordance with the filing by Doe’s attorney, Christensen at Wigdor Law.
In response to SIC’s website, Melendez founded SIC in 1984.
After responding to Doe’s motion to proceed anonymously, Black filed a lawsuit against Wigdor for filing “three separate headline-grabbing lawsuits which it knew, or must have known, were false.”
The filing marks Black’s second grievance against Wigdor.
Black won a previous legal fight against Wigdor client Guzel Ganieva in May who made similar allegations when a Latest York state judge dismissed Wigdor’s accusations that Black defamed her by falsely claiming she tried to extort him after accusing him of rape.
“Since Leon just sued us again to deflect from his own hideous conduct I even have to cope with this now,” Christensen told The Post.
“This latest attempt by Leon Black to deflect public attention away from his own disgusting conduct by suing lawyers who represent women he has victimized is appalling. We won’t be deterred by such obvious tactics and are confident he might be held accountable,” she added.
Black (right), the previous Apollo CEO who’s now price over $10 billion, pictured with Epstein in 2005.Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Doe has still insisted that she attended the party as an underage cheerleader, where Maxwell fawned over her “beautiful shiny blue eyes, blonde hair and ideal hair” that made her appear to be a living “doll,” in accordance with the lawsuit filed in July.
She reportedly met Black one yr later, after already visiting Epstein’s infamous Pedophile Island within the US Virgin Islands, his Palm Beach mansion and his Manhattan abode, where she was forced to sexually “massage” the creep, and later, his friends, in accordance with the suit.
“In 2002, at his Manhattan townhouse, 9 East 71st, Jeffrey Epstein executed a ‘hand off’ to his close friend Leon Black,” the filing alleges.
“But what passed on to Black’s hands from the hands of Jeffrey Epstein was a human being – not a ball.”
Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial.AP
The girl alleges Epstein told her that Black was “vital” and a “special friend” to him — though the she recalls considering that the previous Apollo CEO now price $10.1 million looked like an “ogre,” in accordance with the lawsuit.
She claims she was ordered to strip naked and provides Black the identical massages she gave Epstein. But Black as an alternative allegedly violently picked her up and threw her down on the massage table, the suit states.
“She tried to scream but Black placed his hand over her mouth and leaned over her while ripping off her shirt and under her skirt pulling her underwear off,” the filing reads.
“Plaintiff was crying and terrified. Black asked her repeatedly what made her ‘Jeffrey’s special girl’ and throughout the assault called her demeaning, shameful, disgusting names.”
When the girl tried to fight back, Black allegedly threw her onto the ground and slammed her against the partitions, the suit claims.
Epstein found her crying on the ground, but refused to take her to the doctor, as an alternative claiming Maxwell would “care for her” — only to then put her on a plane home, the filing states.