Jeffrey Epstein’s high-powered lawyers have smeared his victims and said the girls falsely claimed they were 18 to get into his home where he allegedly abused them.
Lawyers for the billionaire pedophile – including Roy black who successfully defended William Kennedy Smith against rape claims – are opposing a recent attempt by two victims to have Epstein’s 2008 plea deal thrown out.
Epstein’s legal team is claiming that the accusers ‘misrepresented their age’ to enter his mansion in West Palm Beach where he allegedly had sex with them when they were as young as 14.
In documents filed on Monday, the day that Epstein pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking in New York, his Florida lawyers claimed that the women gave ‘contradictory sworn statements’ and ‘obvious inconsistencies’ which undermined the case.
The paperwork was filed in a separate case in Florida by Roy Black, Martin Weinberg and Scott Srebnick, three of the many lawyers who have represented Epstein.
Black is best known for representing William Kennedy Smith in 1991 when he was tried on rape charges, which ended in an acquittal.
Jeffrey Epstein’s team of Florida lawyers claim his victims as young as 14 falsely claimed they were 18 to get into his West Palm Beach mansion., He’s pictured in a New York courtroom artists sketch Monday flanked by attorneys Martin Weinberg, left, and Marc Fernich, right
This is Epstein’s West Palm Beach, Florida, residence where he allegedly had sex with underage girls
In the past Epstein also hired superlawyers Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, who worked on the investigation that led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Epstein, pictured in his mugshot Monday, faces 45 years in prison if convicted on a count of sex trafficking of minors and a count conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors
Epstein, who used to be friends with Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York, was arrested on Saturday over allegations which could see him jailed for 45 years.
Prosecutors allege that he created a ‘vast network’ of girls who he would pay for sex and to recruit others to be abused by him.
Epstein has denied one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
He has faced justice before and in 2008 he was investigated by police in Florida which led to a sweetheart non prosecution deal under which he served just 13 months in jail.
His victims are now trying to get that agreement overturned and in documents filed in the last few days they demanded that it be thrown out entirely.
On Sunday the lawyer for the two women, identified as Jane Doe 1 and 2, said that the case ‘requires extraordinary relief’.
Brad Edwards wrote: ‘For the first time in American history – and, one hopes, the last – the Government and an international sex trafficking conspiracy worked together to consummate a clandestine agreement blocking federal prosecution of multiple sex trafficking offenses’.
Epstein’s lawyers filed their motion in opposition and said that throwing out the plea deal would violate his ‘constitutional rights.’
They claimed that overturning the plea deal would be ‘something that has never been done in the history of American jurisprudence.’
The paperwork was filed in a separate case in Florida by his attorneys Roy Black (left), Scott Srebnick (right) and Martin Weinberg, three of the many lawyers who have represented Epstein
Epstein has hired attorney Martin Weinberg (pictured) to his team of high-powered lawyers
The lawyers wrote that during the original case ‘federal prosecutors reviewed contradictory sworn statements given by the same witnesses, and obvious inconsistencies between the reports of witness statements taken by the police and their actual sworn statements’.
They wrote: ‘The sworn statements, taken by police before defense counsel was ever retained, created other issues for the federal prosecutors because the statements indicated that women who were under the age of 18 told police that they misrepresented their age to Mr. Epstein to gain entry into his home’.
Epstein’s lawyers said that the victims’ were trying to ‘make a mockery of the judicial system’ and were trying to ‘manipulate’ the legal system for their own financial benefit.
They also wrote a self-pitying section in their submission about how Epstein had been affected by the case.
The document states: ‘Mr. Epstein can never be returned to the status quo.
‘The time he spent in jail and on community control cannot be restored to him, the prejudice he has suffered from being required to register as a sex offender cannot be undone, and he will never recoup the substantial amounts he paid in monetary settlements’.