Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
One of the people that was in Epstein's circle that
we've talked a lot about is Leon Black. Well, today
we're going to start diving into the lawsuit that was
filed against him by the Jane Doe who has autism.
Case number twenty three DASH CV DASH zero six four
one eight Jane Doe versus Leon Black the first amended
complaint Plaintiff Jane Doe buy and through Council Whigdor LLP
alleges against defendant Leon Black Black or defendant as follows one.
Plaintiff Jane Doe from ages sixteen to nineteen had almost
no ability to speak out about the horror she experienced
as the victim of sex trafficking, particularly because her redacted
and redacted at the time were directly involved in and
responsible for sending her off to men, including Jeffrey Epstein,
for the purpose of sexual exploitation. She was, however, able
to start a journal to document what she was forced
to endure. Two In these journals, she wrote two specific
entries that documented a particularly brutal instance of abuse by
defendant Lyon Black. In the first, she wrote walked down
Madison Avenue to seventy first Street. My redacted has lost
her fucking mind. Even though Glaine said it was best
to take me home because mister Black is so important
for some reason over my health. There is going to
be held to pay. I ruined their trip and I'm
dramatic when that fat fuck bit me. He threw me
on the floor and blood all over Jeffrey's carpet. And
on the issue, who the fuck bites someone sick? No
one is that important and Leon Black can go fuck himself.
I hate New York. In the next journal entry, plaintiff
wrote Leon Black next to a poem she cut and
pasted into the notebook, having underlying words in the poem
such as fatso and millionaire. The horrific incident these entries
reference was a particular day when at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan
townhouse located at ninth East seventy first Street, Epstein traffic
Jane Doe to his close friend Leon Black. Jane Doe
is autistic, and she was sixteen when Jeffrey Epstein introduced
her to Black and said she was to give his
special friend Leon Black, the same kind of massage that
she had given to Jeffrey Epstein when he ordered her too,
even as Black grabbed her hand so hard that she
thought he broke bones. Jeffrey Epstein knew Jane Doe would
never disobey developmentally, she is about twelve, and when she
was threatened to do as she was told, because bad
girls get in trouble, she did as she was told.
Black took her to the third floor of the townhouse
to a massage room where he had been before with
Jeffrey Epstein there, and using adult sex toys in her
anus and vagina, he raped her. He also bit her vagina,
a heinous act. His physical force was such that when
he left her on the floor sobbing, she was bleeding.
As set forth below, Jeffrey Epstein refused to take her
to a doctor and instead said that Glenn Maxwell would
take care of it. Sadly, Miss Doe's experience is one
more in a long line of despicable and heinous experiences
inflicted on a minor trapped in a web of sexual exploitation,
a web that extended to a group of powerful and
influential politicians and business moguls, including Black and Epstein. Miss
Doe filed the instant lawsuit on July twenty fifth, twenty
twenty three, seeking justice and accountability for Black's assault over jurisdiction,
venue and limitations period. The Court has jurisdiction over this
matter pursuant to US Code twenty eight, section thirteen thirty two,
as this action involves citizens of different states and the
amount in controversy in this matter exceeds seventy five thousand,
the venues proper in the Southern District of New York
pursuant to US Code twenty eight section thirteen ninety one B,
because a substantial part of the events or omissions giving
rise to this action, including the unlawful sexual assaults alleged herein,
occurred in this district and defendant resides in this district.
Pursuant to the New York City Victims of Gender Motivated
Violence Protection Act VGMVPL as amended NYC Admining Code Section
ten DASH eleven OZH five A. This case is timely parties.
Plaintiff Jane Doe is over the age of eighteen and
is a citizen of the US. Defendantly On Black is
over the age of eighteen, is a citizen of the
US and resides in New York factual allegations. Plaintiff is autistic.
Miss Doe is autistic and was born with mosaic Down syndrome,
a rare condition where only some of the body cells
contain an extra chromosome, in contrast to an individual with
typical Down syndrome, who was born with an extra chrome
in every cell of her body. As a result, while
plaintiff does not appear physically or outwardly different from a
neurotypical individual, she suffers from many of the same neurological
disabilities and tell tissues that are tragically common among individuals
with Down syndrome. Although Miss Doe has an above average IQ,
her developmental age is around twelve years old. Because Miss
Doe is autistic, it's difficult for her to understand social
cues based on the behavior of people that she encounters.
To be clear, being able to read the room is
an impossible task. Instead, plaintiff experiences the world in a
childlike way and sees situations in terms of whether something
is right or wrong, or good versus bad. As with
most autistic people, she is extremely trusting. Sadly, this is
one factor which places girls with autism at a substantially
increased risk of being sexually assaulted. Plaintiff was a perfect
target for Jeffrey Appstein and his accomplice, Glenn Maxwell. Epstein
and Maxwell seized upon Plaintiff's developmental abilities, coupled with her
outwardly physical appearance, specifically fair skinned, blue eyes, and blonde hair,
for their own deviant sexual predation. Disgustingly, Epstein and Maxwell
traffic Missdough to other men in their circle, including defendant
Black two. Plaintiff is traffic to multiple powerful people, including
Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. During the summer of two
thousand and one, Miss Doe signed up for a county
recreational cheerleading program geared towards girls ages eight to twelve.
The program was run by an adult volunteer named Elizabeth
about age forty, who, upon information and belief, had no
background in cheerleading instruction. Elizabeth told plaintiff that even though
she was fifteen, she could participate in recreational cheerleading if
she could fit into the uniform, which she did because
of her developmental disabilities. The fact that she was in
a cheerleading group with girls as young as eight years
old was not a problem for Miss doe. She was
happy to be participating. Elizabeth soon showed plaintiff extra attention.
Not long after she began attending the cheerleading program, Plaintiff
was told by Elizabeth that she was going to live
at Elizabeth's house several days a week. Of course, plaintiff's
parents were involved in the living arrangements. As the adults
in her life undoubtedly anticipated, Plaintiff did as she was
told and never questioned Elizabeth or her parents. Plaintiff traveled
back and forth between Elizabeth's home and her parents' home
throughout the school year. Little did plaintiff know what horrors
were ahead of her. From the beginning of her time
living with Elizabeth, Plaintiff was subjected to horrific, unimaginable physical
abuse as part of the training Elizabeth believed necessary to
prepare her for what Elizabeth had planned. By way of example,
only Elizabeth violently physically abused plaintiff by punching and kicking her,
and even dragging plaintiff up multiple flights of stairs in
her townhouse by a plaintiff's ponytail. Elizabeth psychologically abused plaintiff
by depriving her food and water and punishing plaintiff anytime
Elizabeth was dissatisfied with Plaintiff's behavior, which was often including
by locking her in a room for hours, making her
dress in small children's clothing, and making her work out
for hours at a gym until plaintiff was too exhausted
to stand, often after denying her any food. Although Miss
Doe had moved in with Elizabeth, she did not have
her own bed there, much less a bedroom. Instead, Elizabeth
repeatedly told plaintiff that she did not deserve her own
bedroom in her house and that plaintiff would not receive
one until she worked for it. Sadly, plaintiff did not
understand what Elizabeth meant, but she never questioned anything Elizabeth
did or said, especially because physical violence was something she
wanted to avoid. Elizabeth had a number of sexual partners
at the time, including a man who lived in the
same house, as well as other male friends who would
visit Elizabeth. One of these men, Charlie, was a white
male in his late forties. Elizabeth began sexually grooming plaintiff
as soon as she started staying overnight with Elizabeth. The
sexual grooming included Elizabeth telling plaintiff that she had to
stay close to Elizabeth's bedroom, while Elizabeth then had sex
with men with a door to her room open so
that plaintiff could hear what was happening and see inside
if she tried to. Miss Doe had never engaged in
sexual conduct herself. Again, Plaintiff did everything that Elizabeth and
Charlie told her to do horribly. Elizabeth threatened Miss Doe
with the fact that she had a gun permit and
kept a gun in the house. She told Miss Doe
that if she ever told anyone about the things she
and Charlie made her do, that plaintiff would go missing,
and since no one loved or cared for, she would
not be missed. Plaintiff never doubted what Elizabeth told her.
Because her parents told her to live with Elizabeth, Plaintiff
was forced to submit to elizabeth degrading and violative conduct
on a daily basis. She feared being killed and believed
everything that Elizabeth said. Saying no to Elizabeth was not
an option for plaintiff. To this day, plaintiff lives in
fear of Elizabeth. All Right, we're gonna wrap up part
one right here, and in the next episode we're gonna
pick up with three plaintiff is traffic to Epstein and Maxwell.
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