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Case 9:08-cv-80804-KAM Document 26 Entered on FLSD Docket 10/03/2008 Page 1 of 8

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

NO. 08-80804-CIV-MARRA/JOHNSON

JANE DOE, a/k/a
JANE DOE NO. 1,

Plaintiff,

JEFFREY EPSTEIN,
HALEY ROBSON, and
SARAH KELLEN,

Defendants.
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OPINION AND ORDER REMANDING CASE TO STATE COURT

THIS CAUSE is before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to Remand (DE 11), filed August

18, 2008. Defendants filed a response (DE 21), and Plaintiff subsequently replied (DE 22). The

motion is now fully briefed and is ripe for review. The Court has carefully reviewed all of the

briefs and the entire record and is otherwise advised in the premises.

Background

Plaintiff Jane Doe, a/k/a Jane Doe No. 1, filed a four-count complaint in the Circuit Court

of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, on June 25, 2008,

bringing actions for sexual assault against Defendant Jeffrey Epstein (“Epstein”), and civil

conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil remedy for violation of Florida

Statute Section 772.103 against all three Defendants (DE 1). The facts, as alleged in the

Complaint, are as follows: At all relevant times, Epstein was an adult male. (Am. Compl. ¶ 8).

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Epstein engaged in a plan, scheme and/or enterprise in which he gained access to primarily

economically disadvantaged minor girls in his home, sexually assaulted these girls or coerced or

attempted to coerce them to engage in prostitution, and then gave them money. (Am. Compl. ¶

9). In or about 2005, Plaintiff, then 14 yea

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