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Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-16 Filed 04/16/19 Page 1 of 6 EXHIBIT 16 Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-16 Filed 04/16/19 Page 2 of 6 An Epstein sex case is settled; Dershowitz denies latest allegation BY JULIE K. BROWN DECEMBER 19, 2018 8:30 PM, UPDATED DECEMBER 27, 2018 7:55 AM Accused sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have settled a federal civil lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was ordered under threat of violence to have sex with them and other influential individuals when she was in her early 20s, sources confirmed Wednesday. Sarah Ransome, who now lives in Barcelona, claimed that she was recruited and trafficked for sex by the pair in 2006 and 2007 — at the same time that Epstein, a wealthy New York hedge fund manager, was under federal investigation for molesting dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Women who say they were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein want a judge to throw out his lenient plea deal. AP According to a recent court transcript, among those people Ransome claims she was directed to have sex with was Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who helped negotiate a controversial plea https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article223315075.html Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-16 Filed 04/16/19 Page 3 of 6 deal that gave the eccentric multimillionaire — and co-conspirators employed by Epstein — federal immunity in 2008. Dershowitz, 80, told the Miami Herald that he has never met Ransome nor has he ever had sex with her. He accused Ransome’s attorney, powerhouse lawyer David Boies, of inventing the story and using her and another woman, Virginia Roberts, to frame him. Roberts asserted in a federal court affidavit in 2015 that Epstein forced her to have sex with Dershowitz when she was 16 years old. “I am the victim. David Boies and these women are the perpetrators,’’ Dershowitz said. “They have willfully and deliberately concocted stories in order to make money — mil […]