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In 2019, Ransome told the New Yorker that the tapes were made-up. The fabrication was intended to raise intrigue into Epstein’s affairs and to convince the financier himself that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me,” she said.
Ransome’s emails were included in a 2017 motion filed by Dershowitz to keep the allegations under seal. He contended the allegations were “deliberate lies.”
A spokesperson said previously said Clinton had no knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking, and did not comment on the new claims.
Branson’s Virgin Group also denied the claims. “We can confirm that Sarah Ransome’s claims are baseless and unfounded. Ransome admitted that she had ‘invented’ the tapes,” in a 2019 article in the New Yorker.”
“ Ransome was another imperfect witness. In the fall of 2016, she had suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had “evidence that would come out if he harmed me.”) In 2017, Boies represented Ransome in a lawsuit against Epstein for sex trafficking; last December, Epstein paid an undisclosed sum to settle. ”
***David Boise represented Al Gore in the 2000 Bush v Gore case.***