Direct examination ends.
The parties approach the bench for sidebar.
Cross-examination begins:
Bobbi Sternheim asks her about her family.
Bobbi Sternheim asks her about her family.
Sternheim refers to "Kate's" mother as a debutante and says her step-father was very wealthy. They lived in a tony neighborhood, the lawyer says.
She describes the witness as someone who was an "international model" whose photo was widely published.
She describes the witness as someone who was an "international model" whose photo was widely published.
Q: You were on billboards, weren't you?
A: I was on a billboard, once.
Asked if she modeled for a lingerie company, "Kate" replies: "I was a model for a lingerie company that failed almost as soon as it began."
Q: But it was a lingerie company, correct.?
A: Yes.
A: I was on a billboard, once.
Asked if she modeled for a lingerie company, "Kate" replies: "I was a model for a lingerie company that failed almost as soon as it began."
Q: But it was a lingerie company, correct.?
A: Yes.
Sternheim asks her about going to US on "extraordinary ability" visa.
Q: Your extraordinary ability at that time was to go to Hollywood, wasn't it?
A: I'm not sure if going to Hollywood is an extraordinary ability, but I was a musician.
Q: Your extraordinary ability at that time was to go to Hollywood, wasn't it?
A: I'm not sure if going to Hollywood is an extraordinary ability, but I was a musician.
Asked if she was discovered by the musician Seal, she replies: No.
Asked about the foundation the witness launched, she said: "It was a foundation for women who have trauma and substance abuse disorder."
Sternheim is eliciting testimony about times that the witness has spoken publicly, including during a court appearance before Judge Berman, who presided over Epstein's case.
—And a subsequent TV appearance.
—And a subsequent TV appearance.
"Kate" acknowledges but downplays her attorney writing a book that mentions her.
"I think there's only one sentence about me."
Asked whether she gave permission for him to do that, she says yes. (Lawyer is asking questions about her anonymity.)
"I think there's only one sentence about me."
Asked whether she gave permission for him to do that, she says yes. (Lawyer is asking questions about her anonymity.)
Sternheim turns to questioning about "Kate's" abuse of drugs and alcohol.
Q: You have lived a sober life since then?
A: Yes, I have.
A: Yes, I have.
Asked whether those substances affected her memory, "Kate" replies that they didn't affect the memories she always had.
Asked if she divorced her restaurateur ex-husband, she replies: "He divorced me."
Sternheim asks if she ever remarried, and she replies, softly, no.
Sternheim asks if she ever remarried, and she replies, softly, no.
Sternheim asks whether "Kate" asked someone to plant drugs on the father of her child to advance a custody case.
"Absolutely not," she replies, emphatically.
"Absolutely not," she replies, emphatically.
Sternheim asks to enter "Kate's" email correspondence with Epstein — when he was in jail — into evidence.
One was signed — "Best, love always, 'Kate,'" she says.
"Kate" agrees.
"Kate" agrees.
Q: You initiated email contact with him, correct?
A: Yes.
Q: You initiated email contact because you wanted to meet with him in New York?
A: Yes.
A: Yes.
Q: You initiated email contact because you wanted to meet with him in New York?
A: Yes.
She says she stopped contact with him when she became a mother.
(She was in her 30s when she was last in contact with Epstein, she said.)
I deleted a tweet with inaccurate information about the size of the witness's settlement with the Epstein victims fund, which I appear to have misheard.
It was not $2.5 million; it was $3.25 million.
It is unclear what amount of the latter figure went to her counsel.
It was not $2.5 million; it was $3.25 million.
It is unclear what amount of the latter figure went to her counsel.
Lunch recess.
Redirect will begin after the lunch recess.
Service advisory: I will not be live-tweeting the afternoon session, but I will say more about what happened at the end of the day.
Recap of "Kate's" testimony so far: lawandcrime.com/live-trials/gh…
Recap of "Kate's" testimony so far: lawandcrime.com/live-trials/gh…
Patrick McHugh, executive director in client services for JPMorgan, is called to authenticate bank records.
They show wire transfers from accounts owned by Epstein to Maxwell, inc.:
* $18.3 million in Bear Stearns money market shares in Oct. 1999
* $5 million on Sept. 18, 2002
They show wire transfers from accounts owned by Epstein to Maxwell, inc.:
* $18.3 million in Bear Stearns money market shares in Oct. 1999
* $5 million on Sept. 18, 2002
Court records show two transfers of ~$7.4 million three days apart on June 2007.
On June 18, 2007, an account associated with "Air Ghislaine Inc." showed a transfer marked for "purchase of green helicop" just under that amount, according to records displayed in court and recited by the witness.
Cross examination goes to "Air Ghislaine."
Note on the two ~$7.4M transactions—
They appear to be the same amount passing through multiple accounts toward that helicopter purchase.
They appear to be the same amount passing through multiple accounts toward that helicopter purchase.
Correcting a typo:
The schoolgirl outfits in question were recovered from Epstein’s home in 2019z
The schoolgirl outfits in question were recovered from Epstein’s home in 2019z
Judge Nathan appears skeptical about admitting them, giving the chronological and physical distance between them and the one “Kate” described from Palm Beach more than a decade earlier.
Prosecutors did not ask Kate whether the one she was made to wear resembled the one recovered from Epstein’s NY home far later.
Judge Nathan said that’s what she thought might happen, but it didn’t. So she suggested (without ruling) that she’s unlikely to admit it.
Judge Nathan said that’s what she thought might happen, but it didn’t. So she suggested (without ruling) that she’s unlikely to admit it.
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