Courtroom paperwork revealed that billionaire Leon Black, a Jeffrey Epstein affiliate, claimed that the household of the “autistic teen” who accused him of sexual assault didn’t consider that she was telling the reality, RadarOnline.com has realized.
Final month, Black’s accuser, who glided by Jane Doe in court docket paperwork, filed a lawsuit towards the billionaire accusing him of sexual assault twenty years in the past. Doe claimed that the then-51-year-old Black assaulted her in 2002 at Epstein’s New York Metropolis condominium when she was 16.
Black’s attorneys refuted Doe’s lawsuit and claimed the submitting was an try and “smear” his title “with no foundation the truth is.”
After the billionaire’s attorneys realized the identification of his accuser, Black alleged that he didn’t know her and had he ever met her. Moreover, Black’s attorneys claimed the appropriate to analyze her allegations.
In accordance with court docket paperwork filed by Black’s attorneys, the authorized crew “spoke with quite a few witnesses, together with shut and prolonged members of the family” as a part of their “investigation.”
Black’s attorneys claimed that primarily based on their interviews, Doe was allegedly not recognized as autistic and as an alternative had borderline character dysfunction.
“Plaintiff grew to become conscious of and studied these behaviors and commenced deliberately displaying them in her twenties with a view to current herself as an individual with autism,” court docket paperwork revealed.
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The court docket submitting moreover claimed Doe averted eye contact after it was “famous that folks with autism don’t look different individuals within the eye,” and that “she had by no means earlier than displayed [the behavior].”
Black’s submitting additionally alleged that Doe’s household stated she “used a collection of various names and personas, has a historical past of creating up alternate realities.”
Doe’s legal professional, Jeanne Christensen, denied the allegations and responded to Black’s submitting in an announcement.
“Black hopes to shift our consideration to defending ourselves towards baseless claims in order that he can proceed to have his non-public investigators bully and threaten our purchasers who’ve dared to name out his sexual violence publicly,” the assertion learn.
Black’s crew doubled down on their place that Doe’s allegations have been false by claiming she “posted on social media that she had been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.”
Black attorneys additional alleged “she had by no means made such allegations earlier than. Her household advised her that they didn’t consider this to be true, and she or he deleted the posts.”