Billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein will have to answer questions under oath from one of his alleged victims, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Lawyers for Epstein, 63, had sought to quash the subpoena Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers had served on him to testify for her lawsuit against socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
Giuffre, 36, says Maxwell coerced her into becoming a “sex slave” for Epstein, and sued her for defamation last year after Maxwell denied the claims.
Epstein’s lawyers contended he shouldn’t be forced to testify in the case because he would just take the Fifth anyway, but Judge Robert Sweet wasn’t moved by his arguments, and denied the motion to quash.
Giuffre says she was a 15-year-old working a $9 an hour job in Palm Beach, Fla., when she was “recruited” by Maxwell in 1999.
She then went to work for Epstein as his full-time “masseuse,” giving him and his pervy pals — including Britain’s Prince Andrew — rubdowns and sexual favors, court papers say.
Giuffre is just one of dozens of underage girls the feds say Epstein preyed upon in the late ’90s and early 2000s, but he pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor in just one case in state court in 2008. He served 13 months in lockup, and is a registered sex offender.
He famously walked out of a videotaped deposition in a lawsuit brought by one of his victims in 2009 when a lawyer asked him, “Is it true that you have what’s been described as an egg-shaped penis?”
Epstein’s lawyers have asked that the Giuffre deposition not be videotaped.
