Alan Dershowitz

Key Findings

• EFTA00021553: Court filing - 'Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with Dershowitz on numerous occasions while she was a minor'
• EFTA00021553: 'Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement with a provision that provided protection for himself against criminal prosecution'
• EFTA02731465: Victim diary - 'Disgusting pigs like Allen Douschewitz... will hurt you'
• EFTA01333242: Letter to Palm Beach Police attacking victim credibility using MySpace posts
• EFTA01683130: TECS II flight records confirm travel
• Virginia Giuffre allegations and subsequent legal battles (external source, not in EFTA corpus)
• A court filing states that "Dershowitz would later play a significant role in negotiating the NPA" on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein, and describes Alan Dershowitz as a "well-known criminal defense attorney" (DOJ-OGR-00003740).
• EFTA01249232: Eyewitness saw Dershowitz at 1999 party with children as young as 10-11, boys dressed as girls, victims brought by yacht in batches
• EFTA00090314: FBI FD-1023 CHS report (Oct 2020), Dershowitz told U.S. Attorney Acosta that 'Epstein belonged to both U.S. and allied intelligence services.' CHS believed Dershowitz was 'co-opted by Mossad.' CHS noted Mossad would call Dershowitz to debrief after his calls with Jeffrey Epstein
• EFTA01660638: FBI internal case briefing, victim stated she gave Dershowitz a massage on Jeffrey Epstein's plane (not a minor at the time)
• EFTA02731341 (2003): Victim diary (2-rail cipher decoded): "Disgusting pigs like Allen Douschez[itz]" (page 5). Same page references Chelsea and locations (yacht in NY, DC, vineyard, island, Palm Beach).
• EFTA02770202 (2011): Rodriguez testified Dershowitz stayed at Jeffrey Epstein's house during years of daily abuse of minors and was present when underage girls were there (Rodriguez deposition at 278-280, 385, 426-427)
• EFTA02770202: Dershowitz reportedly assisted in persuading Palm Beach State Attorney that underage victims lacked credibility, while he himself was eyewitness to their presence at the house
• EFTA02770202: Jeffrey Epstein donated $30M to Dershowitz's university. Jeffrey Epstein took the Fifth rather than answer "Have you ever socialized with Alan Dershowitz in the presence of females under the age of 18?" (deposition Mar 17, 2010, at p.90)
• Named in government filing as one who made "efforts" on Jeffrey Epstein's behalf to secure a favorable plea arrangement/NPA, alongside Clinton, Prince Andrew, Dershowitz, Starr, Sanchez, Lefkowitz, and Roy Black (doe-v-us-npa Doc 205-att4)
• Giuffre v. Dershowitz complaint alleges she was "forced to have sex with Alan Dershowitz" at 9 East 71st Street. Sarah Ransome separately alleged a threesome with Dershowitz at Jeffrey Epstein's mansion (giuffre-v-dershowitz Doc 1, Doc 1-att16)
• Case dismissed with prejudice November 8, 2022, three weeks after Giuffre settled with Prince Andrew. No terms disclosed. All counterclaims also dismissed (giuffre-v-dershowitz Doc 505)
• Attempted to get Giuffre to issue "mistaken identification" statement. Dec 2015 email to Boies: "Let's keep trying. We are not THAT far apart" (giuffre-v-dershowitz Doc 90-att13)
• CITATION CORRECTED 2026-08-05: this was attributed to EFTA00022461, which does not mention Dershowitz at all. The Sharon Churcher email is a Giuffre v. Maxwell exhibit, held in data/pdf_text/courtlistener.jsonl as us-v-maxwell Doc 1218 att14 (DE 364) and Doc 1325 att1 (Exhibit DE 246). Its text, dated 11 May 2011: "Don't forget Alan Dershowitz", "good name for your pitch as he repped Claus von Bulow", and "We all suspect Alan is a pedo and tho no proof of that". The reporter is urging the use of his name; the memoir that followed mentioned him without alleging sex acts, and those claims came in 2014.
• OPR report: on June 26, 2007 prosecutors met at the Miami USAO with Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys. Alan Dershowitz led the defense presentation, which from the USAO perspective was merely a "listening session", and the case agent recalled being uncomfortable that the defense was asking questions to gain information about the federal investigation (DOJ-OGR-00023073). In March 2009 Sloman met Dershowitz in Miami for what Dershowitz called "a relaxed drink and conversation", after which Dershowitz emailed his appreciation for an "assurance that the feds will not interfere with how the Palm Beach sheriff administers" the sentence (DOJ-OGR-00023155).
• EFTA02815839 (usvi-v-jpmorgan Doc 285-2, Statement of Material Facts, para. 239): received 8 separate payments from Jeffrey Epstein's JPMorgan accounts between January and September 2007 totaling $1,014,720.50 ($178,000.00, $78,292.50, $137,458.00, $75,000.00, $99,512.50, $169,887.50, $136,850.00, $139,720.00). CORRECTED 2026-09-27 (ticket #1374): the prior version of this entry read 'seven separate payments... totaling over $1.5 million', which re-reading the source table directly did not support.
• Named on a JEGE, Inc. passenger manifest flying with Jeffrey Epstein from Newark to Miami on 25 June 2007 (N908JE, trip 453), alongside Darren Indyke, Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt. The flight, during the Florida investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, carried members of his legal team together. Two further passengers were redacted in the estate production. Source: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_004084.
• The same group returned the next day: named on a JEGE, Inc. passenger manifest flying with Jeffrey Epstein from Miami to Newark on 26 June 2007 (N908JE, trip 454). Two further passengers were redacted in the estate production. Source: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_008034.
• EFTA01090973 / HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017088 (filename CURREN DRAFT 04.02.12.docx): a 401-page, 191,694-word draft of his memoir, dated 2 April 2012, was in Jeffrey Epstein's files, released by DOJ and again in the estate's seventh production under custodian Epstein, Jeffrey. Identified from the manuscript's own table of contents, which is autobiographical and specific: Brooklyn upbringing, Yale, and 'My Clerkships: Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg'. It still carries unresolved editorial notes in the running text, including a bare '[Add Mearsheimer]' placed immediately after a quoted Noam Chomsky passage on Robert Faurisson. NOTE THE LIMIT: the corpus shows Jeffrey Epstein POSSESSED the manuscript. No covering email, editorial exchange or request for input has been found, so nothing here supports the reported claim that he helped shape its attack on John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
• HOW HE MET JEFFREY EPSTEIN: his own accounts conflict on both the year and the mechanism. In a sworn declaration in the Giuffre litigation (external source, not in the EFTA corpus) he states he was first introduced to Mr. Epstein by a friend, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, in 1997. But a document in Jeffrey Epstein's own files, EFTA00796700, dates it to July 1996 and describes no introduction at all: 'I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM LYNN FORESTER, NOW LADY ROTHCHILD, TELLING ME A FRIEND OF HERS NAMED JEFFREY EPSTEIN HAD FLOWN TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD TO VISIT HER AND THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO DROP BY AND MEET ME. I AGREED AND WE SPENT A COUPLE OF HOURS TOGETHER, DURING WHICH HE TOLD ME ABOUT THE WORK HE WAS DOING AT HARVARD.'
• In July 2019 he gave the press a third version, a party rather than a phone call: New York magazine reports him saying the story 'began on the Vineyard in the summer of 1996. A family friend, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, he said, invited him to a party for her husband, Lord Rothschild, where she introduced him to Jeffrey Epstein.' The same article flags the problem: Lynn Forester 'had not yet married into the Rothschild' family in 1996, so there was no husband and no party for him at that date. She married Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in 2000. (giuffre-v-dershowitz Doc 90-att13; giuffre-v-dershowitz Doc 90-att10)
• A New York magazine account (external source, not in the EFTA corpus) says that a few days later, Epstein invited Dershowitz to Les Wexner's 59th birthday party at Wexner's mansion in New Albany, Ohio, quoting Dershowitz saying it's a tradition that Jeff invited the smartest person he met that year, and that Epstein told people Dershowitz was the smartest. EFTA00796700 independently corroborates the Wexner introduction and the birthday party, dating it to August 1996.
• Do not conflate his deposition answer with his own introduction. Asked about Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew (EFTA00615583, EFTA01137794) he testified 'I've seen them together at a party on Martha's Vineyard given by Lady Rothschild' - that is a different event, about two other people.
• EFTA02815839 (usvi-v-jpmorgan Doc 285-2, Statement of Material Facts, para. 235): received 2 of the 77 separate $100,000 wires JPMorgan handled from Jeffrey Epstein's accounts, paid directly to 'ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ' rather than through a firm trust account, on 12 October 2007 and 6 October 2009. NOTE: a separate key_finding above, citing the same court exhibit's para. 239 table, was corrected 2026-09-27 (ticket #1374) to 8 payments totaling $1,014,720.50, matching this entry's source table.