Dershowitz: Responding to the Charge that I Didn’t Show “Compassion” to the Woman Who Falsely Accused Me of Rape

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In an article in the Harvard Law Record, Anna Joseph and Kerry Richards accuse me of not showing compassion toward a 31-year-old woman who deliberately, willfully and mendaciously accused me of raping her on more than six occasions nearly fifteen years ago. I have deep compassion for victims of rape and trafficking, and I understand the reasons why Joseph and Richards are concerned about the revictimization of actual victims. But Joseph and Richards have it backwards in this case. The 31-year-old perjurer is not my “victim.” I am her victim. There is no excuse or justification for a mature woman victimizing an entirely innocent person by falsely accusing him of crimes others may have committed against her.

Fortunately, the charges against me are not only totally made up but are provably untrue.

Jane Doe #3 accused me of having had sex with her on a private Caribbean island where I spent one day in the company of my wife, my young daughter, a prominent professor at the Harvard Business School and his wife and family. I was never away from my family. We even slept in the same cabin. We saw no young girls on the island and I certainly had no sexual encounters with Jane Doe #3 or any other underage person.

According to media accounts, she has also claimed that Stephen Hawking and I were on the island together during a sex orgy. I have never met Professor Hawking.

She has also claimed that I had sex with her at a ranch in New Mexico. I was at that ranch for a total of one hour with my wife, my young daughter and the two friends who drove us there from their home several miles away, where we were staying. The house was still being built and no one was living in it at the time. We looked around as a group and left. I had no sexual encounter with any underage person.

She has also accused me of having sex with her on private aircraft. Yet the flight manifests will show that I was never on a private plane with her or any other underage women. Again I had no sexual encounter with any underage person on any airplane, ranch, island or anywhere else—ever!

Joseph and Richards complain about my aggressive response to her false accusations, arguing that “neither Dershowitz’s liberty nor his property are at stake.” This trivializes the seriousness of being falsely accused of a heinous crime such as child rape. My reputation is so important to me that I have in fact put my liberty and property at risk by denying the allegations under oath, thus subjecting me to a perjury prosecution if I were not telling the truth, and by castigating the lawyers who filed these false charges, thus subjecting me to a defamation lawsuit by them.

Joseph and Richards would like me to “focus on the plaintiff’s courage.” But it takes no courage to file a maliciously false charge and hide behind the litigation privilege. This is a mature woman with a long history of lies, including recent ones. She has claimed to have dinner with former President Bill Clinton and two underage females on Jeffrey Epstein’s island. She has also claimed to have met former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Gore on the same island. Yet I am advised that secret Service records will conclusively prove that none of them ever stepped foot on Epstein’s private island. Moreover, according to recent press reports, just before she falsely claims she had sex with me, she falsely claimed to have been raped by two friends with whom she had a consensual threesome in a car. After a thorough investigation of her claims, the State Attorney refused to prosecute because of the alleged victim’s “lack of credibility.” Shortly thereafter, she was fired from her job at a restaurant for stealing money from her employer. As to her past history of alleged abuse by others, I have no idea whether anything she has said is true or false, and to the extent it may be true, I feel sorry for her and I condemn anyone who may have exploited her. I only know that what she has said about me is categorically false and totally made up and that nothing that may have happened to her at the hands of others in the past would justify her current perjury about me.

Joseph and Richards also accuse me of being sexist for not showing compassion to a woman who is seeking to ruin my life, my career and my reputation by making up a completely false story about me. Let me assure them that there is nothing sexist about me attacking this perjurer. I have been equally aggressive in attacking the two male lawyers who filed the false pleading against me.

Of course I have compassion for rape victims. That’s why I, and everyone else who shares that compassion, should show no compassion for a woman, like Jane Doe #3, who has made up a false story of being raped by a man she has never even met, in order to line her pockets with cash.

I am not asking for compassion, only fairness and an opportunity to prove my total innocence. No “political correctness” will stop me from doing everything reasonable within my power to prove she is lying about me. Would any of you do less if you were falsely accused of so heinous a crime?

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  1. “According to media accounts, she has also claimed that Stephen Hawking and I were on the island together during a sex orgy. I have never met Professor Hawking.”

    Filthowitz knows that Jane Doe said no such thing. He’s just smearing his rape victim. Talk about a despicable lout!

    He’s ON the flight manifests with various women he now claims he doesn’t remember. None of the flights show him travelling with his wife, whom he claimed to always travel with. He says Clinton was never on Epstein’s Island though he has no way of knowing such a thing and neither his buddy Epstein nor Clinton has denied Clinton visited the Island.

    The guy is a pathological liar. He keeps saying he’s proveably innocent but offers only lies as “proof.” Absurd.

  2. It’s rather ironic to hear this guy of all guys whining about being falsely accused of anything after all his blathering on about Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. He’s been masquerading as an “expert” on that case off and on now for over a year and as far as I know the idiot still thinks it’s possible for someone to meticulously remove their own DNA from a crime scene washed in an ocean of blood and leave someone else’s with the intention of “falsely” accusing them.
    If that scenario, which is also demonstrably impossible, is true in his mind then I suggest anything under the sun is possible and I don’t see how him being accused of crime he wasn’t there to commit should exonerate him in any way shape or form.
    I mean really….even if it’s not true….how will we ever really know??????

  3. Two high school seniors (including an 18 year old) admitted they had sex with a drunk eighth-grader. Consensual or not, how does this suggest anything other than the fact that the legal system and, indeed, our society at large has been failing this woman for a very long time?

  4. Professor Dershowitz, is it true that you stated in 2003, for “Vanity Fair” that “I’m on my 20th book… The only person outside my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey”? One does tend to judge a man by the company he keeps and, given that you have so many distinguished colleagues, I have had a lot of trouble getting my head around that statement. Moreover, I don’t think that I am the only member of the public with this problem. In addition, there is the issue of the massage that you admit to having had at Epstein’s home (not the one on the island, but, apparently, the one in Florida), with “an adult woman,” about which you said. “I kept my underwear on during the massage.” Why would you strip down to your underwear, in someone else’s home, for a massage if, as you say, “I don’t like massages particularly.” Again, it’s a question of the company you keep. I would like to continue to respect you and admire you but it’s getting difficult. Think about it…

  5. Flight Logs put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Plane http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971

    Virginia Roberts: Jeffrey Epstein said he had sex with 1,000 girls – https://www.dropbox.com/s/65bpx6kew9n7q27/Doe%20v.%20United%20States%20of%20America%20-%20291.pdf?dl=0

    Dozens of VIP Pedophile Friends of Mega-Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
    http://1984arkansasmotheroftheyear.blogspot.com/2014/04/bill-clinton-close-friends-with-mega.html

    Jose Lambert 1-23-15 Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Rituals, Daring to the point of Rape! http://www.gossipextra.com/2015/02/23/jeffrey-epstein-scandal-palm-beach-police-investigation-ritual-4495/

    Jeffrey Epstein and his Apologists like Michael Wolff Still Have a Lot to Answer For by Roger Stone 2-11-15 http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/11/jeffrey-epstein-and-his-apologists-still-have-a-lot-to-answer-for/

    Conservative Scold Ken Starr Got Billionaire Pedophile off
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/30/conservative-scold-ken-starr-got-a-billionaire-pedophile-off.html

    Pedophile Epstein pleaded Fifth when asked if he was friends with Bill Clinton http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/08/pedophile-pleaded-the-fifth-when-asked-if-he-was-friends-with-bill-clinton/

    2-3-15 Gwendolyn Beck, Demo Congressional candidate listed as one of Jeffrey Epstein’s “massages:” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/jeffrey-epstein-massage-black-book-789653

    Child rapist Alan Dershowitz has a long history of attacking sex abuse victims http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-defender-alan-dershowitz-has-long-history-attacking-sex-abuse-victims

  6. I’m hoping the sealed records of the sweetheart deal will soon be released and everyone will see what a story maker you are.
    How did her sealed juvenile records get opened up? You are trying to dig up dirt on her by talking about her losing a job for “stealing money”. Was that ever proven in a court of law? Apart from that being hearsay and never proven in a court of law, you had to dig up it up to smear her. Did you ever have a massage and sex with her when she was underage? She says you did…six times at least.
    Can’t wait to see the records when they are unsealed by Judge Marra.

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