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Assessing Virginia Roberts' Credibility

Alan Dershowitz says Virginia Roberts, aka Jane Doe #3 and 102 in the Jeffrey Epstein civil suits) is a "serial liar." (For background, see here). Yesterday, Roberts told the Daily Mail she is writing her memoirs and will name all the powerful people Epstein directed her to have sex with while she was employed by him.

Since she has publicly accused Dershowitz and Prince Andrew of engaging in criminal acts in a court pleading (available here), and threatens to make similar accusations against other prominent persons, I think she has put her credibility in issue. What has she said in her various interviews over the years and are there discrepancies? What was her life like before she met Epstein? Was she an average teen, or did she have severe problems? Her lawyers' statements should also be examined. Are their statements consistent with hers, and if not, why not? Is it just sloppiness? [More...]

Virginia Roberts has been giving interviews about her time with Jeffrey Epstein since at least February of 2011. (The original published version was updated in March, 2011.) Most were to the Daily Mail. There are some discrepancies in her interviews and her lawyers' pleading.

From her account in her own words as told to the Daily Mail in two separate interviews, the last of which occurred about a year ago.

She says her first meeting with Epstein was in 1998 when she was 15.

[W]ithin the first hour, he knew my life story. I told him I’d been a runaway and I’d lived on the street and I’d taken ecstasy tablets and I wasn’t a virgin.

She says she was 11 when she first ran away.

Her lawyers, in the incendiary pleadi