SA couple linked to major Epstein lawsuit

A Jeffreys Bay, SA, couple has been requested to assist the US Virgin Islands Government in its bid to sue Jeffrey Epstein's former bank, JPMorgan Chase. News24 has identified Miles and Cathy Alexander who worked for the disgraced paedophile for eight years. The multinational financial services company is accused of enabling Epstein's sex trafficking of young women and girls. Court papers, filed by the US Virgin Islands Government, reveal that Cathy was employed as the house manager for Epstein between 1999 and 2007 at his home on Little St James, a small private island owned by the sex offender. ‘…As such, (she) would have first-hand knowledge of Epstein's conduct and visitors at Little St James,’ the document reads. Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York City in 2019 in an apparent suicide. A letter rogatory – a formal request from a court in which action is pending to a foreign court to perform a judicial act – was sent to the clerk of Humansdorp Magistrate's Court to request that Cathy be compelled to give evidence related to her employment by Epstein. She is also requested to produce all documents, including severance and non-disclosure agreements, payments, as well as all communications with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and other named individuals.

‘(The) plaintiff has previously attempted to obtain Cathy Alexander's deposition and (had) run into obstacles attempting to depose her,’ the letter reads. News24 notes that her deposition was required in order to prepare the case for trial, with the American court requesting assistance in obtaining it within 30 days after being served with the subpoena and letter rogatory. The same paperwork is understood to have been issued for Miles, who worked as the island manager during this period. Cathy told News24 neither she nor her husband had yet been served any papers. ‘But it has to be understood – we were acting on the instructions of Mr Epstein and can't be held liable for what he did,’ she said. According to the US Virgin Islands Government's court papers, investigations found that JPMorgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully ‘provided and pulled the levers’ through which recruiters and Epstein's victims were paid, saying the bank was ‘indispensable’ to the operation and concealment of the trafficking enterprise.

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