Julie K. Brown

And by now, of course, these women are older.

They're in their late 20s.

They have children.

They have their own families.

And I did not want to let Jeffrey Epstein send more private investigators after them

So I kept it pretty close to the vest until I had pretty much buttoned up the story.

And then, you know, I would say three to six months before it published was when I started reaching out to all his lawyers and to Alan Dershowitz and sending certified letters to all his residences and all of Dershowitz's residences and all of Maxwell's residences and all their lawyers.

I mean, we spent probably...

maybe $300 or more just on certified letters.

Well, Dershowitz did because Dershowitz just...

became an attack dog.

And he really did with our lawyers, with me, with my editors.

The emails were so crazy that I was forwarding them to our lawyer because it was just too crazy.

It was like, I can't get the story published if I'm dealing with...

all the Dershowitz nonsense.

I mean, I was willing to, you know, listen to his side of the story about it.

And we did.

We ended up, before publication, he never would meet with us.

He said he had all this evidence, but he never showed it to us.

So after publication, he said, okay, you can come to my Miami Beach condo, and I'm going to show you piles of evidence.