Lawyer for Epstein VICTIMS Shares Details Trump FEARED THE MOST
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Sep 6, 2025 The Intersection with Michael Popok
There is only 1 lawyer on planet earth who cross examined Jeffrey Epstein 3 x on behalf of his child sex trafficking victims, and who filed the video of the depositions in the public record and his name is Spencer Kuvin. He joins Legal AF's Ben Meiselas for a exclusive interview, including revealing of getting under Epstein's skin by bringing out replicas of the sex toys he used to abuse his clients during the deposition.
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There's only one lawyer on planet Earth that had the opportunity to crossexamine
Jeffrey Epstein three separate times representing his victims, the survivors
of his child sex abuse trafficking of he and Galain Maxwell. His name is Spencer
Kuven. He also is the only person that took that video deposition and posted it
on the public docket when he made a filing about sanctions against Epstein. And that's how we've had a lot of the
clips of Epstein cavalierely talking about the child sex trafficking and the
involvement of Donald Trump in his personal life. It's all because of Spencer Kuvin and he came on Meidas touch
along with my partner Ben Meiselas for an exclusive interview and here is that
interview. I want to hear from the lawyer who represented the first Epstein victim to come forward. I want to speak
to the lawyer who has taken Jeffrey Epstein's deposition several times, who
has filed motions for sanctions against Epstein, who sat directly across uh from
Epstein, um who who studied the behavior of Epstein, who saw all of these
documents rather than speculating or whatever. I I let's just get it firsthand from Spencer Kovven of Gold
Law. Um, Spence, bring in Spencer right now. Spencer, you you you famously have deposed Epstein numerous times. Uh, all
of your cases against Epstein have uh since resolved or against the estate,
you know, have have all since resolved. I want to remind people of one of the
moments from one of those depositions. And then I want to talk about what happened with the uh with the survivors
coming forward with their stories on Capitol Hill. I want to talk about what you're able to share from the litigation
in terms of a roadmap from what might be out there. And then of course uh Donald Trump continued today to say that this
is one massive hoax and that that we and that he turned over all the documents
that exist. He says the 33,000 documents are are it. Nothing else is being turned
over. But first, let me remind people of that depot that you did. Just a short clip of it. Let's play it.
Could you please give us your name? Jeffrey Epstein.
Is it true, sir, that um you have what's been described as an
egg-shaped penis form, vague and definite. And I'm going
to give you the the first warning, Mr. Cubin, that these types of questions are not only argumentative, but directed in
a manner to embarrass uh Mr. Epstein. If you continue with this type of question, I'll adjourn the deposition immediately.
Sir, according to the police department's probable cause affidavit, uh, one witness described your penis as
ovalshaped and claimed when erect it was thick towards the bottom but was thin and
small towards the head portion and called it egg-shaped. Those are not my words. I apologize. But as Mr.
As Mr. Kitten has stated that this is a
I'm willing to continue. So that was the first question of the depo. They Epstein and Epstein's lawyer
then adjourned. They shut down the deposition. You then move for sanctions and compelled the deposition to take
place again. Walk us through that deposition. Then I want to go through your background representing the victims
and let's we'll bring it current. Sure. So thank you for having me on. I do appreciate it. Um, so you know, look,
we knew as lawyers for the victims at the time, and there were uh four of us at the time that he was unlikely to
answer any of the questions that we had for him. So, there were really only two options when we got into getting ready
to prepare for the deposition of Jeffrey Epste. And this, by the way, this was the first deposition that had been taken
of him in any of the cases. I had noticed it first and I had got an opportunity to go first. And with that
came a lot of fights back and forth initially with the lawyers for Epstein at the time saying, "Look, you know, why
do you want to take his deposition? He's not going to say anything. He's not going to talk. And if it's anything regarding the case, he's going to just
take the fifth. So why do you even need to bother?" So we had to strategize a
way that made sense where we wanted to antagonize him as best we possibly could
to see if he would slip up. you know, we knew he was a smart guy and uh but he
was a novice to heavy-handed litigation tactics. So, we figured, you know, look, if we come at him hard and heavy on some
of the issues that we think might get him upset, then he may slip up and say something stupid. So, we had a series of
questions and you know, the psychiatrists and psychologists that we were working with at the time said, "Go
after his manhood. The guy is an eggoomaniac. you know, he thinks he's God's gift to women. He he thinks that
he's the smartest guy in the room and nobody can question him. So, go directly
after all of that and attack his manhood. And I had the probable cause affidavit where one of these victims,
one of my clients who was 14, 14 years old at the time, had described what it
looked like. So, I could prove that the question was directly relevant. Why as a 14-year-old know what his private parts
look like? But more importantly, it attacked his manhood, right? So, I came
up with this question that I knew I was going to ask right out of the box to see what he would do and how he would react.
In addition to that, it gave me the opportunity to file the video with the court so that the public could see him
react to that kind of a video because otherwise they wanted everything in the case to be confidential, secret, and
sealed. So, it was a great opportunity to do that and it was a great shot across the bow. I got $800 in sanctions
against him for walking out of the deposition. And then he had to come back a second and third time and finish up
his deposition where I got to ask him all kinds of questions about things like the massage, you know, jelly that was
found in his bathroom, the large vibrator that was found in his home next
to the bed, you know, the multiple sex toys that he had. And I had gone on
Amazon before the deposition and purchased every item that the police found in his home in the bedroom and in
the massage room. And I had bought an exact duplicate of it. So during the second deposition, I pulled them out and
set them on the table in front of him and started piling up all these sex toys and massage lubricants and just sticking
exhibit stickers on them until he had a pile of these things in front of him by the end of the deposition. when he
finally got so mad that he said, "Can we just get rid of all this stuff?" It was great.
The deposition that I showed and then the others, when did those take place
and when did the first victim approach you and and your practice for representation?
So, back in around 2006, I was working in North Palm Beach, Florida, when two
parents, uh, a mother and a stepfather brought their 15year-old, at that time,
15year-old daughter in to talk with us. And she first told this story that seemed completely unbelievable, right? I
mean, she's telling us a story of some wealthy guy living on Palm Beach Island where she is taken out there in a taxi
cab and asked to give a naked massage where she has to get nude and then massage his private parts until he
finishes. You know, it it just seemed completely unbelievable.
But, you know, we listened and um at that point we didn't know that they had
already started a criminal investigation. So, I reached out to the town of Palm Beach Police Department and
got a hold of the lead detective at that time, a gentleman by the name of Joe Ricari, who is a retired New York police
officer that decided he was going to work a sleepy job in Palm Beach County. Lo and behold, he gets this case. and he
started uh talking to me about what they had started to find which was he had sat
outside of Jeffrey Epstein's home on Brilloway and had videotaped
tens tens of women young girls being brought by taxi going in and out of the
mansion on a regular basis. So at that point we started realizing that what our
client was telling us might be true. And then that one client turned into two turned into three turned into four. Um
and it just kind of built from there.
And then
that's when the first meeting with the clients happened. When the first lawsuit was filed. When was that? And then the
deposition doesn't take place right away. The the discover there's always the discovery fight. So, when was the
deposition and when did your cases generally get resolved? And I want to dig into it a little bit because I think
what people need to hear more about is exactly what you said, which is, you know, these are 14, 15 year old girls
who are coming in on taxi cabs to Epstein's spot in Palm Beach and and
he's sexually assaulting them. And I I I it's going to be difficult for our
audience to hear that, but you know, sometimes when we talk about Delane and Epstein, we talk about it in the context
of the broader political sphere versus what was inflicted on the people
themselves as well. So anyway, just I I know I said a lot there, but let's talk first about the case being filed, um the
depositions being taken, and when those cases were resolved, so people have a time frame. Sure. So, we're talking initially 2006
and my initial client was, as I said, 14 years old at the time. She was taken out to the mansion. When I signed up other
clients, they were 15 and 16 years old at the time as well. Um, so the victims
at that point ranged in age that we knew about at that time ranged in age from about 14 at the youngest to about 17 at
the oldest. Um, he definitely had a type. Uh we could tell that just by the
clients we were signing up. Uh that he wanted girls that either were young or
at least looked very young. We um initially investigated the case and with
victim number one, it was a criminal investigation. So we worked with that initial client to kind of work through
the police investigation. They then started to investigate it from the behalf of the police department and um
did interviews with our clients. The state attorney decided not to prosecute for some unknown reason at that time. We
knew that Alan Dersowitz had flown down and had investigated our clients like
MySpace pages back then. Some people might remember that. MySpace and had gotten some pictures of them drinking or
partying or going out and they were calling these young girls liars back then. They were basically saying that
they were going after a rich guy, making up stories and that all of this was a lie.
They then after deciding not to
prosecute the uh chief of police at the time, chief um uh apologize, can't
remember his name, but the chief of police at that time decided he was frustrated with the state attorney. So, he then called the FBI. The FBI then
picks up the file in about 2007 and assigns a number of agents to start interviewing girls. They interview over
40 young girls and they had accounts of all of these young girls about what had
happened to them. I mentioned that and I stressed that because that's part of
what the Department of Justice is currently sitting on that they haven't released are all of these raw interviews
that were performed by the FBI agents back in 2008. We haven't seen those. So
anyways, the FBI does these investigations and they prepare a 54-count indictment and they're prepared
to indict Epstein under sex trafficking charges when all of a sudden for some
unknown reason a deal is cut. I on behalf of the victims find out about
this deal only because I get a call from an FBI agent that I had worked with
because of speaking with some of my clients and she said to me, "You need to get to the courthouse right now." I had
no idea why. I put on a jacket, I put on a tie, I run down to the courthouse with a copy of the initial complaint we were
going to file, which was on behalf of one of my clients. And I wanted to serve Epstein because we didn't know if we
were going to be able to find this guy. He was flying around the globe. So I show up in court and as I'm going
through the metal detector, lo and behold, who's walking through the metal detector right behind me? Jeffrey
Epstein and his lawyers. We go upstairs and the secret plea deal is then entered
in court. They do it up at the bench with the judge, not allowing anyone else
to hear what's going on. He's ushered off behind a door and then we try to get
a copy of that secret plea deal and they refuse to provide it to any of the
victims or the victim's attorneys. We had to fight to get a copy of that nonprosecution agreement which everyone
now has finally seen was an absolute travesty sweetheart deal for this sex predator. And then we get it and then we
have to begin prosecuting the case in state court. And that's when we get to the part where we have the depositions
of not only Epstein but also a couple of the co-conspirators that were involved as well as the chief of police and the
lead investigators and those depositions 2007 2008 in in
that time period. Correct. Yes. right around 2007208 that the secret plea deal occurred
actually in 2009 and and and tell us if you get Epstein did he invoke the fifth in all of those
depositions when he was not storming out or did he answer did he answer anything he he did like I've seen a deposition of
what' you say basic information I mean he would give his name rank and serial number you know basic information um date of birth where
he lived where he grew up that kind of thing but Anything that could connect him with any sex trafficking, he refused
to answer. Yeah. Cuz I I saw one where he answered. It was like, "Were you friendly with Donald Trump? Would you consider him a
friend?" And he said, "Yes." And there was the next question was, "And did you ever were you ever with him and girls
under the age of 18?" And and then and then he invoked the fifth on questions like that. Let's talk generally. you you
deposed other co-con any people's names that you can talk about or is that under a protective order other than Epstein
that that would be considered co-conspirators? Well, obviously Glenn Maxwell was somebody that we were looking at at the
time as a co-conspirator because we knew she was the lead co-conspirator in that sex conspiracy that was involved at the
time. But u in Palm Beach, there was a young woman by the name of Sarah Kellen
and another young woman by the name of Nadia Marson Kova. Those were the two
women that were in their mid20s at the time that were helping to uh recruit
young high school-aged girls to come over to the mansion. And what we determined was is that it was a definite
hierarchy scheme that he had going. Um you know, Epstein would not recruit these young girls usually on his own. He
would either utilize Galen Maxwell or one of Galen's underlings, which
included Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marsonova down in Palm Beach, but also other women up in the New York area and others out
in New Mexico. He would use these girls to recruit other girls. And then when
one of the young girls would come over to the mansion, he would then tell them, "Look, if you don't want to do this
again, if you bring me a girl, I'll pay you an extra $50 and I'll pay her $200
if you can get her to come out here." So, it was a pyramid scheme um of a
sexual nature and and that's how he built this huge cadre of young girls
that he would convince to come out to the house under, by the way, false premises. you know, he would say, "Look, I'm friends with Les Waxner and you
know, I can get you a modeling career and and you know, he has Victoria's Secret and you're beautiful. Come on out
and talk to me and and we can chat about it." That's how he would get him to come out, you know. And one undisputed fact is
that at least on one occasion and possibly more because Donald Trump said
multiple girls were stolen were the words that he used. The spa at Mara Lago
seems to be an undisputed fact if we were to draft a summary judgement motion at this point, at least as it relates to
an underage girl in Virginia who has since died by uh suicide tragically
recently when she was 17 years old was working in that spa and Gilain Maxwell
the the mo that you've observed in the recruitment process from Donald Trump's
own account of girls being stolen at Mara Lago. He seems to be suggesting
that he was that at some point in time he became aware that that was taking place at Mara Lago at the spa there. But
the first time that Trump admitted it was a month ago in connection with all of this where he said yeah and he said
Virginia Jew. Did that come as a surprise to you? And and and what did you know about like that spa? And was
there other spas that Epstein would go to like that and he would just have his feelers in different locations?
So, it's interesting that if finally he's admitted this because he's been Trump has been denying this the entire
time or at least avoiding the questions with respect to Virginia Guprey. You know, that poor young girl has had to
fight or had to fight before she passed for almost 20 years to prove what she
has been saying is true. everyone has been um you know denying her truth and
now finally now that she's deceased Trump comes forward and admits that she was recruited out of his spa. The bigger
question is why is he employing in his spa at Mara Lago a 14 or 15 year old girl that never made any sense to begin
with. But secondly, you know, it was the same recruiting scheme that we had known
since the beginning of Gilen Maxwell going up to young girls and saying, "I can make you famous. I work for a man
that's very powerful and very rich in the modeling industry. Come talk to us. Come work with us."
That's exactly how this entire scheme continued to play out over many years. And whether it was Glenn Maxwell that
would literally stop cars in the street in New York, pull over to the side of
the street and go up to young girls in school uniforms and tell them they
should come to the house. They're beautiful and you know they have a career in modeling or whether it was one
of the girls that Glenn Maxwell had trained to do this. younger 20-year-old girls that would be out at clubs or out
on the beach somewhere in Palm Beach and see a young pretty girl and say, "Hey, look, come on out to the house and meet
my boss." That's how their scheme worked. And you know, it it was a very typical scheme.
And listen, we knew back at that time that Trump was friendly with Epstein for many years. I even issued in my case, in
one of my cases, a notice of deposition for for Donald Trump. Now, the deposition never fully went forward in
that case because we had other angles we were we were going after at the time with Epstein, but we knew he was one of
the potential witnesses. Gileain's interview with Trump's former
criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanch. Sure, you've had the opportunity to look at that transcript and to hear the
audio. um you know as a lawyer the type of questions that should be asked of
Gilain based on the types of depositions that you took. You've seen how Blanch
approach that and you've seen Gilain's answers where she basically acts like
she's the victim. She calls the victims basically liars and then she says she
didn't see anything. She barely even she's not even sure how she even was introduced to Donald Trump in the first
place. And then she suggests that really what Epstein liked to do with young women was listen to music and that
that's one of the things that he liked to hang out with them just to see like what are the kids do. It kept him young
as is I think a line that she said.
So when you read that based on the wealth of experience you had representing the
first victim who came forward, what was your kind of overall assessment of that?
That it was a joke. The woman is a pathological convicted liar and sex
trafficker. If you're going to cross-examine a woman like that, you've got to presume she's going to lie until
she cannot lie any further. You know, his questioning of her was an absolute
joke for a lawyer that has any competence. Unless he was intentionally
intentionally allowing her to spew these lies about what happened, he absolutely
has no clue what he's doing. You know, when you have someone like a sex trafficker, like Maxwell, like Epstein,
that's willing to actually talk, you let them lie, and then you begin to confront
them with the hard evidence, with the photographs, with the videotapes, and
then their lie, all of a sudden they get boxed in and they realize they're
caught. And then they start coming up with more lies, more excuses that you can then show they're lying. And then
eventually, if you can get to that point, they break down and hopefully
come out with the actual truth. He did none of that. He did absolutely none of
that. He didn't confront her with any of the evidence. He didn't show her any of the evidence that the government has. I
mean, it was an absolute joke of an interview. It was a whitewash and that's all it was.
Let's finally talk about the files. When Donald Trump says these 33,000 files and
some of, you know, his people like them, Mike Johnson say these 33,000 files that
we produced, that's that's that's everything. There's really nothing else out there. Um, what's the v what's the
truth? What's the real volume that's out there? And at a specific level, can you
kind of go through in a way that often times gets blurred with generalizations? Like what are we really talking about
here that could be released tomorrow and frankly should have been released a long
time ago.
So let's talk about what does and what doesn't exist. I can tell you in working
on these files for almost 20 years, I've never seen a quote client list. Okay?
It's a misnomer. It's a misdirection. That's not how his operation worked.
What would happen is is that Epstein would have these young girls. He would pay some of them to come out to the
home. He would have some of them who he would sexually abuse himself. And then he would utilize others
and by taking these girls and essentially renting them out to
different very powerful men that would either come to his home or he would send girls to those homes. He didn't keep a
list of these people. What he would do is he would get calls from men, powerful
men that were coming into town that lived in Palm Beach, for example, and they would call the home and they would
say, "Hey, I'm in town." They would then talk to Miss Maxwell. Maxwell would then
send a girl out to the house. That's how the operation would work. So, if you really wanted to see exactly who was
contacting Epstein and trying to get women, you look at his phone books. You look at his phone records. The phone
message pads were obtained during the search warrant of the home back then. That's the first place we looked.
Secondly, the government has over three gigabytes of information. What they
disclosed the other day is about that much of this. It is a fraction of
information and everything they gave over we've had. Everyone has had it. It's been in the public domain since the
beginning of these cases. Through a simple public records request, anyone could have gotten the information they've already disclosed. The only
thing that they recently disclosed that we did not have back then were some of the additional flight logs that existed
for the planes. But what did they do with those? They redacted the name of everybody on the flight except for
Jeffrey Epstein. What use is that? It's absolutely absurd what they've released.
Here's what they have that they're not giving the public. One, all of the raw
interviews that the FBI took of every victim they talked to, and they talked
to at least 40 at the time. Where are those interviews? Where are those
transcripts? We want to hear what they said, who they said they were abused by,
and who was present. Second, they came in and seized all videos at
every mansion he had. I know through firsthand accounts from at least one of my clients that there were video cameras
all over the Manhattan mansion. She saw them. She saw the recording room where
they recorded the videos. There were men, security guards that worked in that room. And there were cameras throughout
the house. Where are those videos? because the FBI's got them. DOJ has
them. In addition to that, he's got videotapes because he had cameras at the house in Little St. James down in the
Virgin Islands. Where are those videos? You know, all of that should be
released. In addition, finally, the FBI prepared, as I said, an over 50-count
indictment against Jeffrey Epstein, identifying not only him, but other co-conspirators at the time that was
never actually filed. Where is that indictment? If they had filed it, it
would have been a public record. So, they were prepared to go public with this until they cut the sweetheart deal
with Epstein. Let's see that full indictment. Is there an indictment, do you know,
from both the 2006 2007 period as well
as the second time he was arrested, would there be two versions of that, you think? Um,
or is there just kind of one omnibus version? No. So, the second indictment, the one
where he was arrested in New York and actually died in jail, that indictment, it was public. Once they indicted him on
that, it was made public. But that was only four victims. That was all the indictment that was kept secret is the
one that they had in Miami and that indictment Alex Acasta signed off on uh
assistant US attorney Maria was the one investigating it but obviously Acosta
was the one that signed off on it. That's the indictment that shows all of the victims that they interviewed and
the entire sex conspiracy scheme that they were about ready to prosecute until
for some unknown reason they entered into this sweetheart deal.
Spencer, you've been very generous with
your time and you've really laid it out in a way I think that hasn't been put
out there before. We have six million subscribers here and so often a question
I'll get asked and sometimes I, you know, will say, "No, I've answered it all." But I think for here, if there's
anything I haven't that you haven't said yet that you think is important, uh, that you want the public to know at this
at this critical moment, I I' I'd love for our 6 million subscribers to hear from you.
Here's what I would say. Jeffrey Epstein wasn't Jeffrey Epstein in a vacuum. His
conspiracy of utilizing young girls for sexual conduct involved not just him but
many other individuals. Individuals that were given young girls, individuals
where he was trying to get evidence against other people so that he could curry favor with them and have
potentially blackmail against them. Some of those people are still out
there, are still unnamed, and still unidentified. The federal government knows who they are and they're refusing
to disclose those names. That's the information the public needs to know and
the public needs to judge for themselves why someone may be at, for example,
Epstein's home with a bunch of topless young underage girls or at his island
similarly with a bunch of topless underage girls. Those people should be
outed. They should be identified and people like you and the other press
should be asking them questions. Spencer Kovin, Gold Law, appreciate
you. Um, Gold Laws, you know, you still represent victims right now. And so, um,
you know, for those who are watching here, if they have tips or information or anything like that, I mean, you're a practicing lawyer. This is the work
that, uh, that that you're doing right now. Um, and you're probably off to a deposition or a court based on where
you're at, you're probably off to a depo or a court appearance soon. So, I won't take up more of your time. Spencer Kman,
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