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Star Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown is facing a second defamation lawsuit related to her 2021 book on the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case—this time, from a former assistant to the multimillionaire’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who was recently sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
In February, Epstein victims Courtney Wild and Haley Robson sued Brown in a Florida state court, claiming that her book, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, included “false and defamatory statements” and “re-victimized” them.
Now Emmy Tayler, a former member of Maxwell and Epstein’s inner circle, filed a complaint in federal court this week against Brown and publisher HarperCollins. The suit, first reported by Courthouse News, alleges the author and publisher “defamed” Taylor “by falsely identifying her as a co-conspirator, aider and abettor, facilitator and/or assistant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse pyramid scheme.”
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