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An internationally renowned pediatric immunologist claims his life was upended after a woman he met through a matchmaking service falsely accused him of grotesque bigotry and child sex abuse, maliciously tarring him as a “pedophile pediatrician” in an all-out attempt to ruin his medical career.
Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, who heads up a highly respected human genetics and infectious diseases lab at Rockefeller University in Manhattan, says his former paramour hatched the plot as part of a brazen extortion attempt that culminated last month with a raft of unthinkable allegations against him. In a June 18 email, the decades-younger woman warned officials at the world-famous biomedical research institute to “take the appropriate and necessary precautions to prevent your institution from any exposure to liability,” according to a $10 million lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast.
“He’s confessed in 1:1 private conversations that he’s engaged in ‘threesomes with underaged girls’ or minors,” Jennifer Lin, 35, wrote in the missive, according to Casanova’s lawsuit.