Alessi Mindspring affidavit

EXHIBIT 7 (Filed Under Seal) Page 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CASE NO. 15-CV-07433-RWS ------------------------------------------x VIRGINIA L. GIUFFRE, Plaintiff, v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. -------------------------------------------x June 1, 2016 9:12 a.m. C O N F I D E N T I A L Deposition of JOHN ALESSI, pursuant to notice, taken by Plaintiff, at the offices of Boies Schiller & Flexner, 401 Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before Kelli Ann Willis, a Registered Professional Reporter, Certified Realtime Reporter and Notary Public within and for the State of Florida. Page 223 1 JOHN ALESSI 2 Q. You never received emails from either of 3 them? 4 A. No, sir. 5 Q. So when there would be a message from one 6 of them while they were out of town, they would call 7 you, call you on the telephone? 8 A. I haven't spoken to Ghislaine in 12 years. 9 Q. Sorry. I'm talking about when you worked 10 there and you would receive a message that they were 11 coming into town, would that be by way of telephone? 12 A. Telephone, and also, there was a system at 13 the house, that it was MindSpring, MindSpring I 14 think it's called, that it was like a message system 15 that would come from the office. 16 Q. What is MindSpring? 17 A. It was a server. I think it was -- the 18 office would have, like, a message system between 19 him, the houses, the employees, his friends. They 20 would write a message on the computer. There was no 21 email at that time. 22 Q. Okay. So what computer would you use? 23 A. My computer in my office. 24 Q. And so was part of your daily routine to 25 go to your computer and check to see if you had Page 224 1 JOHN ALESSI 2 MindSpring messages? 3 A. No. That was at the end of my stay. That 4 was the very end of my stay. I didn't get involved 5 with that too much. But it was a message system 6 that Jeffrey received every two, three hours, with 7 all the messages that would have to go to the office 8 in New York, and they will print it and send it 9 faxed to the house, and I would hand it to him. 10 Q. Did it look like the message pads that 11 we've been looking at? 12 A. No, no, nothing like that. 13 Q. Was it typed-out messages? 14 A. Yes, typed-out messages. 15 Q. Just explain one example of how it would 16 work. Let's say that Ghislaine wanted to send him a 17 message on MindSpring. How would that work? 18 A. An example? 19 Q. Sure. 20 A. It got so ridiculous at the end of my 21 stay, okay? That Mr. Epstein, instead of talking to 22 me that he wants a cup of coffee, he will call the 23 office; the office would type it; they would send it 24 to me, Jeffrey wants a cup of coffee, or Jeffrey 25 wants an orange juice out by the pool. Page 225 1 JOHN ALESSI 2 Q. He would call the office in New York. 3 They would then type it in MindSpring? 4 A. Send it to me. 5 Q. How would you know to check for it? How 6 would you know to look for this MindSpring? 7 A. Because I was in the office. I was there. 8 I was there. And we have a signal when it come on 9 and says, Hey, you've got mail. 10 Q. Okay. 11 A. Every day. Every day it was new things 12 put in. That's why I left, too. 13 Q. Do you know who set up the mind spring 14 system? 15 A. It was a computer guy. It was a computer 16 guy who worked only for Jeffrey. 17 . 18 Q. Was he local to Palm Beach? 19 A. No. He was in New York. Everything was 20 set up from New York. And , I remember 21 he came to Palm Beach to set up the system at the 22 house. 23 Q. Did you become aware at some point in time 24 that there was a bag or a briefcase of cash that was 25 in the house? Page 236 1 JOHN ALESSI 2 CERTIFICATE OF OATH 3 STATE OF FLORIDA ) 4 COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE ) 5 I, the undersigned authority, certify 6 that JOHN ALESSI personally appeared before me and was duly sworn. 7 WITNESS my hand and official seal this 1st day of June, 2016. 8 9 Kelli Ann Willis, RPR, CRR 10 Notary Public, State of Florida Commission FF928291, Expires 2-16-20 11 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 12 CERTIFICATE 13 STATE OF FLORIDA ) 14 COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE ) 15 I, Kelli Ann Willis, Registered Professional Reporter and Certified Realtime 16 Reporter do hereby certify that I was authorized to and did stenographically report the 17 foregoing deposition of JOHN ALESSI; that a review of the transcript was not requested; and that the 18 transcript is a true record of my stenographic notes. 19 I FURTHER CERTIFY that I am not a relative, employee, attorney, or counsel of any 20 of the parties, nor am I a relative or employee of any of the parties' attorney or counsel connected 21 with the action, nor am I financially interested in the action. 22 Dated this 1st day of June, 2016. 23 24 KELLI ANN WILLIS, RPR, CRR 25