David Boies Sues Alan Dershowitz in Clash of Marquee Lawyers

Lawyer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000016e-4c96-d862-a16e-cc96b5010000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">David Boies sued <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000016e-4c96-d862-a16e-cc96b5010001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Alan Dershowitz for defamation, claiming the retired Harvard Law School professor falsely accused him of conspiring with clients in an extortion scheme tied to <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000016e-4c96-d862-a16e-cc96b5010002","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Jeffrey Epstein.

The suit is the latest salvo in a bitter court fight between the two marquee lawyers. Boies represents two women who said Epstein forced them to have sex with Dershowitz when they were teenagers. Dershowitz, who had represented Epstein, denies the allegations and claims the women, Virginia Giuffre and Sarah Ransome, worked with Boies to cook up false claims against him.

David Boies

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Dershowitz “has engaged in a campaign to ...