Dershowitz sees break in sex case
ABUNCH OF LAWYERS walked into the bar, and Alan Dershowitz got in a few shot s.
The Harvard professor told Confidenti@l sources at a New York City Bar Association bash on Wednesday that a Florida woman accusing him of having sex with her when she was a minor has finally gone too far.
“She’s going to jail,” a pair of partygoers at the Midtown shindig say Dershowitz predicted, before he added, “Now she’s put herself on the record under oath.”
In a case filed Dec. 30 in the U.S. District Court in Florida,
Virginia Roberts claims that Dershowitz (r.) — an associate and one-time attorney for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — was one of several powerful men with whom she engaged in sex at the behest of Epstein. The billionaire financier served 13 months for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution before being released in 2009. Dershowitz has vehemently maintained his own innocence from the start.
Dershowitz “thinks she wants a book deal,” a party insider told us, adding that Dershowitz speculated as to whether she is being paid by the British tabloids to talk.
Our sources say Dershowitz wanted no part of defending Prince Andrew at the party.
“He may have done it, I don’t know. I wasn’t in the room,” he told our sources.
Dershowitz, who couldn’t be reached for comment, was one of several high-flying legal eagles at the Midtown party thrown by Fox News legal analyst Arthur Aidala . The event celebrated controversial former State Supreme Court Justice
Barry Kamins joining the partnership of Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins PC. Also on hand were Fox bombshell Megyn
Kelly , prominent divorce law yer Nicole Noonan and former Dominique Strauss-Kahn mouthpiece Benjamin
Brafman . It’s been a long road back for Kamins. The former justice resigned
REUTERS from the state Supreme Court in December following a city Department of Investigation allegation that he “engaged in political activity by a sitting judge” by offering private consultation to Charles Hynes when Hynes was Brooklyn district attorney. Fittingly, we’re told that Kamins’ new gig will have him defending lawyers who find themselves in a bind.
“It’s a happy ending,” said a source close to the firm. “If you’re being disbarred, you go to (Kamins) and he gets you out of trouble.”