Dershowitz Denies Allegations in Law Record Op-Ed

Alan M. Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, has again denied allegations of sexual misconduct with a then-underage woman, this time in an op-ed in the Harvard Law Record, the Law School’s student newspaper.

Dershowitz was first accused of sexual misconduct in a December court filing that is part of a civil case challenging a plea deal for Jeffrey E. Epstein, a billionaire and Harvard donor who went to jail for soliciting prostitution. That initial filing and subsequent iterations of the accusations allege that Epstein forced “Jane Doe No. 3” to have sex with Dershowitz in a variety of locations, including Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach homes. Dershowitz has continually denied the veracity of these allegations both publicly and legally, appearing before a number of media outlets and filing to intervene in the civil court case, to which he is not a party.

By Katherine M Kulik

In the op-ed, Dershowitz responds to earlier criticisms of victim-blaming from two Law School students, Anna Joseph and Kerry Richards, who wrote on Feb. 18 that Dershowitz’s response to the allegations against him was “vicious and sexist.”

“Joseph and Richards have it backwards in this case. The 31-year-old perjurer is not my 'victim.' I am her victim,” Dershowitz wrote. “[T]he charges against me are not only totally made up but are provably untrue.”

—Staff writer Andrew M. Duehren can be reached at andy.duehren@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @aduehren.