The Case of Cherie Pearson

Cherie Pearson launched a lawsuit against Leon Black in November 2022. In 1999, Cherie Pearson as a single mother living in New Jersey and commuting into Manhattan. She's got credit card debts and dreams of launching a skincare product. One night after work she agrees to go to Maxwell's office at Epstein's uppery side mansion. Once she's there she agrees to give Epstein a massage wearing a bikini and he pays her $300. There are a number of visits money changes hands, Epstein usually ends up touching himself and tries to pressure her into sex but she refuses. Then the lawsuit says, in the spring of 2002 on a weekday in the late afternoon, Miss Pearson was