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DAS COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.,Plaintiff, -vs-NO. 650457/2010KESHA ROSE SEBERT p/b/a KE$SHA, an individual, LUKASZ GOTTWALD p/k/aDR. LUKE, an individual, Defendants.DATE: October 18, 2011VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF PEBE SEBERT, held at Proskauer Rose, 11 Times Square, New York, New York, pursuant to Subpoena, before Hope Menaker, a Shorthand Reporter and Notary Public of the State of New York. Elisa Dreier Reporting Corp.212) 557-5558950 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022
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- CONFIDENTIAL: PEBE SEBERT -
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
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DAS COMMUNICATIONS, LTD., )
Plaintiff, )
-vs- ) NO. 650457/2010
KESHA ROSE SEBERT p/b/a KE$SHA, an )
individual, LUKASZ GOTTWALD p/k/a )
DR. LUKE, an individual, )
Defendants. )
X
DATE: October 18, 2011
TIME: 10:14 a.m.
CONFIDENTIAL VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF PEBE
SEBERT, held at Proskauer Rose, 11 Times Square,
New York, New York, pursuant to Subpoena, before
Hope Menaker, a Shorthand Reporter and Notary
Public of the State of New York.
Elisa Dreier Reporting Corp. (212) 557-5558 950 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022
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2 APPEARANCES
3 FREUNDLICH LAW
4
Attorneys for Plaintiff
5
16133 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1270
6
Encino, California 91436-2441
7
BY: KENNETH D. FREUNDLICH, ESQ.
8
9 PROSKAUER ROSE, LLP
10 Attorneys for Defendant, KESHA ROSE SEBERT
11 11 Times Square
12 New York, New York 10036-8299
13 BY: CHARLES B. ORTNER, ESQ.
14
15 MITCHELL, SILBERBERG & KNUPP, LLP
16 Attorneys for Defendant, LUKASZ GOTTWALD
17 12 East 49th Street, 30th Floor
18 New York, New York 10017-1028
19 BY: CHRISTINE LEPERA, ESQ.
20
21 ALSO PRESENT:
22 Lonnie Hamerman
23 Tom Krause, Videographer
24
25
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2 MS. LEPERA: Yeah, compound. 12:08PM
3 CorrEct. 12:08PM
4 Q. Did you communicate that to Luke? 12:08PM
5 A. I did not communicate that to Luke. 12:08PM
6 Q. Do you know if Kesha communicated 12:08PM
7 that to Luke? 12:08PM
8 A. I believe she did. 12:08PM
9 Q. And do you know if Luke responded to 12:08PM
10 her in any way? 12:08PM
11 A. I don't know. 12:08PM
12 Q. Were you told at any time before your 12:08PM
13 first meeting with DAS that Luke had slipped Kesha 12:09PM
14 a rufie and that she woke up in his bed in a hotel 12:09PM
15 room one morning? 12:09PM
16 MR. ORTNER: May I have that 12:09PM
17 question -- 12:09PM
18 MS. LEPERA: Yes. 12:09PM
19 MR. ORTNER: -- read back -- 12:09PM
20 MS. LEPERA: Exactly. 12:09PM
21 MR. ORTNER: -- very slowly and 12:09PM
22 clearly. 12:09PM
23 (Whereupon, a brief discussion was 12:09PM
24 held off record.) 12:09PM
25 MR. ORTNER: So the words were 12:09PM
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"slipped Kesha a rufie." Could you define 12:09PM
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that?
12:09PM
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Q. Do you know what a rufie is? 12:09PM
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A. I think it's some date rape drug, 12:09PM
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right?
12:09PM
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Q. Yeah. Before that first meeting
12:09PM
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with -- with David, had anyone told you that
12:09PM
9
Gottwald had slipped Kesha a date rape drug?
12:10PM
10
A. No. 12:10PM
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Q. Did anyone ever tell you that at any 12:10PM
12 time?
12:10PM
13
A. No. 12:10PM
14
Q. Were you ever told at any time prior 12:10PM
15
to when you met with David for the first time that 12:10PM
16 Luke had had a sexual relationship of any kind
12:10PM
17 with your daughter?
12:10PM
18
A. No. 12:10PM
19
Q. Are you aware of whether he had had 12:10PM
20 any kind of sexual relationship with your daughter 12:10PM
21 prior to the time you met with DAS at the Chateau 12:10PM
22 Marmont? 12:10PM
23 A. I don't believe there was, no. 12:10PM
24 Q. Were you told at any time prior to 12:10PM
25 the meeting with DAS at the Chateau Marmont that 12:10PM
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2 Luke had given your daughter drugs of any kind? 12:10PM
3 A. No. 12:11PM
4 Q. Were you told at any time prior to 12:11PM
5 your meeting with DAS that Luke had taken drugs 12:11PM
6 himself in front of Kesha? 12:11PM
7 A. I don't remember. 12:11PM
8 MS. LEPERA: For the record, I would 12:11PM
9 like this entire transcript designated 12:11PM
10 confidential. I don't believe we did that at 12:11PM
11 the intro of the session. 12:11PM
12 MR. ORTNER: I agree. 12:11PM
13 MS. LEPERA: Under the stipulation 12:11PM
14 and Protective Order. 12:11PM
15 MR. ORTNER: Same. 12:11PM
16 Q. Take a look at Exhibit 88, please. 12:11PM
17 MR. ORTNER: Are you done with -- 12:12PM
18 MR. FREUNDLICH: Yeah. 12:12PM
19 MR. ORTNER: Exhibit 88. 12:12PM
20 Q. This is an e-mail from you to David 12:12PM
21 dated January 17, 2008. 12:12PM
22 MR. ORTNER: Hold on, please. Okay. 12:12PM
23 Just to be clear, this is Exhibit 88 which 12:13PM
24 deals with a time frame years after the 12:13PM
25 Chateau Marmont meeting. 12:13PM
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2 Rudolph, which did mean David Sonenberg would
3 included -- would be included in everybody else.
4 Q. Okay. And then you write, "What
5 about the other issues (coke, drugs)?"
6 What did you mean by "coke," the
7 reference to coke there?
03:03PM
03:03PM
03:03PM
03:03PM
03:03PM
03:03PM
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A. I meant the things that David had 03:03PM
9
said about Luke that were very unattractive about 03:03PM
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his -- his personal life prior to the time we knew 03:03PM
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him -- or, I mean, he didn't specify if it was 03:03PM
12
prior or current, but it was not the type of 03:03PM
13
situation I wanted my young daughter in. 03:03PM
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Q. And what about the drugs, same thing? 03:03PM
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A. Same thing. 03:03PM
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Q. And you never heard anything about 03:03PM
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the coke and drugs from your daughter? 03:03PM
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A. No. 03:04PM
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Q. And when you say, "I can't continue 03:04PM
20
to subsidize her now," what did you mean by that? 03:04PM
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A. I was paying all her bills. 03:04PM
22
Q. And was it -- was money tight? 03:04PM
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A. Yes. 03:04PM
24
Q. Now let's go back for a moment to the 03:04PM
25
time when you paid the retainer to Mr. Clarick, 03:05PM
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