Richard Johnson: Alan Dershowitz to depose ex-Victoria’s Secret CEO in Epstein case

NEW YORK — Legal eagle Alan Dershowitz has won the right to depose Leslie Wexner of Victoria’s Secret fame.

Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor, has been fighting the allegation of Virginia Giuffre that he, along with Prince Andrew, had sex with young women provided by the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Lawyer Imran Ansari, who works with Arthur Aidala, told me, “Alan Dershowitz, through his legal team, is eager to depose Leslie Wexner, and ask the pointed questions that he has long contended will expose Virginia Giuffre’s lack of credibility.”

Wexner will be questioned under oath next month. Giuffre sued Dershowitz for defamation after he called her a liar, and he countersued.

This is the first time Wexner will be formally deposed in the case.

Ansari said he believes Wexner will expose the “false allegations against Dershowitz” and “strengthen the defense against those salacious allegations while supporting the claims he has asserted against her.”

Wexner said in 2019 that Epstein, who managed his wealth for years, had deceived him.

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That was awkward.

Ryan Reynolds and wife Blake Lively attended the “Saturday Night Live” afterparty on Nov. 14 with their friend Taylor Swift.

But Reynolds used to be married to Scarlett Johansson, who is now wed with “SNL” stalwart Colin Jost.

Sources says Scarlett stayed home with her baby, and Jost steered clear of Reynolds.

“Sadly, there were no fisticuffs,” laughed my source.

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John Paulson, the billionaire who owns several hotels in Puerto Rico, is not popular among the island’s elites.

Paulson owns the St. Regis Bahia Mar and Condado Vanderbilt.

But, according to sources with ties to the island’s businessmen, the local grandees feel he has taken advantage of the island’s tax codes and has overbuilt the shoreline in Bahia Mar with new multiple resident villas that ruin the delicate ecosystem on the 483-acre resort.

Paulson — who was known to be chummy with the last governor, Ricardo Rossello — got a plush deal at Bahia Mar with little oversight from the island’s government, sources tell me.

Now going through a contentious divorce from his wife Jenny, J.P., as his friends call him, is smiling with his new girlfriend Alina De Almeida.

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Biggest thrill at the opening of “Diana” might have been Bon Jovi in the crowd, supporting his keyboardist David Bryan, who wrote the pedestrian music.

Or maybe it was the attractive creature with a long blond ponytail wearing a Diana-type outfit — at a urinal in the men’s room. “A sign of the times,” one dude laughed.

Some guests were disinvited to the afterparty, which was more of a wake given the harsh reviews.

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Allen Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, isn’t shy. On the back of his business cards, it says, “Vote out every Republican local, state and federal. F— them all.”

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Keiko Aoki, widow of Rocky Aoki of Benihana, has a new business, Chef Omakase.

She’ll send a chef to your apartment to cook up a dinner party.

“Omakase means trust in Japanese,” Keiko says. “Trust our chefs to create incredible fine dining experiences in your home.”

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Eric Roberts was in town to promote his quirky new film “The Elevator” co-starring Russian-American actress Eugenia Kuzmina. The dark family drama dropped on Amazon last week. Roberts, who seems quietly in demand these days, just finished “Babylon” with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.

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Art collector Libbie Mugrabi and skin care mogul Peter Thomas Roth checked out the opening of Carlton Fine Arts’ Miami Art Week NYC including the works of Warhol, Basquiat, Haring and Linjie Deng.

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Michael Phelps, honored at Audrey Gruss’ Hope for Depression Research Foundation lunch at the Plaza Hotel, admits he’s struggled despite all his Olympic gold medals.

“For so long, people look at when you become vulnerable as a sign of weakness, and I think that is one thing that we need to change,” the swimmer told Park magazine. “The idea of that is crazy and it’s ludicrous.”

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