How long before Joe and Jane Average figure it out?
That a great percentage of the world’s top politicians, VIPs and societal elites are evil, depraved, mentally unbalanced individuals ‘with profound sociopathic / psychopathic tendencies’
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/08/epstein-bigger-picture.html
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/06/trump-hunt-johnson-proctor-epstein.html
So how DOES he pay for it all? The sums just don’t add up on Prince Andrew’s millionaire lifestyle (funded by his Navy pension and civil list income)… until you meet his oligarch chums
- Prince Andrew was almost certainly attracted to Epstein because he had the one thing he coveted: Money
- Epstein’s connections funneled business opportunities in the Prince’s direction and he grew personally rich
His Florida home, where Andrew stayed on several occasions, presumably with police protection officers, was decorated with photographs of naked teenagers.
It boasted massage rooms, equipped with sex toys, and guest bathrooms where basins were adorned with soap in the shape of a phallus.
Yet within an extraordinarily short time of meeting this dubious character, the Prince welcomed Epstein into the Royal Family’s circle, inviting him to a birthday party at Windsor Castle, entertaining him at Balmoral and taking him shooting at Sandringham.Whatever, as the saying goes, was the Queen’s favourite son thinking?
On at least one occasion during their tawdry relationship, and perhaps more — Emily Maitlis neglected to pin him down on this front — Epstein opened his chequebook, too.
That moment occurred in 2010, when Epstein had long been a convicted child sex offender. Specifically, less than six months after Andrew had decided to spend four nights at his New York mansion.
At that point, the financier agreed to pay £15,000 to Sarah Ferguson. The cash gift reportedly allowed her to restructure vast debts, which at the time were heading towards the £5 million mark and threatening to make ugly headlines.
It also helped meet unpaid wages for her former personal assistant, Johnny O’Sullivan.
Epstein’s assistance to Andrew didn’t just come in the form of freebies and hard cash, though.
That much became abundantly clear during Saturday’s Newsnight interview, when the Prince brazenly waxed lyrical about ‘the people I met and the opportunities I was given to learn, either by him or because of him’, saying they were ‘actually very useful’.
What he appears to have been trying to argue was that Epstein’s circle of glamorous and influential contacts were not just entertaining company (for a somewhat lonely man who by all accounts has few genuine friends), but could also be leveraged into a potentially-valuable commodity. Given subsequent revelations about Andrew’s finances it’s hard to disagree.
For not only could such people assist Prince Andrew with his official trade role, they also had the ability to funnel seriously profitable business opportunities his way.
Indeed, over the years since he left the Royal Navy in 2001, the Duke appears to have begun quietly carving out a sideline working as a sort of commercial ‘fixer’ to wealthy businessmen, using his contacts book and Royal stardust to help them set up lucrative deals in far-flung corners of the globe.
The deals themselves have always been secret, as have the exact commissions he earned from them.
However, they help explain how, between 2000 and the present day, the Duke has amassed such wealth…
For years, these extravagant purchases baffled friends, given his meagre official income and lack of any proper job.
Since 2011, his official working life has revolved around an entrepreneurial charity, Pitch@Palace
‘I would compare Andrew to a hot-air balloon,’ an acquaintance once told me. ‘He seems to float serenely around, in very rarefied circles, without any visible means of support. No one has ever had a clue how he pays for it.’
However, in 2016, the Mail obtained a tranche of emails detailing his extraordinary business dealings with just one of the many groups of politically-connected entrepreneurs in his orbit.
The documents hailed from the spectacularly corrupt, but mineral-rich Central Asian country Kazakhstan, whose dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev had, in the mid-2000s, become chummy with Andrew during trade visits: at one point inviting him on a goose hunt to one of his remote hunting lodges.
…offered a chilling insight into the moral universe of some of the dodgy oligarchs in the Prince’s circle.
One set of emails was sent by a Kazakh businessman (who had been previously photographed meeting Andrew) to a group of Russian friends. It featured an obscene discussion about teenage prostitutes who would soon be joining them on holiday near to the Black Sea. Attached was video footage of each of the girls, stick thin and incredibly young, dancing in bikinis next to a pool.
Andrew was not party to this correspondence, and it should be stressed that he had also nothing to do with the holiday in question. His name instead cropped up in a separate set of emails, involving an entirely different Kazakh businessman called Kenges Rakishev.
On April 14, 2011, the Prince telephoned, then personally emailed, Rakishev on behalf of a Greek water company called EYDAP and a Swiss finance house called Aras Capital, which wanted to bid for a £385 million contract to build water and sewage networks in two large Kazakh cities, Astana and Almaty, one of which boasted Rakishev’s father-in-law as mayor.
Describing the consortium as ‘we’, and outlining broad details of what he called ‘the water plan’, the Prince then said his private secretary, Amanda Thirsk, would personally help introduce the firms to senior Kazakh political figures.
According to Greek executives involved in the bid, Andrew was to have been paid a commission of one per cent, or £3.85 million, for helping broker a successful deal.
Coincidentally, one per cent is exactly the same commission the Duchess of York had been recorded on tape in 2010 demanding in return for access to the Prince, in a red-top newspaper sting.
The sum, in addition to a £500,000 down payment, would ‘open any door you want’, she told an undercover reporter from the News of the World, posing as a wealthy businessman. ‘Look after me and he [Andrew] will look after you,’ she claimed.
‘You’ll get it back tenfold.’
But we digress. The 2011 emails, on behalf of Greek and Swiss firms, with absolutely no upside for UK Plc, were sent while Andrew was supposedly working full-time as Britain’s trade ambassador.
Perhaps intriguingly, given recent events involving a photograph of Andrew and Epstein’s ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts, Buckingham Palace initially sought to argue they were forged.
However, they later admitted the messages, which were signed ‘The Duke’ were genuine, but hired law firm Harbottle & Lewis to argue that publishing them would breach the Prince’s privacy (the Mail successfully responded that they laid bare a financial and political scandal which was clearly in the public interest).
Also in the leaked emails were messages detailing the notorious sale of Sunninghill, the Duke’s 12-bedroom former Windsor home.
It had languished on the market for five years before suddenly changing hands in November 2007. The purchaser was listed as an opaque company based in the British Virgin Islands, who for reasons never properly explained decided to pay £15 million — £3 million over the asking price — before leaving the property empty, decaying for more than eight years, before razing it to the ground.
The purchaser was later named as Timur Kulibayev, another Kazakh oligarch Andrew met on the global trade circuit.
Although Buckingham Palace had long insisted Andrew had no role whatsoever in the sale, the emails showed his private office had gone to great lengths to broker the deal, discussing interior design and security arrangements with the purchaser, while also intervening to persuade the Crown Estate to lease two fields adjacent to the property to them for a peppercorn rent.
A couple of years later, Andrew had also emailed senior figures at the State owned Royal Bank of Scotland to ask if they could arrange for the Royal Bank, Coutts (owned by RBS) to take on Mr Kulibayev as a client. His message asked them to send executives to Kazakhstan to discuss ‘wealth management’ with him. Mr Kulibayev — whose father in law is the aforementioned dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev — is of course just one of a host of wealthy but controversial businessmen the Duke has been drawn towards.
While none have proven to be as explosively controversial as Epstein, several have made ugly headlines, from Colonel Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, to Tarek Kaituni, a convicted Libyan gun smuggler who came to his daughter Eugenie’s wedding this summer, Sakher el-Materi, a one-time member of the Tunisian government who took asylum in the Seychelles after being convicted of corruption, and David Rowland, a tycoon and tax exile once branded a ‘shady financier’ in Parliament.
All have, like Epstein, got bulging wallets and are capable of great charm. Doubtless they also throw a mean party.
But when a senior Royal chooses to bring large numbers of turbo-charged plutocrats into their inner circle, and when their relationships start to extend into the financial realm, things have a habit of turning sour.
Prince Andrew may have said in his notorious interview on Saturday that he doesn’t perspire. But as the charge sheet against him slowly starts to engulf the very institution he represents, the Duke of York could be forgiven for feeling a bit hot under the collar.
This is the full BCC interview with Prince Andrew
Is This Prince Andrew’s Death Rattle? U.S. Epstein Document Cache Could Sink Beleaguered Prince
Sponsors are dropping him, he’s accused of racism (again), and now pressure is mounting for him to talk to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein. Can he hang on to his role in public life?
Prince Andrew is named in a cache of secret legal documents detailing explosive new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein that could be unsealed by a U.S. judge before the end of the year.
The revelation is just one of many fresh blows to have landed on Andrew, leaving him reeling in the aftermath of his disastrous BBC interview.
The Daily Telegraph reports Andrew could face further damaging claims about his friendship with the dead financier in the coming weeks, as a U.S. judge ponders whether to unseal more than 3,000 pages of new evidence about Epstein’s alleged crimes.
The documents formed part of a defamation lawsuit filed in 2015 (which was ultimately settled out of court) by Giuffre Roberts against the billionaire’s alleged former “madam,” the British heiress Ghislaine Maxwell. They include depositions from 29 people, including a number of new witnesses and even Epstein himself, the Telegraph reports.
Andrew is believed to be among hundreds of people named in the new documents who will be formally notified before the end of the year, to give them a chance to respond to the allegations if the papers are unsealed.
The Telegraph reports that a description of the sealed documents says they refer to “a range of allegations of sexual acts involving Plaintiff (Giuffre Roberts) and non-parties to this litigation, some famous, some not; the identities of non-parties who either allegedly engaged in sexual acts with Plaintiff or who allegedly facilitated such acts.”
One of the many unproven theories as to why Andrew agreed to do the interview circulating this week is that he hoped to burnish his own image ahead of further allegations emerging.
The fresh U.S. legal threat came as Andrew faced calls to give a formal statement to the FBI from an unnamed woman who appeared with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred to say that she was launching her own case against Epstein’s estate for allegedly abusing her at the age of 15. She said that the prospect of meeting Prince Andrew was used by Epstein to try and lure her to his Caribbean island.
Back in the U.K., Andrew’s world continued to crumble as it was revealed that KPMG will not renew its lapsed sponsorship of his Pitch @ Palace business entrepreneurship program, and drug firm AstraZeneca said it was reviewing its participation.
Standard Chartered bank said it won’t be renewing its sponsorship of the initiative when it ends in February, and the organization has removed a webpage boasting of its list of supporters.
Andrew also faces being cut loose from charities of which he is patron. The Outward Bound Trust, which also has the prince’s daughter Beatrice as a trustee, is holding a special meeting this week that could see Andrew ditched.
Students at Huddersfield University have launched a campaign for Prince Andrew to resign as chancellor, with a social-media campaign under the hashtag #NotMyChancellor.
It has also emerged that Giuffre Roberts filmed a BBC interview before Andrew gave his, and this may now be re-recorded in the light of Andrew’s claims.
A Sky News poll, meanwhile had more bad news for Andrew—saying that just 6 percent of the public believed his account of his friendship with Epstein.
Prince Andrew is a director at
OUTWARD BOUND GLOBAL
Other directors listed – Sir Jimmy Savile Prince Philip, Prince Edward, Lynne de Rothschild (wife of Evelyn, who is listed in Epstein’s black book), Ffion Llywelyn Hague (wife of William Hague)
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/00405180/OUTWARD-BOUND-GLOBAL/companies-house-data
Another director of Outward Bound Global is Sir Timothy Brighouse. He was also a director at Academy of Youth Limited
“DJ Jimmy Savile shows the Duke of Edinburgh where he keeps his cigar before the Variety Club national sponsored sports luncheon at the Hilton Hotel, London. The Duke was guest of honour at the lunch to benefit the Outward Bound Trust – he is patron – and the Variety Club Heart Fund – he is a Gold Life Member. ”
16 April 1980
Radio One Disc Jockeys take time off to push Jimmy Savile from Broadcasting House to Park Lane by bed, in aid of the Variety Club of Great Britain and the Outward Bound Trust. (L-R) Simon Bates, Dave Lee Travis, Tony Blackburn, Kid Jensen and Steve Wright.
Alleged abuse at one of their camps
“Send a picture of your little nymphet to the Royal palace.”
1984 Johnny Carson makes a joke about Prince Andrew being a pedophile.
1980 Cosmos Bachelor of the Month – Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein’s friends and colleagues:
Swedish connections, Eva Anderson and husband Glenn Dubin:
Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, the founder of the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Could one of Manhattan’s most prominent power couples know more about the Epstein mystery?
The three were close, after all. Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden, dated Epstein for years before she and Dubin married in 1994. Even after Epstein’s conviction in 2008, the couple stayed in contact with the registered sex offender, inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner at their home in Palm Beach the following year. Andersson-Dubin also wrote an email to Epstein’s probation officer, asserting that she was “100% comfortable with Jeffrey Epstein around my children,” who were then all minors.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/glenn-dubin-epstein-questions
Ghislaine and Eva Anderson
Epstein story – Journalist admits the Palace shut it down. Also, “Didn’t meet ABCs editorial standards”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1191716801178034180
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In 1995, Ghislaine Corp. was officially founded by Epstein and Amanda J. Ellison.
Dr. Ralph M Ellison was CEO of DOR BioPharma Inc., a small company processing ricin, a powerful toxin.
Alexander Haig was appointed Board Chairman of DOR in 2003.
Dr. Ellison was a co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director of PolaRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., an oncology focused drug development company that developed Trisenox(R) (arsenic trioxide) for the treatment of cancer.
Dr. Ellison holds a degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Ellisons’ businesses
https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Thousand-Oaks/sa-business-club-corporation-5495668.aspx
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Pharmaceutical exec sells North Bay Road home for $13M
A pharmaceutical executive and his wife have sold their Spanish-style waterfront home on Miami Beach’s North Bay Road for $12.9 million, or about $2,000 per square foot.
Ralph M. and Amanda J. Ellisonsold their 6,440-square-foot, six-bedroom home at 4712 North Bay Road to 4712 NBR LLC.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040709005284/en/DOR-BioPharma-Announces-Management
2007
^ Mandy Ellison chose South African charity Alexanda Children’s home
Ellisons
2019 WatchBox Global President + Chief Operating Officer, Amanda Ellison
What motivated you to introduce the WatchBox Women’s Leadership Initiative
The foundation for this program was always with me. I grew up within the patriarchal culture of South Africa where women had a predestined path which involved very little emphasis on a career. Yet I couldn’t imagine being anything but career-driven.
I often see women in business struggling with the qualities of confidence and resilience. If I can guide the women in our company – in any small way – to find their inner voice, to believe their opinion actually matters, and to figure out how to stand up when they are knocked down, then I will truly be thrilled. This is what motivated me to formalize our Women’s Leadership Initiative – to provide mentorship as well as a network, resource, and learning and development program. I want to find our hidden pearls and help them grow!
https://www.thewatchbox.com/blog/watchbox-president-amanda-ellison.html
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Ex-teen model claims NYC exec tied to Ghislaine Maxwell used her as sex slave
November 2, 2019
Nikki Henry, left, and Douglas Graham
A Manhattan exec with close ties to Jeffrey Epstein-fixer Ghislaine Maxwell’s family began grooming a child model as his sex slave when she was just 14, a stunning new lawsuit claims.
Douglas Graham was 45 — with an eye “for young women, sadomasochistic sex, and dungeons” — when he spotted Nikki Henry at a modeling event in Union Square in 1995, she claims in court papers. He made a bee-line for the teenager and began molding a relationship that escalated to midday hotel-room rendezvous and brutal S&M sessions, Henry alleges in the lawsuit.
The relationship — despite the 31-year age gap — stretched over decades and only recently ended, Henry said.
A shaken, tearful Henry, now 38, told The Post in an interview she never had children or got married because of the relationship, and often spent weeks hiding out in the couple’s Manhattan apartment as Graham — who wouldn’t even let her take a bath alone — isolated her from the outside world.
“All I have now is fear,” she said.
Graham, now 69, was close with Maxwell’s father, media mogul Robert Maxwell, she said. Graham “refined his appetites … through his friendship with Maxwell and his entourage which included Ghislaine … and other individuals of ill repute, according to the suit.
Graham, an author and former managing director for international auditing firm KPMG, allegedly used company credit cards to indulge his lurid fascination with young girls, Henry charges in the Oct. 18 Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit she filed against him under New York’s Child Victims Act. The law opened a one-year window for people of any age to seek damages against those accused of molesting them as kids.
Graham wined and dined Henry, then a skinny, starry-eyed teenager whose father worked long hours at the UN and whose mother was still at home in the family’s native Dominica, she said.
“I was 14, 15 going to Gramercy Tavern,” she said. “He took me to see the Chippendale dancers when I was 15. I think I was 16 when we went to England.”
Her lawyer, Paul D’Emilia, said, “The audacity of Mr. Graham’s actions are stunning. He didn’t even feel a need to sneak around.”
Graham denied the allegations, claiming he didn’t start dating Henry until she was in her 20s and accusing her of being abusive.
The Connecticut man said he’s repeatedly called police on Henry and has taken out seven orders of protection against her.
“This current accusation that she is making is simply a continuation of the harassment process,” he told The Post, slamming the lawsuit as “clearly slanderous.”
Ghislaine Maxwell attended Jeff Bezos’ secretive writers’ retreat: report
November 1, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s ex gal pal and alleged fixer Ghislaine Maxwell was a guest at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ secretive writers’ retreat last year, according to a new report published Friday.
The British socialite, who has been accused of grooming young women for the convicted pedophile’s sex-trafficking ring, attended the secretive Campfire retreat just weeks before a bombshell Miami Herald investigation resurfaced Epstein’s crimes, according to the Vice report.
Two 2018 Campfire attendees broke with the shroud of secrecy surrounding the event and told Vice that Maxwell was at the exclusive annual event hosted by the Amazon founder and had previously attended two others.
Campfire is an all-expenses-paid literary retreat where dozens of well-known novelists rub shoulders with celebrities, akin to the annual blowout Google Camp.
Guests at the event, which Bezos started in 2009, are told the entire trip is off the record, but a production company that staged Campfire in 2011 described the event as a “private gathering and conference of influential artists, writers, activists and scientists for sharing of inspiration and stories.”
Reporting on Maxwell’s alleged role in Epstein’s sex-trafficking network was well documented in a 2011 Daily Mail report, but it was an investigation by Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown that saw the financier arrested on fresh charges.
According to the report, Campfire 2018 took place shortly before Brown’s Nov. 28 article.
Reps for Amazon could not immediately be reached for comment.
For Jeffrey Epstein, one island hideaway wasn’t enough. How he stealthily acquired a second
Oct 1 2019
Epstein set his sights on the body of land across the channel, Great St. James Cay, deciding that it should be his as well. The only problem was, its owner was determined not to deal with Epstein, a registered sex offender who had narrowly wriggled out of a federal trafficking case in 2008.
The multimillionaire financial advisor was undeterred. According to records examined by the Miami Herald and McClatchy, and interviews, Epstein set up an opaque limited liability company, or LLC, making it appear in the negotiations that the true owner was one Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, a wealthy Dubai businessman with connections to the royal family. A $22.5 million deal was worked out.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem — Sultan is his name, not his title — confirmed through an aide that Epstein had asked to use his name in an unspecified business bid but was told no.
It appears Epstein used it anyway.
The corporate vehicle for the 2016 purchase was an anonymous Virgin Islands corporation, Great St. Jim, LLC. In communications between lawyers, Bin Sulayem is repeatedly referenced as what in legal parlance is called the ultimate beneficial owner. The parties signed the contract on Jan. 8, 2016.
At least Erika Kellerhals signed it for Great St. Jim, LLC. The contract paperwork included Bin Sulayem’s name but the space above it — where the signature would normally be — is left unsigned. When the sale closed on Jan. 28, 2016, there was no apparent reference to Bin Sulayem anywhere in the subsequent documentation.
Bin Sulayem is a business mogul from Dubai with longstanding connections to the ruling Maktoum family. He has indirect connections to the Virgin Islands. He got his start developing and running Dubai’s port and tax-free zone in the mid-1980s, later expanding into government-tied real estate and port ventures. He is the CEO and chairman of the global ports operator DP World, and was a board member of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, the sovereign wealth fund of Dubai.
He has business ties to an Epstein friend and co-investor named Andrew Farkas, a prominent New York developer. Farkas, who is friends with President Donald Trump, is an investor in buildings and an online real estate funding firm owned by Kushner Companies, belonging to the family of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Farkas and his girlfriend brought Bin Sulayem to Trump’s inaugural ball in 2017, the New York Post reported at the time.
Bin Sulayem was with Farkas during the March 2007 opening of Yacht Haven Grande, the Virgin Islands’ prestigious marina, located alongside the cruise ship terminal. A photo from that opening shows a smiling Farkas and Bin Sulayem together, surrounded by Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross and a boyish Donald Trump Jr.
Yacht Haven is owned by Ion Global Yachting, which operates six luxury marinas in the Caribbean and four others in Latin America. It was founded by Farkas and its parent company is Farkas’ Island Capital Group.
Island Capital partnered with Istithmar World, an investment fund of the royal family of Dubai, just two years earlier. Together they purchased 230 Park Avenue — more commonly known as The Helmsley Building, the New York landmark named after its eccentric one-time owner, the late Leona Helmsley.
A spokesman for Ion Global said Bin Sulayem does not own a stake in the Virgin Islands marina and that neither Bin Sulayem nor any associated company provided financing for it.
However, what wasn’t widely known until a story in July from Bloomberg, and local reporting in the Virgin Islands, was that Epstein and Farkas together owned American Yacht Harbor, a different Virgin Islands marina, located on the east side of St. Thomas.
Farkas purchased it in January 2007, and documents obtained by Bloomberg from an unrelated lawsuit showed that later that same year Epstein took a 50 percent stake. That was around the time that the FBI had drafted a 53-page indictment naming Epstein. That indictment was shelved in favor of an arrangement that Epstein would plead to minor solicitation charges in state court. The secretive deal, highlighted last November in a Miami Herald investigative series, Perversion of Justice, allowed Epstein to serve just 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail.
Farkas declined to discuss if he had other business dealings with Epstein, how long they’d done business together or what becomes of Epstein’s 50 percent stake.
In interviews over the years, Epstein has suggested he was helping manage the Saudi royal family’s wealth but there is no firm evidence that he acted privately in a similar capacity for others in the region.
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How Jeffrey Epstein ‘set up meeting between ‘Petie’ Mandelson and US billionaire banker from his prison cell’
- Channel 4 Dispatches will claim Prince Andrew met Epstein ‘at least ten times’
- Peter Mandelson ‘asked Jeffrey Epstein to set up meeting’ with JP Morgan chair
- Mr Mandelson was de facto Deputy Prime Minister to PM Gordon Brown in 2009
Peter Mandelson phoned Jeffrey Epstein to seek a personal favour while the disgraced US financier was serving a sentence for child sex offences, according to a TV documentary.
As de facto Deputy Prime Minister to Gordon Brown in 2009, Lord Mandelson asked Epstein – who was then on day release – to arrange a meeting with a billionaire New York banker.
Channel 4’s Dispatches allege Epstein agreed instantly. A friend of Epstein said the financier ‘sorted’ a meeting between Lord Mandelson – whom he called ‘Petie’ – and Jamie Dimon, the billionaire chairman of US investment bank JP Morgan.
Lord Mandelson asked Epstein – who was then on day release – to arrange a meeting with a billionaire New York banker. Channel 4’s Dispatches allege Epstein agreed instantly
At the time, Epstein, who killed himself in August, was serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to procuring a 14-year-old girl for prostitution.
The financier’s friend, who requested anonymity, said: ‘I was astonished that a British Cabinet Minister… probably the most powerful man other than the Prime Minister, was calling Jeffrey in jail to make an appointment… with a very powerful banker in New York.’
In 2005 Lord Mandelson was photographed shopping with Epstein in the US Virgin Islands.
He also featured in the financier’s ‘little black book’ of contacts encompassing every sphere of influence, from politics to royalty.
Lord Mandelson’s entry included ten numbers, including home numbers and mobile details for his partner.
The friend, who has never spoken before, said the exchange with the politician ‘demonstrated that as far as Jeffrey was concerned… life was carrying on as if nothing had happened’.
Asked if the phone call had worked, the friend replied: ‘Yep, it was sorted out.’
He added: ‘You don’t call Peter Mandelson ‘Petie’ if you’re not a close friend.’
Lawyers for Lord Mandelson said he ‘has no recollection of a telephone conversation with Mr Epstein in January 2009… in which he allegedly requested Mr Epstein set up a meeting with Jamie Dimon’.
They added: ‘Our client would have no need to make such a request… As Business Secretary… he met or talked on the phone to bank CEOs on a regular basis, including Mr Dimon.’
Court documents show Epstein unsuccessfully applied to a judge in late 2009 to leave his Florida home, where he was under house arrest, for a meeting in New York with an unnamed British Minister to discuss British universities.
The Minister was described as an ‘under-secretary to the Prime Minister of Great Britain’.
Lord Mandelson has denied being the Minister and his spokesman said he was in London during those dates.
In The Prince And The Paedophile, to be broadcast at 10pm tomorrow, Dispatches also explores Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andrew and claims the men met at least ten times.
Buckingham Palace has said ‘any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue’.
Lawyers for Lord Mandelson said he ‘has no recollection of a telephone conversation with Mr Epstein in January 2009… in which he allegedly requested Mr Epstein set up a meeting with Jamie Dimon’. Mr Dimon is pictured above
Peter Mandelson lobbied Tony Blair for alleged paedophile Lord Janner to receive a peerage.” Janner was “elevated to the House of Lords 6yrs after being publicly accused of child sex abuse in a high-profile court case.
20 Oct 2019
Channel 4 Dispatches Verified account @C4Dispatches
Prince Andrew & paedophile Jeffrey Epstein were close friends for 12 years. Dispatches compared Epstein’s flight logs & address book with Andrew’s schedule and found that over their years of friendship the pair met at least 10 times. The Prince often stayed with Epstein for days.
An Italian Family with ties to the Vatican, an Emblem of a snake swallowing a human all connected to the husband of an Epstein Model who flew on Lolita Express with ties to National Healthcare, Biotech, Oncology and AI
In this article you will find,
- Brief rundown of Nicole Junkermann
- her husband, Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti’s history and how he connects to the Vatican.
- DDOS attacks which have taken place concerning research and searches related to Junkermann and her husband’s family’s ties to the Vatican.
- Why are there also perpetrators that seek to make certain network resources unavailable to their intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. What exactly are they afraid of?
- More interesting investments of Nicole Junkermann, the Brachetti Peretti family and the Borromeo family and who they are connected to including Google partnerships.
- The Cardinals of the Borromeo family and the Luciferian symbolism in their Coat of Arms
- Interesting how the best-known members of the family of the House of Borromeo were were the cardinals and Archbishops of Milan and had a library called the Ambrosian Library.
- Peter Thiel and parabiosis with a company called Ambrosia. Is this blood letting to benefit elites? You decide from the articles and research.
- See Junkermann’s investments in companies connected to Google. Wonder why that is?
- Find how in November 2018, Junkermann was appointed to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s Healthtech Advisory Board. The board guides the UK Government on its mission to transform technology in the NHS.
- So this is the board guides the UK Government on its mission to transform technology in the NHS and Nicole Junkermann who flew on the Lolita Express with Epstein 3 times, once alone is Secretary of State for this Advisory Board?
- https://www.sortiraparis.com/album-photo/576-people-inauguration-de-la-boutique-mango/23693-pierre-sapin-nicole-junkermann-isak-andic
- Her husband’s ties to the Vatican through his mother and his brother’s wife.
- Connection to a family Crest of a serpent swallowing a human.
- See who all of these globalist companies are connected to and ask yourself. . .why all of the conflicts of interests? Are they really trying to “help” humans through pharmaceuticals, biotech and AI or is something else at play?
Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel
A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.
Since the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to intelligence, described in-depth in a recent MintPress investigative series, have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose.
For those who have examined Epstein’s ties to intelligence, there are clear links to both U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, leaving it somewhat open to debate as to which country’s intelligence apparatus was closest to Epstein and most involved in his blackmail/sex-trafficking activities. A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.
In an interview with Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer and award-winning investigative journalist for Narativ, the former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period.
“They found a niche”
In an interview last week with the independent outlet Narativ, Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told his interviewer Zev Shalev that he had been introduced to Jeffrey Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and Ben-Menashe’s involvement with Iran-Contra was ongoing. Ben-Menashe did not specify the year he met Epstein.
Ben-Menashe told Shalev that “he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the Maxwell-Owned Daily Mirror], it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing what we were doing.” Past reporting by Seymour Hersh and others revealed that Maxwell, Davies and Ben-Menashe were involved in the transfer and sale of military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of Israeli intelligence during this time period.
He then added that Maxwell had stated during the introduction that “your Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Shalev later noted that Maxwell “had an extensive network in Israel at the time, which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to Ben-Menashe.”
Ben-Menashe went on to say that he had “met him [Epstein] a few times in Maxwell’s office, that was it.” He also said he was not aware of Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the time, but that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer in which he, Davies and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s behalf.
However, as MintPress reported in Part IV of the investigative series “Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. For instance, after leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, Epstein began working in the realms of shadow finance as a self-described “financial bounty hunter,” where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. Epstein would later forge a business relationship with a CIA front company involved in another aspect of Iran-Contra, the airline Southern Air Transport, on behalf of Leslie Wexner’s company, The Limited.
During this period, it is also known that Epstein became well acquainted with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s. Leese would later introduce Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a “genius” and describing his lack of morals during that introduction. Thus, there are indications that Epstein was involved with Middle Eastern arms deals, including some related to Iran-Contra, during this period. In addition, Epstein would later claim (and then subsequently deny) having worked for the CIA during this period.
After having been introduced to Epstein, Ben-Menashe claimed that neither he nor Davies were impressed with Epstein and considered him “not very competent.” He added that Ghislaine Maxwell had “fallen for” Epstein and that he believed that the romantic relationship between his daughter and Epstein led Robert Maxwell to work to bring the latter into the “family business” — i.e., Maxwell’s dealings with Israeli intelligence. This information is very revealing, given that the narrative, until now at least, has been that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not meet and begin their relationship until after Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, after which Ghislaine moved to New York.
whitneywebb – Several articles from the 90s and early 00s about Jeffrey Epstein, well before his dark secrets were exposed, have been scrubbed fr the internet in recent years. We obtained several of them & when you read them, it’s easy to see why they were taken offline
These Scrubbed Reports Reveal New Secrets Into the Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein Relationship
Several now-censored reports from the 1990s and early 2000s reveal that Prince Andrew’s involvement with the minors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein is greater than previously believed.
October 14th, 2019
While the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has largely faded from media coverage in the United States, it has continued to attract attention abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom in connection with Epstein’s long-standing association with Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and the Queen’s son.
The Epstein-Prince Andrew relationship has long been a fascination of the U.K. press, with numerous articles dating back to the early 2000s detailing the most outrageous aspects of their relationship. Prior to that, Epstein had also garnered attention from U.K. newspapers regarding his association with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose reputation in the U.K. is rather notorious, as was that of her father, Robert Maxwell.
Yet, since Epstein’s arrest in July, many of these older articles on Epstein and Maxwell, as well as those focusing on the Epstein-Prince Andrew relationship, have disappeared from the archives of several prominent U.K. media outlets that reported on these relationships years ago.
Several of these articles, though largely scrubbed from the internet, were recently obtained by MintPress and a review of their contents maks the likely motive behind their disappearance clear: several articles not only reference Epstein’s connection to both U.S. and Israeli intelligence years before the first investigation into Epstein’s exploitation of minors had even begun, but also reveal surprising aspects of Prince Andrew’s involvement with Epstein that strongly suggest that the Prince partook in illicit sexual activities with minors to a much greater extent than has previously been reported.
New, disturbing details of Prince Andrew’s early links to Epstein
Since Epstein was arrested the first time in 2006 and even more so after he was arrested again this past July, those named in press reports as his associates have made every effort to distance themselves from the accused pedophile and sex trafficker. For this reason, press reports that discuss Epstein long before there was any hint of the larger scandal are particularly important for understanding the true nature of Epstein’s past associations with the rich and powerful.
In light of what is now known about Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation and sex trafficking activities, several reports from the late 1990s and early 2000s contain details long since forgotten regarding Epstein’s relationship with Prince Andrew.
One particularly censored article that appeared in London’s Evening Standard in January 2001, for instance, gives several indications regarding the apparent entrapment of Prince Andrew as part of Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation, which is now known to have been connected to intelligence — specifically Israeli military intelligence, according to recent revelations in the case.
The article, written by Evening Standard journalist Nigel Rosser, quotes a personal friend of both Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein as saying the following about their friendship with Prince Andrew:
A screenshot from a now-deleted 2001 Evening Standard article
Another friend of Maxwell and Epstein made similar claims that appear in the same article:
A screenshot from the same Evening Standard article
The article further describes Epstein and Prince Andrew as having a “curious symbiotic relationship,” adding that “wherever Ghislaine is seen with Prince Andrew, Epstein isn’t far behind.”
These quotes are particularly telling now that it is a matter of record that Epstein was seeking out rich and powerful individuals and entrapping them with minors for the purpose of blackmail. The fact that personal friends of Epstein and Maxwell at the time openly stated that their “manipulative” relationship with Prince Andrew was “very premeditated” and “probably being done for Epstein” strongly suggests that not only was the Prince entrapped, but that this type of entrapment activity was known to occur among those who were close to Epstein and Maxwell at the time.
Prince Andrew — as a member of the Royal Family, which is very protective of its social reputation, as well as the U.K. envoy for investment and trade — certainly fits into the category of people that Epstein entrapped on behalf of intelligence: rich, politically powerful, wary of damaging their social reputation, and thus susceptible to blackmail.
Notably, the year this article was published (2001), is the same year that Epstein’s most well-known accuser and victim, Virginia Giuffre (then Virginia Roberts), claims that she was introduced to Prince Andrew by Maxwell and Epstein and forced to have sex with the Prince on at least three occasions. She has also claimed that Epstein would subsequently instruct her to describe the encounters in order to learn compromising information about the Prince’s sexual habits and preferences. Her claims regarding Epstein’s trafficking of her, specifically to Prince Andrew, have since been largely corroborated by photographic evidence, flight logs, and public records.
This undated photo released by Virginia Giuffre shows Prince Andrew posing with a young Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell is shown standing in the background
While it appears that Prince Andrew was deliberately entrapped as part of Epstein’s intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation, the article further suggests that Andrew’s involvement with the minors exploited by Epstein went far beyond his alleged three encounters with Giuffre.
Rosser quotes a friend of Prince Andrew’s ex-wife Sara Ferguson as saying that Andrew “used to be smart when he came back from abroad…He’s started having a girl massage him…He even travels abroad with his own massage mattress.”
During this same time period, Epstein and Maxwell also introduced Prince Andrew to “sex aid entrepreneur” Christine Drangsholt during a trip to Mar-a-Lago and describes Andrew traveling to Los Angeles, where he was seen “flirting…with a group of young girls,” and to Phuket, Thailand where he “wandered around the sex bars in the area’s red light district.” The Los Angeles trip saw Andrew accompanied by artist and close friend of Michael Jackson, Bruce Livingstone Strong, and Ghislaine Maxwell accompanied Andrew to Thailand.
The mentions of massages from a “girl” and Andrew traveling around with Maxwell and Epstein while bringing along “his own massage mattress,” are particularly striking given what is now known about Epstein’s sex trafficking and sexual blackmail operation. Court documents, police reports, and other evidence have since made it clear that “massage” was the code word Epstein and his co-conspirators used for sex with the minors he exploited and massage tables and sex toys were frequently present together in the rooms of his various residences where he forced underage girls to engage in sexual acts with him and others.
Most notable of all is the fact that claims of Prince Andrew receiving “massages” from girls during his trips with Epstein and Maxwell were published in January 2001, at least two months before Virginia Giuffre states that she was first introduced to and forced to have sex with the Prince in March of 2001. This means that the claims of Epstein- and Maxwell-brokered “massages” refer to at least one other girl, strongly suggesting that Andrew’s involvement with minors exploited by Epstein is greater than has been recently acknowledged.
Other recently reported information has added to the likelihood that Prince Andrew engaged in illicit activities with more minors than Virginia Giuffre. For instance, the FBI recently expanded its probe into Epstein’s sex trafficking network to include a specific focus on the Prince’s role. The FBI has claimed that they are reviewing claims regarding Prince Andrew made by other Epstein victims aside from Giuffre, but did not specify the nature of those claims.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s open secret
Media reports cite Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell as having developed a close relationship at least by February 2000, when Andrew had spent a week at Epstein’s controversial New York penthouse at 9 East 71st Street. One report published in 2000 by London’s Sunday Times claimed that the two were introduced by Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, often referred to as “Fergie” in the press, and further claims that this introduction had taken place several years prior. Epstein is alleged to have first been introduced to Andrew via Maxwell in 1999.
A screenshot from a now-deleted 2000 Sunday Times article
Years after this introduction was made, Jeffrey Epstein would provide financial assistance to Ferguson at Prince Andrew’s behest by paying Ferguson’s former personal assistant £15,000, allegedly in order to allow for “a wider restructuring of Sarah’s £5 million debts to take place,” according to The Telegraph.
Oddly, by April of that year, Maxwell and Prince Andrew were spotted by their fellow diners at a posh New York restaurant holding hands, prompting both the Prince and Maxwell to claim that their relationship was merely “platonic.” However, a separate report from 2007 in the Evening Standard refers to Maxwell as one of Prince Andrew’s former girlfriends.
Within a year of their close relationship having become public, Andrew and Ghislaine were reported to have gone on eight different vacations together, of which Epstein accompanied them for five. Andrew also brought Maxwell and Epstein to celebrate the Queen’s birthday in 2000 as his personal guests.
Several reports from this period also provide interesting insight into Maxwell’s business activities and private life. One article from 2000, published in London’s Sunday Times, states that “for all her high-profile appearances on Manhattan’s A-List merry-go-round, she [Maxwell] is secretive to the point of paranoia and her business affairs are deeply mysterious.” It goes on to say that Maxwell “has been building a business empire as opaque as father’s” — referencing Robert Maxwell’s business empire, which included multiple front companies for Israeli intelligence — and adds that “her office in Manhattan refuses to confirm even the nature or the name of her business.”
On her relationship with Epstein, it states that “he’s always kept her secrets, no one knows what their relationship is really about.” An article from 2001 claims that Maxwell’s Manhattan lifestyle, her New York residence and her vehicles were all purchased by Epstein and that she was employed as his “consultant” while also acting as his social organizer and interior designer.
One report on Maxwell — which was published by the Evening Standard in 2003, years before Epstein was first publicly revealed to be exploiting minors — contains very telling information about Maxwell’s work for Epstein. It states “Ghislaine has risen, largely thanks to property developer Epstein bankrolling her, to become queen of the billionaires’ social circuit,” adding that “Jeffrey only likes billionaires or very young women and uses Ghislaine as his social pimp.” It then discusses “rumors” that Maxwell was hosting “bizarre parties at her house to which she invites a dozen or so young girls, then brandishes a whip and teaches them how to improve their sexual techniques.”
Given what is now known about Maxwell’s role as Epstein’s procurer of underage girls and her role in “training” them in sexual techniques, this passage — again from 2003 — reveals that Epstein’s and Maxwell’s dark acts were pretty much an open secret for years prior to Epstein’s first arrest in 2007.
Jeffrey Epstein, spy and property mogul?
One recurring theme in many of these older reports from the U.K. is their mention of Epstein’s alleged ties to both U.S. and Israeli intelligence. For instance, Nigel Rosser’s 2001 article contains the following passage:
A screenshot from a now-deleted 2001 Evening Standard article
Another article, published in 1992 in the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday, describes “rumors” that linked Epstein to the CIA and the Mossad and claimed that he had worked as “a corporate spy hired by big businesses to uncover money that had been embezzled.” In addition, an article published in 2000 in London’s Sunday Times also states of Epstein that “nobody knows whether he’s a concert pianist, property developer, CIA agent, a math teacher or a member of Mossad.”
A screenshot from a now-deleted 2000 Sunday Times article
Notably, these rumors of Epstein’s links to intelligence have since been confirmed. The CIA-Mossad links to Epstein were detailed in a recent MintPress investigative series and several mainstream media reports have corroborated Epstein’s time as a self-described “financial bounty hunter” who hunted down embezzled funds and also hid stolen money for powerful people and governments.
Another odd commonality among these now-scrubbed articles on Epstein from the 1990s and early 2000s is that the majority of them refer to Epstein not as a “financier” or “hedge fund manager,” as has become common in more recent reports, but as a “New York property developer” and even as a “property mogul.”
For instance, the 2001 Evening Standard article introduces Epstein as an “immensely powerful New York property developer and financier” with an “intensively secret business life” who “owns properties all over the country [the U.S.].” It also states that Epstein had made millions from “his business links with the likes of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner” during the 1990s and beyond.
A screenshot from a now-deleted 2001 Evening Standard article
Wexner, in addition to his other close financial ties to Epstein, was involved in several Manhattan real estate deals with Epstein and Epstein’s brother Mark while Donald Trump was then best known for his career as a New York property developer and real estate mogul. Trump is also cited in a separate article from January 2001 as being good friends with both Prince Andrew and his ex-wife.
^ At Epstein’s Manhattan mansion 2011…James E Stanley, Lawrence Summers, Epstein, Bill Gates and Boris Nikolic
In addition, this article’s claim regarding Epstein’s most notable “business links” in 2001 contradicts Bill Gates’ recent assertions that he never had any business relationship with Epstein and did not meet with him until 2013. Notably, Gates’ former chief scientific adviser was recently named as an alternate executor for Epstein’s will and Gates appears on the flight logs of Epstein’s now-infamous private plane. Gates, one of the world’s richest men, has since claimed that he only had met with Epstein in order to meet other wealthy people and to discuss “philanthropy.”
Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida in 2000. Photo | Davidoff Studios
Another article in the Evening Standard refers to Epstein as a “property mogul.” Several other articles — such as a 2000 article from Australia’s Sunday Mail, a 1995 article from Australia’s Sun Herald, and a 1995 article from the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday — also refer to Epstein as chiefly a “property developer.” Interestingly, references to Epstein as a property developer continued to occur (though less frequently) after his first arrest in 2007 and then again after his recent arrest this past July, yet oddly only in non-U.S. newspapers. Another article states that Ghislaine Maxwell had sold property on Epstein’s behalf and was also involved in the New York real estate market.
While several articles in the early 2000s describe Epstein as both “property developer” and “financier,” even earlier articles about Epstein refer to him exclusively as a “property developer.” For instance, the 1992 article in the Mail on Sunday cited above referred to Epstein as “a shadowy, almost maverick New York property developer” and noted that, even then, Epstein appeared “to have an inexhaustible supply of money and yet no one seems able to answer the question of precisely what the source.”
As will be revealed in an upcoming MintPress investigative series, these references allude to Epstein’s shady business activities in the New York and Palm Beach real estate markets from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s that were used to launder massive amounts of money for organized crime and intelligence. It is likely for this reason that Epstein’s real estate activities during this period have been so deliberately ignored by the U.S. press, even though other aspects of his financial activities were heavily scrutinized in recent months.
Indeed, in examining Epstein’s involvement in real estate markets, particularly in New York, it becomes clear that those activities have no shortage of controversial tie-ins to the current U.S. presidential administration as well as major New York power players involved in suspect financial activity immediately prior to the September 11 attacks as well as the 2008 financial crisis. All of those connections and more will be explored in MintPress’ upcoming investigative series on the financial crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and their broader implications.
“The Los Angeles trip saw Prince Andrew accompanied by artist and close friend of Michael Jackson, Bruce Livingstone Strong. “Ghislaine Maxwell accompanied Andrew to Thailand.”
Brett-Livingstone Strong (born 31 October 1953) is an Australian-born artist,[1][2] best known for his sculptures of Hollywood celebrities.[3]
Career
In 1972, Strong was commissioned to paint the royal invitation for the opening of the Sydney Opera House by Queen Elizabeth II.[citation needed]
In 1977, Strong carved John Wayne‘s face in a 12½-ton boulder that had fallen onto the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.[1][4] In 1979, he sold it to an Arizona company and it currently resides in the library of the Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas.[5]
Strong created a life-size bronze statue of John Lennon,[4][6] entitled Imagine. He began work on the sculpture as a tribute to Lennon after the musician’s death in 1980.[6] Originally unveiled in New York City by Andy Warhol, it currently is in the possession of a private collector.[citation needed]
Strong painted a portrait of Michael Jackson entitled The Book which reportedly sold for $2.1 million to Hiromichi Saeki Corp. in 1990,[2][7] making it the most money ever paid to a living artist for the sale of a portrait.[8] This portrait is claimed to be the only portrait that Michael Jackson sat for an artist’s rendering and made its first appearance since 1992 in July 2009.[2][7] It was displayed for public viewing in Harlem near the Apollo Theater.[2] Strong was a good friend of Michael Jackson and Strong’s studio houses a large collection of Jackson’s artwork.[9]
In the 1980s, Strong completed work on the National Monument to the US Constitution, commissioned by former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.[10] The monument was to have been dedicated by president George W. Bush and placed on the grounds of the White House.[citation needed]
Currently the monument is part of a nationwide educational program entitled The Spirit of Freedom about the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.[citation needed]
In the mid 1980s, Strong’s painting Homage a Henri Rousseau became the cover artwork for the Fleetwood Mac album Tango in the Night.[11] The original painting had been bought by singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and was hanging in Strong’s home at the time.[citation needed]
Strong created NASA‘s National Space Exploration Monument for display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.[citation needed] In July 1994, Vice-President Al Gore announced this monument honouring the men and women of the United States Space Program and celebrating the anniversary of man’s landing on the moon.[citation needed]
In the late 1990s Strong proposed a City of Angels Monument project designed to create a symbol for Los Angeles along the lines of New York’s Statue of Liberty or Paris’ Eiffel Tower.[1] The $3.6 billion development was to cover nearly 100 acres (40 ha) in downtown Los Angeles with the central focus being a 750-foot (230 m) tower as the base for a 350-foot (110 m) female angel, wings spread, holding a sword of light above her head.[1][3] The project was a partnered collaboration with Russell and Associates directors Barbara Russell and Jessica Russell along with Strong. Due to complications regarding Strong personal and professional life, various property and contracted obligations not met, the 8 years of package and project development did not go through creating partners and alliances to file for bankruptcy. Strong filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2005.[4] International and renowned companies such as Sour, Gensler, and Bank of New York were attached to the project.
After Debbie Rowe, an ex-wife of Michael Jackson, had nominated Strong for knighthood, the Belgiom Duke of Gardham made Strong a knight (of the Imperial Orders of Constantine the Great and Saint Helen) in October 2009, in recognition of Strong’s charitable work for children.[12]
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@bonker99
Far-right BIG money promoting domestic chaos in order to take control and avoid taxation via manipulation of social media and wild skewing of elections and referendums.
Acuri is an asset – we all know this.
@peterjukes
To sum up Arcuri’s relationship to Johnson/Bannon
1. Gets 10k from Mayor, 100k from DCMS, planning a £100m investment fund with Boris
2. Close to Bannon’s Yiannopoulos, Cambridge Analytica’s Borwick, part of the YBF/Battlebus Roadtrip. YBF is a spinoff of Mercer’s YAF
Boris Johnson, Jennifer Arcuri, and the mysterious Annie Tacker
There are many unanswered questions surrounding Boris Johnson’s friendship with the US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.
For the past two days I’ve been investigating one of the more bizarre of them: who is her UK-based media manager and is she even real?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50095698
@owenboswarva
Boris Johnson, Jennifer Arcuri, and the mysterious Annie Tacker https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50095698 … #HackerHouse I think @phill_kemp is being trolled a bit.
“Annie Tacker” = “an attacker”. It’s an #infosec joke.
Hacker Fantastic @hackerfantastic
Hah that’s great, I’ll share that one with our marketing executive Annie Tacker 😉
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/940540513286995968
@ciabaudo
Do all lines of investigation lead to Jeffrey Epstein?
Here are a few facts about Boris de Pfeffel of Spaffwaffle’s pole dancer Jennifer Arcuri …
For a dismal failure of a businesswoman, Jennifer Arcuri sure won the hearts of BoJo’s fawning acolytes …
Lessig, Hardwicke and the proctor, some things never change: the culpability of the victim in the eyes of the perpetrator:
Well, he is none other than the cousin of Jennifer Arcuri:
Lessig, the King of Cyberlaw, defended Hardwick against his own alma mater, the American Boychoir School in Princeton. His motivation was almost certainly the fact that Lessig himself had been abused by the very same music teacher as Hardwicke.
Given the abuse Lessig suffered at school, his essay in defence of acceptance of donations to the M.I.T. Media Lab from the financier and pervert Jeffrey Epstein by his friend Joichi Ito is truly shocking:
Given the abuse Lessig suffered at school, his essay in defence of acceptance of donations to the M.I.T. Media Lab from the financier and pervert Jeffrey Epstein by his friend Joichi Ito is truly shocking:
One of Jennifer Arcuri’s companies was Title X Technology Limited. The only other company director listed was Tom Alexander William Hayes, the trader for UBS and Citigroup convicted for his role in the LIBOR scandal. Fancy that! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hayes_(trader) …
There is certainly no arguing that LIBOR rigging is a disruptive technology, Boris!
BoJo’s girlfriend Arcuri does seem to gravitate towards criminals!
Not only was she in business with LIBOR rigger Hayes, her associate at Hacker House, another of her companies, was Lauri Love, a computer hacker whole stole large amounts of data from US government agencies …
It is worth noting how Arcuri’s Hacker House had the endorsement of Epstein’s sleazy buddy Randy Andy: Hacker House advises organisations on cyber-security, teaches youngsters online skills and has the backing of the Duke of York for its scheme awarding cyber badges to children.
While BoJo’s pole dancer was offering Randy Andy endorsed cyber-security, her cousin Lawrence Lessing was a trustee of the Internet Society, a position held, albeit at different times, by Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister Christine.
Christine Maxwell was CEO and President of Chilead Inc., the company providing the FBI with its counterterrorism database.
She was also steering committee organiser for ‘Remembering for the future’ whose list of patrons resembles a carbon copy of Epstein’s list:
Hang on, isn’t that guest speaker at Arcuri’s InnoTech Summit with BoJo our dear friend Alexander ‘Lord’ Carlile? The man who rushed to the defence of the paedophile Greville Janner and shared an office with Cyril Smith?
https://youtu.be/h12luTrx7sY https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1006433087734108161?s=19 …
… and when Alexander Carlile is not serving as Boris Johnson’s support act at Jennifer Arcuri’s InnoTech summit, his role is eagerly assumed by Bannon’s willing far-right helper Milo Yiannopoulos. https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1075807158082695168?s=19 …
So Yiannopoulos, banned by Facebook and Twitter, was billed at Arcuri’s InnoTech conference as keynote speaker, second only to Boris Johnson, who yesterday traduced the memory of Jo Cox, murdered by another right-wing fanatic!
Oh, and here’s Milo with Jennifer Arcuri’s cousin, Lawrence Lessing, the man who so vehemently defended his friend’s acceptance of donations from Jeffrey Epstein. Do I see some sort of pattern emerging …? https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/milo-yiannopoulos-five-things-to-know …
Always good for a selfie: Here is pole-dancer Arcuri with Boris Johnson’s brother Max, the vulture capitalist who plans to take advantage of Sterling’s weakness to make a buck out of bro’s Brexit.
Pole-dancing Jenny seems well connected: here’s Rohan Silva, Senior Policy Adviser to David Cameron (2010-13), Chairman of Downing Street’s Tech City Advisory Group and co-founder of the collaborative workspace ‘Second Home
What every self-respecting pole-dancer needs is a selfie with Grant Shapps to show to friends. You know, the Grant Shapps whose Welwyn/Hatfield Tories supported Alan Franey, Savile’s buddy.
The Pole-Dancer’s Pedigree: Lawrence Lessig, Arcuri’s cousin, became a lawyer to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, Jennifer’s granddad. Richard Cates was heavily involved in the impeachment of Richard Nixon, working together with Hillary Clinton.
Former FBI director James Comey worked for Grandfather Cates and wrote about him in his autobiography. Comey’s eldest daughter Maurene graduated from Harvard in 2013 and became lead prosecutor in the case against Jeffery Epstein.
So Jennifer Arcuri had a cosy personal relationship with Boris Johnson, euphemistically giving him ‘private technology lessons’. Arcuri invites Yiannopoulos to speak at her meetings. He in turn works with Steve Bannon who visited Epstein’s Paris home. …
Jeffrey Epstein entertained Bill and Melinda Gates, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew at his Paris apartment claims butler, who was told by estate to move into the pied-a-terre days before probe
Creepy: Randy Andy, close friend of Epstein’s pimp Ghislaine Maxwell, hosts Code Club at Bucks Palace, awarding pole-dancing BoJo friend for developing ‘Jim’ll fix it-type’ cyberbadges for kids. Please tell me I’m making this up!
Oh dear, the plot thickens: Boris de Pfeffel of Spaffwaffle puts his pole-dancing Spinning Jenny in touch with Lynton Crosby, election campaign manager for right-wing parties in several countries.
BoJo not smart enough: Johnson wasn’t the first old man Jennifer Arcuri had a crush on. In the mid-2000s, she had a 3-year affair with the actor Joe Yukich, known for ‘The Wright Stuff’ in which Arcuri starred. Yukich has now come to Arcuri’s defence.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0491591/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast …
It was Yukich, too, who revealed Arcuri had another powerful and wealthy friend, the Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. He claims her conversations with Zuckerberg led to her moving to London.
Zuckerberg met Jeffrey Epstein at a Silicon Valley dinner.
Let’s return to Tom Hayes, Arcuri’s co-director at Title X Technology and LIBOR convict. It is said BoJo dropped Jenny ‘like a stone’ after she defended Hayes. Is Boris lying? Surely he read Arcuri’s 2013 claims long before he severed contact with her!
BoJen: Just how much power did Jennifer Arcuri wield over her Alexander the Great? And what were her motives in targeting him in the first place? And, more, importantly, does she still have him by the short and curlies?
Randy Andy: ‘A real cutie’.
After Boris arranged for her to be put on the guest list for a party attended by royalty, senior politicians, digiterati and tech startups, Jenny made a bee-line for the Duke of York …
Fury as decision on police inquiry into PM shelved until after election
Labour ‘shocked’ as police watchdog freezes investigation into Jennifer Arcuri scandal
9 Nov 2019
The scandal over Boris Johnson’s friendship with technology entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri was reignited on Saturday after the Observer revealed that the independent police watchdog has delayed its announcement on whether the PM should face an investigation into possible criminal misconduct until after the election.
The decision prompted fury from Westminster politicians and London assembly members who said it appeared that a ruling had been “suppressed” in order to protect Johnson from potentially damaging headlines at a crucial stage of the election campaign.
In a private meeting held before parliament was dissolved last week, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) officials agreed not to announce whether they were going to investigate “possible criminality” over allegations about a conflict of interest in Johnson’s dealings while mayor of London with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri until after the election.
Sources close to the IOPC investigation said the watchdog was on the verge of announcing its decision on whether it was proceeding with a criminal investigation.
The IOPC was tasked by the Greater London Authority with assessing whether criminal charges should be brought because of the then-mayor’s responsibility for London’s policing.
It is alleged Arcuri received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Johnson, including receiving large sums of public money for her technology firms.
The offence of misconduct in public office carries a maximum term of life imprisonment. Johnson has denied any impropriety.
So Arcuri went from having to borrow clobber for a palace function in late 2014 to renting a £1m mansion House in upmarket Cheshire together with Matthew Hickey and driving an expensive Beemer.
This really begs the question as to where all that money was coming from …
Whizz kid: According to her LinkedIn details, Jennifer Arcuri was born in 1985. The same profile tells us that she then gained a Law Certificate from Columbia University in 2001.
Let me think: 2001 – 1985 = ???
Doesn’t exactly engender trust in the rest of her profile, does it?
In 2013, Arcuri rushed to the defence of BoJo after he had been mauled in battle by @eddiemair. In a spat with Newsnight, she tweeted he is ‘an amazing leader’ whose personal life is ‘not 4 public to judge’, saying ‘those Q’s were asked maliciously’.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/mar/24/boris-johnson-interview-eddie-mair
Taking back control: The third director of http://Hacker.House was Gary Mieliefsky, founding Member of the US Department of Homeland Security and the National Information Security Group, who worked as an advisor to Clinton.
https://hacker.house/about/ https://twitter.com/TheUnapooper/status/1176270800124432385?s=19 …
Cyber-Security expert Mieliefsky had numerous contacts to both Trump and Bannon, and advised Ivanka Trump. … but why am I telling you this? Surely Boris Johnson’s staff will have researched every detail on Arcuri before approving grants and loans!
https://elemifuentes.com/2019/02/13/qanon-the-qult-and-the-legend-part-5/comment-page-1/ …
Not satisfied with meddling in Spaffwaffle’s bid to become mayor for a second term, Jennifer Arcuri had to fix it for Alba, ensuring those recalcitrant Scots didn’t put up a Trumpian pre-fab wall along Hadrian’s Roman defences.
Isn’t it ironic that Matthew Hickey, Arcuri’s partner since she split with Boris, is a staunch remainer? He even claimed to have left UK because of Brexit, complained about the £££ tanking and urged folk to vote remain on Referendum Day.
Just 8 months after Arcuri’s InnoTech was set up in 02/2013, Julia Streets tweeted about the InnoTech Summit. On the 02/2014 annual return, Streets shows up as a shareholder of InnoTech along with ‘BoJen’ Arcuri. Julia links to some interesting bods …
https://themuttonclub.com/julia-streets-city-pr-to-stand-up-comedy/ …
On April 1, 2018, Julia Streets became a trustee of the children’s charity Street Child, the same month it merged with Children in Crisis, founded by Sarah Ferguson who borrowed £15k from Jeffrey Epstein to pay her debts.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8366981/Duchess-of-York-spent-nine-months-negotiating-with-convicted-paedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-to-pay-off-her-debts.html … https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06749574/officers …
On the same day (1/4/18), Anthony Wallersteiner also became director of Street Child and Chair of Trustees. Wally is an old friend of Ghislaine Maxwell; his dad was a business associate of Robert Maxwell. Both were the subject of an FBI search warrant.
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1161778343584440321?s=19 …
Wesley Hall, a Sabine McNeill and Lauri Love, supporter, worked at Hacker House according to Rocket Reach
https://rocketreach.co/hacker-house-profile_b55a724af974e050
Jennifer Arcuri with Thomas Borwick – The Hacker and Vote Leave’s chief technology officer.
Innotech Summit/Lawrence Lessig at Second Home 2014
@carolecadwalla
This is the ex-Cambridge Analytica contractor who was Vote Leave’s head of technology. He’s harvested every single person’s electoral register data in UK…but says he did nothing with it. You not going to use it all over again, Thomas?
Tom Borwick’s great uncle, Lord McAlpine, is listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
The Borwick Family
Analysing Borwick
The Cambridge Analytica connection you’ve most likely never heard of; meet The Hon. Thomas Borwick, son of ex-Tory MP Lady ‘Call Me Victoria’ Borwick
https://thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/analysing-thomas-borwick-cambridge-analytica/
Lady Borwick, who was previously Boris Johnson’s deputy.
The Busy Borwicks
Son of Kensington MP Lady Borwick’s curious connections to the people who ensured both Brexit and the election of Donald Trump revealed
On Sunday, Carole Cadwalladr of The Observer published a lengthy and well researched article that, amongst other things, examined the connections between The Hon. Thomas Borwick – the son of the Conservative hereditary peer The Rt. Hon. The Lord Borwick and Kensington’s Member of Parliament Lady ‘Call me Victoria’ Borwick – and the controversial US hedge fund titan and backer of Donald Trump, Robert Mercer.
A director of a multitude of companies, in spite of being just 29 years old, “new media expert” Thomas Borwick – whose mother was forced to apologise “after using City Hall resources to promote her husband’s [now defunct] electric vehicle business” in 2009– it now transpires, was not only Vote Leave’s chief technology officer but previously worked with SCL/Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ. Borwick currently touts himself to his 202 followers on Twitter as the founder of a political canvasing consultancy named Kan.to, an organisation that he boldy claims “will out-organise, out-plan, out-leaflet, out-twitter, out-work and out-vote all of its opponents”.
Mercer, one of the owners of the far-right Breitbart News Network as well as being a major shareholder in Cambridge Analytica, is a man whose “sinister” connections to both Trump and Nigel Farage have rightly been widely criticised. On that basis, that the son of fervent Brexiteer Lady Borwick – a woman whose constituents voted 69% to ‘Remain’ and whose domain was home to a greater proportion of EU nationals than any other London borough in 2016 – has links to this billionaire and his activities should only encourage the voters of Kensington to ditch her and her out-of-touch party.
2015
Revealed: The ‘triple dipper’ Conservative MP who is paid nearly £100,000 a year for three elected jobs
Victoria Borwick, the (former) MP for Kensington, is paid an extra £30,000 a year as both a councillor at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and member of the London Assembly
Mrs Borwick, 59, whose application to replace Sir Malcolm Rifkind in the seat waspersonally backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson,defended her decision.
Mrs Borwick’s predecessor as MP for Kensington Sir Malcolm Rifkind had complained that it was “unrealistic” to live on £60,000 shortly before quitting after being caught in a cash for access investigation by The Daily Telegraph in February.
Unveiling a plaque to Lady Churchill with Sir Nicholas Soames
Tories BOW to wealthy antiques dealers and DROP ban on elephant ivory in manifesto:
The most powerful UK antique traders association is the British Antique Dealers’ Association – whose president is Tory MP and pal of Theresa May, Lady Victoria Borwick.
Lady Victoria Borwick is related by marriage to the notorious McAlpine family.
Her husband’s uncle is Alistair McAlpine, alleged child abuser.
Lord “Jamie” Borwick – nephew of Lord Alistair McAlpine
Victoria’s husband, Geoffrey Robert James Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick aka “Jamie”, is the son of Hon. Patricia Garnett McAlpine – Patricia’s brother is Alistair McAlpine
http://www.thepeerage.com/p14612.htm#i146113
Lady Victoria Borwick is MP for Kensington and Chelsea, preceded by Malcolm Rifkind who is a cousin of alleged child abuser, former Tory Cabinet minister, Leon Brittan.
“The Tories got rid of one Rifkind (Cash for Access) and now replaced him with ‘Madam Rifkind’, who thinks it is perfectly reasonable to use these jobs to rake in as much money as possible.”
Slumming it: Tory Lady ventures into East End
Against this backdrop, Lady Borwick, aka Assembly Member Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick, a Deputy Mayor of London, deigned to drop into Tower Hamlets last week to claim the credit for Tower Hamlets’ work in promoting good health in its schools (that’s the schools which Lady Borwick’s party is trying to dismantle).
2007:
Trump crony Rudy Giuliaini drew inspiration from Winston Churchill in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack on New York, he revealed.
Mr Giuliani cited the alliance between Churchill and Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair and George W Bush as evidence of the powerful bond between Britain and the US. He would make it his mission as President to strengthen the relationship further.
The lunch was attended by about 100 wealthy Americans and dozens of London-based US correspondents.
Conservative mayoral contender Victoria Borwick, who has pledged to introduce Giuliani-style zero tolerance policing, was the only senior Tory present at the lunch at the Hyde Park Mandarin hotel.
“He is a brilliant political leader,” she said.
Mr Giuliani is due to meet Margaret Thatcher tonight at the same hotel before delivering his keynote speech on his manifesto for a 2008 Republican presidential victory.
http://britainandamerica.typepad.com/britain_and_america/2007/09/josh-sutton-rep.html
Geoffrey Robert James “Jamie” Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick] (born 1955) is a British businessman, hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords. Chief Executive of Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC, known for the manufacture of the London Taxi, from 1987 to 2001 and then Chairman until 2003.
At William Hague Farewell Dinner with William Hague and Victoria Borwick
Victoria Borwick
She works on a daily basis with the big pillars of authority in London, such as the Metropolitan Police.
Does she ever take issue with the Metropolitan Police, or any other authority? “Of course…of course.”
http://henpicked.net/interview-with-victoria-borwick-deputy-mayor-of-london/
Victoria Borwick – gifts and hospitality
She worked in senior management for P&O and DMG World Media (Daily Mail and General Trust plc) before becoming the Conservative Party’s fundraising director.[2]
Dinner at the Carlton: The New Tory power brokers
2009
Son of Tory MP beaten unconscious outside Leicester Square KFC by 3 women
He said: ‘At some point they started pushing and shoving – three at that stage, of which only two were particularly aggressive. I couldn’t hypothecate (?) or guess what was on their minds. At some point my food and drink spilled and was taken from me.
The computer app writer was queuing with friends when they became embroiled in a row with the women over space.
‘Tom was among a group of six friends on a night out in London,’ said Lady Borwick, who was previously Boris Johnson’s deputy.
They noticed these women, and Tom said something.
Bannon has Boris on a tightrope. When you authorise spying on your president (he was a US citizen at the time) you can end up on treason charges.
Interesting times.
@ultrasounddoc
What is the relationship between Jennifer and Carrie Symonds? Looks like they both started to work on the Boris campaign 2012ish. First Jennifer got all the attention, and then later Carrie. Is this the reason Jennifer left the UK?
They obviously know a lot about each other
And … domestic row a few months ago. Carrie finding out more about Jennifer, or Boris was still in touch? About Boris’ laptop. And …the 100k grant in January, while she was in US Hush money? And …Jennifer’s very recent ‘missing laptop’ with lots of secret info? (s)Tory.
@peterjukes
So Arcuri (here with Yiannopolous in 2015) brings the Johnson Bannon alliance closer. Milo was then employed by Bannon at Breitbart. Bannon says he got to know Johnson through Delingpole, the other editor along with Farage’s aide Kassam (ht @StillDelvingH l)
@libdemfightbac
US born @BorisJohnson wants to replace independent Supreme Court judges with his political appointees as companies house records show his US model Hacker Arcuri given £126k public grants as she ran Bulgarian firm with Jailed Libor Crook Hayes.
Arcuri was best friends with Far Right Breitbart editor Milo, also Conservative Friends of Russia Jag Singh who set up election data firm with Guido Fawkes & Vote Leave Matthew Elliott both of whom went to Moscow all at a time Johnson was good friend with Russian Sergey Nalobin
Look at that, the very year when Paul Staines/Jag Singh political advertising company was hired by the Kremlin to help it spread its propaganda…
The very year Paul Staines created his Boris2020 website that was used to promote Johnson for the PM job…
Interestingly, not for 2015.
Any event involving these ppl and supposed to happen btw 2015 and 2020 that could have paved the way for PM Johnson?
https://twitter.com/StillDelvingH/status/1133281801550610433
UK inquiry was warned of Russian infiltration, leaked testimony shows
November 9, 2019
Russia’s influence reaches deep into the British establishment and successive UK governments have turned a blind eye to it, lawmakers were warned, according to multiple sources familiar with testimony given to a parliamentary inquiry.
Report under wraps
Moscow’s high-level links
How Russia became emboldened
A familiar tale… though lets not forget John McCain’s role in this, which takes us to elements that even Robert Mueller has repeatedly been reluctant to probe;
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1296090329477767169.html
How Jennifer AJrcuri links Techstars who worked in Russia with Boris Johnson and Far Right
Arcuri also hung out with Breitbart Enfant Terrible Milo Yiannopoulos at the Innotech Summit with @BorisJohnsonhttps://www.hult.edu/blog/mayor-of-london-throws-his-weight-behind-technology-startups-at-the-innotech-summit/… Yiannopoulos attended the Russian Embassy Web Forum #DigitalBBQ with Paul Staines of @GuidoFawkes both Staines & Johnson met Sergey Nalobin
Carrie Symonds with Guido Fawkes editor Paul Staines
@ciabaudo
I’m sure it is just as much a coincidence that Boris de Pfeffel of Spaffwaffle’s current bedmate Carrie Symonds is linked to Ghislaine Maxwell’s charity Oceana as it is that his former girlfriend Jennifer Arcuri was linked to Milo.
In 2008, Ghsilaine Maxwell hosted a cocktail party for the board of the nonprofit Oceana at her townhouse on East 65th Street.
Boris’s beach blonde’s X-rated play: Glamorous PR guru Carrie Symonds, 30, starred in ‘satanic sex cult’ based on writings of unabashed occultist
Carrie Symonds performed in an X-rated play. It is thought she took part as a drama student at Warwick University, where she studied from 2006 to 2009.
The production was based on the writings of self-styled mystic Aleister Crowley – an unabashed occultist who revelled in his infamy as ‘the wickedest man in the world’. He died in 1947.
Crowley’s form of worship involved sadomasochistic sex rituals with men and women, spells which he claimed could raise evil gods, and the use of hard drugs, including cocaine and heroin.
For the play, Miss Symonds is wearing a black dress and torn black tights with heavy black make-up smeared around her eyes.
In one picture she is kneeling on the floor with a table in the background. On the table are written the words ‘cognac, c*** and cocaine’ – a reference to one of Crowley’s most notorious poems.
A bottle of cognac and small pile of white powder, believed to represent cocaine, are on the table, which is surrounded by a circle of cards. The words ‘Do As Thou Wilt’ are scrawled in chalk in the centre of the circle.
Alongside Miss Symonds sits a bare-chested male student with ‘Big Beast’ and ‘Do As Thou Wilt’ daubed across his chest and throat in black ink.
Crowley’s poem Leah Sublime includes the foul-mouthed lines: ‘Straddle your Beast, My Masterful B****… Spit on me, scarlet, Mouth of my harlot… Soak me in cognac, c*** and cocaine.’
Ghislaine Maxwell:
https://oceana.org/about-oceana/people-partners/oceana-staff/carrie-symonds… https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1180775964311216129?s=19…
Bill Clinton Honors Ted Danson At Oceana Gala
In a surprise appearance at Oceana’s New York Gala last night, former president Bill Clinton presented actor and Oceana board member Ted Danson with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his three decades of ocean advocacy.
https://www.looktothestars.org/news/17089-bill-clinton-honors-ted-danson-at-oceana-gala
“Our wedding photo”
Perhaps Journalists will be interested to know that Arcuri’s Innotech Summit in London was sponsored by Far Right Milo Yiannopoulos company Kernel. Milo also attended the #DigitalBBQ run by the Russian Embassy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos…https://web.archive.org/web/20120619161128/http://innotechsummit.com/index.php/speakers-at-the-summit#miloyiannopoulos…
Milo became friends with Steve Bannon and went to work for Breitbart. Bannon became a key advisor to Johnson
@peterjukes
And here is Arcuri again with Milo and Thomas Borwick – formerly of Cambridge Analytica, then Vote Leave abd now Kanto
The question now arises: was it Bannon who persuaded Johnson to jump to the Leave side.
@onthewingit
More worrying still than Johnson talking to Trump and Bannon in 2019 is the evidence from the Jennifer Arcuri Scandal that Johnson was being linked to #Gamergate, Milo Yiannopoulos, Bannon’s Breitbart and the Alt Right from 2013 on. In bed with Fascism “literally” Matt Hancock.
@mrs_counter
Hmmm – nothing in this, then? “Very quickly these supposedly Tech events generated notorious speakers from the far right US scene – one example, now banned in most mainstream media, Milo Yiannopoulos, but then a key part of Brannon’s Breitbart network.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1176839648406122497.html
@cockneycampaign
And likely that convicted paedophile Chris Leydon of “Pitch@Palace, London Web Summit & Startup Grind..work also appeared TechCrunch” involved. InnoTech worked with kids. Milo –#Arcuri‘s friend- did highlight Leydon in 2015 but TechCity London shielded him
@ThornfieldHalla Sep 27
She told her friends they were having sex. Her company took hundreds of thousands in taxpayer grants. She was platforming Boris Johnson along side Milo Yiannoploulos…and now this.
Jennifer Arcuri’s mystery £700,000 loan adds to pressure on Johnson
2018 Sarah Ferguson is launching a Street Child appeal for Indonesia
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Duchess of York spent nine months negotiating with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to pay off her debts
The Duchess of York has revealed that she spent nine months in negotiations with a convicted paedophile who helped to pay off her debts.
07 Mar 2011
In her first interview since the scandal broke, the Duchess apologised for a “gigantic error of judgement” in accepting the money from Jeffrey Epstein, a New York financier convicted for soliciting a 14-year-old girl for prostitution.
Epstein paid £15,000 to the Duchess’s former personal assistant, Johnny O’Sullivan, to cover the cost of his unpaid wages and other bills.
She said: “I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgement on my behalf.
“I am just so contrite I cannot say. Whenever I can I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again.”
In an interview with The Evening Standard the Duchess appeared to say that the Duke handled the negotiations with Epstein on her behalf. In a subsequent statement, however, she said Epstein made a “number of offers” directly to her
Mr O’Sullivan was owed £78,000 by the Duchess, but accepted £15,000 from Epstein which then allowed a wider restructuring of the Duchess’s £5 million debts to take place.
The Duchess said: “The Duke sorted out my debts and he and his office have been more than marvellous.
“I cannot state more strongly that I know a terrible, terrible error of judgement was made, my having anything do with Jeffrey Epstein. What he did was wrong and for which he was rightly jailed.
“I had no idea of the string of other allegations and court cases against him and I am distraught that I should have allowed myself to get out of debt with any help from him when my judgement was clouded.
“Once again my errors have compounded and rebounded and also inadvertently impacted on the man I admire most in the world, the Duke.
“He has supported me and come to my rescue again and again and there is absolutely nothing that I would not do for him.
“This make it even more painful for me that what happened has been used by people to make his life more difficult.”
This morning David Cameron’s official spokesman said that the Prime Minster still has “full confidence” in the Duke as trade envoy, despite reports that his position is under review.
Later, the Duke visited the Canary Wharf offices of the Crossrail project, where he was confronted by dozens of waiting photographers and journalists.
He smiled as he stepped from his chauffeur-driven Bentley, which had a personalised number plate ending in D0Y – for Duke of York.
As he was greeted by Crossrail chairman Terry Morgan, the Duke did not respond as a member of the press shouted: “Are you an embarrassment to the Royal Family?”
American model Jennifer Arcuri is ‘terrified’ after her laptop containing photographs, calendar dates and emails from when she was close to Boris Johnson is stolen, report claims
- Jennifer Arcuri’s laptop was taken within the last 10 days, while she was in the UK
- American business woman, 34, is allegedly worried it could be ‘hawked around’
- Photographs and emails from when Boris was London mayor said to be on device
- Yesterday was claimed Ms Arcuri and prime minister had sexual relationship
- The PM is dogged by allegations he provided benefits to her company as Mayor
A laptop belonging to Boris Johnson’s pole dancing friend was stolen recently leaving her petrified that information could be leaked, it was reported last night.
Jennifer Arcuri’s laptop was taken within the last 10 days, while she was in the UK, and now she fears personal details relating to her friendship with the Prime Minister could be made public, The Mirror reported.
The computer contained photographs, calendar dates and emails from the time when Ms Arcuri was acquainted with Mr Johnson.
Prince Andrew dragged even further into Jeffrey Epstein paedo scandal as FBI expands investigation to identify more victim
29 Sept 2019
PRINCE Andrew could become more deeply engulfed in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as the FBI seek to talk to 100 alleged victims of the late American billionaire, it’s reported.
The US law enforcement agency’s investigation has been expanded to identify more alleged human trafficking victims of Epstein, who could provide information on the Duke.
The Sunday Times has reported the FBI expects to interview 100 alleged trafficking victims — most of whom were aged between 14 and 15 when allegedly trafficked.
This will take place over the next two months and Scotland Yard is ready to help.
Citing unidentified sources from the US Department of Justice, the paper says the FBI are looking to “several” potential victims.
Investigators hope they can provide more details about Prince Andrew and his links to the Epstein case.
The source said: “They are not going to dismiss it [claims relating to Andrew] because he is a royal.”
The report quotes former head of royal protection at Scotland Yard, Dai Davies, saying a full investigation would be in the Duke’s best interests.
Mr Davies said: “I would have thought it’s in Prince Andrew’s interests to clear this matter up.
“Any residue of doubt or innuendo should be cleared up by a clear, unequivocal, structured investigation.”
Scotland Yard had previously held an investigation after one of the women caught up in the scandal, Virginia Giuffre, made allegations against the Duke of York, but that probe was dropped in 2015. This is now being reviewed by the FBI.
Her allegations, which Andrew strongly denies, were struck from US civil court records in 2015 after a judge said they were “immaterial and impertinent”.
Last week Ms Giuffre claimed she had sex with Prince Andrew in a toilet when aged 17 after the royal plied her with vodka at a posh nightclub.
Buckingham Palace refuted this, saying: “It is emphatically denied that The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts.
“Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”
The Sunday Times reports the claims by Ms Giuffre that she was ordered to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 are not the only allegations against the royal being reviewed by the FBI.
He has denied all allegations against him as “false” and “without foundation”.
The Epstein probe is continuing after the disgraced financier took his own life last month in a New York prison cell where he was detained on charges of sex trafficking teenage girls.
The American billionaire committed suicide in a New York prison cell last month, soon after arriving from Paris in one of his private jets.
‘I SAW PRINCE ANDREW THERE’
A caretaker of Epstein’s Paris property has now sensationally revealed: “I saw Prince Andrew there”.
The key witness – who cannot currently be named for legal reasons – told The Sun on Sunday: “Prince Andrew stayed a number of times at the Avenue Foch address, including when Epstein was not there.”
Reports in France say the Duke is expected to avoid travelling to the country while the investigation is ongoing amidst royal aides fears he could be hauled in for questioning.
Asked about the developments in France last night a Buckingham Palace spokesman refused to comment.
Boris Johnson’s friendship with businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri ‘was open secret among staff’
27 Sept 2019
Boris Johnson’s close friendship with a Californian entrepreneur helped by London’s tourism and promotions agency was an “open secret” among its staff, the Standard has been told.
Former officials at the agency, London & Partners (L&P), recalled how Jennifer Arcuri was given places on foreign trade trips led by Mr Johnson in his time as mayor despite her companies being regarded as “not credible” by some at the time.
Referring to Ms Arcuri, 34, a former model, another ex-staffer said: “I don’t think that anybody ever said that Boris was seeing her but it was an open secret that they were close.” Investigations have been launched by Mayor Sadiq Khan and the London Assembly into public funds given to Ms Arcuri’s firms and places she was granted on foreign trade trips.
The Standard understands the investigations are likely to focus on a L&P-run trip made by Mr Johnson to Tel Aviv in November 2015. Ms Arcuri was initially told by L&P she “did not qualify” for it but officials were later “advised by Arcuri that she had secured permission from a mayoral adviser to attend”, according to L&P.
Ms Arcuri’s firm The Innotech Network, founded in February 2013, first received funding from L&P that year with £10,000 in sponsorship for a conference at the World Islamic Economic Forum. It also received £1,500 for an event in 2014. L&P says it has “no evidence” of Mr Johnson being involved in either decision.
Ms Arcuri was among delegates taken on mayoral trips to Malaysia in November 2014 and to New York in February 2015. L&P said Innotech, a financial technology firm, was declined a place on the Malaysia trip “as it did not meet the criteria” of the trip, which focused on “creative technology”.
She applied again with another of her firms, Playbox, and was accepted. L&P said it had “no evidence” of Mr Johnson’s involvement in the decision to accept Playbox onto the mission. Playbox was dissolved in February 2016.
Ms Arcuri was told she “did not qualify” for the New York trip but L&P records “show that a senior mayoral adviser did confirm to [L&P] that she should be allowed to attend some events in New York” as she was already planning to be in the city. No financial support was given.
The Standard was told that L&P staff were aware Ms Arcuri was “connected” to Mr Johnson. On at least one occasion, she was granted a place following a request from the mayor’s office after initially being rejected by L&P.
One L&P source claimed: “It was an open secret she got to come because she was close with Boris.” Mr Johnson will comply with a London Assembly order to explain his links to Ms Arcuri but says his former colleagues are “barking up the wrong tree”. Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly had previously hinted the Prime Minister could refuse to give evidence to City Hall regarding allegations he favoured his friend for business grants and trade missions while mayor. Mr Johnson has since said:“I will co-operate with my old friends on the Assembly. But on this particular matter, I think they are barking up the wrong tree.”
Ms Arcuri studied law at Columbia University in New York in 2001 and has a number of degrees including in musical theatre. She also has an MBA in investments and securities, according to her online profile.
She began her career as an on-air radio personality for Radio DJ Razzle Dazz, part of the Walt Disney company, and spent more than 10 years on the show.
In 2008, she produced the short film La Valise, part of the short film showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.
She moved to the UK in 2011, and prior to that worked in digital technology and film production in California.
Ms Arcuri founded Innotech to run events, networking and start-up funding for technology.
London & Partners last night said it would be inappropriate to comment on the latest allegations. Allen Simpson, its director of strategy and corporate affairs, said the agency had “tightened rules relating to procurement. We are confident in these controls and in our team.”
Ms Arcuri told the Sunday Times after it first reported claims: “Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman.”She did not comment on the nature of her relationship with Mr Johnson.
Her family have denied the pair had an affair.
@O_Y_B
JenniferArcuri’s Tech events attracted speakers from the far-right US scene – such as now banned from @twitter, Milo Yiannopoulos (@nero) – a key part of Bannon’s Breitbart network. Could Arcuri been a sort of ‘honey trap’ used by the far-right, from the start?
@ciabaudo
So Jennifer Arcuri had a cosy personal relationship with Boris Johnson, euphemistically giving him ‘private technology lessons’.
Arcuri invites Yiannopoulos to speak at her meetings.
He in turn works with Steve Bannon who visited Epstein’s Paris home. ...
New article by Vanity Fair quotes a source who says Bill Gates visited Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC mansion. The author of the article first made the assertion that Gates had visited Epstein in NYC in a July Vanity Fair report.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/jeffrey-epstein-grift-hooking-scientists-up-with-super-rich?utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=vf&utm_medium=social … https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-grows-more-grotesque …
Jeffrey Epstein entertained Bill and Melinda Gates, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew at his Paris apartment claims butler, who was told by estate to move into the pied-a-terre days before probe
27 Sept 2019
- The man who spent the past 18 years working as Jeffrey Epstein’s butler at his $8million Paris apartment is speaking about his boss’ famous friends
- Gabriel said that Prince Andrew, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Steve Bannon were also guests at the residence
- A source close to Bannon said it ‘never happened,’ despite Gabriel claiming he drove the man around the city just last Fall
- Gabriel said Bill and Melinda Gates had visited and while a rep did not respond to a request comment the couple has denied any personal ties in the past
- There was also talk of the women Epstein had in his house, who Gabriel said he kept separate from other gusts
- Gabriel is living in the pied-a-terre after being ordered to move in by the estate two days before Paris officials declared they were probing Epstein
Gabriel did not say how long these guests stayed and if it was always overnight or they just came by for a meal.
This is the first time there has ever been any mention of Bill and Melinda visiting one of Epstein’s properties, but those other three men have all been to see the late pedophile at his Manhattan townhouse.
Gabriel specifically remembers Bannon, saying his visit came last Fall and noting; ‘I was even his driver in Paris.’
DailyMail.com reached out to a publicist for Bill and Melinda, who did not respond to a request for comment.
Gates has been adamant however in the past that he had no personal relationship with the pedophile, though the two did spend time together.
A source close to Bannon meanwhile said ‘it never happened.’
Flight records reveal that Gates flew with Epstein from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March 1, 2013, one of the few flights that year where pilot Larry Viskoski recorded the name of a passenger.
A representative for the couple did not respond to a request for comment, and the pairing is an odd one given the work Melinda and the couple’s foundation does for young women around the world.
Gabriel also spoke about the other company kept by his boss.
‘As [Epstein] was very fond of massages, they were hired for it,’he explained.
‘But I do not think that there women were then paid for sex.’
He also said Epstein was seeing women less and getting fewer massages in recent years.
‘When I started working for him, he was getting a massage at least twice a day, sometimes three or four times,’ said Gabriel, who noted that his boss’ habit was an expensive one.
‘But it was less common in recent years.’
Epstein and Bill had spent time together previously, most notably at the annual Edge Dinner, which each year welcomes billionaires from around the world to come together and discuss advancements they are working in on the worlds of math, science and technology.
In fact, the 2013 dinner took place just two nights before they flew to Florida, though neither of the men are pictured attending that year’s event.
Epstein did claim he worked as a financial adviser to Gates for some time, but that claim was later shot down by the Microsoft founder’s representative.
The two men do however both own property in southern Florida.
Epstein had two homes including a $12 million Palm Beach mansion and Gates owns a five-property compound in Wellington that he purchased for a total of $40 million.
In a biography that was published on the website for Edge, but later deleted, it is noted that Epstein ‘founded the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation in 2000 to fund and support cutting edge science around the world.’
He is also said to be ‘one of the largest supporters of individual scientists, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Laureates Gerard ‘t Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek.’
In an alarming addition, the biography then states that Epstein has taken ‘an active role in supporting education across the United States as well as philanthropy in the US Virgin Islands, where the foundation is based.’
He traveled to the 2002 dinner with guests including architect David Rockwell, author Michael Wolff, journalist Richard Cook, and literary agent John Brockman – who was also the editor of the Edge website.
Gates was not the only famous name to hop aboard Epstein’s plane either, with the serial pedophile also welcoming famed newsman Walter Cronkite, architect Peter Marino and a passenger identified as John Roberts.
Yiannopoulos “just had that ‘it’ factor,” Bannon says in the book. “The difference was, Andrew had a very strong moral universe, and Milo is an amoral nihilist.”
Yiannopoulos devoted much of Bretibart’s tech coverage to cultural issues, particularly Gamergate, a long-running online argument over gaming culture that peaked in 2014. And that helped fuel an online alt-right movement sparked by Breitbart News.
“I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away,” Bannon told Green. “You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump.”
How Brock Pierce ended up as an Epstein guest along with a NASA computer engineer, an MIT professor and a Nobel laureate in theoretical physics is a bizarre tale involving Steve Bannon and an international man of mystery who may or may not be dead.
18 Sept 2019
Even before Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious death Aug. 10, many people who knew him were hoping the world would forget or, better yet, never learn that they had any association at all with the notorious predator.
One such person may be serially self-reinventing entrepreneur Brock Pierce, who as a teenager co-founded the eventually infamous Digital Entertainment Network and who, in the mid- to late ‘90s, was associated with an alleged sex-abuse ring — this one involving young men. Several later contended in court filings that Pierce and two associates had drugged and assaulted them at parties in their Encino mansion. Pierce was never charged with any crime and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. He settled with one plaintiff, and two others dismissed their cases against him.
In early 2011, about a decade after the Digital Entertainment Network imploded, Pierce visited the Virgin Islands to attend “Mindshift,” a conference of top scientists hosted by Epstein.
A representative for Pierce says he didn’t even know who Epstein was when he flew (commercial) to the event, which the financier had arranged as part of his elaborate effort to launder his lurid reputation. It was not even 18 months after Epstein had completed his slap-on-the-wrist solicitation sentence in Florida and registered as a sex offender.
The rep for Pierce says he saw Epstein after that meeting “a few times over the intervening years at industry events, where many other prominent people were present.” He adds that “the few communications that Mr. Pierce had with Epstein related to cryptocurrency” — an area in which Pierce established himself as a crypto centimillionaire, or maybe a billionaire, in the years following the conference.
But it is a strange tale: how a former child actor who never went to college ended up as an Epstein guest — a seemingly unlikely addition to a group that included a NASA computer engineer, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and a Nobel laureate in theoretical physics. “I don’t know what he had to do with science [or] why he was there,” says one person who attended.
It’s unclear what, if anything, Epstein expected to get from Pierce, who was unlikely to add to the prestige of the conference. Epstein’s activities in the area of cryptocurrency remain mysterious. In 2017, he gave an interview to website The Next Web in which he expressed a vague interest in the area, and The Wall Street Journal has reported that Epstein claimed that he worked for the U.S. Treasury Department on cryptocurrency.
Another strand may connect Epstein to cryptocurrency and indirectly to Pierce:
In 2015, Joi Ito — then director of the MIT Media Lab — announced a Digital Currency Initiative. This came during a financially challenging time for the Bitcoin Foundation — the industry’s first trade group, founded in September 2012 — and Ito hired cryptocurrency developers previously supported by the foundation. Just days after Ito’s announcement, Pierce was named the foundation’s chairman. (Ito recently resigned from MIT Media Lab following reports that he had accepted major donations from Epstein and attempted to conceal the relationship.)
Pierce was also in business starting in the mid-2000s with former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon, who had his own ties to Epstein. Bannon did not respond to requests for comment but he apparently remains a fan of Pierce, who has popped up lately as an unlikely presence in Trump world.
Pierce’s name is familiar to people in Hollywood who remember the short-lived DEN, an ahead-of-its-time attempt to create online programming around the turn of the millennium, and the scandal surrounding it. Pierce’s childhood career blossomed when he appeared in Disney’s 1992 film The Mighty Ducks. But by the time he was 17, he had given up acting. According to extensive media reports when DEN imploded, Pierce had been making $250,000 a year at the company. He shared a 12,600-square-foot house with two other DEN co-founders, the then-40-something entrepreneur Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley, a Michigan man then in his mid-20s.
Shackley had lived with Collins-Rector since dropping out of high school at 16. Pierce had also been 16 when he met Collins-Rector, and although Collins-Rector already was in a relationship with Shackley, Pierce later told Rolling Stone: “He was definitely in love with me. There’s no question about that.”
Pierce has said he gave Collins-Rector the idea of starting a company to create online entertainment. At the time, the technology wasn’t in place to efficiently deliver digital content to consumers, but the company attracted investors including David Geffen and former congressman Michael Huffington, as well as Microsoft and Dell.
The Encino mansion where the DEN trio lived became known for parties that drew A-list guests, among them alleged predators Bryan Singer and producer Gary Goddard (though neither has faced legal charges and both have denied claims against them).
But before DEN’s founders could cash in on a planned IPO, things fell apart. A young man sued, claiming Collins-Rector had started molesting him when he was 13. More litigation followed regarding alleged goings-on at the DEN mansion. One alleged victim, Alexander Burton, claimed that Collins-Rector, Pierce and Shackley had supplied him with alcohol and drugs even though he was under 21 and that all three men subsequently assaulted him. Another accuser was said to have written a suicide note reading in part: “I can’t go on. I let them use me as a sex tool.” (The note was discovered before a suicide attempt could be made.) There were also accusations that Collins-Rector would intimidate his victims by brandishing a gun.
Pierce later said in a statement, “The allegations against me are not true, and I have never had intimate or sexual contact with any of the people who made those allegations.” His rep says the allegations in the lawsuit were false.
In August 2000, Collins-Rector was indicted for transporting minors across state lines for sex, and the DEN trio took off for Spain. The sojourn there ended in May 2002 when Interpol showed up, finding weapons and thousands of child-porn images in their house. (Pierce has said he was unaware of the images.) While Pierce and Shackley were quickly released, Collins-Rector was was held in a Spanish jail until October 2003 when he was extradited to the U.S. In June 2004 he pleaded guilty to five counts of transporting minors for sex. After serving out his sentence — which, after credit for time served, only amounted to a few months — he left the country and renounced his citizenship. (BuzzFeed tracked him down in Europe in 2014.)
While the DEN trio was still in Europe, the young men who had sued over alleged sexual assault at the Encino house were awarded $4.5 million by default because the defendants could not be located. Pierce later returned to the U.S. and settled the claims against him. The settlements do not address any payment to the accusers and Pierce’s rep says none was made.
Even before returning to the country, Pierce already had a new line of work: In 2001, while living with Collins-Rector in Spain, he had created Internet Gaming Entertainment, a company that enabled devotees of online role-playing games to use virtual currency to buy virtual goods (such as weapons). Eventually the business branched into a practice prohibited by many gaming platforms: “real-money trading,” in which players offered real cash for virtual goods. In an online bio, Collins-Rector declared himself to be a “shadow founder” of IGE, but a rep for Pierce says Collins-Rector “was never involved in any way” with IGE.
What’s unclear is when Collins-Rector stopped being a part of Pierce’s life. In a lawsuit against Pierce, a former partner in IGE claimed that Pierce had told him in 2005 that Collins-Rector — then living overseas and, according to the feds, still consorting with teenage boys — had been blackmailing him, threatening to damage IGE in the eyes of investors. Pierce’s rep says Collins-Rector never threatened blackmail and denies that Pierce ever made such a statement.
Pierce’s rep suggests the split with Collins-Rector happened in stages: “Mr. Pierce separated any business relationship when DEN failed and the internet bubble burst in 2000.” Pierce’s personal relationship with Collins-Rector lasted until 2003, the rep says — that’s after Collins-Rector’s indictment in 2000 and after Interpol showed up at the house in Spain in 2002. But Pierce’s rep says at the time of his arrest, Collins-Rector “asserted his innocence.” It wasn’t until Pierce “received additional information concerning Collins-Rector’s improper actions” that he separated entirely.
A couple years after Collins-Rector apparently left Pierce’s world, Bannon entered it. IGE had started minting money in part through “gold-farming” operations in China, with low-wage shift workers accumulating in-game currency and virtual goods to sell by playing around the clock.
In 2005 Bannon visited the company’s offices in Hong Kong and arranged for private-equity firms — including his former employer, Goldman Sachs — to invest $60 million. Bannon became vice chairman of the business with the idea that he would figure a way to make real-money trading legit.
In 2017, The Washington Post published an exposé of IGE’s dubious practices — such as using the identities of unwitting U.S. residents to create gaming accounts — which were in place before Bannon came on board. It was unclear whether Bannon was aware of such activities when he joined the firm, but they continued after his arrival.
Pierce would later describe Bannon as “my right-hand man for, like, seven years,” but the math on that is hard to figure. Bannon failed in his mission of legitimizing the business, and just a couple of years after he joined the company, IGE was facing declining revenues, growing blowback from online gaming companies, an investigation by Florida authorities and a class-action lawsuit.
In 2007 — not even two years after Bannon joined the company — he forced Pierce out as CEO and took the job himself, according to reports. Eventually the company got out of the virtual-goods business and Bannon sold his stake. (Pierce’s rep says he remained chairman of IGE “until 2015 or 2016,” but there’s no mention of that in the press release announcing Bannon’s appointment.)
At some point, Bannon developed his own connection to Epstein, although it’s unknown when or how the relationship began. In August 2018, he was spotted paying an early-morning visit to Epstein’s New York townhouse, and New York Times columnist James B. Stewart reported that Epstein invited him to a dinner with Bannon that month. (Stewart turned down the invitation and Bannon told the Times he did not attend.)
It was not long after Pierce’s ejection from IGE that he emerged as a player in the world of cryptocurrency. (Bannon also became involved in cryptocurrency.) Pierce founded a number of companies including Blockchain Capital, where his bio identified him as “a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.” (Bill Clinton, of course, also had a relationship with Epstein, though he has denied knowledge of Epstein’s wrongdoing.)
Pierce still seems to have been getting his footing in the still-new world of cryptocurrency when he turned up at Epstein’s 2011 conference.
Al Seckel, (Isabel Maxwell’s husband) the person who arranged the conference, was a gregarious and litigious poser who had convinced many people that he was a Cornell alum and a cognitive neuroscientist with ties to Cal Tech. (The Mindshift conference featured several scientists from Cal Tech.)
In fact, like Epstein, Seckel never graduated from college, but that hardly held him back. For example, Seckel gave a 2007 TED talk on his particular passion: visual illusions. (His TED bio, since corrected, described him as a cognitive neuroscientist.) He also spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Session title: “Art and Illusion: Is Seeing Believing?”).
“He was definitely what they called a connector,” says producer Lawrence Bender, who recalls meeting Seckel at the TED talk. “He went out of his way to introduce me to different people.”
Seckel also threw splashy parties in Malibu, bringing together high-level people from various backgrounds. (Though Seckel has many detractors, none has ever suggested that he was involved in any kind of sexual predation.)
Presumably Seckel met Epstein through his sort-of wife, Isabel Maxwell — the sister of alleged Epstein enabler Ghislaine Maxwell — whom he had married in 2007, while apparently still married to someone else. Whether Epstein was convinced by Seckel’s phony credentials is not known, but sources say he did turn to Seckel to set up the Mindshift conference.
Pierce’s rep says he had met Seckel through “a networking gathering in Los Angeles” and saw him at a few other events after that, which led to the Mindshift invitation. Among the star talent there was physicist and Nobel-laureate Murray Gell-Mann and MIT professor Gerald Sussman. An online announcement of the event was vague about its purpose: “To try to push the frontiers of substantive topics.”
By the time of the conference, Seckel and Isabel Maxwell had relocated to France. Bender, who after meeting Seckel at the TED Talk had gotten to know him well enough to be invited to his wedding party and to visit him and his wife at their new home, says he had also started hearing rumors about Seckel’s sketchy business dealings. “It started to make me feel like, am I hanging out with the wrong person?” he says. “Then he disappeared. I thought, ‘That’s weird.'”
Indeed, in July 2015 Seckel’s body supposedly was found at the bottom of a cliff in France. He was 56. (The echoes of the fate of Isabel Maxwell’s father Robert, found floating in the sea near his yacht in 1991, are hard to miss.) Seckel died, it seems, just as Tablet magazine was preparing an article that alleged a litany of dubious business dealings as well as exposed Seckel’s phony academic credentials and double marriage.
Though the article appeared shortly after Seckel’s supposed death, it was never updated to reflect Seckel’s passing. Asked why, author Mark Oppenheimer told THR in an email: “I was never able to establish to my satisfaction that Seckel had died.” Though he didn’t devote a lot of time to the question, he continued, “I always had my suspicions that maybe he faked his own death; it would have been in character.” Others who knew Seckel also have their doubts that he’s dead and, in fact, it’s difficult to verify; authorities in France did not respond to inquiries. And, after all, the man had a passion for illusions.
By February 2018, Pierce was listed ninth on Forbes’ first list of cryptocurrency’s richest with a net worth estimated at $1 billion. Neil Strauss, the reporter who spent 10 days with him for the Rolling Stone profile, described the then-married 37-year-old as a person who rarely ate a full meal or slept in a bed: “He crashed on random couches, in the back seats of cars, on tables at bars.” The article also noted that Pierce carried a satchel “filled with small containers of various plant medicines, such as the Peruvian psychedelic San Pedro and the Amazonian tobacco rapé, which he often snorts midmeeting.” Pierce was operating from and extolling the virtues of Puerto Rico, and pledging that he would use his wealth to “rebuild” the island.
But escaping the shadow of Collins-Rector and his notorious past still proved challenging. In March 2018, HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver aired a segment about the “speculative mania” around the cryptocurrency market and focused on a startup called Block.One. Oliver played tape of Pierce in a straw hat and jeans in what appears to be a promotional video, extolling a company that had already raised $1.5 billion. “Everything that exists is no longer going to exist in the way that it does today,” Pierce says in the video. “Everything in this world is about to be better.”
Calling Pierce “a sleepy, creepy cowboy from the future,” Oliver noted that Pierce had been “involved with some very unsavory figures” and urged viewers to google “Brock Pierce scandal.” Then he played another clip in which Pierce rambled about “intentionality” before showing photos of his “entirely unicorn wedding” at Burning Man the previous year. (The bridesmaids and groomsmen “wore the colors of the rainbow plus pink” while the best man “was a woman dressed in black, cracking a whip,” he said.)
In the immediate aftermath of Oliver’s takedown, Pierce was ejected from Block.One. “Anything I accomplish in my life,” Pierce told Rolling Stone, “ends up being discredited because of this [old] narrative.”
But Pierce is still mixing and mingling with the rich and powerful. In July, he attended a gala for the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, New York, that also attracted high-profile Trump world denizens including Kimberly Guilfoyle and hedge-fund billionaire John Paulsen. More recently he was on the guestlist for Equinox and SoulCycle owner Stephen Ross’ recent, controversial Trump fundraiser, also held in the Hamptons.
Despite their less than idyllic history at IGE, Bannon told The New York Times last year that he would have gotten involved with Pierce and cryptocurrencies in 2016 if the Trump campaign hadn’t intervened.
Asked about the mockery that John Oliver had heaped on Pierce, Bannon shrugged, saying he had seen others triumph despite low expectations. “These guys,” he said, “are visionaries.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/strange-saga-jeffrey-epstein-s-link-brock-pierce-1240462
On September 29, 1993 Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had dinner at President Bill Clinton’s White House. This is the White House Donors Reception list.
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Do all lines of investigation lead to Jeffrey Epstein?
Here are a few facts about Boris de Pfeffel of Spaffwaffle’s pole dancer Jennifer Arcuri …
Hang on, isn’t that guest speaker at Arcuri’s InnoTech Summit with BoJo our dear friend Alexander ‘Lord’ Carlile? The man who rushed to the defence of the paedophile Greville Janner and shared an office with Cyril Smith?
https://youtu.be/h12luTrx7sY https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1006433087734108161?s=19 …
Jennifer Arcuri woth Milo Yiannopoulos
So Yiannopoulos, banned by Facebook and Twitter, was billed at Arcuri’s InnoTech conference as keynote speaker, second only to Boris Johnson, who yesterday traduced the memory of Jo Cox, murdered by another right-wing fanatic!
When Alexander Carlile is not serving as Boris Johnson’s support act at Jennifer Arcuri’s InnoTech summit, his role is eagerly assumed by Bannon’s willing far-right helper Milo Yiannopoulos. https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1075807158082695168?s=19 …
It is worth noting how Arcuri’s Hacker House had the endorsement of Epstein’s sleazy buddy Randy Andy: Hacker House advises organisations on cyber-security, teaches youngsters online skills and has the backing of the Duke of York for its scheme awarding cyber badges to children.
Not only was she in business with LIBOR rigger Hayes, her associate at Hacker House, another of her companies, was Lauri Love, a computer hacker whole stole large amounts of data from US government agencies …
Meanwhile, an interview given by Arcuri in 2016 mentioned that Hacker House was developing “cyber badges for schools, on request of the Duke of York, to understand the awareness and ethics of cybersecurity”.
Arcuri denied that Prince Andrew backed her firm but when asked to explain why it was mentioned in the article, she failed to respond.
A spokesman for the Duke of York declined to comment.
The Department for International Trade declined to comment.
A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret
A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, M.I.T. and reputation laundering.
It is hard to defend soliciting donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, has been trying.
Mr. Lessig is a friend of Joichi Ito, who resigned as the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, as well as from the boards of The New York Times Company and other organizations, after it was revealed that he had courted money from Mr. Epstein and worked to hide it. Mr. Ito also traveled twice to Mr. Epstein’s Caribbean island home.
Mr. Lessig signed a letter in support of Mr. Ito, and then published a 3,500-word essay on the subject.
He argued that in an ideal world, no institution should take money from people like Mr. Epstein, but that in reality, much of the money that props up universities and other elite institutions comes from troubling sources.
Mr. Lessig suggested that donors to places like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be organized in four buckets, ranging from “people like Tom Hanks or Taylor Swift — people who are wealthy and whose wealth comes from nothing but doing good” — to “entities and people whose wealth comes from clearly wrongful or harmful or immoral behavior.” Mr. Lessig, who noted that he was a childhood victim of sexual abuse, also argued that the act of veiling Mr. Epstein’s contributions was good, because it avoided “whitewashing” his reputation.
“Everyone seems to treat it as if the anonymity and secrecy around Epstein’s gift are a measure of some kind of moral failing,” Mr. Lessig wrote. “I see it as exactly the opposite.”
The reaction to Mr. Lessig’s essay was swift and furious. On social media, many were dismayed that someone whose work focuses on institutional corruption would defend dealing with Mr. Epstein and hiding his money.
“A disappointing moral crumpling from Lessig,” wrote Anand Giridharadas, the author of a book on the corruption of the elite class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/business/lessig-epstein-ito-mit.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
For a dismal failure of a businesswoman, Jennifer Arcuri sure won the hearts of BoJo’s fawning acolytes …
Lessig, Hardwicke and the proctor, some things never change: the culpability of the victim in the eyes of the perpetrator:
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/12061/
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Lessig is up there with David Boies who is currently working pro bono for Virgina Roberts and whose firm is also working for Kenes Rakishev on the BTA/Ablyazov/Khrapunov case.
Boies, Lessig & Weld challenge the Electoral College system
http://www.bluejersey.com/2018/08/boies-lessig-weld-challenge-the-electoral-college-system/
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One of Jennifer Arcuri’s companies was Title X Technology Limited. The only other company director listed was Tom Alexander William Hayes, the trader for UBS and Citigroup convicted for his role in the LIBOR scandal. Fancy that! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hayes_(trader) …
Acuri’s access to Johnson was unprecedented and came out of nowhere (MBA student turned party-activist, turned conference organiser). There are questions to be answered about the use of public money to sponsor her by the Mayor’s agency.
Billionaire boys club: Jeffrey Epstein got Bill Gates and Richard Branson to join his panel in 2014 at event hosted by Arizona State University, where pedophile funded annual $10K grant
- Jeffrey Epstein had convinced Richard Branson and Bill Gates to appear on his panel about the origins of money in 2014 according to an email
- The pedophiles friend Lawrence Krauss revealed this in an email months before the event, which was later cancelled in favor of another panel
- ASU would later praise Epstein in a press release that was sent out in September of 2014 after he funded a $10,00 grant
- Gates and Branson have both claimed that reports of their ties to Epstein have been exaggerated, possibly by the deceased pedophile himself
- Branson said that the two were geographically close, with Necker Island just 20 miles from Little St James, but nothing more
- Gates, after trying to deny any relationship, later admitted to meeting Epstein for philanthropic guidance
Jeffrey Epstein called on fellow billionaire Richard Branson and Bill Gates to appear alongside him on a 2014 panel about the origins of money.
The event was to take place in January of that year at Arizona State University as part of the Origins Project, which was run by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss at the time.
It was Krauss who revealed this news in a 2013 email to Jim Simons, asking the famed mathematician if he might be interested in a spot on the same panel.
Krauss wrote to Simmons that Epstein was coordinating the panel on the Origins of Money, and said ‘right now he has Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Larry Summers on board.’
He closed out by stating ‘Jeffrey … would very much like to meet with you to discuss his ideas for the workshop.’
Simons ultimately declined the invite and the panel was ultimately cancelled, as was reported earlier this month by Buzzfeed News.
Billionaire ballers: Jeffrey Epstein had convinced Richard Branson and Bill Gates (above in 2016) to appear on his panel about the origins of money in 2014 according to an email
The pedophiles friend Lawrence Krauss revealed this in an email months before the event, which was later cancelled in favor of another panel
Gates and Branson have both claimed that reports of their ties to Epstein have been exaggerated, possibly by the deceased pedophile himself.
In the case of Gates, he at first tried to deny all links between him and the pedophile before ultimately admitting he did fly on Epstein’s plane and talk with him, but only about philanthropic efforts.
Branson meanwhile said that his proximity to Epstein is geographic only, with his private Necker Island approximately 20 miles distance from Epstein’s Little St James.
Krauss meanwhile publicized his ties to Epstein, and defended his friend back in 2011 while speaking to the Daily Beast.
‘Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women but they’re not as young as the ones that were claimed,’ said Krauss.
‘As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I’ve never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people.’
He then added: ‘I don’t feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey; I feel raised by it.’
Krauss would later find himself in trouble for sexual misconduct, which led to his exit from ASU and the Origins Project in July of last year.
The university also publicized their relationship with Epstein too however, and in September of 2014 issued a press release announcing that the pedophile had funded a grant for the school.
‘The Origins Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship is sponsored by the Epstein VI Foundation. Jeffrey Epstein, who established the foundation, said that he was excited to support this new Origins prize, and that he hoped the selection process would “be able to find those that can see around corners,’ read a release at the ti,e.
‘The annual $10,000 international prize will be awarded to an outstanding junior scholar chosen from any field of study relevant to the broad mission of the Origins Project at ASU.’
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged accomplices are protected from federal charges in Florida
Sep 16, 2019
Alleged accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein cannot be federally prosecuted in Florida, after a U.S. District Judge ruled Monday to keep a secret non-prosecution agreement intact, following Epstein’s death.
The agreement was negotiated between the U.S. Attorney in Miami and Epstein’s attorneys in secret more than a decade ago, keeping Epstein and named/unnamed co-conspirators from being federally prosecuted in Florida.
In February, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled previously that federal prosecutors in Florida violated a victims’ rights law when they failed to inform a group of women, who say they were sexually abused by Epstein, about the 2008 deal. Judge Marra’s next step was to decide what the alleged victims should receive in return for that violation of their rights. Attorneys for the victims wanted Epstein’s alleged accomplices to be federally charged in Florida, among other remedies.
The judge ruled Monday the government would not do that, as it was not authorized by the law, and in the wake of Epstein’s death, the non prosecution agreement argument became moot.
He also said the victims are not owed any money for the violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Judge Marra said he felt that while prosecutors, including former US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, they “did not act in bad faith.”
Instead, Judge Marra said the government will do three things:
1. The Department of Justice will designate a representative to meet with Petitioners and other victims to discuss the decision to resolve the Epstein case.
2. The government will participate in a public court proceeding in which Petitioners can make a victim impact statement.
3. All criminal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida will undergo additional training on the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, victim rights, and victim assistance issues.
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The judge also declined to award attorneys’ fees to the women and denied their request for FBI records related to the Epstein investigation.
Marra credited the women with bringing national attention to victims’ rights.
Brad Edwarda and Paul Cassell, attorneys represented some of Epstein’s alleged victims, released this statement to WPTV:
“More than 10 years ago, diligent police officers and FBI agents uncovered Jeffrey Epstein’s serious sexual crimes committed against several dozens of children. Rather than prosecute Mr. Epstein and his co-conspirators, prosecutors entered into a secret agreement that gave Mr. Epstein a pass in Florida for abusing those children. Most victims would have let the Government and Mr. Epstein get away with it, and nobody would have ever known about that injustice. However, Courtney Wild, one of Mr. Epstein’s victims, bravely stood up to both Mr. Epstein and the United States Government and sued the Government for violating her rights. Other victims then joined. Earlier this year, Judge Marra ruled that the Government had violated her rights and the rights of Mr. Epstein’s other victims. A month ago Mr. Epstein died. Today, Judge Marra ruled that the CVRA case be closed as a consequence of Mr. Epstein’s death. Courtney, and the other Epstein victims who pursued this important case, should not be sad, but instead proud. Together, we have forever demonstrated that nobody is above the law, not the wealthy and not even the Government. Through this case, we have strengthened the importance and the role of victims in the criminal justice system. As Judge Marra alluded to in his Order, this case undoubtedly elevated public awareness of Mr. Epstein’s crimes and played a vital role in his eventual arrest in New York. Of course, this is not the ending we had hoped for, but the enormous progression of victims’ rights through this case will ensure that violations like this never happen again in this country. For that, the fight was worth it. We are exploring all options for continuing the fight, including the possibility of an appeal.”
Jack Scarola, another attorney for Epstein’s alleged victims, released this statement to WPTV:
“It is indeed frustrating to have devoted as much time to the CVRA proceedings as Brad Edwards, Professor Paul Cassel, and (to a lesser extent) I have devoted …to that case, and to have our primary objective frustrated by Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Nevertheless, we do take solace in recognizing the role that a decade of legal work has played in focusing public attention on the failures of the criminal justice system in dealing with Epstein’s horrendous crimes. The next chapter is making sure that every one of his co-conspirators is held fully accountable for their participation in those crimes and every government official is held to answer for allowing them and Epstein to escape a full measure of justice.”
Roy Black, Epstein’s attorney, released this statement about the judge’s decision:
“Judge Marra, as usual, has ruled in a scholarly, well written opinion. Due to Mr. Epstein’s death the Court was unable to address the appropriateness of the non-prosecution agreement. I believe his ruling on it would have ended much of the unfair and biased coverage of how it occurred and perhaps could have limited some of the wild conspiracy theories surrounding it.”
Epstein killed himself last month in jail in New York while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
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Amanda Ellingworth is the granddaughter of Earl Mountbatten who is said to have been a patron of Kincora. She is a social worker and holds a number of directorships. Her earlier career was in UK social work, specialising ironically in children’s services and child protection.
Lady Amanda Ellingworth
George Mountbatten’s two greatest accomplishments in life were a) to leave artefacts including a collection of sick pornography to the British Museum, and b) to pay for Phil the Greek to attend Gordonstoun, a bootcamp for the rich and decadent.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/23/monarchy.sallyvincent …
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1173441969865089025
Lady Amanda Ellingworthis the granddaughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. )
Parent(s) John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Lady Amanda Knatchbull November 02, 1981
Amanda Knatchbull Ellingworth – social worker 1981 – 1992
Amanda’s earlier career was in social work, eventually specialising in local authority child protection in various London Boroughs
http://www.casseltrust.co.uk/About-Us—Contacts–Trustees
@ciabaudo
No matter which charity Amanda Ellingworth presided over as director, it was invariably beset by paedophilia and coverups.
So, too, Bernardo’s, where she has been since 2010:
Child abuse ‘cover-up’ claims after Barnardo’s admits systematically destroying files
CHILDREN’S charity Barnardo’s systematically destroyed records at its residential care homes where child sex abuse occurred over three decades – but claimed to victims that files had been lost in a flood.
The organisation’s solicitor made the shock admission to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. Victims of abuse say they have been left “distressed” by the revelation that the charity had a policy of disposing of files when they shut care homes where abuse happened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Amanda Ellingworth attended Gordonstoun school with Prince Andrew. Her father Lord Brabourne was a governor of Gordonstoun
Police files on child sex abuse at Gordonstoun school have vanished
The Lord Brabourne was an aide-de-camp to 2 paedophiles:
Barnardos sent children to the Fairbridge Farm
Several men say they were abused as children by Sir William Slim, Chief Scout of the Commonwealth, in the 1950s at Fairbridge (sic!) Farm school in Molong, NSW. The nature of the abuse was so serious that a road in Canberra named after him was renamed.
^ 3 paedophiles recruiting: Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck, Admiral Louis Mountbatten and Lt General William Slim
Hyam, Ronald Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0-7190-2505-1 1990, pp. 14,p32
Lord Brabourne, born John Ulick Knatchbull, was a leading film producer. A director with Thames Television, he produced a number of films based on Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, including “Murder on the Orient Express,” “Death on the Nile,” and “The Mirror Crack’d.”
He also produced “Othello” with Laurence Olivier in 1965 and “Up The Junction” and “Romeo and Juliet” in 1967.
Queen Elizabeth and other royals were frequent guests at his 11-bedroom Georgian mansion near Ashford, in Kent, which had been in the family for more than 500 years.
Lady Brabourne was a friend of the Queen, having served as lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty and also being godmother to Prince Charles.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/queen-among-mourners-at-countess-127941/
Lady Amanda Patricia Victoria Ellingworth is a British social worker.
She has since held a portfolio of chair roles or directorships, always working with vulnerable people, especially children. Among other organisations she is currently a director of Plan International,[1] Barnardo’s,[2] and Great Ormond Street Hospital.[3].
Ellingworth married novelist and property entrepreneur Charles Vincent Ellingworth on 31 October 1987;[6] he is the eldest child of six in a Leicestershire Catholic family, who attended Ampleforth Collegeand later read history at Oxford University.
PLAN INTERNATIONAL
Janet Boateng: Former chair of Lambeth social services committee
Janet Boateng’s name never comes up in articles about the paedophile ring that operated in Lambeth Council-run children’s homes between 1974 and 1994.
But maybe it should, because she was chair of Lambeth Council’s social services committee, who had overall responsibility for the running of children’s homes, and she personally unveiled the ‘new child care strategy’ at a time when Lambeth children’s homes were infested with paedophiles.
Janet Boateng is married to former Labour MP and now peer, Paul Boateng.
Paedophile network abused 200 children (The Independent)
Paul Boateng to leave Cape Town after bullying claims (The Telegraph)
Social Work Today, 11th November 1985
Paul Boateng with Michael Jackson (in Epstein’s black book), Mossad’s Uri Geller, Greville Janner and David Blaine (in Epstein’s black book)
The Channel 4 documentary revealed how Charles’ “honorary grandfather” Lord Mountbatten tried to manoeuvre the Prince away from his future wife Camilla, and instead set him up with his granddaughter Amanda.
The show explained how Amanda was “the perfect candidate” for Prince Charles, and “was the right age” at nine years his junior.
“Amanda was Charles’ cousin,” the narrator explained. “For years, Mountbatten was secretly lining Amanda up as a future queen.”
Amanda’s brother is Norton Knatchbull, a close friend of Prince Charles’ and godfather to Prince William.
In 2016, Charles filled in for Norton at his daughter Alexandra’s wedding, walking her down the aisle.
8 May 2015
PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange) is affiliated with us. PIE delegates attend their AGM and help formulate NCCL rules and policy
Lady Amanda Ellingworth, Non-Executive Director
Lady Amanda Ellingworth was a senior social worker focusing on children and families before moving into Board level roles, including 12 years on the Board of a small Foundation Trust and Chair of a large housing association. Currently, Amanda is Chair of Plan International UK, Lay Advisor of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Deputy Chair of Barnado’s, the major children’s charity.
Amanda Chairs the Quality, Safety and Experience Assurance Committee. She is a member of the People and Education Assurance Committee.
Lady Amanda Ellingworth – director at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Savile abused dying child, 11, at Great Ormond Street
hospital in London. The victim confided in a relative before dying.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/409785/savile-abused-dying-child-11-at-great-ormond-street/
The Trust has conducted a thorough investigation into an allegation that Jimmy Savile abused an inpatient at the hospital in 1971.
Despite rigorous examination of information provided by the informant, the Trust has found no evidence that the alleged incident took place.
We also found no evidence of Jimmy Savile fundraising on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hospital and there were no, and never have been, access arrangements or privileges accorded to Jimmy Savile at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The Trust takes safeguarding matters extremely seriously and adheres to a strict VIP visitors policy which ensures that they are accompanied at all times. A copy of the full report is attached below:
Amanda Ellingworth’s grandfather, paedophile Lord Mountbatten, introduced Jimmy Savile to the Royal family
Lord Mountbatten ‘was a homosexual with a lust for young boys’ claims secret FBI dossier compiled by agents seeking dirt on British statesmen during World War Two and the Suez Crisis
Lord Mountbatten ‘was a homosexual with a perversion for young boys’
Global children’s charity Plan UK has said it will absorb Street Kids International UK (Ski UK) “to expand their work in helping some of the world’s poorest young people fulfil their potential”.
The two charities will join forces on April 1, 2015 to form one larger charity under the existing name of Plan UK.
Philippa Frankl- between 2006 and 2008 she was Head of Programmes at the Prince’s Trust;
Frankl led the integration of Street Kids International into Plan UK
Convicted paedophile Peter Dalglish – founder of Street Kids International
The Right Honorable Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten Of Burma
Amanda Ellingworth (Senior Independent Trustee)
Amanda’s first career was as a social worker, specialising in child protection. More recently Amanda has been a director of mainly health and social care organisations in UK and internationally, currently including Great Ormond Street Hospital and Plan International. Amanda became a Trustee in 2009.
Clarence House
3rd June 2017
Child abuse ‘cover-up’ claims after Barnardo’s admits systematically destroying files
CHILDREN’S charity Barnardo’s systematically destroyed records at its residential care homes where child sex abuse occurred over three decades – but claimed to victims that files had been lost in a flood.
The organisation’s solicitor made the shock admission to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. Victims of abuse say they have been left “distressed” by the revelation that the charity had a policy of disposing of files when they shut care homes where abuse happened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Barnardo’s workers jailed for sex abuse
The charity Barnardo’s was accused of “incompetence and neglect” by a judge yesterday after he jailed two former carers for a total of 29 years for a series of sexual abuse offences against children in their care.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1472292/Barnardos-workers-jailed-for-sex-abuse.html
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister founded Chiliad, which is a data analytics company used by DHS and the FBI
Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 ‘Connecting the Dots’ Problem
@_whitneywebb
The cover-up of Saudi govt involvement in 9/11 gets some coverage, but what about the cover-up of Israel’s involvement?
A recent FOIA release shed some light on those events
Why were 5 Israelis employed by a Mossad front company, waiting for something 40 minutes before the first plane hit and why did they begin to celebrate and high five after impact?
2 of those 5 men worked for Mossad. What did they know?
Why was their explosive residue in their van? Why did one of them have $4,700 in cash at time of arrest? Why did the FBI redact their entire answer to the question “Did the Israeli nationals have foreknowledge of the events at WTC”?
Most importantly, why were these guys and the other 50+ Israelis arrested on and imm after 9/11 let go? ABC News said at the time: “Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal … the five Israelis were taken out of jail, put on a plane, and deported.”
The Dancing Israelis: FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks As another 9/11 anniversary comes and goes, many questions surrounding the events remained unanswered.
MintPress brings you a freshly updated article, originally published in May, 2019 that seeks answers to some of those questions.
How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States.
In 2011, Jeffrey Epstein Was A Known Sex Offender. The Founders Of Amazon, Google, And Tesla Dined With Him Anyway
Anne Wojcicki – founder/CEO of 23andme
Jeff Skoll – billionaire, first employee of Ebay
Nathan Paul Myhrvold – former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft
Salar Kamangar – senior executive at Google, former CEO of YouTube
Craig Mundie – Senior Advisor to Microsoft CEO, former Chief Research & Strategy Officer
Sean Parker – billionaire Napster cofounder, first president of Facebook
Tony Fadell – former Senior VP of Apple, “father of the Ipod”
David Brooks – NY Times columnist…
An intimate dinner for billionaires attended by Jeffrey Epstein in 2011, years after his conviction for soliciting a child prostitute. Other people at the dinner included Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin
After pleading guilty to charges of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, Jeffrey Epstein spent part of 2011 reintroducing himself to elite society. A March 2011 dinner with the most powerful figures in tech showed just how connected he was.
In March 2011, a group of technology executives gathered in a private dining room at an upscale Italian restaurant in downtown Long Beach, California, for a meal and some conversation. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, and others were all in town for TED, the annual conference with the slogan “ideas worth spreading.” They were among friends at an annual event called the “billionaires’ dinner,” without a retinue of handlers and hangers-on.
Yet when the event was later immortalized online, at least one infamous individual was missing from the names of the masters of the universe who had gathered for the evening: the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
John Brockman
This elite dinner, and another similarly select gathering that Epstein attended later that year, were both organized by the New York literary agent John Brockman, whose exclusive intellectual club, called Edge, seems to have played a role in Epstein’s efforts to regain credibility and influence in circles of the rich and powerful. At the time, he was less than two years removed from finishing a 13-month prison term in a Florida state jail for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
A leaked email obtained by BuzzFeed News also suggests that Epstein separately pursued ties with Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.
The months following Epstein’s release from prison would be crucial for the disgraced financier as he began his reacclimation to the upper-crust social circles he had occupied before his arrest. In late 2010, Epstein reportedly hosted a dinner for celebrities and Prince Andrew at his Upper East Side mansion, and by the next year he was once again mingling with Brockman, an über networker among the elite of tech, science, and Wall Street.
With a goal to “seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves,” Brockman’s Edge Foundation had previously welcomed Epstein as a patron to the sciences.
Before his 2006 arrest, Epstein attended at least three Edge billionaires’ dinners and was mentioned in a write-up on the Edge website of the 2004 event.
In the early 2000s, the Edge dinners were a place to be seen by members of the digerati and attended by reporters from several media outlets. In 2011, after Epstein had been released from a Florida jail, it was an exclusive gathering, dominated by tech industry leadership. A gallery of photos taken at the event by Nathan Myhrvold, formerly Microsoft’s chief technology officer, named 20 guests, including just one media representative: New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Epstein wasn’t named in the photos posted on the Edge website, but he appears in the background of a snap of Zack Bogue, a venture capitalist and husband of Marissa Mayer, then a vice president at Google. (The New York Times mentioned this photo in passing in its July story about Epstein’s reentry into powerful social circles after his release from jail.)
Jeffrey Epstein, far right, pictured at the 2011 Edge billionaires’ dinner.
Other photos show the participants mingling before or after taking their seats. Also present were Bezos; Musk; Brin; Salar Kamangar, then CEO of YouTube; Mayer, who the following year left Google to become CEO of Yahoo; and Anne Wojcicki, Brin’s then-wife and CEO of genetic testing startup 23andMe.
This was not the first time that some of these tech titans had rubbed shoulders with Epstein at Brockman’s billionaires’ dinners: Bezos and Brin — along with fellow Google cofounder Larry Page — are listed on the Edge website as attending in 2004, and the Amazon CEO was at the 1999 event, both of which Epstein also attended.
Despite Epstein’s notoriety following his conviction, multiple attendees present at the small gathering in 2011 stated they did not know him then, or do not remember his presence now.
“I did not know Jeffrey Epstein was there,” said Bogue, who was photographed sitting three places away from the ex-convict financier at the 2011 event. “I don’t think I spoke to him at that dinner. I don’t believe I have ever met him, either at that dinner or anytime else.”
Through a spokesperson, Bogue’s spouse, Mayer, said she did not recall seeing Epstein at the dinner. That sentiment was echoed by Craig Mundie, another dinner attendee, who served as Microsoft’s chief strategy and research officer until 2014. Mundie said in an email that he had been invited by Brockman and had no recollection of meeting Epstein at the event.
Myhrvold, another former Microsoft executive, sent a statement to BuzzFeed News denying any “knowledge of or any involvement in the various crimes that Mr. Epstein is accused of committing” or financial connections to his money management business.
“Back in the day Epstein was a regular at TED conferences and he was a large donor to basic scientific research, so while Nathan knew him and has socialized with him, that’s exactly where their association ends,” his spokesperson said.
Brooke Hammerling, a communications and public relations specialist who deals with high-profile tech executives, did not attend the dinner but said she had been long aware of Brockman’s events around TED. She said it was hard to believe that executives of high profile companies would go in blind to an intimate dinner, particularly when many have staff who prepare them ahead of time with briefing books on who will be attending events.
“If you’re the CEO of a publicly traded company, your responsibility is to be prepared and not to have any surprises,” she said.
Brooks, the New York Times columnist and the only journalist photographed at the event, said he had not heard of Epstein in 2011 and only learned of the financier and his past following the Miami Herald’s investigation last year. He too had been invited by Brockman, but said he was not aware of who would be attending the dinner, and was “surprised” at its “high powered group of people.”
A Tesla spokesperson declined to answer queries about the event and instead questioned BuzzFeed News’ “journalistic integrity.”
Brin and Bezos did not respond to BuzzFeed News’ inquiries. Kamangar and Wojcicki also did not reply to emails requesting comment.
Epstein attended a second exclusive Edge event in July 2011, held over a weekend at a winery in St. Helena, California. There, he mingled with a handful of leading scientists and several science journalists, plus wealthy power brokers including Sean Parker, former president of Facebook, and Nicholas Pritzker, a venture capitalist and former CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation. Pritzker’s venture firm has invested in Uber, Tesla, and SpaceX and he is now on the board of vaping startup Juul Labs.
Jeffrey Epstein, wearing glasses to the right, seated next to Nicholas Pritzker, listens to musician and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier ask a question of mathematical biologist Martin Nowak.
The meeting was billed as a “master class” on the science of human nature. Participants got a preview of Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of Our Nature, on the decline of violence in human societies, released a few months later. Epstein was captured on video sitting next to Pritzker and laughing as Martin Nowak, who received $6.5 million from Epstein in 2003 to launch his Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard, explained how sexual reproduction generates “noise” in models of the evolution of cooperative behavior.
“Sean does not have a specific recollection of that event,” a spokesperson for Parker told BuzzFeed News. “He did not meet Jeffrey Epstein at that time, but he also would not have been aware of who he was in 2011.”
A spokesperson for Pritzker told BuzzFeed News by email: “He has no memory of having any knowledge prior to the event of the identity of any attendee including Mr. Epstein and if Mr. Pritzker was seated next to Mr. Epstein at the small gathering, it would have been purely coincidental. There were discussions among the attendees as a group on the subjects presented, but Mr. Pritzker does not recall any specific conversations with Mr. Epstein.”
In 2009, Brockman had also suggested that “science philanthropist” Epstein should be invited to another exclusive event, the Science Foo Camp, organized by tech book publisher Tim O’Reilly and held annually at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.
“O’Reilly does its own due diligence on anyone recommended,” Marsee Henon, program manager for O’Reilly Media, told BuzzFeed News by email. “As a result, Jeffrey Epstein was never invited to an O’Reilly Foo Camp.”
Since Epstein’s arrest in July this year on charges of sex trafficking, Brockman has declined to answer questions about Epstein and his own role in assisting the sex offender’s return to elite society. He did not respond to queries from BuzzFeed News about the two 2011 events. The financier’s profile was this year quietly removed from the Edge website, together with the pages for the 1999 and 2000 billionaires’ dinners, listed on Epstein’s profile.
Jeffrey Epstein talks to Nathan Myhrvold, formerly Microsoft’s chief technology officer, at the 2000 billionaires’ dinner.
Those pages are saved on the Internet Archive, however. And less obvious links to Epstein, including the photo from the 2011 billionaires’ dinner, the reference to his presence at the 2004 event, and video from the 2011 master class, remain on the Edge website.
While Brockman was an important networker for Epstein, the disgraced financier apparently had his own contacts with another huge player in the tech industry: Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Last Friday, in a searing report on Epstein’s links with the MIT Media Lab, a hub for innovation in digital media, the New Yorker revealed an email indicating that Epstein in 2014 had “directed” a donation of $2 million from Gates to the lab.
A May 2013 email from physicist Lawrence Krauss, former head of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, also suggests ties between Epstein and Gates. (Epstein helped fund Krauss’s project at Arizona State, which brought together well-known scientists, intellectuals, and celebrities for public debates and other events.)
In the email, obtained by BuzzFeed News, Krauss invited hedge fund billionaire James Simons to attend a workshop on the origins of money being organized by Epstein at Arizona State. Krauss claimed that Gates, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, and Lawrence Summers, formerly president of Harvard and Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, had already been brought on board by Epstein.
Simons declined the invitation, and the workshop ultimately didn’t take place.
“Bill never committed to attend that event,” a source close to Gates told BuzzFeed News. “This is another example of how Epstein tried to associate himself with Bill.”
Gates, who was chairman of Microsoft until 2014, faced questions about his ties to Epstein last month after his former science adviser, Boris Nikolic, was named by Epstein as a backup executor for his will, signed two days before he killed himself in a federal detention center in Manhattan. Also last month, CNBC reported that Gates held a meeting in 2013 with Epstein to discuss ways to increase philanthropic giving.
“Epstein was introduced to Bill Gates as someone who was interested in helping grow philanthropy,” a spokesperson for Gates told BuzzFeed News by email. “Although Epstein pursued Bill Gates aggressively, any account of a business partnership or personal relationship between the two is simply not true. And any claim that Epstein directed any programmatic or personal grantmaking for Bill Gates is completely false.”
“Richard did not agree to an event at the University for this date – nor was he on board for this,” a spokesperson for Branson told BuzzFeed News by email.
While Epstein may have sought access to elite circles to rehabilitate his image, it is less clear that the rich and famous wanted to be publicly associated with him.
A manager at the Italian restaurant that hosted the 2011 billionaires’ dinner in Long Beach said she dealt directly with Brockman and was the only one allowed to check people in for the “hush hush” event. She wasn’t even allowed to save the list of attendees.
“After the event, they took the guest list and shredded it,” she said.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-bezos-musk-billionaires-dinner
@Tiff_FitzHenry
BREAKING: An email written by the MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito says Bill Gates was “directed by” Jeffrey Epstein to donate $2 million to the research lab in October 2014. Serious question, why does Bill Gates do what Jeffrey Epstein tells him to do?
Two days before his death, Epstein signed a last will and testament that named one of Gates’ closest connections as alternate executor of his estate, if his longtime lawyers were not able to carry out their duties.
Bloomberg reported that Boris Nikolic, an immunologist and biotech entrepreneur who formerly served as Gates’ chief scientific adviser until 2014, was “shocked” to see he was named alternate executor by Epstein.
How MIT was complicit in allowing Jeffrey Epstein to launder his reputation
A scarifying investigation by the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow revealed that the vaunted “idea factory” had a deeper fundraising relationship with Epstein than it had previously acknowledged and that it went to great pains to conceal the extent of its contacts with him. Dozens of pages of emails and other documents obtained by Farrow “reveal that, although Epstein was listed as ‘disqualified’ in MIT’s official donor database, the media lab continued to accept gifts from him, consulted him about the use of the funds and, by marking his contributions as anonymous, avoided disclosing their full extent, both publicly and within the university”.
After the New Yorker story was published, the lab’s director, Joi Ito, resigned from his post and his professorship and MIT’s president announced the usual “independent” inquiry by a fancy law firm.
As with everything dodgy, the key to understanding this scandal is to follow the money. The media lab was an offshoot of MIT’s architecture school, founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte, a man for whom the term “effortless superiority” could have been invented. At a stormy meeting of the lab’s members last week, he reportedly said that he prided himself on “knowing over 80% of the billionaires in the US on a first-name basis”, which is how he first got to know Epstein and had accepted donations from him many years ago…
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1170376755150016512
Jeffrey Epstein was seen getting off a private plane with two girls, 11 and 12, last year
- The last ever images of Jeffrey Epstein have been released, with the convicted pedophile seen in photos taken after his arrest by the FBI in early July
- The pictures were included in a US Marshall report wrapping up the investigation into the pedophile
- Report revealed new allegations involving the ‘sex trafficker’ and young girls
The last ever images of Jeffrey Epstein have been released, with the convicted pedophile seen in photos taken after his arrest by the FBI in early July.
The pictures were included in a US Marshall report wrapping up the investigation into the pedophile, which revealed new allegations involving the accused sex trafficker and young girls.
One individual, who worked at an air traffic control tower, told investigators just weeks before Estein’s death that he was seen with two girls, aged 11 and 12, in July 2018 getting off a plane.
That was just one year before his arrest.
The investigations also revealed that Epstein had traveled to Vienna and Monaco in the weeks before his arrest, which happened when he touched down in Teterboro Airport from Paris.
Investigators also started combing through his island properties less than two weeks after his arrest, and had been increasing their efforts until his death at the MCC in August.
At that point it is noted in the report that the investigation had been shut down, and all warrants withdrawn – including one for his phone records.
Paedo tycoon Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein were guests at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday ball
8 Sept 2019
SEX beast Jeffrey Epstein and rape accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein were guests at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday ball.
@JaneParshally
Ah. One of the ‘few times’ he met him, then.
The Duke and Duchess of York with Princess Eugenie at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday ball in 2006. Eight days after the party, Epstein was held on suspicion of soliciting young girls for prostitution at his Florida mansionThe disgraced tycoon was accompanied to the £400,000 celebration by British ex-lover Ghislaine Maxwell.Epstein was arrested on child prostitution charges just days later.Weinstein, 67, went with Georgina Chapman, the Brit designer pal of Beatrice’s mum Sarah Ferguson who created the party girl’s £10,000 blue taffeta gown.They wed but she divorced him after dozens of women accused him of sexual abuse in the #MeToo scandal. He faces trial next year.The mask ball’s theme was 1888 to mark 100 years before Beatrice’s birth and guests wore Victorian costume.It was held on July 15, 2006 and continued the Queen’s tradition of giving her grandchildren a coming of age birthday party. She and Prince Philip did not attend.
PARTY BOMBSHELL
Beatrice’s sister Eugenie, then 16, Peter and Zara Phillips and Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex were at the celebration.
Others among the 400 guests at the do were Demi Moore, her then husband Ashton Kutcher, Pixie Geldof, Kelly Osbourne and Sir David Frost.
The ball’s budget included £215,000 on food and drink — including 400 bottles of champagne — £65,000 on flowers and £120,000 on outfits and staff.
Rape accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was also among the guests at the royal bash
Weinstein went with Georgina Chapman, a pal of Fergie’s who designed Princess Beatrice’s blue and gold taffeta gown
Epstein’s presence, sources say, sheds new light on how close 59-year-old Prince Andrew was to him.
One said: “It goes to show how Epstein worked his way into the very heart of the British establishment — rubbing shoulders with royalty at a palace.” Eight days after the party, Epstein was held on suspicion of soliciting young girls for prostitution at his Florida mansion.
Epstein attended the £400,000 party with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Princess has a ball for her 18th
Royals the Earl and Countess of Wessex, Peter and Zara Phillips as well as veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost (In epstein’s black book) were among the guests expected to attend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5184316.stm
@ciabaudo
Q: Who was in both in Epstein’s little black book and on the RAINS list?
A: Peter Mandelson, David Frost, Lord Alistair McAlpine and Charles Althorp (Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother).
Princess Beatrice
In 2006 Princess Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday party with a Victorian masked ball at Windsor Castle. Her £10,000 dress was flown in from New York and her chosen menu was tarte tatin and fillet d’angeau.
The 500 lucky guests (including Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, the Osbourne offspring and Pixie Geldof) enjoyed a night of tarot card readings, contortionists and rap music until 3am, with the Queen’s butlers serving bacon and sausage butties at dawn.
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/the-best-royal-birthday-bashes-10478
Rocco Forte in Epstein’s black book
Hotel magnate Rocco Forte arrives for Princess Beatrice’s Victorian-themed 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle.
And then there is Beatrice. It does take a special kind of little lady to want to see in her 18th year with a blue taffeta bustle, her mother in a corset and Demi Moore, Angie Everhart and Tanya Bryer as hoop-skirted guests.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/jul/18/fashion.shopping
Tania Bryer is a British born television broadcaster with a wealth of experience.
Currently affiliated with the Global network CNBC, Tania hosts and is Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed series ‘CNBC Meets..’, where she gets up close and personal with some of the world’s most inspirational figures to find out the secret to their success and how their philanthropy transforms lives. Amongst many others for the Series she has interviewed President Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Branson, President Jimmy Carter, Melinda Gates, Andrea Bocelli, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Maria Sharapova, will.i.am, Naomi Campbell, H.R.H The Duke of York, Dolly Parton, Tamara Mellon OBE, Andre Agassi, Lang Lang, Diane von Furstenberg, Jon Bon Jovi, Matt Damon, Cherie Blair CBE QC and Forest Whitaker, with contributions from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Angelina Jolie, Chelsea Clinton, Tom Cruise and Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Tania is also an anchor on ‘The CNBC Conversation’ series which sees her interview newsmakers including Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, Shah Rukh Khan, H.S.H Prince Albert of Monaco, Former South African President F.W de Klerk, Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Hollywood icons Jane Fonda and Goldie Hawn, Arianna Huffington, Fashion titans Karl Lagerfeld, Dame Vivienne Westwood and Tom Ford, LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault, Comedian and author David Walliams, as well as hosting news specials for the network with guests including Victoria Beckham, Beyonce, Usain Bolt, Kate Moss, Sir Elton John and David Furnish, Nadja Swarovski, Christopher Bailey, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, James Rubin.
In 2017, Tania also became host and executive producer of CNBC’s brand new series, Trailblazers, experiencing the world’s greatest cities with some of the world’s most famous faces including Hollywood superstar Gwyneth Paltrow, legendary Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan, Supermodel Natalia Vodianova, Queen of Latin Pop Gloria Estefan, Superstar Pianist Lang Lang, and the world’s best-selling solo classical artist, Andrea Bocelli.
Tania also appears weekly as a newspaper reviewer on Sky News Sunrise and is a guest presenter on talkRADIO. She has also contributed on Radio 4’s Today programme, ITV’s This Morning, BBC’s Celebrity Masterchef, and as herself in a cameo on the US television drama, The Royals.
A highly skilled presenter and moderator, Tania hosts a wide variety of international events and Forums including the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards, the Women of the Future Awards and The Women’s Forum in Deauville. She is an official participant and moderator at The World Economic Forum in Davos, and chairs numerous panels for charities and organisations including Invest Africa, Intelligence Squared and The Philanthropreneurship Forum.
Tania hosts the King Hussein Cancer Foundation’s Hope Galas in the presence of His Majesty King Abdullah II and Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan.
She is Chair of the National Events Committee for Cancer Research UK and a Patron of the Alzheimer’s Society.
Tania holds a B.Sc. in International Politics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Circo Rum Ba Ba performed at the birthday party
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5184316.stm
HOLLYWOOD’S most glamorous 40-something was the dancing queen of the ball at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party.
Demi Moore paraded her Latino moves at the royal bash alongside husband Ashton Kutcher.
One guest said: “She was throwing her legs really high and danced for over two hours.”
Prince Edward also danced. The guest added: “He fell over and everyone laughed including him.”
Beatrice’s best friend Caroline said in a speech: “Some normal girls are a million times more of a princess than she is.”
And Prince Andrew told his daughter: “If anything happens, we will always take you back.”
Tommy Hilfiger, Jack and Kelly Osbourne, Peaches and Pixie Geldof, David Frost and a raft of European royalty attended the £400,000 Victorian themed masked ball, at Windsor Castle three weeks before her birthday.
Princes William and Harry were absent due to polo committments.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/exclusive-stars-out-for-beas-big-633979
Peaches Geldorf (OTO)
Peaches has become a regular on London’s party circuit, appearing bleary-eyed at the O2 Wireless festival and caning it until 3am at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party.
One friend said: “She’s only 17 yet she has dubbed herself ‘Naughty Peaches’ on her My Space website, where she talks about how she loves to be a pervert.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/stewed-peaches-17977865
- Peaches was devotee of religious cult led by satanist occultist Aleister Crowley
Princess Beatrice’s ex reveals all
As Paolo Liuzzo went down on one knee on the drawing room floor, a giggling Sarah Ferguson stood in front of him and raised her arm above his head.
With Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice looking on – and both laughing heartily – Fergie brought down her hand, tapped Paolo on each shoulder and jubilantly proclaimed: “I name you Sir Fixit!”
Fergie’s impersonation of the Queen performing a knighthood ceremony was bizarre in itself.
Paolo claims Fergie ordered Princess Beatrice to end her relationship with him
But the fact that it was Fergie’s way of “rewarding” Paolo for helping out one of the Duke’s girlfriends, flame-haired American model Angie Everhart, makes it even more peculiar.
Paolo, now 24, recalls how, one morning in October 2005, Andrew had woken him with an urgent tap on the shoulder as he lay dozing in the guest room at Royal Lodge, the Duke’s home in Windsor.
The self-professed New York playboy, who dated Beatrice – 17 at the time – for ten months and made regular visits to Windsor during the romance, had become such an accepted part of the household, he says, that Andrew begged him to mount a discreet, and costly, emergency operation to rescue Ms Everhart from an unhappy romantic entanglement.
Paolo says: “I woke at about seven to a tap on my shoulder. The Duke was standing over me.
“This was the first time he’d ever come into my room. He said, ‘Paolo, take a shower. Get dressed. Then we have to speak because I need a favour to be done in New York right away.’
“When I went downstairs, he was drinking tea. He said, ‘There’s a dear friend of mine who may or may not be my girlfriend. She needs to get out of her relationship with her fiance. It’s an unbearable situation.
“‘Her stuff is at his place and she wants to get it out of there while he is at his office. At 9.30am New York time she needs a moving company to collect her belongings and put them in storage.
“‘And she needs $10,000 in cash to be brought to her in New York. Can you action this for me?'”
Paolo continues: “He’s talking to me in this princely way and it was the middle of the night in New York, but I said, ‘Of course, sir’.
“I got in touch with an old school friend. He arranged for a truck and I gave my name as a guarantee for the storage people.
“I told my friend to pay the rental downpayment which was nearly $700 and I’d pay him back, and then I called my mom and said, ‘I need $10,000.’
“She said, ‘What is this about?’
“I said, ‘It’s to do with Bea’s dad. I can’t go into it.’ She got the cash and gave it to my friend who delivered it to Angie.
“Andrew kept coming and asking me, ‘How is it going?’. Finally, I told him it was fixed.
“Later that weekend, we were all in the drawing room. I went down on one knee and Sarah swung her arm like it was a sword and hit me on the shoulder.
“‘Now you are Sir Fixit!’, she said. ‘Rise and be recognised.’
“Andrew and Bea were laughing and Bea goes, ‘Sir Fixit!’. And Andrew says, ‘You really fixed it! Well done!'”
Later, when Paolo asked Bea about her father’s relationship with the model, she gave her usual offhand response.
Paolo said: “Bea just told me, ‘They’ve been on-off for five years. I don’t know what is going on.”
Paolo says the Duke made no immediate attempt to repay him for the favour, saying: “The Duke said, ‘Just give me your wiring details,’ but nothing happened.”
The reason that “nothing happened”, he admits, may have something to do with the fact that, a few weeks after the drama involving Ms Everhart, the Duke discovered to his utter shock that his daughter’s suitor had a criminal record.
As revealed exclusively over the last two weeks in The Mail on Sunday, Paolo was an almost total stranger to the Royal Family when he was offered astonishing access to the Duke’s home.
He began his relationship with Beatrice during a Jamaican holiday where, he says, her mother sanctioned their affair and allowed the Princess and her sister, Eugenie, then 15, to attend debauched parties where guests smoked cannabis and drank a tea made of magic mushrooms.
Only after Paolo and Bea started their relationship did he confess to her that, just one year earlier, in 2004, he had been put on probation for assault following a drunken brawl in which another youth died.
He also took Fergie into his confidence, he says, assuring her that, though he pleaded guilty in the case, he was really innocent and just wanted to spare his mother the stress of a trial.
“I assumed Fergie told the Duke so I was really surprised when I discovered she hadn’t,” he says.
“I think he found out because I’d started taking Bea with me on business trips I was making to Europe. I was looking for investors for a club I was starting to help disadvantaged youth.
“On her half term, in October, we went to Paris. She said, ‘Papa said it will be OK and Mummy said it will be OK’.
“We had a suite at the [ultra-luxurious] Hotel Costes. It was really romantic.
“I’d bought her a surprise present, a green bag from Gucci’s private collection. It looked beautiful with her auburn hair.
“We called each other ‘angel’ and the bag she called her ‘second angel’.
“She said, ‘Now I’ll always have you with me.’
“We had dinner with 15 or 20 friends and there were roses and champagne, vodka and partying.
“In December I took Bea to Madrid. We were treated like VIPs. But when we got back, Bea told me, ‘Papa knows what happened when you were arrested.’
He now thinks his high-visibility travels with the Princess alerted officials, who checked his background, discovered his record and notified the Prince.
“Bea said, ‘Somebody called Papa about it’,” Paolo says. “He never mentioned it [the case]. And Sarah said, ‘He understands. Everything is fine.’
“But I think that may be why he didn’t want to wire the money he owed to me.
“It was a stupid fist fight and if I had gone to trial, my lawyers were certain I’d have been found innocent.
“But if it came out that me and Bea were dating, it wouldn’t be good for her image or Sarah’s so everyone was trying to keep our relationship a secret.
“I didn’t bring the money up'[with the Duke]. I have class. But I think Bea reminded him, and one day when we were about to sit down to Sunday lunch, he goes, ‘Oh, I forgot something.’
“He tried to slip a roll of dollar bills into my jacket pocket. But it was a new Gieves & Hawkes suit and I hadn’t slit the stitches yet, and he goes, ‘For God’s sake! You haven’t got the stitching out!’. So he slid it into my inner right pocket instead.
“I assumed it was everything he owed me but when I counted after lunch it was only $5,000. Bea said, ‘Maybe Papa made a mistake.’
Despite the Duke’s evident misgivings, Paolo says Fergie continued to encourage the affair, which by the end of 2005 was being taken so seriously by Beatrice that she spoke longingly of introducing her boyfriend to Granny, as she referred to the Queen.
“She said, ‘I’d love you to meet Granny’,” Paolo recalls. “But she said Chelsy wasn’t allowed to meet her and usually you don’t get introduced to her until you are engaged.
“Bea wanted to fly to New York to visit my mother but, I’ll be honest, I’ve never brought a woman back to my house to meet my family unless it was someone I would be proposing to.
“We’d started joking about getting married and having kids.
“I wasn’t sure I wanted to get in that deep with Bea. I loved her but I wasn’t in love with her.
“Sometimes another lady friend of mine would come over to my place at Eaton Square in London. It was just messing around, never anything more, and I felt so bad afterwards because of Bea.
“I’m not a bad person. But it’s like putting heroin in front of Pete Doherty. Women are my flaw.”
During a January visit to New York, he says Fergie, with scant regard to the fact that Beatrice was still 17, took her to nightclubs which, in order to observe a state ban on serving alcohol to minors, do not admit anyone under 21.
Paolo says: “We went to the Downtown Cipriani club. You are supposed to be 21 to get in but Sarah was friends with the owners.
“Sarah also went with us to Bungalow 8 [a late-night hangout for actresses Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and other dissolute young celebrities].
“We’d be out at the clubs probably until two or three in the morning and Bea might drink some wine. The legal age for drinking in New York is 21 but Bea didn’t get ID carded because she was with Sarah.
“We’d be dancing, having fun, but Bea always kept herself in control. I’d order champagne that was, like, $200 a bottle.”
By February, after he returned to London with Beatrice from another foreign holiday together, this time in Switzerland, the Press had learned of the affair.
It had emerged that his probation order permitted him to travel outside the US only for business purposes.
These hardly included a romance with a Princess.
Paolo says, “The Queen was so concerned that a scandal was about to engulf yet another young Royal that she ordered the Duke, Fergie and Beatrice to attend a secret summit with her to discuss the situation.”
Whether the Queen learned anything about the wild times the Princess had experienced under her mother’s eye is unclear.
But the fact that Her Majesty should call Fergie to a meeting suggests that Paolo’s background alone was a cause for grave concern.
Paolo says that only then did Fergie seem to start having second thoughts about how a man who was on probation in America was being allowed to carouse with her daughter.
Paolo says: “Bea had to go to have lunch with Granny and Sarah and her Papa to speak about ‘the issue’.
“Sarah said to me, ‘Paolo, tell me, were you allowed to be in London and Verbier [Switzerland]?’ I said it was OK.
“Someone had told Sarah that a friend of mine sent the judge a letter saying I needed to be in Europe to find investors for the club.
“I explained to Sarah that the letter wasn’t a scam. I really was in Europe to get investors.
“I gave a kiss to Bea and they went off to see the Queen.
“Bea called afterwards and I asked, ‘How did it go with Granny?’
“She replied, ‘It’s OK.’ She said the Queen said if Andrew and Sarah and Beatrice had taken me in, and they knew about it, then obviously I didn’t do those things they were saying about me.
“Then Sarah got on the phone and she said, ‘We’ll sort everything out.’
In March 2006, however, Paolo was found in breach of his probation, which a judge then extended by six months, to April 2008, warning: “There is always the possibility of incarceration in the future if there is a further violation.”
Then came a declaration by a spokesman for Fergie, saying the romance between Paolo and Beatrice was over. It stated: “They are not going out any more.”
Paolo says that, under Fergie’s orders, Beatrice did break off the relationship.
But Fergie relented, he says, because the Princess became “miserable” and arranged for them to secretly spend five days together last April at a friend’s apartment in New York’s Trump Tower.
He says they finally parted for good at the beginning of May 2006. “I told Bea, ‘We’ll stay best friends. It will be just like it is with your mother and father.”
Certainly, Fergie’s continuing friendship with Andrew could not be more public, despite Prince Philip’s well-documented disapproval.
But when it comes to Paolo, it seems the Duchess is not prepared to risk the Royal wrath.
He did not receive an invitation to Beatrice’s 18th birthday party. “Sarah said she’d wanted to send me an invitation but she couldn’t because it might leak,’ he says.
However, the risk of scandal still loomed over the unpaid debt of $5,700.
Paolo says he left two messages for Fergie about the matter and finally was told to call her over a secure number.
“Fergie told me, ‘Paolo, call the Duke.’ I said, ‘I did him and Angie a favour because you were my girlfriend’s mother. Let’s conference in the Duke.’
“She said, ‘Calm down, Paolo!’ and I said, ‘Have a nice life. F*** off!’ and put down the phone. Sarah called me back five minutes later.
“‘I’ve always been your second mother,’ she said. It was damage control.
“She was worried the Angie thing might all leak out. I told her, ‘I feel shunned by all of you. I was loyal but no one was loyal to me.'”
The next day, he says, he was called by a New York-based assistant to Fergie, saying he could pick up the balance owed to him for Ms Everhart’s move.
He says the assistant handed him an envelope containing $4,700 – leaving him $1,000 short of the money he had spent on the Duke’s rescue mission.
Paolo claims that, to this day, the debt is outstanding and he is deeply resentful of treatment he ultimately blames on Fergie.
“After my final row on the phone with Sarah, I sent Bea a belated 18th-birthday present, a jewellery box. She never sent me a thank you because Sarah has banned her from speaking to me,” he says.
“Sarah says she cut us off for Bea’s sake. But what she cares about is her own image, not Bea’s happiness. Bea was heartbroken by what happened to us.”
@_whitneywebb
My report on the creation of the ultimate surveillance state, far more extensive than anything yet seen in US history, that it is being jointly developed by individuals connected to both American and Israeli intelligence. Epstein was a part of it.
Intelligence contractors for the US and Israel have been exploiting mass shootings to foist technological and surveillance “solutions” on a fearful populace.
Since August, President Trump has been promoting these very technologies as the way to mitigate mass shootings.
Peter Thiel, Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein were all backing one of these Orwellian companies, and their other activities in pursuance of this “pre-crime” system will make your skin crawl
I reveal for the first time Israel’s previously hidden role in the creation of the controversial “Main Core” database of American dissidents and how that MC will likely be used by the Trump admin to direct this new “pre-crime” system
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister founded Chiliad, which is a data analytics company used by DHS and the FBI, so there’s that.
Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 ‘Connecting the Dots’ Problem
@99freemind
Chiliad is also very likely pre-loaded into HP servers going back to 2000.
Chiliad got $24.5 million from HP in 1999. Then in 2000 they made a deal to “explore” how Chiliad software could be used in their servers.
Think of it.
Chiliad everywhere HP is.
A Chiliad promo video from 2012 and .. well you have to see it to believe it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BY7eFUAf8uEE/
Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister’s software is in all these departments of the US Government!!
@mowefus
Christine Maxwell is married to Roger Malina, and Roger’s dad was Frank Malina, the first Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Jack Parsons (OTO). He left to work for the U.N. and he was also a Communist.
Frank Malina’s wife Marjorie
@StPetersShadow
9/11 Commission gave Chilead the only A+ score for processing counterterrorism data. LOL. So the Mossad, largely responsible for 9/11, is directing counterterrorism intel. Great.
How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States.
Following the arrest and subsequent death in prison of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a little-known Israeli tech company began to receive increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.
Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services in countries around the world, including the United States, where it has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies like Google. It specifically markets its product as a way of mitigating mass shootings in the United States without having to change existing U.S. gun laws.
Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose “alumni” often go on to create tech companies — Carbyne among them — that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often “blur the line” between their service to Israel’s defense/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies.
In each case, these companies’ products are built in such a way that they can easily be used to illegally surveil the governments, institutions and civilians that use them, a troubling fact given Unit 8200’s documented prowess in surveillance as a means of obtaining blackmail and Israel’s history of using tech companies to aggressively spy on the U.S. government. This is further compounded by the fact that Unit 8200-linked tech companies have previously received U.S. government contracts to place “backdoors” into the U.S.’ entire telecommunications system as well as into the popular products of major American tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, many of whose key managers and executives are now former Unit 8200 officers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it no secret that placing Unit 8200 members in top positions in multinational tech companies is a “deliberate policy” meant to ensure Israel’s role as the dominant global “cyber power”, while also combating non-violent boycott movements targeting Israel’s violations of international law and stifling the United Nations’ criticisms of Israeli government policy and military operations abroad.
As Jeffrey Epstein’s links to intelligence in both the United States and Israel — the subject of a recent four-part series exclusive to MintPress — began to be revealed in full, his financing of Carbyne came under scrutiny, particularly for the company’s deep ties to Israeli intelligence as well as to certain Americans with known connections to U.S. intelligence. Ehud Barak’s own role as both financier and chairman of Carbyne has also added to that concern, given his long history of involvement in covert intelligence operations for Israel and his long-standing ties to Israeli military intelligence.
Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, President Trump — who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election — asked tech companies to “detect mass shooters before they strike,” a service already perfected by Thiel’s company Palantir, which has developed “pre-crime software” already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, whatever technological solution is adopted by the Trump administration, it is set to use a controversial database first developed as part of a secretive U.S. government program that involved notorious Iran-Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of tracking and flagging potential American dissidents for increased surveillance and detention in the event of a vaguely defined “national emergency.”
As this report will reveal, this database — often referred to as “Main Core” — was created with the involvement of Israeli intelligence and Israel remained involved years after it was developed, and potentially to the present. It was also used by at least one former CIA official on President Reagan’s National Security Council to blackmail members of Congress, Congressional staffers and journalists, among others.
Given recent reports on the Trump administration’s plan to create a new government agency to use “advanced technology” to identify “neurobehavioral signs” of “someone headed toward a violent explosive act” using data collected by consumer electronic devices, the picture painted by the technology currently being promoted and implemented under the guise of “keeping Americans safe” is deeply Orwellian. In fact, it points directly to the genesis of a far-reaching surveillance state far more extensive than anything yet seen in American history and it is being jointly developed by individuals connected to both American and Israeli intelligence.
Demystifying Carbyne
Carbyne911, which will be referred to simply as Carbyne in this report, is an Israeli tech-startup that promises to revolutionize how calls are handled by emergency service providers, as well as by governments, corporations and educational institutions. Not long after it was founded in 2014 by veterans of Israeli military intelligence, Carbyne began to be specifically marketed as a solution to mass shootings in the United States that goes “beyond the gun debate” and improves the “intelligence that armed emergency responders receive before entering an armed shooter situation” by providing video-streaming and acoustic input from civilian smartphones and other devices connected to the Carbyne network.
Prior to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in July, Carbyne had been receiving high praise from U.S. and Israeli media, with Fox News hailing the company’s services as the answer to the U.S.’ “aging 911 systems” and the Jerusalem Post writing that the company’s platform offers “hi-tech protection to social workers and school principals.” Other reports claimed that Carbyne’s services result in “a 65% reduction in time-to-dispatch.”
Carbyne’s call-handling/crisis management platform has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and the company has offices not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Ukraine and Israel. Carbyne’s expansion to more emergency service provider networks in the U.S. is likely, given that federal legislation seeks to offer grants to upgrade 911 call centers throughout the country with the very technology of which Carbyne is the leading provider. One of the main lobby groups promoting this legislation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), has a “strong relationship” with Carbyne, according to Carbyne’s website. In addition, Carbyne has also begun marketing its platform for non-emergency calls to governments, educational institutions and corporations.
Yet, what seemed like the inevitability of Carbyne’s widespread adoption in the U.S. hit a snag following the recent arrest and subsequent death of sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who exploited underage girls for the purpose of obtaining “blackmail” on the rich and poweful, an operation that had clear ties to intelligence. Epstein, after his first arrest and light sentence for soliciting sex from a minor in 2007, was tapped by former Israeli Prime Minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence Ehud Barak, to become a key financial backer of Carbyne.
Ehud Barak, center, poses with Carbyne co-founders Alex Dizengof, Amir Elichai and Lital Leshem.
As a result of increased scrutiny of Epstein’s business activities and his ties to Israel, particularly to Barak, Epstein’s connection to Carbyne was revealed and extensively reported on by the independent media outlet Narativ, whose exposé on Carbyne revealed not only some of the key intelligence connections of the start-up company but also how the architecture of Carbyne’s product itself raises “serious privacy concerns.”
MintPress detailed many of Carbyne’s main intelligence connections in Part III of the investigative series “Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail.” In addition to Barak — former Israeli prime minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence — serving as Carbyne’s chairman and a key financer, the company’s executive team are all former members of Israeli intelligence, including the elite military intelligence unit, Unit 8200, which is often compared to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
Carbyne’s current CEO, Amir Elichai, served in Unit 8200 and tapped former Unit 8200 commander and current board member of AIPAC Pinchas Buchris to serve as the company’s director and on its board. In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder, Lital Leshem, also served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. The only Carbyne co-founder that didn’t serve in Unit 8200 is Alex Dizengof, who previously worked for Israel’s Prime Minister’s office.
As MintPress noted in a past report detailing Israeli military intelligence’s deep ties to American tech giant Microsoft, Unit 8200 is an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence corps that is part of the IDF’s Directorate of Military Intelligence and is involved mainly in signal intelligence (i.e., surveillance), cyberwarfare and code decryption. It is frequently described as the Israeli equivalent of the NSA and Peter Roberts, senior research fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, characterized the unit in an interview with the Financial Times as “probably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stand[ing] on a par with the NSA in everything except scale.”
Notably, the NSA and Unit 8200 have collaborated on numerous projects, most infamously on the Stuxnet virus as well as the Duqu malware. In addition, the NSA is known to work with veterans of Unit 8200 in the private sector, such as when the NSA hired two Israeli companies, to create backdoors into all the major U.S. telecommunications systems and major tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and Google. Both of those companies, Verint and Narus, have top executives with ties to Israeli intelligence and one of those companies, Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), has a history of aggressively spying on U.S. government facilities. Unit 8200 is also known for spying on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories for “coercion purposes” — i.e., gathering info for blackmail — and also for spying on Palestinian-Americans via an intelligence-sharing agreement with the NSA.
Unlike many other Unit 8200-linked start-ups, Carbyne also boasts several tie-ins to the Trump administration, including Palantir founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel — another investor in Carbyne. In addition, Carbyne’s board of advisers includes former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Trump donor and New York real-estate developer Eliot Tawill is also on Carbyne’s board, alongside Ehud Barak and Pinchas Buchris.
Yet, privacy concerns with Carbyne go beyond the company’s ties to Israeli intelligence and U.S. intelligence contractors like Peter Thiel. For instance, Carbyne’s smartphone app extracts the following information from the phones on which it is installed:
Device location, video live-streamed from the smartphone to the call center, text messages in a two-way chat window, any data from a user’s phone if they have the Carbyne app and ESInet, and any information that comes over a data link, which Carbyne opens in case the caller’s voice link drops out.” (emphasis added)
According to Carbyne’s website, this same information can also be obtained from any smartphone, even if it does not have Carbyne’s app installed, if that phone calls a 911 call center that uses Carbyne or merely any other number connected to Carbyne’s network.
Carbyne is a Next-Generation 9-11 (NG911) platform and the explicit goal of NG911 is for all 911 systems nationwide to become interconnected. Thus, even if Carbyne is not used by all 911 call centers using an NG911 platform, Carbyne will ostensibly have access to the data used by all emergency service providers and devices connected to those networks. This guiding principle of NG911 also makes it likely that one platform will be favored at the federal level to foster such interconnectivity and, given that it has already been adopted by several counties and has ties to the Trump administration, Carbyne is the logical choice.
Another cause for concern is how other countries have used platforms like Carbyne, which were first marketed as emergency response tools, for the purpose of mass surveillance. Narativ noted the following in its investigation of Carbyne:
In May, Human Rights Watch revealed Chinese authorities use a platform not unlike Carbyne to illegally surveil Uyghurs. China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform brings in a much bigger data-set and sources of video, which includes an app on people’s phones. Like Carbyne, the platform was designed to report emergencies. Chinese authorities have turned it into a tool of mass surveillance.
Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app. The group discovered the app automatically profiles a user under 36 “person types” including “followers of Six Lines” which is the term used to identify Uyghurs. Another term refers to “Hajj,” the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The app monitors every aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations [and] power usage, and tracks a user’s movement.”
Such technology is currently used by Israeli military intelligence and Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet to justify “pre-crime” detentions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. As will be noted in greater detail later in this report, Palestinians’ comments on social media are tracked by artificial intelligence algorithms that flag them for indefinite detention if they write social media posts that contain “tripwire” phrases such as “the sword of Allah.”
Carbyne’s platform has its own “pre-crime” elements, such as it’s c-Records component, which stores and analyzes information on past calls and events that pass through its network. This information “enables decision makers to accurately analyze the past and present behavior of their callers, react accordingly, and in time predict future patterns.” (emphasis added)
Concerns have recently been raised that “pre-crime” technology may soon become more widely adopted in the U.S., after President Trump stated that one of his planned solutions to mass shootings in the wake of the recent tragedy in El Paso was for big tech companies to detect potential shooters before they strike.
Israeli intelligence, Blackmail and Silicon Valley
Though many of the individuals involved in funding or managing Carbyne have proven ties to intelligence, a closer look into several of these players reveals even deeper connections to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence.
One of Carbyne’s clearest connections to Israeli intelligence is through its chairman and one of its funders, Ehud Barak. Though Barak is best known for being a former prime minister of Israel, he is also a former minister of defense and the former head of Israeli military intelligence. He oversaw Unit 8200’s operations, as well as other units of Israeli military intelligence, in all three of those positions. For most of his military and later political career, Barak has been closely associated with covert operations.
Prior to the public scrutiny of Barak’s relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, following the latter’s arrest this past July and subsequent death, Barak had come under fire for his ties to disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. Indeed, it was Ehud Barak who put Weinstein in contact with the Israeli private intelligence outfit Black Cube, which employs former Mossad agents and Israeli military intelligence operatives, as Weinstein sought to intimidate the women who had accused him of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Former Mossad director Meir Dagan led Black Cube’s board until his death in 2016 and Carbyne co-founder Lital Leshem is Black Cube’s former director of marketing.
After Barak put him in contact with Black Cube’s leadership, Weinstein, according to The New Yorker, used the private spy firm to “‘target,’ or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories.” In addition, The New Yorker noted that “Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally” and “also enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating.”
Yet, more recently, it has been Barak’s close relationship to Epstein that has raised eyebrows and opened him up to political attacks from his rivals. Epstein and Barak were first introduced by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in 2002, a time when Epstein’s pedophile blackmail and sex trafficking operation was in full swing.
Barak was a frequent visitor to Epstein’s residences in New York, so often that The Daily Beast reported that numerous residents of an apartment building linked to Epstein “had seen Barak in the building multiple times over the last few years, and nearly half a dozen more described running into his security detail,” adding that “the building is majority-owned by Epstein’s younger brother, Mark, and has been tied to the financier’s alleged New York trafficking ring.” Specifically, several apartments in the building were “being used to house underage girls from South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union,” according to a former bookkeeper employed by one of Epstein’s main procurers of underage girls, Jean Luc Brunel.
Barak is also known to have spent the night at one of Epstein’s residences at least once, was photographed leaving Epstein’s residence as recently as 2016, and has admitted to visiting Epstein’s island, which has sported nicknames including “Pedo Island,” “Lolita Island” and “Orgy Island.” In 2004, Barak received $2.5 million from Leslie Wexner’s Wexner Foundation, where Epstein was a trustee as well as one of the foundation’s top donors, officially for unspecified “consulting services” and “research” on the foundation’s behalf.
In 2015, Barak formed a limited partnership company in Israel for the explicit purpose of investing in Carbyne (then known as Reporty) and invested millions of dollars in the company, quickly becoming a major shareholder and subsequently the company’s public face and the chairman of its board. At least $1 million of the money invested in this Barak-created company that was later used to invest in Carbyne came from the Southern Trust Company, which was owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
In July, Bloomberg reported that Epstein’s Southern Trust Company is identified in U.S. Virgin Islands filings as “a DNA database and data mining” company. Given Carbyne’s clear potential for data-mining and civilian profiling, Epstein’s investment in Carbyne using this specific company suggests that Carbyne’s investors have long been aware of this little advertised aspect of Carbyne’s product.
In a statement to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Barak asserted:
I saw the business opportunity and registered a partnership in my control in Israel. A small number of people I know invest in it…Since these are private investments, it wouldn’t be proper or right for me to expose the investors’ details.”
However, Barak later admitted that Epstein had been one of the investors.
MintPress’ recent series on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal noted in detail Epstein’s ties to CIA/Mossad intelligence assets, such as Adnan Khashoggi; CIA front companies, such as Southern Air Transport; and organized crime, through his close association with Leslie Wexner. In addition, Epstein’s long-time “girlfriend” and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, has family links to Israeli intelligence through her father, Robert Maxwell. While it appears that Epstein may have been working for more than one intelligence agency, Zev Shalev, former executive producer for CBS News and journalist at Narativ, recently stated that he had independently confirmed with two unconnected sources “closely connected to the Epstein story and in a position to know” that Epstein had “worked for Israeli military intelligence.”
Notably, Epstein, who was known for his interest in obtaining blackmail through the sexual abuse of the underaged girls he exploited, also claimed to have “damaging information” on prominent figures in Silicon Valley. In a conversation last year with New York Times reporter James Stewart, Epstein claimed to have “potentially damaging or embarrassing” information on Silicon Valley’s elite and told Stewart that these top figures in the American tech industry “were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs.” Epstein also told Stewart that he had “witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex” and claimed to know “details about their supposed sexual proclivities.”
In the lead-up to his recent arrest, Jeffrey Epstein appeared to have been attempting to rebrand as a “tech investor,” as he had done interviews with several journalists including Stewart about technology investing in the months before he was hit with federal sex trafficking charges.
Jessica Lessin, editor-in-chief of The Information, told Business Insider that a journalist working for The Information had interviewed Epstein a month before his recent arrest because “he was believed to be an investor in venture capital funds.” However, Lessin claimed that the interview was not “newsworthy” and said the site had no plans to publish its contents. Business Insider claimed that the way the interviews with Epstein had been arranged “suggests that someone in Silicon Valley may have been trying to help Epstein connect with reporters.”
Though it is unknown exactly which Silicon Valley figures were most connected to Epstein and which tech executives were potentially being blackmailed by Epstein, it is known that Epstein associated with several prominent tech executives, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Last year, Epstein claimed to be advising Tesla and Elon Musk, who had been previously photographed with Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell. A few years ago, Epstein also attended a dinner hosted by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, where Musk had allegedly introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Google’s Sergey Brin is known to have attended a dinner hosted by Epstein at his New York residence where Donald Trump was also in attendance.
Elon Musk with Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell at an Oscars after-party on March 2, 2014.
These associations suggest that the person in Silicon Valley who was trying to boost Epstein’s image as a tech investor before his arrest may have been Peter Thiel, whose Founders Fund had also invested in Carbyne. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook and is still on its board, connecting him to Zuckerberg; he is also a funder of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a former colleague of Musk’s through PayPal. In addition, Thiel has ties to Reid Hoffman and both Thiel and Hoffman are prominent backers of Facebook.
It is unknown whether Epstein’s “damaging information” and apparent blackmail on notable individuals in the American technology industry were used to advance the objectives of Carbyne, which recently partnered with tech giants Google and Cisco Systems — and, more broadly, the expansion of Israeli intelligence-linked tech companies into the American tech sector, particularly through the acquisition of Israeli tech start-ups linked to Unit 8200 by major U.S. tech companies.
The latter seems increasingly likely given that the father of Ghislaine Maxwell — one of Epstein’s chief co-conspirators in his intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation involving minors — was a Mossad operative who helped sell software that had been bugged by Israeli intelligence to government agencies and sensitive facilities around the world, including in the United States.
As will be noted later in this report, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to whom all of Israel’s intelligence agencies answer by virtue of his position — has stated on more than one occasion that the acquisition of Israeli intelligence-linked start-ups by foreign tech giants, especially in Silicon Valley, is a current and “deliberate policy” of the state of Israel.
Carbyne’s ties to U.S. intelligence
While Epstein and Barak are the two financiers of Carbyne whose ties to intelligence are clearest, another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has ties to U.S. intelligence and a history of investing in other companies founded by former members of Unit 8200. Thiel co-founded and still owns a controlling stake in the company Palantir, which was initially funded with a $2 million investment from the CIA’s venture capital fund In-Q-Tel and quickly thereafter became a contractor for the CIA.
After the success of its contract with the CIA, Palantir became a contractor for a variety of federal agencies, including the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) and the military’s Special Operations Command, among others. Last year, it won a contract to create a new battlefield intelligence system for the U.S. Army. Palantir is also in demand for its “pre-crime technology,” which has been used by several U.S. police departments. According to the Guardian, “Palantir tracks everyone from potential terrorist suspects to corporate fraudsters, child traffickers and what they refer to as ‘subversives’… it is all done using prediction.”
Thiel has gained attention in recent years for his support of President Trump and for becoming an adviser to Trump following the 2016 election, when he was “a major force in the transition,” according to Politico, and “helped fill positions in the Trump administration with former staff.” One of those former staffers was Trae Stephens, who is also on Carbyne’s board of advisers. Thiel also has business ties to Trump’s son-in-law and influential adviser, Jared Kushner, as well as to Kushner’s brother Josh. A senior Trump campaign aide told Politico in 2017 that “Thiel is immensely powerful within the administration through his connection to Jared.”
Thiel has also backed some prominent Israeli tech start-ups connected to Unit 8200, such as BillGuard, which Thiel funded along with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other investors. BillGuard was founded by Raphael Ouzan, a former officer in Unit 8200, who serves on the board of directors of Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC) alongside neoconservative American hedge fund manager Paul Singer, neoconservative political operative and adviser Dan Senor, and Terry Kassel, who works for Singer at his hedge fund, Elliott Management.
Peter Thiel greets Netanyahu during a 2017 meeting in Israel. Photo
SUNC is an organization founded by Paul Singer, who has donated heavily to both President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Since it was founded in 2012, SUNC has sought to integrate Unit 8200-connected Israeli tech start-ups into foreign companies, primarily American companies, and has helped oversee the shift of thousands of high-paying tech jobs from the U.S. to Israel.
Another Carbyne-connected individual worth noting is the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, who serves on Carbyne’s board of advisers. In addition to Chertoff’s ties to DHS, Chertoff’s company, The Chertoff Group, employees several prominent former members of the U.S. intelligence community as principals, including Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and former director of the NSA; and Charles Allen, former assistant director of Central Intelligence for Collection at the CIA, who worked at the agency for over 40 years.
The Chertoff Group has a long-standing and lucrative contract with the company OSI Systems, which produces full-body scanners and markets itself as a solution to mass shootings and crisis events, not unlike Carbyne. While Chertoff’s company was advising OSI Systems, Chertoff went on a media blitz to promote the widespread use of the machines produced by OSI Systems and even called on Congress to “fund a large-scale deployment of next-generation systems.” Chertoff did not disclose his conflict of interest while publicly promoting OSI’s full-body scanners.
Some have also alleged that Chertoff’s mother, Livia Eisen, had links to Israeli intelligence. According to her 1998 obituary, cited by both researcher/author Christopher Bollyn and journalist Jonathan Cook, Eisen participated in the Mossad operation code-named “Magic Carpet” while working for Israel’s El Al Airlines. Both Bollyn and Cook have suggested that Eisen’s participation in this covert Israeli intelligence operation strongly indicates that she had ties to the Mossad.
Melding into Silicon Valley
Beyond its troubling connections to Silicon Valley oligarchs, Israeli military intelligence and the U.S.-military industrial complex, Carbyne’s recent partnerships with two specific technology companies — Google and Cisco Systems — raise even more red flags.
Carbyne announced its partnership with Cisco Systems this past April, with the latter announcing that it would begin “aligning its unified call manager with Carbyne’s call-handling platform, allowing emergency call centers to collect data from both 911 callers and nearby government-owned IoT [Internet of Things] devices.” A report on the partnership published by Government Technology magazine stated that “Carbyne’s platform will be integrated into Cisco Kinetic for Cities, an IoT data platform that shares data across community infrastructure, smart city solutions, applications and connected devices.” The report also noted that “Carbyne will also be the only 911 solution in the Cisco Marketplace.”
As part of the partnership, Carbyne’s President of North American Operations Paul Tatro told Government Technology that the Carbyne platform would combine the data it obtains from smartphones and other Carbyne-connected devices with “what’s available through nearby Cisco-connected road cameras, roadside sensors, smart streetlamps, smart parking meters or other devices.” Tatro further asserted that “Carbyne can also analyze data that’s being collected by Cisco IoT devices … and alert 911 automatically, without any person making a phone call, if there appears to be a worthy problem,” and expressed his view that soon most emergency calls will not be made by human beings but “by smart cars, telematics or other smart city devices.”
A few months after partnering with Cisco Systems, Carbyne announced its partnership with Google on July 10, just three days after Carbyne funder Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in New York on federal sex trafficking charges. Carbyne’s press release of the partnership described how the company and Google would be teaming up in Mexico “to offer advanced mobile location to emergency communications centers (ECCs) throughout Mexico” following the conclusion of a successful four-week pilot program between Carbyne and Google in the Central American nation.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt meets Netanyahu at his Jerusalem office. Israel PM
The press release also stated:
Carbyne will provide Google’s Android ELS (Emergency Location Service) in real time from emergency calls made on AndroidTM devices. Deployment for any ECC in the country won’t require any integration, with Carbyne providing numerous options for connection to their secure ELS Gateway once an ECC is approved. The Carbyne automated platform, requiring no human interaction, has the potential to save thousands of lives each year throughout Mexico.”
The reason Carybne’s partnerships with Cisco Systems and Google are significant lies in the role that Cisco and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have played in the creation of a controversial “incubator” for Israeli tech start-ups with deep ties to Israeli military intelligence, American neoconservative donor Paul Singer, and the U.S.’ National Security Agency (NSA).
This company, called Team8, is an Israeli company-creation platform whose CEO and co-founder is Nadav Zafrir, former commander of Unit 8200. Two of the company’s other three co-founders are also “alumni” of Unit 8200. Among Team8’s top investors is Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, who also joined Peter Thiel in funding the Unit 8200-linked BillGuard, as well as major tech companies including Cisco Systems and Microsoft.
Last year, Team8 controversially hired the former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, Retired Admiral Mike Rogers, and Zafrir stated that his interest in hiring Rogers was that Rogers would be “instrumental in helping strategize” Team8’s expansion in the United States. Jake Williams, a veteran of NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) hacking unit, told CyberScoop:
Rogers is not being brought into this role because of his technical experience. …It’s purely because of his knowledge of classified operations and his ability to influence many in the U.S. government and private-sector contractors.”
Team8 has also been heavily promoted by Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC). SUNC prominently features Team8 and Zafrir on the cybersecurity section of its website and also sponsored a talk by Zafrir and an Israeli government economist at the World Economic Forum, often referred to as “Davos,” that was attended personally by Paul Singer.
SUNC itself has deep ties to Israeli military intelligence, with former Unit 8200 officer Raphael Ouzan serving on its board of directors. Another example of SUNC-Unit 8200 ties can be seen with Inbal Arieli, who served as SUNC’s Vice President of Strategic Partnerships from 2014 to 2017 and continues to serve as a senior adviser to the organization. Arieli, a former lieutenant in Unit 8200, is the founder and head of the 8200 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program (EISP), which was the first start-up accelerator in Israel aimed at harnessing “the vast network and entrepreneurial DNA of [Unit] 8200 alumni” and is currently one of the top company accelerators in Israel, alongside Team8. Arieli was the top executive at 8200 EISP while working at SUNC and several other top SUNC staffers are also connected to Israeli military intelligence.
Thus, Google and Cisco’s connections to Team8 suggests that their partnerships with another Israeli military intelligence-connected firm like Carbyne is a deepening of those two companies’ links to the growing bi-national security state that is uniting key players in the U.S. military-industrial complex and Israeli intelligence.
Mossad-backed Panic Buttons, coming to a school near you
Carbyne is hardly the only Israeli intelligence-linked tech company marketing itself in the United States as a solution to mass shootings. Another Israeli start-up, known as Gabriel, was founded in 2016 in response to a shooting in Tel Aviv and the Pulse Nightclub shooting in the United States, which took place just days apart.
Created by Israeli-American Yoni Sherizen and Israeli citizen Asaf Adler, Gabriel is similar to Carbyne in the sense that elements of its crisis response platform require installation on civilian smartphones as well as devices used by crisis responders. The main difference is that Gabriel also installs one or a series of physical “panic buttons,” depending on the size of the building to be secured, that also double as video and audio communication devices connected to the Gabriel network.
As with Carbyne, the ties between Gabriel and Israeli intelligence are obvious. Indeed, Gabriel’s four-person advisory board includes Ram Ben-Barak, former deputy director of the Mossad and former director-general of Israel’s intelligence ministry; Yohanan Danino, former chief of police for the state of Israel; and Kobi Mor, former director of overseas missions for the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. The only American on the advisory board is Ryan Petty, the father of a Parkland shooting victim and friend of former Florida Governor Rick Scott.
Gabriel’s only disclosed funder is U.S.-based MassChallenge, a start-up accelerator non-profit. Gabriel is funded by MassChallenge’s Israel branch, which was opened six months prior to Gabriel’s creation and is partnered with the Israeli government and the Kraft Group. The Kraft Group is managed by Robert Kraft, who is currently embroiled in a prostitution scandal and is also a close friend of President Trump.
Notably, one of MassChallenge Israel’s featured experts is Wendy Singer, the executive director of SUNC, the organization created and funded by neoconservative Trump backer Paul Singer with the explicit purpose of promoting Israel’s tech start-ups and their integration into foreign, chiefly American, businesses. As was noted in a recent MintPress report on SUNC, Wendy Singer is the sister of neoconservative political operative Dan Senor, who founded the now-defunct Foreign Policy Initiative with Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol, and was previously the director of AIPAC’s Israel office for 16 years.
Gabriel’s founders have been quite upfront about the fact that the uptick in shootings in the U.S. has greatly aided their company’s growth and success. Last November, Sherizen told The Jerusalem Post that new mass shootings in the U.S. not only increased U.S. demand for his company’s product but also were opportunities to show the effectiveness of Gabriel’s approach:
Unfortunately every month there seems to be another high-profile event of this nature. After the Vegas shooting, we were able to show [that] our system would have managed to identify the location of the shooter much quicker.”
The Jerusalem Post noted that Gabriel is set to make considerable profits if concern over mass shootings continues to build in the U.S., writing:
With more than 475,000 soft targets across the US and amid increasing security fears, the potential market for Gabriel is huge. The company could gain revenues of almost $1 billion if only 10% of soft targets were to invest around $20,000 in its alert systems.”
Sherizen told the Jerusalem Post:
Our starter kit costs $10,000. Depending on the size and makeup of the community building, it would cost between $20-30,000 to fully outfit the location. We have made it very affordable. This is a game-changer for the lock-down and active shooter drills that are now a standard part of any child’s upbringing in the States.”
Much more than just a start-up
While it is certainly possible that numerous former officials and commanders of elite Israeli intelligence agencies may have no ulterior motive in advising or founding technology start-up companies, it is worth pointing out that top figures in Israel’s military intelligence agencies and the Mossad don’t see it that way.
Last March, Israeli media outlet Calcalist Tech published a report entitled “Israel Blurs the Line Between Defense Apparatus and Local Cybersecurity Hub,” which noted that “since 2012, cyber-related and intelligence projects that were previously carried out in-house in the Israeli military and Israel’s main intelligence arms are transferred to companies that in some cases were built for this exact purpose.” (emphasis added)
The article notes that beginning in 2012, Israel’s intelligence and military intelligence agencies began to outsource “activities that were previously managed in-house, with a focus on software and cyber technologies.” (emphasis added)
It continues:
In some cases, managers of development projects in the Israeli military and intelligence arms were encouraged to form their own companies, which then took over the project,’ an Israeli venture capitalist familiar with the matter told Calcalist Tech.”
Notably, Calcalist Tech states that the controversial company Black Cube was created this way and that Black Cube had been contracted, and is likely still contracted, by Israel’s Ministry of Defense. The private security agency Black Cube is known to have two separate divisions for corporations and governments. The firm was recently caught attempting to undermine the Iran nuclear deal — then also a top political objective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — by attempting to obtain information on the “financial or sexual impropriety” (i.e., blackmail) of top U.S. officials involved in drafting the accord. NBC News noted last year that “Black Cube’s political work frequently intersects with Israel’s foreign policy priorities.” As previously mentioned, one of Carbyne’s co-founders — Lital Leshem, also a veteran of Unit 8200 — worked for Black Cube prior to starting Carbyne.
However, Libertad is merely the latest and most public expression of the Mossad’s interest in Israeli tech start-ups, the lion’s share of which are created by veterans of Unit 8200 or other Israeli intelligence agencies. Indeed, former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo stated in 2017 that “everyone” in the Israeli cybertechnology sector is an “alumni” of either Israeli intelligence, like the Mossad, or Israeli military intelligence, like Unit 8200. Pardo even went as far as to say that the Mossad itself is “like a start-up.”
Pardo himself, after leaving his post as Mossad director in 2016, dove straight into the world of Israeli tech start-ups, becoming chairman of Sepio Systems, whose two CEOs are former Unit 8200 officers. Sepio Systems’ advisory board includes the former chief information security officer of the CIA, Robert Bigman; former member of the U.S. Military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Geoff Hancock; and former head of the Israel National Cyber Bureau and veteran of Israeli military intelligence, Rami Efrati. Sepio Systems’ cybersecurity software has been adopted by several banks, telecom and insurance companies, including in the U.S. and Brazil.
Pardo is not the only prominent figure in Israel’s intelligence community to compare Israeli intelligence agencies to tech start-ups. Shin Bet Director Nadav Argaman described Israel’s domestic spy agency in similar terms. “The Shin Bet is like an evolving start-up, with unmatched strength,” Argaman stated in a June 2017 speech, as he extolled the agency’s use of “pre-crime” technology to detain Palestinians based on their social media activity.
Argaman, at the time, claimed that more than 2,000 Palestinians, whom he described as “potential lone-wolf terrorists,” had been arrested as a result of these “breakthrough technological advances” that use artificial-intelligence algorithms to monitor the social media accounts of Palestinians, especially younger Palestinians, for the use of “tripwire” phrases that have been used by Palestinians who later committed acts of violence. In the case of those who use such terms, “their phones are tracked to see if they meet other suspects, or leave their districts to move towards potential Israeli targets. In such cases, security forces detain the suspect,” according to a 2017 report on the practice by The Economist.
The road to fascism, paved by a corrupted PROMIS
Though Israeli intelligence’s interest in tech companies goes back several years, there is a well-documented history of Israeli intelligence using bugged software to surveil and gain “backdoor” access to government databases around the world, particularly in the United States.
As was mentioned in Part III of MintPress’ Epstein series, a sinister yet cunning plan was executed to place a backdoor for Israeli intelligence into the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS) software, which was then being used by the U.S. Department of Justice and was the envy of government agencies, particularly intelligence agencies, around the world. This bugged version of PROMIS — born out of the collusion between Earl Brian, Ronald Reagan’s then-envoy to Iran, and Rafi Eitan, then-director of the now-defunct Israeli intelligence agency Lekem — was seeded around the world by Brian’s company Hadron as well as by Mossad-linked media mogul Robert Maxwell, father of Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
After this first PROMIS “backdoor” was discovered, Israel would again gain access to sensitive U.S. government communications, as well as civilian communications, thanks to the collusion between Israeli intelligence and Israeli telecom and tech companies, especially Amdocs and Comverse Infosys (now Verint), that were operating throughout the United States. Today, Unit 8200-linked start-ups appear to have taken up the torch.
While the PROMIS software is perhaps best known for offering Israeli intelligence a backdoor into as many as 80 intelligence agencies and other sensitive locations around the world for nearly a decade, it was also used for a very different purpose by prominent officials linked to Iran-Contra.
One key Iran-Contra figure — Lt. Col. Oliver North, then serving on the National Security Council — decided to use PROMIS neither for espionage nor for foreign policy. Instead, North turned PROMIS’ power against Americans, particularly perceived dissidents, a fact that remained unknown for years.
Beginning in 1982, as part of the highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) program, North used the PROMIS software at a 6,100-square-foot “command center” in the Department of Justice, as well as at a smaller operations room at the White House, to compile a list of American dissidents and “potential troublemakers” if the COG protocol was ever invoked.
According to a senior government official with a high-ranking security clearance and service in five presidential administrations who spoke to Radar in 2008, this was:
A database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.”
In 1993, Wired described North’s use of PROMIS in compiling this database as follows:
Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon’s enemies list or Sen. Joe McCarthy’s blacklist look downright crude.”
The COG program defined this “time of panic” as “a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal dissent, or national opposition to a US military invasion abroad,” whereby the government would suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and incarcerate perceived dissidents and other “unfriendlies” in order to prevent the government’s (or then-serving administration’s) overthrow.
This secretive database has often been referred to as “Main Core” by government insiders and, most troubling of all, it still exists today. Journalist Christ Ketcham, citing senior government officials, reported in 2008 that, at that time, Main Core was believed to contain the names of as many as 8 million Americans. Eleven years later, it is highly likely that the number of Americans included in the Main Core database has grown considerably.
Author and investigative journalist Tim Shorrock also covered other disturbing aspects of the evolution of Main Core back in 2008 for Salon. At the time, Shorrock reported that the George W. Bush administration was believed to have used Main Core to guide its domestic surveillance activities following the September 11 attacks.
Citing “several former U.S. government officials with extensive knowledge of intelligence operations,” Shorrock further noted that Main Core — as it was 11 years ago at the time his report was published — was said to contain “a vast amount of personal data on Americans, including NSA intercepts of bank and credit card transactions and the results of surveillance efforts by the FBI, the CIA and other agencies.”
Bill Hamilton, former NSA intelligence officer and the original creator of the PROMIS software, told Shorrock at the time that he believed that “U.S. intelligence uses PROMIS as the primary software for searching the Main Core database” and had been told as much by an intelligence official in 1992 and an NSA official in 1995. Dan Murphy, former deputy director at the CIA, had told Hamilton that the NSA’s use of PROMIS was “so seriously wrong that money alone cannot cure the problem.” “I believe in retrospect that Murphy was alluding to Main Core,” Hamilton had told Shorrock.
Though most reporting on Main Core, from the time its existence was first revealed to the present, has treated the database as something used by the U.S. government and U.S. intelligence for domestic purposes, MintPress has learned that Israeli intelligence was also involved with the creation of the Main Core database. According to a former U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge of the U.S. intelligence community’s use of PROMIS and Main Core from the 1980s to 2000s, Israeli intelligence played a role in the U.S. government’s deployment of PROMIS as the software used for the Main Core domestic surveillance database system.
Israeli intelligence remained involved with Main Core at the time of the August 1991 death of journalist Danny Casolaro, who was investigating not only the government’s misuse of the stolen PROMIS software but also the Main Core database. This same official, who chose to remain anonymous, told MintPress that, shortly before his death, Casolaro had obtained copies of computer printouts from the PROMIS-based Main Core domestic surveillance database system from NSA whistleblower Alan Standorf, who was found murdered a few months before Casolaro’s lifeless body would be found in a West Virginia hotel room.
The source also stated that Main Core’s contents had been used for the political blackmail of members of Congress and their staff, journalists, and others by Walter Raymond, a senior CIA covert operator in psyops and disinformation who served on President Reagan’s National Security Council during and after Main Core’s creation. If used for this purpose by Raymond in the 1980s, Main Core has also likely been used by other individuals with access to the database for blackmailing purposes in the years since.
Given that Israeli intelligence was known to have placed a backdoor into the PROMIS software, before it was marketed and sold around the world by Earl Brian and Robert Maxwell, its role in the U.S. government’s decision to use PROMIS in the creation of Main Core suggests that Israeli intelligence likely advocated for the version of PROMIS containing this backdoor, thereby giving Israeli intelligence access to Main Core. Given that Reagan aides and officials colluded with Israeli “spymaster” Rafi Eitan in his efforts to create a backdoor into the software for Israeli military intelligence, the use of this version of PROMIS in the Main Core database is certainly plausible.
Furthermore, the fact that Israeli intelligence was known to be involved in Main Core nearly a decade after its creation suggests that Israeli intelligence may have played a role in certain aspects of the database, such as the criteria used to flag Americans as “unfriendly,” and — like Walter Raymond — may have used information in the database to blackmail Americans. In addition, the fact that the cooperation between U.S. and Israeli intelligence, particularly between Unit 8200 and the NSA, has only grown since 1991 further suggests that Israeli involvement in Main Core continues to the present.
While Main Core’s very existence is troubling for many reasons, the alleged involvement of a foreign intelligence service in the creation, expansion and maintenance of a database with personal details and potentially damaging information on millions of Americans targeted for detention or increased surveillance in times of crisis is chilling. It is especially so considering that the Trump administration’s latest proposals to prevent mass shootings before they occur are likely to use Main Core to flag certain Americans for increased surveillance or potentially detention, as was done by the George W. Bush administration following the September 11 attacks.
It appears that Main Core serves a dual purpose; first as a mass targeted surveillance system to crush dissent during times of “national crisis” — whether spontaneous or engineered — and, second, as a massive blackmail database used to keep every potential opponent in line during non-emergencies.
Peter Thiel’s Seeing Stone
As was mentioned earlier in this report, Palantir — the company co-founded by Peter Thiel — is set to profit handsomely from the Trump administration’s plans to use its “pre-crime” technology, which is already used by police departments throughout the country and also used to track Americans based on the company’s integrative data-mining approach. Palantir, named for the “seeing stones” in the Lord of the Rings novels, also markets software to foreign (and domestic) intelligence agencies that predicts the likelihood that an individual will commit an act of terrorism or violence.
Aside from its “pre-crime” products, Palantir has come under fire in recent years as a result of the company’s contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where it created an intelligence system known as Investigative Case Management (ICM). The IB Times described ICM as “a vast ‘ecosystem’ of data to help immigration officials in identifying targets and creating cases against them” and also “provides ICE agents with access to databases managed by other federal agencies.” ICM further gives ICE access to “targets’ personal and sensitive information, such as background on schooling, employment, family relationships, phone records, immigration history, biometrics data, criminal records as well as home and work addresses.” In other words, Palantir’s ICM is essentially a “Main Core” for immigrants.
Notably, part of Oliver North’s original intentions in “Main Core” was to track immigrants then coming from Central America as well as Americans who opposed Reagan era policy with respect to Central America. At that time, Main Core was believed to be controlled by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), which is now part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
VICE News reported in July that the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, which is run by DHS, “serves around 300 communities in northern California and is what is known as a ‘fusion center,’ a Department of Homeland Security intelligence center that aggregates and investigates information from state, local, and federal agencies, as well as some private entities, into large databases that can be searched using software like Palantir. “ VICE further noted that this center alone used Palantir to surveil as many as 8 million Ameicans. There are many more such DHS “fusion centers” throughout the United States.
If the Trump administration moves forward with its proposal of employing technology to detect potential mass shooters before they strike, Palantir’s technology is set to be used, given that it has already been used by U.S. law enforcement and U.S. intelligence to determine which people run “the highest risk of being involved in gun violence,” according to an investigation of Palantir by The Verge. Furthermore, Palantir’s close ties to the Trump administration make the company’s role in a future nationwide “pre-crime” prevention system based on technology appear inevitable.
Worse still is the apparent overlap between Palantir and Main Core. Palantir — which has obvious similarities to PROMIS — is already known to use its software to track potential terror threats, including domestic terror threats, and a category of people it refers to as “subversives.” Palantir’s tracking of these individuals “is all done using prediction.” Palantir’s close ties to the U.S. intelligence community suggest that Palantir may already have access to the Main Core database. Tim Shorrock told MintPress that Palantir’s use of Main Core is “certainly possible,” particularly in light of the company’s use of the term “subversive” to describe a category of people that its software tracks.
Palantir also has alleged ties to Israeli intelligence, as there have long been suspicions that Israeli intelligence has used Palantir as part of its AI “pre-crime” algorithms targeting Palestinians after Palantir opened a research and development (R&D) center in Israel in 2013. The current head of Palantir Israel, Hamultal Meridor, previously founded a brain-machine interface organization and was senior director of web intelligence at Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), which has deep connections to Unit 8200, a history of espionage in the United States and was one of the two companies contracted by the NSA to insert a “backdoor” into the U.S. telecommunications system and popular products of major American tech companies.
Given the above, Peter Thiel’s 2018 decision to fund Carbyne, the Unit 8200-linked start-up that markets itself as a technological solution to mass shootings in the U.S., strongly suggests that Thiel has been anticipating for some time the now-public efforts of the Trump administration to employ “pre-crime” technology to track and target Americans who show signs of “mental illness” and “violent tendencies.”
A nightmare even Orwell could not have predicted
In early August, in the wake of the shooting at an El Paso Walmart, President Trump called on big tech companies to collaborate with the Justice Department in the creation of software that “stops mass murders before they start” by detecting potential mass shooters before they cnm act. Though Trump’s ideas were short on specifics, there is now a new proposal that would create a new government agency that will use data gathered from civilian electronic devices to identify “neurobehavioral” warning signs, thereby flagging “potential shooters” for increased surveillance and potentially detention.
This new agency, as proposed by the foundation led by former NBC Universal president and vice chairman of General Electric Robert Wright, would be known as the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA) and would be modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Per the proposal, recently detailed by the Washington Post, the flagship program of HARPA would be “Safe Home” (Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes), which would use “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” specifically “advanced analytical tools based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
The program would cost an estimated $60 million over four years and would use data from “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home” and other consumer electronic devices, as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify who may be a threat.
The Washington Post reported that President Trump has reacted “very positively” to the proposal and that he was “sold on the concept.” The Post also noted that Wright sees the president’s daughter, Ivanka, as “the most effective champion of the proposal and has previously briefed her on HARPA himself.” Ivanka has previously been cited as a driving force behind some of her father’s policy decisions, including his decision to bomb Syria after an alleged chemical weapons attack in 2017.
Liz Fed — president of the Susan Wright Foundation, which is led by Robert Wright and created the proposal for HARPA and “Safe Home” — told The Post that the proposal emulated DARPA because “DARPA is a brilliant model that works. They have developed the most transformational capabilities in the world for national security…We’re not leveraging the tools and technologies available to us to improve and save lives.” Fed further asserted that DARPA’s technological approach had yet to be applied to the field of healthcare.
For anyone familiar with DARPA, such claims should immediately sound loud alarm bells, especially since DARPA is already developing its own solution to “mental health” issues in the form of a “brain-machine interface” as part of its N3 program. That program, according to reports, involves “noninvasive and ‘minutely’ invasive neural interfaces to both read and write into the brain,” help distance soldiers “from the emotional guilt of warfare” by “clouding their perception” and “to program artificial memories of fear, desire, and experiences directly into the brain.” Though N3 is intended to improve the prowess of American soldiers, it is also set to be used as a means of pursuing DARPA’s Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) project, which aims to “to develop a tiny, implanted chip in the skull to treat psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, PTSD and major depression.”
Given that HARPA’s lead scientific adviser is Dr. Geoffrey Ling, former director and founder of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which “merges biology, engineering, and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security,” it seems likely that DARPA’s neurological-focused research programs, like SUBNETS and N3, would be folded into HARPA’s portfolio, making the proposed agency’s approach to mental health very questionable indeed.
Aside from the dystopian nature of both DARPA and potentially HARPA’s approach to mental health, there is grave cause for concern regarding the Trump administration’s moves to address U.S. mass shooting events by implementing pre-crime technology based on artificial intelligence, data-mining and mass surveillance, technologies already laying in wait thanks to companies like Palantir and numerous Israeli tech start-ups led by former Unit 8200 officers.
With companies like Carbyne — with its ties to both the Trump administration and to Israeli intelligence — and the Mossad-linked Gabriel also marketing themselves as “technological” solutions to mass shootings while also doubling as covert tools for mass data collection and extraction, the end result is a massive surveillance system so complete and so dystopian that even George Orwell himself could not have predicted it.
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, aggressive efforts will likely follow to foist these “solutions” on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent and would-be dissenters in the United States.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/
@KirbySommers
Gordon Thomas, author of ‘Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad’ signed this affidavit stating the US CIA itself distributed modified versions of PROMIS apart from those sold by Robert Maxwell.
Hundreds more will be implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, claims Ghislaine Maxwell, as his victims ask judge to open 10,000 pages of secret files detailing the pedophile’s sex crimes
- There are still around 10,000 pages of documents which are yet to be unsealed
- They come from a 2015 lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre Roberts, Epstein’s ‘sex slave’
- She sued him and Ghislaine Maxwell, his British socialite friend and ex-girlfriend
- Maxwell’s attorney told a court on Wednesday that the remaining files implicate ‘literally hundreds of people’
- They are arguing in court over how to rele
- ase the dump of files
- On Tuesday, one of the people named submitted a letter to the court asking for his name to be protected
4 Sept 2019
As many as 1,000 people including celebrities are implicated in thousands of pages of court documents from a Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit which remain under seal.
The documents, some 10,000 of them, were part of a 2015 lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre Roberts, Epstein’s ‘sex slave’, who sued him and Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who many of Epstein’s victims say was his madam.
They settled their lawsuit in 2017 and the case docket was made private, keeping all the allegations secret.
In August, in light of the pedophile’s arrest on human trafficking charges, an appeals court ordered that any pages of the case files which represented public interest should no longer be kept secret.
Around 2,000 have been released but thousands more are still under lock and key.
On Wednesday, Judge Loretta Preska listened to lawyers for Maxwell and Roberts at a hearing in New York court to determine if and how she should release any more of them.
Preska did not decide on whether or not to release the remaining pages on Wednesday, but has instructed the attorneys on both sides to file written briefings about them.
They have to categorize the documents into three types and then decide which will be released
Roberts’ attorneys had argued that all but the social security numbers and names of underage victims should be released but the judge rejected her argument.
Maxwell, who has been named as Epstein’s madam by several of his accusers, was not in court.
Her attorneys are arguing against releasing the remaining pages, claiming that the names of the 1,000 ‘non parties’ should not become public.
‘There are literally hundreds of pages of investigative reports that mention hundreds of people,’ Jeffrey Pagliuca, Maxwell’s attorney, told the court on Wednesday.
The lawyers must now submit written briefings on how they think the remaining files should be split up and released.
The hearing follows a letter to the court from a John Doe – one of the many people named – who said it would be unfair for him and others to be dragged into the public scandal engulfing Epstein’s world.
‘As a non-party to these proceedings, Doe lacks specific knowledge about the contents of the Sealed Materials,’ his lawyers wrote.
‘But it is clear that these materials implicate the privacy and reputational interests of many persons other than the two primary parties to this action, Giuffre and Maxwell,’ they added.
The documents contain ‘a range of allegations of sexual acts involving Plaintiff and non-parties to this litigation, some famous, some not; the identities of non-parties who either allegedly engaged in sexual acts with Plaintiff or who allegedly facilitated such acts.’
The files that have already been released include Roberts’ unpublished memoirs about her years with Epstein and Maxwell.
She describes in the memoir how she was forced to have threesomes with the pair when she was a teenager and claims she spent her youth in sexual servitude to them before escaping in 2002.
She also describes nights on Epstein’s Caribbean island during which Al Gore and Bill Clinton were present as dinner guests.
There are mentions of the Simpsons creator Matt Groening, whose feet she says she massaged on a private jet, and of Prince Andrew who she claims she had sex with multiple times – a claim he vehemently denies.
Roberts lawsuit also includes the names of other women who say they are victims of Epstein and women who Roberts says worked for the disgraced pedophile as ‘recruiters’.
Epstein died in his cell in Manhattan at the beginning of August.
His attorneys say his death is suspicious and that the injuries on his neck indicate he was murdered.
Some of his victims, namely Chauntae Davies, say they believe his death is suspicious because he was too egotistical to commit suicide and likely thought that he would beat the charges.
Since his arrest in July, questions of who he may drag down with him have been abundant.
Some critics say he was protected for years by his vast network of impressive politicians, billionaires and celebrity friends.
Millionaire model agency boss ‘who had key info on Jeffrey Epstein scandal suddenly vanishes like a ghost without a trace’
September 2, 2019
French prosecutors last month launched a probe into claims Epstein attacked underage girls in Paris, and reportedly wanted to quiz Brunel.
The Frenchman was suspected of having important knowledge of the Epstein scandal.
But the millionaire model agency boss – who is said to have been on a talent scouting trip to Brazil – has apparently vanished.
A Paris legal source told the Mirror: “He is a ghost who has disappeared without trace.”
They added: “There is no address for him, all his internet accounts, including social media, have been wiped out. He is uncontactable.”
He is being hunted in Brazil, the US and Europe, the paper reports.
‘FIXER’ CLAIMS
Shocking court documents previously emerged suggesting Brunel offered Epstein two eight-year-old girls to sexually abuse.
Messages left for the American paedo by his alleged “fixer” describe a female “2 x 8 years old” willing to give “Russian lessons”.
Epstein victim Virginia Roberts also claimed in court documents that Brunel would “bring young girls (ranging to ages as young as 12) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein”.
She claimed: “Brunel would offer the girls ‘modelling’ jobs.
“Many of the girls came from poor countries or impoverished backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money.”
And Brunel, co-founder of the MC2 modelling agency, was also dogged by allegations of sexual abuse himself.
Roberts, who claims she slept with Prince Andrew – claims he strenuously denies, also alleged she had sex with Brunel “many times” between the ages of 16 and 19.
Court documents submitted by lawyer Bradley Edwards in a legal dispute with Epstein made similar claims against Brunel.
They read: “According to widely circulated press reports reviewed by Edwards, Brunel is in his sixties and has a reputation throughout the world (and especially in the modelling industry) as a cocaine addict that has for years molested children through modelling agencies while acting as their agent — conduct that has been the subject of critical reports, books, several news articles, and a 60 Minutes documentary on Brunel’s sexual exploitation of underage models.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9846292/model-agency-boss-jeffrey-epstein-scandal-vanishes/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/
Jeffrey Epstein had Tory minister Nick Hurd in his little black book
Northern Ireland minister Nick Hurd, the son of Tory grandee Douglas Hurd, appears alongside the MP’s ex wife Kim in a copy of Epstein’s contacts published online
The address book features two previous home addresses, along with five telephone numbers for Mr Hurd. It also lists a personal email for the 57-year-old, who divorced Kim in 2008.
Old Etonian Mr Hurd last night denied ever meeting Epstein.
Kim also denied ever meeting Epstein but said: “Ghislaine Maxwell is an old friend from university days.”
It is believed Epstein acquired the contact details around the time Mr Hurd set up the Small Business Network, which he started in 2002 to advise the Conservative Party on business policy.
The revelation came as images emerged of former Labour spin doctor Lord Mandelson – another pal of Maxwell and also listed in Epstein’s contact book – holidaying with the disgraced financier on St Barts in the Caribbean. The shot were taken in 2005, just six months before Epstein was arrested for having sex with a minor.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeffrey-epstein-tory-minister-nick-19116383
2th June 2008
Nick Hurd, the eldest son of former Foreign Secretary Lord (Douglas) Hurd, has parted from his venture capitalist wife Kim.
A key lieutenant of Tory leader David Cameron, Old Etonian Hurd, 46, an MP since 2005, has moved out of the £5 million marital home in Notting Hill.
Kim, a high-spirited former record company executive who in her youth famously had her bottom bitten by foppish actor Hugh Grant during a parlour game
They were married at Eton Chapel in 1988 and subsequently moved to Brazil where Hurd represented a British bank.
Since arriving in Parliament as MP for Ruislip-Northwood, Hurd’s career has blossomed. He was recently appointed as a whip by Cameron and is a diligent member of the environmental audit select committee.
In 1982, Hurd’s father, now 78, divorced Nick’s mother Tatiana and in the same year made his Commons secretary Judy his second wife.
Six years ago, Kim acquired her powerboat captain’s licence during a week-long course with her friend Sally Faber, ex-wife of former Tory MP David Faber.
Ghislaine Maxwell facing charges as net closes in on Jeffrey Epstein’s friends
August 31 2019
Ghislaine Maxwell is facing sex trafficking and conspiracy charges as investigators close in on the women who allegedly helped the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to systematically abuse under-age girls.
The British socialite, whose father, the fraudulent newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell, died at sea in 1991, organised the complex logistical operation that fed Epstein’s apparently insatiable appetite for erotic encounters with girls as young as 14, according to victims and witness statements from members of his household.
“They were like partners in a business,” Janusz Banasiak, Epstein’s house manager, said in a deposition. Ms Maxwell was “the boss”, Epstein’s butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, said in court papers.
Robert Maxwell was a business associate of Jeffrey Epstein
Ghislaine was 29 when Maxwell died. She fled to Manhattan to financier Epstein, a former maths teacher at the Dalton School and business associate of her father’s.
1923: Robert Maxwell, a British media proprietor and Member of British Parliament (MP), born in what is now Zakarpattia/Transcarpathian Oblast in Ukraine. (Relevant, in part, because it’s the same region of Ukraine where Viktor Medvedchuk is from and continues to operate. More on him later.)
1985: Donald Trump purchases his Mar-a-lago club, located in Palm Beach, Florida.
1992: Semion Mogilevich sends his lieutenant, “Yaponchik” to live in Brighton Beach, New York. Later that same year, the FBI found Yaponchik living in Trump Tower.
1995: Jeffrey Epstein creates ‘Ghislaine Corp.’ in Palm Beach, Florida. Robert Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell, is Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend and alleged pimp.
1995: Semion Mogilevich attended a summit meeting of Russian OC figures in Tel Aviv, Israel, from October 10–19, 1995. Participants included Sergei Mikhailov, Viktor Averin, Boris Birshtein, Vadim Rabinovich, Leonid Bilounov,-and Arnold Tamm. The subjects met in Boris Birshtein’s office in the diamond center of Tel Aviv. The subject of the meeting was the sharing of interests in Ukraine.
1995: Ron Lauder’s bid to gain the television license in Ukraine begins. Lauder initially met with a top adviser to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who suggested Lauder team up with “a new Ukrainian television broadcasting company, Studio 1 + 1, in Kiev, and he did. The principal owners were Vadim Rabinovich and Boris Fuchsmann, well known around Kiev for their influence and wealth.”
1996: According to the New York Times, A grand jury was empanelled to investigate Ron Lauder in connection with at least $1 million in bribes to Ukrainian officials for TV rights there. The payments examined took place in 1996. Vadim Rabinovitch was part of the investigation, and this was less than a year after Rabinovich attended an organized crime meeting in Tel Aviv, headed by Semion Mogilevich.
Their business was prostitution, drug running, traffic in humans. When MI5 discovered how Mogilevich earned his money, they informed the Home Office which expelled him from Britain and publicly branded him as ‘one of the most dangerous criminals in the world’. It is hard to believe that Robert Maxwell did not know that. Yet he continued to be drawn ever deeper into the dark and evil empire Mogilevich operated. A number of people who had crossed his path had been disposed of into the Moscow River or in one of the city’s back streets. He had his own team of killers never further away than a phone call.
…
A billionaire named Iliya Pavlov testifying at the Lukanov murder trial, was shot dead on 7 Mar 03.
Pavlov was the president of the largest Bulgarian industrial company, named MG Corporation.
It was recently renamed from Multigroup [aka Multi Group]
which was earlier linked to Robert Maxwell, Semion
Mogilevich, the KGB and the Solntsevo mafia.
The KGB-led plan for looting the USSR and Eastern
Europe has been corroborated by others beyond the
Maxwell book, such as Richard L. Palmer, President of
Cachet International, a former U.S. army intelligence
officer, a former CIA operative specializing in money
laundering, and a former CIA Station Chief in the former
Soviet Union specializing in the investigation of Russian
organized crime. Palmer described the plan in his
testimony before the U.S. Congressional Committee
on Banking and Financial Services dealing with the
infiltration of the Western financial system by the Russian
Mafia. Palmer is also recognized by the U.S. Federal
Court as an expert witness on organized crime, official
corruption and the banking system in Russia. Palmer
described the earlier looting steps by the KGB and high
Communist Party officials that were formulated and
implemented (before the breakup of the USSR in
1991) in the second half of the1980s under Mikhail
Gorbachev’s ‘perestroika’. His testimony is available
at the following URL:
[ http://financialservices.house.gov/banking/92199pal.htm ]
Robert Maxwell and Semion Mogilevich were but two
players in such looting schemes.
Marc Rich and Grigori Loutchansky have been linked
to the Solntsevo (aka Solntsevskaya), as has Semion
Mogilevich. Thomas and Dillon describe
Mogilevich as the head of Solntsevo.
Canadians might be interested to know that Semion
Mogilevich was one of the founders of YBM Magnex,
a huge money laundering front for the Solntsevo mafia
listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. After going
bankrupt and bilking investors of hundreds of millions
of dollars, YBM Magnex was the subject of investigative
hearings by the Ontario Securities Commission involving
such high profile YBM board directors as the former
Liberal premier of Ontario, David Peterson. Peterson
was found not guilty but YBM Magnex executives such
as Igor Fisherman were found guilty. The FBI now has
Mogilevich and Fisherman on their ‘Most Wanted’ list.
[ http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/alert/mogilevich.htm ]
[ http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/alert/fisherman.htm ]
And Europeans might be interested in Solntsevo’s
multi-billion dollar money laundering scheme in several
European countries recently uncovered by the police
investigation code-named ‘Operation Spiderweb’ and
also linked to the BoNY scheme.
The Maxwell book may very well spur more research
about the ties between Robert Maxwell and Semion
Mogilevich and the Solntsevo. It will be interesting to
see if the Maxwell book will elicit a backlash from the
Mossad. In the past, the Mossad tried to financially
cripple Victor Ostrovsky for his Mossad expose, while
in the Ari Ben-Menashe case, the Mossad initially
claimed that he never even worked for them. Thomas
and Dillion used both as sources.
Mandelson named in spy files on oligarch
24 October 2008
Hedge fund manager Nat Rothschild, a friend of both Lord Mandelson and Mr Deripaska, wrote a letter to The Times suggesting Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne had attempted to “solicit a donation” from the oligarch during a meeting on the Russian’s yacht, moored off Corfu.
The result was to turn attention to Mr Osborne’s dealings with Mr Deripaska. Mr Rothschild, the millionaire financier and scion of the Rothschild banking dynasty, has been working strategically since 2005 to help Mr Deripaska’s aluminium company Basic Element get a listing on a major stock exchange.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/mandelson-named-in-spy-files-on-oligarch-6925129.html
…But if you want to know why #RussiaReport was suppressed, see this as just one eg. Deripaska asked Nat Rothschild to create a phony job for Chernukin – yes that Chernukin, the one who gave £££ to Boris Johnson – to get a visa
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rothschild-s-uk-job-offer-helped-russian-get-visa-6gjntpxgp
@JamesRusbridger
Peter Mandelson – Did you Know? Mandelson is friends with Jacob & Nat Rothschild
Jacob is honorary president of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
Paul Boateng with Michael Jackson (in Epstein’s black book), Mossad’s Uri Geller, Greville Janner and David Blaine (in Epstein’s black book)
Peter Mandelson – Did you Know? Mandelson was the subject of a “top-level secret police inquiry” by detectives on Operation Ore, to determine if he had accessed a child abuse website using a credit card. Police told journalists they had the wrong man https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/category/operation-ore/ …
Peter Mandelson – Did you Know? In another link to the Bottomleys, the ancient post of High Steward was resurrected especially for Mandelson to fill, at the same time that Peter Bottomley’s wife, Virginia Bottomley, took office as the Sheriff of Hull.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-22625513 …
Peter Mandelson – Did you Know? He supports the Sir Edward Heath Foundation with: Peter Bottomley. PB is on the Elm Guest House list
http://web.archive.org/web/20160319122659/http:/thefriendsofarundells.btck.co.uk/Supporters … https://vips.fandom.com/wiki/Keith_Vaz
Peter Mandelson – Did you Know? Mandelson was a Vice-Chair of the NSPCCs Full Stop campaign. On the 2007 report his name is under Matthew Freud’s Freud, the chair of Freud Communications linked to Ghislaine Maxwell, is also linked to Madeleine McCann https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/annual-reports/nspcc-annual-report-2007.pdf …
He knows Jeffrey Epstein well, having been to Epstein’s home to discuss “business” Epstein’s black book had 10 phone numbers for Mandelson: including one marked Direct Line, one marked Home, and one marked Country Home https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364001/Peter-Mandelson-silent-contact-Prince-Andrew-friend-Jeffrey-Epstein.html …
Mandelson’s involvement with TerraMar could be investigated by the FBI It was a “fake charity slush fund for child victims of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking operation with Jeffrey Epstein”
https://web.archive.org/web/20120717034026/http://theterramarproject.org/ … https://nypost.com/2019/07/27/feds-probe-socialites-mysterious-ocean-charity-over-links-to-jeffrey-epstein/ …
@kirbysommers
The companies that were listed as “Sponsors” of Ghislaine Maxwell’s TERRAMAR were:
Ted
Tedx
CNN
Bloomberg
Al Jazeera
The Huffington Post
Fox News
》Priory Bay, Heath, the Bottomleys;
》Terramar, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein;
》The NSPCC, Rantzen, the Freuds, Maddie McCann;
》Operation Ore;
》The Rothschilds, IJPR, Janner & the Bronfmans
WHAT DOES PETER MANDELSON KNOW ABOUT VIP CHILD TRAFFICKING?
Peter Mandelson pictured with Jeffrey Epstein: Labour ex-minister who’s friends with Prince Andrew shops with paedophile financier in 2005 after being introduced by Ghislane Maxwell
- EXCLUSIVE: Pictured Peter Mandelson, former British Cabinet minister holidays with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the luxury resort island of St Barts
- Photo was taken in 2005 as Mandelson took time off from his work as the European Union’s Trade Commissioner
- The shopping trip took place six months before Epstein was arrested in Florida and charged with a string of child sex offences
Two middle-aged holidaymakers walk into a fashion boutique in one of those exotic millionaire’s playgrounds where the sun always shines and endless palm trees sway in the afternoon breeze.
One is Jeffrey Epstein, a mysterious financier fond of very young girls, many of whom have for years been systematically exploited and sexually abused in his various luxury homes.
The other is Peter Mandelson, the former British Cabinet minister and long-term friend of Epstein’s closest chum Ghislaine Maxwell, who was staying on the luxury resort island of St Barts.
Peter Mandelson shopping with Jeffrey Epstein on December 27, 2005, in St. Barts
His journey through public life has already twice been interrupted by scandals involving stupendously wealthy men.
The year is 2005 and Mandelson is taking time off from his work as the European Union’s Trade Commissioner, for which taxpayers are paying him a salary in excess of £200,000 a year.
Epstein (unbeknownst to the world at this point) is under police investigation for numerous ghastly sex offences. Meanwhile, he is doing what he does best: pursuing a Gatsby-esque friendship with a famous and powerful man.
Guests who have spent time on his nearby private island Little St James, a stunning, 72-acre patch of the U.S. Virgin Islands, have included a virtual Who’s Who of celebrities — from Bill Clinton to Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking and, perhaps most notoriously, our very own Prince Andrew. On various trips to Chateau Epstein, they’ve spent days or even weeks sunbathing on his private beaches, swimming in his pools or playing tennis on his personal court.
When things start to feel claustrophobic, Epstein’s guests enjoy still more of the high life, taking one of his yachts or helicopters for island-hopping jaunts where they dine in upscale restaurants, or indulge in a bit of retail therapy in a Caribbean tax haven’s smart if somewhat overpriced shopping mall.
All of which brings us back to Mandelson. He’s known the generous host in these pictures for several years, having previously once visited his Caribbean island for a holiday — when neither Epstein nor any of the girls were there — and, on another occasion, dined with various celebrities at his $77 million New York townhouse, filled with erotic art and lurid photographs of young women.
Both men share a love of flashy designer clobber. To this end, Mandelson, sporting a Patek Philippe watch worth £21,000 (almost two months of his post-tax income) can be seen in a Caribbean boutique trying on a swanky white leather belt.
It’s the perfect accessory to complete his nautical Man From Del Monte-style holiday ensemble, which includes a natty white bracelet, white linen shorts, and blue short-sleeved shirt. Epstein looks on with a sort of proprietorial glee. As well he might. For this man has devoted years to building cosy (and, as a financier, potentially very profitable) relationships with the world’s most powerful men.
..and on ‘paedo is land, Mandelson’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell (right) cuddles Epstein’s notorious fixer, Jean-Luc Brunel (left)
Mandelson and Epstein’s hitherto unknown shopping trip took place on December 27, 2005, six months before the now-notorious Epstein was arrested in Florida and charged with a string of child sex offences.
Details have emerged, and can now be reported, thanks to two of the extraordinary photographs that are featured on these pages.
They form part of a remarkable and never-before-seen cache that provide a visual record of daily life in the high-octane (and somewhat seedy) orbit of the morally-bankrupt billionaire, who killed himself in prison this month while facing prosecution on multiple counts of paedophilia and child sex trafficking.
Obtained by the Mail via a source with detailed knowledge of events on Little St James — now nicknamed ‘paedophile island’ and ‘orgy island’ — the photographs raise tricky questions for Mandelson as well as a number of Epstein’s closest associates.
There are multiple images of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who orchestrated the billionaire’s social life, introduced him to Prince Andrew and has been widely accused (in multiple lawsuits, and in court in New York this week) of recruiting teenage girls to Epstein’s child prostitution ring.
Maxwell, the daughter of crooked newspaper tycoon Robert, who has previously denied any wrongdoing, features in several striking images, including one on these pages which shows her inside Epstein’s main residence on Little St James. It was taken shortly after Christmas 2006.
That date is significant. It was just six months after Epstein had been charged with abusing a large number of teenage girls. He was in the process of assembling a superstar legal team which pulled strings to prevent him serving a substantial prison sentence.
Yet he seems to have barely a care in the world. Indeed, with extraordinary chutzpah, he and Maxwell can be seen larking around with several alleged ‘sex slaves’ who had been flown to the island for the New Year holidays.
Most of the girls, whose pictures cannot be printed (as victims, they must not be identified), appear to be in their late teens. Equally damning for Maxwell is the fact that she can be seen embracing Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model agency boss accused (again in multiple lawsuits, and in a New York court this week) of helping traffic teenage girls.
Brunel, now 72, was alleged in recently unsealed court documents to have used his fashion business to provide the billionaire with a steady supply of impressionable young women who were then sexually assaulted. In return, Epstein is said to have invested in his businesses. Now under investigation, he has also denied wrongdoing.
Then European External Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and Prince Andrew, Duke of York
As you can see from the photos, Jean-Luc and Ghislaine were best of friends and worked very closely together with the girls they brought to Jeffrey,’ says the aforementioned source. Any time they were on the island, they managed groups of girls, told them what to do, how to do it, how to please Jeffrey, and instructed them how to behave in front of his guests.’
To this end — while it must again be stressed that Maxwell and Brunel have always denied criminality — they have been accused of committing hair-raising misdemeanours in a series of lawsuits and witness statements filed in the U.S. in recent months.
Most notably, Brunel (who was further accused of sexual assault by three women interviewed by The Guardian last month) appears in recently unsealed court documents, which claim he once flew three 12-year-old girls from France to the U.S. to provide erotic massages for Epstein, by way of a sordid birthday present.
A fourth photo from the cache obtained by the Mail shows Epstein, then in his 50s, touring his island on a quad bike. He regularly used the machine to transport topless teenagers to and from the beach, and to visit an outdoor temple he built near a corner of the island where he’s believed to have committed several sex crimes.
Other images provide further insights into life on Little St James, revealing, for example, that Perspex boxes filled with condoms were kept in guest bedrooms.
‘You hear so many people who were there, or who knew and spent time with Epstein, now saying, “Oh, we never suspected anything bad was happening,” or “We never thought the girls were being exploited,”’ adds the source.
‘The pictures show just how absurd those claims are. Epstein, a man in his 50s, was surrounding himself with teenagers.
The European External Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson (back) welcomes Prince Andrew, Duke of York prior to their bilateral meeting 07 June 2007 at the EU Commission’s Headquarters in Brussels
‘If you were sitting there, having a glass of champagne at sundown, or eating crab cakes at lunch, and you saw the young girls being made to parade around and asked to give people massages, you’d have to have been blind to think something wasn’t wrong.
‘There’s no way a right-thinking person could have spent time with Epstein on Little St James and thought some of the things going on were remotely OK.’
This island was a place where some of the world’s most famous and powerful men and women have seen fit to accept freebie holidays.
Cathy Alexander, who worked as a housekeeper there, told the Mail On Sunday in a 2011 interview that Andrew turned up on one visit in the early 2000s with a tall, busty, blonde woman who shared his room. Alexander recalled that the prince’s consort ‘was a brain surgeon’.
She further told reporters that Mandelson’s visit saw his partner, Reinaldo, suffer serious sunburn. All of which begs a few questions about character. Among them: what on Earth possessed Mandelson and the duke (high-profile public figures on the payroll of the taxpayer,) to accept hospitality from a mysterious foreign billionaire whose wealth was of unknown provenance? What did they think Epstein was gaining from the transaction?
The duke has never properly explained, choosing instead to issue a series of self-serving PR statements about his friendship with the convicted paedophile, which continued even after Epstein had emerged from prison.
Mandelson, who these days earns a crust in the well-renumerated world of lobbying, is similarly quiet: he declined to answer questions the Mail submitted regarding his dealings with the convicted paedophile.
Andrew and Mandelson happen to be long-standing friends, having become acquainted soon after New Labour took office in the late 1990s. Interestingly, it seems that in the years that followed, the duo often socialised with each other. They also have in common friendships with a number of foreign billionaires.
Mandelson and the prince’s chumminess first made headlines in 1999, when Mandelson was reported to be dining regularly at Sunninghill, the prince’s home. He then agreed to join Andrew’s ‘full stop’ NSPCC campaign against child abuse, showing up to a series of fundraisers which the duke attended.
In 2000, both Mandelson and Andrew were, in another overlapping social connection, said to be not just guests but also two of the witnesses at the wedding of merchant banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild to Lynn Forester. She is an American entrepreneur who was a long-standing friend of Epstein.
Importantly, the next year the prince was appointed British trade ambassador.
At the time, Mandelson was reported by The Guardian, the Mail and the French news agency AFP to have been a key figure in lobbying for the duke, who had recently left the Royal Navy, to get the job. (Friends of Mandelson now deny this was the case.)
By this stage, both were on Epstein’s radar, having seemingly been introduced to his decadent world via Maxwell. Andrew was busy inviting the dubious financier (and his female companions) to Windsor Castle, Sandringham and Balmoral.
Mandelson was meanwhile accepting Epstein’s hospitality at glamorous dinners in Manhattan.
A 2002 report in New York magazine stated that the ‘British Cabinet minister’ had attended an intimate dinner party at Epstein’s New York home alongside a motley collection of guests including Donald Trump, magician David Blaine and Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. It added that food had been cooked by celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, at a cost to Epstein of $50,000.
Strangely, Mandelson — then a serving MP — did not see fit to declare the expensive hospitality he received in the Commons register of interests — though he did register other events he attended during a 2002 visit to New York.
Mandelson did not comment when asked for an explanation about the matter this week. However, speaking more broadly, an acquaintance said that the Labour politician met Epstein on a total of ‘no more than five or six occasions’ in the years they were acquainted, adding that, ‘Peter only knows him because of a friendship with Ghislaine, who he met in the 1980s and has known ever since.
‘It was Ghislaine, not Epstein, who invited him to Little St James, when he stayed on the island with Reinaldo. Epstein wasn’t there during that stay, and neither were any girls or what have you.
‘So however bad it might now look, there was nothing about the visit that could have led him to believe anything untoward went on there.’
The photograph of the shopping trip also came about because of Ghislaine, the acquaintance added. ‘Peter was staying on St Barts that Christmas, and it’s pretty close to the U.S. Virgin Islands, so she thought it would be fun to fly Jeffrey out to see him in a helicopter for the day. Obviously the picture was taken, and in the current climate it looks bad, but it’s more poor choreography than anything sinister.’
Be that as it may, both Mandelson and Andrew feature heavily in the now-notorious ‘little black book’ of contacts that Epstein kept at his home around the time they were visiting his various homes.
Currently in the possession of the FBI, it contains ten numbers for the politician, including ones marked ‘home’, ‘country’ and ‘Peter’s direct line’, and no fewer than 16 for the Duke of York, including personal contact details at Sandringham and other royal residences.
Only a small portion of the individuals in that book are listed with more than one or two contact numbers.
Like Andrew, Mandelson also met Virginia Roberts, a victim of Epstein who was photographed with the duke and claims to have been paid to have sex with him on three occasions in the early 2000s (allegations Andrew disputes). ‘I never heard of Jeffrey knowing Tony Blair, but he did know Peter Mandelson,’ Roberts told an interviewer in 2011.
‘I remember him [Mandelson] being at the house in New York and I was introduced to him at a dinner party.
‘He and Jeffrey talked business. I assumed they were in business together. I was never asked to give him [Mandelson] a massage.’
Later in the 2000s, when Mandelson was European Trade Commissioner and Andrew his British counterpart, the duo became familiar with the turbo-charged world that Epstein and other ‘masters of the universe’ inhabited.
They were regularly photographed together at Davos and events such as the Russian Economic Forum, a London conference which in 2005 boasted Andrew as guest of honour and Mandelson as keynote speaker.
They also built somewhat murkier links to other rich men of — shall we say — colourful provenance.
Take, for example, the government of Kazakhstan. Both Mandelson and Andrew for some reason agreed in 2009 to attend the 30th birthday party of Goga Ashkenazi, socialite mistress of despotic president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s son-in-law Timur Kulibayev.
Kulibayev had famously purchased the aforementioned Sunninghill from Prince Andrew in 2007, paying £3 million over the £12 million asking price in a deal which has never been properly explained. In 2010, he added Mandelson to his payroll, paying him to speak at an event organised by Samruk-Kazyna, the central Asian country’s private wealth fund.
The Duke of York with Virginia Roberts, then a 17-year-old ‘masseuse’ and inset with Saif Gaddafi
In another controversial connection with oil-rich foreigners, both Mandelson and the prince forged links with Saif Gaddafi, the hugely wealthy son of the late Libyan despot who was attempting to funnel vast amounts of cash into New Labour’s Britain.
It is, however, revelations regarding their relationships with Epstein which now have the potential to generate the ugliest headlines — not least since investigations by the Mail reveal both men encountered the disgraced financier after he served a jail sentence for child sex offences (albeit in very different circumstances.)
Andrew, famously, stayed at the convicted paedophile’s New York town house in 2010, where he hosted a dinner party and was photographed walking with Epstein in Central Park.
Mandelson ended up meeting the court-certified sex offender a year later.
‘Peter was invited to a meeting by Ghislaine in 2011,’ says a friend. ‘She is a very old friend, so he went along. But when he turned up, Epstein was there. It was a complete accident, and very unfortunate, but for obvious reasons he’s very concerned about how it might now look.’
Despite the incident, Mandelson in 2014 agreed to become one of the ‘founding citizens’ of TerraMar, a now-defunct ocean charity set up by Maxwell with Epstein’s financial support.
In an endorsement published on its website, he declared: ‘The oceans and the politics of water generally will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century…that’s why I am supporting the new TerraMar initiative.’
Sources close to the peer now say he did that ‘as a favour to Ghislaine, because they were old friends’.
They further deny that there was anything untoward in his decision to secretly accept hospitality from the financier in the years when he was on the public payroll running European trade.
‘He was trade commissioner, which is dealing with things like manufacturing, and nothing to do with the financial markets, which is where Epstein operated. There’s nothing legally wrong with what he did, and it’s a result of bad luck, rather than bad character.
‘And obviously he’s a gay man, so one saving grace is that no one can suspect him of having slept with any of Epstein’s girls.
‘The problem for Peter is that Epstein is so utterly toxic that everyone who had anything to do with him is being caught in the fall-out. This is now becoming a witch hunt.’
Similar claims have, in recent days, been made (with less justification) by supporters of Prince Andrew. So it’s interesting to note that, in 2015, Mandelson was present at a reception during the World Economic Forum in Davos when the duke used a speech to deny allegations that he’d slept with the aforementioned Roberts.
As the world’s media looked on, Andrew’s comments seeking to deny wrongdoing consisted of 46 words and lasted only 37 seconds.
Doubtless he hoped that the uncomfortable occasion would bring an end to undignified reporting of his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. But that isn’t how it played out.
As the ensuing four years have shown, this is an affair that gets more damaging with every new revelation about the life, times, and bizarre connections of the billionaire paedophile with friends in high places.
This prince and the pervert fairytale keeps getting worse
Now it’s a prince and TWO perverts
30 Aug 2019
Let us be fair to Prince Andrew.
In 2000 when he was photographed partying with Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell they had yet to be proven to be some of the world’s worst people. How could he possibly have thought anything was amiss?
Prince Andrew parties with sex beast Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at luxury resort
Trump was merely the draft-dodging property magnate son of a KKK-sympathiser, whose family fortunes had been built on brothel-keeping, and whose company had been accused of discriminating against black tenants and using mob fronts. He was known to have used junk bonds, strategic bankruptcy and $4bn in unwise bank loans to build a laughable reputation for business acumen.
Knauss was the daughter of a Slovenian Communist and had taken part in soft-porn lads’ mag photoshoots. According to the editor of GQ he had been “bombarded” with so many requests to take her photograph that he relented and featured her on the cover, naked on a fur rug in boyfriend Donald’s 747. Other pictures featured her digging through a briefcase of jewels, waving a golden gun while stood on the wing, and perching in the cockpit in an outfit made of what look like taped-together razor blades.
Prince Andrew accuser urges him to ‘come clean’ as he ‘knows what he’s done’
Epstein, meanwhile, a tax exile based in the US Virgin Islands. As a financial consultant, his clients included arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and he was suspected of involvement in a collapsed $450m Ponzi scheme.
And Ghislaine Maxwell was merely the youngest daughter of a man who fell off his yacht having stolen almost half a billion pounds worth of pension funds to prop up his share price, to the detriment of 32,000 of the Queen’s subjects.
These four were yet to have established themselves in the public psyche as being any worse than that. But for most self-aware humans capable of smelling a wrong’un, ‘that’ would all have been enough reason to smile politely and move swiftly along.
For a 40-year-old prince whose life had been one long stream of people with a fancy for getting something by hanging off the Royal coat-tails, though, it appears to have raised not one qualm.
Prince Andrew ‘ready to talk to police’ about alleged sex crimes of pal Jeffrey Epstein
The pictures were taken when the duke was guest of honour at a glitzy bash in Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private Florida resort. The reason for his attendance is unclear, as there can have been few if any benefits to the Royal Family, the United Kingdom or the schools expedition charity Outward Bound, of which the prince was chairman at the time.
But Trump owned golf courses. Epstein had a private jet, and they both partied with Victoria’s Secret models. Those three things are perhaps what may have dominated the Duke of York’s tiny mind, if it ever devoted a nanosecond to wondering if he should continue his “association” with them.
A few months after the party, a teenager called Virginia Roberts started work at Mar-a-Lago in the changing rooms, from which position she claims to have been “recruited” by Maxwell to have sex with Epstein and his friends.
A year later in March 2001, Epstein photographed the 17-year-old with Andrew in Maxwell’s London townhouse. Roberts claimed later the prince licked her feet and had sex with her in a bath, which he has denied.
Unnamed “friends” of his question whether those are really his fingers in the photo, but not whether that is really his face, in that house, with those people, at that time.
It was only 4 years AFTER that party that a woman told police her 14-year-old daughter had been given $300 to strip and massage Epstein.
It was 5 years later that an undercover police investigation found hidden cameras, a cache of photographs, 5 victims and 17 witnesses who gave sworn testimony as to his actions.
It was 6 years on that Epstein was charged with prostituting a minor, 7 years until the FBI launched its own investigation, and 8 years later that the probe was shut down with a plea deal, Epstein admitted the charge, and began a 13-month prison term.
Trouble is, it was 11 years before Andrew “cut all ties” with the paedophile, following a huge scandal about being seen with him again.
Prince Andrew ‘flew from Jeffrey Epstein’s Paedophile Island with Miss Russia’
Now, 19 years since those pictures were taken, we know more about all the people concerned.
We know that Trump says he has a right to grab pussies, that he thinks Nazis are “good people”, that his critics should “go home” to countries they weren’t born in, that he paid porn stars to go away, that he has tried to obstruct justice, that he lies about EVERYTHING, that he has made nuclear war in the Middle East more likely, that his administration has a policy of hurting children.
We know, too, that Melania wears coats saying she doesn’t care. That she claims to be the most bullied person in the world while her husband bullies everyone else. That an event-planning firm owned by her friend was given $26m of US taxpayer money and is now under investigation.
We know Roberts won a defamation case against Maxwell over being called a liar. We know Maxwell was named by many of Epstein’s alleged victims as his “recruiter” (which she denies), and that she was by his side during the period he is believed to have committed most of his crimes.
And we know Epstein committed suicide rather than face sex trafficking charges. That the FBI found child abuse images, tapes, and hidden cameras at his homes. That Trump knew he liked under-age girls, and later fell out with him. That Epstein wanted to seed the human race with his DNA, and that Andrew flew on his private jet all over the world.
Jeffrey Epstein sex slave says she was ordered to massage Simpson’s creator’s feet
And we know that even today the Duke of York thinks it’s still “media speculation”.
That he holidayed with Epstein twice a year for 12 years, but barely knew him at all.
That, according to the prince, “what we now know” is worse than what we knew in 2011, or 2005, or even 2000 when the prince was pictured with four people anyone else would run away from, at a party he had no earthly reason to be at.
It is worth noting, perhaps, that while photographed at Mar-a-Lago and when pictured with the young Virginia, Andrew was a serving commander in the Royal Navy. According to his website, his role was “naval diplomacy with the rest of the world”. We can only hope he didn’t confuse seafaring with navels.
Fairytales are morality lessons, in which children learn how not to behave. Even a toddler could work out these people stink, and that the Royal denials stink even more.
But for once, it’s the prince who needs rescuing. And it doesn’t look like anyone wants to.
Epstein’s army: Four women that millionaire pedophile ‘relied on to recruit and train his victims’ – who were given immunity under his Florida sweetheart plea deal – could now be investigated in New York
- Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Lesley Groff, and Adriana Ross were named as potential co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 ‘sweetheart’ deal
- They received immunity from Florida prosecutors but the deal does not protect them in New York, where authorities continue to investigate the late pedophile
- Though he is dead, many of his victims are calling for charges to be brought against his network
- The women allegedly helped him recruit and abuse young girls
- Multiple victims in lawsuits and interviews say the women facilitated it by booking their ‘massage appointments’ with Epstein and paying them
- Nadia was a victim herself, having been brought to the US from Yugoslavia by Epstein as a teenager
- She says she is too traumatized now to speak about her experiences
- A fifth woman Haley Robson – who worked as a recruiter – wasn’t covered by the Florida deal but was not indicted by a grand jury when police tried to charge her
Prince Andrew parties with sex beast Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at luxury resort
EXCLUSIVE: The never-before seen photo sheds further light on the Duke of York’s then friendship with disgraced financier
29 Aug 2019
At first glance it looks like any other high-society photo – the future President and First Lady of America alongside the Queen’s second son.
But lurking in the background, looking directly at the camera, is now-notorious paedophile and pal of Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein.
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, alleged by the billionaire’s young victims to have been complicit in their abuse, is also pictured.
The never-before seen photo sheds further light on the Duke of York’s then friendship with disgraced financier.
It is the first time the Duke, Epstein and Maxwell have been captured in the same frame.
The image, printed by the Daily Mirror for the first time, was taken at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida in 2000.
Andrew was guest of honour at the star-studded gala, hosted by Trump eight years before Epstein’s conviction for child sex offences.
It took place just months before Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Roberts, began working at the club as a changing room assistant.
Within a year of the snap being taken she alleges disgraced Epstein had lent her out to sleep with the prince.
In the photo, Trump and his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss, are looking directly into the in-house snapper’s lens.
Melania Trump and Prince Andrew with Gwendolyn Beck and Jeffrey Epstein
In another snap Andrew and Epstein are seen laughing with Melania and politician Gwendolyn Beck.
Beck, who once ran unsuccessfully for congress, was in Epstein’s “little black book”.
Prince Andrew with Melania Knauss, now married to Donald Trump
2015
Gwendolyn Beck
Menendez also used doctor’s private jet for his gal pal: feds
https://nypost.com/2017/09/19/menendez-also-used-doctors-private-jet-for-his-gal-pal-feds/
Ghislaine Maxwell’s botfriend Scott Borgerson
So her ‘boyfriend’ (Scott) is a LIFE MEMBER/FELLOW/COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS (Like Jeffrey Epstein)
Advised the White House
-his company ? BIG DATA, CLOUD , MACHINE LEARNING
– NGO ( THE ARTIC CIRCLE , ICELAND )
– COAST GUARD DIRECTOR /Leadership
Hedge fund firm CargoMetrics
WHO besides ? Google backed him What an interesting start-up investment firm.
He courted And gained the best. Former DeutscheBank , Blackstone, Spire Global, Senators, Rohatyn Group… Eric Schmidt ( Google )
BLACKSTONE Alternative Asset
MANAGEMENT ( BAAM )
-LOTUS Development Corp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Sof…
( JIM MANZI/ IBM )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Manzi
Interesting that his ‘girlfriend’ Ghislaine is the daughter of the man ( Robert Maxwell ), & girlfriend of ( Epstein) , who WORKED with MARC RICH ( Iran Contra Scandal ) And would KNOW his methods.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1161918681653424128.html
Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich on his last day in office after a call from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (who can be seen in pics visiting Epstein in NYC). Rich, Edmond Safra, Adnan Khashoggi, Bill Browder, Robert Maxwell, NXIVM Bronfman’s all run in the same circles. JFK to 9/11.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/celpai/bill_clinton_pardoned_marc_rich_on_his_last_day/
Robert Maxwell and the Bronfman family were business partners trying to buy up the media
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34675855/robert_maxwellcharles_bronfman/ …
The Fixer, Howard Rubenstein, has represented numerous people listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book.
Publicist Howard Rubenstein
Howard J. Rubenstein is an American lawyer and public relations expert. He has been called “the dean of damage control” by Rudolph Giuliani.[1]
He is the president and founder of Rubenstein Associates, which has been described as the most influential public relations organization in New York City.[5] Rubenstein Associates has two affiliates: Rubenstein Public Relations and Rubenstein Communications, Inc.[2] The firm was founded in 1954. Rubenstein’s more notable clients include many of New York’s iconic organizations including: The New York Yankees,[6] News Corporation,[2] Columbia University,[5] New York Philharmonic,[2] Sarah – Duchess of York, Rupert Murdoch since 1976,[2][7] both Fred Trump and Donald Trump since 1973,[2] and The Metropolitan Opera.[2]
The Fixer
Rubenstein with Leona Helmsley, Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, Eliot Spitzer, Al Sharpton, George Steinbrenner, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Bloomberg.
Rubenstein’s clients have included George Steinbrenner, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, and Leona Helmsley; the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the Whitney Museum; BMW North America, Mount Sinai Hospital, Time Inc., Bloomberg L.P., and the notorious Lizzie Grubman. He has advised the last six mayors and the last four governors. At Rubenstein Associates, the corridors are lined with photographs of Howard’s “friends” and those of Presidents stretching back to Harry Truman. In one way or another, they have all looked to Rubenstein in an hour of need. The former governor George Pataki once said that had Howard Rubenstein been around to represent rats during the bubonic plague the headlines would have read “Rodents Unfairly Accused of Mild Rash.”
New York’s senior senator (and accomplished self-publicist), Charles E. Schumer, thanked “Howard for being a great friend to me for thirty years.” Rubenstein, in turn, took the opportunity to praise other notables, before ceding the podium to the Whitney’s chairman, Leonard Lauder, who is also the chairman of Estée Lauder (a Rubenstein client).
Rubenstein has a special talent for bringing his clients together for their mutual benefit. The real-estate developer Donald Trump got a call from Rubenstein after Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendy, bought a Fifth Avenue apartment, in late 2004—Laurance Rockefeller’s former triplex––for a reported forty-four million dollars.
Rubenstein asked if Trump could help the Murdochs find a rental while they were waiting for their new place to be renovated. “Howard really wanted something special for Rupert,” Trump says, and he found something suitable for the Murdochs. Everyone was happy: the Murdochs had shelter from the rain and wind, Trump had done something for the owner of a paper whose attentions he enjoys, and Rubenstein had performed another service.
Then, there are instances when two parties don’t even want to talk, except through the discreet offices of Rubenstein Associates. When Murdoch, who owns the Post, and Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of the rival News, wanted to arrange a ceasefire—a way to keep their private lives out of the pages of each other’s tabloids—Rubenstein, according to a party to the discussions, was the natural broker. (Zuckerman, despite the Murdoch connection, had once hired Rubenstein to represent the real-estate company he co-founded in 1970, Boston Properties.) Lloyd Grove, who until late in 2006 wrote a gossip column in the News, confirms the print truce, saying, “It was communicated to me that there was a gentleman’s agreement that nothing personally critical could be written about Rupert or his family, and the understanding was that it was reciprocal.”
In recent years, Rubenstein has become a substantial political fund-raiser, though he is careful to hedge his bets in order to avoid being seen as partisan. When George Pataki asked him to meet Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rubenstein quickly agreed. In the end, Hastert recalls, “he said he liked the way I operated, that I was fair, that I was evenhanded.” Rubenstein offered to host two fund-raisers for Hastert at his apartment, and he and his wife personally contributed eight thousand dollars to Hastert’s 2006 congressional campaign. Hastert told me that since then Rubenstein never “tapped on my shoulder and asked for anything. Matter of fact, the only time he asked me to do anything was to have this interview with you.”
When the marriages of Donald Trump, Ronald Perelman, and other New York plutocrats turned ugly, Rubenstein was summoned to minimize the damage. He was called for advice in 1996, when Kathie Lee Gifford was embarrassed by reports that child labor in Third World countries was being used to manufacture a clothing line that bore her name, and when the sportscaster Marv Albert was accused of an unusual erotic biting habit, and when Michael Jackson was engaged in one of his many litigations. When Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, lost her standing in the British Royal Family, Rubenstein took her on as a client and introduced her to another client, Weight Watchers, and she became their spokeswoman.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/the-fixer
Epstein Flight Logs
Charles Schumer
Teterboro New Jersey airport to Palm Beach International Florida
1998
7-Nov G-1159B N908JE TEB PBI 1177 JE CHARLES SCHUMER 2 3
10-Nov G-1159B N908JE PBI TEB 1178 JE CHARLES SCHUMER 1/ 2 5
Charles Schumer
“Fergie’s New York publicist Howard Rubenstein”
2006
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/fergie-and-her-5million-man-7211738.html
Rupert Murdoch with Robert Maxwell
Howard Rubenstein, Adnan Khashoggi, Robert Maxwell, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
1992
Jeffrey Epstein is under indictment for sex crimes in Palm Beach, Florida, and I’d expected that when he came into the office of PR guru Howard Rubenstein, he would be sober and reserved. Quite the opposite. He was sparkling and ingenuous, apologizing for the half-hour lateness with a charming line—“I never realized how many one-way streets and no-right-turns there are in midtown. I finally got out and walked”—and as we went down the corridor to Rubenstein’s office, he asked, “Have you managed to talk to many of my friends?” Epstein had been supplying me the phone numbers of important scientists and financiers and media figures. “Do you understand what an extraordinary group of people they are, what they have accomplished in their fields?”
One of the accusers—a girl of 14—had put his age at 45, not in his fifties, and you could see why. His walk was youthful, and his face was ruddy with health. He had none of the round-shouldered, burdened qualities of middle age. There was nothing in his hands, not a paper, a book, or a phone. Epstein had on his signature outfit: new blue jeans and a powder-blue sweater. “I’ve only ever seen him in jeans,” his friend the publicist Peggy Siegal had reported, saying there was a hint of arrogance in that, Epstein’s signal that he doesn’t have to wear a uniform like the rest of us.
I told Epstein and Rubenstein the sort of story New York wanted to do, and Epstein seemed to find ironic delight in every word. “A secretive genius,” I’d said. “Not secretive, private,” he corrected in his warm Brooklyn accent. “And if I was a genius I wouldn’t be sitting here.” “A guy with sex issues.” A smile formed on Epstein’s bow-shaped lips. “What do you mean by sex issues?” Well … He was 54, had never married—I didn’t finish. “Are you channeling my mother?”
When I said we were interested in the agony of his ordeal, Rubenstein wrote out the word agony in capital letters on his pad. But agony seemed the last thing on Epstein’s soul. “It’s the Icarus story, someone who flies too close to the sun,” I said. “Did Icarus like massages?” Epstein asked.
http://nymag.com/news/features/41826/
People attending event for Howard Rubenstein
Howard Rubenstein with Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House (he abused teenage boys), Cardinal Egan, Charles Schumer and Sarah Fergson
Cardinal Egan, Senator Chuck Schumer and Rubenstein
Cardinal Egan Supported Priest Accused Of Sexual Abuse
https://www.snapnetwork.org/news/otherstates/NY_Egan_Supported_Priest.htm
Howard Rubenstein and Hilary Clinton
Howard Rubenstein with David Blaine
Denise Rich with Howard Rubenstein
Prince Andrew hits back – but fails to quell Jeffrey Epstein storm as it emerges he spent a WEEK at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion after the royal issues extraordinary statement
- The Duke of York stayed over a period of six days in 2010, The Mail On Sunday revealed
- This was two years after the businessman was convicted of having sex with a child
- The Duke said he never suspected the shamed financier of criminal behaviour
24 Aug 2019
The Duke of York spent almost a week at convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous New York home, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The revelation came as Prince Andrew yesterday issued an extraordinary statement in which he sought to downplay his ten-year friendship with Epstein.
In his statement – the second issued since last weekend when The Mail on Sunday revealed footage of the Queen’s favourite son at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in 2010 – the Duke said he had never suspected the shamed financier of criminal behaviour.
He also insisted that he and Epstein, who committed suicide in a New York prison cell two weeks ago, only saw each other ‘infrequently and probably no more than only once or twice a year’.
However, The Mail on Sunday understands that the Duke stayed over a period of six days with Epstein in 2010, two years after the multi-millionaire businessman was convicted of having sex with a child.
Our exclusive video, which made headlines around the world after its release, showed the Prince in the mansion’s doorway on December 6, 2010, waving off a brunette.
It prompted first a statement from Buckingham Palace and yesterday another from the Duke himself in which he desperately tried to draw a line under the affair. The Duke admitted he and Epstein could have potentially met up to 20 times but that ‘at no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction’.
Epstein also threw a party at his home on December 2, 2010, for the Duke, who was last seen at the property five days later. Last night, Buckingham Palace declined to discuss details of his visit.
However, some commentators said that far from putting a lid on the scandal, the statement actually raised more questions than it answered. Others said it did not go far enough.
Peter Garsden, president of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, said: ‘While he deplores Epstein’s behaviour, I do not think for a minute that anybody will believe he is totally ignorant of what was going on. I can’t believe that.
‘Prince Andrew ought to offer himself for interview by the authorities in America rather than put out carefully worded statements.’
It is understood that the Queen was ‘made aware’ of her second son’s statement but her advisers were not involved in drafting it.
‘The Duke insisted on writing it himself,’ said a source.
Sarah Ferguson remains firm friends with Prince Andrew
The Prince is currently on holiday in Spain with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who was said by a source to be wholly supportive of his decision to ‘come clean’.
Since Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges last month, the Duke has been trying to distance himself from his old friend, declaring himself ‘appalled’ by his ‘alleged crimes’. In yesterday’s statement, he said he was ‘eager to clarify the facts’ around his ‘association or friendship’ with the financier.
He said it was a ‘mistake’ to meet Epstein after he left prison in 2010. ‘I can only reiterate my regret that I was mistaken to think that what I thought I knew of him was evidently not the real person, given what we now know.’
The Duke admitted staying at ‘a number of [Epstein’s] residences’ but did not specify which. Buckingham Palace also declined to elaborate. Epstein owned properties in New York, New Mexico, Paris, Florida and the Virgin Islands.
The Duke said his friend’s suicide left ‘many unanswered questions’, adding that he had ‘tremendous sympathy’ for all those affected by the paedophile’s behaviour. ‘I acknowledge and sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure.’
Last night, Ingrid Seward, Editor-in-Chief of Majesty Magazine, suggested that Andrew’s ex-wife had urged him to make a statement.
‘Fergie has a big influence over him and does try very hard to help him,’ she said. ‘She is very loyal and protective and would have been right there with him.
‘I assume he decided that there was so much flak coming his way that only a personal statement would suffice.
‘Of course, if it was a politician, he would have to resign immediately. But Andrew isn’t a politician – he is a member of the Royal Family and he can’t resign, so he is limited to apologising.’ Royal author Penny Junor said: ‘For him to hide away and say how appalled he was by the allegations didn’t quite cover it.
‘I find it hard to believe, however, that if he did stay in any of these residences – albeit only once and twice a year – that he had no idea about Jeffrey Epstein’s behaviour.’
The Duke and Duchess are staying in Spain where he was last week seen playing golf. It is understood they also attended the 50th birthday party of Celine Charloux, a female polo champion, at her sprawling Finca La Capilla estate
A source said: ‘Sarah was very friendly and talked to everyone, even staff. Andrew sat in the corner chatting to friends and did not go and speak to the workers like Sarah did.’ Ms Charloux said the party had been ‘amazing’, but declined to discuss her Royal guests.
After arriving at Malaga Airport by private jet earlier this month, the Yorks are understood to have stayed at a villa in an exclusive residential area of Sotogrande
Aaron Swartz downloaded a bunch of files from M.I.T Media Lab servers.
Jeffrey Epstein donated to the lab where Swartz found the files.
Is it possible Aaron Swartz was murdered because he stumbled onto evidence of a pedophile ring?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165031054970957824.html
Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS[3] and the Markdown publishing format,[4] the organization Creative Commons,[5] and the website framework web.py,[6] and was a co-founder of the social news site Reddit. He was given the title of co-founder by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham after the formation of Not a Bug, Inc. (a merger of Swartz’s project Infogami and a company run by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman).
Swartz’s work also focused on civic awareness and activism.[7][8] He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 to learn more about effective online activism. In 2010, he became a research fellow at Harvard University‘s Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption, directed by Lawrence Lessig.[9][10] He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT.[11][12] Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,[13] carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.[14]
Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.[15][16]
In 2013, Swartz was inducted posthumously into the Internet Hall of Fame.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
It’s a network – it just needs mapping.
Prince Andrew and Prince Charles are not “dragged into” or “associated with” paedosadists; call it what it is obstruction of justice and influence peddling in criminal networks
Prince Andrew (with Jeffery Epstein) and Prince Charles (with Peter Ball) are clearcut obstruction cases and why are they not both charged?
Prince Charles in revealed letters promised to “see off…” one of Peter Ball’s victims Neil Todd who later committed “suicide” in 2012 as a renewed investigation opened up
Prince Charles gifted Peter Ball large sums of money “I wish I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and the way you have been treated.” and wanted him to “come over more easily”
Prince Andrew bid to strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia following Jamal Khashoggi murder by MBS.
https://twitter.com/OpDeathEaters/status/1152452087596236800
@fleetstreetfox
2005, Jeffrey Epstein accused of abusing 14yr old: not appalled.
2008, admits soliciting minors: not appalled. 2019,
house found stuffed with child abuse images: still not appalled.
2019, bad headlines about prince. Prince is now appalled.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-andrew-epstein-appalled-18972284…
@JamesRusbridger
IMPORTANT
ANTHONY WALLERSTEINER
Kurt Wallersteiner
Robert Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell
SARAH FERGUSON
STOWE SCHOOL
Street Child
Children in Crisis
Chances for Children
FAKE CHARITIES
Jeffrey Epstein
Howard Lutnick
Lee Amaitis
Cantor Fitzgerald
World Trade Center
9/11
Prince Andrew
Sarah Ferguson with her good friend and partner in children’s ‘charity’ work, the son of Robert Maxwell’s business partner Kurt Wallersteiner — none other than Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, headmaster of Stowe School
Also at this party: Robert Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell
Also at this Stowe School party: Robert ‘Mossad’ Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Also at this Stowe School party: Cantor Fitzgerald’s Lee Amaitis, close colleague of fellow Cantor-Fitz executive Howard Lutnick, who was Jeffrey Epstein’s next-door-neighbour in Manhattan!
It was a Wallersteiner-Maxwell reunion for the new generation!
Robert Maxwell and Kurt Wallersteiner would be proud to see how their offspring have made amends
How lovely for Stowe School to host an international child trafficker AND the son of Robert Maxwell’s business partner
STOWE SCHOOL MASONIC LODGE “Stowe Lodge was founded in 1981 by a number of senior Old Stoic Freemasons” “Every August we meet at the School and dine afterwards with the Headmaster (currently Dr Anthony Wallersteiner)”
https://www.stowe.co.uk/getmedia/ab64fa55-c7ae-463e-956a-81d0f2c52f1d/The-Corinthian-2015 …
@ciabaudo
In 2015, the Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk was repeatedly warned against criticising the (then still living) paedophile Greville Janner by Tory MP Anne Main.
Interestingly, Anne Main employed Isabella Wallersteiner, sister of Stowe headmaster Anthony Wallersteiner.
@JamesRusbridger
The Queen’s Deputy Lieutenants:
Dame Shirley Porter
Robert Davis
Lord David Steel
Lord Edwin Bramall
Sir Frank Kitson
Lord Richard Dannatt
Sir Richard Denby
Dr Paul Knapman
Dame Fiona Woolf
Gillian Shephard
Sir Cyril Smith
Virginia Bottomley
Researcher Reports Soviets Created Child-Trafficking Rings in the West for Blackmail
A scholar on Soviet Russia has uncovered claims that former General Secretary Yuri Andropov wanted to subvert the West by creating child trafficking and pedophile networks to blackmail business leaders and politicians.
Details on the program were uncovered by Jeffrey Nyquist in his research on communist regimes and their influence on the West. His main source is the grandson of a former member of the Soviet Central Committee who opposed the program and was possibly killed because of his opposition. Two other sources of his were defectors from the Soviet Union who revealed information on Soviet experiments on pedophilia and sexual perversion
Robert Maxwell may have also been a Soviet spy. According to FBI files released in 2013, Maxwell, who was born in Czechoslovakia and was living in the United Kingdom, was believed to be using his Pergamon Press media empire in the 1950s to provide intelligence to the Soviet Union.
The heavily redacted reports noted that when Maxwell and his business partner Kurt Wallersteiner were running their Anglo-Continental Exchange firm in London in 1953, both had “allegedly been recruited by the Soviet intelligence service for espionage purposes.”
@WendyBugliari
T-1 related that Maxwell and Wallersteiner were in contact with the Russians in East Germany, who were prepared to facilitate trading by their companies with Eastern bloc countries in return for certain intelligence information…” https://vault.fbi.gov/robert-maxwell/robert-maxwell-part-07-of-07/view …
@LuluLemew
The heavily redacted reports noted that when Maxwell & business partner Kurt Wallersteiner were running their Anglo-Continental Exchange firm in London in 1953, both had “allegedly been recruited by the Soviet intelligence service for espionage purposes.”
https://vault.fbi.gov/robert-maxwell/Robert%20Maxwell%20Part%2006%20of%2006/at_download/file …
CHRISTINE MALINA-MAXWELL – daughter of Soviet spy Robert Maxwell
@JamesRusbridger
CHRISTINE MALINA-MAXWELL
Ghislaine’s sister:
“Her firm Chiliad helped develop the FBI’s Intel database
“The ‘Investigative Data Warehouse’ brings together Intelligence data from multiple law enforcement & public records agencies
“Chiliad has DEEP ACCESS to US Intel databases”
Ghislaine Maxwell’s, Epstein’s handler, sisters Isabel and Christine co-founded Magellan in 1993. Does this sound like the precursor to Google and Yandex (Russia)? Did the Maxwells backdoor the whole world?
“The TV series is centered on the life of Jack Parsons who was one of my father Frank Malina’s best friends.”
Christine Maxwell and her astrophysicist husband Roger Malina have, until recently at least, divided their time between their home here in Meyreuil and Dallas, Texas. Malina teaches at the University of Texas there and Christine is a doctoral candidate in the humanities department, a UT spokeswoman told The Daily Beast. Malina was also a director at an astrophysics center in Marseille until last year.
Roger Malina is the son of Czechoslovak-born Frank Malina, an early Eton Musk type who was part of the ragtag group whose daring rocket experiments in 1930s Pasadena led to the formation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in L.A., the precursor to NASA.
Frank Malina’s best friend, Jack Parsons, was the most charismatic of the group. He led a double life with non-scientist friends like L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and other sci-fi classics.
Parsons also joined an occult group involving the dark arts and sex fetishes founded by Aleister Crowley, an English occultist and magician. The book and CBS TV series Strange Angel are based on Parsons’ life.
In an odd echo of Jeffrey Epstein’s reported desire to seed the human race with his own DNA, Parsons and Hubbard tried for a time to impregnate women to bring forth Babalon, a goddess described as the “Scarlet Woman” in the Themelic belief system to which Crowley subscribed.
When Parsons died in a mysterious explosion at his home at age 37, he had stopped working for JPL and was for a time a consultant to Israel’s nascent rocket system. Media accounts at the time hinted at “sexual perversion,” “black robes,” “sacred fire” and “intellectual necromancy,” according to Vice—and there were also whispers that he might have been murdered.
Frank Malina, Christine Maxwell Malina’s father-in-law, was more of a straight arrow than Parsons and fared better, at first. But some historians say he was cheated of his rightful place as a true hero of the early space race because of years of harassment by the FBI who labeled him a socialist during the McCarthy years because he had campaigned against racial segregation, and raised money for republicans in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he fled to Paris, where he became a painter and watched the space program soar from afar.
Frank Malina FBI Files
My father had moved to Europe in 1946/47 and joined the newly founded UNESCO under Julian Huxley ( of the famous Huxley family). A full bio of Frank Malina is at http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.php )
In 1953 he was forced to resign from UNESCO following the issuance of an arrest warrant by the FBI – and he became a full time artist and pioneer in art and technology and ran the International Academy of Astronautics ( he was a major pioneer in american rocketry)….
Other interesting reports are from a FBI agent that went to one of my fathers kinetic art exhibit vernissages in Paris in the 1950s- the poor FBI agent was convinced that my fathers kinetic art works were devices to transmit secret data !
http://malina.diatrope.com/frank-malina/frank-malina-fbi-files/
Roger Malina speaking about his father Roger Malina and occultist Jack Parsons:
“Strange” Jack Parsons (1) was a follower of Aleister Crowley (2) and was active in the “Thelema” White Magic Cult (3).
Also, Jack did have open sexual relations and “weird” parties in his home.
My father recalled singing at one of Jack’s parties Aleister Crowley’s Hymn to Pan (4) with his friend Andrew Haley.
Haley later, together with the now former students, set up Aerojet General as a start-up company.
And for good measure or paranoia, one of the informants listed in my father’s FBI file is now known to have then been motivated to inform on the group and partygoers to the FBI because his wife had been “spending time” at Jack Parsons’ “weird” parties or whatever else they may really have been.
I dont know whether the FBI of the time was “stranger” than the students !
But my dad had no truck with mysticism or sex rituals. He was an atheist and a positivist, and sexually conservative (to my knowledge) owing to his rural Texas small town upbringing.
Here are two examples of “sparks of genius”: one lit by Jack and one lit by Frank, illustrating that some “strange” people can have really good ideas.
Jack Parsons – close colleague and friend of Frank Malinawas related to Richard Parsons, the Earl of Rosse – founder of the Hellfire Club
The 1st Earl of Rosse was Richard Parsons: was one of the founder members of Irelands aristocratic Satanic cult, The Hellfire Club.
According to Colin Wallace – children from Kincora were brought to the Birr Castle – home of the Parson family
The fact that the Kincora children were taken to Birr Castle in County Offaly ,(in the Irish Republic, an area controlled by the IRA) was a secret our so-called betters have tried to conceal these past 20years.
http://www.missingpersons-ireland.fr…orascandal.htm
In a recent conversation with Dr Coleman , she confirmed to me that Colin Wallace knew about the Birr connection and that Wallace had informed a social worker of this vital fact.
Jack Parsons popped up during the 1940s as as the head of the Californian Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), implicating himself with along with L. Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology) and good old Aleister Crowley.
In 1946, Parsons and Hubbard endeavoured to carry out what is known as the Babylon Working , to incarnate a physical aspect of Babylon, the Scarlet Woman of the Book of Revelations(17:3-6). They believed that Babylon was the herald of the new Age of Horus, and that Revelations was the understandably negative interpretation by those of the dying Age of Osiris:
https://www.amazon.fr/Sparks-Genius-Thirteen-Thinking-Creative/dp/0618127453
As one story has it, Jack Parsons blew himself up in his kitchen in 1952 while playing with new explosive inventions. While I was growing up – I was born in 1950 – there were rumors, never substantiated, that the FBI had a hand in it.
Jack Parsons and Frank Malina: Strange Angel and Sparks of Genius – Roger Malina
| The marriage of Princess Margaret, (sister of Queen Elizabeth), to Lord Snowdon resulted in my picture at Shannon Airport when the newly-weds arrived to spend a second honeymoonwith Lord Snowdon’s relations in Birr Castle. This was the moment when the first member of the British Royal family set foot on Irish soil since the foundation of the Irish Free State. |
Tony Snowden and Prince Charles 1969.
Princess Margaret Lord Snowdon And The Countess Of Rosse Leaving Birr Castle For A Drive In The West Of Ireland
“The Kincora Scandal; political cover-up and intrigue in Ulster”;
Chris describes the homosexual activities of McGrath, Mains and Semple but there was much more to the Kincora saga than just a group of homosexuals abusing teenage boys.
Was there a Satanic connection to the Kincora Scandal?
It should be noted , Birr Castle is the home of the 7th Earl of Rosse, who is Lord Snowden’s stepbrother.(Lord Snowden is Princess Margaret’s estranged husband) The castle was built in the 1600’s and the 1st Earl of Rosse, Richard Parsons was one of the founder members of Irelands aristocratic Satanic cult, The Hellfire Club. Many of my cult sources inform me that Devilworship is hereditary ; handed down through the generations.
Jack Parsons and the Fall Of Babalon
The names McGrath , Semple and Mains are widely known but it has become obvious that there are other names of powerful and well-known people who have connections with the Kincora saga and whose identities the so-called authorities have tried to keep secret since the scandal broke . One such person who has been reported to have visited Kincora is Ted Heath , the former Conservative MP and British PM.
Ref: IMF- Ted Heath visits Kincora
The Lord Louis Mountbatten – In the book “:War of the Windsors” by Lynn Picjnett, Clive Prince and Stephen Prior –
– claims Mountbatten was involved in the Kincora child abuse scandal
Andrew Lownie’s recently published book, “The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves” provides details that Dickie Mountbatten had “allegedly been a serial offender when it came to child sexual abuse.”
“Rocket Boys” Frank Malina (center), and Ed Forman (to Malina’s right), and Jack Parsons (far right) with two colleagues in 1936.
Jack Parsons was born in Los Angeles on Oct. 2, 1914, Parsons began his first experiments in his own backyard, where he would build gunpowder-based rockets.
Although he had only received a high-school education, Parsons and his childhood friend, Ed Forman, decided to approach Frank Malina, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, and form a small group devoted to the study of rockets that self-deprecatingly referred to themselves as the “Suicide Squad,” given the dangerous nature of their work.
By the dawn of the 1940s, Malina approached the National Academy of Sciences for funding to study “jet propulsion” and suddenly rocket science was not just outlandish science fiction.
In 1943, the former Suicide Squad (who were now known as the Aerojet Engineering Corporation) saw their work legitimized as they played a crucial role in the founding of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the research center that’s sent crafts to the farthest possible reaches of space.
However, although more government involvement led to greater success and opportunities for Jack Parsons, it would also mean closer observation into his personal life, which contained some shocking secrets.
Jack Parsons, Infamous Occultist
At the same time that Jack Parsons was pioneering scientific developments that would eventually help put men on the moon, he was also engaging in activities that would have newspapers referring to him as a madman. While developing rocket science itself, Parsons had been attending meetings of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), led by notorious British occultist Aleister Crowley.
Popularly known as “the wickedest man in the world,” Crowley encouraged his acolytes to follow his one commandment: “Do What Thou Wilt.” Although many of the OTO’s creeds were based more around fulfilling individual desires (particularly sexual ones) than, for example, communing with the devil, Parsons and other members did partake in some strange rituals, including eating cakes made of menstrual blood.
And Parsons’ interest in the occult did not wane as his career progressed — quite the contrary. He was appointed the West Coast leader of the OTO in the early 1940s and corresponded directly with Crowley.
He even used the money from his rocketry business to buy a mansion in Pasadena, a den of hedonism that allowed him to explore sexual adventures like bedding his wife’s 17-year-old sister and holding cult-like orgies.
Frank Malina’s wife said that the mansion was “like walking into a Fellini movie. Women were walking around in diaphanous togas and weird make-up, some dressed up like animals, like a costume party.” Malina shrugged off his partner’s eccentricities, telling his wife, “Jack is into all kinds of things.”
The U.S. government, however, was not able to so easily dismiss Parsons’ nocturnal activities. The FBI began to surveil Parsons more closely and suddenly the quirks and behaviors that had always marked his life became a liability to national security. In 1943, he was paid off for his shares in Aerojet and essentially expelled from the field that he had helped develop.
L. Ron Hubbard in 1950
Without work, Jack Parsons buried himself ever deeper in the occult. Then things took a turn for the worse when the former scientist became acquainted with the science-fiction writer and soon-to-be Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Hubbard encouraged Parsons to attempt to summon an actual goddess to Earth in an outlandish ritual that involved “ritual chanting, drawing occult symbols in the air with swords, dripping animal blood on runes, and masturbating in order to ‘impregnate’ magical tablets.”
Then, during the onset of the Red Scare in the late 1940s, Parsons once again came under scrutiny from the U.S. government due to his involvement with the “sexual perversion” of the OTO. The fact that he’d sought (and sometimes carried out) work with foreign governments because the U.S. government had shut him out also helped make authorities suspicious of him.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-parsons
In this perspective, the temptresses Kristen Kruek (Lana Lane) and Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan) take on a darker role in the seducation of the Judeo-Protestant youth Clark Kent. More than 1,600 residents of Vancouver participated in NXIVM seminars, a talent pool from which dozens of women were selected to join the cult’s inner circle. It turns out that Vancouver has been a vortex for self-help groups that spun off from Scientology, teaching similar rationalistic approaches to overcoming negative emotional impediments to personal fulfillment. Raniere’s doctrine of rational inquiry is likewise nothing original but a blatant copyright violation of Ron Hubbard methology.
Burnaby-Vancouver-Victoria apparently holds the key to the mystery behind the demise of NXIVM, not for its copycat Scientology method but for Raniere’s dabbling in occult practices, as shown in his patented “Luciferian Detector”, a means to identify potential sex slaves. The cold clinical device would be considered an affront to the lesbian wiccans of the “Satanic Capital of the World”, the city of Victoria just across the Georgia Strait from the docks of Vancouver. The “Executive Success” promised by NXIVM, however, was effective as a lure, since the objective of most Satanists is to get rich, and some 1,600 locals pay huge fees for EST training
Satan’s Throne
The Luciferian roots in the Pacific Northwest (also called Southwestern Canada)goes back to Royal Navy Captain Charles Wilkes, a sadistic imperialist and top degree holder in a darkside British Masonic Lodge who inspired the character Captain Ahab in Melville’s Moby Dick.
The legacy then is of a secretive and highly structured heirarchy of Satanists among Anglo-American-Jewish elitists.
He lived at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, between 1959 and 1967 … He was the East Grinstead Road Safety Committee organiser, an East Grinstead Parade Marshal and he sponsored children’s cycling competitions.
He was Vice President of the East Grinstead Horticultural Society and carried out revolutionary horticultural experiments at Saint Hill. He was also involved with and contributed to numerous community events and local organizations such as the St Johns Ambulance brigade and the Adeline Genee Theatre to which he was an original donor.
www.egnet.co.uk/halloffame/hubbard.htm
Hubbard’s intelligence connections
Hubbard’s 1947 End is Not Yet serial that was published in Astounding! Science Fiction, discussed the formation of a group called Allied Scientists of The World.
Cleverly fictionalized push for a one world government.
The timing of that was no accident.
In yet another historical connection to the OSS/CIA British empire-building agenda, there was the activities of fellow OSS intelligence agent Cord Meyer, who had just come off mission of infiltrating The American Veterans Committee.(AVC).
Timothy Leary, who would go on to be part of several MKULTRA projects (including getting the Brotherhood of Eternal Love going), was initially recruited by CIA agent Cord Meyer around 1947-48, when Leary and Meyer were being intelligence agents undercover as members of the branded “communist” group The American Veterans Committee.(AVC).
That was Meyer and Leary’s British anglophile work-in-action.
Cord was now moving on to his next intelligence operation – as was Leary. Allen Dulles, now head of the CIA, had approached Cord Meyer. It is a matter of record that he then became a “principal operative” of Operation Mockingbird, a covert operation meant to sway American print and broadcast media toward “the CIA line” – which if you understand the back history of America’s intelligence organizations, you know that means BRITISH interests.
From The Cord Meyers Papers at The Library of Congress –
A participant in the founding of the United Nations and an advocate of one-world government, Meyer spent almost three decades (1951-1977) with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), becoming one of its highest-ranking officers. His papers, however, bear little reference to his CIA career except in clippings from published sources. They relate more fully to his activities on behalf of one-world government after World War II and document in great detail many facets of his personal and family life.
This timeline details United States government development of parapsychology for military intelligence purposes, leading to a secret CIA-initiated program that became commonly known as “remote viewing.” The timeline reaches to the beginnings of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mind research and experimentation in the late 1940s, and includes parallel information on similar research being carried out simultaneously in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Because of a secret contract between the CIA and highly trained Scientologists at the inception of the CIA-initiated remote viewing program, events related to Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard that led up to the unlikely marriage of CIA and Scientology are included.
Also included are key events involving CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies that are parallel to the evolution of remote viewing, and that are linked to its development in ways that are as inexplicable as they are inextricable. As a result, the remote viewing timeline necessarily is a partial timeline of events and people related to the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
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In the 1970’s there were spates of mysterious suicides up at the Manor and there are certainly people who believe that L. Ron was a devil of some sort: his son, to name but one. “My father did not worship Satan,” Ron Jr. warned. “He thought he was Satan. He was one with Satan. He had a direct pipeline of communication with him.”
I don’t know if L. Ron Hubbard was a Satanist. But it is true that that area to the south of East Grinstead (Forest Row, Birch Grove, Saint Hill) has always been regarded as some kind of locus for Devil worship.
And so it is apt that it was in Forest Row in the summer of 1983 that the man who the tabloids later dubbed “Satan’s Son From Birth” first surfaces in my story. Forest Row is a large village. In my day its main hostelry was the Chequers Inn Hotel on the main road.
As pub hopping young drinkers in the 1980’s, we rarely gave the place much custom. The Chequers seemed a gloomy, staid place. I remember looking in just once in the summer of 1983, to buy some matches whilst en route to a party in East Grinstead. I didn’t stay long; I thought The Chequers was full of balding old losers. But at the time, propping up the bar and bragging of his sexual prowess, was a chap who called himself Derry Mainwaring Knight.
unbound.co.uk/books/the-sussex-devils/updates/strange-sussex-by-the-sea
Wizards, Workings and Walk-Ins: Be My Baby(lon) (Hubbard/Jack Parsons/Crowley)
secretsun.blogspot.com/2015/06/wizards-workings-and-walk-ins-be-my.html#comment-form
Jack Kirby’s connection to a CIA operation to extract six diplomats from Iran during the famous hostage crisis of 1979
comicsalliance.com/jack-kirby-cia/
What went on in Rottingdean, East Sussex?
One of the weirdest historical confluences you can imagine took place in Pasadena, California, in the 1940s. There, a darkly handsome young man and chemistry autodidact named Jack Parsons had just made a bundle of money by inventing solid rocket fuel and selling it to the military. He was part of a group of explosion-obsessed researchers at CalTech who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where recently the Martian Rovers were made.
He was also a goddess-obsessed acolyte and generous financial supporter of the infamous Pagan leader, Aleister Crowley.Parsons used his defense contract money to convert an old mansion into a group house whose residents included other Pagans, artists, scientists, and writers. One of his boarders was a charismatic science fiction author named L. Ron Hubbard, who became Parsons’ greatest frenemy, participating in rituals of sex magic with the rocket scientist…
Parsons claimed to have summoned Satan when he was 13 years old, in the late 1920s. This experience, which the scientist described as terrifying, was the beginning of a lifelong interest in the occult — an interest that became a fiery passion when he discovered the work of Crowley.
io9.com/5978746/the-strangely-true-connection-between-scientology-the-jet-propulsion-lab-and-pagan-sorcery
The occult roots of NASA, the all seeing eye, and related information:
JPL — The occult roots of NASA
Jack Parsons, dedicated occultist and chemist of genius, was born in 1914 and died in 1952 in a mysterious explosion whose cause has never been fully explained. He was a tall handsome Californian, whose early work on highly volatile rocket-motor fuels was regarded highly enough for French scientists of a later generation to name a crater on the dark side of the moon after him. Parsons introduced into early American rocketry a range of exotic solid and liquid fuels whose later forms were eventually to help drive Apollo 11 to the Moon. He helped create the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL –sometimes referred to as “Jack Parson’s Laboratory”) in Pasadena, now a major industrial complex.
Before each test launch, he was in the habit of invoking Aleister Crowley’s Hymn to Pan, the wild horned god of fertility. Parsons was an active member of the California Agape Lodge of the sex magickal group Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), and in letters addressed The Great Beast (Crowley) as “Most Beloved Father”.
The Babalon Workings
In August 1945, on leave from his less than spectacular naval career, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was introduced to Parsons. Jack was impressed by Ron’s exuberance and energy and wrote in a letter to Crowley: “I deduced that he is in direct touch with some higher intelligence. He is the most Thelemic (Crowley’s branch of magic) person I have ever met and is in complete accord with our own principles”. Hubbard moved in …He was soon initiated into the secrets of the OTO and made Parsons’ magical partner.
Parsons had always been interested in occultism, but his path to notoriety really started in 1941, when he joined the California-based Agape lodge of Aleister Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis. Parsons threw himself into the Eastern-inspired mysticism and hormonally inspired sex magic of Thelema, the religion Crowley had either devised or channeled from beyond, depending on your point of view.
Parsons was an immediate success. He quickly took over the Agape lodge. Crowley and his associates spoke of him as a potential successor to the Great Beast himself.
One of Parsons’ best pals in the OTO was a young L. Ron Hubbard. They shared a zest for the work, as well as a mistress. One of their big projects was the notorious Babalon Working. The ritual was supposedly intended to create a new age of free love by shattering the confines of four-dimensional space time..
As for Babalon? Well, the jury is still out on the Apocalypse, but it’s worth noting that within two years of the Babalon workings, which began in 1946, the first Atomic Bomb was detonated….
Aleister Crowley was a mountain climber, homoerotic poet, ritual magician, heroin addict, sleazy womanizer, racist, German collaborator, British secret agent and pedophile.
Ordo Templi Orientis Crowley was approached by the Ordo Templi Orientis, which invited him to take on a leadership role.
The OTO claims to integrate “Freemasonic, Rosicrucian and Illuminist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries, the crusading Knights Templar of the middle ages and early Christian Gnosticism and the Pagan Mystery Schools.”
The leader of the OTO was a German named Theodor Reuss, a former Freemason and Illuminatus. He initiated Crowley into the sect in 1910 and in 1912 granted the Beast a charter to launch a British branch of the secret society. Crowley moved to the United States in 1914, at the onset of World War I, setting up shop in New York.
In New York, Crowley continued recruiting students and began rewriting the charters of the O.T.O. to better suit his beliefs. Starting from a base structure very similar to the Freemasons, Crowley added several significant elements to the OTO’s repertoire.
One of Crowley’s most-lasting (but entirely unintended) contributions to the world of religion came from one of the OTO’s American branches, led by self-proclaimed “Antichrist Superstar” Jack Parsons.
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Isn’t there a worrying pattern here? Both Prince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Charles with Bishop Peter Ball, supported their sexually abusive friends even after they had been convicted of crimes.
@szczuk
What was Prince Andrew doing at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York
pad in December 2010?
Epstein was on the sex offenders register by then.
Andrew must have known that, surely?
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Prince Andrew pictured inside paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion two years after he was convicted of sex crimes
18 Aug, 2019
“The Prince looked entirely at ease in Epstein’s house,” a source told The Mail on Sunday.
“There were girls coming and going. One, who came out of the house with Epstein about an hour before Prince Andrew said goodbye to the brunette, was tiny and shivering.
“It was a particularly cold New York December day. What I remember most is the constant procession of girls and women going to and from the house.
“It was chilling to see. Everyone knew by that point that Epstein was a convicted paedophile, yet he was flaunting his lifestyle in plain sight.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12259629
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/kerry-kennedy-acquitted-drugged-driving-sleeping-pill
Blind solved:
MARIA: Ghislaine Maxwell
MONSTER: Jeffrey Epstein
MARIA’S DAD: Robert Maxwell
COUNTRY: Venezuela
DICTATOR: Hugo Chavez
A-LISTER: Sean Penn
RUSSIAN: Semion Mogilevich
PRINCESS: Kerri Kennedy
PRINCESS HUBBY: Andrew Cuomo
LAWYERS: Alan Dershowitz & Gerald Lefcourt
Kerri Kennedy with ex-husband Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo
(NOTE: The FULL STORY, all 3 parts. Everything in this story is “alleged”, and based on our own sources. Things we have been told are fact. However, we cannot verify the 100% accuracy of these and some of them were translated to us through both Russian and Spanish interpreters, which leaves room for error. However, we believe it and leave it to you to make up your own minds. Thank you for all of your comments; passion for justice; and kind words).
She has already spent over a week trying to arrange the meeting, but was having a very hard time. Now? She is frantic. Apparently she was drawing more attention than even she could have anticipated. Because with everything going on, she never imagined that even Russian oligarchs would find her “too hot to handle”. After all, their relationships went back decades. Billions of dollars changing hands, and secrets that could change history of more than one nation.
“She” is a woman we will refer to as “MARI”. The best way to describe Mari is as a middle-aged foreign-born woman raised in a life of privilege, wealth, global luxury — and a legacy of criminal immorality that warps the mind just to fathom it all. Her own father had been a scandalous man in every way that would be the center of a million stories of his own. The things she witnessed and even suffered growing up would be enough to drive anyone insane.
Unfortunately, she decided to carry that torch herself. She has perpetuated that hell on her own.
She became the partner, co-conspirator, and confidant of a man who has grown to be one of the most disgusting, perverted, rapist animals of our current era. (We’ll just call him MONSTER). His crimes and reach have been well documented for many years. And through it all, Mari has been right there. In fact Mari has been of equal responsibility in that monster’s crimes. She has been his procurer, his partner, and when the mood hit her — even a willing participant. She is no victim.
But most of all, Mari has been in charge of the cover ups, lawsuits, and protection of both Monster and herself. Most of all, Mari has found herself trying to use the information (the proof) she has, as a bargaining chip to save herself, even against the most powerful people in the world.
When many questioned how the Monster was able to facilitate relations with so many powerful people, they rarely saw Mari in the shadows. It was usually her “hands” at work, using contacts and relations of her family. Her dad’s old business friends (and enemies) and many of his government friends — they all knew her charming social style. They also knew of her bent to the wild side, and her “anything goes” attitude; along with the discretion it required.
Many people had forgotten (or maybe didn’t know) of Mari’s family and their relations with foreign leaders. Especially third-world dictators. Mari was actually the missing link in a bizarre nexus of people who otherwise may never cross paths. From Hollywood celebrities, to global corrupt military leaders, to technology businessmen — Mari knew so many of them. Her father had paved the way, so it was easy for her to follow.
This is why, when the sexually criminal actions of Mari and Monster, began to be a “thing” among the rich and powerful — they needed more privacy. So it was Mari who found a very secluded island for their activities. This place and its many crimes have been documented many times (including by our pals at CDAN and in the mainstream press). But what is not as well known is this other foreign locale; nearly a country almost to themselves.
It was within a country ruled by a nearly-insane dictator, under the guise of Socialism. That dictator has now died, but his protégé has carried on. This nation was also ground zero for a constant flow of vulnerable victims from dirt-poor families that could be easily “erased” if the need be. Best of all for their plans — it was within close jet distance from their private island; and in the same hemisphere as the USA.
No need to make refuel stops, so less paper trails. It provided no shortage of cover stories, including “humanitarian work” and “environmental work”. All within an easily-bribed corrupt government happy to provide protection. Funny thing, that for a socialist country? They sure enjoyed the millions they got paid, under the table, to protect the criminals.
The criminals were Monster, Mari, and their guests.
This included not just the billionaires and politicians and celebs, but the top leaders of this country. It is very easy to connect the dots between this country; a legendary political family from America; and a super-tough lawyer (or two) who are the weak links in the cover up for Mari and the Monster’s actions. It was part of the lawyers’ spin plans back when the Monster was first accused. Little did they know that many years later, those same news quotes and even Youtube videos, would rear their heads to point the way to lead people to connect the dots. So obvious is it, that Mari has contacted the lawyers and told them to warn the political family of their exposure. But those same lawyers aren’t happy to take her calls now either.
Nor is the Hollywood A-Lister with a history of friendship with banana-Republic rulers. That A-Lister was a guest of Mari, as a tag-along with a member of that political family. The A-Lister, for all of his own nasty history, enjoyed the party favors at the foreign hideaway; but he drew the line at partaking in sexual activities. (Which says a lot with that guy’s history).
In fact, the A-Lister (who is either an actor or director, or maybe even both), was disgusted by what he was offered by his hosts; and the few things he saw himself. So he partook of partying/drugs, but not the underage sex crimes. According to the A-Lister, he is very scared about the people he did see there and what it could mean if it all came out. Not just as a witness for legal reasons, but scared for his life. Not his career — as this is a guy who revels in controversy. He is literally afraid for his own life. Maybe he should’ve been more scared…not for himself but for those poor victims…back when he was partying on site with them all.
So now we come in back where we began.
The Monster is dead, and regardless of how, who, and whatever — he is actually dead. Cheating justice for all the victims. But there are many, many, many loose ends left out “there”. After this untimely, yet very predictable, demise of her Monster crony; Mari is now frantically trying to secure a meeting with a Russian oligarch she knows well. A man who has spent millions and many years trying to whitewash his reputation and hide his own past. Trying to keep himself far away from scandal and appear as just another billionaire global businessman. The last thing this guy probably wants is to be affiliated with Mari, or mentioned in the same story. But he has no choice really.
Mari has proof of many of his old dealings, going back all the way to her own father’s era. Her father (a monster himself), had helped the oligarch in the late 80’s-early 90’s. Her father who was murdered, despite findings of “suicide”. Her same father whose murder was alleged to be ordered by Russian oligarchs for his waste of tens of millions of their money he was supposed to be laundering. In fact, this Russian oligarch and Mari have many similar friends — in politics; Hollywood; and in sitting government positions today.
The Russian also knows that Mari is clever enough to be sure that if she meets an untimely demise? Much of that proof will certainly be made public. That would be a disaster for the Russian, and many of the most powerful people in politics (both sides of the aisle); global business, and entertainment/media. None of them want that.
Some have speculated that Mari’s father never actually died, by suicide nor by murder — and that some of his former associates in foreign government security services had helped arrange his disappearance. It is with that in mind that Mari has contacted this Russian lately. According to the Russian oligarch, there is no way she can make it out of her current situation in one piece. The best she can hope for is to arrange a “suicide” or “murder” of her own that will allow her to slip off the map undetected. She still has tens of millions of Monster’s money along with her own to help her vanish.
Because if she can’t do it? Many others will make sure she does die, for real.
Those who can be brought down by what Mari can reveal — they want time to stop her fail-safe backup leaks, BEFORE they leak (in case of her demise). Meanwhile, Mari must certainly want to rapidly wrap up her future plans before she’s locked up and cannot. According to the Russian oligarch, he’s avoided this as long as possible. He has to decide what to do. So he has reached out to London and Washington to help him decide.
But even he is afraid of the answer.
Besides “Mari”, there is another lady, whom we will call “Princess”, because she’d be raised to be one all of her life. Since her birth in America, she had always been the living epitome of privilege, advantage, and every benefit that comes from being a white, wealthy, powerful, entitled member of an elite family in America. Of course to the outside world she lived by the code of PR spin and image control that ruled her family for generations. Her “Noblisse Oblige” was a trait they all shared — as they gave so much of their time, money, and energy to help the poor little unfortunate people of the world (in their minds anyway).
Princess was a vision of entitlement in all its glory.
Like her many in her family, Princess had a brush or two with the law. Not as bad as many in her family — with drugs, alcohol, obstructing justice, manslaughter, rapes, and even outright murder. Her family set the bar for thinking they were above the law. After all, they made the laws.
Princess took her elite life even one step higher by marrying into another political family. This was supposed to create an unstoppable political dynasty, but it just didn’t work out. Yet — what did work out — was this couple’s social and political connections. Their life of deals, friends, and gatherings.
Whether it was for fundraising; political causes; charity; environmental work; or just vacations. Princess and her hubby were very active on the same scene as so many others in their class and level. Pictures and mentions in the New York Social pages. Features in The Hamptons magazine. Small features in Vanity Fair — they ran with the crowd and were part of that scene.
Thus it is no surprise that when Princess found herself in a legal jam, she would turn to a lawyer referred to her by others in their “scene”. Probably any attorney in the US would’ve taken her case pro bono — just for the marquee value of getting a client off with that kind of pedigree. But Princess also needed an attorney who could be a “fixer” too, and handle PR spin and strategy. After all, image was everything to her.
The lawyer Princess turned to was a skilled attack dog. He knew all the ins and outs of white collar criminal defense; and had a rep of repping some big names. He was a heavy hitter. Best of all, he had relations with all the tabloid media and the mainstream media (national and in city markets).
He also had political connections at state and local levels, and knew that being a member of “the club” always allowed back room deals to be worked out. After all, Princess and her type were not “regular people”. So (they thought) they deserved “special” justice, unencumbered by the burdens of things like pesky rules, laws, and details.
Princess was only being charged with a small crime, by comparison to even those of her relatives, and any John Doe anywhere in America could expect a first offender consideration. A DUI was practically a birthright in her family. And yes, okay — maybe there was a tiny accident. But gee whiz, nobody was hurt!
Her “victim” would probably be happy with a private settlement and her getting a warning anyway. Those cops are so, so “mean” anyway. Why did they have to pick on her? She told others it was certainly due to her name. Or political enemies. Those police could’ve just let her go, like so many other cops had done before. But these wouldn’t. They had the nerve…the NERVE! To charge her.
She fucked up by taking her PR guru’s advice and issued a statement. She admitted her sins, but said the cops had it wrong. She wasn’t drunk or high, just had taken a sleeping pill and forgot about it. EVERYBODY does THAT, she said. But not everybody hits a truck. And not everybody argues with cops and does the “do you know who I am” routine. She did. So her first statements to the press were just mea culpa; admitting she was wrong, and trying to downplay severity, while saying she learned her lesson.
Her hot shot attorney did NOT like that. He told her the first rule of entitled elites when charged with crimes: “deny-deny-deny”. It’s up to the prosecutors to prove it. So in court, she recanted. Her lawyer brought in his own PR team and went to work greasing palms of reporters and editors. Calling in favors. This lawyer even “backgrounded” the cops who arrested her. His investigators went dumpster-diving through the cops’ home trash. They also did it to the VICTIM too.
The lawyer was building a case against the victim, trying to paint him out as being an opportunist who (magically) must have known who that woman was! Maybe HE was drinking? Did he have a history of drugs? He was a truck driver, so he certainly had a bad record of tickets! The lawyer was sure he could warp them into some type of enemy; paint them as prejudiced; and turn the tables to put THEM on trial if need be. He would make the cops and the victim the real enemy here. After all, this lawyer had done it plenty of times before.
Suddenly, Princess was issuing new media statements claiming she did nothing wrong. She could hardly remember the details, but knew she was innocent. Those evil cops and even the evil man she ran into — THEY were in the wrong (she said)!
All the while, the Princess spun her PR team into full action mode to highlight all of her good deeds and underscore her importance to society. Even dragging up the tragedy that befell her family. And as sure as you’re born — the tabloids and media never bothered to press the facts or question anything. Total kneepads time. The lawyer was earning his money.
When the day came, the Princess was let go with a slap on the wrist. No, a wrist slap would’ve been worse. She got off with a touch of the hand and a strongly-worded letter. The lawyer basked in his glory, and Princess (and her family) made sure he was the fair-haired lawyer for all their pals and relatives anytime they needed one. The lawyer was set.
You may ask why all this matters? What does any of this have to do with the Monster, or “Mari” (his female partner in crime), or any of that? Because of where it leads and what it shows to us, years before Monster’s and Mari’s crimes came to light. It also points us to the bread crumbs that a blind man could follow down this trail of broken lives, debauchery, and disgusting perversions that are only now exploding into daylight.
If you recall “Mari” — the foreign-born partner of Monster, you know that she is scared for her life. She has now turned to a Russian oligarch (and former associate of her father) to help her “disappear”. She’s scared of the law coming for her; she’s scared of her former party guests sending someone to kill her; she’s scared of multiple governments who could kill her; and she’s even (NOW) scared of the victims (and their lawyers) whose lives she so gleefully destroyed. Mari is no victim, and deserves zero empathy.
Mari has evidence. Proof. Receipts. She has hard proof of many of the political, wealthy, and powerful “friends” whom she and Monster brought to their island playground for many years. Most of all she has proof of what went on at their other home in a Latin American country.
A country whose ruling dictator (and his protégé) happily took bribes to look the other way as drugs, rapes, and crimes went on — many involving young, poor, local boys and girls. None of whom had a voice to fight back or stand up. When “wranglers” would round up these boys and girls for things like “casting parties”, “pageants”, or just part-time jobs — the parents (if any existed) and social services officials were paid off. They were told it was “just a little part time work so take the ridiculous amounts of cash, and shut up”.
If they didn’t? Well…they had already heard stories of “THAT place”.
But a strange thing began to happen that upset the parties at the foreign compound/estate. First, their pal — the dictator — passed away. Followed by much upheaval in the country. It would be a while until the protégé dictator came in to settle things down (somewhat). Then, some reporters and investigators began asking questions. Nothing specific, just noticing things — and people, visiting. The cover stories of humanitarian work and environmental work were very thin. But bribes helped them cover up a lot. And when nosy people began “disappearing” there? That helped them too.
So around the time the Monster began facing legal trouble in America, his foreign place was locked down. It would be quite a while until Mari could return without attention.
When she did, however, she noticed that the security guards had abandoned the estate. It was unprotected, and had been broken into. Worse for her, she soon discovered a LOT of missing items. Not just valuables, but an ENTIRE SAFE. Removed from a permanent location built into the house. Someone had removed the entire unit. In it were things that Monster and Mari had counted on for protection, blackmail, or to help preserve themselves if they ever got pinched. Mari could not even tell Monster for a long while. But she knew it could spell the end for them, and many others.
As for who took it? Nobody knows for sure. Some think the protégé dictator did. Others think some American political people had it done. OR maybe just a very nervous billionaire or even an actor. Anyone could’ve hired a team to snatch it away.
Monster faced a massive nightmare when he was caught in legal charges from his crimes many years ago. So he had Mari turn to find the best legal team to protect them and make a mess of the entire case. It would not be enough to win, they had to win and be cleared. So Mari went to a lady she knew from her social circle of pals, who had that powerful political hubby. Mari turned to Princess for legal advice. After all, this was “obviously” a set up to damage Monster and his pals (so Mari said).
Princess recommended her lawyer from her DUI scrape. Because not only did he specialize in victory, he would make sure the accusers and law went down in flames. The lawyer? Thought it was a slam dunk. It was such a political hot potato (with Monster’s many pals) that it would be easy to paint it with that brush. Monster didn’t give a shit about any political party or affiliation. He gave loads of money and recruited friends from both parties. Just like in business. And now was the time to make such a foggy mess that it would color the entire case against Monster.
The lawyer did just that. He set up the local/state officials investigating Monster, and made it to where their political careers were the center of the case. He pitted them against each other — the police Chief vs. the State’s Attorney. And they took the bait by using it as a political hammer to bash each other. When the case was kicked up to the federal level? The lawyer did the same thing. Because federal prosecutors are appointed by elected officials. So are federal judges. And the lawyer knew how to play them all.
Worst of all, the lawyer knew the best strategy was to put the victims on trial. Accuse the accusers. Background and investigate the witnesses. Embarrass, defame, and destroy the lives of the victims — and they’ll be impeached in court. Whip the media in line to back it all up and march to the lawyer’s tune.
Just like the lawyer had done for Princess in her little case years before. But now? The stakes were huge.
Not only did the lawyer direct the legal case and the PR machine — he even recommended bringing in Monster’s personal friend. A guy who had been a longtime lawyer and pal of Monster and Mari for years. He too had been a guest of Monster & Mari many times. He had a stellar reputation as a defender of justice. His PR profile was huge and righteous. Nobody would ever think he’d be on the wrong side of the angels, or the law. So Monster and Mari together brought in the lawyer and the legal friend together to run this case from top down. And they wouldn’t be disappointed, at least in the short term.
Meanwhile, many miles away from the safety of their Florida enclave — some very “important” people were getting very nervous about the attention brought to Monster and his legal woes. They were paying very close attention. Because if Monster or Mari “talked” or tried to cut a deal to save themselves? It would have unfathomable ripple effects.
So while Monster was being charged in the USA for crimes…there was a meeting in England. Where several people were talking quietly to each other. And watching how this case played out. They had a lot to lose.
They weren’t the types of people to ever lose.
The man on the phone wants nothing to do with any of this. It is rare that a Russian oligarch should be (relatively) innocent (in this case), ofANYTHING. But the fact stands that this guy actually is innocent of having anything to do with any of the crimes and goings-on with Mari, Monster, or any of them. Oddly enough, though guilty of many things himself — he’s never been accused of even being involved in prostitution. After all, as he says, “This is Russia. If I wanted underage kids? I wouldn’t have to go play over there to do it. I’m a family man with kids of my own. That stuff is disgusting to me.”
But many of the visitors and participants in Monster & Mari’s crimes weren’t there just for the perverted abuses. Some came to “party” (drugs); while others came to hob-nob with the other wealthy and powerful elite. Imagine it as a twisted sort of Rotary Club or Ladies’ Garden Club for ultra-rich elites. Many deals were made there and many partnerships formed.
But the common bonds were always Monster and Mari.
Mari is the one dragging the Russian into this. She’s turned to him mainly because of his vast network of “underground” contacts. Also, she knows of his old business deals with her own father — and feels she can trust him. Those were old illegal deals involving hundreds of millions of dollars and money laundering. Mari has never asked the Russian if he had a hand in her dad’s demise — or if her Dad really did die. She’s more interested in saving herself. The first thing she asked for was to set her up with a trusted (and very competent) plastic surgeon. The Russian knew what this meant, and knew what she has in mind.
If it was just Mari asking, he could avoid her. But it isn’t. Another series of contacts began to bug the oligarch a few months ago. These weren’t as easy to ignore or stall. Because these contacts came from a very special intermediary. The kind you simply don’t refuse. This middle-man reaching out to the Russian was a representative of the ruling family of a nation. They can be very persuasive.
The ruling family has a big, big problem. They’ve had more than their share in the past — but this one could be far worse. Not just a scandal that exposes a sex offender in the family. But it could lead to exposing a chain of events and contacts that they’d give up half their kingdom to protect. It’s not some shadowy conspiracy with international banking houses or cartels or insane theories. No, it’s quite black and white and very real. It could lead to exposure of the family’s (and the government’s) very “special” relationship with another country.
That other country has a legendary intelligence/security service. Since that country has been at war virtually non-stop for all it’s existence? It has honed intelligence craft to a perfect art. That intelligence service and this family are tied together far deeper and stronger than anyone will ever publicly admit. Sure, they’re public allies. But by exposing the true depth of the kinship would open up a Pandora’s Box and put many past incidents, accidents, and outright murders under a microscope that nobody wants. It’s a chain reaction that can never be brought to light in modern media.
Mari’s own father was part of the extended family of that country’s intelligence service; and his own country’s. It was a relationship used to great effect for many years, and many times. It was one of the reasons her father was able to avoid being ruined and imprisoned many times. Thus, as a result — her father also was close to the ruling family. But Mari was much, much closer in a “biblical” way.
She had sexual relations with a very important man in that family. He’s not as important as his brother but very important. We’ll call him the “SIDE RULER”. His past indiscretions in sex and business have been hard for the family to cover up. He publicly dated porn stars, and gleefully procured prostitutes -even while married. As such, he’s been a nightmare for his country’s security services. The ruling family has had many occasions to lock down the media and cover up various offenses of their family members. But this time would not be so easy; since it didn’t even occur on their home turf.
When the “Side Ruler” began to party with Mari and Monster, it wasn’t only the sex — but the business deals. Ruler has always tried to hustle a buck, and to party with all these billionaires was irresistible. So while sexually abusing teen girls, he was also putting together very rewarding business deals. All structured through proxies and shell companies. For the other elites, it was a grand chance to hob-nob with a member of the ruling family. Though he was “cash poor” his family still held massive holdings and massive influence around the world.
Mari had been having trysts with him for years. She and Ruler were known to party with others, male and female and it never drew much attention until Mari and Monster’s actions began to draw heat. In the words of one member of the ruling family who knows all about it — the act of trying to erase the Ruler’s links to Mari & Monster: “is like trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube.”
So a member of the Ruler’s security services was appointed to try and bury or handle the entire situation for Side Ruler. This guy — this go-between/middle man — knew instantly that Mari was the weak link. She had much to lose, and could be compromised. So they focused on her, and getting her in line. While doing surveillance on her, they discovered Mari’s reaching out to the Russian oligarch.
The Russian was friends with the ruling family too, for other reasons. Mostly diplomatic or to secure his visas and finances in that country. He “donated” nearly a billion dollars of his fortune to various fronts that always swung back to the ruling family. So when the middle man contacted the Russian for a “favor”, he knew that he could be in deep shit; out in the cold; if he were to not oblige.
Since he’s on very thin ice with other Western nations already? He said he’d do what he can to help the family. So he’s allowed the intelligence service to hear every word he and Mari discuss. No matter how painful it can be for him — he knows the ruling family will protect him, and re-pay the favor. At least he hopes they will and will keep him out of Mari’s shit-storm. The last thing he needs is legal system attention.
Back when Monster and Mari first began to come under the spotlight for their crimes, they turned to a “dream team” of the best attorneys they could find. This was lead by a lawyer (Lawyer 2 mentioned previously) who had done more than just be friends with Monster and Mari — he was a participant. This guy had repped Monster, who was his pal, for years. His image and legal community standing was beyond reproach and as a fighter for justice.
Mari had another friend (also mentioned earlier) who was an elite, wealthy, powerful lady we called “Princess”. Her family was political royalty and not just powerful but maybe the most powerful in the halls of lawmaking and justice. Princess had a carefully crafted image of good deeds and noble causes she gave herself to. As did her then-husband, another political legacy himself. So Princess knew how the game was played, and how the wheels were greased.
Princess found herself in trouble a few years back. When she did — she turned to a bulldog attorney who fixed not just her legal problems, but her spin control. His main strategy was to attack the victims and undermine the cops and prosecutors. In fact this wasn’t the first time Princess had to rely on that (or any) legal bulldog to get her out of trouble.
A couple of years before her public arrest for DUI, the Princess had another accident. That one was a single-car accident with no victim and it all “went away” before any charges were filed. Why? Her attorney in that case was a trusted legal scholar who knew the local prosecutor in the area of the wreck. A few calls, a few laughs, and it was gone. No victim, no harm, no foul. That legal scholar is the same one we call “Lawyer 2”.
Several years before THAT wreck, however, Princess got herself in an even earlier jam. (Her first of the three we’ve mentioned — you’d think she would’ve learned). She had another wreck, while she was very intoxicated. She was married at that time, and her hubby’s name carried as much weight as her own in their home state. But Princess had rear-ended a car while wasted.
The car she hit belonged to a teenager who was poor and had a record of arrests. That was the FIRST TIME the Princess found out about the legal bulldog. He was called in by her (and her hubby’s) friend — the legal scholar (aka Lawyer 2). The bulldog attorney attacked and threatened the poor teenage kid into submission. By the time they were done with the kid and the kid’s family? They merely accepted an agreement to cover the repairs to the kid’s car. There was never even a police report or any trace of it in the legal system. Both the bulldog and the legal scholar made sure.
So when Princess ended up in two more jams (her next DUI wreck; then her more public DUI wreck) she naturally turned to her attack dog lawyer, assisted by the legal scholar lawyer. And so it was that when Mari asked her politically-connected, powerful friend, Princess, for ideas on how she and Monster could save their asses? Naturally Princess referred the same attorneys.
Their track records of “attacking the victim” and using investigators to “background” the accusers, detectives, and prosecutors was legendary. Those that could not be bought off, or who were not friends willing to trade favors — were threatened, attacked, or scared off. Both of these lawyers would create such chaos; cross-suits; and then spin so much politically-motivated bullshit that it would cloud the entire civil and criminal landscape around Monster and Mari.
This was what made these attorneys so feared.
They even got the District Attorney in the jurisdiction in New York to go to bat for Monster to make his punishment EASIER. So brazenly, that even the judge hearing the case admonished the A.D.A. for arguing FOR the Monster! (The very man the ADA was supposed to be prosecuting). But oddly enough, nobody seems to be looking into the political ties of that D.A. to Monster and Mari either. Maybe someday, somebody will. (Follow the money as they say).
Meanwhile, out in Hollywood, a certain A-Lister is leaving for a long vacation. He’s the same A-Lister who found himself a guest at one of Monster and Mari’s parties in that foreign country. It figures since he was friends with the dictator of that country. But the A-Lister (who is either a director or actor or even maybe a little of both), never took part in the sexual abuse. He was more interested in the drugs and networking. He also was interested in his habit of documenting his travels.
The A-lister had, in fact, quite a collection of his home videos. Some of these are historical and others are very private. He always planned to keep them “sealed” until after his death, then have a filmmaker assemble them once unsealed. Back when he visited the estate to party with Mari and Monster, he took his small camera and recorded the festivities. Until it was suggested to him that he stop immediately. But he had already recorded many of the elite, famous, and powerful guests and some of their partying.
What he recorded was not so much anything of a criminal nature, but was actual proof of people who were there — and who they were with. It is proof that contradicts statements of VERY powerful people who deny being at Monster & Mari’s “parties” (or only knowing them briefly years ago). It would be enough to support many of the charges by showing visual proof of who was with who.
In short, it may not be a smoking gun, but it’s a helluva loaded one.
The A-Lister knew he had the video, and tore his home and office apart trying to find it. Only then did he realize it was gone. That was the only missing video he had ever “lost”. He was dumbstruck at the thought of it being misplaced, until he wondered if it could be connected to a burglary a few years ago at his home. A lot was ransacked, a few worthless items taken, and it was written off as delinquents.
Cops never found anyone who did it. No prints. But they ignored valuables, electronics, and other things. He wondered if this single video (from his immaculately-numbered and documented collection of videos), was taken. Perhaps it was the purpose of the entire burglary? It’s never taken much for the A-Lister to get paranoid anyway. But even paranoids have enemies.
This A-Lister is packing his bags, because he doesn’t want to find out who took it or why. He — just like Mari and others — just wants the entire memory gone. He says that only a few knew he was taping, and those who did were mostly too drunk or high to recall. But Mari surely knows. She’s the one who asked him to stop the recording at the party. So now the A-lister is going on vacation to avoid subpoenas, gossip, rumors…or worse. His career and life may not be at the heights it once was, but he still wants to live it and keep working too. “Hard to do that from a grave or a cell”, he says.
Everyone is now looking at Mari to see what will happen next.
If there was real justice, everything that Monster and Mari have or ever had would be sold off and liquidated and compensation given to the victims. At least 70 documented victims, and countless others never known to the outside world. Mari would spend the rest of her life in jail. But she would be forced to talk and tell everything about EVERYBODY. Then they would pay for their crimes accordingly. The victims would be given voices, and be believed.
But that won’t happen. They covers-ups have begun; the denials; and the attacks on the victims. The clouded landscape is providing so much smoke that the guilty could even slip away unnoticed. Yet, even if some justice happens, it would be a start.
But even now, people are running scared; cutting deals; destroying evidence; bribing officials; and threatening witnesses. Even now, plans are being made to silence some people forever. With all that is at stake in a truly global nightmare like this one? You can bet the full truth will not come out. Even after many of the powerful are dead — their legacies will be protected. The blame will ALL be put on those dead or dying soon.
Convenient for the living criminals — with no loose ends.
Mari can run, and she can even hide — but somebody, somewhere, sometime will catch up with her. Ironic that she may find an ending so similar to her own father. But I know this: that if the Russian is forced to help her in her escape plans? Others will know. Because he will not sit back and let her evade justice forever. Even that ruling family will take some type of action to tie up that loose end.
Since we don’t yet know what the Russian will do; and Mari hasn’t made her request besides “seeing the doctor”? Then we still don’t know how it all plays out. Even the authorities have yet to pounce. She may have surgery to alter her face/body and go on the lam. She may fake her own suicide or murder. She may actually kill herself or be killed by others. She may even be arrested and caught before she runs. Because if others know what she’s planning — better believe the cops/security services also know. Whether they act on it (or are allowed to act on it) may be a different story.
I know that many people believe in conspiracy theories; and still many more would not believe the truth — no matter how seemingly far-fetched — even with proof in front of them. Just remember that old saying: “Conspiracy isn’t a theory — it’s a crime”. Please keep in mind that a lot of the chaos around these cases and this nightmare has been created for just this exact purpose. The criminals know how fractured the US (and the world) is now politically and socially…and they use that to blind and distort the horrific truths.
These lawyers hired by Mari (and Monster earlier) create and push the narrative so people get distracted. They shift the blame to shadowy groups or titans of politics and wealth who are (rightly or wrongly) “evil personified”. This is what they want to happen, because it makes “small” the acts of the violators. Worst of all, it minimizes the damage done to those who suffered.
I hope -and respectfully ask- that you will please remember that no matter which side of what political debate you may be on — this is NOT a case about politics. It is a case about a series of CRIMES. The real core of this entire nightmare comes down to a large group of underage, young girls and boys who were lured and forced into being victims. Some manipulated; others damaged beyond repair. Innocence lost; and lives destroyed.
And all for what?
So some powerful, elite, rich, twisted jackasses could get their kicks?
So that some sick, twisted, greedy shit-heels could get leverage over others?
Nobody involved in the crimes of this nightmare is without some degree of guilt. All we can do is to hope that surely some degree of justice will come. Perhaps it will, for the guilty are still out there — still available to be held to account for their actions. The only true justice is that they be turned over to an impartial, unbiased justice system and forced to tell all. Otherwise, somebody, somewhere will hold them accountable for their crimes; their damages; their perversions of justice for this most disgusting “nasty business”.
Either in this life, or the next.
For the sake of the victims? Let’s hope it is soon.
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According to a close friend, Epstein is now the right-hand man of Leslie Wexner, the founder of the Limited Corporation, a giant retailing chain. Ghislaine’s New York friends are very supportive of her relationship with Epstein whom they see as a gentle father figure.
When she first arrived in February 1991, in the wake of her father’s triumphant entrance into Manhattan as the saviour of the New York Daily News, she had one important role – as Captain Bob’s ticket into New York society. She accompanied him to all the right parties and helped to woo the Kennedy clan. When Kerry Kennedy, Robert Kennedy’s daughter, was married Ghislaine was a guest.
Recently, she was seen warmly greeting John Kennedy Jnr, JFK’s only son, at a New York party. As they kissed on meeting their friendship was obvious.
INDEED, men have always been important to Ghislaine. Some have been mere accessories. Others like Epstein, Svengali figures who appear worldly, she has fallen in love with.
“Jeffrey is much more like her father,”said one friend.
Prince Andrew is pictured inside paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s £63million mansion of depravity nine years ago… so how did he miss signs of the billionaire’s sexual deviance?
- Duke was spotted peering around the door of the billionaire’s Manhattan home on December 6, 2010
- The footage of the Duke was taken less than an hour after Epstein left the house with a young blonde woman
- Epstein’s alleged ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts claims she had sex with the Prince at financier’s New York home
- Buckingham Palace has denied any wrongdoing on Duke’s part and the Queen has showed him her support
Standing by the towering 15ft-high solid oak front door, Prince Andrew gives a nod and a cheery wave to the pretty brunette as she leaves the £63 million Manhattan mansion.
He appears entirely at ease but then, for a split second, glances around the door as if to check that no one had witnessed the brief encounter.
As well he might.
For these exclusive pictures come from a never-before-seen video of the Duke of York staying at the New York home of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And some of the other images caught on camera make for disturbing viewing.
The footage of the Duke of York – then the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade – was taken less than an hour after Epstein, who had been convicted of sex with a child in 2008, left the house in the company of a young, shivering blonde woman.
The video was shot on December 6, 2010, during a visit by the Prince to Epstein’s nine-storey 21,000 square foot mansion dubbed the ‘House of Horrors’ by many of his young victims.
By then Epstein – who took his own life last weekend – was on a child sex offender register, yet one observer told The Mail on Sunday that several of the women leaving and entering the home while Andrew was apparently inside ‘looked very young indeed’.
The Duke has vehemently denied claims by Epstein’s alleged ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts that she had sex with the Prince on three occasions, the first when she was 17 and once at the US millionaire’s now-notorious 40-room mansion at 9 East 71st Street in Manhattan, the setting of these pictures.
Her allegations, submitted to a court in 2014, were later thrown out by a judge who ordered them to be struck from the record as ‘immaterial and impertinent’.
Since Epstein’s suicide last weekend as he faced further child sex trafficking charges, Buckingham Palace has repeated its denial of wrongdoing by the Prince.
‘Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue. It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts,’ it said.
same girl?
‘Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.’
The Queen also made a public show of support by allowing Prince Andrew to sit next to her as they were driven to a church service near Balmoral last Sunday.
However, these images are sure to raise fresh questions about the 59-year-old’s judgment as they place him inside the private, inner sanctum of Epstein, who continued to abuse young girls even after a controversial 2008 plea deal that saw him serve just 13 months, much of it on day release.
‘The Prince looked entirely at ease in Epstein’s house,’ a source told The Mail on Sunday last night.
‘There were girls coming and going. One, who came out of the house with Epstein about an hour before Prince Andrew said goodbye to the brunette, was tiny and shivering.
‘It was a particularly cold New York December day. What I remember most is the constant procession of girls and women going to and from the house.
‘It was chilling to see. Everyone knew by that point that Epstein was a convicted paedophile, yet he was flaunting his lifestyle in plain sight.
Back at the house, she shivers on the doorstep before the door opens and a woman resembling Epstein’s former PA Sarah Kellen emerges
‘When the Prince came to the door I was stunned. He looked totally at ease. He said a few words to the girl, who was very pretty, and then she walked off down the street in the direction of Central Park.
‘If I hadn’t known it was Prince Andrew, I would have thought he owned the place. He looked so comfortable and relaxed as he stood there at the door.
‘He didn’t appear to have a concern in the world as he smiled and waved goodbye to the girl.
‘It was only as the girl walked off that he glanced around the door frame, almost as if to check no one was watching.’
The video was taken less than 24 hours after the Prince was infamously photographed walking through Central Park with Epstein.
He had met the US businessman through Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell and a woman the FBI says is now of ‘renewed interest’ in its ongoing case into allegations made by scores of women that they were sexually abused by Epstein and his wealthy friends at homes in London, New Mexico, New York and the US Virgin Islands.
Ms Maxwell has repeatedly denied that she acted as a ‘madam’ for Epstein and has described Ms Roberts’s claims as ‘malicious lies’.
Epstein’s New York home was as weird and twisted as the man himself. The entry foyer where Prince Andrew stood to wave off the brunette was decorated, according to an account by writer Vicky Ward in Vanity Fair magazine, with ‘row upon row’ of individually framed artificial eyeballs – imported from England.
The video footage shows the initials ‘JE’ in raised brass letters on the wall next to the front door.
What is not seen is the heating element that Epstein had installed beneath the concrete pavement to melt the New York winter snow.
On a wall in the hall was a bizarre portrait of former US President Bill Clinton in red heels and the infamous stained blue dress worn by Monica Lewinsky when she performed a sex act on him.
Nearby hung a giant painting of Epstein inside a prison surrounded by barbed wire and gun-toting guards.
The disgraced financier reportedly said the artwork was ‘to remind me that I could go back to prison any time’.
As the brunette begins to walk away from the house, the Duke of York waves goodbye without stepping inside
As the light begins to fade, another brunette arrives at Epstein’s house – the latest in a procession of young, attractive women who visited the property that day
A chandelier had a ‘life-size female doll hanging from it, and one woman who claims to have been assaulted by Epstein said a bathroom had prosthetic breasts on the wall ‘so he could play with the nipples as he took a bath’.
Dozens of photographs of Epstein with his famous friends, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and filmmaker Woody Allen, were on display in his study beside a life-size stuffed tiger and a stuffed grey poodle.
One can only wonder how Andrew missed the procession of women or the signs of Epstein’s sexual deviance.
Indeed, Epstein’s ‘pride and joy’ was a large ‘human chessboard’ at the bottom of the main staircase which had customised figurines modelled on his female ‘staff members wearing suggestive clothing’.
Then there was the life-size statue of a naked African warrior. Not to mention the ‘leather room’.
When the FBI raided the house after Epstein was arrested last month, it reportedly found ‘thousands’ of indecent images of under-age women on computer hard drives locked in his office safe.
Others have claimed that Epstein had photographs and videos of his famous friends ‘engaged in sex acts’ which have now been seized by the FBI – prompting conspiracy theories that Epstein was murdered despite official autopsy results released on Friday stating definitively that the cause of death was suicide.
The video obtained by The Mail on Sunday is particularly shocking for the fact that – even two years after his 2008 child sex conviction – Epstein was seemingly flaunting his penchant for young women in plain view and in the middle of one of the busiest cities in the world.
The footage begins just before 2.30pm on December 6, 2010, as two security men leave Epstein’s mansion and chat to another security man in a waiting Chrysler.
Epstein’s black Bentley arrives in the street about 20 minutes later, shortly before a delivery man from Le Gourmet delivers a parcel.
Shortly after 3.10pm, an unidentified young woman in a red ‘beanie’ hat leaves the house. She heads in the direction of East 66th Street, where Epstein owned a flat and where, according to some alleged victims, he ‘kept’ young Eastern European girls as virtual prisoners.
About 25 minutes later, an older, professional-looking woman with blonde hair leaves the house.
One minute later, at 3.35pm, Epstein, wearing a thick white fur-lined winter coat, leaves his property, followed by a young-looking girl dressed in a flimsy grey top. She appears to be carrying his glasses.
In a deeply troubling scene, the blonde-haired woman – who barely reaches Epstein’s shoulders – appears cold and shaking as she walks with the millionaire to his Bentley.
Epstein clambers into the back seat as the young woman stands on the street, seemingly being given instructions. An older passer-by glances at the incongruous-looking couple.
After around two minutes, the girl jogs back to the house when she stands on the front step and presses the doorbell, visibly shaking with cold.
It is opened by a professional-looking brunette woman closely resembling Sarah Kellen, Epstein’s former assistant whom several alleged victims have dubbed a ‘co-conspirator’ in Epstein’s crimes.
Kellen, who is now married to a US race-car driver called Brian Vickers, has never commented publicly about the Epstein case.
However, she appeared in court during a defamation suit brought by Ms Roberts against Ms Maxwell and ‘pleaded the Fifth’ when asked about her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme.
In America, invoking the Fifth Amendment is a legal term which means you do not have to give evidence that might incriminate you.
At 4.30pm, the door opens and a pretty brunette emerges. She pauses and turns back to the house where Prince Andrew can be seen at the door.
The pair chat for a few seconds before the woman walks away, leaving Andrew to glance up the street before closing the door.
Forty minutes later, as the light begins to fade, another young-looking dark-haired woman arrives at the house.
In an unpublished manuscript released in the US as part of a huge trove of documents related to a defamation suit brought by Ms Roberts against Ms Maxwell, which was subsequently settled, Ms Roberts talks about meeting Prince Andrew in Epstein’s New York home.
She gives an account – supported by another alleged victim – of how the Prince sat on a sofa and posed with a Spitting Image puppet of himself.
‘When Andrew cupped my breast with a doll made in his image I only giggled away,’ she wrote in the book, described in court documents as a ‘fictionalised’ account of her life.
Last night, the source of the video said they had decided to go public with the footage to encourage further victims to come forward.
‘I’m haunted by the shivering young girl who was with Epstein. What became of her?’ asked the source. ‘Now I’m reading everything that went on inside and know the full horrors of what went on, I’m wondering, was she a victim too?’
This weekend, Prince Andrew was relaxing in the sunshine in Spain on a holiday with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
The source said: ‘When the video was taken he looked like a man without a care in the world.
‘You have to wonder if that’s still the case.’
French authorities looking at Jeffrey Epstein’s exploits in Paris
Court documents claim two main procurers of young women for billionaire were French
Aug 15, 2019
The walls of Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment on Foch Avenue in Paris were covered with photographs of naked young women, according to a worker.
The Paris prosecutor’s office is co-operating with US authorities in their investigation of accused sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide in a New York prison on August 10th.
Epstein was a regular visitor to France at least since 2002, when he purchased a 2,300sq m apartment on the Avenue Foch. His private jets, registered N120JE and N212JE, landed at Le Bourget airport 11 times in the last 18 months of his life.
Epstein was returning from a three-week stay in Paris when he was arrested at New Jersey’s Teterboro airport on July 6th.
The financier behaved in Paris as he did in Manhattan, Palm Beach and on his private Caribbean island. The walls of his Paris apartment were covered with photographs of naked young women, according to a worker cited in 2,024 pages of US court documents released on August 9th.
A former assistant to Epstein told Libération newspaper there were often several young women in the Avenue Foch apartment, fewer than in Palm Beach, where “there were eight or 10 at a time”.
Epstein’s contacts book was published by the US website Gawker in 2015. It contained a section titled Paris Massage, with dozens of women’s first names and mobile phone numbers.
‘Prostitution network’
A group called Innocence en Danger says it has evidence that “several victims of the prostitution network created by Epstein and his accomplices are of French nationality”.
Two French citizens figure in the US court documents as the main procurers of young women for Epstein. They are Ghislaine Maxwell and modelling agency executive Jean-Luc Brunel.
Maxwell is the daughter of the disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell and his French wife, Elizabeth.
Epstein’s chief accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claims Maxwell, who was Epstein’s former girlfriend, recruited her to be Epstein’s sex slave when she was a 16-year-old working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Maxwell sued Giuffre for defamation. They settled out of court in 2017.
Giuffre claims Maxwell and Epstein “gave” her to Brunel, as well as “politicians, university professors and people from royal families”.
Brunel has been implicated in previous scandals. He headed two modelling agencies, Karin and MC2, in which Epstein invested $1 million. Two women quoted in the US court documents say Epstein used Brunel to recruit girls as young as 12, for himself and “especially for Jeffrey Epstein”.
Maritza Vasquez, who was Epstein’s accountant, testified that he gave Brunel the use of apartments on East 66th Street in Manhattan to house models. Brunel flew often on Epstein’s planes, and made himself at home in Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.
In a 1989 episode of the US programme 60 Minutes, two Paris models accused Brunel of having drugged and raped them. An investigation by the programme alleged that Brunel and a fellow agent sexually assaulted nearly two dozen models. Brunel denied the claims.
Former models
Libération and the investigative website Mediapart interviewed former models Zoë Brock, from New Zealand, and Thysia Huisman, from the Netherlands. They met Brunel in 1991, when Brock was 17 and Huisman had just turned 18.
On arriving in Paris, Brock was lodged in Brunel’s apartment in the Avenue Hoche, allegedly for her own safety. Brunel returned from a trip abroad and told her she would have to sleep with him, she says. She says that she managed to avoid him but that he spread the rumour she was a drug addict and her work dried up.
In the aftermath of Epstein’s death, US and French media have gone to great lengths to contact Maxwell, now aged 57, and Brunel, in his 70s. Both have gone to ground, and no one is sure of their whereabouts.
Met Police decided not to conduct full investigation into court claims of sex trafficking of girl in Prince Andrew photo
The Met Police decided not to conduct a ‘full investigation’ into allegations a 17 year old girl was trafficked as part of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘sex ring.’
Channel 4 News can reveal that the Metropolitan Police began a review of “available evidence” in 2015 after receiving a complaint over claims in court papers that a girl was “forced to have sex with Prince Andrew”.
Channel 4 News also understands that lawyers for Virginia Roberts independently contacted the Metropolitan Police in 2016.
The Metropolitan Police said it “reviewed the available evidence” and decided that the matter “would not progress to a full investigation”.
It is not clear what constituted the available evidence.
The Met Police has refused to answer detailed questions about the allegations and whether they ever spoke to Epstein, his friend Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew or anyone from the Royal Household.
Prince Andrew has always denied “any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts”.
Tonight, lawyers for Virginia Roberts told Channel 4 News she is “hopeful” that “the London authorities will view the abuse she suffered while in London … as a serious investigative matter.”
In U.S court documents released last week, Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, alleges that she was one of many girls and young women that were part of a sex trafficking network run by disgraced financier and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell earlier this month.
In the court documents, Ms Roberts alleges that in 2001, aged 17, she was trafficked to the UK by Mr Epstein, accompanied by Ghislaine Maxwell, during which time she was “forced to have sexual relations with a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew.”
A photo from early 2001, taken in a house believed to be that of Ghislane Maxwell, shows Prince Andrew with his arm around the bare waist of Virginia Roberts. Ms Maxwell is in the background of the photo.
These court documents contain various historical allegations made by Virginia Roberts, who says that she was subjected to repeated sexual abuse, sex trafficking and exploitation by Mr Epstein and his ‘sexual abuse ring’ from 1999 until 2002.
There is no suggestions that Prince Andrew was aware of any of Jeffrey Epstein’s activities.
A complaint to the police regarding the alleged sexual trafficking to the UK of Ms Roberts was received in 2015 from an unconnected third party.
Channel 4 News asked the Metropolitan Police a series of questions about Virginia Robert’s account of what she says happened to her at Maxwell’s London residence in early 2001.
The Met told Channel 4 News: “[We] can confirm that the Metropolitan Police Service [MPS] received an allegation of non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation.
“The MPS reviewed the available evidence and the decision was made that this would not progress to a full investigation. As such, the matter was closed.”
There are of course several reasons why a full investigation would not be launched, but they have not made clear why further action was not taken on this matter.
Lawyers for Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre, told Channel 4 News: “Virginia Giuffre has been and remains hopeful that, given all the factual evidence that is now in the public domain, the London authorities will view the abuse she suffered while in London … as a serious investigative matter and they would be prepared to prosecute and hold those responsible accountable — regardless of status or power.”
In a court application filed in 2014 Virginia Giuffre alleged that she was forced to have sexual relations in three places when she was under 18.
The court ruled that “lurid” details in her application were “unnecessary” in determining if she could join the action. It ruled the details around sexual activities concerning Prince Andrew were “immaterial and impertinent” to the application, and should be stricken.
Allegations
Ghislaine Maxwell has previously denied any wrongdoing – including the allegations now in the public domain from court filings in the United States.
Buckingham Palace released a statement in relation to these allegations on behalf of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
“This relates to proceedings in the United States, to which The Duke of York is not a party. Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”
“It is emphatically denied that The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.”
Stowe School in Buckinghamshire
THE PATH OF VICE
“… Take your time to stroll down Bell Gate Drive, as visitors to Stowe have done for nearly 300 years. You can pick from one
of our three paths, created in the eighteenth century by
Lord Cobham …
The Path of Vice
” … Let us tempt you along the Path of Vice. Turn left as you enter the garden to be led through life’s indulgences. The temples in this area are concerned with lust and illicit love; the hermitage story links into sexual jealousy and melancholy whilst the Temple of Venus is dedicated to the unfaithfulness of
women. Some say to truly appreciate virtue you must first dabble in vice …”
https://www.stowe.co.uk/getmedia/583ac5c6-ad42-40d5-8479-fe52640896d3/Stowe-Welcome-Map-for-Web
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/08/epstein-bigger-picture.html
https://twitter.com/JamesRusbridger/status/1162770175550251009
https://twitter.com/JamesRusbridger/status/1162770175550251009
@JamesRusbridger
REBECCA WALLERSTEINER is the London-based daughter of Robert Maxwell’s business partner. Her brother is Stowe School’s headmaster Rebecca was given a job by Richard Ingrams, named in Dr Joan Coleman’s list of alleged child abusers
https://www.oks.org.uk/assets/files/Publications/FTR%20Spring%202013(1).pdf … https://spidercatweb.blog/joan-colemans-r-a-i-n-s-list …
LORD JOHN HENNIKER-MAJOR attended Stowe and was governor of Stowe 1982-1990
LORD JOHN HENNIKER-MAJOR provided a sanctuary on his Thornham Magna estate to Peter Righton, who supplied boys to paedophile VIPs at DOLPHIN SQUARE etc. In 1992 Righton rented a cottage on Henniker’s estate. Righton had already been charged with having obscene images of kids.
STOWE SCHOOL Linked to Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Ferguson, 9/11, Carl Beech, Harvey Proctor, Lord McAlpine, Richard Branson, Michael Grade, John Sainsbury, Sir Peter Hayman, John Henniker-Major WADDESDON MANOR & ASCOTT HOUSE Rothschilds CLIVEDEN Astors
https://twitter.com/JamesRusbridger/status/1147161892676354048′
Dod’s Parliamentary Companion Ltd., 1988
Henniker and Annan kept in touch for many years. Another Blunt connection.
Richard Branson and Stowe School from the Mirror 1998
FERGIE & GHISLAINE Both mates with Epstein
Both took money from Epstein
Both knew what their ‘other halves’ were doing with minors Both linked to Street Child
(Fergie founded it, Ghislaine’s spokesman supports it)
Both linked to Cantor Fitzgerald
Both linked to Stowe School
Above, we see Ghislaine Maxwell at the 2003 summer ball at STOWE SCHOOL.
It was called the La Dolce Vita party, and its ostensible purpose was to fund-raise for the CANTOR FITZGERALD FUND.
CANTOR FITZGERALD is financial services firm which does an awful lot for ‘charity’.
Cantor Fitzgerald sponsored summer parties at Stowe School in 2002, 2003, and 2004 (there may have been other Cantor Fitzgerald-linked ‘charity’ parties at Stowe School in other years, too).
“During 9/11, Cantor Fitzgerald occupied the 101st to the 105th floors of One World Trade Center.”
Lutnick and Trump
Cantor Fitzgerald (BGC Partners) is 60% owned by its CEO, HOWARD LUTNICK, a Jewish American billionaire.
“Howard Lutnick did not lose his life on Sept. 11, 2001 because he took his son to school.”
Jeffrey Epstein lived at 9 East 71st Street in New York City.
Howard Lutnick lived at 11 East 71st Street in New York City.
“An investigation found that Epstein’s history at the address is entangled with the adjacent property, 11 E. 71st St., now home to billionaire Howard Lutnick.”
May 16 2019
@soychicka
Trump is at a fundraiser at Howard Lutnick’s house tonight, at 11 E 71st street, on the UES.
President Trump courted deep-pocketed donors in his native New York City for the first time in months Thursday evening at a campaign fundraiser at Wall Street bigwig Howard Lutnick’s upscale Manhattan home
Lutnick — who’s worth more than $1.5 billion and serves as the CEO of Wall Street trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald — is an outspoken supporter of Trump and has praised the president’s tax cuts and regulations-slashing economic agenda.
“You had this regulatory overhang of negativity in the past, and now you have a view of positivity in the future,” Lutnick said on CNBC in July 2017. “You’re going to see the financial have a nice bump coming…It’s going to come.”
9 E 71st Street: that’s Jeffrey Epstein’s house.
9 E 71st St ( Epstein )
11 E 71st Street ( Lutnick )
and 18 E 71st Street.
That’s Bill Cosby’s house.
Amaitis and Charles, just after 9 11.
LEE AMAITIS was formerly the head of Cantor Fitzgerald’s London office.
Amaitis is the founder, president and chief executive officer of CG Technology, a gambling subsidiary based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate pays $22.5 million to end US gambling probe
Aid workers rape and sexually exploit children
Amaitis has fundraised for ‘Children in Crisis’.
Stowe School’s headmaster, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, is a Trustee of ‘Children in Crisis’.
CHILDREN IN CRISIS WAS FOUNDED BY SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK.
SARAH FERGUSON, who married Prince Andrew, with DR WALLERSTEINER, at STOWE SCHOOL
Sarah, Duchess of York, and her daughters have supported the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund in the past, which distributes money to ‘victims of terrorism, emergencies and natural disasters’.
Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew also have personal links to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
Stowe School – A pupil said of Stowe: “There was a game known as the Temple Challenge, where couples would compete to have sex at all of the 40 tiny neo-classical buildings in the school’s 750 acres.” ‘Pupils had competition to have sex everywhere’
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Mossad father, Robert Maxwell, was the MP for Stowe, where Stowe School is located.
Could there be links –
Stowe School, Cantor Fitzgerald, Ghislaine and Robert Maxwell.
An ‘Israel/Mossad sponsored’ international child trafficking empire.
9/11 and the subsequent reordering of the Middle East.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28969&start=465
Stowe School, mentioned by whistleblower Carl Beech. A pupil said of Stowe: “There was a game known as the Temple Challenge, where couples would compete to have sex at all of the 40 tiny neo-classical buildings in the school’s 750 acres.” ‘Pupils had competition to have sex everywhere’
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Mossad father, Robert Maxwell, was the MP for Stowe, where Stowe School is located.
Could there be links –
Stowe School, Cantor Fitzgerald, Ghislaine and Robert Maxwell.
An ‘Israel/Mossad sponsored’ international child trafficking empire.
9/11 and the subsequent reordering of the Middle East.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28969&start=465
@KirbySommers
These are aerial views of Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion at 9 East 71st Street in New York City.
Of note:
1. The entire top floor was his “bedroom”.
2. The skylight in the center was his bathroom.
3. There is a row of trees planted in the rear which would obscure the view from prying eyes.
4. Howard Lutnick of Cantor Fitzgerald was his neighbor at 11 E 71 St.
5. The Lutnik house belonged to Leslie Wexner, who gave it to Jeffrey Epstein who then sold it to Lutnick.
9 East 71st — Jeffrey Epstein 11 East 71st — Howard Lutnick 18 East 71st — Bill Cosby
In the first days after the attack, Lutnick became the human face of Wall Street. In an interview with Connie Chung, he cried openly about the 955 children who lost a parent at Cantor Fitzgerald and pledged to take care of all the families.
But soon after the interview, Lutnick cut off paychecks to the families of the dead — and just as suddenly, he was the face of greed and heartlessness. Newspapers and television shows had a field day. “CANTOR KIN: BOSS BROKE BOND TO US” blared the New York Post. “The O’Reilly Factor” devoted a whole segment to the story.
“Howard Lutnick was a very good actor on TV. He should get an award for that,” one Cantor widow told Bill O’Reilly
. Angry letters, faxes and phone calls poured into the Lutnick home.
Les Wexner claims to have first met Epstein in the mid-1980s…
Interesting that Patterson’s “Filthy Rich” places Epstein meeting Robert Meister of Aon* in the mid-1980s, not meeting Wexner until 1989.
@JamesRusbridger
Here’s Lutnick out with pal Fergie
They have links to a VIP pedophile ring at Stowe School, as does Ghislaine Maxwell
Lutnick set up Fergie with free offices in WTC north tower next to his own Cantor Fitzgerald firm
Both miraculously survived 911
658 of Lutnick’s staff didn’t
After Lutnick & Fergie both survived 911 by complete chance, they redoubled their efforts for kids ‘charities’ Lutnick supports Fergie’s US charity ‘Chances for Children’ & her UK charity ‘Children in Crisis’, now part of ‘Street Child’ Both charities are linked to the Maxwells
What the … Duke & Duchess of York Howard Lutnick & his business partner Lee Amaitis ‘Missing’ Jeffrey Epstein & his ‘client’ Jeff Wexner AND Ghislaine Maxwell & her family … know about child trafficking, pedophile blackmail, and 9/11 … is a complete and utter mystery
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/08/epstein-bigger-picture.html
A Stowe director: Ethne Bannister, the cousin of Roger Bannister whose son Clive is on Epstein’s list.
Ethne’s son Nicholas, a banker like Clive, moved out of the Twin Towers shortly before 9/11 … and wasn’t the only one with links to Stowe!
Jonathan James Molyneux Fletcher, a Stowe School director, is the brother of David Fletcher, head of Iwerne camps and Titus Trust Trustee, which spawned John Smyth QC. J Fletcher was a frequent visitor at Iwerne, along with Archbishop Justin Welby.
https://mg.co.za/article/2017-02-02-christian-crusader-in-teen-abuse-scandal/ …
Ghislaine Maxwell attends the “LaDolce Vita” party in aid of the “Cantor Fitzgerald Fund” held at the notorious Stowe School
Cantor Fitzgerald of 9/11 Twin Towers
Sarah Ferguson and 9/11...
SARAH Ferguson has revealed her Chances for Children’s mascot, a doll named Little Red, was miraculously found at ground zero following the horrific 9/11 catastrophe that shook America in 2001.
The Duchess of York said the item was discovered by a volunteer, Brian Van Flandern, who found the rag doll amongst the rubble following the September 11 terror attacks that killed 2, 996 people.
Little Red was in charity’s office located on the 101st floor of the World Trade Centre’s North Tower, when a group of extremists hijacked and crashed two planes into the twin towers during the 9/11 attacks.
Sarah told the BBC: “Because our office is on the 101st floor, Little Red always sat on the window looking over New York and over the United States as I imagine she did because she is a little red rag doll, standing at about 12 inches.
“On the day of the terrible disaster, she was found in the rubble by a fireman who put her in his helmet and carried her out.
He was made Privy Counsellor the same year.
Von Bismark Family
Tragic party host von Bismarck found dead in London flat
· Signs of heroin overdose after body discovered
The first time was at Oxford University in 1986, when the daughter of a Conservative minister overdosed in his bed. The second was last year, when a man plunged 60ft to the ground from the roof terrace of the 44-year-old count’s luxury apartment in Chelsea, west London.
This week, a third and final tragedy struck Gottfried Alexander von Bismarck – his body was discovered by paramedics at his flat.
The great-great-grandson of the Iron Chancellor, who united 19th century Germany, had apparently died of a heroin overdose.
The paramedics had been called in by an estate agent who had the keys to sell the property; it is understood he had been asked by a member of the count’s family to look round because of their concern that they had been unable to raise him for several days.
Reports suggested drugs paraphernalia were found near the body. A Met spokeswoman last night would not say whether the police were treating the death as suspicious. Results of a postmortem are expected today.
The life of the flamboyant count – full name Gottfried Alexander Leopold Graf von Bismarck-Schonhausen – was marked by the highest highs and the lowest lows, often one directly following the other. At Oxford he was notorious for wild parties at which severed pigs’ heads were served and guests toasted each other in blood, while he played host dressed in fishnet stockings or lederhosen.
In 1986, at a party in the student count’s rooms at Christ Church College to celebrate the end of exams, Olivia Channon, daughter of the millionaire trade minister Paul Channon, was found dead in his bed.
She had died due to respiratory failure caused by an overdose of heroin and drink. Although von Bismarck always claimed he had not seen Ms Channon “chasing the dragon”, heating heroin on silver foil and inhaling the fumes – and was never implicated in her death other than to be charged separately for possessing drugs – the incident haunted him for the remainder of his life.
In 1991 he said: “There are still people who will not speak to my parents because of it, who said to my mother, ‘What a rotten son you have, he has disgraced the name of Bismarck’.”
After time in rehab, then a spell back in Germany working as an actor, and in a job helping firms in the former GDR on the road to privatisation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he resettled in London some years ago.
He kept out of the headlines until last August, when a man fell from the roof terrace of his London home during a wild party. Anthony Casey, 38, had a “substantial” amount of cocaine in his body when he plunged 60ft, an inquest heard in October. Mr Casey had been feeling unwell when he asked the count for the key to the roof terrace.
The coroner, Paul Knapman, said that a room in the flat contained what most people would consider “unusual” and “bizarre” items, including buckets of sex toys, a butane gas canister and a box of dozens of syringes.
He added: “In common parlance, in the early hours of the morning, there was a gay orgy going on.” Dr Knapman recorded a verdict of misadventure.
Hedonism ran in the von Bismarck family. His great-great-grandfather was made prime minister of Prussia in 1862, and is credited with engineering modern Germany by defeating France in 1870-71 and uniting the various German states into an empire. He also loved food and drink and was a famed raconteur at parties.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/04/germany.world
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict,hell-raising alcoholic,flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany’s Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar,but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table. This aura of dangerous “glamour” charmed a large circle of friends and acquaintances drawn from the jeunesse dorée of the age; many of them knew him at Oxford,where he made friends such as Darius Guppy and Viscount Althorp and became an enthusiastic, rubber-clad member of the Piers Gaveston Society and the drink-fuelled Bullingdon and Loders clubs.
Newly unsealed court documents in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal contain testimony from an ex-employee of New York City power couple Glenn Dubin and Eva Andersson-Dubin about a “distraught” Swedish teen’s claim that she was pressured to have sex on the pedophile financier’s private island.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Eva Anderson Dubin attend Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project (NYRP) “HULAWEEN” Gala and Midlers 60th Birthday Celebration at Waldorf Astoria Hotel on October 31, 2005 in New York City.
Jeffrey Epstein 1969
Vicky Ward – Epstein gatekeeper?
Enter one Vicky Ward, British born New York Times bestselling author, investigative journalist, columnist and television commentator. She was editor-at-large of several publications, and a former newspaper editor. Caps are her bestsellers.
In addition to Morgan Stanley, Hewlett Packard, Valerie Plame, the Kushners, Kate Middleton, the Guggenheim, the Getty, and the Fairfield Greenwich hedge fund, she has also written extensively about Jeffrey Epstein, going as far back as 2002 with her “expose” in Vanity Fair.
Here are links to more of her Epstein material through the years to get a feel for her work: https://vickyward.com/article/jeffrey-and-ghislaine-notes-on-new-yorks-oddest-alliance/ … https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 … https://www.mediaite.com/news/journo-who-profiled-epstein-calls-out-dershowitz-for-claiming-in-new-interview-he-wasnt-close-to-epstein/ … https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-tried-to-warn-you-about-sleazy-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-in-2003 …
Here’s the problem. And it’s a big one. Here are photos of Vicky Ward in both 2009 and 2010 hobknobbing with Ariadne Calvo Platero, and a 2011 cap from Vicky’s blog detailing how very close Ghislaine and Ariadne are.
How can one simultaneously be one of the loudest Jeffrey Epstein voices in the media, and also be personally connected to Ghislaine Maxwell’s lifelong bestie from Oxford?
Is Vicky Ward an Epstein gatekeeper…?
Is she controlled…?
https://www.onefamilytogether.org/about-us/board-of-directors/
1984 Robert Maxwell – part of the NSPCC working party
Gerald Cavendish, Duke of Westminster, chairman of the NSPCC centenary appeal set up a working party included Earl of Airlie, Lord Aldington of Sun Alliance, Sir Timothy Bevan of Barclays Bank, newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell, Lord Forte, Gerald Ronson of Heron Corp and Hambro’s Mark Weinberg
Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn (born 30 December 1966[1]) is a British lobbyist and Labour political organiser. He was appointed the Director of General Election Resources for the party in 2007.[2][3]
“Lobbygate”
With Neal Lawson and Ben Lucas, he founded LLM Communications in 1997, a lobbying firm with easy access to the new Labour Government.[4][5] He has been a spokesman and lobbyist for the gambling company PartyGaming.[6]
He had written to controversial Labour donor David Abrahams claiming he was one of Labour’s “strongest supporters”.[7] In 1998, he was caught on tape along with Derek Draper boasting to Greg Palast, an undercover reporter posing as a businessman, about how they could sell access to government ministers and create tax breaks for their clients[8] in a scandal that was dubbed “Lobbygate”.[9] Draper denied the allegations.[10]
In the same incident Mendelsohn was approached by an undercover journalist posing as a representative of American energy companies who were seeking to ignore environmental laws. Despite LLM’s claim that “we believe that there will be a new breed of ‘ethical winners’ who will demonstrate that businesses no longer operate in a moral vacuum”,[11] Mendelsohn went on to advise the reporter to rephrase their plans into language that sounded “Earth-Friendly” going on to say “Tony [Blair] is very anxious to be seen as green. Everything has to be couched in environmental language – even if it’s slightly Orwellian.”[12]
Other activities
He donated money to Peter Hain‘s 2007 deputy leadership campaign.[13] Mendelsohn is on the board of directors of the New Labour pressure group Progress,[1] According to The Daily Telegraph, “Mr Mendelsohn is steeped in the north London Jewish community”,[3] and is a trustee of the UK charities the Holocaust Educational Trust[14] and the UK arm of the New Israel Fund.[15] He is a former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel,[3] of the Finchley United Synagogue, and the Union of Jewish Students.
House of Lords
On 5 September 2013 he was created a life peer as Baron Mendelsohn, of Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet.[16][17] He became Labour’s business and international trade spokesman in the House of Lords.
In January 2018 he was asked to “step down” from this front bench role, in the wake of the Presidents Club dinner earlier that month, where several women were subjected to sexual harassment and groping. He attended the dinner as President of a charity which received support from the event.[18] According to a party statement, he “did not witness any of the appalling incidents described in reports and has unreservedly condemned such behaviour”.[19]
Personal life
He is married with four children. His wife Nicola, née Clyne, now Lady Mendelsohn, was appointed Facebook‘s Vice-President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in May 2013.[20] She was formerly chairman of the advertising agency Karmarama, deputy chairman of the advertising agency Grey London[3] and past President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.[21]
Trustees: Stuart Appleman, Jarvis Astaire OBE, Simon Broughton, Betty Collick, Robert Gellman FCA (Treasurer), Walter Goldsmith (Chairman) Jennifer Jankel, Sylvia Lewin, Mildred
Alexander Knapp, Victor Tunkel, Rev Reuben Turner, Malcolm Singer.
SIR HARRY SOLOMON
Sir Harry Solomon 12 Apr 1992 26 Jan 2010
Sabrewatch has contracts with Marks and Spencer.
Former MS chairmen include:
Lord Myners. Financial Services Secretary (sometimes referred to as City Minister[1]) in HM Treasury, the UK’s finance ministry, during the Labour Government of Gordon Brown.[2] He held the position from October 2008 until May 2010, and was made a life peer in consequence of his appointment. He also served on the Prime Minister’s National Economic Council.
Sir Richard Greenbury. Greenbury was born in Carlisle and educated at Ealing County Grammar School in London. As a young man he claimed to have been, “The most caned boy in school”, an achievement that he suggested had taught him, “The importance of discipline.” (wiki)
Jimmy Savile known to vist MS head office. Maybe this was to see Gabrielle Greenbury wife of Richard.
The Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust is primarily based in the Leeds area, although not all of its trustees – listed as Luke Lucas, Dr Roger Bodley and Lady Gabrielle Greenbury on the Charity Commission’s website – still live there.
Luke Lucas and Gabrielle Greenbury are also members of the Alpine club org uk. They applied for membership at the same time in 2001.
ALPINE CLUB
Telephone & Fax (020) 7613 0755 55/56 CHARLOTTE RD
E-mail: sec@alpine-club.org.uk LONDON, EC2A 3QF
http://www.alpine-club.org.uk
Newsletter 1/2001 January 2001
Welcomed as Aspirant Members are:
Lady Gabrielle Greenbury Toto Anne Gronlund Luke Lucas
Charters Towers, Felcourt Road 105 Green Road Charters Towers, Felcourt Road
East Grinstead, RH19 2JG Poole, Dorset BH15 1QT East Grinstead RH19 2JG
British. Company Director Danish. NHS Director British. Company Director
Proposer: Steve Jones Proposer: Jack Crewe, WMC Proposer: Steve Jones
Seconder: Pat Littlejohn Seconder: Alan Yeend Seconder: Pat Littlejohn
Gabrielle Greenbury was also director of Princedale company. Sir Harry Solomon formerly at food group Hillsdown was also directer at the same time.
Sir Harry Solomon is the co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Portland Trust.
THE PORTLAND TRUST ANNUAL LECTURE
Intelligence and the Making of Foreign Policy: A Personal Reflection
Efraim Halevy
Portland Fellow
Head of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies, the Hebrew University
Head of the MOSSAD (1998 2002)
Monday 21 June, 2004
The Locarno Suite, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London, SW1A
Intelligence and the Making of Foreign Policy
It is both an honour and a privilege for me to have been invited to deliver the first Portland Trust annual lecture; for this I am indeed grateful to Sir Ronald Cohen, Sir Harry Solomon and to Ellis Goodman.
Sir Harry, founder of Hillsdown Holdings plc, has also been involved in Monitor Quest since 1999 and provides direction and strategic advice to the Board. He qualified and practised as a solicitor, and is currently a director of several companies both within the UK and abroad providing commercial expertise at the highest level.
(London, 15th March 2005) Quest is delighted to announce the appointment of the former Mossad Director, Efraim Halevy, as a Special Advisor to the Board. Quest is one of the UK’s leading security and intelligence consultancies.(chaired by Lord Stevens, former Commissioner London Metropolitan Police)
Mr Halevy has 40 years of experience in the Mossad, Israel’s secret intelligence service, including four years as its chief from 1998-2002. He recently stepped down as the Director of Israel’s National Security Council and as National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister. His diplomatic career included postings to both Washington and Paris as Political Counsellor at the Israeli Embassy. He was appointed Ambassador of Israel to the European Union in 1995.
Efraim Halevi also happens to be a member of the Clove Club, founded in 1848 with the motto, “God Grant Grace”:
The Clove Club is the organisation for anyone who attended Hackney Downs School (formerly The Grocers’ Company’s School), Downs Park Road, London, E.5.
Efraim Halevi is listed under “CLOVE MEMBERS AND CONTACTS as at 12.2.02.”
Mr.J, Halevy, B1945-1948, Mr.Efraim
Who happens to be listed right alongside another member of the Clove Club Old Boys Association:
The Lord, Levy, B1955-1962, Michael
Michael Levy, Baron Levy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Abraham Levy, Baron Levy (born 11 July 1944) is a British politician, a Labour member of the House of Lords and the major fundraiser for the UK Labour Party and several Jewish and Israeli charities. A long-standing friend of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, Lord Levy is in the unique position of being an important pro-Israel lobbyist and Tony Blair’s special envoy to the Middle East since 2002. Levy was arrested and questioned in connection with the “Cash for Peerages” inquiry by the Metropolitan Police on 12 July 2006.[1] After six hours of questioning he was released on police bail. On 20 September 2006 he was questioned a second time, and again released on bail.[2] On 30 January 2007 Lord Levy was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.[3]
Tony Blair’s wife Cherie is also connected to Sir Harry Solomon through Norwood.
Norwood chief executive Norma Brier, Erica Marks; Cherie Blair, Norwood’s patron of children’s services; David Marks
Norwood is a UK charity established in 1785 in the East End of London.
In 1996, it merged with Ravenswood, a Berkshire-based charity for people with learning disabilities, to create one of the largest welfare organisations within the United Kingdom Jewish community.
Norwood currently provides more than 120 services for people with learning disabilities, and children and families in need, within the Jewish and wider communities in London and the South East.
These specialist services benefit more than 7,000 people each year and are delivered by 1,200 staff and supported by around 800 volunteers.
Norwood’s Patron is HM The Queen and its Patron of Children’s Services is Cherie Blair.
Simon Cowell with a Norwood service user at the annual dinner 2010
The charity’s celebrity supporters include Simon Cowell, Elton John, David Furnish, Sir Philip Green, Bernie Ecclestone, Roger Daltrey, Theo Paphitis, Tom Conti and Piers Morgan.
Solomon holds a portfolio of non-executive and advisory positions at charities and companies including Norwood.
Norwood’s Patron is HM The Queen.
Australian prime minister’s daughter is revealed to have been waved out of Jeffrey Epstein’s lair by Prince Andrew
- Video of Prince Andrew at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan lair in 2010 has rocked the British royal family
- The woman he waved goodbye to in the video was named by friend as Katherine Keating, who was then 29
- The video was taken day before infamous picture of Epstein and Andrew walking together in Central Park but was only revealed this weekend
- On Tuesday her sister Alexandra Keating, 34, fled her $2.25 million Hollywood Hills home with two suitcases, saying: ‘I’m not Katherine.’
- Their father Paul Keating was Australian prime minister from 1991 to 1996
- Katherine, 37, is now a ‘sustainability’ campaigner who works for a showbusiness talent agency that represents Sir Paul McCartney and U2
- Alexandra founded a tech company but is now an adviser to controversial billionaire Stephen Ross, the SoulCycle investor and Trump supporter
- Despite distancing herself, the younger sister also socialized with Epstein’s alleged procurer Ghislaine Maxwell at her home in 2013
Alexandra Keating splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, working as an adviser to RSE Ventures.
It is the investment vehicle of Stephen Ross, the billionaire SoulCycle backer whose support for Donald Trump led to a celebrity-led boycott of the trendy exercise chain.
Alexandra and Katherine on the New York social scene, with Alexandra moving there first from their native Australia and Katherine joining her in 2010.
Katherine was not at the offices of her Los Angeles-based employers, talent agency Maverick, on Tuesday.
Maverick, who represent among others U2 and Madonna, have refused to comment on Katherine’s employment status since the revelation on Monday that she went to Epstein’s home in December 2010 and was waved off by Prince Andrew.
Katherine Keating has refused to respond to multiple attempts to contact her.
The sisters’ father also declined to comment. His secretary told DailyMail.com he was ‘aware of what the enquiry was about, but he would not be making a comment’.
The 2010 video footage shows a young girl leaving the house with Jeffery Epstein, followed by Paul Keating’s daughter.
In 2014, Katherine Keating interviewed Epstein’s child trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell for the Huffington Post.
https://pedophilesdownunder.com/?s=KEATING
KATHERINE KEATING The mate of Epstein and Prince Andrew—whose father was Prime Minister of Australia—now works for Maverick Management Maverick Management’s founder is Israeli American PR man Guy Oseary Oseary represents Barbara Hewson’s relative, Bono
@ciabaudo
And Katherine Keating and Bono’s daughter are business associates …
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1165134825315033088
Ellis, a supporter of the Australian Labor Party, wrote speeches for a number of Labor leaders (such as Bob Carr, Paul Keating and Kim Beazley) and wrote extensively on Labor history.
Writer Bob Ellis – His university life put him in contact with Clive James, Bob Hughes, Germaine Greer and Les Murray, who were also studying there at that time.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/tributes-flow-for-writer-journalist-bob-ellis/7295744
Bob Ellis funeral
Mourners included feminist Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer calls for punishment for rape to be reduced
May 31 2018
Germaine Greer has called for the lowering of punishment for rape and said society should not see it as a “spectacularly violent crime” but instead view it more as “lazy, careless and insensitive”.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/europe/rape-crime-greer-intl/index.html
From 2015
Judge orders Prince Andrew sex allegations struck from court record
Virginia Roberts’s accusations about Andrew ordered to be struck from the record as judge denied her attempt to join a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein
Judge Kenneth Marra ordered Virginia Roberts’s accusations about Andrew, the Duke of York, to be struck from the record and denied her attempt to join a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of the prince and a convicted sex offender.
“At this juncture in the proceedings, these lurid details are unnecessary,” Marra wrote in his order, issued at the US district court in southern Florida on Tuesday morning. “These unnecessary details shall be stricken.”
Andrew and Buckingham Palace vehemently deny Roberts’s allegations.
Marra made no ruling or statement about the veracity of Roberts’s allegations. He said the “factual details regarding with whom and where” she had sex were “immaterial and impertinent” to her argument that she should be allowed to join the lawsuit.
President George W. Bush nominated Marra to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on January 23, 2002
Marra also ordered sensational allegations against Prince Andrew and well-known lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a former Harvard Law School professor, stricken from the court record.
https://abovethelaw.com/2015/04/allegations-against-alan-dershowitz-removed-from-the-record/
“They’re Nothing, These Girls”: Unraveling the Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s Enabler
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler
Mohammad bin Salman with Trump and May
Mohammad bin Salman had visited Jeffrey Epstein many times and they spoke often
Lisa Belzberg: Ex-wife of Seagram heir Matthew Bronfman and former sister-in-law of Clare and Sara Bronfman, who were both involved in NXIVM, a cult that focused on sexual slavery. Belzberg reportedly had a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton in 2002 while still with Matthew Bronfman.
Ms Belzberg is a business associate of Prince Andrew, after meeting him at a charity dinner last year.
She has donated thousands of dollars to a charity group for which the Duke of York is an unofficial ambassador, hosting fundraising dinners and visiting camps set up for youngsters to enjoy games and outdoor pursuits.
Ms Belzberg, dated such well-connected New Yorkers as Andrew Cuomo and Michael Fuchs before marrying Mr Bronfman in 1992.
Ms Belzberg won an educational heroes award from the Clinton administration. In 1998, New York magazine named her one of the ten most influential New Yorkers, Crain’s picked her out for a “40 under 40” list and Redbook ran a piece on her under the headline “Mothers and Shakers”.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/clinton-linked-with-wealthy-socialite-1-502799
Epstein pictured with Bill Clinton
@DonVonCrump1
Bill Clinton and Epstein in 1995, when the president was running for reelection. Epstein reportedly attended a fundraising dinner for Clinton in Palm Beach, Florida, with about a dozen other people hosted by wealthy businessman Ronald Perelman.
Jeffrey Epstein shipped $100K cement truck to ‘Pedophile Island’ three weeks before damning expose was released, paying for machine up front so it would arrive quicker, as experts say he could have ‘literally covered up evidence’
- Jeffrey Epstein shipped a $50k cement truck to his private Caribbean island Little St. James on November 7 last year, DailyMailTV can exclusively reveal
- Epstein sent the machine with an Express Bill Of Lading, an unusual and expensive way of shipping an item so that it arrives quickly
- The 66-year-old, who died by apparent suicide on Saturday, was in such a hurry that he paid for the machine up front so it would arrive sooner
- Three weeks later the Miami Herald published its expose on Epstein on November 28, which eventually led to Epstein being arrested in July
- Shipping experts told DailyMailTV that the possibility that it was ‘used to literally cover up evidence cannot be discounted’
- Other items sent to Epstein was a tile and carpet extractor that weighed 191 lbs and was sent to his New York home from the US Virgin Islands on March 11
- Epstein also had an industrial shredder sent to his island in 2008 shortly after reaching a controversial non prosecution agreement in Florida
The dentist’s chair that Epstein had imported arrived from China on September 9 2013.
It has a rotatable ceramic spittoon, a ‘luxurious’ operating light, high power suction, a saliva ejector system and LED panoramic X-ray viewer.
Some of the items shipped to Epstein had already been reported by The Intercept, such as the shredder which was 53lbs – indicating it was an industrial size.
In 2008, Epstein had the industrial shredder sent to his island shortly after reaching a controversial non prosecution agreement under which he only served 13 months in jail even though police found dozens of victims.
The shredder can destroy CDs, three ring binders and hardbound documents – and up to 85 sheets of paper per pass.
The Intercept noted that one of the main difficulties in prosecuting Epstein in the 2000s was the lack of documentary evidence.
Jeffrey Epstein: 300 Brits named in FBI dossier on Prince Andrew’s paedophile pal
12 Aug 2019
MPs are calling for an investigation into the Duke of York’s relationship with Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre claims she was a victim of sex trafficking by Epstein and “loaned” to Prince Andrew for sex three times, which he vehemently denies.
Labour MP Jess Phillips, who sits on the Women and Equalities Committee, said: “I think that, of course, the case must be properly investigated.”
US investigators who looked at Epstein’s “little black book” found almost half of it read like a who’s who of British society.
His 301 British contacts had more than 1,000 numbers and dozens of email addresses between them.
The contacts included celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Simon Le Bon, the late Sir David Frost, Richard Branson, Naomi Campbell, Tamara Beckwith, Jonathan Dimbleby, Loyd Grossman and numerous lords and ladies.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is recorded once, while his former cabinet minister Lord Peter Mandelson has 10 numbers, including one marked “direct line” one for “home” and another for “country home”.
There are 16 numbers for Prince Andrew, including a mobile number, one marked “Palace ex-directory”, one for Balmoral, the Queen’s Scottish residence, where the Prince invited Epstein, and one marked “Sand”, for Sandringham, another royal retreat where he spent time.
The ex-Wall Street financier flew “sex slave” Giuffre, formerly known as Roberts, to London in 2001, when she was just 17.
While in the capital, she was pictured with the then 41-year-old Prince Andrew inside the home of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
27 years after her toe-sucking shame, Sarah and Andrew have been “rekindling” their romance back at Balmoral on holiday with the Queen.
Until Sunday’s headlines about another wealthy American saw Fergie fleeing the royal fold in panic.
Because paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the pal who helped clear her debts, had killed himself – leaving secrets that could draw Andrew deeper into a sordid sex scandal involving teenage girls.
And while the royals are standing by Andrew, who categorically denies any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors, Fergie fears she will take more flack over Andrew’s friendship with the disgraced financier.
For it was Sarah who first introduced Andrew to “Good Time Ghislaine” Maxwell in the 1990s, before she introduced them to her lover Epstein.
Ghislaine became Andrew’s social fixer, his conduit into millionaire trans-Atlantic society.
They were spotted dining on lobster salad, drinking champagne cocktails at a stylish Madison Avenue restaurant in New York in 2000. This was just a brief glimpse of Andrew’s new US life in the fast lane, all private jets, racy nightclubs and first-class treatment.
When the Yorks divorced, Fergie’s profligate spending saw her rack up £5million in debts.
In 2011, three years after Epstein was convicted of soliciting underage girls for prostitution, Sarah revealed he’d paid £15,000 to a personal assistant she owed.
She said “I deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf.”
Loyd Grossman with Camilla’s son Tom Parker Bowles
Through the Keyhole originally started as a segment on TV-am, first being broadcast on its launch day on 1 February 1983.[2] The idea was created by Kevin Sim as a chance to look around some of the most influential homes with Loyd Grossman at the helm as the tour presenter.
Through the Keyhole
One of the guests who consented to have his property exposed to the refined Bostonian taste buds of Loyd Grossman in the comeback show was Sir James Savile. But no amount of Ks can cover up for the fact that this show looks like it’s trespassing, especially when the notoriously chaste Sir James used the guest slot to reinvent himself as a nine-times-a-night Lothario. “What are you going to do next in your life?” asked the ever penetrative Sir David. “Anybody I can lay my hands on,” replied Sir James.
Thanks be to Grossman: ineffably snooty, he drops the cleverly concealed bombs into his guided tours. “What could be nicer?” he said on finding a selection of Royal Marine marches in what turned out to be Savile’s record collection.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/taking-trips-down-memory-lane-1266762.html
Grossman’s lifelong interest in history, the arts and heritage has involved him in a number of organisations. He is a former Commissioner of the Museums and Galleries Commission, a former Commissioner of English Heritage (where he was Chairman of the Museums Advisory Committee and the Blue Plaques Panel), a former Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, a founding member of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, past Chairman of the National Museums Liverpool and of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. He founded the 24 Hour Museum (now Culture24) and was its Chairman until 2005.
Grossman is Patron of the Association for Heritage Interpretation, Patron of Heritage Open Days, Patron of the Haslemere Educational Museum, Patron of the Historic Lincoln Trust, and Patron of the American Museum in Britain. He is President of NADFAS, President of the British Association of Friends of Museums and a Fellow of St Deiniol’s Library. He was Chairman of the University for the Creative Arts from 2008 to 2012, a member of the Court of Governors of the LSE from 1996 to 2009 and is now an Emeritus Governor of the LSE. He was formerly Deputy Chair of the Prince’s Drawing School. He is a Member of the Council of the British School at Rome, a member of the board of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions and Governor of the Building Crafts College.
In 2007, Grossman was appointed Chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust; and in 2009 he was appointed Chairman of The Heritage Alliance, the UK membership organisation that represents more than 100 leading non-governmental organisations across the heritage sector. In 2015 he was re-elected for an unprecedented third term as HA Chair.
He is a member of the Court of Assistants of the Company of Arts Scholars, an Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[1]
Other activities
Grossman was also a Patron of the Cavell Nurses’ Trust. He was Patron of Latymer Sub-Aqua Club for People with Disabilities from 1995 until its demise in 2013.[8]
Treetops Foundation:
The foundations major donors are:
Lisa Belzberg; Matthew Bronfman.
They donated money to the Dalton School where Jeffrey Epstein taught.
1993 Bronfmans and Wexner
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
A brief rundown of the first ten pages of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’
Below is a quick rundown of the first ten pages of Epstein’s contacts. There are some misspelled names. Epstein entered their names like this.
I did not search for pedophilia and other illegal ties into most of these people because I didn’t have the time. This took a ton of time as is. Anyway, I hope something here strikes an interest in someone and maybe we can get more investigations out of this.
Abby: Not enough information
Joanna Abousleiman: Investment officer at the International Finance Corporation, a sister organization of the World Bank. Former strategy consultant at Booz & Company based in Abu Dhabi, working with public and private sector clients across the Middle East and North Africa.
Nick Adam: Not enough information
Alejandro Agag: Former politician in Spain. Became Secretary General of the European People’s Party (EPP), a tremendous political faction in Europe. Agag played a huge role in getting former Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi’s party into the EPP. Berlusconi has been charged for underage prostitution in the past. Agag quit politics to pursue financial and sporting interests. He is married to the daughter of Jose Maria Aznar, the former PM of Spain and Ana Botella Serrano, the first female mayor of Madrid. Guests at Agag’s wedding included kings and queens. Berlusconi and Tony Blair served as witnesses.
Marie Claire & John Agnew: John Agnew is a big-time banker out of London. He was former Joint Head of Morgan Stanley’s London office. Long history of working at various trusts. His father, Goeffrey Agnew, was the chairman of Thomas Agnew & Sons, a massive fine art dealer in London. Marie Claire Agnew is John Agnew’s wife. Her father, Bernard Dreesman is the Chairman of Morley’s department stores in London.
Azzedine Alaia: Deceased shoe designer. Tons of celebrities wore his shoes.
Rufus & Sally Albermarle: Rufus Keppel is the 10th Earl of Albemarle. The Keppel bloodline has served as Earl of Albemarle since the late 1600s and have ties to the British royal family. Rufus Keppel has the same great-great-grandfather as Camilla Parker Bowles (Prince Charles’s wife). Alice Keppel, who married the 7th Earl of Albemarle (Rufus’s great uncle), was a long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Alice Keppel was Camilla Parker Bowles’s great-grandmother. Camilla admired her. Rufus and Sally have since divorced. She was a sculptor.
Saffron Aldridge: A former Ralph Lauren model in the 1980s and 1990s.
Pam Alexander: According to New York Mag, she is “P.R. agent to the technology stars.” She has become the most powerful woman in the technology industry, and among the most powerful people in the P.R. industry.” Attended annual billionaires’ dinners with Epstein.
Giacomo Algranti: London art dealer.
Paul Allan: Co-founder of Microsoft. Paul Allen was the owner of the Portland Trailblazers (NBA) and the Seattle Seahawks (NFL).
Nicholas and Sarah Allan: Nicholas Allan is a former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a financial consulting firm worth billions. He is now the chairman of Link REIT, the largest real estate investment trust in Asia.
Charlie Althorp: Perhaps better known to us as Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer. He is the younger brother of Princess Diana and the maternal uncle of Prince William and Prince Harry. Queen Elizabeth II is his godmother.
Carella Alun-Jones: Wife of James McGrigor, founder of McGrigor group, an organization that does consulting work with health insurers. Could not find anything about her besides this.
Jeremy & Deborah Alun-Jones: Jeremy is a CEO at ADM Capital, a large investment firm. Deborah Alun-Jones is an author and Jeremy’s wife.
Senor Vincente Alvarez: Likely Vincent Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council. Alvarez is also a Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This is a position that is appointed by the Board of Governors.
Phillipe Amon: Owner and manager of SICPA, a Swiss company and universal leader that specializes in the printing of bank notes, passports, lottery tickets, and identity documents. SICPA literally prints money and passports.
Maurice & Roberta Amon: Maurice is Philippe’s brother. Maurice left SICPA, but may have had an equal role to Philippe had he stayed. Roberta Amon is Maurice’s ex-wife. He left her as she battled breast cancer.
Lisa Anastos: General Counsel for Payfone, a digital identity authentication network. Anastos previously worked in the law department of Goldman Sachs and General Counsel’s office of American Express.
Lulu Anderson: Uncertain. Only lead found were a few pictures of a woman with the same name at a party as a guest of Roger Waters (Pink Floyd).
Robert & Alex Appleby: Robert is co-founder of ADM Capital, a large investment firm.
Maite Arango: Vice-President, Board of Directors for Grupo Vips. Grupo Vips manages Starbucks, TGIFridays, and other chain companies. Arango is also Chairman of the Board for Ashoka, a company that ironically focuses on the betterment of today’s youth. Ashoka even has its own schools.
Victor Arellano: Victor Arellano Jr. is Vice Chairman of the Board of Bacardi. He’s a 5th generation descendant of the founder of Bacardi.
Joaquin Fernandez de Arion: Spanish royalty. The 10th Duke of Arion. His mother is Princess Beatriz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Married to Diana Langes-Swarovski, the great-great granddaughter of Daniel Swarovski, founder of the crystal manufacturer.
Fernando Arion: Joaquin’s brother. Also Spanish royalty but could not find any other information.
Arthur & Cathy Armstrong: Arthur is co-author of Net Gain (1997) which focused on Web-based business models. He is currently executive director at Debevoise and Plimpton LLP, a high-end international law firm.
Herve & Marina Aron: Herve Aaron is the president of Didier Aaron Inc., a premier art gallery.
Lorinda Ash: Fine art dealer. Also, ex-wife of Peter Ezersky, current director at Hargray Holdings LLC (provider of telecommunication services) and Grupo Corporativo (food and agriculture provider in Spain. Associated with Grupo Vips). Possible ties with Maite Arango.
Ashley & Allegra Hicks: Ashley is the Godson of Prince Philip, second cousin of Prince Charles, and an interior designer. He and Allegra are now divorced.
Nick & Ari Ashley: Nick is in home design. Ari is a photographer.
Vittorio & Charlotte Assaf: Vittorio is co-founder of Serafina Restaurant Group.
Mr. Simone Astaire: Hollywood and British Royal Family agent. Specializes in representation, celebrity endorsement, and public relations.
Viscount William Astor: Member of the House of Lords, which creates and shapes laws. There are approximately 800 current members. Chairman of television production company Silvergate Media. Member of the Astor family, which specialized in the fur trade, real estate, and drug smuggling in the early 19th century.
Helene Atkin: Niece of Robert Maxwell (media magnate, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, and suspected Mossad agent).
Mike & Ami Atkin: Almost no information found.
Jose Aznar: Prime Minister of Spain from 1996-2004. Father-in-law of Alejandro Agag, mentioned above. Used public funds for personal means. Granted a posthumous medal of Civil Merit to a high-profile member of the Francoist government who was infamous for torturing people.
Jean Baddeley: Former personal assistant to Robert Maxwell. Maxwell left her a £100,000 legacy when he died.
1991 Robert Maxwell with his secretary Jean Baddeley.
When the brothers took headhunting jobs from their father’s former secretary Jean Baddeley, they were accused of cronyism.
https://www.tatler.com/article/tatler-archives-maxwell-family-interview
Peter Bahrke: Technology investor. Co-founder of Aecor Partners, an advisory firm that provides financial advice to corporations.
Danny Baker: Could be the recently fired BBC host, but the phone number, starting with area code 917, makes no sense since that is a NYC area code.
Shahriar Bhaktiar: Could be a real estate investor in Switzerland, but the area code does not make sense.
Andre Balazs: Real estate mogul and entrepreneur. Owns several hotels throughout NYC and London, as well as residential real estate. He was engaged to actress Uma Thurman for three years and dated Chelsea Handler for two years later on. Allegedly groped Amanda Anka (Jason Bateman’s wife) at a party he hosted for Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux.
Alec Baldwin: Popular American actor.
Oxford Balliol College: Ghislaine Maxwell’s alma mater.
George & Alice Bamford: Brother and sister. Offspring of Sir Anthony & Lady Carole Bamford (listed below). George is a successful luxury watch manufacturer.
Sir Anthony Bamford and Lady C: Anthony is a billionaire British businessman. Chairman of JCB, which provides equipment for construction, agriculture, etc. Has donated more than £4m personally and through JCB companies to the Conservative Party. Has close ties to David Cameron, Tony Blair, and Prince Charles. Bamford was mentioned in the Panama Papers as having offshore accounts. Lady Carole Bamford is his wife and a successful businesswoman.
Doug Band: Doug Band was a longtime adviser to Bill Clinton. He had a substantial part in the creation and inner workings of The Clinton Foundation. Purchased David Rockefeller’s old house in New York City for $20 million. Has been called “the key architect in Clinton’s post-presidency” (newsmax.com).
Clive Bannister: Former CEO and Managing Director at HSBC. Current CEO of Phoenix Group Holdings, one of the largest insurance providers in the UK.
Javier Banon: Bañón is a Founding Partner at Trilantic Capital Management LLC. Was a principal (higher up) at Lehman Brothers and previously worked at Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director. Trilantic was founded by five partners who had all worked together at Lehman Brothers.
Nicholas & Gretel Barham: Gretel Barham (Gretel Packer) is the daughter of Kerry Packer, a deceased Australian media mogul worth billions. Both Gretel and younger brother James are billionaires. Nick Barham is Gretel’s ex-husband and a British financier.
Peter Barnes: Entrepreneur and environmentalist.
Craig Barnett: Managing Director of PJ Solomon, a financial advisory firm and investment bank.
Hillary Bastone: No information found
Hillary Batstone: No information found.
Tim & Natasha Batstone: Both directors of H.B. Leisure Holdings Ltd., which focuses on skill games, arcades, amusement parks, etc.
Lorenzo Baumer: High end jeweler.
Lord & Lady Beaumont: Likely refers to the late Tim Beaumont of Whitley and his wife, Baroness Mary Rose. Tim was a UK politician in the Liberal Party and, later on, the Green Party. Six generations of his paternal side sat in the House of Commons (source: Irish Times) He was also an Anglican priest. Mary Rose is the cousin of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon and (now deceased) husband of Princess Margaret.
Tamara Beckwith: English socialite.
Lisa Belzberg: Ex-wife of Seagram heir Matthew Bronfman and former sister-in-law of Clare and Sara Bronfman, who were both involved in NXIVM, a cult that focused on sexual slavery. Belzberg reportedly had a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton in 2002 while still with Matthew Bronfman.
Ms Belzberg is a business associate of Prince Andrew, after meeting him at a charity dinner last year.
She has donated thousands of dollars to a charity group for which the Duke of York is an unofficial ambassador, hosting fundraising dinners and visiting camps set up for youngsters to enjoy games and outdoor pursuits.
Steven Benson: No information found.
Baron Bentinck: Dutch and British nobility.
Nicolas Berggruen: Billionaire investor and founder and president of the Berggruen Institute, a think tank that hopes to “shape political, economic and social institutions for the 21st century.” Vague. Berggruen, according to lamag.com, “puts more trust in elites than voters” and suggested that “the Senate should be appointed rather than elected.”
Bill Berkman: A businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in communications, media technology, and energy industries.
Tara Bernard: Possibly refers to the financial reporter from the New York Times, but the 07 country code at the beginning of the phone number does not make sense. Could also be Tara Bernerd, a high end interior designer in Britain.
Martyn Birchall: Investment banker and businessman who worked as former director at Citi and Merrill Lynch.
Robin Birley: Businessman and entrepreneur, mostly known for his private members’ clubs.
Debbie & Bola Von Bismarck: Leopold (“Bolle”) von Bismarck is the great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany. Debbie is a former model and Leopold’s wife. Model Kate Moss is currently engaged to their son, Nikolai.
Vanessa von Bismarck: Cofounder of BPCM, a public relations firm that specialized in fashion, beauty, and wine & spirits. Great-great-granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck.
Jean Marc Bisson: Not much to be found. Possibly a low-level actor, but that doesn’t feel right.
Jean Paul Bjorlin: Likely refers to a music instructor at Columbia and Barnard College.
Conrad & Barbara Black: Conrad Black was a newspaper publisher. He controlled Hollinger International, which published the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph, most Australian newspapers, The Jerusalem Post (Israel), and The National Post (Canada). Conrad was recently pardoned by his friend, Donald Trump, after serving time for fraud. Black was once a Steering Committee member of The Bilderberg Group. Barbara Black is a journalist. She is Conrad’s 2nd wife.
Blogs & Jill Blacker: No information found.
David Blaine: World famous magician. Allegedly raped former model Natasha Prince in 2004. Did not face charges. Earlier this year, New York law enforcement said that they were investigating Blaine for (allegedly) sexually assaulting at least two women.
Tony Blair: Former UK PM.
Mike Bloomberg: Former Mayor of New York City. Billionaire businessman.
Samantha Boardman: Attending Psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. Founder of positiveprescription.com. Has connections with the wealthy.
Serena Boardman: New York realtor. Named one of the 10 best real estate agents in NYC by hollywoodreporter.com. Samantha Boardman’s sister. Also has tremendous connections.
Johnnie & Sophie Boden: Johnnie Boden is a clothing entrepreneur.
Daniele Bodini: Serves as Chairman Emeritus of American Continental Properties Group (ACP), which focuses on asset and wealth management. Bodini also serves as a Member of Board of Overseers at Columbia Business School and is the ambassador of the Republic of San Marino to the United Nations.
Edouard de Boisgelin: Holding company CEO out of Paris.
Pierre de Boisguilbert: Very little information found. Possibly refers to a former press director located in Paris.
Annabelle Bond: British socialite. Her father, John Bond, was the Group Chairman of HSBC.
Andrea & Gioia Bonomi: Andrea Bonomi is the founder of Investindustrial Limited, an asset management private equity firm. He also served on the management board and as Chairman of Banca Popolare di Milano.
Nicholas Bookis: President of Topside Shipping Inc.
Mark & Lauren Booth: Mark Booth was CEO of BSkyB (owner of Sky TV). His wife, Lauren, is an artist.
Christina A. Boothe: No information found.
Paulo Borgese: The only thing that might make sense is Prince Paolo Borghese, who died in 1985.
Michael Borrico: Founder and CEO of Certified Construction.
Hon Bruce & Penelope Bossom: Bruce Bossom is a real estate tycoon who co-founded Orion Capital Managers. Penelope Bossom is involved with several businesses, but none of them are wildly successful.
Sylvianne Boucherie: No information found except for a researcher who write scientific articles about the human body.
Rick Bourke: Actually Frederic Bourke, co-founder of Dooney and Bourke, a famous handbag manufacturer. Bourke went to jail in 2013 for bribing the Azerbaijan government in order to rig the auction for ownership of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR).
Hamish Bowles: Editor-at-large for Vogue magazine.
Peretti Brachetti: Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti. Nobility. Son of Count Aldo Maria Brachetti-Peretti. Co-owner of Italian oil company, API.
Hugo Brachetti: Also co-owner of Italian oil company, API. Ferdinando’s brother.
Caroline Braine: Some relation of Katie Braine. Possibly her daughter.
Ms. Katie & Serge Braine: Serge Crasnianski is a nuclear physicist and inventor who made a ton of money as CEO of Photo-ME Intl PLC, which specializes in photo booths. It is unclear whether he lives with Kate or if she is his wife. Kate is a sculptress.
Ben Bram: 2x Grammy award-winning a cappella arranger/producer/entrepreneur (according to his Twitter account).
Tony Brand: Assistant General Manager of Gucci. Has also worked with Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford, Prada, and other companies.
d’Adda Brandolini: Nobility. Tons of money. See below.
Nuno & Muriel Brandolini: Muriel Brandolini is a famous interior designer who has worked with Matt Lauer, the Crown Prince and Princess of Greece, and others. Nuno is a banker and (shockingly) comes from money and nobility.
Peter Brandt: Brant is an American industrialist who focuses mainly on print media.
Richard Branson: Billionaire who founded Virgin group (Virgin Airlines, Virgin megastores). In 2017, a backup singer for Joss Stone claimed that Branson sexually assaulted her on his private island.
Flavio Briatore: Italian businessman who used to manage two Formula One racing teams.
Julia Broadhurst: Bra designer from South Africa.
Louis Albert de Broglie: French prince and entrepreneur.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.: Seagram’s heir. Half-brother of Clare and Sara Bronfman (NXIVM sex cult). In addition to being a billionaire business tycoon, his father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., was the leader of the World Jewish Congress, This group has links to the Rothschilds and the Vatican.
Christopher & Amanda Brooks: Amanda Brooks is the former creative director at Barneys. Her husband, Christopher, is an artist.
Miranda Brooks: Contributing editor to Vogue and successful landscaper.
Chris & Alison Brown: Alison Chace is an unsuccessful actress. Christopher Brown is the founder of Global Emerging Markets (GEM), an investment firm.
James & Lucinda Bruce: James is a businessman who comes from nobility. His father was a baron. His 2nd wife, Lucinda, is a producer.
Jean-Luc Brunel: Modeling scout. Co-founder of modeling agency MC2. Helped smuggle in underage girls for Epstein and others.
Tania Bryer: CNBC host.
Joan Juliet Buck: Former editor-in-chief of French Vogue turned actress.
Jimmy & Jane Buffett: Jimmy Buffett is a world famous singer, most notably for the song “Margaritaville.”
Bartle Bull: Best known as a journalist who writes about the Middle East. Has written articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications. Bull is also a partner at Northern Gulf Partners, an investment and financial advisory firm that holds lots of sway in Iraq.
Hamish & Emma Bullough: Hamish is an ex-managing director at Citigroup.
Ron Burkle: Billionaire founder of Yucaipa, an investment firm that specialized in buying and selling supermarket chains. Had close ties with Bill Clinton. According to Los Angeles Times, “Bill Clinton’s bromance with Burkle invited scandal.” The LA Times describes how “unverified reports of the two men jetting around in a Burkle 757 filled with attractive young women leached from the tabloids to the mainstream media.” This could be the reason for Burkle’s falling out with Hillary, as he had nothing to do with her campaign.
Jules Burney: Chairman of Stockcube ltd, a financial research company.
Martin Burtril: No information found.
Candace Bushnell: Author of Sex and the City.
Arki Busson: Real name is Arpad Busson. He is a French financier who founded EIM Group, which specializes in hedge funds. It should be noted that Busson used to host the ARK charity dinner every year, which has drawn the likes of Bill Clinton and Prince William. Busson is a founding chairman of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) charity, which specializes in educating underprivileged children. ARK has dozens of its own schools in the UK.
**I made an entire thread dedicated to Busson’s frightening connections and possible role in international pedophilia rings here: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/cl34ju/arpad_busson_billionaire_businessman_or_possible/
Charlie Butler: No information found.
Terri Button: No information found.
Robert Byng: Descendant of admirals, viscounts, and earls. Current property owner of Wrotham Park, an English country house that hosts social events for the wealthy and has been used as a filming location for many movies.
Alain de Cadenet: Former Formula One racer. Current television personality for ESPN and Speed channel.
Jason Calacanis: Internet entrepreneur. Dot-com millionaire.
Nicky Caledon: The 7th Earl of Caledon. Received his knighthood in 2015 when he was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).
Mario/Ariadne Calvo-Platero: Mario Calvo-Platero is an Italian journalist and served as editor of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore for 30 years. Ariadne is the daughter of Lord and Lady Beaumont, listed above.
Roddy Cambell: Campbell is a jack-of-all-trades businessman. He has worked in marketing, networking, and consulting.
Alistar Cambell: Alistair worked closely with Tony Blair for years, first as a spokesman and campaign director, then as Downing Street Press Secretary, and finally as Downing Street Director of Communications and spokesman for the Labour Party. He resigned in 2003 during the inquiry into the death (murder) of David Kelly.
Giancarlo Camerana: Works in real estate and wealth management as an Associate Partner for Shohet & Cie SA
Cammy: Likely Cammy Kinney, a former model turned photographer.
Naomi Campbell: Internationally known supermodel.
Brooke & Emilio del Campo: Likely meant to be Emilio Ocampo, an economist and financial expert who has worked for Chase Manhattan Bank, Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley.
Andrew de Candole: British entrepreneur and real estate mogul.
Nicholas Candy: British luxury property developer.
Caprice: Likely refers to Caprice Bourret, a former model and former love interest of Prince Andrew around 2000-2001.
Massimo & Sara Carello: Massimo is an Italian businessman who has served as CEO of Fiat UK, Diners Club UK, and Independent Director of Canadian Overseas Petroleum.
William & Carina Carey: No information found.
Camilla Carlbom: Chairwoman of Carlbom Shipping ltd. Carlbom Shipping looks after the interests of vessels and cargo owners.
Carmine: Not enough information.
Barbara Carrera: Former model and actress, most notably for the Bond flick, Never Say Never Again, where she played a villain. Carrera’s first marriage was to Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman, a German nobleman. Her 2nd marriage was to Uva Harden (born 1941), a German fashion model and actor. Her 3rd and final marriage was to Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate. After her third marriage, Carrera was involved with Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland. Lots of international nobility and magnates.
Sophie Caruth: Former literary agent at William Morris. Formerly held a senior manager position at Mason Rose, a sales and marketing company.
Michel & Charlene Carvalho: Michel is a British financier and vice-chairman of investment banking at Citigroup, primarily in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is the Heineken heiress. She inherited $4.2 billion when her father died in 2002.
Guido Casagrande: Company director of IU Holdings ltd, a financial services holding company.
Simon Case: Private Secretary to Prince William as of 2018. Previously was in charge of figuring out the border issue in Northern Ireland and Ireland post-Brexit. British civil servant for over a decade, including as a policy adviser for the Ministry of Defence.
George & Pauline Case: Pauline Case (maiden name Pauline Astor) is a Viscountess and daughter of William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor. No information could be found on George Case.
Debbie Castaneda: Former Ms. Colombia (1996). She had a relationship with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and has been accused of being a “bunga-bunga” girl, a sex party girl for Berlusconi. This information was gained through wiretaps.
Alby & Victoria Cator: Albemarle Cator is a British banker and financial adviser.
Mark & Mini Cecil: Not much information found. Mark Cecil may be the founder of United Wealth Advisors Group LLC.
Aurelia Cecil Stephenson: Founder of Aurelia Public Relations. Her client list included Salvatore Ferragamo, Krug Champagne, TAG Heuer watches, and Gianni Versace.
Dr. Mark Cecil: Founding Partner at Jabre Capital Partners, a hedge fund company. Close friend of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Fabrizio Cerina: Chairman of international investment banking group Crédit des Alpes.
Gian Carlo Cerutti: Italian banker.
Vikram Chatwal: Actor/model/movie producer and hotel owner in New York City and Miami. Bill Clinton, Prince Nikolaos of Greece, Naomi Campbell, and P. Diddy attended his wedding.
John & Lucy Chenevix-Trench: Former COO of Morgan Stanley securities.
Gianluca Cicogna: CEO, CFO, and President of Beauty Brands Inc. Brother of Gianfranco Cicogna.
Gioconda Cicogna: Mother of Gianluca and Gianfranco. Interior designer.
Gianfranco Cicogna: Gianfranco Cicogna Mozzoni was a business leader, a Count by birth, the Ambassador for the Order of Malta at its embassy in Kenya. His grandfather, Giuseppe Volpi, was known as “Italy’s Rockefeller.” Gianfranco died flying a plane at an air show in 2012.
Marina Cicogna: Countess. Granddaughter of Kingdom of Italy Finance Minister Giuseppe Volpi, one of the richest and most influential men in Italy in the early 1900s.
Pietro & Alejandra Cicognani: Pietro is a high-end architect based out of NYC.
Lindka Cierach: British fashion designer. Her clients include the British Royal Family.
Giuseppa Cipriani: The main business manager of Cipriani S.A., whose holdings include 55 Wall Street (the whole building) and Cipriani restaurants worldwide (most notably in NYC).
Gustavo & Patty Cisneros: Gustavo is a billionaire Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros, one of the largest privately held media entertainment organizations in the world.
Amadeo Clavarino: A real estate investor with properties in Milan, New York, London, Berlin, and St. Moritz.
Isabel Clavarino: Also known as Isabelle Harvie-Watt, Clavarino is the former managing partner at Spring Studios, a production and branding agency and was Giorgio Armani’s key point person for the press, media and celebrities. Last year, Clavarino was named Valentino’s Chief Marketing Officer.
John & Alice Fay Cleese: John Cleese is an actor best known for his role in Monty Python.
Graham & Emma Clempson: Vice Chairman, Executive Board at MidOcean Partners, a private equity and investment firm. Emma is an English radio and television presenter.
Lucy Clive: Girlfriend of Kevin Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother.
Larry Coben: Former Senior Principal of Sunrise Capital Partners. Currently Chairman of the Board at NRG Energy, a large energy company that serves 3 million people in the U.S. NRG also has its name on several sports stadiums in Texas.
Mandy Cochrane: No information found.
Dalit Cohen: Ex-girlfriend of Ian Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother.
Peter Cohen: No information found.
Jo Coleman: No information found.
Nicholas Coleridge: Chairman of Condé Nast Britain. Condé Nast is a media giant and the parent company of Allure, Architectural Digest, Ars Technica, Backchannel, Bon Appétit, Brides, Condé Nast Traveler, Epicurious, Glamour, Golf Digest, GQ, Pitchfork, Self, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W and Wired.
Jeffrey Colle: Real estate developer, specifically in the Hamptons.
Phil & Orianne Collins: Phil Collins is music royalty.
Henrietta Conrad: Co-founder of Princess Productions LTD, a television programming company.
Susannah & Sten Ber Constantine: Susannah is a fashion journalist, author, and television presenter. Her husband, Sten Bertelsen was one of the creators of Death Cigarettes, a fairly popular British brand in the 1990s.
Clive Cooke: Securities executive who is now the head of sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for a leading technology company.
Rachel Cordle: Daughter of John Cordle, a British politician. Sister of Rupert Cordle and Marina Cowdray.
Rupert Cordle: Founder of Cordles, a residential building contractor in London. Brother of Rachel and Marina Cordle.
Fernando de Cordova Hohenlohe: Spanish nobility. Current Marquis of Alboloduy.
Harry Cotterall: Chairman of Fisher German, a property consulting firm in England.
Martine de Courcel: No information found.
Marina Cowdray: Wife of Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount of Cowdray. Daughter of John Cordle. Sister of Rachel and Rupert Cordle.
Colin Cowie: A lifestyle guru, television personality, author, interior designer, and party planner for the wealthy.
Sophie Crabbe: No information found.
Alaistar Cudro: No information found.
Boykin R. Curry: Boykin Curry is a partner at Eagle Capital, an investment firm based in New York. Mr. Curry is a co-founder of Public Prep, a group of charter schools in New York City. He is also a board member of Alliance for School Choice and a co-founder of Democrats for Education Reform
Amanda Cutter & Christopher Brooks: Listed earlier under Christopher & Amanda Brooks. At least Epstein kept up with his black book.
Miranda Brooks is Christopher’s 1st wife, Amanda is his second.
Christopher Brooks’ brother is
Amanda Brooks, the wife of Charlie’s brother, the artist. Christopher Brooks’ brother is Charlie Brooks married to Rebekah Brooks.
Charlie Brooks
Charlie Brooks’s kriotherapy leaves me cold.
Freeze-treatment service at health spa Champneys
Buried in the torrent of revelations about News International is the interesting fact that Rebekah Brooks’s husband, Charlie, runs a “kriotherapy” centre at Champneys, the spa that played a part in Sir Paul Stephenson’s demise after revelations that he enjoyed a free five-week stay there [see footnote]. Is “kriotherapy” legitimate enough to be allowed out without its “scare quotes” on, or are the Brooks family backing another less-than-reputable product?
“Kriotherapy” is an innovative take on America’s “cryotherapy”, with a “k” instead of a “c”…
People take off most of their clothes, sit in front of a fan for a bit to dry their skin, and then lark about for a few minutes in a freezer set to more than a hundred degrees below zero. The treatments are offered by Champneys …
The treatment has had a huge amount of publicity in the press, with features in the Independent, Telegraph and FHM. Articles about it tend to follow a particular pattern: 1) reporter seeks treatment on the trail of a celebrity aficionado (Tony Blair, Jason Orange, Frank Bruno, you know the type),
This footnote was appended on 22 July 2011: This article stated that Charlie Brooks, the husband of former News International’s chief executive Rebekah Brooks, “runs a ‘kriotherapy’ centre” at Champney’s. To clarify: Brooks onceworked with the owner of the centre when it was based in London and he also helped bring it to Champneys two years ago but since then he has had no connection with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/charlie-brooks-champneys-kriotherapy
Jimmy Savile molested me – claims ex Henlow Grange chambermaid
Savile was a regular guest at Champneys. The hotel has a wing named after Savile.
https://www.thecomet.net/news/jimmy-savile-molested-me-claims-ex-henlow-grange-chambermaid-1-1661501
Amanda Brooks moves to Britain to help former News International boss and sister-in-law Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah and Charlie Brooks
Amanda Brooks, the fashion director of the New York store Barneys, moves to Britain, where she can support Rebekah Brooks, who faces trial on conspiracy charges.
Sarah Payne’s mother ‘devastated’ after News of the World hackers ‘targeted phone given to her by Rebekah Brooks’
The mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne is ‘devastated’ to learn that the News of the World may have hacked her mobile phone given to her by the editor Rebekah Brooks.
Sara Payne, who worked closely with the newspaper on its ‘Sarah’s Law’ child protection campaign, has been told by detectives there is evidence she was targeted.
EXCLUSIVE: Fully-equipped dentist chair, close-ups of young girls’ backsides and a teddy by his bed: Creepy images and video from inside the mansion of Clinton and Prince Andrew friend, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
- Daily Mail Online has exclusively obtained video showing cops combing over property pervert friend of Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew called home
- The video taken at the $16.4million property shows in intimate detail depraved Epstein’s liking for young girls — the younger the better
- Photos included one of a child bending over in a dress and images of teenagers posing in bikinis
- Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein’s girlfriend at the time of the raid, features in many, including one where she is nude on a beach
- The raid on the mansion overlooking Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach took place on October 20, 2005
- At the time, authorities were investigating claims that Epstein hired underage girls to massage him in their underwear or totally naked
- Epstein pleaded guilty to a single charge of soliciting an under-age prostitute and was sentenced to 18 months in prison
- The billionaire served 13 months and had to register as a sex offender
A fully equipped dentist’s chair, close-up photographs of young girls’ backsides and a snap of a pedophile meeting a pope. These were the images that police found when they searched evil Jeffrey Epstein’s waterfront mansion.
And it shows in intimate detail just how depraved was Epstein’s liking for girls — the younger the better.
Dozens of pictures — including one of a child aged no more than six or seven bending over in a tiny dress which was considered so bad that authorities blurred it out on the video — adorn the walls.
Dentist chair
…photos and portraits as well as pictures of Epstein shaking hands with world leaders —from Fidel Castro to Pope John Paul II.
Royals rally round Prince Andrew as he is joined at church by The Queen, Charles and Beatrice a day after his past came back to haunt him with suicide of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
The Queen sat next to her son on their way tochurch on the grounds of Balmoral this morning, as Prince Andrew faces renewed scrutiny over his friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein who was found dead in his jail cell yesterday.
The Prince shared a car with his mother and daughter, Princess Beatrice, to Kirk on the Scottish estate this morning, while Charles and Camilla drove themselves.
Epstein was accused of arranging to have sex with dozens of underage girls at his residences in New York and Florida, but had denied two counts of sex trafficking.
His body was discovered at 6.30am US time yesterday at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Manhattan, hours after a court in New York released 2,000 pages of previously sealed legal documents.
One document repeated the allegation, which the Prince has always denied, that Andrew had sex with a 17 year old girl.
As the FBI launched an investigation into Epstein’s death, it emerged that:
A legal source said: ‘Ghislaine is the key to all this now that Epstein will no longer face justice himself. The victims deserve answers and she was the person closest to Epstein.
‘Far from being the end to Prince Andrew’s problems, Epstein’s suicide could put him under renewed scrutiny because of his close friendship with Ghislaine.’
Was Epstein blackmailing for Mossad through the Maxwells?
To bring plausibility to the theory that Epstein and/or Ghislaine were running the child-sex blackmail ring on behalf of the Mossad, we have to establish a clear link to the Mossad. One is Robert Maxwell, via his daughter Ghislaine. The weight of evidence suggests that in 1991, the Mossad, itself, murdered Robert Maxwell after he allegedly tried to blackmail them into paying off his massive debts and because of the implications of the revelations in The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by journalist Seymour Hersh that same year that Maxwell had been a secret spy for the Mossad—something that was not publicly known up until that point. Maxwell was apparently assassinated shortly after the publication of Hersh’s book, after British Labour MPs George Galloway and Rupert Allason quoted before the House of Commons a portion of Hersh’s book as it pertained to Maxwell and demanded an investigation into Maxwell and his Mossad ties.[6]
. Many high-level operatives were murdered in the aftermath of the Iran-Contra affair—the affair itself being used expressly to help Israel arm Iran and Iraq as part of a Balkanization scheme, which became known as the Yinon Plan.[8] Israel also used the scandal to install Ronald Reagan as president—clearly the preferred choice of the Likud-Chabad syndicate. Donald Trump would go on to become Reagan 2.0 in 2016. Maxwell directly aided the Yinon Plan-Iran-Contra scandal by helping to arm Iran with weapons from Poland. Kryuchkov was fully aware of Israel’s interests in arming its enemies and played right along (Mossad-KGB collaboration). “So the Iranians get to kill more Iraqis. Then, when Teheran is on top, Israel starts to supply Baghdad so as to kill more Iranians.”[9]
Ghislaine Maxwell went on the record stating that her father was murdered, despite the botched investigation that tended towards either a suicide or accident conclusion. Ghislaine didn’t hint at who might have carried out the hit. Would she go on, only a few years later, to help Mossad set up Operation Jeffrey Epstein knowing that the very people she was working for might have killed her dad? Or did her father receiving a state funeral in Jerusalem—attended by the Israeli government’s top brass—fool her into thinking that Mossad was innocent of her father’s death? More interestingly, yet, perhaps she never volunteered to aid the operation in the first place but was approached by the Mossad and obliged out of fear that she might meet a similar fate as her father. She could have detached herself from the past in order to gain what Mossad could have offered her. She was reportedly the most practical in her behavior after learning of her father’s death. It seems she is not a woman ruled by her emotions.
More Epstein-Maxwell-Mossad connections
Another Mossad connection between Maxwell and Epstein is Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister. While working for Mossad and helping Soviet Jews immigrate to Israel, Robert Maxwell would meet with Barak, who was then director of Aman, Israel’s military intelligence.[10] After authorities sentenced Epstein for child prostitution in 2008, they discovered a black contact book containing names of many prominent people, some of whom Epstein is believed to have blackmailed. As well, it contained contact information for some of the child victims. Barak’s name is in there…and it is was circled by Epstein’s former housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez (since died mysteriously) as being one of many to either witness or participate in Epstein’s abuse of young girls. Also circled were the names of Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Alan Dershowitz, among others. Henry Kissinger—close friend to Robert Maxwell—was also listed in Epstein’s book.
Another (potential) Mossad connection with Epstein—also with Robert Maxwell—is late Jewish billionaire bankster Edmund Safra. In a long list of Iran-Contra-Oded-Yinon players, Safra also appears to have been assassinated, in 1999. Safra’s name and contact information were found in Epstein’s black book. Safra was the owner of National Republic Bank of New York and helped Robert Maxwell launder money from the Soviet Bloc.[11]
more here
https://fitzinfo.wordpress.com/tag/fbi/
@ciabaudo
Isn’t it telling that even Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide watch guard looked the other way at just the right moment ….?
@ciabaudo
The Bureau of Prisons is part of DOJ. This should prompt an immediate and comprehensive DOJ Inspector General investigation to determine who is responsible for Epstein’s death.
So let’s have a look who is in charge over there …
Oh, I see. Forget it!
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@kirbysommers
Remember it was Bill Barr who was H.W. Bush’s fixer.
Remember it was Bill Barr who stonewalled Iran Contra.
Remember it was Bill Barr who was AG when Jeffrey Epstein conveniently died.
@ciabaudo
“Donald’s son William Barr would intersect with Epstein’s orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland and Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal.”
William Barr checks with DOJ ethics officials, decides not to recuse himself from Epstein case
4:48am PDT – July 9th, 2019 epstein – The Washington Times
Attorney General William P. Barr will not recuse himself from new charges filed against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein by federal prosecutors in New York, a senior Justice Department said Tuesday.
People involved with Dalton School…
@morphonios
While #Epstein was teaching at Dalton, Donald Barr’s son, William was working for the CIA. William later served as GHW Bush’s Attorney General during the CIA Iran-Contra Affair & refused to allow the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate. #Trump brought Barr back as AG.
Donald Barr gave his resignation in February but he did not leave until June 7th, which was after Epstein had been hired. See the NYT archive to confirm:
Dalton School
@kirbysummers
Alumni of the prestigious school alumni include Chevy Chase, Sean Lennon, Anderson Cooper and Claire Danes.
Dalton was also featured as Mariel Hemingway’s school in the 1979 Woody Allen film “Manhattan.”
Woody may have met Epstein in 1975 @ Dalton. Woody’s character in ‘Manhattan’ is “dating” a 17-year old.
Donald Barr (August 8, 1921 – February 5, 2004) was an American educator and writer. He taught English at Columbia University, was headmaster at the Dalton School in New York City (1 964–74) and the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York (both members of the ) Ivy Preparatory School League.
He and his wife, Mary Margaret (née Ahern), had four children including William P. Barr, who served as the 77th U.S. Attorney General in the George H. W. Bush Administration and currently serves as the 85th U.S. Attorney General in the Donald Trump Administration.[3][4]
Barr served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.[4] He was teaching English at Columbia in 1955.[6] He initiated the Columbia University Science Honors Program in 1958 and was its director until 1964.[4] He worked as an educator in and around New York City from the 1950s to 1980s and reviewed books for The New York Times.[4][6]
William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney serving as the 85th United States Attorney General in the Donald Trump administration since February 14, 2019. He also served as the 77th Attorney General from 1991 to 1993, in the George H. W. Bush administration.
Before becoming Attorney General in 1991, Barr held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including serving as Deputy Attorney General. Barr is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of nearly unfettered presidential authority
Phone surveillance program
In 1992, Barr launched a surveillance program to gather records of innocent Americans’ international phone calls.[41] The DOJ Inspector General concluded that this program was launched without a review of the legality of the program.[41] According to USA Today, the program “provided a blueprint for far broader phone-data surveillance the government launched after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”[41]
Iran-Contra
In late 1992, Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, who had been chosen to investigate the Iran–Contra affair, found documents in the possession of Reagan’s former defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, which Walsh said was “evidence of a conspiracy among the highest-ranking Reagan Administration officials to lie to Congress and the American public.”[42][43] Weinberger was set to stand trial on felony charges on January 5, 1993.[42][44] His “indictment said Mr. Weinberger’s notes contradicted Mr. Bush’s assertions that he had only a fragmentary knowledge of the arms secretly sold to Iran in 1985 and 1986 in exchange for American hostages in Lebanon.”[44][43][45] According to Walsh, then-president Bush might have been called as a witness.[46]
On December 24, 1992, during his final month in office, Bush, on the advice of Barr, pardoned Weinberger,[10][47] along with five other administration officials who had been found guilty on charges relating to the Iran–Contra affair.[10][48][49][42] Barr was consulted extensively regarding the pardons, and especially advocated for pardoning Weinberger.[50]
Walsh complained about the move insinuating that Bush on Barr’s advice had used the pardons to avoid testifying and stating that: “The Iran-contra cover-up, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed.”[51] In 2003, he wrote an account of the investigation in his book, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up.
Because of this and Barr’s unwillingness to appoint an independent counsel to look into a second scandal known as Iraqgate, New York Times writer William Safire began to refer to Barr as “Coverup-General Barr.”[52] Barr, however, responded that he believed Bush had made the right decision regarding that and he felt people in the case had been treated unfairly.[53] Barr said that Walsh was a “head-hunter” who “had completely lost perspective.”[54]
Bronfman/ALEC/Barr
Former headmaster of Dalton accused of sexually assaulting teen student
June 7, 2018
The headmaster of an elite Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a disadvantaged teen for months when he took her into his home to help out with his new baby, an explosive new lawsuit charges.
The victim, identified as J.S., was 14 years old when Gardner Dunnan, the long-time head of the Dalton School, allegedly preyed upon her at his Manhattan apartment and in his New Jersey summer home.
The alleged attacks happened in 1986 when J.S. was living at Dunnan’s family’s Upper East Side home while attending the tony school tuition-free — in exchange for her working as a “family helper.”
She accuses Dalton of turning a blind eye to Dunnan’s alleged behavior, saying the school ” should have been aware that Dunnan was likely to engage in sexual misconduct or other harmful behavior.”
Dunnan was forced to resign from Dalton in 1997 — after his affair with a married female teacher at the school was exposed. He served as headmaster at the East 89th Street school for 23 years. (Since 1974)
Dalton School
- Jeffrey Epstein, taught 1973-75. Financier; convicted sexual predator[74]
@_whitneywebb
Bill Barr also published a sci-fi novel about sex slavery before he allegedly hired Epstein at the Dalton School. Another weird coincidence…
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide overnight in his Lower Manhattan jail cell – the federal lockup where he had been held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges, three law enforcement officials told @ABC News.
@morphonios
Epstein Maxwell connections to the 8 member Israeli Genie Oil board of directors. Newly unsealed court docs now implicate former Gov. Bill Richardson (board member #4 – he is accused of having sex w/Virginia Roberts).
Israeli Genie Energy board: Lord Jacob Rothschild, CIA director James Woosley, George Bush’s former vice-president Dick ‘waterboard’ Cheney, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson, in North Korea with Eric Schmidt of Google
George Mitchell lent his diplomatic skills to the corporate sphere, where, as chairman of the Disney Company (2004–07), he averted a stockholder rebellion and helped guide the entertainment giant through a contentious leadership transition
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Mitchell
Claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg addresses a reporter’s question during a Nov. 13, 2018, news conference announcing the launch of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s compensation program for clergy sex abuse victims. George Mitchell, shown in background, led the fund’s oversight committee before stepping down in May.
Ex-U.S. senator accused in Jeffrey Epstein scandal oversaw Philly Archdiocese’s sex-abuse compensation fund
Among the prominent men accused of sexual abuse in a cache of recently unsealed court documents tied to financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged trafficking of underage girls, one name stood out to clergy sex-abuse victims in Philadelphia: George J. Mitchell.
Better known for his stints as a Senate majority leader and a U.S. special envoy, Mitchell until May had led the board overseeing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s compensation fund for those abused by priests….the man handpicked to oversee the archdiocese’s most significant attempt to date to compensate abuse victims had himself been accused as an abuser. Others said that Mitchell’s ties to Epstein have only deepened their reservations about the church’s reparations process — a program many of them already viewed with skepticism.
Mitchell, citing new work commitments at his law firm, DLA Piper, stepped down in May from the oversight committee of the archdiocese’s Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program (IRRP).
Giuffre’s allegations against Mitchell were not known when Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput appointed him to lead the committee overseeing the IRRP in November. But his friendship with Epstein — then a convicted sex offender after a 2008 plea deal in Florida — was well-documented.
Mitchell called Epstein a “friend and supporter” in a 2003 New York Magazine profile. Epstein referred to Mitchell as the world’s greatest negotiator.
As chairman of the independent oversight committee last year, Mitchell and other members were tasked with drafting protocols and policies for the compensation program and with monitoring the claims process. The determination of payouts to individual claimants is handled by fund administrators Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros.
“It doesn’t surprise me at all,” said John Delaney, who has alleged his childhood priest raped him when was a 12-year-old altar boy at St. Cecelia Parish in Northeast Philadelphia and who rejected a compensation offer from the fund. “It definitely calls into question the entire effort, if [Mitchell] did this.”
DLA Piper is a multinational law firmwith offices in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.[1] In 2014, it had total revenues of US$2.48 billion and average profit per equity partner of US$1.490 million,[2] and was the third largest law firm in the United States as measured by revenue.[4]
DLA Piper was formed, in January 2005, by a merger between three law firms: San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick LLP and United Kingdom-based DLA LLP. It is composed of two partnerships, the United Kingdom-based DLA Piper International LLP and the United States-based DLA Piper LLP (US). The two partnerships share a single global board
DLA Piper
Notable attorneys, advisors and staff
Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, Liberal DemocratPeer and former spokesman for the Creative Industries in the House of Lords.
Clement Jones is a member of the Saudi–Britain Joint business Council, a Law Society Ambassador to the City of London and an Icebreaker Fellow and vice-president of the 48 Group Club, a business network which promotes links with China. Clement-Jones was group company secretary and legal adviser of Kingfisher Plc from 1986 until 1995, where he coordinated Kingfisher’s contribution to the Shopping Hours Reform Campaign which led to the Sunday Trading Act 1993. Before Kingfisher, Clement-Jones held senior legal positions at Grand Metropolitan, now Diageo plc (legal director, Grand Metropolitan Retailing 1984–1986) and London Weekend Television (head of legal services 1980–1983), now part of ITV plc. Clement-Jones is a former non-executive chairman of the Context Group (1997–2005), the environmental strategy and communications consultancy and former director of Political Context, the political communications consultancy (1996–1999).
Ghislaine called girl her slave Q. Who did Emmy work for? A. Ghislaine. Q. Did Maxwell ever refer to Emmy by any particular term? A. She called her her slave. #SexSlaveCult pdf https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Giuffre-unseal.pdf…
Second Girl testifies to sex with Prince Andrew
Ms. Sjoberg also testified about sexual acts that occurred with her, Prince Andrew, and
Ms. Giuffre, when she and Defendant were staying at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion
It is an undisputed fact that Rinaldo Rizzo testified that Defendant took the passport of a 15-year-old Swedish girl and threatened her when she refused to have sex with Epstein.
Ghislaine took my passport. And I said threatened, she says yes, I was threatened by Ghislaine not to discuss this
Ghislaine lied about being on Lolita Express flights and denied that she appeared on Epsteins flight logs
But It is an undisputed fact that Pilot David Rodgers testified that he flew Defendant and Ms. Giuffre at least 23 times on Epstein’s jet, the “Lolita Express” and that “GM” on the flight logs Stands for Ghislaine Maxwell.
testified that she was Epstein’s procuress.
SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude – Principles, Skills and Tools by Guy
Baldwin; and
Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners
McCawley Dec. at Exhibit 21, Rodriguez Dep. Tr. at 150:10-17; 306:1-306:24.
https://twitter.com/CathyCathyFox
Here’s all 76 pages ordered unsealed today in the Epstein case.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250270-Sweet-Opinion-Unsealed.html
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Westminster public relations insider Brian Basham has represented Mohammed Al Fayed.
The late Simon Regan, who edited and published the investigative magazine ‘Scallywag’, wrote about Basham at some length, referring to Basham as a ‘dirty tricks operator’.
‘Apparently (a story strongly backed up by Stander) Angus had been offered compromising pictures of *** MICHAEL PORTILLO IN EXPLICIT SITUATIONS WITH A YOUNG BOY ***’
https://www.scribd.com/doc/296999308/BBC-broadcaster-Michael-Portillo-alleged-child-sexual-abuse
https://www.scribd.com/doc/296999308/BBC-broadcaster-Michael-Portillo-alleged-child-sexual-abuse
“*** BASHAM HAD BEEN BROUGHT INTO THE CONSPIRACY *** and had approached Al-Fayed who had turned the whole concept down as being far too underhand …”
And now Brian Basher – this time with his business partner Ross Gow – finds himself once again in the midst of an alleged scandal involving Westminster (and Washington, DC) politicians, other VIPs, and exploited and trafficked children … at the side of Ghislaine Maxwell!
Simon Regan’s letter to Frank Dobson re. Angus Regan, mentioning the role played by Brian Basher:
https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1350…
Street Child
Edward Creasy – Street Child Director
Ecclesiastical Insurance Group appoints Edward Creasy
| Ecclesiastical Insurance Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Edward Creasy as a non-executive director, subject to regulatory approval. He will also sit on the board of Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc. |
| It is intended that Mr Creasy becomes chairman of the Group, subject to regulatory approval, when its current chairman, Will Samuel, retires before the Group’s next Annual General Meeting.
Edward Creasy has extensive experience in the insurance sector as both a broker and an underwriter. He is currently chairman of insurance brokers Lycetts, one of the Ecclesiastical Group of companies, and is the non-executive chairman of Charles Taylor plc and a director of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust plc. He is also a director of WR Berkley Insurance (Europe) Ltd and WR Berkley Syndicate Management Ltd. Previously, he was chairman and chief executive of the Kiln Group. |
In March 2016, Archbishop Welby‘s office and Bishop Paul Butler came under considerable criticism for having followed instruction from Ecclesiastical to end contact with a sex abuse survivor.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s office ignored repeated calls for help from the man after staff were told to avoid contact with him to protect the Church of England’s financial interests.[14]
In October 2017, Ecclesiastical received a letter from Bishops Paul Butler, Tim Thornton, and Alan Wilson criticising amongst other things:
inconsistent advice to the Church and the practice of ‘horse trade’ legalism when dealing with CSA cases, with little concern for the impact upon survivors.
The letter was copied to Justin Welby and John Sentamu, Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and to William Nye, Secretary General of the Church of England’s Synod. The three bishops requested a meeting with Ecclesiastical to look at how the church and the insurer work together in relation to the difficulties in responding to survivors of child sex abuse.
Ecclesiastical wrote a strong rebuttal of the letter and did not recognise the picture the bishops gave. Nor did they recognise the criticism previously made in the Elliott Review, which they had claimed in a previous statement on their website had a number of inaccuracies.[17] Their main criticism of the Review was that they had not been given any input to the process of the Review and had been misrepresented. This conflict between the insurer and one of its main clients received considerable media attention.[18][19][20][21][22]
Mandate Now
In March 2018, the pressure group Mandate Now released a critical analysis of the Church of England’s safeguarding policy in which they questioned Ecclesiastical’s possible involvement in formulating the policy “which for obvious reasons of conflict of interest ought not to be allowed”.
They went on to say that the influence of Ecclesiastical seemed “omnipresent”, and that it appeared the Church’s safeguarding officers might be required to gather information from survivors in order to defeat possible claims for damages.[23][24]
Mandate Now’s concerns were borne out in a statement to IICSA by Michael Angell on behalf of the insurer in 2018. His testimony included the statement that Ecclesiastical had been a regular participant in the Church of England Safeguarding Committee from the mid 1990s onwards. This committee made policy recommendations and issued safeguarding guidance within the Church. In 2000, the Church formed a joint safeguarding committee with the Methodist Church, which Ecclesiastical continued to attend. In 2012/13 the two churches returned to separate committees. Ecclesiastical has not attended either since 2015.[25]
Church of England’s links with insurer undermines justice for survivors of clergy abuse
26 Jul 201
Anglican abuse victims believe the Church’s close links with its insurer results in lower settlements to victims. NSS executive director Keith Porteous Wood thinks they’ve got a point, and offers solutions to put things right.
An insurance company connected with the Church of England has been accused by abuse survivors of having unreasonably resisted financial settlements because it has too close an association with the Church itself.
Teresa Cooper and Gilo (surname withheld at his request) made the case powerfully on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme on Friday 21 July (recording starts 14 minutes in).
The painstaking and revealing research carried out by these survivors demonstrates why the close relationship between the CofE and Ecclesiastical Insurance Group (EIG) will tend to suppress the level of settlements and makes the already difficult process of obtaining compensation for victims even harder. The Church of England founded EIG and remains affiliated to it.
The Anglican Church receives massive grants – a dividend in all but name – from EIG through the charity Allchurches Trust. For the period 2014-2020 this is likely to amount to around £100 million, according to the research of these survivors.
Ecclesiastical Insurance is an insurance company in the United Kingdom founded in 1887. The head office is located in Gloucester.
The company is formally named Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc and is authorised and regulated by the FCA and PRA. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecclesiastical Insurance Group plc which in turn is owned by Allchurches Trust, a registered charity whose objectives are to promote the Christian religion and to provide funds for other charitable purposes.[1
It was established by the Church of England to provide insurance cover for its buildings. It now covers a wide range of insurance business, and in 2006 it ranked 16th in liability insurance and 20th in accident insurance based on UK Net Written Premiums.[2]
Customers include Gloucester Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral.
In 2016, Ecclesiastical celebrated a milestone of £50million donated to its charitable owner in under three years. This was celebrated by a special Thanksgiving service in Gloucester Cathedral at which a personal message of thanks from Archbishop Justin Welby was read out by Bishop Nigel Stock, honouring the achievement of the insurance group.
Another concern is the numerous bishops and cathedral deans and head teachers of schools with abuse problems that have been directors on EIG’s board. They sit in a non-executive capacity despite being experts neither on insurance nor, as far as we are aware, on any other corporate area. The question is: why are they there and what effect does their presence have on payouts to abuse victims?
More here:
‘Moral responsibility’
Gilo – a middle-aged man who lives in the south-west of England – told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been raped in the early 1970s by a City of London clergyman, the Reverend Garth Moore.
Gilo – whose surname he has asked us not to use – said he had made more than 20 attempts to contact senior members of the Church after his decision to report the assaults, but often received no reply.
When the Church finally examined his claim, it agreed it was at fault and reached a financial settlement with him of £35,000 on the advice of Ecclesiastical.
But the Church then cut contact, including emotional support – or pastoral care – with Gilo, for which he blames the insurer.
The company insists this was not a result of its advice.
Gilo told the BBC: “I think because of the relationship that the Church has with the insurers, the pastoral response is so fused with the legal response it’s really effectively led by the insurers.
“When that insurer has got such significant presence of senior clerics on its board across the years, then you’re into an area of moral responsibility.”
Ecclesiastical has had a string of senior members of clergy on its board of directors.
The company said this was normal business practice because the Church of England was one of its major customers, and the clergy were non-executive directors.
Church of England ‘withdrew emotional support for abused’
21 July 2017
Victims of abuse by clergy have criticised the Church of England’s close relationship with the insurer advising it on compensation claims.
They said the Church had cut contact and emotional support from them on the advice of Ecclesiastical – which has a senior clergy member on its board.
An independent reviewer said in one victim’s case “financial interests were allowed to impact practice”.
The Church said it aimed to separate pastoral care from insurance issues.
Ian Elliott, a child safeguarding specialist who conducted an independent review of Gilo’s case, echoed the victim’s criticism of Ecclesiastical.
He said the insurer’s advice had “directly conflicted” with the pastoral and compassionate responsibilities of the Church.
“That’s not the direction or advice that is compliant with a compassionate pastoral response which is the stated policy of the Church,” he added.
But Ecclesiastical’s compliance director, John Titchener, said he had not been asked to contribute to Mr Elliott’s review of Gilo’s case.
He said: “The report is based on factual inaccuracies and we have been absolutely clear, before and after, that pastoral care and counselling can and should continue in parallel with an insurance claim which is a separate matter.”
The Church of England, which accepted the criticisms in Mr Elliott’s review in full, said it disagreed with the company.
“The Archbishop [of Canterbury] has very clearly… accepted all those recommendations,” the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev Peter Hancock, said.
Abuse victim Teresa Cooper says the Church is “without a doubt fully involved” in EcclesiasticalEcclesiastical has also been criticised over the settlement of claims by former residents of Kendall House, the Church of England children’s home in Kent where girls were drugged and abused in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
A former resident, Teresa Cooper, told the programme she wanted an investigation into the involvement of Church figures in settlements.
“Even if they’re not legally part of it, the Church are without a doubt fully involved in the Ecclesiastical insurance company,” she added.
Mr Titchener said the settlement of claims relating to Kendall House would be looked at as part of the long-running Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
The Church of England’s responses to complaints of historical abuse have provoked some calls for responsibility for safeguarding to be removed from its ruling bishops, and instead given to an independent organisation.
Abuse survivor Julie Macfarlane tells IICSA of her battle for justice
Jeffrey Epstein: large tranche of files released in Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit
Files made public in case of British socialite may contain extra details of allegations against Epstein and his political connections
9 Aug 2019
Ghislaine Maxwell was alleged to have recruited Virginia Giuffre to work as a masseuse for Jeffrey Epstein when the latter was 15.
A large tranche out of 2,000 pages of potentially explosive documents in a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell – the British socialite and daughter of former media tycoon Robert Maxwell accused of acting as a recruiter of girls and women for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – have been made public.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s many accusers, filed a Manhattan federal court lawsuit against Maxwell in 2015, alleging defamation. Giuffre, née Roberts, claimed Maxwell defamed her by calling her a liar over her allegations against Maxwell and Epstein.
Giuffre has alleged that Maxwell recruited her to work as a masseuse for Epstein when she was 15 and had been working as a locker-room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Giuffre had previously alleged that Epstein, who had political connections, forced her into sexual encounters with Prince Andrew. Buckingham Palace has vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations. In 2015 it released a statement saying: “The allegations made are false and without any foundation.”
Maxwell and Giuffre settled the lawsuit in 2017 but scores of case documents – which many speculate may contain additional details of allegations against Epstein and his political connections – had remained under seal until a federal appeals court ordered their release.
The release of these documents comes in the wake of Epstein’s arrest last month on sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges for alleged sexual abuse of underage girls between 2002 and 2005, at his homes in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. The Manhattan US attorney’s office, which is pursuing this case, alleges some of Epstein’s victims were just 14 years old.
Epstein, a financier whose net worth is now thought to be some $560m, also associated with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
Trump, who was pictured partying with Epstein and women in the 1990s, has recently attempted to distance himself from the financier.
In the wake of Epstein’s arrest last month, Trump told reporters he “knew [Epstein], like everybody in Palm Beach knew him”, but added: “I had a falling out with him. I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
However, in a 2002 profile of Epstein from New York magazine, Trump was quoted as saying: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Clinton also distanced himself from Epstein in a statement issued by his press secretary, saying he had “not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade” and “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he had been recently charged in New York”.
Giuffre has also claimed Epstein forced her to have sex with the prominent US lawyer and law professor Alan Dershowitz, who defended Epstein in his 2008 abuse case, in which he secured a plea deal. Dershowitz has repeatedly denied the claims and called for the court documents in the Maxwell case to be released, saying he is confident they would clear his name.
After Epstein’s first appearance in court in New York following his arrestlast month, Giuffre’s lawyer, Sigrid McCawley, issued a statement from her client, saying it was time for Epstein “and those who participated in these sex crimes to be brought to justice”.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty and was denied bail before trial. He was reportedly found unconscious in a Manhattan jail cell with injuries to his neck on 23 July.
Maxwell is the youngest daughter of Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 after falling off his yacht, which was named the Lady Ghislaine.
More details soon …
Israeli Politician Ehud Barak Often Crashed At Apartment Epstein Owned, Neighbors Say
Residents of a building owned by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother say the former prime minister was a frequent guest when he was in New York.
5 Aug 2019
The residents of 301 East 66th St. always knew Ehud Barak was there by the flashy cars parked outside and burly security guards in the lobby. The former Israeli prime minster’s visits were an open secret among the tenants of the Upper East Side building, which is owned by Jeffrey Epstein’s younger brother.
Several residents of 301 East 66th St. told The Daily Beast they had seen Barak in the building multiple times over the last few years, and nearly half a dozen more described running into his security detail. The building is majority-owned by Epstein’s younger brother, Mark, and has been tied to the financier’s alleged New York trafficking ring.
When asked about his stays at 301 E. 66th Street, Barak told The Daily Beast, “Despite the fact that there was no wrongdoing on my part, and that there is not even the faintest suspicion of wrongdoing on my part, I’m not going to address these questions because in the current political environment in Israel, the mere fact of my response to such a question is churned up as spin in the political game.”
“As a former prime minister I’m accompanied by bodyguards everywhere I go,” he added.
While the Israeli politician has tried to play down his ties to Jeffrey Epstein since the billionaire’s indictment on charges of child sex trafficking, Barak became a fixture of the Epstein story after Israeli outlets reported he had received more than $3 million in payments from Epstein-connected institutions since 2004.
The former prime minister was also photographed leaving Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion in 2016 and has acknowledged visiting the billionaire’s private Caribbean island, where Epstein is accused of hosting orgies with underage girls.
Barak has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Eptsein’s alleged crimes and maintains he never so much as talked to the financier in the presence of underage women. In a previous interview with The Daily Beast, Barak he was first introduced to the financier by Israeli leader Shimon Peres in 2002, and saw Epstein only “on occasion” after that.
“I’ve never been there at a party,” he said. “To the contrary, at his home, I met many very respected people, scientists, Nobel Prize winners, and I met him also in Boston, at MIT or the Harvard labs he supports.”
Residents of 301 East 66th St. described Barak as a frequent presence at their 16-story building. One resident said she saw and recognized the statesman in the lobby, while another said he was identified to her by a doorman or fellow resident.
Five other current and former residents said they had not seen Barak in person, but saw his security detail around the building on multiple occasions. One recalled riding in the elevator with bodyguards speaking Hebrew, while another said she regularly saw someone posted outside an 11th-floor apartment. Another woman recalled seeing the security detail in the lobby at least a dozen times.
“When he wasn’t in his apartment, [the security guards] would hang out in the lobby as if it was their own living room,” one disgruntled resident recalled. “They would sprawl out, they’d put all their shit on the couches, and sometimes they ate on the table there.”
The majority of the units in the building are owned by Ossa Properties, a real estate company started by Mark Epstein. The younger Epstein has admitted to renting out apartments to Jeffrey for personal use, but maintains that his brother has no ownership stake in the building. When a Daily Beast reporter called for further comment, Mark Epstein hung up.
Tollman Family
Among the cases he has conducted in the VAT tribunal have been:
- Grunwick Processing Laboratories Ltd – a decision on the burden of proof and on the time limits for assessments
- Trafalgar Tours Ltd – a case on the value of supply
Former travel executive Tollman guilty of tax evasionlink
Prosecutors have 1 million pages of evidence against Jeffrey Epstein, his lawyer revealed in court Monday — without shedding any new light on the jailhouse incident that left the convicted pedophile with bruises on his neck.
No marks were visible on Epstein’s neck, and he never appeared to be in pain during the 15-minute hearing in Manhattan federal court.
The judge overseeing the case tentatively scheduled Epstein’s trial for June 2020 after a prosecutor said the child sex-trafficking charges against him should be resolved as “swiftly as possible.”
“We don’t think any delay in this is in the public interest,” Manhattan Assistant US Attorney Alison Moe said.
Epstein’s trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and the defense will have all the prosecution’s evidence against the multimillionaire financier by Oct. 31, she said.
Defense lawyer Martin Weinberg objected to starting the trial before September 2020, saying, “We need time to review a million pages of discovery.”
But Judge Richard Berman said he was blocking out time in June 2020 on the presumption that the defense would be ready by then.
Weinberg didn’t make any mention of the July 23 incident in which law enforcement sources have said Epstein, 66, was found sprawled on the floor of his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he’s being held without bail.
Weinberg declined to answer questions about the incident outside court.
Epstein, who wore dark blue jail scrubs over a brown T-shirt, didn’t speak during the hearing.
He’s pleaded not guilty to accusations he sexually abused dozens of underage girls — some as young as 14 — in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005.
Berman set a Sept. 13 deadline for defense motions in the case, and Weinberg said he planned to seek dismissal of a conspiracy charge on grounds of double jeopardy tied to allegations that underpinned a non-prosecution agreement that Epstein struck in 2008 with then-Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta.
That deal was exposed last year in an award-winning series of stories by the Miami Herald, and controversy that erupted following Epstein’s July 6 arrest forced Acosta to resign as President Trump’s labor secretary.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/31/jeffrey-epstein-faces-1-million-pages-of-evidence-defense-lawyer/
Messages left for Jeffrey Epstein ‘suggested his friend might be procuring two 8-year-old girls for the pedophile to sexually abuse’ state court docs filed by victims’ lawyer
- A message pad taken from Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion in 2005 reveals calls from Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and visits from Tom Ford
- Many of the messages are from Jean-Luc Brunnel, a model agent who has been accused of sexual assault and rape by multiple women
- There is one that appears to reference underage girls, another noting how much an 18-year-old woman ‘loves Jeffrey’
- ‘He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is 2 x 8 years old… Lessons are free and you can have 1st today if call me back,’ reads one
- ‘This message reasonably suggested… that Brunel might have been procuring two eight-year-old girls for Epstein to sexually abuse,’ stated one court filing
31 July 2019
Messages that were left for Jeffrey Epstein around the time the Palm Beach Police first began investigating the pedophile in 2005 offer a rare glimpse into his juxtaposed worlds.
There are calls from former members of the Royal Family, details about and conic designer’s weekend visit to his Palm Beach mansion, and multiple messages from his close friend Jean-Luc Brunel.
There is one that appears to reference underage girls, another noting how much an 18-year-old woman ‘loves Jeffrey’ and another in which Brunell relays one doctor’s professional opinion on how best to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
These messages were all obtained by DailyMail.com after filing an FOIA request for Palm Beach records related to Epstein’s legal battles in the decade since he left prison.
The message pad was first obtained by police during their search of Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion in October of 2005, shortly after they were tipped off to the fact that the pedophile knew he was being investigated by police.
A message from Ghislaine Maxwell in August of that year reveals that Epstein and his age-appropriate companion were hosting Tom Ford in Palm Beach.
‘She let [Epstein’s pilot] Larry go,’ reads the note
Esptein is then told to contact Maxwell to let her know if she should just pick the designer up in the helicopter, which she was licensed to fly.
In January, a message states that ‘HRH Duchess of York’ aka ‘Sarah (Fergie)’ is ‘expecting your call.’
There are also messages from his good friend Leslie Wexner about business matters, and former Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman calls to ask what the best time would be for him to visit would be during a trip to Palm Beach.
here are also seven messages from David Copperfield or his assistant.
‘Magic David called,’ reads one note.
‘It’s jackpot,’ says another message.
These all stand in stark contrast to the frequent messages left by Brunnell.
At 8:08 am on the morning of April 1, Brunnel called Epstein and left a message, which was relayed to Epstein via a note that read: ‘He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is 2 x 8 years old not blonde. Lessons are free and you can have 1st today if call me back.’
Brunnel then followed up again at 8:31am and 9:04am, asking that Epstein get in touch.
Bradley Edwards, the lawyer for a number of Epstein victims including Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts) included those three messages as evidence after Epstein filed a civil suit against him.
‘In light of these circumstances of the case, this message reasonably suggested to Edwards that Brunel might have been procuring two eight-year-old girls for Epstein to sexually abuse,’ stated one court filing submitted by Edwards and his lawyer.
‘According to widely circulated press reports reviewed by Edwards, Brunel is in his sixties and has a reputation throughout the world (and especially in the modeling industry) as a cocaine addict that has for years molested children through modeling agencies while acting as their agent — conduct that has been the subject of critical reports, books, several news articles, and a 60 Minutes documentary on Brunel’s sexual exploitation of underage models.’
That legal battle waged on for years before finally ending in December, when Epstein settled with Edwards and publicly apologized after the lawyer counter sued for defamation.
Alistair Campbell is in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book.
Alistair Campbell
‘HRH Duchess of York is expecting your call’: Note recording a phone message from Sarah Ferguson to Jeffrey Epstein is discovered among police records along with message from another caller about ‘underage girls’
- Notepad taken from Jeffrey Epstein’s Miami mansion by police in 2005 as they investigated him for sex crimes details his callers
- Include the likes of magician David Copperfield and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell
- One says that ‘HRH Duchess of York Sarah (Fergie) … is expecting your call’
- Epstein was a close friend of Sarah Ferguson’s husband Prince Andrew, the Queen’s son, and she once borrowed money from the paedophile
- The messages were taken before Epstein was convicted
A note about a message from the Duchess of York has been unearthed in a pad seized by police from the Miami mansion of newly-accused paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The note, penned by an unknown hand on January 25, 2005, at 7.15pm, is from ‘HRH Duchess of York Sarah (Fergie)’ and says ‘she is expecting your call’.
Sarah Ferguson’s former husband Prince Andrew was a close friend of Epstein and was once accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing an underage girl – claims Buckingham Palace has denied and have since been struck from the record.
The note was among dozens of messages left for the billionaire financier from the likes of magician David Copperfield, close friend Jean-Luc Brunel, and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who dated Epstein and was part of his inner circle for decades.
It was revealed in 2011 that Andrew had arranged for Epstein to pay the Duchess £15,000 to help clear a £78,000 debt she owed to her former personal assistant, Johnny O’Sullivan. It is unclear when this payment was made.
The Duchess subsequently apologised, saying: ‘I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me.
‘I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgement on my behalf. I am just so contrite I cannot say.
‘Whenever I can, I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again.’
In 2005, when the note was penned, the Duchess and Prince Andrew were divorced and living separately.
Epstein used to be close friends with Prince Andrew. Andrew’s name was mentioned in a 2015 lawsuit when some of Epstein’s victims challenged a plea deal.
The court filing alleged that Epstein forced Virginia Giuffre – who was then known as Roberts – ‘to have sexual relations’ on three separate occasions with ‘a member of the British Royal Family, Prince Andrew (a/k/a Duke of York)’. She is thought to have been 17 at the time.
The claim was categorically denied and a judge subsequently struck it from the record.
The notes, including the one the one referencing the Duchess, were in a pad that police took from Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion in 2005 when they first began investigating him for sex crimes, and were obtained by the Dailymail.com under FOIA law.
There is one that appears to reference underage girls, another noting how much an 18-year-old woman ‘loves Jeffrey’ and another in which Brunel relays a doctor’s professional opinion on how best to treat a sexually transmitted disease.
Many of the messages are from Jean-Luc Brunel (above), a model agent who has been accused of sexual assault and rape by multiple women
The notes were unveiled as Epstein sits in jail charged with operating a sex trafficking ring in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005 which involved the abuse of dozens of underage girls.
Other messages in Epstein’s notepad include one from Brunel which lawyers subsequently argued could have showed him procuring two eight-year-old girls for Epstein to abuse.
At 8:08 am on the morning of April 1, Brunel called Epstein and left a message, which was relayed to Epstein via a note that read: ‘He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is 2 x 8 years old not blonde. Lessons are free and you can have 1st today if call me back.’
Brunel then followed up again at 8:31am and 9:04am, asking that Epstein get in touch.
Bradley Edwards, the lawyer for a number of Epstein victims including Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts) included those three messages as evidence after Epstein filed a civil suit against him.
‘In light of these circumstances of the case, this message reasonably suggested to Edwards that Brunel might have been procuring two eight-year-old girls for Epstein to sexually abuse,’ stated one court filing submitted by Edwards and his lawyer.
‘According to widely circulated press reports reviewed by Edwards, Brunel is in his sixties and has a reputation throughout the world (and especially in the modeling industry) as a cocaine addict that has for years molested children through modeling agencies while acting as their agent — conduct that has been the subject of critical reports, books, several news articles, and a 60 Minutes documentary on Brunel’s sexual exploitation of underage models.’
That legal battle waged on for years before finally ending in December, when Epstein settled with Edwards and publicly apologized after the lawyer counter sued for defamation.
Other messages in the pad include one from Ghislaine Maxwell in August 2005 that says that Epstein and his age-appropriate companion were hosting Tom Ford in Palm Beach.
‘She let [Epstein’s pilot] Larry go,’ reads the note
Esptein is then told to contact Maxwell to let her know if she should just pick the designer up in the helicopter, which she was licensed to fly.
There are also messages from his good friend Leslie Wexner about business matters, and former Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman calls to ask what the best time would be for him to visit would be during a trip to Palm Beach.
None of those people have been implicated in any way in Epstein’s scandals, and are believed to have been caught completely off guard when they learned about his predatory habits.
There are also seven messages from David Copperfield or his assistant.
‘Magic David called,’ reads one note.
‘It’s jackpot,’ says another message.
These all stand in stark contrast to the frequent messages left by Brunel.
Scandal of child abuse in prep schools must be addressed, says author Simon Astaire
Having watched and been inspired into action by the film, author Simon Astaire wrote his book Mr Coles to bring attention to the abuse and preparatory boarding schools [25]
Simon Astaire was friends with the family of the Santa Barbara murderer. The killer’s father is Peter Rodger, assistant director of the Hunger Games films…
Minutes before opening fire in central Isla Vista, Rodger emailed his manifesto to 30 people including his parents, therapists and former teachers. It is believed he may have already killed the three men in his house by then.
One of the therapists immediately telephoned Rodger’s mother Chin Rodger.
He said “Have you gotten Elliot’s email? I think you should see it.” The time was 9.17pm on Friday, about 13 minutes before the massacre began.
She telephoned her husband Peter Rodger, assistant director of the Hunger Games films, from whom she is divorced. He was out to dinner but they both began racing from Los Angeles to Isla Vista in separate cars. Both heard details of the massacre on their car radios.
Simon Astaire, a family friend, said their son had been seeing therapists since the age of eight, including virtually “every day” while at high school.
Simon Astaire
Elliot Rodger and his six victimsSimon Astaire is the family’s close personal adviser and main link to the outside world. “So many people are asking what could have led this young man to take the lives of 6 innocent people and injure 13 others. So yesterday I spoke with close family friend and author Simon Astaire who knew Elliot Rodger since he was a little boy and witnessed his parents’ struggle to raise him first hand.”
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A family friend described Elliot Roger’s Santa Barbara attacks as “hell on earth.”
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Elliot Rodger may have used machetes and hammer to murder house-mates in ‘killing chamber’
The California mass shooter believed to have targeted room-mate over theft of three candles as friends say “heartbroken” parents had him in therapy from age of eight
26 May 2014
The crazed killer who murdered six in a quiet California university town is believed to have used a machete and hammer to slaughter his first three victims in an apartment he planned to turn into a “personal torture and killing chamber”.
His uncle is sport and property entrepreneur Jarvis Astaire, once the deputy chairman of Wembley Stadium.
From 1986 Carman had a long term relationship with a barrister called Karen Phillips who hung out with showbiz folk including Julia Morley, Russ Abbott and Bruce Forsyth’s wife Winnie. She was also friends with Dr Veronica Varney and Martin Landau. Elton John’s wife Renate was co-director of one of Phillips’s companies and Carman acted with Karen for Renate in her divorce from Elton.
A number of Carman’s clients were friends with Karen including Norman Lamont, Richard Branson, Aidan Barclay and Marco Pierre White.
Between 1980-93 Karen was also in a relationship with David Green. Carman formed an alliance with Green’s wife whom Carman had traced through ‘detective work’. Interestingly enough although Green was a wealthy man who was able to supply Phillips with a flat in an expensive part of London and a BMW, his company ended up going into liquidation – although Karen succeeded in keeping possession of the valuable flat and even the car. Phillips gave up law in the early 1990s and became involved with Charity Work, evolving into a lady who lunches. At one point she lent her flat to Sarah Ferguson – one of Karen’s mates was a friend of Fergie’s.
Towards the end of Carman’s life he became very angry when photos of Phillips in the company of boxing promoter Jarvis Astaire began appearing in glossy magazines and gossip columns. Carman watched Phillips, followed her and discussed her activities with another lawyer who worked with her. Phillips was someone else who maintained that throughout her very long relationship with Carman they never had sex.
Trustees:
Maurice Kinn organised men-only dinners for the show business, soccer and cricket hierarchy, which attracted the likes of Max Bygraves, Bertie Mee, Sir Jimmy Savile, Jarvis Astaire and Michael Grade. These became known as “Maurice’s candlelit suppers”.
William van Straubenzee
Partner, Deputy Chairman
Willie is the Deputy Chairman and a founding member of James Hambro & Partners, instrumental in establishing the investment process that has underpinned our progress and success. After graduating from Oxford, and a short stint in the shipbroking industry, he joined Morgan Grenfell as analyst, portfolio manager and ultimately director of the Investment Division. He has been closely involved in private wealth and charity investment management for over 35 years as well as being a Trustee of St Dunstans (now Blind Veterans UK) and the Special Boat Service Association.
https://www.jameshambro.com/our-people/willie-van-straubenzee/
Here is another god-child of Edward Heath: Willie Whitelaw’s granddaughter. Whitelaw is alleged to have been a Satanist.
Derry Mainwaring Knight
What do Robert Maxwell, Willie Whitelaw and Edwin Bramall have in common?
They were all awarded medals by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, a man who had romantic friendships with young boys, including the 12-year-old Swiss lad Lucien Trueb.
Lieutenant Edwin Bramall receiving his MC from Field Marshal Montgomery in 1945.
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/search?q=%22field+marshall+montgomery
Field-Marshal Montgomery presents a medal to Robert Maxwell
The Carthews were a prominent military family: Morden Archibald Carthew-Yorstoun was Brigade Major to Brigadier Montgomery.
In 1947, Beryl Muir, aka Bee Carthew, married Brigadier M.A. Carthew of the Royal Artillery. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4260024/The-third-sex-that-sustained-the-Empire.html …
Bee, Carthew, a right-wing nutcase and close friend of the racist Enoch Powell, was also very close to Harvey Proctor, who served together with Barbara Hewson cousin Jonathan Denby as aide to Powell. Carthew helped the fugitive Denby contact his pal Harvey: https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1124171804854181888?s=19 …
Feds probe socialite’s mysterious ocean ‘charity’ over links to Jeffrey Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell at the Rita Hayworth Gala at the Waldorf for the Alzheimer’s Association in 2010.
A mysterious do-nothing charity founded by Jeffrey Epstein’s socialite gal pal is being investigated by the FBI for possible links to the convicted pedophile, The Post has learned.
The TerraMar Project was incorporated in London and Delaware in 2012, purportedly to raise awareness of environmental and other issues facing the oceans, and exclusively funded by hundreds of thousands in loans by heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, public filings show.
Maxwell, 57, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, has been accused by three women of procuring girls to work as sex slaves for convicted pedophile Epstein, according to court filings. Two of the women said both Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted them. She has not been charged with a crime.
Maxwell was listed as president of TerraMar, and her Upper East Side home was its official office. She pumped $283,429 into it between 2012 and 2017. In that time, the so-called charity gave out a total of $874 in grants.
Between 2002 and 2005, Epstein used his private jets — dubbed the “Lolita Express” — to shuttle girls for sex between his estates in New York, Palm Beach, Fla., and the Virgin Islands, according to prosecutors.
One girl, aged 19 at the time — whose name appears on the manifests of two Epstein flights in February 2005 from JFK Airport to Columbus, Ohio, and Palm Beach — became a member of the founding board of directors of the Maxwell charity seven years later.
She also lived in a three-bedroom, $430,000 home in Teaneck, NJ, that is linked in public documents to Maxwell, although neighbors told The Post they never saw Maxwell at the property.
he Post is withholding her name. It is not known what she was doing on those Epstein flights. She did not return calls for comment.
An FBI source would not say if the charity probe is focused on the question of whether it served as a slush fund to pay hush money to Epstein’s young victims.
Members of TerraMar’s blue-ribbon board included Westchester businessman and UN official Amir Dossal, “Dead Poets Society” producer Steven Haft, and Calvo-Platero, Maxwell’s best friend from Oxford.
Ariadne Calvo-Platero
Katie Vaughan-Edwards and Ariadne Calvo-Platero, Maxwell’s socialite friends from London, were also listed in the original incorporation documents.
Multiple calls and e-mails to the charity’s past and current board members were not returned.
Larry Coben, a NYC-based founding director, told The Post he couldn’t remember being connected to the charity and hung up the phone.
Jeffrey Pagliuca, a Colorado-based criminal defense lawyer who is representing Maxwell, did not return The Post’s calls and e-mails.
After The Post began making inquiries this month, the charity blocked its public website and made it password-accessible. Last week, the home page included this message: “The TerraMar Project is sad to announce that it will cease operations.” No reason was given.
The nonprofit’s latest federal tax filings show only $583 in total contributions in 2017 and expenses of $18,462. They also show the charity owes Maxwell $549,093 in loan repayments.
Epstein, 66, was arrested this month for allegedly sexually abusing “dozens” of minor girls.
https://twitter.com/Tiff_FitzHenry
Her London home is a £3.7 million mews property in Belgravia. Land Registry documents list her as the owner ‘care of M.C. Grumbridge, of the Hogarth Group’, a company which runs health clubs in West London. Grumbridge, in turn, is Malcolm Grumbridge, a lawyer often described as a Maxwell family associate.
Then there is Ellmax, a company she set up in 2012. Its registered UK address is a cottage in Wiltshire occupied by Catherine Vaughan Edwards, another old friend. Its U.S. base is Maxwell’s New York flat, via one ‘Dana Burns’, which appears to be an alias that Ghislaine uses.
In the UK, she has a directorship of Jemma Kidd Make Up Limited, a beauty firm run by the socialite and sister of supermodel Jodie, which went into administration in 2012 with debts of £2 million.
Fellow directors are Jack Kidd, Jemma’s polo-player brother, Arthur Mornington, the Duke of Wellington’s son and Jemma’s husband, Grace Fodor, a stylist and star of the BBC show Be Your Own Boss, and Mark Crocker, the stepson of the late racehorse breeder Lord Oaksey, who is married to Samantha Cameron’s personal assistant Isabel Spearman.
Finally there is the charity Terramar, which boasts two other directors: Vaughan Edwards and Lucy Clive, an ‘art director’ who is also the girlfriend of Ghislaine’s brother, Kevin Maxwell
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/910282664/LADY-JEMMA-MORNINGTON/companies
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/08661523/TERRAMAR-UK/companies-house-data
Sarah Ferguson – Dreamflight
Dreamflight
“The stars started to arrive to meet the children. These included Bobby Moore, Steve Davis, Rolf Harris, Roy Castle, Pete Murray, Liz Frazer, Michael Strachan, Floella Benjamin, The Bucks Fizz group and Jimmy Tarbuck.”
“In the early years Rolf Harris and Jeremy Beadle would come along to the pre-trip party and entertain the children.”
My Dream Flights by Patricia Pearce MBE
(pg 68/pg95)
George Mitchell lent his diplomatic skills to the corporate sphere, where, as chairman of the Disney Company (2004–07), he averted a stockholder rebellion and helped guide the entertainment giant through a contentious leadership transition
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Mitchell
@Able_Dawn
Disney owns ABC.
Disney cruise ships went to Epstein Island.
Disney chairman Richard Cook took trips on the Lolita Express, then was appointed to chairman.
Disney’s ABC squashed the Epstein story three years ago.
@KirbySommers
The Jeffrey Epstein massive coverup from day 1 continues. Woman who used to work at ABC and was working for CBS who may have leaked the Amy Robach tape FIRED yesterday.
CBS Allegedly Fires Former ABC Employee Who Had Access To Amy Robach Video
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/11/07/cbs-fires-abc-employee-amy-robach
Ghislaine Maxwell putting on a ‘Save the Children” DISNEY party at the home of Lord & Lady Bath in 1985.
Lord Bath’s son Lord Valentine Thynne was found dead, hanging from a bedspread attached to an oak beam in the lounge bar of the Bath Arms, following a gala evening at Longleat, attended by Princess Margaret.
@AntarctixJ
Oh, it’s just the British royal Lord of Bath who hosted a Disney party for kids at his house thrown by Epstein’s pedo-pimp Ghislaine Maxwell POSING WITH HIS COLLECTION OF ADOLF HITLER PAINTINGS
Floella Benjamin, Childline Peter Wanless (NSPCC/Missing VIP paedophile files)
Peter Wanless with Esther Rantzen
Wanless Inquiry
It “found nothing to support a concern that files had been deliberately or systematically removed or destroyed to cover up organised child abuse”, but also said that it was “not possible to say whether files were ever removed or destroyed to cover up or hide allegations of organised or systematic child abuse by particular individuals because of the systems then in place”.[12]
Peter Wanless delighted to be joined by…Floella Benjamin for Childline
@JamesRusbridger
FLOELLA BENJAMIN was discussed on Sky’s ‘Murnaghan’ show in connection with chairing the CSA inquiry.
She is connected to:
ROLF HARRIS
Ghislaine Maxwell
CHILDLINE, NSPCC & Peter Wanless
BOB GELDOF
Save the Children
NCH Action for Children
Barnardo’s
Sparks
Jimmy Tarbuck
His son, the 7th Lord of Bath – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/3299181/Loveless-lord-of-Longleat.html
Floella with David Steel
Benjamin is vice-president of NCH Action for Children and Barnardo’s, and was in the NSPCC‘s Hall of Fame.
NCH – Tonypandy, Lord McAlpine
Floella Benjamin worked for the BBC before going to the Lords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floella_Benjamin …
Sarah Ferguson takes up considerable space in Jeff’s little black book along with the Duke of Rutland. Fergie was involved with producing The Young Victoria (2009), which was filmed at Belvoir castle when failed shirt-shop Proctor worked there as tour guide and general factotum.
David Granby is another of Jeffrey Epstein’s contacts. But hold on: Isn’t that just another name for the Duke of Rutland? He must have been very important to the man Ghislaine procured young females for. And wasn’t Ghislaine photographed in compromising positions with the Duke!
The Rutlands have a long relationship with Harvey Proctor. The Duke was both the subject of blackmail and gave Whacko work and a flat at Belvoir Castle. The ‘Nick’ trial utterly exposed Harvey Proctor, buddy of Jonathan Denby whose cousin Barbara Hewson attended proceedings.
@ciabaudo
Former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine and his family have numerous listings in Epstein’s book. Hezza was one of several MPs who helped Harvey Proctor set up his shirt shop. He also gave porn collector Patrick Rock, Cameron’s close aide, his first break in politics.
Alexandra Williams, an art dealer, is Heseltine’s daughter – curiously, all contact numbers are blacked out in her case. Her father resigned as deputy to Thatcher in the wake of the Westland affair.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_affair … https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10704365.75k-thankyou-for-saving-her-husbands-life/ … https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/michael-heseltine …
John Mappin is a friend of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson’s Minister for the 19th century, a Scientologist, proponent of fossil fuels and climate denier who lives with his Khazak wife in sinister Camelot Castle in Tintagel, a hotel cum recruiting ground for Scientology.
John Mappin with Jacob Rees-Mogg
Khashoggi , Fr Michael Seed, Mappin… Duncan Williams and John Mappin: someone’s interested I think you have the story all wrong here. I worked with Duncan at his Chelsea Magazine Company http://www.inchelsea.clikpages.co.uk and he is a decent chap. Paid us sales executives very well and on time. We got some great advertisers during my time there, some of the biggest and best companies during the naughties were on sidfe with us. Admittedly, if you see the back editions, prior to the worst of the recession of 2008, Duncan was publishing editorial features that were clearly pro-Scientology, I think even L Ron Hubbard appeared on the editorial board credits along with many legit top named writers. But as a member of the team back then, and there were 12 of us, I believe that he managed to get the Church of Scientology to pay US for those placements. If there is one thing certain, Duncan is a smart businessman, he is NOT a Scientologist. He says he is a Roman Catholic. We had many visits from strange and weird people while I was at the editorial office, even then prime minister’s priest Fr Michael Seed, SA, used to pop by, accompanied by the beautiful Khashoggi woman, a spice girl and Mappin.
David Koch is one of the Koch brothers who have influenced British politics by funding organisations like Turning Point which links to John Mappin, Spiked and Living Marxism. Barbara Hewson writes for Spiked and was a LM member.
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/meet-the-climate-science-denying-fossil-fuel-funded-us-student-group-coming-to-a-uk-campus-near-you/ … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers …
@JohnDoe78359022
From the New Yorker article on Alan Dershowitz: the woman who claims she was “trafficked” by Jeffrey Epstein to powerful men, including Prince Andrew, “described seeing Al Gore and Bill Clinton on Epstein’s island” First time I’ve heard allegations Gore went to Pedophile Island.
Epstein Visited Bill Clinton’s White House At Least Four Times: Report
24 July 2019
Accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House during former President Bill Clinton’s administration at least four times, the Daily Beast reported Wednesday.
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman who has been described as his “madam,” attended a Bill and Hillary Clinton-hosted donors’ reception in the White House in September 1993 after he donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association that same month, according to documents from the Clinton Presidential Library obtained by the Daily Beast.
A former executive vice president of the White House Historical Association, Bernard Meyer, sent a letter to Epstein in October 1993 thanking him for the donation, which he said would be put toward refurbishing the Oval Office and areas of the Executive Residence.
Epstein also met Clinton aide Mark Middleton at least three times in the White House around 1993 and 1994, the Daily Beast reported, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the situation.
The revelation that Epstein’s relationship with Bill Clinton began in the early 1990s casts doubt on the narrative put forth by the former president that their relationship began after he left the White House.
The former president said he “knew nothing” of the financier’s “terrible crimes” in a statement in July after authorities arrested and charged Epstein with sex trafficking.
Bill Clinton acknowledged in the statement that he had taken multiple trips on Epstein’s airplane in 2002 and 2003 for work related to the Clinton Foundation, but he neglected to acknowledge Epstein’s visits to the White House during his time in office.
Epstein said he helped conceive an arm of the Clinton Foundation in a 2007 letter to federal prosecutors designed to boost his public image during the plea negotiations that ultimately led to his highly criticized 2008 sweetheart deal where he served 13 months in prison for pleading guilty to soliciting an underage girl for sex.
Former Italian model Elisabetta Tai said Epstein’s friendship with Bill Clinton was invoked by a member of his entourage when she tried fleeing from his Manhattan mansion in 2004 after the financier stripped naked and handed her a vibrator during a business meeting. (RELATED: Epstein’s Friendship With Bill Clinton Invoked, Former Model Who Reportedly Fled His Home Says)
“She told me that I couldn’t just leave,” Tai told the New York Post a woman resembling Epstein’s alleged madam Maxwell told her as she was leaving his house. “She said that this man is important, that he is a friend of President Clinton.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/24/epstein-visited-clinton-white-house/
One girl who was trafficked by Epstein at age 14 said, “I was still wearing my braces.” She was not a woman at 14 and had no comprehension of what Epstein was after. She thought these were “nice people” inviting her to a party where other kids would be. Instead, she has had years of difficulty and depression ever since Jerry Epstein and company came along and sexually assaulted her.
I so hope to hear that Ghislaine Maxwell does not skate away without consequences. She certainly seems to have loved her pimpstress work alongside Epstein, for years and years. It has been her lifework, just as Keith Raniere has been Clare Bronfman’s lifework.
@HowleyReporter
Here’s part of the letter Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers including Alan Dershowitz sent in 2007 during plea talks identifying EPSTEIN AS CO-FOUNDER OF CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE (also his charitable support for the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations)
WHAT MONEY CAN BUY
A Tale of Two Jeffreys: How the Virgin Islands Welcomed a Rich Sex Offender—and Punished a Poor One
A tale of how great wealth can make a difference when it comes to a shameful crime—until the day it doesn’t.
Carl Beech has been found guilty of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.
22 July 2019
@5thEstateWiki
Harvey Proctor Wikipedia article edited anonymously from [GB] Telegraph Media Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=907476363&oldid=907474614…
This absurd outcome was a foregone conclusion from the moment the security services realised these true allegations could no longer be completely ‘shut down’ absent a suitable show trial, scapegoat, and accompanying targeted propaganda exercise.
Staggeringly prejudicial reporting of the trial and Carl Beech’s allegations by the spook-infested corporate media had the intended effect.
Week after week, in article after miserable article, the corporate media demonised Carl Beech and sanctified the ‘real’ accused: Harvey Proctor, Lord Bramall, the late Greville Janner and the late Edward Heath, etc.
Those establishment figures were consistently portrayed by the newspapers and broadcasters as ‘distinguished public servants’; as ‘noble gentlemen’; as ‘elderly victims’ ‘crying out for justice’, etc. etc.
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/?m=1
@craftymuvva
During the search of Harvey Proctor’s house on the estate of Belvoir… “… police seized a ‘notepad relating to child abuse’ entitled: Bizarre Sex…” Why aren’t the MSM reporting this stuff? It’s disgusting.
The court also heard that “Operation Midland”, when searching Harvey Proctor’s home in 2015, seized “a school uniform with a child’s underwear” – for a child of 13 to 14 – that was blood stained”, and that Proctor refused to provide a blood sample.
@ciabaudo
So Harvey Proctor who had a stash of paraphernalia including whips, straps, blood-stained underwear and a notepads entitled ‘Bizarrre sex’ at his Belvoir estate home was allowed by the Duke to take young children on tours of the castle?
Astonishing threats have been made to publisher Robert Maxwell following exposure of “Whacko” Harvey Proctor. I will produce a story about Ghislaine and Lord Granby (aka the Duke of Rutland) with incriminating pictures of them in compromising positions
@DogWaggedByTail
Keith Harvey Proctor -friend of Peter Jonathan Denby’s (friend and aide to Enoch Powell)
Denby’s cousin barrister Barbara Hewson
@ciabaudo
Witness statements show Proctor’s sexual interest in young boys … No prosecution was pursued … A school uniform with a child’s underwear stained in blood … Refusal to provide blood sample … Someone who enjoy inflicting pain for sexual pleasure …
Restraints, straps, whip, crop, cane … Indecent photographs … Notepad entitled ‘Bizarre sex’ …No action taken … Cross-examination of Proctor blocked … ARE YOU GETTING THE MESSAGE YET?
@Zoompad
Loud and clear, and it is screaming COVER UP
Lord Anthony Lloyd of Berwick said he remains friends with disgraced bishop Peter Ball, who was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing 18 young men over 30 years.
The inquiry heard the former member of the House of Lords had written to various people including the chief constable of Gloucestershire Police and the Archbishop of Canterbury about Ball before his conviction.
Lord Lloyd remained a firm supporter of Peter Ball. He knew Archbishop Carey through their membership of a private dining club called ‘Nobody’s Friends’ which met twice a year, often in Lambeth Palace.[47] He wanted to meet the Archbishop in October 1994, to discuss possibilities for Peter Ball’s return to ministry but instead met with Bishop Sargeant. Already aware that Archbishop Carey was planning for Peter Ball’s return to ministry,[48] he proposed a parish in Portsmouth, for which a mutual friend Edward Nugee QC held the patronage. Bishop Sargeant concluded:
“This appears to be an old boy arrangement and there is a powerful group of friends who are coming to Peter’s aid.”[49]
310. Lord Lloyd did not agree with this description of the offer. Although Peter Ball had resigned, Lord Lloyd thought he could not be left with nothing whatsoever to do; “no decent employer would do that”.[50] This was notwithstanding Peter Ball’s caution and Lord Lloyd’s knowledge of the circumstances of the offending. Bishop Sargeant concluded that Lord Lloyd viewed “two men being together in the nude and holding each other as being not very serious … he takes no account of the fact that it was a bishop/member of religious community relationship”.[51]
3 men connected to Kincora cover-up – members of Lambeth Palace dining club
Gilo writes: Safeguarding the Secrets part 1 – Nobody’s Friends
I was recently given a copy of Nobody’s Friends 1800-2000, a biography and historical diary of the Lambeth Palace dining club which featured in the Peter Ball hearings at IICSA. It emerged at the Inquiry that Lord Lloyd of Berwick had cited their mutual membership of the secretive club to Archbishop Carey in one of many ‘letters of influence’ in support of Ball. Nobody’s Friends is a gathering which quietly fosters establishment links between church and Westminster (mostly the Tory bits of it) and meets in the Guards Room at Lambeth Palace. Newly elected members ‘justify’ themselves during congratulatory speeches which honour any advancement in the various pecking orders (episcopal, judicial, political) of its members. It undoubtedly offers a fulcrum of patronage to any senior cleric lucky enough to be elected member, who might aspire to a mitre.
Membership has included many bishops and archbishops, headmasters from a sprinkling of top schools, various Archbishop’s Appointments Secretaries, Prime Minister’s Appointments Secretaries, Leaders of the House of Commons and House of Lords, Tory peers, Admiralty figures, judicial figures and church lawyers. Such heavyweights as Sir Michael Havers (later Lord Chancellor), Lord Pym, Douglas Hurd, Lord Justice Bingham (former Master of the Rolls) have graced its tables. Several of the senior clerics on the board of Ecclesiastical have also enjoyed membership, and one of the headmaster directors of the church’s insurer. The current club President is believed to be Sir Philip Mawer, who was on the directors board of Ecclesiastical when he was also at same time Secretary General of Synod.
Jonathan Fletcher, Archbishop Welby’s friend and a regular participant at the Iwerne camps from the early 1950s has been a member since 1983. His father, Lord Fletcher, was also a member. The club seems to have had a culture of nepotism in which the scion of ennobled members themselves become elected members.
But another name kept ringing bells. Sir William Van Straubenzee, Tory minister in Northern Ireland under Heath and later a prominent Synod member and Church Estates Commissioner, became a member in 1973. In 1988 he was elected Vice President of the club, and in 1991 elected President of Nobody’s – a position he held until his death in 1999. Clearly very well connected, his London home was a grace-and-favour apartment in Lambeth Palace in the Lollard’s Tower. This pied-à-terre gave name to a group of Tory wets, the Lollards, who met there during Thatcher’s premiership.
Straubenzee was cited in government files in relation to abuse at the Kincora boys home in Belfast. Sir Anthony Duff sent an MI5 dossier on Straubenzee to Sir Robert Armstrong (now Lord Armstrong) in 1986. Kincora may have have been run under the watchful eye of the secret services who used it as a ‘dirty tricks’ blackmail operation, although the findings of the Hart report (Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry HIA Inquiry 2014-2016) disputed this. The involvement of MI5 in Kincora has never meaningfully been investigated. And although three men who shared in the running of the home were prosecuted and jailed in the 1980s – figures from the political and establishment worlds named in connection with the abuse and trafficking of boys from this and other homes in Belfast did not face questioning.
Armstrong himself was also a member of Nobody’s from 1984, and may be still as far as anyone knows. It’s unlikely that other members had awareness at the time when the senior mandarin from Number 10 received this intelligence from MI5. Armstrong appears to have remained tight-lipped, although it is recorded that these files were passed to the Prime Minister. So two men, one of whom had grounds from the security services to suspect possible abuse activities by the other – both toasted the club’s customs and membership alongside assorted archbishops during coffee and mint thins. It’s a disconcerting image.
Equally as disconcerting, there seems to be no indication that the Church of England shared this information with IICSA. Nor following the Peter Wanless and Richard Whittam QC Review when the material from the Cabinet Office first came to public light in 2015 after their report.
Despite judicial interest in these matters, the suffering of victims and survivors, and the need for transparency – the Church of England did not seem to offer this information to these inquiries? Presumably many current Nobody’s Friends, including many bishops, have copies of this rare publication. It did not occur to any of them, nor to the club Treasurer, that this might be helpful information – not least because it might shed light on the culture of protectionism afforded by these private clubs.
Another Lambeth Palace dining club offers a deeper picture of privilege and protection. In 1993 a former chairman of the Nikaean Club and head of Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge went to court for abusing a boy between the ages of 14 and 16. Canon (later Bishop) Christopher Hill, also a member of the Nikæan Club, accompanied Patrick Gilbert to court. Gilbert was also able to brandish a character witness letter from another Nikaean member – former Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan. Gilbert, who was also secretary of the wine committee at The Athenaeum, admitted a previous conviction for indecent assault on two 13-year-old school boys in 1962. Despite this and despite the seriousness of the charge, and almost certainly owing to the protecting influence of a Lambeth Palace dining club, he received a suspended sentence and sympathy from the judge for the considerable stress he had endured. As the judge explained, he decided not to jail the bachelor because of his health and ‘very severe punishment’ he had already undergone through loss of reputation. Both Hill and Coggan were also members of The Athenaeum. It’s not who you know… but who you dine with.
Returning to Nobody’s it is oddly disturbing that its members are likely to have their own copies of this book, and many older members will remember Straubenzee as President of the club. They will have presumably been aware of media reports in recent years of the mention of Straubenzee in secret service reports to the Cabinet Office.
A culture of ‘say nothing unless asked’ is a culture still reluctant to move on from subtle complicity and subterfuge. This mindset has already led to the current existential crisis of the bishops and senior ‘management’ of the Church. The time for keeping of secrets Luca Brasi-style to protect the reputation of a Lambeth Palace eliterie should long be over. The Church should no longer entertain disposition to this kind of omerta. A church with secrecy riven in its bones is not a church with a healthy and redemptive future. It is hardly worth the candle.
Incidentally I was interested to find that two senior figures I had told of my abuse – were both members. Stephen Platten, former Bishop of Wakefield, and John Eastaugh, former Bishop of Hereford.
With no little irony, I give the last word of this essay to Lord Lloyd. When questioned at the Inquiry, his description of Nobody’s Friends was that it was a “perfectly ordinary dining
http://survivingchurch.org/2019/08/20/gilo-writes-safeguarding-the-secrets-part-1-nobodys-friends/
Hillary’ Clinton’s s teacher at Yale was Clement Freud’s close relative, aunt Anna Freud. Hillary wrote a book with Clement Freud’s aunt.
Yale Child Study Center, 1973-1974
Upon graduating from law school, Hillary Rodham took a post-graduate year of study on children, exploring issues of early childhood development, child abuse, and medical-related matters. She also worked as a research assistant to the center’s director, Dr. Al Solnit and one of her professors Joe Goldstein for their book, co-authored with Anna Freud, entitled Beyond the Best Interests of the Child.
Alyce Cleese – After divorcing Dave Eichelberger (with whom she had two sons), she met actor John Cleese in 1990 and they married in 1992. They divorced in 2008, though details of the divorce settlement only became public knowledge in August 2009.[4]
Fiona Sara Shackleton, Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia LVO (née Charkham; born 26 May 1956)[1] is an English solicitor and politician, who has represented members of the British royal family and celebrities, including Sir Paul McCartney and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Her charm and resoluteness earned her the nickname “Steel Magnolia”.[2]
Shackleton joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2001 as a partner. Shackleton is reputed to have fallen out of royal favour in the aftermath of the Paul Burrell affair and the suggestions of a cover-up over allegations of a homosexual rape within the royal household put Shackleton, in her own words, “under pressure for a solution to be reached more speedily than I was able to achieve”. She was criticised in the Peat Report on the proceedings.[2][9]
In the 2006 New Year Honours, she was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)[10] and remains solicitor for the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.[11]
Jeremy Hunt’s campaign manager is in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
Perhaps most significantly of all, just across the border in Shropshire, the Ludlow MP Philip Dunne is managing Mr Hunt’s campaign.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48757101
Philip Dunne’s spouse is Domenica Dunne
Philip Dunne, a defence minister, revealed that his brother-in-law (Rupert Soames) is the chief executive of Serco – a contractor that has won highly paid tender deals with the department.
Milly Soames is Philip Dunne’s sister
Camilla Rose Soames nee Camilla Rose Dunne
https://www.famechain.com/family-tree/6487/milly-soames
Sisters-in-law Milly Soames and Domenica Dunne
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Milly Soames is good friends with Alice Prochaska, mother of Elisabeth Prochaska, deputy to Ben Emmerson, lead barrister at the @InquiryCSA child abuse inquiry and erstwhile hubby-to-be of Ms. Barkin, who both quit the inquiry under a shroud of mystery.
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The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt paid tribute to Mr Dunne on Twitter.
He said:
Jeremy HuntI have rarely come across anyone as decent, honourable & competent as @dunne4ludlow. His wisdom and friendship have been invaluable to me @DHSCgovuk. We will miss him but no doubt he will continue to make huge contributions to public life.
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In July 2016, he was appointed as Minister for State for Health.[2] In Prime Minister Theresa May‘s January 2018 reshuffle, he was dismissed from his ministerial post. Before losing his post, Dunne was accused of belittling the winter NHS bed crisis by suggesting unwell people in accident and emergency departments of hospitals without beds could instead use seats.[3][4]
Conservative leadership election 2005
Just before the Conservative leadership election of 2005, he balloted his constituents about whom he should vote for in the contest. After this ballot Dunne announced that he would be supporting David Cameron; he was also Chairman of Cameron’s campaign in Shropshire.
Philip Dunne was appointed as an unpaid assistant government whip in the House of Commons.[5] In September 2012, he was appointed Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology with responsibility for defence procurement and defence exports.[6] In this role, he was the minister responsible for, and one of the backers of, the bill which became the Defence Reform Act 2014.[7] He was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in the 2019 New Years Honours List
@morphonios
In 1993, #Epstein was busted in a massive US securities fraud op. His partner, Hoffenberg, was sentenced to 20 years. But the gov’t cut a deal w/ Epstein & let him plead guilty to conspiring to steal checks from mailboxes & only get 5 yrs probation. Jeff is intelligence 100%.
Back when Epstein was partying with Trump, he was also close with Larry Summers. Summers is 1 of 8 Genie Energy advisory board members – along with Lord Jacob Rothschild, Dick Cheney, & CIA Director Woolsey.
“It’s Going To Be Staggering”: Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent
19 July 2019
As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, a laundry list of celebrities, business magnates and socialites who have flown anywhere near the registered sex offender’s orbit are now tainted with pedo-polonium. Many of them, such as Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, and Victoria’s Secret boss Les Wexner have sought to distance themselves from Epstein and his activities – however their attempts have fallen on deaf ears considering their extensive ties to the pedophile.
As Vanity Fair‘s Gabriel Sherman notes, “The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about Epstein’s alleged abuse? How, and from whom, did Epstein get his supposed $500 million fortune? Why did Acosta grant Epstein an outrageously lenient non-prosecution agreement? (And what does it mean that Acosta was reportedly told Epstein “belonged to intelligence”?)”
Also illuminating is a statement by attorney Brad Edwards, who said during a Wednesday press conference seated next to Epstein accuser Courtney Wild that “There were other business associates of Mr. Epstein’s who engaged in improper sexual misconduct at one or more of his homes. We do know that,” adding “In due time the names are going to start coming out.”
What’s more, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will release of approximately 2,000 pages of documents, likely over the next several days, which may reveal sex crimes committed by “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders,” according to the court’s three-judge panel.
The documents were filed during a civil defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a former Mar-a-Lago locker-room attendant, against Epstein’s former girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. “Nobody who was around Epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. It’s all going to come out,” said Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies. Another person involved with litigation against Epstein told me: “It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names. It’s going to be contagion numbers.” –Vanity Fair
Other famous names associated with Epstein include LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who Musk introduced to the registered sex-offender. Zuckerberg spokesman told Vanity Fair “Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein,” adding “Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner.”
Musk told the magazine “I don’t recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don’t know the guy well enough to do so, Epstein is obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine. Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah [Riley], as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel she was writing. We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”
Leslie Wexner through the Wexner Foundation gave Ehud Barak a $2.3 million “research” grant during 2004-2006 – at the time Jeffrey Epstein was being investigated.
Uh, this is Jeffrey Epstein’s “friend” and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell with @elonmusk at the Oscars in 2014. These people were everywhere I suppose..
Engineer employed at Bill Gates’ mansion ‘traded 6,000 child porn images using Gmail account’
- Rick Allen Jones, 51, of Seattle, allegedly had thousands of images stashed on his home computer
- The engineer shared the images using his Gmail account, according to prosecutors
- He was interviewed by police at Gates’ estate in March after being tracked down via a sordid image posted online
1 Jan 2015
According to one source, Epstein had a steady stream of who’s who’s flowing into his Manhattan mansion, including Bill Gates, Larry Summers, and Steve Bannon.
“Jeffrey collected people. That’s what he did,” the source told Vanity Fair.
Thus far, the name most publicly associated with Epstein’s alleged crimes is famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who’s been waging a public battle with David Boies for years. In April, Boies’s client Giuffre sued Dershowitz for defamation after Dershowitz called her a liar (a strategy similar to that of seven of Bill Cosby’s accusers). In the days since the FBI arrested Epstein at Teterboro Airport a week and a half ago, Dershowitz has been going on television and dialing up friends and reporters to profess his innocence and label Giuffre and Boies liars. “I want everything to come out! I’m not afraid of anything because I did nothing wrong,” Dershowitz told me on the afternoon of July 15.
He called me a minute after I had emailed him for comment. He said he’d been friends with Epstein since 1996, when they were introduced at a party on Martha’s Vineyard by Lynn Forester de Rothschild. “She begged me to meet him. She told me, ‘here’s this smart academic.’” A few days later, Epstein invited Dershowitz to Les Wexner’s 59th birthday party at Wexner’s mansion in New Albany, Ohio. “It’s a tradition that Jeff invited the smartest person he met that year. He told them I was the smartest.” They remained close for years. Dershowitz strenuously denied ever participating in Epstein’s underage sex ring and said he’d only been in Epstein’s presence with his wife. “I got one massage!” he told me. “It was from a 50-year-old Russian woman named Olga. And I kept my shorts on. I didn’t even like it. I’m not a massage guy.” –Vanity Fair
DC on edge
“Epstein bragged about his contacts in Washington,” said attorney David Boies.
According to the report, “One theory circulating among prominent Republicans is that Epstein was a Mossad agent. Another is that the George W. Bush White House directed Acosta not to prosecute Epstein to protect Prince Andrew on behalf of the British government.”
“The royal family did everything they could to try and discredit the Prince Andrew stuff,” said Boies. “When we tried to follow up with anything, we were stonewalled. We wanted to interview him, they were unwilling to do anything.”
Establishment figure: Geordie Greig is known to be solidly conservative.
Geordie Greig with Camilla
Ghislaine Maxwell having fun with the Daily Mail’s editor, Geordie Greig (again) This time at the 40th birthday party for Annabell’s in London, in 2003.
Geordie Greg was Lucian Freud’s memoirist. Paedophile Clement Freud’s was Lucian Freud’s brother.
The late painter Lucian Freud had a constant cavalcade of beautiful, rich, sometimes teenaged lovers, his sexual appetites fueling controversial and charged portraits now worth millions of pounds. But he was censorious with his children, once likening his daughter to “a prostitute” for smoking a cigarette outside.
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/10/lucian-freud-nude-portrait-daughter-annie
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/daily-mail-new-editor-geordie-greig.html
Geordie Dreig’s father was business partners with:
LADY JOANNA EDWINA DOREEN KNATCHBULL
Carron Greig was a Gentleman Usher for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, from 1961 until 1995, when he became Extra Gentleman Usher. His son Louis was Page of Honour to the Queen, and his daughter Laura was a Lady-in-Waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales.[5]
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case
Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime
…it was reported that Alex Acosta — who arranged Epstein’s “sweetheart” deal in 2008 and who recently resigned as Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary following Epstein’s arrest — claimed that the mysterious billionaire had worked for “intelligence.”
Other investigations have made it increasingly clear that Epstein was running a blackmail operation, as he had bugged the venues — whether at his New York mansion or Caribbean island getaway — with microphones and cameras to record the salacious interactions that transpired between his guests and the underage girls that Epstein exploited. Epstein appeared to have stored much of that blackmail in a safe on his private island.
In the U.S. alone, the CIA operated numerous sexual blackmail operations throughout the country, employing prostitutes to target foreign diplomats in what the Washington Post once nicknamed the CIA’s “love traps.” If one goes even farther back into the U.S. historical record it becomes apparent that these tactics and their use against powerful political and influential figures significantly predate the CIA and even its precursor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In fact, they were pioneered years earlier by none other than the American mafia.
In the course of this investigation, MintPress discovered that a handful of figures who were influential in American organized crime during and after Prohibition were directly engaged in sexual blackmail operations that they used for their own, often dark, purposes.
In Part I of this exclusive investigation, MintPress will examine how a mob-linked businessman with deep ties to notorious gangster Meyer Lansky developed close ties with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) while also running a sexual blackmail operation for decades, which later became a covert part of the anti-communist crusade of the 1950s led by Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), himself known throughout Washington for having a habit of drunkenly groping underage teenaged girls.
Yet, it would be one of McCarthy’s closest aides who would take over the ring in later years, trafficking minors and expanding this sexual blackmail operation at the same time he expanded his own political influence, putting him in close contact with prominent figures including former President Ronald Reagan and a man who would later become president, Donald Trump.
As will be revealed in Part II, after his death, this blackmail operation continued under various successors in different cities and there is strong evidence that Jeffrey Epstein became one of them.
Samuel Bronfman and the Mob
The Prohibition Era in the United States is often used as an example of how banning recreational substances not only increases their popularity but also causes a boom in criminal activity. Indeed, it was Prohibition that greatly increased the strength of the American mafia, as the top crime lords of the day grew rich through the clandestine trade and sale of alcohol in addition to gambling and other activities.
It is through the bootlegging trade of the 1920s and the early 1930s that this story begins, as it brought together key figures whose successors and affiliates would eventually create a series of blackmail and sex trafficking rings that would give rise to the likes of Jeffrey Epstein, the “Lolita Express” and “Orgy Island.”
Samuel Bronfman never planned to become a major producer of liquor but true to his family’s last name, which means “brandy man” in Yiddish, he eventually began distributing alcohol as an extension of his family’s hotel business. During Canada’s Prohibition period, which was briefer than and preceded that of its southern neighbor, the Bronfman family business used loopholes to skirt the law and find technically legal ways to sell alcohol in the hotels and stores the family owned. The family relied on its connections with members of the American mafia to illegally smuggle alcohol from the United States.
Soon after Prohibition ended in Canada, it began in the United States and, by the time the flow of illegal alcohol had turned the other way, the Bronfmans – whose business ventures were then being led by Sam Bronfman and his brothers — were relatively late to an already flourishing bootlegging trade.
“We were late starters in the two most lucrative markets – on the high seas and across the Detroit River. What came out of the border trade in Saskatchewan was insignificant by comparison,” Bronfman once told Canadian journalist Terence Robertson, who was then writing a biography of Bronfman. Nonetheless, “this was when we started to make our real money,” Bronfman recounted. Robertson’s biography on Bronfman was never published, as he died under mysterious circumstances soon after warning his colleagues that he had uncovered unsavory information about the Bronfman family.
Samuel Bronfman pictured in 1937 with his sons Edgar and Charles
Key to Bronfman’s success during American Prohibition were the ties his family had cultivated with organized crime during Canada’s Prohibition, ties that led many prominent members of the mob in the United States to favor Bronfman as a business partner. Bronfman liquor was purchased in massive quantities by many crime lords who still live on in American legend, including Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Moe Dalitz, Abner “Longy” Zwillman and Meyer Lansky.
Most of Bronfman’s mob associates during Prohibition were members of what became known as the National Crime Syndicate, which a 1950s Senate investigative body known as the Kefauver Committee described as a confederation dominated by Italian-American and Jewish-American mobs. During that investigation, some of the biggest names in the American mafia named Bronfman as a central figure in their bootlegging operations. The widow of notorious American mob boss Meyer Lansky even recounted how Bronfman had thrown lavish dinner parties for her husband.
Years later, Samuel Bronfman’s children and grandchildren, their family’s ties to the criminal underworld intact, would later go on to associate closely with Leslie Wexner, allegedly the source of much of Epstein’s mysterious wealth, and other mob-linked “philanthropists,” and some would even manage their own sexual blackmail operations, including the recently busted blackmail-based “sex cult” NXIVM. The later generations of the Bronfman family, particularly Samuel Bronfman’s sons Edgar and Charles, will be discussed in greater detail in Part II of this report.
Lewis Rosenstiel’s dark secret
Crucial to Bronfman’s Prohibition-era bootlegging operations were two middlemen, one of whom was Lewis “Lew” Rosenstiel. Rosenstiel got his start working at his uncle’s distillery in Kentucky before Prohibition. Once the law banning alcohol was in force, Rosenstiel created the Schenley Products Company, which would later become one of the largest liquor companies in North America.
Though he was a high school drop-out and not particularly well-connected socially at the time, Rosenstiel happened to have a “chance” meeting with Winston Churchill in 1922 while on vacation in the French Riviera. According to the New York Times, Churchill “advised him [Rosenstiel] to prepare for the return of liquor sales in the United States.” Rosenstiel somehow managed to secure the funding of the elite and respected Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers to finance his purchase of shuttered distilleries.
Officially, Rosenstiel is said to have built his company and wealth after Prohibition, by following Churchill’s advice to prepare for Repeal. However, he was clearly involved in bootlegging operations and was even indicted for bootlegging in 1929, though he evaded conviction. Like Bronfman, Rosenstiel was close to organized crime, particularly members of the mostly Jewish-American and Italian-American mob alliance known as the National Crime Syndicate.
Subsequent New York state congressional investigations would allege that Rosenstiel “was part of a ‘consortium’ with underworld figures that bought liquor in Canada [from Samuel Bronfman]”, whose other members were “Meyer Lansky, the reputed organized crime leader; Joseph Fusco, an associate of late Chicago gangster Al Capone and Joseph Linsey, a Boston man Mr. Kelly [the congressional investigator testifying] identified as a convicted bootlegger.” Rosenstiel’s relationship with these men, particularly Lansky, would continue long after Prohibition and Samuel Bronfman, for his part, would also maintain his mob ties.
In addition to his friends in the mob, Rosenstiel also cultivated close ties with the FBI, developing a close relationship with longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and making Hoover’s right-hand man and longtime assistant at the FBI, Louis Nichols, the Vice President of his Schenley empire in 1957.
Despite their similar backgrounds as bootlegger barons turned “respectable” businessmen, Bronfman’s and Rosenstiel’s personalities were drastically different and their relationship was complicated, at best. One example of the dissimilarities between North America’s top liquor barons was how they treated their staff. Bronfman was not necessarily known for being a cruel boss, whereas Rosenstiel was known for his erratic and “monstrous” behavior towards employees as well as his unusual practice of bugging his offices in order to hear what employees said about him when he wasn’t present.
Such differences between Bronfman and Rosenstiel were also reflected in their personal lives. While Bronfman married only once and was loyal to his wife, Rosenstiel was married five times and was known for his relatively closeted bisexual antics, a part of his life that was well-known to many of his close associates and employees.
Though for years there were only hints to this other side of the controversial businessman, details emerged years later during a divorce proceeding brought by Rosenstiel’s fourth wife, Susan Kaufman, that would back the claims. Kaufman alleged that Rosenstiel hosted extravagant parties that included “boy prostitutes” that her husband had hired “for the enjoyment” of certain guests, which included important government officials and prominent figures in America’s criminal underworld. Kaufman would later make the same claims under oath during the hearing of the New York’s State Joint Legislative Committee on Crime in the early 1970s.
Not only did Rosenstiel organize these parties, but he also made sure that their venues were bugged with microphones that recorded the antics of his high-profile guests. Those audio recordings, Kaufman alleged, were then kept for the purpose of blackmail. Though Kaufman’s claims are shocking, her testimony was deemed credible and held in high regard by the former chief counsel of the Crime Committee, New York Judge Edward McLaughlin, and committee investigator William Gallinaro and aspects of her testimony were later corroborated by two separate witnesses who were unknown to Kaufman.
These blackmail “parties” offer a window into an operation that would later become more sophisticated and grow dramatically in the 1950s under Rosenstiel’s “field commander” (a nickname given by Rosenstiel to an individual to be named shortly in this report). Many of the people connected to Rosenstiel’s “field commander” during the 70s and 80s have again found their names in the press following the recent arrest of Jeffrey Epstein.
The “Untouchable” Mobster
Bronfman and Rosenstiel became legendary in the North American liquor business, in part due to their fight for supremacy in the industry, which the New York Times described as often erupting “into bitter personal and corporate battles.” Despite their dueling in the corporate world, the one thing that united the two businessmen more than anything else was their close connection to American organized crime, particularly renowned mobster, Meyer Lansky.
Lansky is one of the most notorious gangsters in the history of American organized crime and is notable for being the only famous mobster that rose to notoriety in the 1920s that managed to die an old man and never serve a day in jail.
Lansky’s long life and ability to avoid prison time was largely the result of his close relationships to powerful businessmen like Bronfman and Rosenstiel (among many others), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. intelligence community as well as his role in establishing several blackmail and extortion rings which helped him keep the law at arm’s length. Indeed, when Lansky was finally charged with a crime in the 1970s, it was the Internal Revenue Service that brought the charges, not the FBI, and he was charged with and acquitted of tax evasion.
Lansky was remarkably close to both Bronfman and Rosenstiel. Bronfman regularly threw “lavish dinner parties” in Lansky’s honor both during and after Prohibition. These parties were remembered fondly by Lansky’s wife, and Lansky, in turn, did favors for Bronfman ranging from exclusive protection of his shipments during Prohibition to getting him tickets to coveted “fight of the century” boxing matches.
Rosenstiel also threw regular dinner parties honoring Lansky. Susan Kaufman, Rosenstiel’s ex-wife, claimed to have taken numerous pictures of her ex-husband and Lansky socializing and partying together, photos that were also seen by Mary Nichols of The Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, Lansky, per Kaufman’s recollection, was one of the individuals that Rosenstiel sought to protect from legal scrutiny as part of his child prostitution and blackmail ring targeting high-ranking officials, and he was overheard saying that if the government “ever brings pressure against Lansky or any of us, we’ll use this [a specific recording taken at one of the “parties”] as blackmail.”
Lansky was known to address Rosenstiel as “Supreme Commander,” a title that would later be used to refer to Rosenstiel by another individual deeply connected to the mob and sexual blackmail operations, previously referred to in this report as Rosenstiel’s “Field Commander.”
Lansky also had close ties to the CIA and U.S. military intelligence. During World War II, Lansky –along with his associate Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel — worked with Naval intelligence in what was codenamed “Operation Underworld,” an operation that the government denied for over 40 years.
Journalist and noted chronicler of CIA covert activities, Douglas Valentine, noted in his book The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World that the government’s cooperation with the mafia during World War II led to its expansion after the war and set the stage for its future collaboration with U.S. intelligence.
According to Valentine:
Top government officials were also aware that the government’s Faustian pact with the Mafia during World War II had allowed the hoods to insinuate themselves into mainstream America. In return for services rendered during the war, Mafia bosses were protected from prosecution for dozens of unsolved murders. […]
The Mafia was a huge problem in 1951 [when the Kefauver Committee was convened], equivalent to terrorism today. But it was also a protected branch of the CIA, which was co-opting criminal organizations around the world and using them in its secret war against the Soviets and Red Chinese. The Mafia had collaborated with Uncle Sam and had emerged from World War II energized and empowered. They controlled cities across the country.”
Indeed, the CIA forged ties with Lansky not long after its creation at the behest of CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton. The CIA would later turn to the Lansky-linked mob in the early 1960s as part of its consistently fruitless quest to assassinate the Cuban leader, showing that the CIA maintained its contacts with Lansky-controlled elements of the mafia long after the initial meeting with Lansky took place.
The CIA also had close connections to associates of Lansky, such as Edward Moss, who did public relations work for Lansky and was said to be of “interest” to the CIA by the agency’s then-inspector general J.S. Earman. Harry “Happy” Meltzer was also another Lansky associate that was a CIA asset and the CIA asked Meltzer to join an assassination team in December 1960.
In addition to the CIA, Lansky was also connected to a foreign intelligence agency through Tibor Rosenbaum, an arms procurer and high-ranking official in Israel’s Mossad, whose bank – the International Credit Bank of Geneva – laundered much of Lansky’s ill-gotten gains and recycled it into legitimate American businesses.
Journalist Ed Reid, author of the Virginia Hill biography The Mistress and the Mafia, wrote that Lansky was attempting to entrap powerful people through sexual blackmail as far back as 1939. Reid contends that Lansky sent Ms. Hill to Mexico, where his West Coast connections had established a drug ring that later involved the OSS, the forerunner to the CIA, to seduce numerous “top politicians, army officers, diplomats and police officials.”
Eventually, Lansky was credited with obtaining compromising photos of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sometime in the 1940s, which showed “Hoover in some kind of gay situation”, according to a former Lansky associate who also said that Lansky had often claimed, “I fixed that sonofabitch.” The photos showed Hoover engaged in sexual activity with his long-time friend, FBI deputy director Clyde Tolson.
At some point, these photos fell into the hands of CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton, who later showed the photos to several other CIA officials, including John Weitz and Gordon Novel. Angleton was in charge of the CIA’s relationship with the FBI and Israel’s Mossad until he left the agency in 1972 and, as was recently mentioned, he was also in contact with Lansky.
Anthony Summers , former BBC journalist and author of Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, has argued that it was not Lansky, but William Donovan, the director of the OSS, who obtained the original photos of Hoover and later shared them with Lansky.
Summers also stated that “To [gangster Frank] Costello and Lansky, the ability to corrupt politicians, policemen and judges was fundamental to Mafia operations. The way they found to deal with Hoover, according to several mob sources, involved his homosexuality.” This anecdote shows that Lanksy and the CIA maintained a covert relationship, which included, among other things, the sharing of blackmail material (i.e. “intelligence”).
It is also possible that Hoover was ensnared by the mob during one of Rosenstiel’s blackmail “parties,” at which Hoover sometimes found himself in attendance with prominent figures of the mafia. Hoover was said to have worn women’s clothing at the some of the events and Meyer Lansky’s wife later said that her husband had photos of the former FBI director in drag. Furthermore, Hoover is on record showing an unusual concern in the FBI’s handling of Rosenstiel’s criminal links as early as 1939, the same year that his close associate Lansky was actively orchestrating the sexual blackmail of powerful political figures.
The blackmail acquired on Hoover and the mob’s possession of the evidence has been cited as a major factor in Hoover’s decades-long denial that nationwide networks of organized crime were a serious issue. Hoover asserted that it was a decentralized, local issue and therefore outside of the bureau’s jurisdiction. By the time Hoover finally acknowledged the existence of national organized crime networks in 1963, it was so entrenched in the U.S. establishment that it was untouchable.
Congressional crime consultant Ralph Salerno told Summers in 1993 that Hoover’s willful ignorance of organized crime for most of his career as FBI director “allowed organized crime to grow very strong in economic and political terms, so that it became a much bigger threat to the wellbeing of this country than it would have been if it had been addressed much sooner.”
J. Edgar Hoover: Blackmail Victim?
Most records place the beginning of Hoover’s relationship with Rosenstiel in the 1950s, the same decade when Susan Kaufman reported that Hoover was attending Rosenstiel’s blackmail parties. Rosenstiel’s FBI file, obtained by Anthony Summers, cites the first Rosenstiel meeting as taking place in 1956, though Summers notes that there is evidence that they had met much earlier. After requesting the meeting, Rosenstiel was granted a personal face to face with the director in a matter of hours. The FBI file on Rosenstiel also reveals that the liquor baron heavily lobbied Hoover to aid his business interests.
During that time, the salacious details of Hoover’s sex life were already known to the U.S. intelligence community and to the mob, and Hoover was aware that they knew of his closeted sexuality and penchant for women’s clothing. Yet, Hoover apparently seemed to embrace the very type of sexual blackmail operation that had compromised his private life, given that he was seen at many of Rosenstiel’s “blackmail” parties in the 1950s and 1960s, including at venues such as Rosenstiel’s personal home and later at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. Hoover’s penchant for dressing in drag was also described by two witnesses who were not connected to Susan Kaufman.
Soon after their first “official” meeting, the public relationship between the two men quickly flourished, with Hoover even sending Rosenstiel flowers when he fell ill. Summers reported that, in 1957, Rosenstiel was heard telling Hoover during a meeting, “your wish is my command.” Their relationship remained close and intimate throughout the 1960s and beyond.
Like Rosenstiel, Hoover was well-known for amassing blackmail on friend and foe alike. Hoover’s office contained “secret files” on numerous powerful people in Washington and beyond, files he used to gain favors and protect his status as FBI director for as long as he wished.
Hoover’s own propensity for blackmail suggests that he may have associated with Rosenstiel’s sexual blackmail operation more directly, given he already knew he was compromised and his involvement in the operation would have served as a means of procuring the blackmail he coveted for his own purposes. Indeed, if Hoover was merely being blackmailed and extorted by the Lansky-Rosenstiel connected mob, it is unlikely that he would have been so friendly to Rosenstiel, Lansky and the other mobsters at these gatherings and participated in them with such regularity.
According to journalist and author Burton Hersh, Hoover was also tied to Sherman Kaminsky, who ran a sexual blackmail operation in New York involving young male prostitutes. That operation was busted and investigated in 1966 extortion probe led by Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, though the FBI quickly took over the investigation and photos of Hoover and Kaminsky together soon disappeared from the case file.
Hoover and Rosenstiel’s deep ties would continue to develop over the years, an example of which can be seen in Rosenstiel’s hiring of long-time Hoover aide Louis Nichols as the Vice President of his Schenley liquor empire and Rosenstiel’s donation of over $1 million to the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, which Nichols also ran at the time.
There is also more than one documented occasion wherein Hoover attempted to use blackmail to protect Rosenstiel and his “field commander,” none other than the infamous Roy Cohn, the other key figure in Rosenstiel’s sexual blackmail operation involving minors.
The Making of a Monster
Decades after his death, Roy Cohn remains a controversial figure in large part because of his close, personal relationship with current U.S. President Donald Trump. Yet reports on Cohn, both in recent and in past years, often miss the mark in their characterization of the man who became closely associated with the Reagan White House, the CIA, the FBI, organized crime and, incidentally, many of the figures who would later surround Jeffrey Epstein.
To understand the true nature of the man, it is essential to examine his rise to power in the early 1950s, when at just 23 years old, he became a key figure in the high-profile trial of Soviet spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and later in the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Cohn’s dedication to anti-communist activities in the 1950s is allegedly what first endeared him to J. Edgar Hoover who he first met in 1952. During that meeting, as described by Hersh in Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America, Hoover expressed admiration for Cohn’s aggressive and manipulative tactics and told Cohn to “call me directly” whenever he had information worth sharing. From that point on, Cohn and Hoover “traded favors, effusive compliments, gifts and elaborate private dinners. It quickly became ‘Roy’ and ‘Edgar.’” Hersh also describes Hoover as Cohn’s soon to be “consigliere.”
The date and circumstances around Cohn’s introduction to Rosenstiel is harder to come by. It is possible that the connection was made through Roy Cohn’s father, Albert Cohn, a prominent judge and an influential figure in the New York City Democratic Party apparatus then-run by Edward Flynn. It was later revealed that the Democratic organization dominated by Flynn and based in the Bronx had long-standing connections to organized crime, including associates of Meyer Lansky.
Regardless of how or when it began, the relationship between Cohn and Rosenstiel was close and was often likened to that of a father and son. They were said to frequently salute each other in public and remained close until Rosenstiel was near death, at which point Cohn attempted to trick his then-barely conscious and senile “friend” and client into naming him the executor and trustee of the liquor magnate’s estate, valued at $75 million (more than $334 million in today’s dollars).
LIFE magazine reported in 1969 that Cohn and Rosenstiel had for years referred to one another as “Field Commander” and “Supreme Commander,” respectively. Media references to these nicknames appear in other articles from the period.
Though LIFE and other outlets had interpreted this as merely an anecdote about the nicknames shared in jest between close friends, the fact that notorious crime lord Meyer Lansky also called Rosenstiel “Supreme Commander” and the fact that Cohn and Rosenstiel would later become intimately involved in the same pedophile sex ring, suggests that there may have been more to these “nicknames.” After all, the mob to which Rosenstiel was connected often used military-themed titles like “soldier” and “lieutenant” to differentiate the rank and importance of its members.
Once he had made his connection with Hoover, Cohn’s star began to rise even higher in Washington. Hoover’s recommendation of Cohn would become the deciding factor in his appointment as Sen. McCarthy’s general counsel over Robert Kennedy, a rival and bitter enemy of Cohn’s.
Though Cohn was ruthless and seemingly untouchable as McCarthy’s counsel and helped the Senator destroy many careers during both the red and lavender scares, his antics in relation to his work on the committee would eventually lead to his downfall after he attempted to blackmail the Army in return for preferential treatment for committee consultant and Cohn’s rumored lover, David Schine.
After he was forced to leave McCarthy’s side due to the scandal, Cohn returned to New York to live with his mother and practice law. A few years later New York Judge David Peck, a long-time associate of former CIA director Alan Dulles, orchestrated Cohn’s hire to the New York law firm, Saxe, Bacon and O’Shea, which would later become Saxe, Bacon and Bolan after Tom Bolan, a friend of Cohn’s, became a partner in the firm. Upon his hire, Cohn brought the firm a slew of mafia-linked clients, including high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family, the Genovese crime family and, of course, Lewis Rosenstiel.
What happened in Suite 233?
The connections Roy Cohn built during the 1950s made him a well-known public figure and translated into great political influence which peaked during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Yet, as Cohn built his public image, he was also developing a dark private life which would come to be dominated by the same blackmail pedophile racket that appears to have first begun with Lewis Rosenstiel.
One of the “blackmail” parties Susan Kaufman attended with her then-husband Lewis Rosenstiel was hosted by Cohn in 1958 at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, suite 233. Kaufman described Cohn’s suite as a “beautiful suite…all done in light blue.” She described being introduced to Hoover, who was in drag, by Cohn, who told her that Hoover’s name was “Mary” in a fit of barely concealed laughter. Kaufman testified that young underage boys were present and Kaufman claimed that Cohn, Hoover and her ex-husband engaged in sexual activity with these minors.
New York attorney John Klotz, tasked with investigating Cohn for a case well after Kaufman’s testimony, also found evidence of the “blue suite” at the Plaza Hotel and its role in a sex extortion ring after combing through local government documents and information gathered by private detectives. Klotz later told journalist and author Burton Hersh what he had learned:
Roy Cohn was providing protection. There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. That’s where Cohn got his power from — blackmail.”
Perhaps the most damning confirmation of Cohn’s activities in Suite 233 comes from statements made by Cohn himself to former NYPD detective and ex-head of the department’s Human-Trafficking and Vice-related Crimes division, James Rothstein. Rothstein later told John Decamp, a former Nebraska state senator who investigated a government-connected child sex ring based in Omaha, among other investigators, that Cohn had admitted to being part of a sexual blackmail operation targeting politicians with child prostitutes during a sit-in down interview with the former detective.
Rothstein told John DeCamp the following about Roy Cohn:
Cohn’s job was to run the little boys. Say you had an admiral, a general, a congressman, who did not want to go along with the program. Cohn’s job was to set them up, then they would go along. Cohn told me that himself.”
Rothstein later told Paul David Collins, a former journalist turned researcher, that Cohn had also identified this sexual blackmail operation as being part of the anti-communist crusade of the time.
The fact that Cohn, per Rothstein’s recollection, stated that the child-sex blackmail ring was part of the government-sponsored anticommunist crusade suggests that elements of the government, including Hoover’s FBI, may have been connected at a much broader level than Hoover’s own personal involvement given that the FBI closely coordinated with McCarthy and Cohn for much of the red scare.
It is also worth noting that among Hoover’s many “secret” blackmail files was a sizeable dossier on Senator McCarthy, the contents of which strongly suggested that the Senator himself was interested in underage girls. According to journalist and author David Talbot, Hoover’s file on McCarthy was “filled with disturbing stories about McCarthy’s habit of drunkenly groping young girls’ breasts and buttocks. The stories were so widespread that they became ‘common knowledge’ in the capital, according to one FBI chronicler.”
Talbot, in his book The Devil’s Chessboard, also cites Walter Trohan, Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune, as having personally witnessed McCarthy’s habit of molesting young women. “He just couldn’t keep his hands off young girls,” Trohan would later say. “Why the Communist opposition didn’t plant a minor on him and raise the cry of statutory rape, I don’t know.” Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that those “planting” minors on their political foes were McCarthy’s allies and close associates, not his enemies.
The question that necessarily arises from revelations regarding Cohn’s activities in Suite 233 is who else was Cohn “protecting” and servicing with underage prostitutes? One of them could very well have been one of Cohn’s close friends and clients, Cardinal Francis Spellman of the Archdiocese of New York, who was said to have been present at some of these parties Cohn hosted at the Plaza Hotel.
Spellman, one of the most powerful figures in the Catholic Church in North America who was sometimes referred to as “America’s Pope” was accused of not only condoning pedophilia in the Catholic church and ordaining known pedophiles including Cardinal Theodore “Uncle Teddy” McCarrick, but also engaging in it himself to such an extent that many New York area priests widely referred to him as “Mary.” Furthermore, J. Edgar Hoover was said to have a file detailing the Cardinal’s sex life, suggesting Spellman’s involvement in the ring and pedophile protection racket in which Cohn and Hoover were personally involved.
Cardinal Francis ‘Franny’ Spellman.
People close to Cohn often remarked that he was frequently surrounded by groups of young boys, but seemed to think nothing of it. Similar off-handed comments about Epstein’s penchant for minors were made by those close to him prior to his arrest.
Controversial Republican political operative and “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, who — like Donald Trump — was also a protégé of Cohn, said the following about Cohn’s sex life during an interview with The New Yorker in 2008:
Roy was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men. Gays were weak, effeminate. He always seemed to have these young blond boys around. It just wasn’t discussed. He was interested in power and access.” (emphasis added)
Compare this quote from Stone to what Donald Trump, who was also close to Cohn, would later say about Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he was also closely associated:
I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” (emphasis added)
Though it is unknown how long the sex ring at the Plaza Hotel continued, and if it continued after Cohn’s death from AIDS in 1986, it is worth noting that Donald Trump purchased the Plaza Hotel in 1988. It would later be reported and confirmed by then-attendees that Trump “used to host parties in suites at the Plaza Hotel when he owned it, where young women and girls were introduced to older, richer men” and “illegal drugs and young women were passed around and used.”
Andy Lucchesi, a male model who had helped organize some of these Plaza Hotel parties for Trump said the following when asked about the age of the women present: “A lot of girls, 14, look 24. That’s as juicy as I can get. I never asked how old they were; I just partook. I did partake in activities that would be controversial, too.”
The Roy Cohn Machine
Roy Cohn was only at the beginning of his career when he waded his way into the underground sexual blackmail ring apparently led by Lewis Rosenstiel. Indeed, when Cohn first met Hoover, he was only 23 years old. Over the next three decades or so, before his death from AIDS-related complications in 1986 at the age of 56, Cohn built a well-oiled machine, largely through his close friendships with some of the country’s most influential figures.
Among Cohn’s friends were top media personalities like Barbara Walters, former CIA directors, Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy, media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman, numerous celebrities, prominent lawyers like Alan Dershowitz, top figures in the Catholic Church and leading Jewish organizations like B’nai B’rith and the World Jewish Congress. Many of the same names that surrounded Cohn until death in the late 1980s would later come to surround Jeffrey Epstein, with their names later appearing in Epstein’s now-infamous “little black book”.
Reagan meets with Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick, and Roy Cohn (Trump’s mentor) in the Oval Office in 1983
While President Trump is clearly connected to both Epstein and Cohn, Cohn’s network also extends to former President Bill Clinton, whose friend and longtime political advisor, Richard “Dirty Dick” Morris, was Cohn’s cousin and close associate. Morris was also close to Clinton’s former communications director, George Stephanopoulos, who is also associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Yet, these were only Cohn’s connections to respectable members of the establishment. He was also known for his deep connections to the mob and gained prominence largely for his ability to connect key figures in the criminal underworld to respected influential figures acceptable to the public sphere. Ultimately, as New York attorney John Klotz stated, Cohn’s most powerful tool was blackmail, which he used against friend and foe, gangster or public official alike. How much of that blackmail he acquired through his sexual blackmail operation will likely never be known.
As Part II of this exclusive investigation will reveal, Cohn and Epstein, and the sexual blackmail operations they ran share many things in common, including not only many of the same famous friends and patrons, but also connections to intelligence agencies and consortiums of mob-linked businessmen, the modern-day equivalents of Samuel Bronfman and Lewis Rosenstiel who have since rebranded as “philanthropists.”
Part II will also reveal that Cohn’s operation was known to have successors, as revealed by a series of scandals in the early 1990s that have since been swept under the rug. The significant amount of overlap between Epstein’s and Cohn’s covert activities in sexual blackmail and their ties to many of the same powerful individuals and circles of influence strongly suggest that Epstein was one of Cohn’s successors.
As will be shown in the final installment of this report, Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime, making it a racket truly too big to fail.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/
Trump’s mentor: another sociopathic paedophile child-trafficker in the mix; from Roy Cohn to Epstein and Maxwell.
4 July, 202
Law-enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have been – and continue to be – adverse to making inquiries into VIP child sex-abuse. This has been the position for decades.
Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was a paedophile who abused boys on both sides of the Atlantic, including one from Kincora Boys’ Home, Richard Kerr, whom he selected in Belfast and had taken to him in Venice for sexual abuse.
The mere fact of the trip to Venice discredits the essential fact-findings of 40 years of official cover-ups not just of Kincora but also of an international VIP abuse ring. The cover-ups continue to this day.
Richard Kerr had been prepared to supply all of the information in this article – including the photographs and financial records – to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in London but it was not interested.
There is a common thread between the Kerr case, Cohn’s activities and, in more recent times, those of Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell: a disturbing refusal by British and American authorities to investigate their cases properly.
Cohn may have been part of a sexual blackmail network with Mafia and intelligence links which was later managed by Epstein and Maxwell.
Cohn was so corrupt that he was eventually disbarred from practice as a lawyer after which Trump dumped him. He died from AIDS in 1986. Trump then let Epstein and Maxwell into his life.
In the US, the FBI has covered-up for an ‘intelligence’ agency for whom Epstein and Maxwell ran ‘honey traps’. Their victims should brace themselves for another round of betrayal by the FBI which has acted deplorably thus far.
Last August the Metropolitian Police in London anounced that it was not going to investigate Prince Andrew for having had sex with a minor. A spokesperson for the Met announced that it had investigated allegations he had “had sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre aged 17 in Ghislaine Maxwell’s bathroom” in London and confirmed that while they had received “an allegation of non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation” that “no further action is being taken”.
It is doubtful Met officers even spoke to Prince Andrew or Ghislaine Maxwell. As far as they are concerned, the matter is “closed”.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to ignore the fact that the notorious paedophile and friend of the Royal Family, Lord Greville Janner, introduced a teenage male prostitute to Prince Andrew.
Roy Cohn was a cheating, corrupt, tax-dodging, cocaine-snorting New York lawyer linked to the Mafia who persecuted homosexuals. He acted for Donald Trump and was the driving force behind Trump’s book, ‘The Art of the Deal’ which was published in 1987 shortly after Cohn died. With the election of Trump as US President, Cohn’s primary historical significance is that he imbued the younger Trump with his ruthless, amoral and deceitful approach to life.
Cohn was a paedophile with connections to the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring in London. The link to it may have come through a Texan living in London called Fred Ferguson who was also a paedophile or Dr Morris Fraser, a Northern Ireland psychiatrist who was a key figure in the network. There are other possibilitie. In any event, in 1977 he and Ferguson were able to gain access to a boy from Northern Ireland through the network.
The boy was part of a group of 14-year-old boys who had been residents of Williamson House in Belfast until they were transferred to Kincora Boys’ Home in 1975. Up to this point, Kincora had mainly catered for 16-18-year-olds. Some, if not all, of the Williamson boys had been subjected to horrific abuse, violence and intimidation by one of the staff at the home, Eric Witchell and his associates from outside of it, so much so they had become fearful and compliant child-sex puppets.
Witchell now lives in London. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) in London has shown no interest in making any form of contact with him despite his key role in the Anglo-Irish vice ring, a paedophile network that – as this story will demonstrate – overlapped with abuse rings in the US.
Village magazine has published an 80,000-word online book entitled ‘The Anglo-Irish Vice Ring’ which outlines the history of the Irish branch of this egregious paedophile underworld as well as its connections to, and exploitation by, MI6 (attached to Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and MI5 (attached to Britain’s Home Office). https://villagemagazine.ie/https-villagemagazine-ie-anglo-irish-vice-ring-online-book/
The abuse of the children at Williamson House, Kincora and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, was carried out with the knowledge and connivance of both MI5 and MI6. At the time of the transfer of the boys from Williamson House to Kincora, MI5 was the dominant UK intelligence service operating in Northern Ireland. It was commanded by Director-General Sir Michael Hanley. His key officer on the ground in Northern Ireland was Ian Cameron who was mooted in the media as a contender for the position of Director-General of MI5 in the late 1980s.
Cameron might well have ascended to the post but for the Kincora scandal which erupted in 1980, and a fear that MPs such as the redoubtable Ken Livingstone might have raised the issue in the House of Commons. It is deeply disturbing that Livingstone was booed and jeered by Tory MPs when he raised this type of matter in the Commons.
One of the boys transferred to Kincora will be familiar to Village readers, Richard Kerr. He was transferred in August 1975. The other boys were:
− ‘F’, who is still alive;
− ‘B’, who later shot himself;
− ‘S’;
− Steven Waring, who had not been in Williamson House, joined a few months later. He committed suicide in November 1977. He had been abused by Lord Louis Mountbatten the previous August; (See the online book for further details.)
− Another young boy, ‘D’, would be consigned to the hell of this existence the following year. He is still alive.
The boy abused by Cohn, Richard Kerr, was the first of the children from Williamson House to arrive at Kincora. On the surface, there was no logical reason for the transfer of the new residents. Cameron and MI5, however, were the beneficiaries of the new arrangement because it allowed them to replenish their ongoing ‘honey trap’ blackmail operations in Belfast, Bangor and elsewhere with a fresh batch of younger teenagers who were broken, terrified and sexually compliant. In addition, MI5 was in complete control of Kincora, a detached house at a crossroads with a side entrance. The building was also smaller and more manageable than Williamson House which consisted of two structures. It was located conveniently close to a number of venues which were frequented by loyalist terrorist groups, at least one of which, The Park Avenue Hotel, had an MI5/6 operations room to record what was taking place in the bedrooms.
One very senior DUP figure was caught on tape in one of the rooms. He is still alive and an influence on the party. More important than any of this, Kincora was controlled by three men, all of whom were paedophiles: Joe Mains, William McGrath and Raymond Semple. In comparison, Witchell is the only paedophile who we can say with certainty was employed at Williamson House at that point in time. The rest of the staff in the early 1970s were not involved in child sex-abuse and many are remembered fondly by former residents. Witchell did, however, let other paedophiles into the home to abuse the vulnerable children in his care.
After the transfer of this helpless group of boys to Kincora in 1975, MI5 was in a position to move them about at will.
Sickeningly, intelligence figures at the Northern Ireland Office such as Peter England and John Imrie were able to exploit the boys as a nasty perk of their job.
Members of this victim group were trafficked to England and Scotland by Mains on the orders of Joss Cardwell, an influential Loyalist politician and friend of senior MPs at Westminster such as the leader of the Official Unionist Party, James Molyneaux MP. (See Village February 2018: https://villagemagazine.ie/how-the-anglo-irish-vice-ring-operated/
One of those who had access to boys from Kincora in London was a high-profile MP and a friend of Molyneaux. Another abuser was a famous actor in light entertainment who is still very much to the fore of his profession. Not only are both of these men alive, one of them has a long history of involvement in children’s charities. The IICSA has been curiously apathetic about them. Even at this late stage, Richard Kerr – who was abused by both – is prepared to tell them what he knowns.
In 1977 Richard Kerr was driven by Joe Mains, the Warden of Kincora, and Raymond Semple, a member of the staff at Kincora, to the Whip and Saddle bar at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. Kerr had been held in Millisle borstal for a while after an incident involving revenge break-ins at the homes of people in Belfast who had raped him and Stephen Waring while they had been residents at Kincora. (Waring committed suicide in November 1977.) Kerr was familiar with the Europa where he had been abused since he was 14 years of age. One of his abusers at the hotel was Enoch Powell MP.
On this particular occasion Kerr was introduced to some Americans in the bar. One of them did not give his correct name but was in fact Roy Cohn, perhaps the most famous US lawyer of the second half of the twentieth century and the mentor of the youthful tyro Donald Trump.
He was there with two other Americans, Fred Ferguson and Daniel S.
Daniel S’ father owned a company in Wichita Falls, Texas, which supplied parts to the oil industry.
The encounter at the Europa has all the appearances of a sleazy appraisal by Cohn and Ferguson to see if the young Irish teenager whetted their sexual appetites. He was 15 or perhaps had just turned 16 having been born in May 1961. According to Kerr, “nothing happened with [Cohn] at the Europa hotel”.
The plan for Cohn and Ferguson at this time was to visit Venice two weeks later and they sought a compliant teenage boy for sex. Kerr clearly passed the test and arrangements were made for him to join them and Daniel S. on their trip.
more here:
Intrepid – Lutnick/Rubenstein
Barbara Walter’s Disturbing Response to Corey Feldman Exposing Hollywood Pedophilia
Barbara Walters is kind of mad at Corey Feldman for discussing the horrific truth about Hollywood.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Intrepid Museum
Garver at the Title ceremony.
2012 annual report – Intrepid Museum
“Unfortunately, unlike virtually all of those fellow tenants, Cantor Fitzgerald . . . has repudiated its obligation to pay rent up to Sept. 10, 2001, not withstanding the fact that 1 World Trade Center itself paid rent to the Port Authority for the period proceeding the destruction of the building,” the suit says.
Cantor has even refused to negotiate over the unpaid rent, the suit says.
“Out of recognition of the fact that there is an obligation to pay rent for the value of the space they occupied . . . a significant percentage of the tenants of the building that plaintiff has been able to locate have settled or have engaged in a good-faith effort to settle their balances,” the suit says.
Cantor Fitzgerald has refused to do either, it says.
Howard Rubenstein, a spokesman for 1 World Trade Center head Larry Silverstein, said “Cantor Fitzgerald has refused to [acknowledge its obligation], and this lawsuit is the result.”
The action is the first Silverstein has brought against a WTC tenant for nonpayment of rent since Sept. 11, Rubenstein said.
A spokesman for Cantor, which now has offices in Midtown, refused comment.
The suit says the company had a history of non- payment of rent even before the terror attack. When Silverstein signed a 99-year lease for the Twin Towers in July 2001, “CFS was in arrears in the payment of rent to the Port Authority.”
The company paid the back rent in August but never paid its actual August rent, the suit says.
The court action also seeks to collect 1 World Trade Center’s legal fees for having to go to court in the rent fight.
@JamesRusbridger
So there it is.
Margaret Hodge Nepotism on Islington Council
The Smith Institute funded by Geoffrey Robinson
Dolphin Square & paedo parties
Lucrative deals with Robert Maxwell
A socialite daughter who (allegedly) procures girls for rape
The Social Market Foundation & Lord Janner’s No. 1 Fan
Geoffrey Robinson funds “The Smith Institute”, which earlier this year appointed Margaret Hodge’s son-in-law, Joe Caluori, to the senior post of Deputy Director.
When he isn’t working for Geoffrey Robinson, Margaret Hodge’s son-in-law, Joe, is also a Labour Councillor on London’s notorious Islington Borough Council.
Indeed, it was only in order to take the job with Geoffrey Robinson’s “Smith Institute” that Joe Caluori resigned from his position as Islington’s “Cabinet Member for Children and Families”.
But not to worry — Caluori won’t forget the children, for whom he has already done so much while at Islington.
According to Caluori’s profile on “The Smith Institute” website:
“Joe’s policy interests include … child criminal exploitation”.
Geoffrey Robinson — a close friend of Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair with links to the Maxwells, British Intelligence and Dolphin Square — doubtless shares Joe Caluori’s altruistic interest in “child criminal exploitation”.
This shared concern for “child criminal exploitation” could explain why Caluori was hired by his “Smith Institute”.
Mummy would be proud.
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/05/geoffrey-robinson-robert-maxwell.html
Jeffrey Epstein continued to socialize with Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other elites even after being a registered sex offender
“It’s Going to Be Staggering, the Amount of Names”: As the Jeffrey Epstein Case Grows More Grotesque, Manhattan and DC Brace for Impact
17 July 2019
The Jeffrey Epstein case is an asteroid poised to strike the elite world in which he moved. No one can yet say precisely how large it is. But as the number of women who’ve accused the financier (at least, that’s what he claimed to be) of sexual assault grows to grotesque levels—there are said to be more than 50 women who are potential victims—a wave of panic is rippling through Manhattan, DC, and Palm Beach, as Epstein’s former friends and associates rush to distance themselves, while gossiping about who might be ensnared. Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, architect of the original 2007 non-prosecution agreement that let Epstein off with a wrist slap, has already been forced to resign.
The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about Epstein’s alleged abuse? How, and from whom, did Epstein get his supposed $500 million fortune? Why did Acosta grant Epstein an outrageously lenient non-prosecution agreement? (And what does it mean that Acosta was reportedly told Epstein “belonged to intelligence”?) But among the most pressing queries is which other famous people might be exposed for committing sex crimes. “There were other business associates of Mr. Epstein’s who engaged in improper sexual misconduct at one or more of his homes. We do know that,” said Brad Edwards, a lawyer for Courtney Wild, one of the Epstein accusers who gave emotional testimony at Epstein’s bail hearing. “In due time the names are going to start coming out.” (Attorneys for Epstein did not respond to a request for comment.)
Likely within days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will release almost 2,000 pages of documents that could reveal sexual abuse by “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders,” according to the three-judge panel’s ruling. The documents were filed during a civil defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a former Mar-a-Lago locker-room attendant, against Epstein’s former girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. “Nobody who was around Epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. It’s all going to come out,” said Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies. Another person involved with litigation against Epstein told me: “It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names. It’s going to be contagion numbers.”
Newly-found footage shows Trump, Epstein at a 1992 party
@JamesRusbridger
Epstein built home, courtyard, runway & hangar on Zorro Ranch that he bought from the family of the late New Mexico governor Bruce King (BK) BK’s son, Gary King, was NM’s attny general 2007-15 & received (& later returned) $50,000 in donations from Epstein or firms linked to him
The Siri Singh Sahib with President Bill Clinton and Governor of New Mexico, Bruce King
Clinton will speak at Bruce King’s funeral
November 20, 2009
‘He’d be tickled. He and President Clinton were good friends,’ Gary King said of his father. ‘They fought a lot of political battles together.’
Clinton will even say a few words during the funeral, Gary King said.
“The Clintons have certainly said that they developed a lot of their campaign style — a lot of their philosophy of how policy should be approached– by watching my father and my mother,” King said. “We are very touched that President Clinton wants to come.”
Gary King
Israeli politician says he’ll cut financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein
July 15, 2019
An Israeli politician attempting to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and under fire for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — says his lawyers are working to cut his financial links to the rich pedophile.
Ehud Barak, the country’s former prime minister who is running against Netanyahu in September, used several million dollars of Epstein’s money to finance a security company, according to Haaretz.
Barak also is a personal friend of Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting a young woman for sex in Florida in 2008 and now faces a slew of new sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan.
Barak defended his actions during a TV interview Saturday, saying of Epstein, “He’d served his sentence for soliciting prostitution — the indictment didn’t say she was a minor,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
In the Florida case, a plea deal allowed Epstein to escape federal charges at the time, in exchange for him pleading guilty to a single count of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14.
Barak said his lawyers are working to sever financial ties with the accused billionaire, the Jerusalem Post said.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/15/israeli-politician-says-hell-cut-financial-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein/
Married Israeli politician Ehud Barak is seen hiding his face entering Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC townhouse as bevy of young beauties were also spotted going into mansion – despite his claim he NEVER socialized with the pedophile and his girls
- In photos obtained by DailyMail.com, Ehud Barak is seen hiding his face as he entered Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in January 2016
- The 77-year-old, Israel’s former prime minister, has long had business ties to Epstein, which current PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s team is now trying to exploit
- Barak was wearing a camo-style neck gaiter which he pulled high over his face almost to his glasses and later, he was wearing it as a hat
- Barak admitted the photos are of him, blaming his bizarre attire on being cold, but claims he has ‘never met Epstein in the company of women or young girls’
- However, a bevy of young women were also seen going into the multi-millionaire’s lavish home on the same day that married Barak was snapped
- Epstein, 66, was arrested last week and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex
16 July 2019
The ever-expanding probe into Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile ring is now threatening to derail the Israeli election as DailyMail.com has obtained exclusive pictures of one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s main challengers hiding his face as he entered the convicted sex offender’s Manhattan townhouse.
A bevy of young women were also seen going into the multi-millionaire’s lavish seven-story home on the same day that Ehud Barak was snapped.
Barak, a former prime minister of Israel w now trying to make a comeback in Israeli politics, has long had business ties to Epstein, which Netanyahu’s team are now trying to exploit.
And the pictures that DailyMail.com has obtained are certain to add fuel to the fire, as Barak claims he has ‘never met Epstein in the company of women or young girls.’
The photographs were taken in January 2016 after Epstein, now 66, had returned to New York after an overseas trip.
Within hours at least four young women had gone to the home that the federal government wants to seize as part of its new case against the financier.
DailyMail.com reported at the time that the women included long-time Epstein friends Sue Hamblin and Jennifer Kalin as well as Russian model Lana Pozhidaeva.
A fourth, unidentified, woman was seen joining Epstein on a trip to Teterborough Airport in New Jersey, where Epstein keeps his plane and where he was arrested on the tarmac on July 6 after he flew in from France.
At the time, the identity of the man seen with his own security detail going to Epstein’s mansion on East 71st Street was unclear. Now DailyMail.com has confirmed it was Barak.
Separately, he admitted to the Daily Beast, that it was him but said his visit was innocent. ‘I was there, for lunch or chat, nothing else. So what?’
‘I never attended a party with him. I never met Epstein in the company of women or young girls.’
Barak, now 77, was wearing a camouflage-design neck gaiter which he pulled high over his face almost to his glasses when he went into the East 77th Street mansion. When he came out more than an hour later, he was wearing it on his head.
He told the Daily Beast he was bundled up against the January New York weather. ‘It was so cold the Middle Easterner had to put on a hat.’
When Barak came out more than an hour later, he was wearing the neck gaiter as a hat. Barak’s name and contact numbers were among around 50 circled in Epstein’s ‘little black book’ which was published by Gawker in 2015
He also said he had been to Little St. James, Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, admitting it was after revelations that Epstein used the island for underage sex. Again, he said he had not been to any parties or met girls there.
Barak’s name and contact numbers were among around 50 circled in Epstein’s ‘little black book’ which was published by Gawker in 2015. Other names circled included several victims of his pedophile ring, Donald Trump, Courtney Love and lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
Details for former president Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew were included but had not been circled.
Barak, who was Israeli prime minister from 1999-2001 and then defense minister from 2007-2013 has been seen as having a real chance of ending Netanyahu’s 10-year reign at the helm of Israeli politics.
Last month he announced the formation of a new party to fight do-over elections scheduled for September 17 after an earlier poll ended in deadlock.
This weekend Barak wrote on Facebook that he is trying to break off his business relations with Epstein. ‘For almost five years, a company associated with Epstein has been a passive investor in a limited partnership, legally registered in Israel and under my control,’ he wrote.
‘Every investor in this partnership is bound by the same commercial contract. As soon as the present charges related to Epstein became known, I instructed my lawyers to examine the options we have for expelling the company associated with Epstein from this partnership.’
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Epstein invested millions of dollars in Barak’s company, Carbyne, which develops geolocation software for emergency services.
Carbyne also received $2.5 million from Epstein’s former close friend, Victoria’s Secret boss Les Wexner, the Miami Herald reported. Wexner bought Epstein’s mansion for a record $13.2 million in 1989 but never moved in.
Ownership was transferred to Epstein in 2011. The house is now valued at around $77 million. Wexner says he severed ties from Epstein about 10 years ago.
At the weekend, Barak told the Israeli version of Meet the Press that he had no idea that Epstein’s charges involved underage girls. ‘He’d served his sentence for soliciting prostitution — the indictment didn’t say she was a minor,’ he said.
‘The American system itself did not label him as a persona non grata,’ Barak added. ‘The secretary who just resigned in the Trump administration was the prosecutor and he said he’d been negligent — so you expect me to have noticed [anything wrong]?’ he added, referring to Alex Acosta who resigned as labor secretary last week.
Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party has already called for a criminal investigation into Barak’s ties to Epstein. The prime minister tweeted that he should investigated ‘immediately’.
Epstein is currently locked up in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan as he waits for a judge to announce whether he should be released on bail. He has been charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex.
His lawyer told Judge Richard Berman on Monday that he was willing to post $100 million bail but prosecutors say he should remain in custody until his trial as their case is ‘already significantly stronger and getting stronger every day.’
Prosecutor Alex Rossmiller said a false Saudi passport with Epstein’s picture was found in a safe when cops raided his mansion last weekend, alongside hundreds of naked photographs of women and girls, ‘piles of cash’ and ‘dozens of diamonds.’
He said several women had come forward following Epstein’s indictment and now prosecutors are trying to corroborate their accusations.
Two alleged victims, Courtney Wild and Anna Farmer, told Judge Berman that Epstein should be denied bail. ‘I was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 14,’ said Wild. ‘He is a scary person to have walking the street.
Farmer said: ‘I was 16 years old when I had the misfortune of meeting Mr. Epstein here in New York.’ She gave no details other than saying he had been ‘inappropriate’ with her.
Jeffrey Epstein is a member of the the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
He supports the Friends of Israel Defense Forces.
Jimmy Savile with the Bridge in Britain friends in Tel Aviv in 1975; John Levy is far right
He claimed to have “invented the disco”, but Sir Jimmy Savile, the DJ and presenter who died last weekend, also claimed to have done his bit towards peace in the Middle East.
Sir Jimmy always said he had berated the Israeli Cabinet in 1975 for being too soft after the Six Day War.
The bling-loving Leeds-born presenter of Jim’ll Fix It and Top of the Pops, who once described himself as “the most Jewish Catholic you will ever meet,” was a strong supporter of Israel and through fun runs, marathons and personal appearances, raised funds for many charities including WIZO, Ravenswood, and the British Friends of the Laniado Hospital in Netanya.
Savile’s ten-day visit to Israel in 1975, when he met President Ephraim Katzir and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, was organised by John Levy of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust.
The trip was filmed for the BBC’s Jim’ll Fix It after nine-year-old Gary Merrie from Liverpool asked “to see the land where Jesus was born.”
Sir Jimmy recalled his advice to the Israelis: “I arrived at this reception. The president came to me and asked how I was enjoying my visit.I said I was very disappointed: the Israelis had won the Six Day War but they had given back all the land, including the only oil well in the region, and were now paying the Egyptians more for oil than if they had bought it from Saudi Arabia.
“I said: ‘You have forgotten to be Jewish’. He said: ‘Would you like to tell my cabinet that?’ Next morning, I went to the Knesset; they interrupted a cabinet meeting and I told them the same as I had told him.”
Mr Levy recalled: “He was a gorgeous, impish, creative character. Of course, he was an egomaniac, but he was incredibly generous. He wanted to film us walking from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, so there are these scenes trudging the Judean Hills. He had many close Jewish friends, he was a real philosemite. When we returned, I asked him to be a ‘Friend’ of the Trust and he insisted that I listed him as ‘Special Friend’.”
During his visit, Sir Jimmy spent time camping near the Sea of Galilee and at Kibbutz Lavi, where he recorded a discussion programme for his Radio 1 show “Speakeasy.”
Famous for his “clunk-click” road safety campaign advocating the wearing of seat belts, Sir Jimmy loved nearly everything in Israel, with one major exception – the driving. After his trip and a meeting with then Transport Minister Moshe Dayan, when he returned to London, he presented Israeli ambassador Gideon Rafael with two road safety films which he hoped would be shown on Israeli TV.
Mancunians Pearl Gruber and her late husband Harold were close friends of Sir Jimmy, and invited him to their daughter Sharon’s batmitzvah in 1968. Mrs Gruber said: “He was wonderful; he broadcast his radio show ‘Savile’s Travels’ from the batmitzvah party at the Yeshurun Hebrew Congregation in Cheadle. One of the boys at the party really wanted to be a disc jockey and nearly drove him mad.”
Sharon Gruber, who now lives in Mill Hill, recalled: “He came to my batmitzvah in a silver suit, and people were whispering ‘who does that man think he is, Jimmy Savile?’ They didn’t realise it was really him!”
One of his eight homes was a small flat in the heart of the Leeds Jewish community in Roundhay. He spent much of his time socialising at the Flying Pizza restaurant on Street Lane, a popular local haunt.
He was a regular at fundraising dinners at synagogues in Leeds and Manchester, particularly for the British Friends of Laniado, donating large sums to the organisation.
He told the BBYO group in Leeds: “I knew nothing about the Jewish community growing up”, but visiting Israel had made him realise that “the world owes the Jewish community a great debt.”
Manchester Laniado chair Dov Hamburger recalled Sir Jimmy’s appearance at the charity’s annual dinner, which he did for nothing. Mr Hamburger said: “I cannot recall a keynote speaker who has behaved so generously before.”
Former Norwood chief executive Norma Brier recalled Jimmy Savile’s visit to Ravenswood Village in 1989. “He came to open the Ravenswood fair and was a great hit, turning up in his gold Rolls Royce. He walked around chatting to the residents and spent lots of time there. We were very grateful for his support.”
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-came-to-my-batmitzvah-1.28748
Savile’s ten-day visit to Israel in 1975, when he met President Ephraim Katzir and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, was organised by John Levy of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust.
Friends of Israel Educational Trust
MR PETER MORRIS OPPENHEIMER
Peter Morris Oppenheimer (born April 16, 1938) is an economist and fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, with a particular interest in Russian economic policy.[1] Appointed in the late 1960s, his work focuses on financial markets, the economics of transition and energy. He has also worked as Chief Economist at Shell.
From 2000–2008 he was Director of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and is currently an emeritus governor.[2]
He has represented western investors on the boards of several Russian companies.
He has been a governor for St Clare’s, Oxford for several decades.
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL EDUCATIONAL FOUDATION
Director 12/03/02 31/01/15
THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH POLICY RESEARCH
Directors
Peter Morris Oppenheimer
24 Nov 1992 15 Dec 2001
Lord Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild
24 Nov 1992 15 Dec 2001
Lord Daniel William Finkelstein
18 Jan 2005 06 Mar 2006
Edgar Miles Bronfman
31 Dec 1991 25 Jan 1996
Lord Greville Ewan Janner
31 Dec 1991 30 Dec 1994
JEWISH CHRONICLE NEWSPAPER LIMITED
Lord Daniel William Finkelstein
14 Mar 2011 22 Oct 2013
Peter Morris Oppenheimer
26 Dec 1991 10 Jan 2006
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OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES
Dame Shirley Porter
29 Oct 1992 15 Dec 1998
Peter Morris Oppenheimer
01 Apr 2000 01 Oct 2008
OXFORD STUDENT RADIO
Peter Morris Oppenheimer
19 Sep 1995
The Rt Hon Shaun Anthony Woodward
01 Sep 1995 10 Mar 2000
The Rt Hon The Lord Peter Selwyn Gummer
01 Sep 1995 31 Jan 1996
Lady Heseltine
09 Nov 1995 20 Jul 1999
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Trump controlled by Mossad
Trump at event with broadcaster Mike Wallace (second from right) and Mossad super spy Robert Maxwell (right). The man in the middle with the glasses is Senator John Tower, who was involved in Maxwell’s KGB/Mossad PROMIS software scandal.
Donald Trump revealed in 2002 that he had been friends with Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years. That would put the start of their friendship around 1987; although, it’s possible their friendship began earlier. The late disgraced Mossad superspy and media mogul Robert Maxwell (Jewish name: Abraham Leib Hoch, of a Chassidic Jewish Czech family), the father of Epstein’s alleged child-sex procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, held a party on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine (named after his favourite daughter), sometime in the spring of 1989. Guess who was at that party? Donald Trump.
Also on board, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch[1], were Ghislaine Maxwell, former U.S. senator John Tower (of Iran-Contra scandal infamy), and other prominents, like ex-navy secretary John Lehman. Whether Epstein was at that party is anyone’s guess, but it’s certainly plausible, as Robert Maxwell had extensive dealings with bankers and financiers, including the Rothschilds, his “trusted friends” Goldman Sachs, and Lehman brothers. You’ll remember from the first part of this series that Trump’s yacht, Trump Princess, was purchased from Mossad asset and major Iran-Contra player Adnan Khashoggi. Maxwell’s £12-million yacht, Lady Ghislaine, was purchased from one of Khashoggi’s brothers. As we will see, Maxwell himself was a significant player in the Iran-Contra affair on behalf of Israel’s Mossad and, to some extent, the Soviet Union.
So now we have established not only a long-standing relationship between Trump and Epstein but also between Trump and two Maxwells—Robert and his daughter Ghislaine. Trump’s late father Fred personally may have known Robert Maxwell as well, as Fred was involved in major real estate projects that would have interested characters like Maxwell and his money-laundering thug pals in the Soviet Union, who laundered much of their dirty money through New York and Florida—two places in which Donald Trump has primary residences. Donald Trump and Ghislaine could be friends, business partners, acquaintances, or perhaps something more. The trio (including Epstein) has been spotted together on multiple occasions, including when golf magazine writer Michael Corcoran sat with Trump, Ghislaine, and Epstein on Trump’s private plane in order to conduct an interview.[2] In 2007, Ghislaine Maxwell was photographed with Ivanka Trump’s future brand officer of her clothing company at the Felix Rey Valentine’s Day party in New York City in 2007. Trump and Ghislaine may have been intimately involved with each other. Whatever the case, on board Lady Ghislaine that day in 1989, Trump was in the hands of a Mossad super cell.
More Epstein-Maxwell-Mossad connections
Ehud Barak
Another Mossad connection between Maxwell and Epstein is Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister. While working for Mossad and helping Soviet Jews immigrate to Israel, Robert Maxwell would meet with Barak, who was then director of Aman, Israel’s military intelligence.[10] After authorities sentenced Epstein for child prostitution in 2008, they discovered a black contact book containing names of many prominent people, some of whom Epstein is believed to have blackmailed. As well, it contained contact information for some of the child victims. Barak’s name is in there…and it is was circled by Epstein’s former housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez (since died mysteriously) as being one of many to either witness or participate in Epstein’s abuse of young girls. Also circled were the names of Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Alan Dershowitz, among others. Henry Kissinger—close friend to Robert Maxwell—was also listed in Epstein’s book.
Another (potential) Mossad connection with Epstein—also with Robert Maxwell—is late Jewish billionaire bankster Edmund Safra. In a long list of Iran-Contra-Oded-Yinon players, Safra also appears to have been assassinated, in 1999. Safra’s name and contact information were found in Epstein’s black book. Safra was the owner of National Republic Bank of New York and helped Robert Maxwell launder money from the Soviet Bloc.[11]
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Trump with Mike Wallace’s son Chris Wallace
British Billionaire Richard Branson Endorses Clinton
Trump with Branson
Sir Richard Branson embraces Sara Bronfman
Nxians partying hardy at Richard Branson’s private NeckIslandand. Sara paid $50,000 a night for the place
The photos were taken during a Nxivm retreat at Necker Island in 2010.
Sara Bronfman, the Seagram’s heiress, funded the 5-day event which featured a Nxivm intensive during the day.
By day, the students dutifully attended the intensive. But at night, Necker Island became one big party.
In attendance at the gathering were Sara Bronfman, Emiliano Salinas, Alex Betancourt, Kristin Kreuk, Allison Mack, M.I.A., Ben Bronfman, Mark Hildreth, Sir Richard Branson, and many others.
Sara with her mother Georgiana Webb Bronfman Havers.
The NEXIVM connection has to do with Epstein’s Island and Necker Island owned by Richard Branson.
Richard Branson was made aware that some of the islands in the British Virgin Islands were for sale in 1978. Branson soon after went to the British Virgin Islands for a holiday to investigate the prospective real estate. On first observing the islands, he envisioned using them to put up rock stars for his record label. Upon arrival, they were given a luxury villa and travelled around islands for sale by helicopter. The final island he saw was Necker Island, and after climbing the hill and being stunned by the view and wildlife, decided to purchase the island.
Branson,
English business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies.
The terrifying sex-slaver NXIVM cult held seminars on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island in hope of ‘recruiting him into the organisation.
Sir Richard says he does not remember them. Appears he has the Same problem top officials in the FBI and DOJ have had about Their criminal behavior and concealing crimes
Sir Richard Branson endorsed NXIVM sex-slave cult leader Keith Raniere
Seagram’s Heiress (Bronfman) among 4 that were Arrested with a Connection to the NXIVM Sex Cult
Photos have surfaced to help jar Branson’s memory
Sir Clement Freud was a ‘predatory paedo who sexually abused girls as young as 11’
Clement Freud was a ‘predatory paedophile who sexually abused girls’
Uri Geller
2003-12-02
1. What do you enjoy about the UK and what was it that made you move here?
What made me move here is a strange story, I lived in the United States and Richard Branson asked me if I could fly with him on the inauguration of Virgin Atlantic over 20 years ago, and next to me sat Sir Clement Freud, who was then a member of parliament.
I happen to be related to Sigmund Freud myself, my mother is a Freud and my name in my British passport is Uri Geller Freud, and I invited Clement to my home in Conneticut and he somehow managed to convince us that England is a much more civilised country than the US. My kids were small then and I said maybe it’s about time we moved, and that’s why we moved here.
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/651_uri_geller.htm
Film says Uri Geller was a spy
2013
Celebrity spoon-bender inspired 20-year US military psychic operative training program, played a role in Entebbe rescue, and joined hunt for bin Laden, BBC movie claims
A new BBC documentary claims that Israel-born magician and celebrity psychic Uri Geller was a secret agent for the CIA, and possibly the Mossad
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-says-uri-geller-was-a-spy-for-cia-possibly-mossad/
Richard Branson and the McCanns
Richard Branson defends Madeleine’s parents
Inside Madeleine McCann’s parents’ bizarre relationship with paedophile Clement Freud
Inside Madeleine McCann’s parents’ bizarre relationship with paedophile Clement Freud.
Richard Branson convicted of distributing indecent literature
P MILNE and P THOMPSON reported for distributing indecent literature: R C N BRANSON…
From the 1990s onwards, Carman specialised in libel. The first was Tessa Sanderson in 1990, but after that the famous libels came thick and fast – Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson, Edwina Currie, Gillian Taylforth, Imran Khan, Elton John, Tom Cruise, Jonathan Aitken.
A Northern Ireland woman who was befriended by Sir Jimmy Savile has said she is shocked and disgusted by claims that he was a predatory sex abuser.
Mrs Craig, who befriended Savile through her work with the Disabled Police Officers’ Association of Northern Ireland (DPOA), said: “I find it quite unbelievable — this is definitely not the man that I knew.”
Rosemary Craig, a “great friend” of the presenter, described the allegations as unbelievable and not in keeping with the man she knew.
Her husband, an ex-RUC officer, was severely injured after being shot by the IRA. She has done a lot of work with the DPOA.
“I wrote a letter to Jimmy Savile and he immediately responded. He sent me the money to fly over with a disabled officer and got him a new lightweight wheelchair. He put me on to Richard Branson who brought a Virgin aeroplane into Northern Ireland and took 375 disabled officers, their helpers and families to Florida for a holiday. All down to Jimmy Savile.”
Duke of Gloucester (his father director of Fairbridge Trust where child abuse was rampant) with Jimmy Savile
Queen’s Club has around 4,500 members. They include the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, actors Joseph Fiennes and Damian Lewis, Hollywood star Charlton Heston and singer Elaine Paige.
The club also has a large number of City professionals and international business people, including Richard Branson and George Soros.
Mystery as Queens faces crisis talks
Martin Fiennes was born in 1970 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, the son of Mark Fiennes (1933–2004), a farmer and photographer, and Jennifer Lash (1938–1993), a writer.[2]
Fiennes is an eighth cousin of Charles, Prince of Wales[5]
His siblings are actor Ralph Fiennes; directors Martha Fiennes and Sophie Fiennes; composer Magnus Fiennes; and conservationist Jacob Fiennes, Joseph’s twin brother.
Camila Batmanghelidjh with Alan Yentob
Camila Batmanghelidjh with Boris Johnson
Victims of neuroscience?
In 2002, Prince Charles first gave Camila Batmanghelidjh, CEO of the former charity Kids Company, the idea of considering the impact of child abuse on children’s brain development. He presented her with 25 clinical papers on the topic. From that moment I was suspicious because the idea was so wide as to include the impact of all kinds of trauma making any research very confused in aim. Also, the method of research was to scan the brains of ‘troubled teenagers’ which seemed to be more about a social control agenda. I had already detected mixed messages about the aims of this children’s charity (Evening Standard: 11.09.2009).
https://lizdavies.net/2016/11/02/child-victims-of-neuroscience/
https://lizdavies.net/2016/11/02/child-victims-of-neuroscience/
Camila Batmanghelidjh attend the private view of the Kids Company’s ‘Holding Up Childhood’ exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts on December 16, 2013 in London, England.
Her supporters include Sir Richard Branson, Trudie Styler (Mrs Sting), Cherie Blair and Samantha Cameron
Kids Company founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, says ‘malicious’ child abuse claims led to closure
Potted history of Richard Branson’s career: tax evasion on direct mail record sales, suppliers left with bad debts that bankrupted them, businesses sold hastily to mugs who then had to produce commerce from chaos, persistent lies about overcrowding on his trains, a dead pilot after the failure of Virgin Galactic – and a purchase of online banking services fronted by underpaid Geordies taking earache 24/7 from customers fed up of mad organisational structures.
His rewards for this cacophony of crap: a knighthood, £5.2 billion of personal wealth, and a tropical island all to himself.
Sir Richard Branson was also intrested in the 11 year old Mariora Goschen
Who’s that girl?
The 40th anniversary of Virgin Records – our first four albums, including a certain Tubular Bells, were released on May 25th 1973. So what better time to find the original Virgin logo model?
Roger Dean created the original Virgin artwork in 1970, which over the years has developed into one of the most recognisable logos in the world.
The model in the image appeared again and again as the logo evolved, starting off in our mail order record service when I was 20 years old. It was still present when we launched Virgin Records in 1973.
The Times (London, England), 1988 March 12A boy’s dream of creating a computer game have come true with the help of Mr Richard Branson, the millionaire, and Jimmy Savile, host of the Jim’ll Fix It television programme. Andrew Collet…
Savile, Geldof and Branson
“Mr. Allan Roberts (Bootle)
Is the Minister aware that his Government are turning tragedy into farce? They have handed over their responsibility for foreign aid to Bob Geldof and cut foreign aid dramatically. They have handed over part of their responsibility for the National Health Service to Jimmy Savile, and are handing local responsibility for collecting refuse to Mr. Branson to cut the money needed for street cleaning. May we have an assurance that the Government do not intend to hand over responsibility for law and order to Perry Mason, to Kojak or to Boy George?”
House of Commons, 1986
Left: Artist Marina Abramović and Debbie Harry. Right: Jeffrey Deitch, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. (All photos: Linda Yablonsky)
Let Them Eat Cake
Crime Concern Trust
3. Derek Sawyer (director at the Crime Concern Trust 17 April 2002 – 1 July 2008)
– Who was serving as a director at the Crime Concern Trust in the same period as his cronies Stephen Twigg and Nick Ross? None other than ‘dodgy’ Derek Sawyer, another Labour loyalist who, like Twigg, like Margaret Hodge, and like Keith Vaz, spent formative political years at Islington Borough Council while the Islington Child Abuse raged all around him, claiming childhoods and young lives.
6. Lord John Stevens (director at the Crime Concern Trust 24 Apr. 1997 – 2 Nov. 1999)
– Now then, now then. What’s this? Nick Ross and his colleague Lord John Stevens resigned their directorships of the Crime Concern Trust on precisely the same date in 1999, a mere six months after the targeted killing of Jill Dando to cover up the paedophile network linked to Jimmy Savile and other media men and women who’d been operating not so very far from where Jill once faced the TV cameras with Nick Ross at her side…
– How smashing for Lord John Stevens, Nick Ross, Stephen Twigg and Alex Carlile that in the late 1990s they were all serving simultaneously on the board of the Crime Concern Trust. Like rotting peas in a pod, one might say. (Or felons in a crime syndicate, as a cynic might unkindly speculate).
7. Dame Martina Milburn (director at the Crime Concern Trust 4 Oct. 2004 – 1 Apr. 2008)
– Dame Martina Milburn, who is former chief executive of The Prince’s Trust, was a director at the Crime Concern Trust at the same time as Derek Sawyer.
8. Former BBC journalist Lord Michael Hastings was a director at the Crime Concern Trust for a long time. Moreover, in common with his erstwhile Crime Concern colleague Dame Martina Milburn, Lord Michael Hastings has also served on the board of Fairbridge (in Hasting’s case from 1992 -1999). Lord Hastings and Dame Martina Milburn served on the board of Fairbridge alongside fellow director Sir William McAlpine, brother of the paedophile network linchpin, Alistair of Scallywag magazine infamy.
– Lord Michael Hastings is also an ambassador of the Tearfund charity in common with Bear Grylls, Britain’s most famous scoutmaster. Bear Grylls’ late father, Sir Michael, was involved in the unethical lobbying practices of Ian Greer’s company, which were in turn connected by Scallywag magazine to collaboration with the national VIP child trafficking operation and paedophile parties in Dolphin Square (the ‘carrot’ of ‘boys for questions’ being combined with the ‘stick’ of political blackmail). Moreover, Sir Michael Grylls was one of two politicians who sexually assaulted child abuse victim Ben Fellows (Kenneth Clarke MP being another), according to Ben’s later testimony.
Lord Michael Hastings is a regular participant in the annual One Young World summit for children’s causes… and indeed introduced the 2018 event.
9. Gerald Ratner (director at the Crime Concern Trust 6 Nov. 1991 – 28 Sep. 1992)
– Gerald Ratner was a director at the Crime Concern Trust at the same time as Nick Ross, and alleged serial paedophile Keith Vaz MP, and former Fairbridge director Lord Michael Hastings . Why Gerald Ratner quit the Crime Concern Trust after less than a year in post is a complete bloody mystery.
– Gerald Ratner is today best known for his disgusting address to the Institute of Directors in 1991, in which he fairly boasted of the “crap” essence of his jewellery lines. Ratner had ‘benefited’ from coaching in public speaking from Greville Janner’s consultancy in preparation for that nasty oration.
– Gerald Ratner has had a second interesting business relationship, for he previously retained the services of the deceased serial paedophile Max Clifford. Clifford specialised in keeping sex scandals involving the rich and famous out of the newspapers and off television screens. Whether Gerald Ratner was plagued by any such issue – or indeed shared any private criminal behaviours in common with his business associates Greville Janner and Max Clifford – is unknown.
10. Rt Hon Alun Michael (director at the Crime Concern Trust 14 Oct. 1993 – 11 May 1995)
– Sketchy Alun Michael was a director at the Crime Concern Trust at the same time as Nick Ross and Lord Michael Hastings, both of whom we discussed above. Prior to being elected to represent the Cardiff South & Penarth constituency in Westminster in 1987, at age 43, Alun Michael had spent some 16 years as a youth worker in Cardiff’s less affluent parts.
– The North Wales child abuse and trafficking operation was a component part of the wider Westminster-VIP paedophile network that operated across the British Isles. Boys from John Allen’s empire of North Wales children’s homes and English halfway houses were assaulted and trafficked to other destinations, including to Dolphin Square in Westminster. Despite the nationwide sphere of operation of the Westminster-VIP paedophile network, the Waterhouse Inquiry overlooked or disregarded the links between the abuses in North Wales, and abuses of children from and in Northern Ireland (Kincora boys’ home), Brighton, Lambeth, Richmond-upon-Thames, Westminster, Islington and Jersey.
– The Waterhouse Inquiry finished taking evidence in May 1998; despite this, even as the sex assaults, crimes and deaths continued to mount, High Court Judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse took a very long time indeed to write the Waterhouse Report: it wasn’t published until October 1999 despite the then escalating emergency of children turning up abused or dead.
– In a remarkable overlap with this period of write up, Alun Michael was the Secretary of States for Wales from October 1998 (when he was appointed to the Queen’s Privy Council) until July 1999 – and then the First Secretary of Wales from May 1999 until February 2000. A coincidence, or something else?
– Alun Michael and Sir Ronald Waterhouse have both been members of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Mr Michael still takes part in the Society as a Vice President. Another Vice President is Prince Philip, and Cymmrodorion’s Patron is the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles. The royal father and son were both very close to Jimmy Savile. Moreover, Prince Charles’ wife Camilla Parker Bowles had a very close friend in alleged North Wales-Dolphin Square paedophile and trafficker, Derek Laud. According to a national newspaper, Parker Bowles, Penny Mortimer and Derek Laud once enjoyed a holiday in the Tuscan hills… just the three of them.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Stanley, N.M. is shown Monday, July 8, 2019. Epstein is entangled in two legal fights that span the East Coast, challenging his underage sexual abuse victims in a Florida court hours after he was indicted on sex trafficking charges in a separate case in New York.
Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case draws his New Mexico ranch into investigation
14 JULY 2019
A Balderas spokesman confirmed his office had interviewed possible victims of Epstein who visited the ranch, the AP reported. The office has not said how many accusers were interviews or elaborated on what they say took place at the property.
A sprawling desert ranch south of Santa Fe is tied to a New Mexico state attorney general investigation targeting financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports.
News of the probe comes as Epstein, a 66-year-old registered sex offender in Florida and New York, faces new charges of sex trafficking underage girls in an indictment Manhattan federal prosecutors obtained last week.
Also drawing scrutiny is a New Mexico law that allowed Epstein to avoid having to register as a sex offender in the state.
“New Mexico continues to lag behind the rest of the country in strengthening outdated and weak laws that fail to protect our children from abuse,” New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas told The Associated Press in an emailed statement. “This is a huge black eye for our state.”
In a 2015 court filing in Florida, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Epstein said she had been abused at several locations, including the New Mexico property, according to the AP.
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution under an agreement that required him to spend 13 months in jail and register as a sex offender. The agreement has been widely criticized for secretly ending a federal sex abuse investigation involving at least 40 teenage girls at the time that could have landed him behind bars for life.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he’s stepping down amid the tumult over his handling of the 2008 deal with Epstein. Acosta was the U.S. attorney in Miami when he oversaw the non-prosecution agreement.
Epstein purchased Zorro Ranch from the family of former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King years ago.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he’s stepping down amid the tumult over his handling of the 2008 deal with Epstein. Acosta was the U.S. attorney in Miami when he oversaw the non-prosecution agreement.
Epstein purchased Zorro Ranch from the family of former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King years ago.
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Fancy a cuppa, Love? Andrew’s twilight visit to Courtney Love.
And did you notice the little arrow in Courtney Love’s entry pointing to Dana? Well, that is Dana Giacchetto, an investor in Digital Entertainment Network, the company in the Bryan Singer lawsuits, where Singer and other investors were charged with molesting underage boys.
Jeffrey A. Sachs was a close associate of Dana Giacchetto and, alongside Nicole Junkermann, is the second person linked to Epstein who has ties with healthcare consultancies.
https://sachspolicy.com/about/jeffrey-a-sachs/ … https://theswamp.media/the-epstein-associate-nobody-s-talking-about-the-idf-linked-bond-girl-infiltrating-the-uk-nhs …
So who is pulling the strings? Lynn de Rothschild owned the house of Child Abuser and Mossad Agent Ghislaine MaxWell
@KirbySommers
The house where Ghislaine Maxwell lived at 116 East 65th Street was listed as belonging to Jeffrey Epstein. A corporation was created for the house:
“116 East 65th St LLC c/o Epstein”
The “Second Officer” of the corporation is Darren Indyke.
Darren Indyke is an attorney. He was one of the two people Jeffrey Epstein named as co-executor of his will which he drew up two days before he was “suicided”.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epsteins-little-known-lawyer-lands-in-spotlight-11567071001
All records for the corporation known as
“116 East 65th Street, LLC” have been scrubbed off the New York State Department’s website.
The person who owned 116 East 65th Street before Ghislaine Maxwell lived there and before it was “owned” by Jeffrey Epstein was:
Lynn F De Rothschild
(More on Rudd who purchased the house in a separate tweet that follows)
While reports of Jeffrey Epstein meeting the Rothschilds were through Alan Dershowitz fact is the Rothschilds and Leslie Wexner have known each other since before Epstein entered Wexner’s life.
The person who purchased the house where Ghislaine Maxwell lived and that was owned by Lynn De Rothschild is Fred Rudd.
Fred Rudd is a real estate tycoon.
https://therealdeal.com/2016/05/05/investor-frederick-rudd-buys-ghislaine-maxwells-ues-townhouse/
On May 4, 2004 the body of a decomposing woman was reported to have been found floating off a small island in the upper East River. The body was identified as being the first wife of Fred Rudd who “mysteriously vanished” on April 9, 2004. https://nypost.com/2004/05/04/tragic-river-find-body-likely-missing-park-ave-wife/ …
Another interesting “landlord” of Epstein was the United States go who “rented” the house at 34 East 69 Street to him and then sued him when he sublet it. The house had been rented to the Deputy General Counsel of Iran until the US severed ties in 1980 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/27/404/2346291/ …
In 1980 then President Carter cut ties to Iran supposedly because of the hostage situation.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1980/4/8/carter-cuts-ties-with-iran-ppresident/
The fact that the Rothschilds owned Ghislaine’s house would mean that in addition to Leslie Wexner fronting for Epstein and giving him the mansion at 9 East 71st Street (and possibly the one next door 11 E 71 Street); the Rothschilds also contributed property.
Epstein & Junkermann: September 1, 2002 – The Secret Senators and the Wexner War on Iraq
26 Aug 2019
The hidden mansion in the heart of the establishment
While all the very talented people on the independent news scene were uncovering new information about the glamourous Nicole Junkermann, I was focused on the one question that remained unanswered from my article. What were Jeffrey Epstein and Nicole Junkermann doing in the United Kingdom, from landing on August 31, 2002 until leaving on the 2nd of September?
There were so many clues to their whereabouts from a very limited amount of information. They had flown in on Epstein’s private jet from Paris–Le Bourget Airport, and they had chosen to land at Birmingham Airport. So why Birmingham? Britain is littered with viable airports for a billionaire to land his swanky jet. Birmingham, in 2002, was not renowned for being a hangout of the glamourous, and often seedy, billionaires of the world.
I would sift through thousands of old archived websites trying to locate any blip on the radar. Maybe I’d uncover some little story in a local news paper reporting a misplaced boast from a talkative cohort, but the hunt was fruitless. I would eventually find out that I was never going to discover anything related to the night in question in the press. This was a very secret meeting.
I had succeeded in narrowing down a search area, which would prove to be correct, but without something truly miraculous happening, I felt like I was doomed to never know the answer. I put a tweet out saying that I was still looking for Epstein and Junkermann’s location on the first of September 2002, but in reality I was losing hope. I had done my best to get the question out into the public arena; if the answer was to be found, then the universe would have to provide it. On this occasion, the telephone was the universe’s preferred method of communication.
From this point on, I must protect my sources. So, I’m going to start by giving you a basic round up of the events of that weekend. Then we can go into each of the details I was told, and any evidence corroborating the story.
The Slightly Polished Dramatisation
Jeffrey Epstein and Nicole Junkermann landed at Birmingham Airport, located southeast of the United Kingdom’s second biggest city, on the afternoon of Saturday, August 31, 2002. They were met by a prearranged helicopter pilot, most likely a representative of the Bristow Group. They were then flown 25 miles south to a secluded country house in the stunningly beautiful Warwickshire countryside. If they were to fly another 20 miles southeast then they would see Blenheim Palace, principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough, and en-route they would fly over Chipping Norton. The surrounding areas are where some of the most famous of the British based elites live. Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron would go riding with Murdoch executive Rebekah Brooks in the fields below. Elisabeth Murdoch, second born daughter of Rupert Murdoch, has a grand residence nearby, along with Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Clarkson, and of course Princess Anne is just around the corner. They would’ve even been able to see the church where Theresa May’s father used to give his sermons as Vicar of Enstone. Here on the borderlands of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire, they were in amongst the establishment elite.
They landed at a relatively recently installed helipad near the highest point in Warwickshire county. They were in Ilmington, which was once the seat of the Canning family, until the death of Robert Canning in 1848. Situated on the northeastern cusp of the scenic Cotswolds, the Grade 2 listed building where they would be staying is Foxcote House, and was purchased by Leslie and Abigail Wexner in 1997. The two best rooms in the eleven bedroom house were already taken by more important people, so they would have had to settle for the less grandiose quarters.
Sunday September first was the perfect weather for such an occasion and the small group spent the day hunting. Later on that night Jeffrey Epstein would walk into the main house to greet the waiting senators with a girl on each arm. On his right arm was a dazzlingly beautiful brunette and on his left arm was the stunning Nicole Junkermann. The majority of the security men were moonlighting British police and the two guests who were the centre of attention were both sitting United States Senators. This very small gathering wouldn’t be all fun and games. America was on its way to war. In just over a weeks time it would be the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and exactly one month later Joint Resolution 114 would be voted on by those same senators. The vote to go to war with Iraq, based on a “dodgy dossier” of exaggerated and manipulated information.
Who originally invited the senators to the English hunting retreat is unclear, but this would be the last chance for them to have such a private meeting as the following Tuesday the senators would return to the Senate after their summer recess. On Sunday evening, the senators spent some time panicking about the lack of internet access and their inability to access their emails. They were meant to be in constant communication with their people in Washington. There was no wireless internet at Foxcoat at this point in history, just a classic dial up modem. They would only be able to access their email accounts via the solitary computer in the house. That computer was in an office near the kitchens, but the internet wasn’t working. They had to call out an IT specialist late on Sunday night to get their internet up and running. And after the problem was solved, and the emails were retrieved, the night would continue on as planned
The following day, on Monday September 2, 2002, Epstein and Junkermann were flown back to Birmingham airport by helicopter, where they would soon return to Paris. Nicole and Jeffrey went their separate ways. The next day, Epstein would fly from Paris with Jean-Luc Brunel, Sarah Kellen, and Cindy Lopez.
Information Breakdown
The account above is what I can extrapolate from the information which I received. It was now a matter of verifying the information given and starting the hunt for the unnamed US senators. Here’s the reported details:
- The helicopter firm used was Bristows
- The meeting was held at Foxcote House, Warwickshire
- Two United States Senators were present
- Leslie Wexner and Abigail Wexner may not have been present
- All the talk was about the invasion of Iraq
- It was a supposed hunting trip
- Epstein walked into the main house on Sunday with a woman on each arm
- The brunette was not identified but the blonde was identified as Nicole Junkermann
- The internet issue was a major concern
- An outside IT specialist was brought in late Sunday night
- The majority of the security were moonlighting British cops
Firstly, the helicopter firm Bristows does fly out of Birmingham Airport. Also, Foxcote House is owned by the Wexner family, with Wexner’s wife, Abigail, being named on official UK Companies House records as director of the “hunting business”. As the Telegraph reported in 2015, “Mr Wexner has largely succeeded in keeping his ownership of Foxcote out of the public eye despite the fact that he bought the estate 18 years ago for about £3m.”
But I could not find a public record advertising the presence of US senators in the locality, near those dates. This visit could well have been considered a private one for all involved. Two days later, on September 3, 2002, the United States Senate continued its 107th congress.
The Senators and Security
I went from trying to find out where 2 people were located on 1st September 2002, to attempting to identify the whereabouts of the 100 sitting senators on that same day. The Wexner’s could not be identified as present, so the senators seem to have been meeting with Epstein directly. That seriously narrows down the candidates.
I still looked at each senator individually. Joe Biden was at a rally on August 31, and on September 3, 2002 the Baltimore Sun reported “Joseph Biden Sr., 86, the father of Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., died early yesterday at his son’s home in suburban Wilmington, Del. He had been in failing health in recent weeks.” It seemed Biden was the first to be scratched off the list. Jean Carnahan had been shooting that weekend as her website advertised, “Senator Carnahan participated in the annual Fish Fry and Clay Pigeon Shoot in Missouri” on August 30, 2002. Banker John Corzine of New Jersey was linked later on with Wexner via his support for Hillel. Corzine’s then ally and fellow New Jersey Democrat, Robert G. Torricelli, was under the microscope for corruption allegations. I went through the 100 senators, but in the end there were too many slippery fish in this pond for me to go it alone. I was able to locate Hillary Clinton’s whereabouts, and then Pete Domenici, but I always knew who my number one suspect was, so I would save him for last.
When I first found out the location of Epstein and Junkermann, I assumed that at least one of the Wexner’s would have been present. That left all possibilities to the identities of the senators open, as Abigail supported a wide selection of Democrats and Leslie nearly always backed various Republicans. But Epstein was never interested in supporting little candidates. He saw himself as a king maker of sorts, his notable support of Bill Clinton had seen his influence grow and I believe that he craved more of the same. There were only two sitting senators in this period who we know Epstein was in personal contact with. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry were both listed in Epstein’s little black book, and at this time in American political history, everyone was talking about Sen. John Kerry challenging George Bush in the 2004 presidential elections. Kerry was also still openly receiving financial support from Jeffrey Epstein, with several donations being recorded between 1991 and 2002. John Kerry is also famous for his love of hunting, a hobby the Massachusetts politician would heavily advertise over the next few years before he challenged the incumbent Republican President, George W. Bush. However, there are other likely suspects including New York’s Chuck Schumer and New Mexico’s Jeff Bingaman who both received public funding from Epstein.
The information on the security detail I found very interesting. All the British security were specifically reported as being either UK Police or former UK officers. In Epstein’s famous little black book there is an entry for Scotland Yard. Were these officers supplied by the Met, or were they officially working for a private firm? The policemen who were present should face questions about such an event.
The other security were described as like secret service and if there were two US senators present then they may well have brought a very small security detail. If this is so, there should be some form of official record of this visit somewhere in Washington D.C.
The Wexner War on Iraq
While Epstein and Junkermann were entertaining United States Senators at Les Wexners British hunting ground, Washington D.C. was abuzz with activity. The start of the new political season was just beginning and there was much to do. On September 3, 2002, the freshly vacationed senators would vote on the confirmation of Terrence F. McVerry, of Pennsylvania, to be a United States District Judge.
The Amber Alert bill was introduced and passed. It was also the beginning of preparations towards the Iraq war, before it had even been voted on by the Senate. Max Baucus, who was then Chairman of the Committee On Finance, put out a press release on 3rd September entitled, “Baucus Schedules a Markup of a substitute for H.R. 5063, Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act of 2002.”
This was the first bill to prepare for the Iraq War. It gave tax incentives to US troops, so as to make war pay. Only one sitting Republican Party member would vote against the war, he would be joined by 1 Independent and only 21 Democrats.
Les Wexner would be a major force in pushing for the war with Iraq. A document leaked in 2003 entitled, “Luntz Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communications Priorities 2003,” commissioned and produced by the Wexner Foundation, should be studied in universities globally as a perfect example of elite state propaganda. On its opening page it states: “The fact that Israel has remained relatively silent for the three months preceding the war and for the three weeks of the war was absolutely the correct strategy—and according to all the polling done, it worked.”
The paper is a quick guide to linking Israel’s ongoing cooperation with the US military as a positive aspect of the Iraq war. But the paper soon descends into a propaganda aide in the defeat of any arguments defending the embattled Palestinian people. It is a must read document for all those who enjoy anything Orwellian.
In 2003, there was one reporter who was seriously ahead of the game. On August 1, 2003, Bob Fitrakis published an article on his FreePress.org website entitled “The Wexner War”. In it he says, “When the Wexner Analysis report was leaked, it caused a stir but no questioning of Wexner’s little-explored relationships with Epstein and Fisher. Frank Lutz, the Republican Party pollster and spin doctor, prepared the Wexner Analysis. Lutz’s report essentially outlines a political PR campaign “as the post-war dust settles over the Iraqi desert.”
Fitrakis finishes his enthralling article by stating, “Lobbying groups like the Mega Group and government insiders like Wolfowitz and Richard Pearle are engaged in a systematic campaign to identify Israeli national security interests with U.S. military and security interests. The Wexner Analysis merely documents this extensive, often covert campaign, that deserves public debate and democratic discourse, not secret PR campaigns.”
Maybe Epstein was simply lobbying the senators for his pal, and probable fellow Mossad agent, Leslie Wexner.
Conclusion
Can I say that I’ve identified the location of Jeffrey Epstein and Nicole Junkermann on September 1, 2002?
Probably, I have no reason to believe that my source intended to deceive me. I found the person to be somebody who wished to get this story off their proverbial chest. Many of the claims could be verified.
That is all the information that I’ve been able to gather so far, and it seems to suggest a hidden world of influencing, warmongering, and an out of control, but focused, Israeli propaganda machine.
My Junkermann article has taught me a few important things. There are thousands of people who want to reveal the truth. They’re being attacked relentlessly for trying.
The article had some collateral damage; I’m sorry to the folks of Voat.com, if I am really responsible for your site being cyberattacked and shutdown. I salute thee, fallen soldiers!
The most important thing that I’ve learnt was my specific place in investigative journalism. I am here to uncover the topsoil of an intriguing story, and then leave it up to others to finish the digging. So, for now, I shall leave you all in the world which existed on September 1, 2002. I’ve not finished, I just require some new soil to turn.
P.S. I must say a massive thank you to Richie Allen Show, Jason Bermas, and the Opperman Report. They all saw how important the Junkermann connection was. Without their exposure, and all the wonderful people who helped share the article and participate in the investigation, I would have been very much alone right now. It is up to all of us to support the independent media. It is here that you will get the news which the mainstream media would prefer you didn’t know.
P.P.S. A small footnote on the donations of Les and Abigail Wexner: Records from the Federal Election Commission show that Leslie and Abigail Wexner had made many donations before and after September 1, 2002 to Democratic and Republican political organisations. But their donations to individuals were rarer. Between the period of September 27, 2000 and June 21, 2004 they gave personal donations to 5 of the 100 senators who were sitting in September 2002. Those five were Max Baucus, Mike DeWine, Trent Lott, Arlen Specter, and George Voinovich. The two closest payments to the date in question were to Montana Democrat Max Baucus and Ohio Republican George Voinovich from Abigail Wexner and Les Wexner respectively. But even more fascinating is the $5000 donation given on the Saturday night of the event. Abigail Wexner donated the funds to the Ohio Democratic Party on August 31, 2002.
Margie Schoedinger of Missouri City, Texas reportedly sued George W. Bush in December 2002, for rape of both herself and her husband. In 2003 She was found dead, and the judge ruled it a suicide.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Margie_Schoedinger
https://www.kirbysommers.com/margie-bush
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Prince Andrew, close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile
Prince Andrew’s ‘party with paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein’ just after his jail release
Woody Allen also reportedly attended the dinner at billionaire Epstein’s New York mansion where the Duke of York was ‘guest of honour’
12 JUL 2019
Prince Andrew partied with paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein just after his release from jail.
A guest said Epstein called him Andy and “wanted to make clear that while he was a guest of honour, he was a regular guest”.
Woody Allen also attended the dinner at billionaire Epstein’s £62million New York mansion, sources claimed.
It took place in 2010, after financier Epstein was released from a 13-month sentence for soliciting girls as young as 14 for sex.
One guest said those there included US TV hosts Katie Couric, Charlie Rose and George Stephanopoulos.
Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of disgraced former Mirror owner Robert Maxwell, was also there.
A source told the Daily Beast website: “Epstein and Andrew were not there to begin with, then the doors were flung open, and they made their entrance.
The source said Epstein called the prince “Andy” and was “clearly confident” in his company.
“He wanted to show how comfortable he was in his presence, and make clear that while he was a guest of honour, he was a regular, routine and repeat guest,” they added.
“Epstein, Andrew, and Ghislaine were a trio, a party within the party, the insiders among the other guests.”
Another attendee said: “There were a lot of ugly old men, with Prince Andrew in the middle of it all. We left pretty quickly.”
Epstein, who was last week charged with underage sex trafficking offences, was reportedly introduced to the prince in the 1990s by Ghislaine Maxwell.
At the time she was the American’s girlfriend.
The party came two months after the engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton.
Sources said the main topic of conversation was the upcoming wedding of the future Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
It is claimed Couric told Prince Andrew she would be broadcasting live from outside Westminster Abbey during the ceremony and asked: “If I mail your BlackBerry, will you give me the details on what is happening inside?”
It came in the same month a photo was taken of Andrew deep in conversation with Epstein in Central Park.
The picture was published the following February and made headlines around the world, with questions raised over the prince’s judgement.
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace last night said that Andrew, who had previously holidayed with Epstein in Thailand and invited him for stays at Windsor Castle and the Queen’s country reside
Trump and Epstein were the only attendees at a “party” where 28 girls attended. 28 girls were someone’s daughters.
It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
What is that strange building on the Virgin Island property of recently arrested billionaire Jeffrey Epstein?
What was it used for?
Florida billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last Saturday in New York for sex trafficking of minors.
rosecutors unsealed an indictment against Jeffrey Epstein on Monday. The court accused Epstein of sexually abusing dozens of young girls for years at one of the biggest mansions in Manhattan, paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for each encounter and hundreds more if they could recruit other victims.
The case is making headlines because the Clintons partied with Epstein on his now famous “Orgy Island”.
In a statement this past week, former President Bill Clinton admitted to taking a total of four trips on Epstein’s airplane and also admitted to visiting Epstein’s apartment in New York. This has already been debunked as a lie y reporter Conchita Sarnoff. The former President flew 27 times to Orgy Island and most every time his flights carried under age girls!
We reported in 2016 before the election that Bill Clinton took numerous trips on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ to Epstein’s private “Orgy Island” where underage girls as young as 14 were prostituted for Epstein’s rich and famous clients like Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Prince Andrew.
Clinton’s claim that his Secret Service were with him during every trip is bogus because according to reports he simply ditched his security detail in order to stealth travel with Epstein.
Also, Bill Clinton could not have flown with Epstein to perform work for the Clinton Foundation in 2002, as he claimed, because the Foundation was not authorized for foreign work at that time and the former President was not an officer, trustee or employee of the Foundation at that time.
The Clintons are notorious for criminal actions and lying about these actions but what the hell is going on with Epstein and why were they with him?
Per a cursory review of his island in the Caribbean, one object sticks out. A temple of sorts built on the southern part of the island.
There are some uncorroborated stories that the temple has multiple levels below it. What it was used for is unknown.
The fact that the structure looks like a temple obviously sheds some light but why the odd statues? Really, what the hell was going on here?
@ciabaudo
This article about Jeffrey Epstein which makes reference to Ghislaine Maxwell and a ‘prime minister’ has prompted me to bring together the various names from Epstein’s little black book featured in various tweets on CSA into a single thread. Here goes:
Jeffrey Epstein court files unsealed: Allegations of sex abuse by politicians, executives, presidents and a prime minister contained in documents from accused child rapist’s civil case
- 2,000 pages of records related to a civil case filed against Jeffrey Epstein over a decade ago were ordered unsealed on Wednesday
- These file could detail how Epstein and his accused accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly trafficked underage girls
- New allegations of sexual abuse by ‘numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents’ are also in the docs
- There are allegations about ‘a well-known prime minister and other world leaders’ as well
In 1986, The People ran a story about an attempt to pressure Robert Maxwell into halting its coverage of the Harvey Proctor scandal. A sinister caller threatened otherwise to reveal a relationship between Ghislaine Maxwell and the now 11th Duke of Rutland.
If the number of entries in Jeffrey Epstein’s phone book is any indication as to the status of a politician, Peter Mandelson, with no fewer than 10 numbers, must have made it to the very top of the greasy pole. Was he on speed dial?
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1010818589622980609?s=19 …
Anthony Royle was MP for Richmond in Surrey, the home of Britain’s infamous Elm Guest House child brothel until the year after it was raised by Met police. His daughter Lucinda features in Epstein’s telephone book ... https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1132604291854798848?s=19…
Ghislaine Maxwell’s guests for her birthday party included Labour’s Shaun Woodward”
Climate denier, paedophile apologist and Thatcher minister Nigel Lawson’s son Dominic’s wife Rosa Monckton also graced Epstein’s list. Nigel’s daughter Nigella was for many years girlfriend of Harvey ‘Spanker’ Proctor’s IICSA QC Geoffrey Robertson.
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1023243804948791296?s=19 …
Geoffrey Robertson – was counsel for Private Eye
Dominic Lawson: I stayed at Epstein’s so don’t hound Andrew
Prince Andrew has been damned for his choice of friends, but he is blessed in his enemies, like Labour MP Chris Bryant
2011
I suppose, before I am outed by the Mirror as a paedophile at one remove, I had better confess all. In January 1999 we enjoyed a brief family holiday at Epstein’s now notorious Florida home. My wife had known Epstein since the mid-1980s; when she told him in the winter of 1998 that our younger child had been most unwell for a long period, he said that what she needed was some sunshine and insisted we stay at his Palm Beach home.
The place was empty, apart from us and the housekeeper; but, yes, I did notice a photograph in it of Epstein and his then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell with Prince Andrew.
The actor Nigel Havers is the son of Michael Havers. His step-daughter is Clare Bronfman, heavily implicated in the NIXVM cult. Her brother Edgar Jr. appears on Epstein’s list. Edgar Sr. was director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
https://threader.app/thread/1026923031757815808 …
Michael Jackson also features in Epstein’s little black book. Almost certainly a paedophile, he was welcomed with open arms to Westminster by Greville Janner, who should have stood trial for buggery, and Paul Boateng of Angel Rd. fame.
Nicholas Fairbairn, Thatcher protégé, seducer of Esther Rantzen and patron of the Elm Guest House child brothel, was a nasty rapist who defiled the daughter of his close friend Robert Henderson. Fairbairn’s daughter Charlotte appears on Epstein’s list. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732234/Revealed-The-Full-horrifying-truth-Sir-Nicholas-Fairbairn-paedophile-Margaret-Thatcher-s-side.html …
“I don’t think anyone’s really explained how he got away with it,” he says, noting that people have suggested that surely Private Eye, which Ingrams co-founded and edited until 1986, knew something – “we didn’t”.
Ingrams says he never suppressed any Savile stories at Private Eye and believes the story may never have been told before because victims were too “scared” to expose him.
Richard Ingrams and Paul Foot were pupils of paedo-sadist Anthony Chenevix-Trench
Antony Chevenix-Trench taught Richard Ingrams.
Antony Chevenix-Trench’s son John is in Epstein’s black book
Hugo Gibbs, John Chenevix-Trench and Emma Gibbs
^ Fundraising concert at Wintershall – Sarah Duchess of York, Elle Macpherson & Daphne Guinness
Fundraising concert at Wintershall
Other names from Epstein’s book attending this event – Hutleys etc
And an article where Ingrams dismisses SRA
1994
The unusual plot, could be considered a precursor to The Wicker Man, another occult movie.
Over the years the idea that Sharon (Tate) and her unborn child may have been part of some kind of ritual sacrifice …can be traced back to the making of EYE OF THE DEVIL.
During filming the Wiccan High Priest Alex Sanders (also known as the “King of the Witches) and his wife Maxine were hired as consultants on the movie because “The director wanted to experience the atmosphere of ritual magic in order to convey it on film.”
According to Maxine Sanders’ biography Fire Child her husband Alex also introduced Sharon to Wiccian magic, which the actress continued to practice after making EYE OF THE DEVIL. Some have even suggested that Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski studied witchcraft together and this ultimately led to Sharon’s murder.
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/62530%7C0/Eye-of-the-Devil.html
http://streamline.filmstruck.com/2010/10/28/looking-into-the-eye-of-the-devil
The film is set in rural France and was filmed at the Château de Hautefort inDordogne, France and in England. Eye of the Devil is based on the novel Day of the Arrow by Robin Estridge and was initially titled and marketed as 13.
link
Alex Sanders, aka Orrell Alexander Carter, officiating and Maxine Sanders is wearing a goat like mask“Sanders went on to work on films with Sharon Tate and he was friends with Savile, too – so there’s a clear link.”(Polanski was allegedly a child pornographer)
Jimmy Savile ‘moral panic’ tracked by computer in Dordogne
Feb 23 2015 by Andrew Rosthorn
The article in question, “Jimmy Savile ‘Moral Panic’ Tracked By Computer In Dordogne”, is based on an archive of private social media discussions between the women who later came forward to claim they were sexually abused by the late entertainer. Forty years ago the women had been teenagers at the Duncroft Approved School.
The owner of the archive was a retired English lawyer living in the Dordogne region of France. She lived in care at Duncroft in 1965 and 1966. Her name was Susanne Cameron-Blackie, aka – the blogger Anna Raccoon.
Yes, Anna, or Susanne, is right at the heart of this story.
In 2013 Anna Raccoon sent an email to Professor Viviene Cree at the Edinburgh University School of Social and Political Science, explaining the situation and saying she hoped the university would provide a good home for her archive. That summer the Economic and Social Research Council activated its Urgency Grants Mechanism to form a research team for the recovery and collation of documents and the information stored on Anna Raccoon’s computer in the Dordogne.
The full story of the research team and its project are set out in the Lancashire Magazine’s article and is recommended reading.
http://www.holliegreigjustice.uk/hgj/?p=15689
In 2013 Anna Raccoon sent an email to Professor Viviene Cree at the Edinburgh University School of Social and Political Science, explaining the situation and saying she hoped the university would provide a good home for her archive. That summer the Economic and Social Research Council activated its Urgency Grants Mechanism to form a research team for the recovery and collation of documents and the information stored on Anna Raccoon’s computer in the Dordogne. The full story of the research team and its project are set out in the Lancashire Magazine’s article and is recommended reading.
REBECCA WALLERSTEINER is the London-based daughter of Robert Maxwell’s business partner. Her brother is Stowe School’s headmaster
Rebecca Wallersteiner was given a job by Richard Ingrams, named in Dr Joan Coleman’s list of alleged child abusers
http://www.drsallybaker.com/tag/ian-hislop/
In 1992, George Carman QC, had been retained by Savile’s lawyers
Born in 1937, Wilfred De’Ath’s outwardly conventional early life in suburban London was dominated by the overpowering puritanism and fanatical patriotism of his mother, the daughter of a German pastor. In the De’Ath household Hitler was idolised and every German victory heartily celebrated. On shopping expeditions with his mother during the Blitz, young Wilfred had to endure the spectacle of his mother giving Nazi salutes and shouting ‘Heil Hitler!’ to her friend and compatriot, Mrs Maybury.
This singular upbringing may account for De’Ath’s subsequent ill treatment of his own family and the abandonment of a charmed career in journalism which brought him much acclaim for his interviews with figures as diverse as Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, John Lennon, PG Wodehouse and the Archbishop of Canterbury and as a ground-breaking radio and television producer (one of his discoveries was Kenny Everett). Instead he chose a life of vagrancy and petty crime totting up ten years behind bars in the process not to mention his lifelong twin obsessions with sex and religion.
A self-confessed voyeur who was recruited by MI5 to befriend a Russian spy at an orgy, De’Ath was a sexual predator whose victims included Susanna York, Sarah Miles, Julie Christie, Julia Foster and Charlotte Rampling. A godless but enthusiastic churchgoer, he made a career out of exposing the peccadilloes of Anglican clergymen in Private Eye, whose editor, his Oxford contemporary Richard Ingrams, later commissioned a long-running column in the Oldie retailing his experiences at the hands of plodding policemen, mad magistrates, crazy criminals and sadistic screws. In Uncommon Criminal an unrepentant sinner looks back at his deplorable but colourful life with a candour bordering on relish which will disgust and delight in equal measure.”
Suggested links to MI6
Some have suggested that Stewart was an employee of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), during his time as a British Representative to Montenegro – allegedly being recruited to MI6 shortly after he graduated from Oxford University.[18][19] Stewart has said that his career progression and his father’s work for MI6 might “give the appearance” that he worked for MI6,[20] but says he did not work for MI6 while a diplomat.[19] Stewart has acknowledged that due to the Official Secrets Act, even if he had worked for MI6, he would not be able to admit if he had.[21]
Prince Andre’w ex-wife and friend of Jeffrey Epstein…
Sir Anthony Bamford, Tory donor, friend of Blair, BigEars and Hague, and JCB boss, also loaned money to Jeffrey Archer, one of Harvey Proctor’s shirt shop donors. He is one of several on the list with links to children’s charities.
Next up: Churchill grandson and Serco CEO Rupert Soames, brother of Wardrobe-with-Little-Key Nicholas Soames, a Harvey Proctor supporter. Nicholas warned Lady Diana to stop meddling in a controversy over landmines. He and Boateng are directors at Aegis.
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1022922166432608256?s=19 …
Fraudster Gerald Ronson and his wife Gail had several listings in Epstein’s black book, although Gail denies having met him. Gerald – VP of NSPCC and friend of Greville Janner – is related to Leon Brittan of Barnes Common and Malcolm Cash-for-Access Rifkind of Dunblane.
Just a minute! Isn’t that Mathew Freud, son of paedophile Clement Freud who was friend of the McCanns and Jeremy Thorpe, grandson of Sigmund and employee at Lord Bramall’s Dorchester? Like Cyril Smith, nominated for a gong by the disgraced David Steel? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/ …
Ghislaine’s best friend is Ariadne Calvo-Platero, daughter of Lord Beaumont who had strong links to the Royals, PIE’s Peter Righton, John D Stamford of EGH-linked Spartacus, Jeremy Thorpe, Antony Grey, Albany Trust, Eton Mission … and Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-beaumont-of-whitley-millionaire-priest-and-publisher-who-became-the-first-green-peer-807774.html …
Ronald Perelman is a Trump friend and the ex-husband of Ellen Barkin who just today claimed Ghislaine Maxwell is Epstein’s pimp. More recently, Ellen was all set to marry @InquiryCSA‘s disgraced lawyer Ben Emmerson, colleague of Amal Clooney.
https://www.laineygossip.com/Ellen-Barkin-calls-off-engagement-to-Ben-Emmerson/37665/amp …
Milly Soames is good friends with Alice Prochaska, mother of Elisabeth Prochaska, deputy to Ben Emmerson, lead barrister at the @InquiryCSA child abuse inquiry and erstwhile hubby-to-be of Ms. Barkin, who both quit the inquiry under a shroud of mystery.
A gaggle of giggles: David Blaine, magician, Epstein contact and friend of Uri Geller, was present at the Palace of Westminster when Greville Janner, Peter Bottomley and Paul Boateng welcomed Michael Jackson to the mother of parliaments.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/01/david-blaine-magician-investigation-sexual-assault …
One party organised by Ghislaine for Epstein at his New York house in the early 2000s was reportedly attended by Donald Trump, Google founder Sergey Brin, disgraced British Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson and David Blaine who ‘amused a group of barely clad models with card tricks’.
She attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and has been friends with Donald Trump since the 1980s.
It’s believed she was pictured in public in October 2016 at VIP talk for Women’s Brain Health Initiative in New York.
His victims were as young as 14, according to prosecutors.
Giuffre claimed that Epstein had introduced her to Prince Andrew, now 59, and persuaded her to have sex with him three times. She claimed to have been paid $10,000 by Epstein as a ‘reward’ for this.
A judge later threw out her allegations against Prince Andrew and ordered them to be struck from the record of her claim against Epstein.
She spent a lot of time in the city, and worked as the director of Oxford United Football Club while her father was the proprietor.
During her twenties she was well-known in London’s social scene and founded the Kit Kat Club, which purported to be an alternative to the old-school-tie network for high-powered women.
She then worked for her father’s newspaper, The European.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7227791/Will-Epsteins-madam-operate-FBI.html
Former Richmond councillor, Thatcher-era MP, Little Willy Whitelaw’s deputy at the Northern Ireland Office and member of the CoE General Synod, William van Straubenzee was named in child abuse files unearthed by the Cabinet Office in July 2015 linking him to Kincora.
@kbeninato
#Acosta’s stance: It was a different world 11 years ago, so I had to give Epstein a sweetheart deal for trafficking kids. People now care about that kind of thing. Sidenote: He tried to cut the budget for preventing human trafficking by nearly 80 percent.
After giving Epstein “deal of a lifetime,” Alex Acosta tried to slash anti-trafficking program
Years after Epstein’s remarkably light sentence, Acosta sought to slash federal funds to fight sex trafficking
@JamesRusbridger
JEFFREY EPSTEIN oversaw donations of “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to: 1. TONY BLAIR’s ‘Faith Foundation’ 2. CHARLES BRONFMAN’s ‘Birthright Israel Foundation’ The hugs sums were paid by the Black Family Foundation of which Epstein was a director!
Leon Black kept Jeffrey Epstein as charity director after plea deal
“You’d think if you ran a $200 billion firm you’d distance yourself” from a known sex predator like Epstein, a source close to Black told The Post, noting that Apollo is among the largest and most profitable private equity shops in the world.
When Epstein was a director, the Black Family Foundation donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
Millions also were donated to the MoMA.
Other common recipients included the tony Trinity School in Manhattan and Charles Bronfman’s Birthright Israel Foundation.
Leon Black kept Jeffrey Epstein as charity director after plea deal
This thread is about one of Epstein closest friends and business partners, Leon Black.
Leon Black is connected to high financial crimes, corporate militias, education funding, diplomatic immunity to traffic internationally and more
Epstein was the director of the Leon Black Family Foundation from 2001 – 2012 and was the only employee besides Leon and his wife Debra
Leon Black donated $10mil to Epstein in 2015
Black funneled $5.5mil to MIT through Epstein in 2014
Also met w/ Epstein & scientists in 2012
Leon Black’s career began at the infamous WallSt firm, Drexel-Burnham-Lambert which collapsed in 1990 due to numerous SEC violations which Black played a role in. Michael Milken central to the fraud scheme.
Apollo partnered w/ Carlyle Group in 2007 to invest $1bil in private education internationally. Epstein, Leon Black and Michael Milken were all heavily involved in funding private education globally. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=79624&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1065753&highligh…
After serving 22 months in prison for financial corruption, Michael Milken has since worked to rehabilitate his public image by founding DC medical think-tank FasterCures (which Black is on the BoD), and purchasing the largest for-profit education center, Kindercare in 04
Leon Black became chairman of MoMA in 2018 after serving on the board since 97.
MoMA’s board of trustees include Clarissa Bronfman, David Rockefeller Jr, Philip Niarchos, Howard Gardner and alleged pedo Glenn Dubin(!!!) and several others
MoMA works closely with the Foundation for Art and Preservation of Embassies (FAPE) to traffic internationally w/ complete diplomatic immunity (no security checks). Diplomatic pouches a history of being used to traffic contraband https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/03/09/diplomatic-cocaine/…
FAPE members and partners include Hillary Clinton, John Negroponte, Tony Podesta, John Kerry, Stavros Niarchos, and so many other deepstate characters. FAPE has operations in over 70 countries. https://fapeglobal.org/about/annual-events/… This is a recipe for illicit trafficking.
Leon Black, one of Epstein’s closest associates, owns a private militia and has free reign to traffic internationally with no security checks
Under Epstein’s direction, the Leon Black Family foundation donated hundreds of thousands to Charles Bronfman’s Israel Birthright Foundation, Tony Blair foundation and several charter schools Check the 990s: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/133947890…
Kit and Geraldine Laybourne (Nickelodeon etc) – both on the board of Kindercare and on Epstein’s flight logs
Former DBL (Drexel Burnham Lambert) employee, Antony Ressler is the co-chairman of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), along w/ Elaine Wynn whose husband Steve Wynn worked w/ DBL in the 80s.
See the pattern? Museums are used as fronts for traffic w/ diplomatic immunity
MoMa founded by Rockefellers
Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Robert Coke
Directors, executives and advisors
Angela Salt was the Executive Director of the Foundation,[10] which was registered as charity in the UK with Tony Blair as its Patron.
The trustees were Robert Clinton, Robert Coke and Jeremy Sinclair. The Foundation was also registered as a charity in the US with the following directors: Alfred E. Smith IV, Linda LeSourd Lader, Ruth Turner, Timothy C. Collins and Tony Blair.
Ruth Turner, formerly Director of Government Relations within Tony Blair’s Prime Ministerial office, was the first Chief Executive.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair_Faith_Foundation
10 March 2015
Eliza Manningham-Buller to be next Chair of the Wellcome Trust
Eliza Manningham-Buller to be next Chair of the Wellcome Trust | Wellcome
Eliza has always been interested in science, particularly biology, and is intrigued by many aspects of the Trust. The work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute holds particular appeal as she is “fascinated by genetics” and currently sits on the Board of Directors.
Alongside her Governor role, she is vice chairman of the council of Imperial College London and an advisory board member for the Centre for Security and Resilience Studies, University College London.
She is a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords and patron of a “very rewarding and successful small charity” called Street Kids International.
Former Canadian UN worker and renowned humanitarian sentenced in Nepal for raping boys
Peter Dalglish – founder of Street Kids International
Ex-spy boss grilled about Tory MP who escaped investigations into child sex abuse
4 Mar 2019
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is expected to appear before the child abuse public inquiry next week about her contact with Sir Peter Morrison, a close aide to Margaret Thatcher
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8553991/spy-boss-tory-mp-child-sex-abuse/
MI5: Thatcher shielded Sir Peter Morrison after child abuse claims. Margaret Thatcher personally protected a senior Conservative MP who was under suspicion of abusing children, according to MI5 files disclosed to a public inquiry.
Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
Lord Beaumont
Lord Beaumont Of Whitley (nee: Rev. Timothy Beaumont) Chairman Of The Liberal Party.
NEW YORK CITY, NY – MARCH 13: (L-R) Ghislaine Maxwell, Ariadne Calvo-Platero (daughter of Lord Beaumont) and Lucinda Lawrence attend Hamish Bowles, Ghislaine Maxwell and Lillian von Stauffenberg dinner for ALLEGRA HICKS at Home of Ghislaine Maxwell on March 13, 2007 in New York City
@JamesRusbridger
Ghislaine Maxwell with pals Geordie Greig (Daily Mail editor) & Piers Morgan
The 2013 party honoured Greig’s book about Lucian Freud, the painter from the family linked to pedophilia, Tavistock & Madeleine McCann’s abductionStephen Fry was also a guest as was Ghislaine’s best friend, social worker Ariadne Platero (far right) https://www.patrickmcmullan.com/photo/2438092
Sting
Also at the party – Camilla’s brother Mark Shand with Mario Calvo-Platero
Ariadne Calvo-Platero- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Founding Partner at Family Central Consultants
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As a result of Ariadne’s work with families faced with challenges, she has experienced first-hand the transformative effects of a collaborative and supportive team approach and the importance of focusing on a family’s dynamics.
Ariadne is on the Steering Committee of the Women’s Health Symposium, Co-chair of the Advocacy Council of the Citizens Committee for Children, Vice-president and Trustee of The Train Foundation and a member of the National Association of Social Workers.
She earned her undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and had early careers in finance and journalism both in London and New York. She has three children, college age and beyond.
Lord Beaumont – links to the royal family, Paedophile Information Exchange’s Peter Righton, John D Stamford and Spartacus, Jeremy Thorpe, Antony Grey, Albany Trust, Eton Mission, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
Spartacus, which during the 1980s was being run as an international paedophile network, has already been linked with Elm Guest House.
For further context of who John D Stamford and Spartacus are please see: https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/category/spartacus/
https://bitsofbooksblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/johndstamford/
Despite her seedy adventures with Jeffrey Epstein, most of Ghislaine’s friends are very loyal — notably her best friend from Oxford, Ariadne Calvo-Platero, daughter of the peer Lord Beaumont.
Spartacus, which during the 1980s was being run as an international paedophile network, has already been linked with Elm Guest House.
For further context of who John D Stamford and Spartacus are please see: https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/category/spartacus/
Lord Beaumont Mrs Doreen Gorsky Mr Jeremy Thorpe And Lord Byers
Spychiatric Struggles Righton’s attempt to gain control over Albany Trust’s counselling files 1. May 1971: In which Righton & Cordell establish ACCESS with Dr Robert Chtham (aka Ronald Seth – of potential interest to MI5) named on a draft trust deed and plan to takeover Albany Trust’s counselling casework files 2. July 1971: In which…
For the first three years, Beaumont kept his hand in as a cleric by holding an honorary curacy at St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, at the same time entertaining on a lavish scale at his home in Green Street. The guests on one occasion included Princess Margaret, whose husband’s cousin, Mary Rose Wauchope, Beaumont had married in 1955.
The Liberal Cook-Book, is the litery dish edited and partly written by Lord (Tim) Beaumont of Whitley. The Liberal peer and the founder of the Beaumont Society for transvestites, is an accomplished cook. Or should be by now after cooking for eight months for his family; his wife has been studying for a diploma in the decorative arts.
Other contributors to the cook-book are Lord Byers and Jeremy Thorpe (who has offered a recipe called ‘Camembert Ice’. Among liberal party supporters offering culinary delights are Derek Nimmo, Flora Robson and Clement Freud.
Despite her seedy adventures with Jeffrey Epstein, most of Ghislaine’s friends are very loyal — notably her best friend from Oxford, Ariadne Calvo-Platero, daughter of the peer Lord Beaumont.
Yet while some women are drawn to Ghislaine and find her ‘enormous fun’, others say she is intimidating.
‘Masculine and aggressive,’ said one. ‘Profoundly unsettling and rather overpowering,’ said another, who has known her on the party circuit for 20 years.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that the doted-on daughter of a world-class bully, with several brothers, should seem to be more of a man’s woman.
One male acquaintance enthuses, however, that ‘she’s intelligent, highly energetic, very intriguing, funny, sexy and uninhibited. She’s mischievous. A firecracker’.
For now, Ghislaine is single again. And amid the latest scandal, the question remains: why would an attractive, dynamic woman debase herself for a man like Jeffrey Epstein, and fix him up with young girls, without a trace of compassion for them?
‘You must understand that Ghislaine moves in circles where it would be better to be like Martha Stewart [America’s own domestic goddess, who was jailed for share-dealing offences], go to jail and come out with money and be a somebody, than live a boring life in Brooklyn — which would be like a death sentence for her,’ says a New York acquaintance.
Robert Maxwell was a man with formidable personal magnetism, once described as ‘part magic, part monster’. Perhaps that’s Ghislaine, too.
As her friend says: ‘She’s never escaped her father’s shadow. And like him she’s all about money; and like him, she’ll stop at nothing to make sure she has it.’
Lord Beaumont, UK Liberal Party, Kevin MacNamara, UK Labour Party, and Johns Biggs-Davison, UK Conservative Party, (left to right) leave the Maze Prison, Lisburn, N Ireland, after a fact-finding visitRonnie’s Cambridge buddy Peter Cooper was there.
Peter Cooper was someone who nearly came a cropper on life’s journey. Cooper had been ‘personal assistant’ to Sir Edward Hulton and Lord Tim Beaumont, but he then rashly ‘joined Sir Bernard Audley who established the market research company AGB Research plc’.
AGB Research was acquired by Robert Maxwell and as with anything acquired by Cap’n Bob there was not a happy ending.
Sir Michael Havers (brother of former IICSA chair, Butler-Sloss) and Robert Maxwell were both directors at AGB
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/100297833/MR-ROBERT-MICHAEL-OLDFIELD-HAVERS/companies
Havers / Epstein
Nigel Havers’ step-daughter Clare Bronfman arrested over links to American ‘sex cult’ Nxivm
Princess Eugenie’s godmother Lulu Hutley reported to police after ‘whipping foxhunt protester’
EUGENIE’S GODMOTHER SHARES SEEDY SNAP WITH MALE STRIPPER
After the storm over the sleazy Presidents Club gala, comedian Jimmy Tarbuck said those looking for bad behaviour should scrutinise hen parties instead.
Where better to start than Princess Eugenie’s godmother, Lulu Hutley, who shared this smutty photograph with friends online this weekend?
Lulu, a close friend of Sarah, Duchess of York (inset), is pictured grinding her body into the rear of a male stripper.
‘About last night,’ she wrote next to the snap. ‘Brunettes have more fun. Naughty Lu.’
If this is anything to go by, Eugenie’s hen party should be a riot.
Princess Eugenies godmother, Lulu Hutley, a close friend of Sarah, Dutchess of York shared this smutty photograph of he dancing with a male stripper (left) with friends online this weekend
George Milford Haven – his great-grandfather is pervert Louis Mountbatten
The most intriguing of the documents is from May 1968, when a renowned FBI agent by the name of John Grombach discusses “a number of reports pertaining to the alleged homosexuality of Anthony Eden, Earl Mountbatten and (the diplomat) Anthony Nutting”.
Not surprisingly for a man of royal birth with film-star looks, Mountbatten cultivated a large group of gay friends, including Noel Coward, Terence Rattigan, Ivor Novello and Tom Driberg, who gave him the moniker “Mountbottom”.
The book contains an interview with a man who was Mountbatten’s lover throughout the 1970s, an unnamed neighbour then in his 20s.
In the new book, to be published on Thursday, Anthony Daly, a rent boy to the rich and famous during the 1970s, who had a close relationship with Driberg, claims: “Tom said Mountbatten had something of a fetish for uniforms — handsome young men in military uniforms (with high boots) and beautiful boys in school uniform.”
Search results: %22mountbatten%22 %2B %22closed%22 | The National Archives
https://workintown.com/george-milford-haven-the-entrepreneur-with-royal-connections/
@JamesRusbridger
Jeffrey Epstein’s lair: On the roof sits #Moloch the owl, the Canaanite god of child sacrifice. Island workers say the walls were built #soundproof. An engineer says an external #locking#bar “appears intended to lock people in”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/everything-we-know-about-jeffrey-epsteins-private-islands.html… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Epstein was hired at age 20 by Headmaster Donald Barr in 1973. Donald Barr is the father of Attorney General William Barr, who just had Epstein arrested.
Around the years of Mr. Epstein’s tenure, records show the student roster included Prudence Murdoch, the daughter of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch;
Epstein, from Brooklyn, was just 21 when he joined the faculty at Dalton, arriving without a college degree. The school’s student newspaper reported in September 1974 that he was starting that year as a math and physics teacher.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html
@morphonios
While #Epstein was teaching at Dalton, Donald Barr’s son, William was working for the CIA. William later served as GHW Bush’s Attorney General during the CIA Iran-Contra Affair & refused to allow the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate. #Trump brought Barr back as AG.
Donald Barr gave his resignation in February but he did not leave until June 7th, which was after Epstein had been hired. See the NYT archive to confirm: https://nyti.ms/2Y3S0Qz
@kirbysommers
Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, Bill Clinton were involved w/ Iran Contra and that Bill Barr was then President Bush’s AG – this is required watching/reading:
https://youtu.be/Tpopr1qkk0M?t=788
Panama Coup/Secrecy/George Bush/ William Barr
Barr refused to hand over non-classified opinion
Donald Barr’s son William Barr would intersect with Epstein’s orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland and Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal, which the Justice Department is now reviewing. In July, Barr the son refused to recuse himself from the ongoing Epstein investigation.
Donald Barr (August 8, 1921 – February 5, 2004) was an American educator and writer. He taught English at Columbia University, was headmaster at the Dalton School in New York City (1 964–74) and the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York (both members of the ) Ivy Preparatory School League.
He and his wife, Mary Margaret (née Ahern), had four children including William P. Barr, who served as the 77th U.S. Attorney General in the George H. W. Bush Administration and currently serves as the 85th U.S. Attorney General in the Donald Trump Administration.[3][4]
Barr served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.[4] He was teaching English at Columbia in 1955.[6] He initiated the Columbia University Science Honors Program in 1958 and was its director until 1964.[4] He worked as an educator in and around New York City from the 1950s to 1980s and reviewed books for The New York Times.[4][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr#cite_note-NYT-4
William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney serving as the 85th United States Attorney General in the Donald Trump administration since February 14, 2019. He also served as the 77th Attorney General from 1991 to 1993, in the George H. W. Bush administration.
Before becoming Attorney General in 1991, Barr held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including serving as Deputy Attorney General. Barr is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of nearly unfettered presidential authority
Phone surveillance program
In 1992, Barr launched a surveillance program to gather records of innocent Americans’ international phone calls.[41] The DOJ Inspector General concluded that this program was launched without a review of the legality of the program.[41] According to USA Today, the program “provided a blueprint for far broader phone-data surveillance the government launched after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”[41]
Iran-Contra
In late 1992, Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, who had been chosen to investigate the Iran–Contra affair, found documents in the possession of Reagan’s former defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, which Walsh said was “evidence of a conspiracy among the highest-ranking Reagan Administration officials to lie to Congress and the American public.”[42][43] Weinberger was set to stand trial on felony charges on January 5, 1993.[42][44] His “indictment said Mr. Weinberger’s notes contradicted Mr. Bush’s assertions that he had only a fragmentary knowledge of the arms secretly sold to Iran in 1985 and 1986 in exchange for American hostages in Lebanon.”[44][43][45] According to Walsh, then-president Bush might have been called as a witness.[46]
On December 24, 1992, during his final month in office, Bush, on the advice of Barr, pardoned Weinberger,[10][47] along with five other administration officials who had been found guilty on charges relating to the Iran–Contra affair.[10][48][49][42] Barr was consulted extensively regarding the pardons, and especially advocated for pardoning Weinberger.[50]
Walsh complained about the move insinuating that Bush on Barr’s advice had used the pardons to avoid testifying and stating that: “The Iran-contra cover-up, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed.”[51] In 2003, he wrote an account of the investigation in his book, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up.
Because of this and Barr’s unwillingness to appoint an independent counsel to look into a second scandal known as Iraqgate, New York Times writer William Safire began to refer to Barr as “Coverup-General Barr.”[52] Barr, however, responded that he believed Bush had made the right decision regarding that and he felt people in the case had been treated unfairly.[53] Barr said that Walsh was a “head-hunter” who “had completely lost perspective.”[54]
Bronfman/ALEC/Barr
Former headmaster of Dalton accused of sexually assaulting teen student
June 7, 2018
The headmaster of an elite Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a disadvantaged teen for months when he took her into his home to help out with his new baby, an explosive new lawsuit charges.
The victim, identified as J.S., was 14 years old when Gardner Dunnan, the long-time head of the Dalton School, allegedly preyed upon her at his Manhattan apartment and in his New Jersey summer home.
The alleged attacks happened in 1986 when J.S. was living at Dunnan’s family’s Upper East Side home while attending the tony school tuition-free — in exchange for her working as a “family helper.”
She accuses Dalton of turning a blind eye to Dunnan’s alleged behavior, saying the school ” should have been aware that Dunnan was likely to engage in sexual misconduct or other harmful behavior.”
Dunnan was forced to resign from Dalton in 1997 — after his affair with a married female teacher at the school was exposed. He served as headmaster at the East 89th Street school for 23 years. (Since 1974)
Dalton School
- Jeffrey Epstein, taught 1973-75. Financier; convicted sexual predator[74]
A close study of his circle — social, professional, transactional — reveals a damning portrait of elite New York.
His Contacts, A to Z
A guided tour of a perverse power list.
Allen, Woody: Director.
Epstein kept a photo of his friend Allen, the sexual pariah, on his wall and was photographed walking with him on the Upper East Side. They had more than a neighborhood in common. For years before his relationship with Mia Farrow, Allen had carried on with a 16-year-old girl he’d met at Elaine’s named Babi Christina Engelhardt. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she wondered if she was the inspiration for Manhattan, Allen’s 1979 movie about a man in his 40s who dates a high-school student, which was nominated for two Academy Awards. Engelhardt had sex with Allen more than 100 times, she says, sometimes with Farrow. “The whole thing was a game that was being operated solely by Woody so we never quite knew where we stood,” she said. Engelhardt went on to become Epstein’s assistant.
Read More: How a Predator Operated in Plain Sight
Althorp, Charles: Princess Diana’s brother.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Andersson-Dubin, Dr. Eva: Doctor and former Miss Sweden.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and her husband, billionaire hedge-funder Glenn Dubin, had Epstein over for Thanksgiving dinner in 2009, telling his probation officer they were “100 percent comfortable” with his being around their teenage daughter, Insider reported. She also created a foundation so Epstein could donate to her breast-cancer charity without attaching his name.
Prince Andrew, The Duke of York: Looking for a friend.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Epstein and the second son of Queen Elizabeth II have been friends for years and were introduced, it is generally thought, by Brit Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime aide-de-camp. Epstein has entertained the prince at his townhouse, where he would toss aside regal formalities and refer to him simply, and to English ears heretically, as “Andy.” Prince Andrew has had Epstein and Maxwell to shooting parties at Sandringham House, the queen’s country retreat in Norfolk. Theirs is an unusual alliance, given their stations — the born royal and the Brooklyn boy who made it big — but its disparities may be part of the point. “Jeffrey had Andrew put on a pair of sweatpants for the first time in his life,” a source told Vanity Fair about the two. “It was Jeffrey who taught Andrew how to relax.”
But their relationship, and their relaxing, took on darker shades as time went on. Andrew stood by Epstein after his release from a 13-month prison sentence and was the star attraction at the party he threw to reenter society. (Katie Couric and George Stephanopoulos also came.) The British press wrung its hands with equal parts pain and glee when it was discovered that Sarah, the perennially indebted Duchess of York — Fergie to her Weight Watchers fans — had accepted £15,000 from Epstein to pay off one of her creditors, a deal brokered by her ex-husband, and that a former employee at Epstein’s Palm Beach manse had alleged in a sworn deposition that the duke was a longtime guest, enjoying massages and naked pool parties. (Prince Andrew denied ever attending, or any awareness of, naked pool parties.) The ongoing affiliation with Epstein likely contributed to the end of Andrew’s duties as a U.K. trade envoy. In 2015, Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleged in a court filing that Andrew was one of the powerful friends to whom Epstein lent her out for sex. Buckingham Palace issued a statement emphatically denying the allegation. She hasn’t pressed her case further in court. But a photograph of the duke with his arm around a 17-year-old Roberts Giuffre, with Maxwell grinning beside them, didn’t help. —Matthew Schneier
Assaf, Vittorio: Restaurateur.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Started the Upper East Side institution Serafina.
Band, Doug: Influence peddler.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
A onetime White House intern who climbed his way to being Bill Clinton’s bag carrier, body man, fixer, and all-purpose gatekeeper, Band arranged for the former president to travel to Africa on Epstein’s 727 in 2002. Band would go on to help his boss found the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, a choice platform from which he launched his own lucrative favor-trading corporate-advisory firm, Teneo. Throughout that time, he took a number of trips on Epstein’s plane and attended parties at his townhouse. Band resigned from his position at CGI in 2012; leaked emails later showed Band and Chelsea Clinton trading accusations of conflicts of interest in a war of influence over her parents. More recently, Band’s been teaching a “Public Service” class at NYU.
Read More: Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side Mansion
Balazs, André: Celebrity hotelier.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Baldwin, Alec: Actor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Denies knowing Epstein, though he appears in the black book. Recently, Baldwin invited Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald reporter who resurfaced the Epstein story, to do a podcast.
Bannon, Steve: Former White House chief strategist.
In August 2018, the New York Post reported that Bannon had been seen entering Epstein’s townhouse. Neither Bannon nor Epstein has commented on the substance of their meeting, but when Ivanka Trump condemned Roy Moore’s campaign in Alabama, saying, “There’s a special place in hell for people who prey on children,” Bannon, who backed Moore, responded, “What about the allegations about her dad and that 13-year-old?” It was a clear reference to the woman who had accused Donald Trump and Epstein of raping her when she was 13.
Barr, Donald: The headmaster who offered entrée.
Barr was ousted shortly before Epstein, 21 and without a college degree, showed up for his first day of work teaching math and physics at the Manhattan’s elite Dalton School in the early 1970s. Barr announced his resignation soon after, in February 1974: “He was disliked by the faculty, he was highly controversial, he hadn’t raised much money, he was very conservative,” said the board’s chairman. Barr’s leadership style was described as “authoritarian” and “undemocratic” at the time. Memorably, several former students told the New York Times that Epstein was overly familiar with teenage girls at the school. Donald’s son William would intersect with Epstein’s orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland and Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal, which the Justice Department is now reviewing. In July, Barr the son refused to recuse himself from the ongoing Epstein investigation.
Barrack, Tom: Trump adviser and private-equity manager.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
In Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff wrote that Trump, Epstein, and Barrack were a “set of nightlife musketeers” in the ’80s and ’90s.
Berger, Sandy: National-security adviser for Bill Clinton.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Berggruen, Nicolas: Billionaire investor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Berkman, Bill: New York businessman.
Names found in Epstein’s black book.
A wealthy executive whose family established the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, Berkman was sued in 2014 by his administrative assistant, who said she was forced to read emails Berkman had sent to a colleague containing “pictures of random and unsuspecting women on the street” — that is, creepshots. (The suit was settled.)
Birley, Robin: Nightclub impresario.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Owned the club where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had their first date.
Bismarck, Debonnaire von: Countess.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Listed as Debbie in the black book.
Bismarck, Leopold von: Count.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Yes, those von Bismarcks. His nickname, Bola, was listed in the black book.
Bismarck, Vanessa von: Heiress and publishing entrepreneur.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Black, Conrad: Media mogul.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
He’s perhaps best known for being sentenced to 42 months in prison for fraud, then writing a book about Trump and receiving a pardon. Vicky Ward, who profiled Epstein for Vanity Fair in 2003, said Epstein heavily leaned on Black, who is her ex-husband’s uncle (and was her ex-husband’s then-boss), to try to exert his influence on Ward.
Black, Leon: Private-equity tycoon.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The billionaire co-founder of Apollo Global Management and chairman of MoMA, Black made Epstein the director of his family foundation in 2001. The foundation continued to list Epstein as director on its tax forms until 2012, four years after he had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida. The foundation now says that Epstein resigned in 2007 and that his name continued to appear on its rolls owing to a “recording error.” In 2011, he was listed as an investor in Environmental Solutions Worldwide, a Pennsylvania company, alongside several people close to Black, including his four children. Black himself was seen with Epstein at a movie screening just a few months after Epstein finished probation in 2010, and Epstein was spotted at a party at Black’s home in the Hamptons as recently as 2015.
Black, Roy: An Epstein lawyer.
The trial attorney and legal analyst’s client roster has included Justin Bieber, Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, and Rush Limbaugh. Black is perhaps best known for representing William Kennedy Smith against rape charges in Palm Beach in 1991. (The Kennedy nephew was acquitted.) In 2005, Black played the “managing partner” on NBC’s The Law Firm, a knockoff of The Apprentice for up-and-coming lawyers.
Blaine, David: Magician.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Blaine put on a private show for Epstein’s dinner guests in 2003, doing card tricks for the likes of Sergey Brin, Mort Zuckerman, and Bill Clinton aide Doug Band. The dinner was organized by Ghislaine Maxwell and included a group of young women who were introduced as Victoria’s Secret models.
Blair, Tony: Former British prime minister.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Bloomberg, Michael: Billionaire, private-jet enthusiast, former mayor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Bolkiah, Hassanal: Sultan of Brunei.
Epstein had at least one meeting with the sultan when he traveled to Brunei in 2002 with Bill Clinton. Bolkiah and his brother are famous for their lavish spending, including a collection of 2,500 cars and a $1.5 billion palace. Bolkiah was once sued by Miss USA 1997, who claimed she had been held as a sex slave. The suit was dismissed on the grounds that Bolkiah had sovereign immunity.
Bond, Annabelle: British socialite.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Bonomi, Andrea: Italian businessman.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The chairman and founder of Investindustrial was a key character in the Paradise Papers international tax-shelter scandal.
Borrico, Michael: Long Island contractor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Described by Social Life magazine as the “ambassador of the all-important Hamptons polo culture,” Borrico is known for hosting polo matches at his estate in Water Mill.
Bourke, Frederic: A founder of Dooney & Bourke.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Bourke went to prison for a scheme to bribe government officials in Azerbaijan.
Bowles, Hamish: European editor-at-large for Vogue.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Brandolini, Muriel: Interior designer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Her clients have included Matt Lauer and the Crown Prince and Princess of Greece.
Branson, Richard: Founder of Virgin Group.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Like Epstein, Branson enjoys entertaining on a private island.
Briatore, Flavio: Italian millionaire businessman.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
A friend of Trump, a convicted card cheat, and an accused Formula 1 race fixer, Briatore was a longtime fugitive in the Virgin Islands.
Brockman, John: Agent for scientific “freethinkers.”
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
What seems new, in flipping through the reams of society photos of perhaps the world’s most prolific sexual predator that have been circulating over the past few weeks, is not the powerful and the beautiful who surrounded Epstein, but the intellectuals — the Richard Dawkinses, the Daniel Dennetts, the Steven Pinkers. All men, of course. But the group selfies probably shouldn’t have been a surprise — documents of an age in which every millionaire doesn’t just fancy himself a philosopher-king but expects to be treated as such, and every public intellectual wants to be seen as a kind of celebrity.
Cultural shifts like these require visionaries, networkers, salespeople. Brockman is one. A Warhol Factory kid turned freelance philosopher of science turned literary agent to Dawkins and Dennett and Pinker (and many others), in the 1980s he formed a casual salon of like-minded scientists and futurists that came to be known as the Reality Club, a knock against the poststructuralism then dominant in the academy. In the 1990s, he rebranded it as the Edge Foundation, an organization whose central event was an annual online symposium devoted to a single, broad question. In 2000, it was “What is today’s most important underreported story?” In 2006, “What is your dangerous idea?”
Epstein was a regular contributor, and his plane — to judge from the photographs, at least — was an especially appealing way for other contributors to get to ted. They could also catch Epstein at Harvard, where so many of them taught and where he became so prolific a donor that one whole academic program seemed to be run like his private Renaissance ateliers. Epstein had long described himself as a “scientific philanthropist,” and in a press release put out by the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation announcing its “substantial backing” of Edge, he called it “the world’s smartest think tank.”
Many in Brockman’s Edge community are, or were, inarguably significant figures in the American intellectual Establishment: Freeman Dyson, Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, John Horgan, Paul Bloom (to name a random but representative sample). They are also among the gods and heroes of the Trump-era internet community of “freethinkers,” whom Eric Weinstein, the venture capitalist and regular Edge contributor, memorably called “the intellectual dark web.” The name suggests a self-glamorizing style of dangerous discourse, and as soon as the community was identified, it was criticized as revanchist, an effort to reopen areas of intellectual inquiry — about innate differences between the races, say, or the genders — now considered problematic, at a minimum. But to listen to the IDW warriors themselves — talking about the “war on free speech” as though their universities had sent assassins their way rather than tenured chairs — their crusade seems motivated just as much by a thin-skinned sense of their own world-historical significance. They were special people, deserving of special acclaim and, of course, special privileges.
Many contributions to Edge were plausibly the products of genuinely special minds. Epstein’s were not. In 2008, the year he went to jail for prostitution, the prompt was “What have you changed your mind about?” Epstein replied, “The question presupposes a well defined ‘you’ and an implied ability that is under ‘your’ control to change your ‘mind.’ The ‘you’ I now believe is distributed amongst others (family friends, in hierarchal structures), i.e. suicide bombers, believe their sacrifice is for the other parts of their ‘you.’ The question carries with it an intention that I believe is out of one’s control. My mind changed as a result of its interaction with its environment. Why? Because it is a part of it.”
“Jeffrey has the mind of a physicist,” the Harvard professor Martin Nowak has said, incredibly. But what he really did have was the life of a very rich person — unable to see any world he felt unqualified to enter and surrounded by too many people enamored with his money to ever hear the word no. —David Wallace-Wells
Bronfman Jr., Edgar: Executive.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The former Warner Music Group CEO, son of the late Seagram’s CEO Edgar Bronfman Sr., is related to the NXIVM-sex-cult Bronfmans. His son has a child with pop star M.I.A.
Brunel, Jean-Luc: Model scout.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Brunel was accused in court testimony of having used his agency to supply Epstein with girls. (He was not charged.) He also has a long history of allegations that he had abused his fashion-world position. In 1988, he was the subject of a 60 Minutes investigation alleging that he and a fellow agent sexually assaulted nearly two dozen models. He denied the claims but later told Model author Michael Gross, “You get laid tonight with a model, is that a crime?” In 2005, Brunel co-founded the Mc2 modeling agency; Epstein invested $1 million, according to a 2010 deposition.
Buck, Joan Juliet: Fashion editor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
In 2003, Buck met Maxwell at a fashion party at a New York City boutique. Buck had recently moved on from her seven-year tenure as the editor of Paris Vogue and was writing for its American counterpart and living in New Mexico. She was a lifelong resident of a rarefied social world. Maxwell, a regular on that particular circuit, quickly made a connection. “Oh, Jeffrey’s got a ranch in Santa Fe, blah blah blah,” Buck recently remembered their conversation going. She gave Maxwell her Santa Fe number and later asked a friend about Epstein and New Mexico. “His ranch?” the friend replied. “As we say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.”
Burkle, Ron: Supermarket magnate.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Burkle took what were described as humanitarian trips to Africa with Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private Boeing 727. According to a 2008 Vanity Fair feature about the former president, “Burkle’s usual means of transport is the custom-converted Boeing 757 that Clinton calls ‘Ron Air’ and that Burkle’s own circle of young aides privately refer to as ‘Air Fuck One.’ ”
Bushnell, Candace: Columnist who inspired Sex and the City.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Busson, Arpad: French financier.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
During a custody battle with ex Uma Thurman, her lawyer asked Busson, a prominent hedge-funder, if he had ever said he was “addicted to prostitutes.” (He said no.)
Calacanis, Jason: Businessman.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
An investor in Uber, Calacanis was a fixture in the early-aughts New York tech scene as the founder and editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. (“I can’t tell you how many propositions I get, it’s absolutely insane,” he told the Observer in 2000.) In 2014, Vice awarded him Most Offensive Tweet of the Year for describing as racist the idea of white privilege.
Caledon, Nicky: Earl.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Campbell, Naomi: Supermodel.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Candy, Nicholas and Christian: British property-developer brothers.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Carter, Graydon: Former editor of Vanity Fair.
According to journalist Vicky Ward, he killed portions of a 2003 story that accused Epstein of pedophilia after an office visit from Epstein. (Carter says there wasn’t enough on-the-record sourcing.) “I didn’t invent the system. I just lived by the system,” he said when The New York Times Magazine questioned him about the story last week.
Cecil, Aurelia: PR chairman.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Allegedly the former girlfriend of Prince Andrew.
Cecil, Mark: Hedge-funder.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Has hosted Prince William and Kate Middleton at his villa in Mustique.
Chatwal, Vikram: Hotelier.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
When the 1990s playboy settled down, Bill Clinton attended his wedding. In 2017, Chatwal pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation after being accused of trying to set a pair of dogs on fire on a Soho street.
Cipriani, Giuseppe: Restaurant magnate.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The scene-y Cipriani Italian spots are known for inventing the Bellini cocktail — and more infamously for being Harvey Weinstein’s “hunting ground.”
Cisneros, Gustavo: Venezuelan billionaire.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The patriarch of a family so wealthy it operates practically as its own nation-state in Latin America.
Clinton, Bill: President and problem.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
As soon as the Epstein news broke two weeks ago, the taunting and tallying began, suffocating in its familiarity. First were the jeering reminders, as if we didn’t know it in our every molecule: It wasn’t just Donald Trump who’d be ensnared in this stygian nightmare of underage sexual assault and trafficking of girls, it was Bill Clinton, who’d been a friend and repeat flier on Epstein’s plane. Then came the numbers, the attempts to quantify the nature of the Clinton-Epstein relationship. Clinton issued a statement toting up four plane trips, one Epstein meeting in Clinton’s Harlem office, one visit to Epstein’s home, and zero trips to his island. Meanwhile, reporters recalled that Gawker’s published flight logs had tallied 12 separate plane legs and that Epstein had more than 20 numbers and email addresses for Clinton and one signed photo of him in his home, along with one of Woody Allen and one of Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
All of this was presented as if these numbers could clarify some exact science of guilt or complicity. The reality is: Yes, Clinton was grimy and had grimy friends, and, more broadly, this is how powerful men have behaved toward women and one another. Yes, we know it’s dirty and mean and exhausting and true.
We know, of course, because the shadow of Clinton’s sexual history and his associations with other men who have terrible legacies of sexually inappropriate-to-criminal behavior have for decades hung like a greasy and unscrubbable film over the Democratic Party he once led. Clinton palled around not just with Epstein but with Charlie Rose and Harvey Weinstein and Trump himself.
They hung out together and flew together and went to each other’s offices and visited each other’s homes and appeared on each other’s TV shows and had each other’s phone numbers and attended each other’s weddings and created a circle of money and protection. The prosecutorial and defensive math — the haggling over flights and phone numbers — is just used to complicate this basic reality.
Those on the left have been going over how we’re supposed to feel about him for decades, but in the arguing about it, we have been asked to focus again and again on Clinton and his dick and what he did or didn’t do with it. The questions we’ve asked ourselves and one another have become defining.
Are we morally compromised in our defense of him or sexually uptight in our condemnation? Are we shills for having not believed he should have resigned, or doing the bidding of a vindictive right wing if we say that, in retrospect, he probably should have?
Meanwhile, how much energy and time have been spent circling round this man and how we’ve felt about him, when in fact his behaviors were symptomatic of far broader and more damaging assumptions about men, power, and access to — as Trump has so memorably voiced it — pussies?
After all, Clinton was elected president during a period that may turn out to be an aberration, just as the kinds of dominating, sexually aggressive behaviors that had been norms for his West Wing predecessors had become officially unacceptable, and 24 years before those behaviors would again become a presidential norm. So yes, Clinton got in trouble, yet still managed to sail out of office beloved by many, his reputation as the Big Dog mostly only enhanced by revelations of his exploits.
But the election of Trump over Clinton’s wife, and the broad conversation around sexual assault and harassment that has erupted in its wake, has recast his behavior more profoundly. The buffoonery, the smallness and tantrums of Trump, has helped make clear what always should have been: that the out-of-control behavior toward women by powerful men, the lack of self-control or amount of self-regard that undergirded their reckless treatment of women, spoke not of virility or authority but of their immaturity. And the people who have paid the biggest price for these men’s fixation on sex as a measure of manhood have, of course, not been the men themselves.
In Clinton’s case, it has been Monica Lewinsky, whose life and name became defined by her relationship to him. It has been his wife, Hillary, who, in addition to having been celebrated and pilloried for her defense of her husband, also had to conduct one of her three historic presidential debates with women who’d accused him of sexual misconduct sitting in the audience, invited there by her opponent as props to unsettle and disempower her. It has been decades of left feminist women who have had Clinton’s misdeeds thrown in our faces as proof of our own hypocrisy.
I try sometimes to imagine a contemporary Democratic Party without Bill Clinton in its recent past — yes, of course, from a policy perspective, but also simply from a personal one. What if so much energy had not been eaten up by his colleagues, by his wife, by feminists, by his supporters and friends and critics, all of whom had to dance around him, explain their associations with him, or carefully lay out their objections to him without coming off as frigid reactionaries?
What else might we have done with our politics had we not been worrying about Clinton and his grubby buddies? What further power have they taken from us? —Rebecca Traister
Clinton, Chelsea: First Daughter.
Ghislaine Maxwell attended her wedding after Epstein had first been charged. This was shortly after she skipped a deposition for the Epstein case, claiming she needed to return to the U.K. to be with her deathly ill mother.
Coleridge, Nicholas: Chairman of Condé Nast Britain.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Collins, Phil: Musician.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Copperfield, David: Magician.
According to a message-pad entry dated January 27, 2005, at 3:55 p.m., Copperfield rang Epstein’s line while he was out. The handwritten entry reads, “Magic David called.”
Couric, Katie: Journalist.
Among those who attended a dinner at Epstein’s townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010.
Cosby, Bill: Comedian, convicted rapist.
Lived across the street from Epstein in Manhattan.
d’Arenberg, Prince Pierre: Royal.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Americans often imagine aristocrats floating on a cloud of above-it-all wealth, but even real-life princes, this one descended from a German royal family that long ago united with the most influential and wealthiest family of the Hapsburg Netherlands, could get something out of a relationship with a font of new American money like Epstein.
de Broglie, Louis Albert: Political scion, founder of luxury garden brand.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
de Carvalho-heineken, Charlene: Heiress.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
de Crussol, Jacques: 17th Duke of Uzès.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Cuomo, Andrew: Governor of New York.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Andrew Cuomo’s brother Chris Cuomo linked to Epstein:
Epstein Partied With Chris Cuomo & Others At David Koch’s House, After Release From Prison
Chris Cuomo is the son of Matilda (nee Raffa) and Mario Cuomo, the former Governor of New York, and the brother of Andrew Cuomo, the current Governor of New York.[2]
Is this why CNN’s Chris Cuomo said “who cares” about who was “better friends” with Jeffrey Epstein?
According to reports, the pedophile billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein, was invited to a party at David Koch’s house in September, 2010 – just months after Epstein had been released from prison.
Why would David Koch invite somebody who had been accused of multiple sex crimes involving young girls to his party?
According to The Daily Mail:
Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, banking, Hollywood and philanthropy at a Hamptons party just two months after his release by the state of Florida for soliciting a minor.
Photos from a 2010 dinner party at the home of David and Julia Koch obtained by DailyMail.com show Epstein as he chats with guests after a screening of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Among those guests were two men who currently serve in President Trump’s cabinet and his most trusted legal adviser.
Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump’s closest advisers including Wilbur Ross, Rudy Giuliani, and Steve Mnunchin at dinner hosted by David Koch just TWO MONTHS after his release from prison
Steve Mnuchin and his then-wife Heather, Rudy Giuliani and his then-wife Judith and Wilbur Ross all attended the screening and dinner that followed at the Koch’s.
Well, David Koch IS in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book…
Including his home number…https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7270735/Jeffrey-Epstein-Trumps-closest-advisers-Wilbur-Ross-Rudy-Giuliani-Steve-Mnunchin.html …
The Wall Street Journal wrote about those who attended the event a few days later, and in the piece noted that Giuliani ‘walked out of the theater around the same time as Jeffrey Epstein, leading one observer to remark on the “beautifully done meeting of the prosecutor and the felon.”‘
The party that night was also attended by designers Tory Burch and Tamara Mellon, billionaires Henry Kravis and Steve Schwarzman and publicist Peggy Siegal.
She has admitted to helping Epstein out, and in an interview with The New York Times said: ‘I was a kind of plugged-in girl around town who knew a lot of people. And I think that’s what he wanted from me, a kind of social goings-on about New York.’
Siegal also said in that interview that she was not paid by Epstein and he did not go to parties, choosing to skip them after screenings.
That was not the case at this party however, where he was seen in deep conversation with close friend Jonathan Farkas in one photo, and in another seemed to be standing next to one of his former female employees.
The Journal story asked guests about the criminal elements of the Wall Street sequel at the party, prompting one individual to note: ‘You know, you have to be a little careful what you say and ask here, because there are a lot of guys in the room who spent some time in prison, too.’
Informationliberation.com reports: Here’s how Page Six reported it in 2010:
Why would David Koch invite Epstein to this party two months after he was released from prison for soliciting a minor and accused of a multitude of sex crimes involving young girls?
Dahl, Sophie: Former model, granddaughter of Roald Dahl.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
de Rothschild, Lynn Forester: De Rothschild!
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Dershowitz, Alan: Lawyer who stands accused.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
For around a decade, Dershowitz kept casual company with Epstein, who introduced him to his friends, like Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
(Dershowitz says he and the prince ended up not getting along because they disagreed about Israel.) Dershowitz visited Epstein’s mansions in New York and Palm Beach and occasionally accompanied him on his private plane. He says these trips were family oriented. Once, Epstein lent him the Palm Beach home so he could attend a granddaughter’s soccer tournament. Another time, he and his nephew flew down to watch a space launch with another Epstein connection, a top NASA official. He and his wife, Carolyn Cohen, once stayed with Epstein on his island in the Caribbean, where they were joined by another Harvard professor and his family.
When Epstein first started to attract media attention in the early aughts, mainly because of his friendship with former president Bill Clinton, Dershowitz served as a character witness for the reclusive financier.
He told Vanity Fair that he shared manuscripts of his books with Epstein before they were published and swore that his money was irrelevant. “I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas,” he told the magazine.
But Dershowitz says their interactions changed in 2005, when Epstein faced a local police investigation into his relations with underage girls in Palm Beach and he hired Dershowitz as a lawyer. With his assistance, Epstein was able to whittle down the state’s indictment against him to a single count of soliciting prostitution. But in the years to come, as Epstein’s legal problems compounded, they would eventually ensnare Dershowitz himself. He is also accused of having sex with two of Epstein’s alleged victims. “The stories are so phantasmological,” Dershowitz says. He recognizes that the #MeToo movement has surfaced countless accounts of preposterous-sounding sexual misbehavior by powerful men and almost all of them have turned out to be true. But Dershowitz swears he is different. “Mine is the only case, singular, the only one, where I never met the people,” he says. “There’s no evidence we’ve ever met, no evidence we were ever in the same place at the same time, ever.”
Today, Dershowitz claims he and Epstein were never really even friends, despite their proximity. “He was an acquaintance,” he says. “In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t taken the case, but I didn’t see a problem with taking the case. We didn’t have a close personal relationship.” —Andrew Rice
Read More: Alan Dershowitz Cannot Stop Talking
Dickinson, Janice: Model, actress, TV personality.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Diniz, Pedro: Agroforester, businessman, former Formula 1 racing driver.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Driver, Minnie: Actress.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Mark Thompson – head of the BBC cover-up of Jimmy Savile (2nd from the left) with President of the International New York Times Stephen Dunbar-Johnson (far right)
Dunbar-Johnson, Stephen: President, international, of the New York Times Company.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Dunne, Griffin: Director.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Joan Didion’s nephew and a Martin Scorsese leading man.
Edelman, Gerald: Nobel Prize winner.
Edelman received funding from the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. “Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,” he told New York in 2002. “He came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.”
Ellenbogen, Eric: Former CEO of Marvel Enterprises.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Estrada, Christina: Model.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Ex-wife of the late Walid Juffali, billionaire chairman of the largest privately owned enterprise in Saudi Arabia.
Fekkai, Frédéric: Celebrity hairstylist.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Fekkai’s expensive salons are up and down the Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, and he’s known for butter blondes, layered bobs, and participating in the polishing up of Hillary Clinton. Epstein’s assistants were given house accounts for blowouts, waxing, nails, highlights, the works.
Ferguson, Sarah: Duchess of York.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Epstein loaned Prince Andrew’s then-wife $18,000 to pay off some debts. “I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me,” Ferguson told the Telegraph in 2011. “I abhor paedophilia.”
Fiennes, Ralph: Actor, producer, director.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Fisher, Paula Heil: Opera producer.
Epstein’s former girlfriend met him through Bear Stearns, where she was once an associate.
Forbes, Steve: Chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Ford, Tom: Designer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Gell-Mann, Murray: Physicist.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
In 1969, Gell-Mann won the Nobel Prize. In 2003, he told Vanity Fair, “ ‘There are always pretty ladies around’ when he goes to dinner chez Epstein.”
Getty, Mark: Co-founder and chairman of Getty Images.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Ginsberg, Gary: Communications pooh-bah.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Once a lawyer in the Clinton White House, Ginsberg joined George, then News Corp., then Time Warner. He has also done pro bono speechwriting for Benjamin Netanyahu and now works for SoftBank, a Japanese investment company with close ties to the Saudi government
Key lieutenant to Rupert Murdoch at News Corp
Gladwell, Malcolm: Writer.
“I was invited to the TED conference in maybe 2000 (I can’t remember), and they promised to buy me a plane ticket to California,” Gladwell says now. “Then at the last minute they said, ‘We found you a ride on a private plane instead.’ As I recall, there were maybe two dozen TED conferencegoers onboard. I don’t remember much else, except being slightly baffled as to who this Epstein guy was and why we were all on his plane.”
Goldsmith, Gerald: Rothschild North America.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Greenberg, Ace: Bear Stearns chairman, Epstein’s first patron.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have any formal training when he started working at Bear Stearns in 1976, but that wouldn’t have mattered to then-CEO Alan “Ace” Greenberg, who famously hired “PSD degrees,” short for “poor, smart, with a deep desire to be rich.” As it happened, Epstein was all three. He came from a modest Coney Island background, had no college degree, and worked a job — as a math teacher at Dalton and a tutor to Greenberg’s son — that was unlikely to support his tastes, which were apparently of the private islands–and–gilded desk–purportedly–belonging–to–J. P. Morgan variety. At Bear Stearns, Epstein made a name for himself in the “special-products division,” essentially figuring out how to help the rich pay less taxes. “He would recommend certain tax-advantageous transactions,” Greenberg’s protégé, James “Jimmy” Cayne, told New York in 2002. Cayne, who succeeded Greenberg in 1993, seems to have become the closer party to Epstein, whose mysterious departure from the firm he publicly defended decades after Epstein’s departure. “Jeffrey said specifically, ‘I don’t want to work for anybody else. I want to work for myself,’ ” Cayne insisted, despite transcripts from an SEC deposition that suggest other concerns around them both. It’s easier to imagine Cayne, a cigar-chomping, archetypal fat cat who was infamously off playing bridge when Bear Stearns collapsed in 2008, as a member of Epstein’s inner circle than his mentor, a folksy, bow-tie-wearing soul who referred to his successor as “crude,” “full of himself,” and “warped” in a memoir published shortly before his death. At the very least, it seems Cayne and Epstein were both capable of, ah, massaging the truth. —Jessica Pressler
Guest, Cornelia: Socialite.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
She was dubbed “debutante of the decade” in 1986.
Gutfreund, John: CEO of Salomon Brothers.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Hamilton, George: Actor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The overtanned C-lister that Hollywood turns to when casting any vaguely and/or mysteriously aristocratic cameo role.
Handler, Chelsea: Comedian.
Attended a dinner at Epstein’s townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010. “It was just one of those strange nights,” she later said.
Haskell, Nikki: Socialite.
Epstein dated Haskell, one of Donald Trump’s closest friends. “Jeffrey didn’t talk about his past, although he claimed to have been a concert pianist,” Haskell told the Daily Mail in 1992. “He told me he was a spy hired by corporations to find major amounts of money which had been embezzled.”
Hawking, Stephen: Physicist.
In 2006, the world’s most famous brain visited Little St. James, Epstein’s private island, which came to be known as “Pedophile Island.” Hawking, who was in the Caribbean for a conference, was photographed at a barbecue on the island and aboard a submarine for a tour. According to the Telegraph, “Epstein is said to have paid for the submarine to be modified for Professor Hawking, who had never been underwater before.”
Read More: Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Private ‘Pedophile Island’
Hoffenberg, Steven: A mentor and a con man.
Before Bernie Madoff, there was Hoffenberg, who in 1985 pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $460 million — at the time, the largest Ponzi scheme ever. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and, after his release in 2013, began sounding the alarm on Epstein, who had worked at Hoffenberg’s Towers Financial Corporation after leaving Bear Stearns. He claimed that Epstein had been his co-conspirator in the scheme and that Epstein’s fortune was built on Towers Financial’s fraud. “He was great at moving money illegally,” Hoffenberg says. “He was the deeper architect to getting things accomplished.”
Hoffenberg claims he was introduced to Epstein by Douglas Leese, a mysterious British arms dealer, and that he paid Epstein $25,000 a month as Towers Financial began making risky plays to take over companies like Pan American World Airways and Emery Air Freight. Advisers on the Pan Am deal included Richard Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell, Nixon’s brother Edward, and John Lehman, a former secretary of the Navy. The move fell apart after the Lockerbie bombing, and when Towers Financial later went belly-up, Hoffenberg says, the two of them engineered a Ponzi scheme to fill the hole.
“He has a magnificent personality,” Hoffenberg says. “He’s very easy to interact with, very social, very easy to bond with, an unusually nice person. And he’s pretty dynamic on financial savvy. He could move money in different areas to get the stock prices to go up and down.”
Hoffenberg still owes his victims some $1 billion in restitution, and in 2016 he sued Epstein to recover some of the money. (He eventually dropped the suit.) Last year, two victims brought a suit against Epstein making the same claims as Hoffenberg but voluntarily dismissed the suit two months later.
“You’re about to see an entire story about this supposed billionaire and the story about his financial empire, which is as big as the tragedy with the girls,” Hoffenberg says. “It’s billions of dollars, and it’s a fiasco.” —James D. Walsh
Hoffman, Dustin: Actor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Hurley, Elizabeth: Actress.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Hutton, Lauren: Model and actress.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Isaacson, Walter: Former editor of Time.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The onetime journalist is now an emeritus figure in the TED universe thanks to his role at the Aspen Institute and his widely worshipped biography of Steve Jobs.
Jagger, Mick: Musician.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Jarecki, Andrew: Filmmaker.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The director of the documentaries Capturing the Friedmans, about an accused pedophile, and The Jinx, which profiled Robert Durst, the madman at the center of another New York fortune.
Jarecki, Henry: Billionaire.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Once a psychiatrist, Henry, Andrew’s father, made his fortune in gold and silver speculation.
Johnson, Elizabeth: Heiress.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Epstein was a co-trustee on 14 parcels of land the Johnson & Johnson heiress owned in Dutchess County, New York. He resigned as a trustee for Johnson’s revocable trust at the end of 1998.
Johnson, Richard: Gossip journalist for “Page Six.”
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Kellen, Sarah: An alleged enabler on a staff of them.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
In a world where most women still work for men, and where their jobs are overwhelmingly in the “service” or “caring” professions, it should surprise no one that Epstein’s procurers, schedulers, fixers, and enablers were female.
Four women — Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff — were identified in the 2007 Florida case against Epstein as possible co-conspirators, though none was charged.
History is full of the self-serving enabling of men by women, ending with the Trump court but not starting there. Was it money? Probably. The word is that Epstein paid his “executive assistants” $200,000 a year and let them order takeout from Le Cirque. When Groff had a baby, Epstein gave her a Mercedes and paid for a full-time nanny. “There is no way I could lose Lesley to motherhood,” he told the New York Times in 2005 (for a front-page story on the indispensability of good help for Wall Street tycoons).
Marcinkova, referred to in court documents as Epstein’s “sex slave,” hails from the former Yugoslavia; Ross, a model, is from Poland. Kellen (who has since married a NASCAR driver) was a scheduler, making sure that Epstein always had a slate full of girls, and it was she who sometimes walked the girls up the stairs in the Florida mansion and laid the oils out on the massage table. Marcinkova would have sex with the girls for Epstein’s viewing pleasure and sometimes all together. Groff booked travel, and Ross also helped with the calendar. After the Miami Herald published its investigation in 2018, Epstein wired the “possible co-conspirators” $250,000 and $100,000, respectively, prosecutors say, to buy their silence. Since then, none of them have been reached for comment. —Lisa Miller
Kennedy, Ethel: Human-rights advocate.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Widow of Robert Kennedy.
Kennedy, Ted: Senator.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Epstein had his home number.
Kent, Geoffrey: High-end safari entrepreneur.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Kerry, John: Secretary of State.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The seven numbers listed for Kerry in Epstein’s address book include the direct line to his presidential campaign.
Khashoggi, Adnan: Saudi Arabian man of mystery.
To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, SDNY prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epstein’s primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the “personal protection” of “an affluent member of the Jewish faith” traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources.
According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he “worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators” and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to “help them hide their stolen money.” A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epstein’s clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump. —Matt Stieb
I’ve said previously there’s crossover between Jeffery Epstein op and Hugh Hefner op. This goes back long time. Here’s van Broek w Heinz Ketchup and Bob fed to the fishes Maxwell circa 1989. Blackmail makes the world go around, the world go around…
Kissinger, Henry: Secretary of State and national-security adviser.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
One of the century’s most notorious practitioners of cutthroat realpolitik, Kissinger served on the Council on Foreign Relations with Epstein.
Kissinger, Nancy: Philanthropist.
Epstein and Kissinger served on the Rockefeller University board alongside Nobel laureate Joseph Goldstein, socialite Brooke Astor, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass.
Kleman, Leah: Art dealer.
She told Vanity Fair in 2003 that Epstein lived like a “modern maharaja” and described his haggling over art prices as “something like a scene out of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”
Koch, David: Plutocrat.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Kosslyn, Stephen: Harvard psychologist.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
“He is amazing,” Kosslyn said of Epstein in a 2002 New York profile. “Like a honeybee — he talks to all these different people and cross-pollinates. Just two months ago, I was talking to him about a new alternative to evolutionary psychology. He got excited and sent me a check.”
Krauss, Lawrence: Cosmologist.
Epstein was a major donor to his program at Arizona State University, and Krauss teamed with the financier to host a conference of Nobel laureates in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012. “Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women, but they’re not as young as the ones that were claimed,” he told the Daily Beast in 2011. “I always judge things on empirical evidence, and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him but I’ve never seen anything else. So as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people. I don’t feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey. I feel raised by it.” This spring, Krauss retired amid allegations of his own sexual harassment.
Laybourne, Geraldine: TV executive.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Co-founder of Nickelodeon and, with her husband, Kit, and pal Oprah, the Oxygen network.
Le Bon, Simon: Singer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The caricature playboy heartthrob at the front of Duran Duran.
Lefcourt, Gerald: Epstein’s lawyer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
A white-collar defense attorney to the stars, Lefcourt has also represented Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Sid Vicious, Tracy Morgan, Russell Crowe, insider trader Michael Milken, and Murder Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti. Lefcourt was formerly married to the daughter of Mortimer Sackler, founder of OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma. —Matt Stieb
Lefkowitz, Jay: Attorney for Epstein
Lefkowitz negotiated the terms of Epstein’s negligently lenient plea deal with his former Kirkland & Ellis colleague Alexander Acosta. Now at Columbia Law, he served in both Bush administrations, as director of Cabinet affairs for H.W. and deputy executive secretary to the Domestic Policy Council and special envoy for human rights in North Korea for W. —Matt Stieb
Love, Courtney: Singer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Maxwell, Ghislaine: Epstein’s ex turned right-hand woman.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
She was there at the socialites’ dos: Cornelia Guest’s holiday bash, Georgette Mosbacher’s party for the writer Michael Gross. At real-estate mogul Aby Rosen’s birthday, at Harvey Weinstein’s cocktail party. At film screenings and store openings and fashion shows, at Tina Brown’s home and Arianna Huffington’s and the Time 100 Gala. For years, though not lately, Maxwell was a constant on the New York social scene in its most Upper East iteration. She was a friend of everyone, if an intimate of few.
Maxwell seemed to know many rich and powerful men — articles mention her dining with Bill Clinton, photos show her partying with Elon Musk and deep in conversation with Stephen Schwarzman — but her most durable connection has been with Epstein. She was, as he once put it, his “best friend.” Maxwell, 57, has been accused in civil suits of serving as his procuress, luring women and girls into Epstein’s web.
In court documents, Epstein’s accusers allege that Maxwell — who denies all and has never been criminally charged — acted as a recruiter, an instructor, and in some cases a participant in the abuse he practiced. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims Maxwell recruited her on behalf of Epstein when Giuffre was a 16-year-old spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, where Epstein has a home, said much of her grooming came from Maxwell. “The training started immediately,” Giuffre said in a video interview with the Miami Herald. “It was everything down to how to give a blow job, how to be quiet, be subservient, give Jeffrey what he wants.”
“Every pretty girl in New York, in those days, Ghislaine would invite to Jeffrey’s,” said Euan Rellie, an investment banker and social fixture who has known Maxwell for years and who, along with his wife, the author and socialite Lucy Sykes, was a fellow guest at a dinner for Prince Andrew at Epstein’s townhouse in the early aughts. Maxwell and Epstein had been attached, but she was “now an employee of his, as I understood it,” Rellie said. “Her job was to jazz up his social life by getting fashionable young women to show up.” He presumed the young women to be in their 20s.
Tabloid reports on Maxwell claim she managed Epstein’s properties from his office on Madison Avenue, which appeared in public records for many years as one of Maxwell’s addresses. Epstein, for his part, said she wasn’t on the payroll, yet she did errands for him: hunted for a yoga teacher in California and acted as intermediary when he wanted to give his friend the billionaire Les Wexner a family portrait painted by Nelson Shanks.
She was said to be wickedly funny and unusually knowledgeable, glamorous, and, on top of that, British. (“I think New Yorkers are charmed by that high-end English accent,” photographer Patrick McMullan said.)
What’s more, she was exotic. She had explored the seas and could pilot a helicopter, or maybe a submarine, one acquaintance thought — a MacGyver of the gala circuit.
Maxwell arrived in New York in the early ’90s, on the cusp of her 30th birthday. English-born and poshly educated, she was the favorite daughter of Robert Maxwell, the English media mogul, whose holdings included newspapers, notably the tabloid Daily Mirror in London, and the Macmillan publishing house in the U.S. Ghislaine had founded a social club for women in London and worked for another of her father’s papers, and, according to the New York Post, she came as his emissary to American society when he bought the New York Daily News in 1991.
But that same year, Robert was found dead — by suicide, murder, or accident (the official inquest’s ruling, though opinions vary) — in the Atlantic, off the Canary Islands. (He was last seen on the deck of his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine.) Soon after, he was discovered to have plundered the pension funds of the Mirror to shore up his floundering empire. Ghislaine was reported to have an income for life from a family trust, but at £80,000 a year, it would hardly be enough to sustain a high-flying lifestyle.
The meet-cute of Epstein and Maxwell in New York is unclear, and neither has historically gone into any great detail. By 1992, they were already linked, showing up at a Mar-a-Lago party with each other in Palm Beach, where Trump and Epstein ogled women together in front of NBC cameras. Suffice it to say they were romantically linked and then platonically linked. (Epstein told people his former paramours move “up, not down,” to friend status.)
For a woman seen everywhere about town, she is curiously silent in the press, except where ocean conservation is concerned. In 2008, she hosted a cocktail party for the board of the nonprofit Oceana at her townhouse on East 65th Street. And by 2012, she had launched the TerraMar Project, a conservation nonprofit of her own, of which, according to tax filings, she was president but from which she drew no salary. She gave a ted Talk about its work and talked it up at the U.N. and in the press, which credited TerraMar as her “brainchild.”
From the New York social world, she has vanished. “I have not seen her in a zillion years,” one acquaintance said. The party photos dried up in 2016. Her 65th Street townhouse was sold for just over $15 million that year. Where is she now? One social-watcher guessed the islands; others think Europe. She incorporated a company — Ellmax, a play on her name — in the U.K., and TerraMar’s last two years of tax filings listed the address of an accounting firm near Boston. (An executive there declined to provide any forwarding information.)
“She seemed like a woman who didn’t have any real job, didn’t have any real boyfriend, had lost her dad,” Rellie said of his impressions of her when they’d met. “A woman adrift who was clinging on to whatever she could find.” —Matthew Schneier
Read More: The Socialite on Epstein’s Arm
@ciabaudo
‘m sure it is just as much a coincidence that Boris de Pfeffel of Spaffwaffle’s current bedmate Carrie Symonds is linked to Ghislaine Maxwell’s charity Oceana as it is that his former girlfriend Jennifer Arcuri was linked to Milo.
https://oceana.org/about-oceana/people-partners/oceana-staff/carrie-symonds … https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1180775964311216129?s=19 …
McMullan, Patrick: Photographer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Meister, Robert: Insurance executive.
Introduced Epstein to Leslie Wexner after Epstein met and charmed Meister on a plane to Palm Beach, according to James Patterson’s book Filthy Rich.
Read More: Author James Patterson on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Unbelievable’ Crimes
Minsky, Marvin: MIT professor and pioneer of artificial intelligence.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Mitchell, George: Senate majority leader.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The former senator was appointed the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland by President Clinton and was an architect of the Good Friday Agreement. He called Epstein a “friend,” and the address book lists a dozen numbers for him under the heading “Piper, Rudnick,” the name of the Washington law firm where Mitchell was a partner.
Monckton, Rosa: Former CEO of Tiffany & Co. in the U.K.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Epstein’s “close friend since the early 1980s,” according to the 2003 profile of Epstein written by Vicky Ward in Vanity Fair: “Monckton recalls Epstein telling her that her daughter, Domenica, who suffers from Down syndrome, needed the sun, and that Rosa should feel free to bring her to his house in Palm Beach anytime.”
Murdoch, Rupert: Media mogul.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Murdoch has two numbers — one New York, one California — listed in the address book.
Myhrvold, Nathan: Businessman.
The legendary patent troll turned impresario of molecular gastronomy dined at Epstein’s home.
Pagano, Joe: Venture capitalist.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
The chief executive, secretary and treasurer, principal accounting officer, and principal financial officer of an insecticide-research company, Pagano even visited Epstein in jail.
Pastrana Arango, Andrés: Former Colombian president.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Filed in the address book under “ex president of Colu.”
Perelman, Ronald: Revlon chairman.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The billionaire invited 14 guests, including Epstein, Jimmy Buffett, and DNC co-chair Don Fowler, to his Palm Beach home for a Bill Clinton fund-raiser in 1995.
Perlman, Itzhak: Violinist.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Pinker, Steven: The linguist who became a celebrity optimist.
Pinker is one of the famous intellectuals most often linked to Epstein, but he says he flew on Epstein’s private plane only once in 2002 and that he was involuntarily placed next to him for a picture at Lawrence Krauss’s Origins Project’s annual conference in 2014: “If I had more wherewithal, I would not have indulged my friend in sitting with him. Despite what various friends and colleagues all said about what a genius he was, I found him tedious and distasteful. Even before I knew about the criminality, I found it irritating to talk to him, all the more so because the reason he was in the conversation was because he had given money to these various projects. He likes schmoozing with smart and intellectual people, but he couldn’t really or had very little interest in exploring an issue. He’d wisecrack, change subjects, or get bored after a few seconds. He’s a kibbutzer more than a serious intellectual.” Nevertheless, Pinker supplied some linguistic expertise that his friend Alan Dershowitz used to defend Epstein during the 2008 trial. —Matt Stieb
Pinto, Alberto: Interior designer for the gold-leaf life.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Forget for a moment the mural featuring Epstein in the middle of a prison yard complete with guards and barbed wire. Let’s also forget the life-size doll hanging from a chandelier, and the chess set with figures of his staff as pieces to play with. Let’s instead focus on the very lush Euro-Orientalist décor of Epstein’s 21,000-square-foot seven-story Beaux-Arts mansion, decorated by none other than the late great Alberto Pinto, one of the world’s top prestige interior designers. His clientele included princes, moguls, and wannabe princes, as captains of industry so frequently are, and Epstein clearly aspired to that provenance and history. He flew Pinto on his private plane, as he did other architects and designers (Jean-Michel Gathy, Ricardo Legorreta, and Peter Marino are also listed in Epstein’s flight logs), and lived like a modern pasha in rooms lavished with money that bought custom-tooled gold leather walls (at least they were made to look like tooled-leather walls) and leopard-print upholstered armchairs in the dining room that appear to be covered in silk velvet. It was exactly the sort of project Pinto relished, flexing all the artisanal muscle that a designer of his stature can exercise when cushioning his client’s home. —Wendy Goodman
Pittman, Bob: Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Posen, Felix: Philanthropist
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Former business partner of Marc Rich (who was famously indicted for tax evasion and trading with Iran, before being even more famously pardoned by President Clinton), with whom he paired on deals in the Soviet Union before the fall of communism.
Pritzker, Tom: Executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Known to dine with Epstein in the early aughts.
Radziwill, Carole: Author and television personality.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The daughter-in-law of Lee Radziwill and a Real Housewife of New York.
Ranieri, Lewis: The “father” of mortgage-backed securities.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Another Epstein dinner partner.
Richardson, Bill: Former New Mexico governor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Epstein donated $50,000 to each of his gubernatorial campaigns. A spokeswoman for Richardson told the Albuquerque Journal that Richardson recalls visiting Epstein’s New Mexico ranch only once, during his first run for governor in 2002.
Riggio, Steve: Barnes & Noble CEO.
Photographed with Epstein at the 1999 Edge Foundation Billionaires’ Dinner, and twice met him at the TED conference.
Rivers, Joan: TV host, actress, and comedian.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Rose, Charlie: Television journalist.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
You learn things answering phones, and in the spring of 2005, answering Charlie Rose’s phone at his PBS show, you would learn that his friend Jeffrey Epstein had some recommendations to make for whom Rose ought to hire as his next assistant. Written call logs from 2005 and 2006 show Epstein and his own assistant calling dozens of times, making plans for lunch and tea in Manhattan or to try to meet up in Paris. Epstein also called with a total of five women’s names and phone numbers. One woman was described as “world’s most perfect assistant she used to work for Harvey Weinstein he’s lucky if he can get her.” Another entry reads, “Jeffrey Epstein wants to talk to you before you call these two girls.” A fourth woman shows up on the manifests of Epstein’s jet, including on Bill Clinton’s trip across Africa, and wound up working at the Clinton Foundation. Two former staffers remember another Epstein referral, a young woman not mentioned in the logs, who interned at the show. In all, Rose hired three (“Jeffrey Epstein from time to time recommended various candidates for open positions at the Charlie Rose Show,” Rose’s representative said in a statement, but said the ex-host only learned about Epstein’s alleged abuse years later, when he pleaded guilty in Florida). When I called one of these women recently, she was stunned to learn she was one of many women Epstein recommended for the job. “I was being offered up for abuse,” said the woman, who was 22 at the time she worked for Rose. It helped her understand not only how her boss Rose — whom in 2017 she would accuse, along with 34 other adult women, of sexual harassment — had treated her, but also how the rest of the staff had seen her. And it helped her understand a grim version of networking among powerful men. —Irin Carmon
Sacco, Amy: Nightlife impresario.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
The undisputed club queen of aughts New York, Sacco ran Lot 61 in Chelsea, which was famous for using fresh fruit in its drinks, and later Bungalow 8, which prided itself on discretion, the kind of place where celebrities could behave badly and not have to worry about appearing in “Page Six.” Sacco was a pioneer of marrying nightlife with concierge-style indulgences for the very rich: Her staff would get you whatever you needed: pizza delivery, peanut M&M’s, a private flight to Miami leaving from Teterboro as soon as you could get there.
Schank, Roger: Chief learning officer at Trump University.
Visited Epstein in prison in 2008.
Schumer, Chuck: New York’s senior senator.
One of many politicians to receive donations from Epstein over the years. Epstein gave bipartisanly but not equally: Between 1990 and 2004, he gave more than $139,000 to Democrats and just over $18,000 to Republicans. Epstein also gave to a handful of politicians in New Mexico, where he’d purchase the Zorro Ranch from former governor Bruce King and where he was not required to register as a sex offender. In recent weeks, politicians including Schumer decided to donate an equal amount to charity.
Shriver, Maria: Journalist and former First Lady of California.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Two California numbers are listed in the address book.
Siegal, Peggy: Elite New York’s glue.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
A brazen and relentless publicist of the old school, Siegal understands one thing well: “Bringing people together. Everyone needs to feel that they belong.” At least a certain kind of accomplished person, no matter, frankly, how they went about getting there (who was she to judge?). Known for her movie premieres and other guest-list-driven social events, she bragged that she “ruined the Hamptons” to Vanity Fair in a profile back in 1996.
Publicity-party invites are an amoral game, driven by status and FOMO. Like everyone, she worked with Harvey Weinstein when he was an Oscar machine, the toast of the town. So you can’t blame Siegal for including someone who already knew all the boldface power people. In 2008, in the teeth of the accusations against Epstein, he was spotted by a New York party reporter, “unshaven, smiling that feline-monkey grin,” at the Siegal-engineered screening of the HBO film Bernard and Doris at the Time Warner Center. But after prison, apparently Epstein needed her more than ever: In a Times story on how Manhattan’s A-list refused to shun him, Siegal in particular was willing to help him (for free, apparently), “using her gate-keeping powers to usher Mr. Epstein, a friend, into screenings and events.” In 2010, she threw a dinner party at his Upper East Side townhouse for Prince Andrew, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, and Woody Allen. She and Epstein might have had other reasons to get along: Siegal, who has just turned 72, is a self-invention as well, without a particularly pedigreed background. Also notable is the fact that, as she told Vanity Fair in 2012, “my favorite way to travel” to Cannes is “on a friend’s G5 from Teterboro to Nice.” —Carl Swanson
Slater, Rodney: Secretary of Transportation under Bill Clinton.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Flight logs record Slater taking a flight from Ghana to Nigeria in September 2002.
Soros, Peter: Nephew of George Soros.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Conspiracy theorists looking through Epstein’s black book will be disappointed that George Soros never appears — but they can find Peter.
Spacey, Kevin: Actor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Flew with Bill Clinton to Africa (and, according to flight logs, the Azores) on Epstein’s plane.
Spector, Warren: Bear Stearns executive.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Stanburry, Caroline: Socialite.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Went on to star on Bravo’s Ladies of London.
Starr, Kenneth: Former United States solicitor general.
Obviously, lawyers do not share guilt for their clients’ crimes. But it’s striking that Kenneth Starr chose to join Jeffrey Epstein’s defense team in 2007, after his moral fulminations against Bill Clinton’s sexual perfidy. His obsessive pursuit of President Clinton made him a folk hero on the right, representing the defense of traditional sexual virtue and the notion that it was under assault by Bill Clinton and the liberal elite. His special-prosecutor exploits propelled him to the presidency of the conservative Baptist Baylor University. During his tenure, the football program engaged in a horrific pattern of sexual abuse that led to the dismissal of the football coach and the removal of Starr after an investigation found “actions by University administrators that directly discouraged some complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes.”
It is perhaps coincidental, but Starr has tracked the broader conversion of the religious right from sexual shaming to sexual shamelessness. In an era when Donald Trump has exposed the hollowness of so many values conservatives allegedly hold dear, it is fitting that this Zelig of right-wing sexual hypocrisy has made yet another cameo. —Jonathan Chait
Stephanopoulos, George: Former White House communications director.
Attended a dinner at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010. “That dinner was the first and last time I’ve seen him,” Stephanopoulos said recently. “It was a mistake to go.”
Summers, Larry: Former Treasury secretary.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
By the time the accusations of Epstein trafficking in girls surfaced, Larry Summers was out as Harvard’s president, having alienated much of the faculty, including two black professors who jumped ship, and spitballing about women’s biological inferiority in the sciences. But his tenure — 2001 to ’06, bookended by serving as Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary and Barack Obama’s director of the National Economic Council — overlapped with a high-water mark of Harvard’s love affair with Epstein. Epstein, reads a story published in the Harvard Crimson in 2003, “has found Harvard the perfect staging ground for his intellectual pursuits.” Then-president Summers didn’t comment, but Alan Dershowitz confided that Epstein “speaks well of Larry, and I think he admires Larry’s economic thinking.” Lucky Larry, to be recognized by such an eminence.
Epstein, of course, was not an alumnus of Harvard (or anywhere), or a faculty member, but he was a donor. Asked by the Crimson in 2006 whether Epstein’s $6.5 million donation should be returned, interim president Derek Bok referred to an earlier statement that Harvard has no “obligation to investigate each donor and impose detailed moral standards.” Summers imposed his own moral standards, hitching a ride on Epstein’s plane. (A representative had no comment.) Even after Epstein registered as a sex offender, the Boston Globe reported, Summers’s wife, Harvard English professor Elisa New, accepted Epstein’s $110,000 donation to her PBS poetry show. —Irin Carmon
Taymor, Julie: Director.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Responsible for one of the biggest hits in Broadway history, The Lion King, and one of the biggest flops, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
Trivers, Robert: Evolutionary biologist.
In 2015, he defended Epstein, saying, “By the time they’re 14 or 15, they’re like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don’t see these acts as so heinous.” This month, he called his past statement “stupid and offensive.”
Trump, Donald: President and partygoer.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
There it was, yet another tape. This time, the now-president was filmed, in footage dredged up by NBC, in 1992 at Mar-a-Lago, hosting a party attended by a bevy of Buffalo Bills cheerleaders — and Epstein, from whom Trump has tried to distance himself since the arrest. He knew him only like anyone else in Palm Beach knew him, he said recently, although there were several entries for Trump in the black book, including a “direct emergency contact,” and 17 years ago Trump had boasted to this magazine that he’d known him forever and that he was a “terrific guy.”
It’s not just the denial in the face of evidence that, yes, he really did hang out with the guy that makes this set of film so classically Trumpian. The tape distills Trump to a certain essence: In this frame, he dances, snapping his fingers and spinning, surrounded by women — but profoundly alone, backing off and avoiding eye contact the second a woman moves in to dance with him. In another frame, he smiles with self-satisfaction as a crowd of women chants his name. Surrounded by a group of cheerleaders about to pose for a picture, he reaches around the waist of one and pulls her sharply in to him, then briskly cups her behind in a businesslike, joyless fashion while she reaches for her hair to maintain smiling composure. It’s as if he thinks it’s his vaguely grim duty, as an American man playing the campiest possible version of swinging billionaire bachelor, to grab the closest available body part.
And most telling is his sideline locker-room talk with Epstein, whom the camera catches entering the party, greeted warmly by Trump. Like teenagers, they stand at the edges of the dance floor, pointing out the women they like, laughing at private jokes about them, rating them as hot. Here, there is joy. You see in this moment two outer-borough boys who have successfully crashed the Manhattan Establishment, who have boorishly, clumsily used money to get everything they want — but whose desires have never moved beyond an adolescent vision of the world, of women, of men, of the good life, of who merits consideration and who can be used.
In middle age, Trump had enough self-control to understand that his worst instincts were best received by men who were an awful lot like him. Now, as an old man — the oldest teenager ever — Trump has lost even that filter. He’s turned the whole country into his bunga-bunga party, made a Mar-a-Lago of the world stage, and divided us into Epsteins and cheerleaders — either co-conspirators who love the license his immaturity grants or else disposable collateral damage. —Noreen Malone
Read More: NBC Obtained Trump-Epstein Footage After Trump Kissed an Anchor Without Consent
Trump, Ivana: Donald Trump’s first ex-wife.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Trump, Ivanka: Daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Trump, Melania: Wife of Donald Trump.
Epstein has reportedly bragged that he’s the one who introduced Melania to her future husband. At the very least, the three have traveled together: She flew with Epstein on then-boyfriend Donald Trump’s plane in 2000.
Read More: Remembering the Time Jeffrey Epstein Rode on Donald Trump’s Plane
Tucker, Chris: Actor.
Name found in Epstein’s black book and on Epstein’s private jet log.
Flew with Bill Clinton to Africa on Epstein’s plane.
Tuttle, Edward: Architect of a conspiratorial fever dream.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Who built the temple? Tuttle, a designer of luxury resorts by trade, renovated the main compound on Epstein’s 70-acre private island in 2003. Sometime between 2009 and 2013, a “temple” appeared on the island: a large, boxy, blue-and-white-striped structure with a golden dome, surrounded by palm trees. In the days after Epstein’s arrest, the temple became the object of fervent speculation online. It was the kind of irresistible conspiracy-bait that exemplifies the Epstein story: On the one hand, shouldn’t it be enough that a mysteriously wealthy banker with connections to the globe’s most powerful people was apparently operating a child sex-trafficking ring without dabbling in theories about occult island temples? On the other hand, though, once you’ve accepted that, why would occult island temples be so out of the question? On the edges, the Epstein saga could seem less like a news story than like a brutal, unreadable fairy tales. Or maybe it was a desire to take a story about financial power and social privilege colluding to protect a criminal predator and transform it into something more terrible and monumental. After weeks of speculation, the first eyewitness account revealed that what the “temple” contained wasn’t a necromantic shrine but a gym, decorated with a framed photograph of a topless woman. —Max Read
Vance, Cyrus Jr.: Prosecutor in the crosshairs.
There are currently 475 level-three sex offenders registered in New York County, but in 2011, when an attorney from the office of Cy Vance, Manhattan DA, argued that Epstein’s risk level should be reduced, Justice Ruth Pickholz responded, “I have to tell you I am a little overwhelmed because I have never seen a prosecutor’s office do anything like this.” Pickholz denied the request — Epstein’s risk assessment put him 20 points above the required threshold for the highest level of offender — and the DA’s office later reversed its request. Though there’s no indication Vance and Epstein were friendly, his office has been criticized previously for declining to pursue sex-crimes charges against Harvey Weinstein that coincided with a donation from his attorneys (though Weinstein has since been charged by Vance’s office) and fraud charges against Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. —Irin Carmon
Wachner, Linda: Head of the textile corporation behind Calvin Klein and Speedo.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Wallace, Mike: 60 Minutes journalist.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Walters, Barbara: Broadcast journalist and TV personality.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Weinstein, Bob: Former co-chairman of Miramax Films and the Weinstein Company.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Wexner, Leslie: The money behind the money.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Beginning in 1995 and continuing for several years, Epstein flew regularly to Columbus, Ohio, home to billionaire executive Leslie Wexner. Wexner founded L Brands, a company that owns retail chains including Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works.
Over time the two men grew so close that Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney over his personal finances, with broad authority to invest and borrow money on Wexner’s behalf. Those details were included in an Aug. 8 letter from Wexner to members of the Wexner Foundation, a charity he controls. The letter, which attempts to explain Wexner’s relationship with Epstein, was also sent to news organizations.
Retailing billionaire Leslie Wexner was Epstein’s only known client, the man who transferred the rights to that famous townhouse to him for free in 2011, years after they were supposed to no longer be in contact. The relationship stretches back to the late 1980s, a time when Wexner’s star was on the rise. A 1985 cover story for New York visited him in Columbus, Ohio, where his retail empire was built. Journalist Julie Baumgold described how he, not unlike Epstein, was a self-made man, addicted to self-improvement, how he didn’t know how to pronounce La Grenouille correctly and wanted to have his picture taken at the Whitney, and noted that “Wexner is what used to be known as a ‘confirmed bachelor.’ ” (He later married and has four children.) Not long after that piece, he was introduced to Epstein, who had left Bear Stearns under a cloud and was broke. He and Wexner hit it off, and Epstein soon began managing Wexner’s finances. Wexner’s credibility lent plausibility to the notion that Epstein managed billions from his Caribbean-island redoubt. Associates of Wexner, who is now worth $6.6 billion, didn’t understand the attraction. Soon after the men began working together, Epstein moved into Wexner’s Upper East Side mansion. Wexner bought the seven-story townhouse in 1989 for $13.2 million but apparently lived there only for a few months. The title was transferred in 2011 to a Virgin Islands entity controlled by Epstein. It is now worth $56 million. —Michelle Celarier and Carl Swanson
Read More: Who Is Les Wexner, and How Is He Connected to Jeffrey Epstein?
Wiesel, Elie: Nobel Prize winner.
Name found in Epstein’s black book.
Zagat, Nina and Jim: Publishers.
Name found on Epstein’s private jet log.
Zuckerman, Mort: Media mogul and newspaper publisher.
Zuckerman went into business with Epstein — briefly — in 2004, spending $25 million to invest in Radar, but he pulled the plug after just three issues. He first attempted a deal with Epstein in 2003, when he was part of a consortium with Michael Wolff, Donny Deutsch, Nelson Peltz, and Harvey Weinstein to buy New York Magazine.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html
Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Private ‘Pedophile Island’
July 10, 2019
Epstein’s Little St. James Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands
A common mistake when referring to the lavish holdings of convicted sex offender and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein: He has not one but two private islands in the Caribbean. About a mile southeast of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands lies the 75-acre Little St. James, which Epstein bought through an LLC in 1998 for $7.95 million. He later added the 165-acre Great St. James Island for the reported price of $18 million in 2016. Below is everything we know about the islands, from their disturbing nicknames, to the alleged crimes that occurred there, to the mysterious temple on Great St. James.
The alleged crimes
Alleged victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed in a 2015 lawsuit that she was a “sex slave” for Epstein, and that she was abused in his homes in New York, New Mexico, Florida, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she was allegedly forced into “an orgy with numerous other under-aged girls.” She also states that she “was forced to have sexual relations with [Prince Andrew] when she was a minor” at Epstein’s Little St. James estate.
Additionally, the islands would be the likely site of any possible financial crimes related to the criminal investigation run by the Southern District of New York’s Public Corruption Unit, as Epstein ran his mysterious offshore business, the Financial Trust Company, from there.
What is on the islands?
Located between St. Thomas and St. John, as of 2008 Little St. James Island featured a staff of 70, five buildings, and a “flamingo-stocked lagoon.” When Epstein first bought it, he stripped the native vegetation, adorned it with palm trees, and placed two giant flags on both ends of the island. Epstein’s residence on the island is a stone mansion with cream-colored walls and a turquoise roof.
Before he (kind 0f) went to prison, Epstein commissioned a renovation of Little St. James. Per the Times: “The villa will occupy the island’s promontory, which offers views of the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to house Mr. Epstein’s 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a ‘Ziegfeld’ movie theater.”
The larger, more recently purchased Great St. James Island is currently — and illegally — under construction. In December 2018, the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources issued a stop-work order to Epstein for not adhering to environmental regulations. Not letting the law get in the way, the New York Post reports, “there has been unauthorized work on the island since the stop work order was issued.” The plan for the complex includes an amphitheater and an “underwater office and pool,” according to the Virgin Islands Daily News.
What’s that about a temple?
On a hill on the southwest point of Little St. James Island, there is a temple painted with blue and white stripes and topped with a golden dome. As Business Insider describes it: “The front is flanked by statues painted in gold; one of them appears to be the trident-wielding Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, while two others look like birds perched on the corners of the roof. It is surrounded by a line of palm trees and a terrace with a labyrinth motif. Finally, the exterior seems to incorporate an optical illusion, to create the impression that the exterior windows and door are set within carved flanges.”
According to island workers who spoke with the Associated Press, the building may have been designed as a music studio, outfitted with a grand piano and acoustic walls. (Epstein is a classically trained pianist.)
Business Insider also contacted engineer and contractor James Both, who noticed a few suspicious details about the temple. “It’s styled like what you might see on a castle, with what appears to be a reinforcing lock bar across the face,” he said. “What makes it peculiar is that if you wanted to keep people out, the bar would be placed inside the building, [but the] locking bar appears to be placed on the outside … as if it were intended to lock people in.” From this perspective, sound-dampening walls sound much more suspicious.
The nicknames
Epstein called the islands “Little St. Jeff” and “Big St. Jeff,” though others haven’t been as solipsistic — or generous. “Everybody called it ‘Pedophile Island,’” St. Thomas boat operator Kevin Goodrich told the AP. “It’s our dark corner.” Other names have included “Orgy Island” and “Island of Sin.”
Don’t try to snorkel there
According to the Associated Press, when guides took scuba divers to spots near the coast of Little St. James, “security guards would walk to the water’s edge.” In a similar spirit, when Epstein bought Great St. James, he shut down Christmas Cove, where locals and tourists would order pizza and have it delivered by boat.
THE ultimate 80s businessman and arch Thatcherite –
Lord James Hanson
“Lord Moneybags”
Lord Hanson and his wife, Geraldine, arriving at a party in central London for Conservative leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke.
James Edward Hanson married into the Meinertzhagen banking family, the patriarch of which, Sir Richard Meinertzhagen, was the first of His Majesty’s professional spies in this century.
Richard’ s cousin, Daniel Meinertzhagen, joined Lazard Brothers in 1936, and served as Lazard Brothers chairman from 1973 to 1980, and was also af director of Pearson and Son Ltd.,
James Hanson’s partner, Vincent Gordon White, commanded Special Operations Executive Force 136 in the Far East in the 1940s. White’s brother shared an apartment with Hanson at the time.
He was a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II in clandestine operations in India, Burma and Thailand. It was during the war that White became friends with Bill Hanson, British show-jumping star and younger brother of James Hanson.
Lord Lucan and Daniel Meinertzhagen
Lucan also failed to arrive for his 1:00 pm lunch appointment with artist Dominic Elwes and banker Daniel Meinertzhagen, again at the Clermont.[53]
“You have to be prepared to say no when no is the best advice,” was one of his dictums. The formidable takeover player Lord Hanson once told an interviewer: “I could always confide in Meinertzhagen. His impartial advice would be based on my needs, not his.”
Peter Richard Meinertzhagen was born in London on April 16 1946 into an Anglo-German dynasty which had been prominent in the City since a Daniel Meinertzhagen from Bremen married the daughter of another émigré, Frederick Huth, and became a partner in his London banking house in 1833. Though Huth & Co lost much of its trade-finance business during the First World War and closed in 1936, the Meinertzhagens became part of the City establishment — and lived in appropriately grand style at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire.
Peter’s father, also Daniel, was one of four so-called “Colonels” (managing partners) who ran the merchant banking house of Lazards — in a style so relaxed that he habitually snoozed at his desk after lunch with a copy of The Times over his face, and argued against competitive “touting for business”. Peter’s uncle Luke Meinertzhagen was senior partner of Cazenove, while another uncle, Sir Peter, ran the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/9751367/Peter-Meinertzhagen.html
3 September 1992
THE father of a teenage student who fell to her death after drinking 17 tequilas has called for a tightening of licensing laws.
Georgina Meinertzhagen, 16, fell from a second-floor bedroom window of lodgings in Oxford, where she was attending a tutorial college. Georgina, a great-niece of the industrialist Lord Hanson, had spent an evening with friends at an Oxford bar where tequila was served at 50p a measure.
Nicholas Gardiner, the Oxford coroner, said he accepted the police theory that she sat on the window ledge to get fresh air, but lost her hand-hold. He recorded a verdict of accidental death.
After the hearing her father, Daniel Meinertzhagen, a Lloyd’s name, of Chelsea, south-west London, said he would not be taking civil action against the bar, Pier 19. ‘Nothing can bring my daughter back.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/girl-fell-to-death-after-drinking-17-tequilas-1549194.html
Gambling expert Dan Meinertzhagen, who has died at 72, was the last surviving member of a group of six of Lord Lucan’s friends who met at John Aspinall’s Belgravia home after the peer vanished 40 years ago.
An Oxford boxing blue, Old Etonian Dan’s life was set when, aged 21, the morning after an all-night gambling session, he was being driven home in a Rolls-Royce.
Spotting his father at a King’s Road bus stop en route to his City job as chairman of Lazard, Dan, in black tie, rolled down the window and enquired: ‘Daddy, do you want a lift to work?’ Meinertzhagen Sr ‘frothed at the mouth’, we’re told.
Lady Lucan, widow of Lord Lucan, found dead in London
27 September 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41409597
Lord Lucan’s wife killed herself
9 JAN 2018
The court heard Lady Lucan had gone through the final edit of her autobiography a month before she died with publisher, Pamela McCleave, which she hoped would come out before Christmas.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lord-lucans-wife-killed-herself-11822663
Lady Lucan ‘left her fortune to charity rather than her children’
Lady Lucan’s husband, John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in November 1974.
Lady Lucan pictured in 1975
January 14 2018
Lady Lucan, whose husband famously vanished in the 1970s, cut her children out of her will and left her fortune to a homeless charity, her daughter is reported to have said.
The 80-year-old was found dead at her home in Westminster, central London, by police in September after she was reported missing.
Lady Lucan, formally named Veronica, Dowager Countess of Lucan, severed relations with her family in the 1980s, and continued to decline contact with them right up until her death.
She had three children, Frances, Camilla and George, now the 8th Earl of Lucan.
Camilla Bingham, a QC, told the Daily Mail after an inquest held in London: “Mummy left her estate to the homeless charity, Shelter.”
The charity told the newspaper the proceeds will “help us to continue fighting bad housing and homelessness”.
Despite Lady Lucan’s severance of ties her family said they remembered her “lovingly and with admiration”.
They said in a statement after her death: “She had a sharp mind, and when she spoke it, she did so eloquently. She was courageous and, at times, outrageous, with a mischievous sense of humour.
“She was, in her day, beautiful and throughout her life fragile and vulnerable, struggling as she did with mental infirmity.
“To us she was and is unforgettable.”
Lady Lucan’s husband, John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in November 1974.
Lord Lucan vanished following the discovery of the body of nanny Sandra Rivett at the family’s home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, central London, on November 7 1974.
Although officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999, he was reportedly sighted in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand, and claims even surfaced that he had fled to India and lived as a hippy called “Jungly Barry”.
On the night of his disappearance, Lady Lucan was also beaten severely before she managed to escape and raise the alarm at a nearby pub, the Plumbers Arms.
Lord Lucan’s car was later found abandoned and soaked in blood in Newhaven, East Sussex, and a year later an inquest jury declared the wealthy peer was the killer.
In 2017 Lady Lucan gave a television interview in which she said she believed Lord Lucan had made the “brave” decision to take his own life.
The aristocrat is said to have killed herself with a cocktail of drink and drugs after wrongly self-diagnosing with Parkinson’s disease.
LUCAN
Lady Diana’s mother Frances Ruth Roche was married to Earl Spencer.
Frances Ruth Roche then left Earl Spencer and married Peter Shand Kydd.
Peter Shand Kydd’s half brother was Bill Shand Kydd.
Bill Shand Kydd was married to Christina, the sister of Lord Lucan’s wife Veronica Duncan.
Bill Shand Kydd eventually brought up the children of Lord Lucan, George Bingham and his two sisters.
Lord Lucan links with McAlpines as does James Hanson through Margaret Thatcher
“Follow the money”
Lord Moneybags was a large donor
The Jolly Bagman, Lord Alistair McAlpine was Treasurer – to the Tory Party.
James Hanson aka “Lord Moneybags”
Lord Alistair McAlpine aka “Jolly Bagman”
Lord Hanson was one of the largest Conservative Party donors during Thatcher’s leadership
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1475618/A-charming-ladies-man-but-a-ruthless-operator.html
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory MP’s and PPS/general staff -full of pervs – quite a money spinner all round – providing you control the supply & demand ?
Jeffrey Epstein
More recently – May 2 2017
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts wins round in defamation lawsuit against British socialite and alleged ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell who ‘passed her around for sex’ and trained her to be ‘everything a man wanted’
- Virginia Roberts, 33, persuaded a judge to throw out a motion preventing her from suing British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 55, for defamation
- The defamation suit alleges Maxwell instructed her spokesman to attack Roberts’ honesty and truthfulness and to accuse her of lying’
- Roberts claimed Maxwell recruited her as a sex slave when she was 15 for convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and passed around to his friends
- Maxwell, who was Epstein’s girlfriend at the time, is also accused of forcing her to have sex with Maxwell and other underage girls
- The 55-year-old responded to the allegations with a damaging press release
- In February 2016, a judge denied Maxwell’s request to throw out Roberts’ lawsuit when she said she was just defending herself against allegations
- Roberts also alleges she was involved in an 11-person orgy with Epstein’s friend Prince Andrew
The Truth Will Come Out! Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Madam Loses BIG In Court
May 3 2017
A lawsuit brought by a former ‘sex slave’ will move forward
Roberts, filing under her married name Giuffre, described very graphic sexual situations in the lawsuit filed in September 2015.
“With the assistance of Maxwell, Epstein was able to sexually abuse Giuffre for years until Giuffre eventually escaped,” the lawsuit says. “As part of their sex trafficking efforts, Epstein and Maxwell intimidated Giuffre into remaining silent about what had happened to her.”
It was while working for Epstein, Roberts claimed, that she had sex with Prince Andrew. She also said she took part in an orgy that the Prince attended on the financier’s private Caribbean island. (The royal has strongly denied all her claims.)
The defamation trial is expected to begin May 15.
FBI RECORDS ON JEFFREY EPSTEIN
Jeffrey Epstein ‘sex slave’ trial postponed
May 10 2017
Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell (top) and Virginia Roberts Giuffre (bottom)
The defamation trial against Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell was set to start Monday — more than a decade after the billionaire was first arrested for soliciting underage girls — but it has been postponed because lawyers are close to negotiating a settlement, sources say.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre is suing Maxwell, whose late father owned the Daily News, in Manhattan federal court because Maxwell called her a liar.
Giuffre — who was 15 and working as a towel girl at Mar-a-Lago when Maxwell met her — claims Epstein turned her into a slave and forced her to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who denied her allegations.
Since Epstein was also friends with Bill Clinton, and was defended by Alan Dershowitz, their names were dragged into the case, too. But sources say they were never going to be called as witnesses.
Now, in a big disappointment to journalists, anti-sex-trafficking activists and Clinton haters, there may be no trial.
“After 11 years and much high drama, [Giuffre’s lawyer] David Boies asked his client to settle the case,” one insider told me.
Giuffre has already collected a settlement from Epstein and sold her story to the UK’s Daily Mail, but her testimony was hotly anticipated.
The blonde was expected to tell in sordid detail how Maxwell routinely recruited young girls and taught them how to give erotic massages that led to sex and prostitution.
If they don’t settle, the trial is now set for May 25.
http://pagesix.com/2017/05/10/jeffrey-epstein-sex-slave-trial-postponed/
Epstein’s jet, which he personally dubbed the “Lolita Express” and carried Bill Clinton as a passenger on at a least 26 long flights, was outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young underaged girls.
Andreas Baader @stop1984
Career maker: Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend, aspiring actress Cressida Bonas, poses with Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein at a screening of the latter’s new film Big Eyes in London
Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas slopes off to hobnob with ANOTHER Epstein pal
When Prince Harry’s former girlfriend Cressida Bonas agreed to go skiing with her chum Princess Eugenie, she had no idea she would be caught up in the storm engulfing the Duke of York.
After Prince Andrew joined his daughter and her model friend at their £22,000-per-week chalet in the Alps, it was besieged by the world’s media amid a growing furore over claims Andrew had sex with an under-age girl ‘procured’ for him by his close friend, convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
So it was an unfortunate coincidence that Cressie’s first public engagement on returning to London on Sunday was a bash thrown by another of Epstein’s friends, film producer Harvey Weinstein.
Sloping off: Cressida has recently returned to London from spending time in Verbier in the Swiss Alps with her old friend Princess Eugenie and her family
Dressed in a midriff-baring outfit with her glossy mane worn loose, the 25-year-old posed next to Weinstein, 62, at a screening of his latest offering, Big Eyes.
(Lurking behind was Charles Dance, who in 2004 famously seduced vicar’s daughter Sophia Myles, 33 years his junior, and then cruelly dumped her.)
Despite the movie mogul’s long-standing association with Epstein — the two even made a failed bid for New York magazine in 2003 — the screening was an occasion not to be missed for aspiring thespian Cressida.
Weinstein, who is married to 38-year-old fashion designer Georgina Chapman, a friend of the Duchess of York, is known for mentoring young actresses.
(L to R) Harvey Weinstein, Princess Eugenie of York and Georgina Chapman at attends a VIP screening of ‘Lion’ hosted by Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman at Soho House on December 19, 2016 in London, England
He is credited with propelling Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured below) to A-list status, having collaborated with her on eight films, including Shakespeare In Love, for which she won an Oscar in 1999.
So it is understandable that Cressida, who scored a small part in Harvey’s forthcoming movie Tulip Fever, is keen to nurture her relationship with the Hollywood tycoon.
Aptly she plays a ‘society lady’ in the film, which is based on Deborah Moggach’s novel.
Since splitting with Harry, ambitious Cressida has been taking her acting career seriously.
Last month, she attended a private vocal training school on Orkney to improve her articulation and projection skills.
Meanwhile, her first play, There’s A Monster In The Lake, is being revived later this month at Waterloo Vaults.
Perhaps Cressie, who has given few signs she wants to rekindle her romance with Harry, has set her sights on an even more desirable prize than a prince: an Oscar.
Brian P Willmot @BrianWillmot
If you are in Public Office or of Blue blood, the CSA/SRA cover-up is a well practised process overseen by the Intelligence Services . . .
^ Harvey Proctor’s benefactors – Duke and Duchess of Rutland are in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
Belvoir Castle, seat of the Duke of Rutland – Harvey Proctor had been living and working on their estate until child abuse allegations recently re-surfaced.
James Hanson Memorial Service:
Those who attended included Baroness Thatcher and former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker. From TV and show business, Sir David Frost and lifelong friend Michael Caine.
Lord Palumbo, Lucas White and his wife Normandie Keith, Susan Sangster, Lord Rothschild, Claus von Bulow, Ned Sherrin, Anthony Andrews, Lord Rees-Mogg, Richard Whiteley and gallery director Timothy Jefferies (also in Jeffrey Epstein’s book) – Jefferies wed Prince Andrew’s ex, Koo Stark
Former politicians Lord Archer and Jonathan Aitken also attended.
The Earls of Halifax, Liverpool and Westmorland were there, along with the Marquess of Salisbury
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/celebrating-life-lord-hanson-5080971
Hansard
Mr. Kinnock
Will the Prime Minister confirm that she is willing—even eager—to sell off PowerGen at a knockdown price to Lord Hanson, another friend of the family?
There is private enterprise, and there is looking after your friends. I think that the country can tell the difference between the two. [Hon. Members: 294“Withdraw!”] How can anyone who is selling off the electricity industry say that he is trying to get a good deal for the country, in any case? Most of all, how can anyone who is selling off that industry at a third of its value say that he is getting good value for the country? Whatever happened to the undertaking given by the Secretary of State for Energy that no one—neither organisation nor individual—would ever be allowed to own more than 15 per cent. of the company?
The Prime Minister can twist and turn all she likes. The truth is that, in breach of the promises that she has already made, she is selling off at a fraction of its value a highly profitable company to a bosom chum and major contributor to the Conservative party. Is not it obvious that this Session is ending as it began—with sleaze and shadiness at the heart of the Government?
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108161
THE MAFIA, MONEY LAUNDERING AND THE LAST SECRET OF MRS T’S FAVOURITE TYCOON;
Revealed: The Explosive Dossiers Linking Lord Hanson to the Mob – and How Both Reports Were Suppressed
IN ITS obituary of Lord Hanson, who died earlier this month aged 82, the Financial Times chose its words guardedly: “After his marriage to the American divorcee Geraldine Kaelin in 1959, he settled down and became very protective of his privacy. Like [Lord] White however, he continued to enjoy the company of attractive young women.”
They liked to fool around, did the peer and his late business partner. As they built their fortunes, taking over company after company, Gordy White and James Hanson lived the swashbuckling life to the full. Buccaneering and charismatic, the debonair duo were far removed from the stereotypical British businessman. In America, they were feted and revered: English lords who knew how to charm and to play, and to make a buck.
But there was a darker side to the legend of Hanson and White, which only now – given his reputation for resisting perceived intrusion into his personal life – can be told. Hanson and White were long suspected by Scotland Yard, the Drug Enforcement Agency in the US, and some of their business enemies in this country, of having close ties to the Mafia.
Repeatedly, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Hanson’s name and those of some of his companies cropped up in official investigations. In 1983, two Scotland Yard officers – DCI Sparks and DC Summers – visited the US to examine links between Hanson and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. In the subsequent report, by Scotland Yard’s C1 department, a copy of which has been obtained by the Evening Standard, detectives appealed to be allowed to probe further.
Having concluded there was insufficient evidence to block Hanson from sitting on the board of Trident Television, which owned a casino as well as a TV station, the report, dated 9 September 1983, states: “Equally there is clearly sufficient doubt created by some of the company connections to suggest that further research is needed … ” None of these suspicions was ever publicly aired at the time. The detectives’ doubts remained a closely guarded secret. If they had ever been revealed, they would have caused a sensation, for under the Thatcher government, no businessman enjoyed the ear of the Prime Minister more than Hanson.
They surfaced again, albeit behind closed doors, when, in 1986, Hanson launched an audacious takeover bid for Imperial Tobacco. The Evening Standard has spoken to those who worked on Imperial’s defence at the time. They remember how they sent a former Scotland Yard Deputy Commissioner to the US to look into his business dealings there. To their astonishment, the corporate gumshoe returned with a list of associations between Hanson and the US underworld.
In which case, why was it never used?
Why didn’t they release the dirt they had gathered, or even hint at it, to discredit the corporate aggressor?
“It went to the top of Imperial. They wouldn’t let it be used,” was an ex-Imperial adviser’s far from satisfactory explanation. He said he thought that Imperial was literally terrified of using the material they’d uncovered.
Hanson, he was certain, knew they had it and at least one very senior Imperial director was warned against disclosing it and told in no uncertain terms to call off the investigators. “We didn’t do anything with it, but if you recall, Hanson never did a high-profile hostile takeover again after Imperial.”
HE DID plenty of deals but nothing that would provoke a backlash. The only time he appeared to be gearing for an all-out attack, against ICI, in 1991, he backed down. That was after investigators hired by ICI had found Hanson and White had poured millions of pounds of shareholders’ money into investments in racehorses in the US which had not been disclosed.
Perhaps if he had launched an assault on ICI, the Mafia connection would have come to light. In the event, the racing revelations were enough to force him to back down.
A copy of the study compiled by Imperial has been supplied to the Evening Standard. Together with the official Scotland Yard document, it presents a quite different picture of the charming tycoon, and raises questions which, given his prominence, should have been answered.
The Imperial report is headed Enquiries into Hanson Trust. It says: “The results of enquiries conducted into corporate activities of the Hanson Trust and its subsidiaries in the UK and the US are such as to believe that if they were brought to the attention of the relevant authorities, a full investigation might have to be carried out before the bid for Imperial Group was allowed to proceed.”
Suspicion fell on Hanson in three areas. In 1978, Hanson Trust took over a Chicago company called Interstate United Corporation for $29.5 million in cash. It was described as a foodservice business but it also had subsidiaries involved in gaming and vending machines – industries in the US viewed as being under the control of organised crime. Indeed, Interstate and its employees had been the subject of a series of law actions and investigations before Hanson bought the firm.
The Scotland Yard report states about Interstate: “The Denver, Colorado police suspect that this was a laundering operation.”
In 1976, the New Jersey police were pursuing the Gambino family.
Interstate owned restaurants in the New Jersey area and one of them, Valentino’s, in Cherry Hill, was sold to a member of the Gambino family for $150,000. In 1979, a year after Hanson had bought Interstate, records of the New Jersey Alcohol Beverage Control Bureau showed the English entrepreneur’s acquisition held a $100,000 mortgage on Valentino’s.
Peter Tullio, the president of Interstate at the time of the takeover, admitted in court that he approved $40,000 in payoffs to a restaurant union official. In March 1980, two years after Hanson had taken charge, the city commissioner of Portland, Oregon, described an Interstate company, Volume Services Inc, which had been awarded a contract-for food sales, as a “summary of a corporation with a history of making payments to union officials – some with known Mafia connections”.
STANLEY “Sonny” Singer, the former local president of Interstate in Colorado, was quoted in a written document submitted to a court in 1980 to have established a “slush fund” of $60,000 to make loans to several of the company’s best cigarette customers.
In 1982, an inquiry was held into the way Volume Services won the contract to supply beer at Soldier Field for the Chicago Bears’ football games. In 1985, Hanson disposed of Interstate.
Another Hanson operation to interest the authorities was a trucking business. It changed its name to Canadian Freightway Eastern and moved out of the jurisdiction of the US to Hamilton, Ontario – but not before it had attracted the attention of the DEA. The US drug busters suspected its vehicles were being used to ferry narcotics from Mexico across North America.
But by far the most important strand of the authorities’ investigations concerned a 1975 payment to a US government employee by a suspected Mafia member and gunrunner. The woman official was paid a large sum of money – the Scotland Yard report doesn’t say how much – by one Jaime Moreno.
According to the Scotland Yard report, the “payment was believed to be connected with a large gambling debt incurred by the official while she was stationed in Nice”. She had met Moreno, “who she stated was a wealthy man who owned a yacht in which he commuted between England and the South of France”.
(The detectives later suspected the yacht belonged to Hanson.) The only Jaime Moreno the police could find was a gunrunner from Arizona. What whetted their appetites, though, was the address the woman official gave for Moreno: PO Box 2266 Palm Springs, California. This was a postal pickup address. Four people used the PO Box, including Moreno and Hanson, and the address they gave was that of Hanson’s winter home in Palm Springs, which he used between November and April each year.
One of the four was identified as a Canadian, retired employee of Hanson’s trucking company. He and his wife were caretakers of Hanson’s house. The police interviewed the local postal inspector who said the only mail sent to PO Box 2266 consisted of “small blue papers, folded in half and bearing a return address in Canada”. They examined telephone records for the house “for a period when Hanson was resident … calls had been made to two individuals of note to the DEA”, names we cannot reveal for legal reasons.
The Scotland Yard report says that one of them was a Beverly Hills boutique owner. He had been named in an FBI file as being “part of the second French Connection heroin smuggling ring”. The other was known to the Hollywood police as an associate of the notorious mob boss, Meyer Lansky.
THE DEA had details on file of Hanson meeting Moreno and two associates at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Then the Scotland Yard document says: “Confidential informant of the FBI stated that the Palm Springs residence was being used for ‘illegal activities’ and named Hanson. The informant alleged that the PO Box was being used as a mail drop.”
In their report, the London detectives conclude of Hanson: “There is further circumstantial evidence of connections to organised crime which, while not being conclusive by itself, does reinforce the doubts about Hanson which arise from putting all the fragments together”.
But the investigation ceased.
According to one source, the detectives handed their report up the command line. It carried a clip as having been seen by two people, with the initials HW and PM. No action was ever taken. If he knew he was the subject of such intense speculation, Hanson never let on. Who knows what more strange ties a proper investigation would have uncovered. There may have been an innocent explanation, of course. The point is, the police never had the chance to find out.
THE MAFIA, MONEY LAUNDERING AND THE LAST SECRET OF MRS T’S FAVOURITE TYCOON; Revealed: The Explosive Dossiers Linking Lord Hanson to the Mob – and How Both Reports Were Suppressed
The Evening Standard (London, England), November 18, 2004
Pilgrims Society member Walter H. Annenberg was a business and personal mentor to Lord James Hanson
Morning Cloud with a spinmaker? It’s just Mr. Edward Heath’s little joke as he points to a photograph of the Isle of Wright area being presented to him as a suprise gift by US Ambassador Mr. Walter Annenberg at No. 10, Downing St. tonight. The photograph was taken from outer space by American astronauts. The Ambassador also handed the Prime Minister a sample of moon rock as a gift from the American people to the British people.
Walter Annenberg and family
Walter Annenberg paid for redecoration of the official residence of the American ambassador, donated money for a pool at Chequers, the country home of British prime ministers and even set up a fund to bankroll a concert series that Prime Minister Ted Heath conducted.
http://old.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/19990704review281.asp
“Billionaire Son of Mobster, Enemy of Journalism, and Nixon Toady”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2002/10/citizen_annenberg.html
1974 Prince Charles, Gov. & Mrs. Reagan, and the Annenbergs outside Sunnylands
And on February 27, 1983 the Queen and Prince Philip made a historic stop at Sunnylands to visit their friends, the Annenbergs. The Queen has rarely ever visited a private home in the United States. As a result of the close friendship the visit was scheduled and Leonore and Walter prepared a luncheon in honor of the event.
http://www.sunnylands.org/news/view/593
James Hanson mentor, Walter Annenberg,
member of the Pilgrims Society –
The Pilgrims Society, founded on 16 July 1902, is a British-American society
https://isgp-studies.com/liberal-cia-ngo-network
Pilgrims Society Members:
https://goodnessandharmony.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/screen-shot-2015-10-17-at-18-57-48.png?w=640
Ambassador Robert Alston (right)- His brother is convicted paedophile Richard Alston(left)
Richard Alston was the partner of PIE founder (Paedophile Information Exchange) Peter Righton – a member of an elite VIP paedophile ring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_Society
Paedophile Peter Righton advises the Health Dept – Virginia Bottomley was allegedly clueless about Peter Righton and was demanding a full report.
Margaret Thatcher and Virginia Bottomley. Virginia Bottomley’s husband Peter Bottomley is a Pilgrims Society member
Peter Bottomley – member of the Pilgrims Society husband of Virginia Bottomley
Margaret Thatcher – friend of Sir Jimmy Savile and many other paedophiles
Queen Elizabeth – friend of Sir Jimmy Savile and many other paedophiles
“My love and encouragement, Bishop” (Peter Ball)
Prince Charles close friendships with paedophiles Jimmy Savile and Bishop Peter Ball
“The Pilgrims Society is a cluster of intermarried old-line rich, royals and robber barons who created the world’s financial structure.”
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_Pilgrims_Society
more on the Pilgrims Society members – here
Back to Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book:
Hanson family entries in convicted establishment paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s “black book” ..
Lord and Lady Hanson and their son Brook Hanson
– many entries for their son The Hon Robert Hanson
Robert Hanson: The happy family man steering Hanson empire into new territory
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
GOGA Ashkenazi, the glamorous oil and gas tycoon, has vociferously defended her “close friend” Prince Andrew and offered insight into his “distressed” state of mind.
In an exclusive interview with the Evening Standard, she says that the Duke of York (who has not yet spoken to the press) had messaged her on his Black-Berry over the weekend, asking, “Have you seen the papers?” and saying that he was “very, very upset” about the way he has been portrayed and “very, very worried” about whether he’d be able to continue his role as a trade envoy.
Andrew is under “massive and unfair media pressure”, she says, following revelations concerning his friend of 15 years, Jeffrey Epstein, 58, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
“I told Andrew not to worry, that he’d done nothing wrong, and that it was being blown out of proportion. Of course, he knows it was unwise to fraternise with this Epstein character, and it was silly to be photographed with his arm around Epstein’s masseuse [Virginia Roberts]. But I know Andrew as a lovely, lovely man — kind-hearted, impeccably behaved and honourable — and I’m quite sure that at the time he had no idea that she was underage or anything more than a masseuse to Epstein.”
The Oxford-educated socialite who lives in a [pounds sterling] 28 million mansion in Holland Park and has known Andrew since the late Lord Hanson’s son Robert introduced them at a party in 2001.
Andrew Is Not the Villain He’s Being Made out to Be. I Have Seen Him in Action and He Is a Superb Trade Envoy’; the Glamorous Tycoon Who Helped the Duke of York Sell His Marital Home Defends Her Royal; Friend but Distances Herself from Wolf-Hunting ‘Acquaintance’ Saif Gaddafi. David Cohen Reports
The Evening Standard (London, England), March 8, 2011
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-250944743/andrew-is-not-the-villain-he-s-being-made-out-to
Friends of Jeffrey Epstein celebrated Sol Kerzner’s birthday including Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson amd the Hon Robert Hanson
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and the Hon Robert Hanson
Sources close to the duchess suggested the trip was paid for by Sir Sol. His office last night failed to respond to repeated attempts to contact them.
A source close to the duchess said: ‘Sol Kerzner is an old friend and this was a long-standing invitation. It’s just a couple of nights and it’s not a holiday, it’s a party.
Close: Not only was Ghislaine Maxwell friends with Prince Andrew, but his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson as well. The pair are pictured together at the opening of the Asprey Flagship Store on 5th Avenue on December 8, 2003, in New York City
Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein at The Queen’s residence of Sandringham in 2000. The picture shows just how close she and Epstein were with Prince Andrew
Friends
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Sir Philip Green, Simon Cowell and Heather Kerzner
Sarah Ferguson – friend of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein accepted an award for her work with children just after she was exposed offering access to Prince Andrew for £500,000.
The reception was held at LA’s five star Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. She had been expected to stay there but cancelled her reservation after the scandal broke and decided to stay with friends instead.
‘Phew, I’ve had a heavy day’: Fergie tries to put on a brave face over £500,000 cash-for-access scandal at star-studded charity dinner
The ‘penniless’ duchess was at a black tie reception in Los Angeles having flown in from the South of France where she had been a guest at Naomi Campbell’s 40th birthday party.
She was at the top table alongside Simon Cowell, who was receiving an award for his humanitarian work, and his fiancée Mezhgan Hussainy.
The duchess received the Catherine Variety Sheridan Award, which is given each year by the charity to someone for their philanthropic work with underprivileged and disabled children.
2015 Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew
Society shock as Lord Hanson’s eligible son Robert finally settles down
Robert Hanson married Masha Markova, a Russian businesswoman 25 years his junior.
Robert Hanson: The happy family man steering Hanson empire into new territory
Barely three months after Robert Hanson married Masha Markova, a Russian businesswoman 25 years his junior, the son of the late industrialist Lord Hanson has found himself embroiled in an unseemly courtroom battle involving a pornographic film company.
Hanson, 49, is being sued by David Newnham of Victoria, in Australia, who claims to be owed £350,000, including interest, after he was sacked as the chief executive of Woodman Entertainment, a Spanish company involved in making pornographic films such as Psycho Sex, Wide Open and Sex Carnage.
Newnham says he met Hanson at the Mayfair offices of his company Hanson Capital. It is a Hanson Family Holdings company, of which Hanson is the chairman.
The deputy chairman is Sir Hayden Phillips, the chairman of the National Theatre and charities consultant to the Prince of Wales. Its directors include the Earl of Dartmouth, the Ukip MEP
Naomi Campbell and Masha Markova Hanson attend The Serpentine Gallery Summer Party
Markova is slightly hazy about her origins. Her parents left Russia in the 1990s for Panama, and their business involved “some freight trucks, transport,” she told Tatler, with probably about as much interest as her squeeze has in haulage. Her parents now live in Miami, and she met Hanson Jr. in Palm Springs. Now “the whole of London is talking about the union of the long-legged Russian and the most eligible British bachelor,” the magazine wrote.
“Masha Markova is quite the partier”
…. a few intriguing hints about Hanson and Markova’s lifestyle. They have a Filipino housekeeper whom Hanson will never sack because she might write memoirs, Markova said. And the whole apartment is decorated with blown-up photos of Markova, some with her in a bikini and some with no clothes at all. Markova charmingly explains that she wanted smaller ones but she thought that she was ordering the size in centimeters, not inches.
Markova is running a fashion store — of course — after studying at Columbia University. But she wouldn’t be a Russian It Girl if she didn’t have artistic aspirations, too. She displays paintings of guns and beautiful thin women on her web site Mashamarkova.com.
There’s plenty of name-dropping in the interview. Markova went to the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation gala dinner organized by Alexander Lebedev & Son at Hampton Court Palace this summer and said she was told about Michael Jackson’s death by Elton John, no less.
Robert Hanson’s X-rated Lawsuit
The Hon. Robert Hanson was being sued by David Newnham in Australia claiming he was owed £350K including interest after he was sacked as chief executive of Woodman Entertainment, a company based in Barcelona in Spain that produces rough sex “Hardcore Sex Films“.
It is claimed The Hon. Robert Hanson held a financial investment in Pierre Woodman company Woodman Entertainment.
The company in question, based in Spain, is Woodman Entertainment, founded by fashion photographer- turned-pornographer Pierre Woodman, the creator of more than 60 X-rated films, who claims to have bedded more than 3,500 women.
Hanson, who once dated model Sophie Anderton, herself exposed as an escort girl by a tabloid newspaper, tells me: ‘I am talking to my lawyers and I am not allowed to say anything.
‘But I take this seriously, I can assure you.’
In the writ, it is claimed that Hanson guaranteed the salary of David Newnham, who joined the company as chief executive in August 2008, on a two-year contract on £147,000 a year.
But Newnham left two months later, claiming he had not been paid. Newnham is now claiming the money, plus interest and court fees from Hanson. says a friend: ‘This writ is somewhat absurd. There are two sides to every story.’
But it is all a far cry from when Robert Hanson joined Rothschilds in the eighties, later joining the eponymous company of his tycoon father, who was Baroness thatcher’s favourite industrialist.
From 1982–84, John Whittingdale was head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department. He then served as Special Adviser to three successive Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry, Norman Tebbit, 1984–85; Leon Brittan, 1985–86, and Paul Channon, 1986–87.
He worked on international privatisation at NM Rothschild in 1987 and in January 1988, became Political Secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Upon her resignation Whittingdale was appointed OBE and continued to serve as her Political Secretary until being elected to Parliament in 1992.[5]
PRIME MINISTER. Cementation contract: Mark Thatcher and the Omanis; part 2
This record is closed
Closed For 65 years
Opening date: 01 January 2054
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16205128
July 21 2016
We may never learn the truth about “corrupt” deals involving Margaret Thatcher and her son Mark after another “establishment cover-up”.
The National Archives are releasing hundreds of government records and notes of Cabinet meetings under the 30-year-rule, covering 1986 to 1988, the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s reign at No10.
But two entitled “Cementation contract: Mark Thatcher and the Omanis” covering the period from 1981 to 1988 are listed as being “retained” for 65 years – meaning they will not be released until 2053 when Sir Mark would be aged 99.
Two others – one entitled “Mark Thatcher and the Omanis; other allegations against Mark Thatcher” and “Request by Electronic Data Systems to employ Mark Thatcher” have been “temporarily retained” with no date for release.
The decision to keep the files closed was ultimately taken by former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, who served as Mrs Thatcher’s political secretary in the last months of her tenure in No10 and who signed off on the secrecy.
John Whittingdale’s half-brother Charles Napier was treasurer of PIE Paedophile Information Exchange
John Whittingdale signed off the decision to keep the files closed
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fury-files-mark-thatchers-corrupt-8460468.amp
Jacob Rothschild and Lord Mandelson – Peter Mandelson is controlling director of the NSPCC
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Friends in high places: Lord Mandelson has also vacationed on Epstein’s island
Lord Mandelson yesterday maintained his silence over the extent of his contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Business Secretary did not respond to questions about why the convicted paedophile’s ‘little black book’ featured ten entries for him and his partner Reinaldo da Silva
When Lord Mandelson, the globe-trotting business consultant, recently announced plans to rent “a modest dwelling in deepest Wiltshire next-door to the herdsman and his family”, he was not being strictly accurate.
It emerges that the one-time Labour business secretary’s humble bucolic retreat is, in fact, a four-bedroom house owned by the billionaire Rothschild dynasty, which enjoys uninterrupted views over the Marlborough Downs.
Lord Mandelson is famously well-acquainted with Nat Rothschild, the natural resources investor known for his ill-fated foray into Indonesian coal miner Bumi, thanks to the pair’s shared trips to Siberian saunas and Mediterranean jaunts aboard the yacht owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
But Diary understands that Nat, who is these days based mostly in Switzerland, spends little time at the farmhouse. The property is owned by his parents, Lord Rothschild, the RIT Capital Partners chairman, and Lady Serena.
Nathaniel Rothschild says sauna with Lord Mandelson was purely pleasure, not business
Rothschild Family also in Jeffrey Epsteins’s black book
Evelyn Rothschild is a friend of the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein
David ‘Hui’ Newnham as it’s New CEO
Woodman Entertainment the innovative new adult entertainment brand dedicated to delivering a unique combination “
With over 22 years experience in the adult industry David “Hui” Newnham joins Woodman Entertainment from the Australian .
Judges began to see that the adult industry was hurt by piracy, said David Newnham, AICO board member and general manager of Calvista Australia.
About AICO: Calvista is a founding member of the Adult Industry Copyright Organisation, which operates on a not-for-profit basis, both as an educator, and to discourage breaches of copyright in adult films in Australia. AICO is funded by its members, who are comprised of international, adult-film producers and distributors.
More on David Newnham’s businesses at bottom of post
Revealed: Robert Hanson’s secret involvement in pornography business
Sir Hayden Phillips, an adviser to the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles),
and the Earl of Dartmouth, Willian Dartmouth, the Ukip MEP, are on the board of Hanson Family Holdings.
William Dartmouth is also listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
Is UKIP’s William Dartmouth MEP using an offshore company to conceal involvement in a wind turbine development?
26 Aug 2010
Barely three months after Robert Hanson married Masha Markova, a Russian businesswoman 25 years his junior, the son of the late industrialist Lord Hanson has found himself embroiled in an unseemly courtroom battle involving a pornographic film company.
Hanson, 49, is being sued by David Newnham of Victoria, in Australia, who claims to be owed £350,000, including interest, after he was sacked as the chief executive of Woodman Entertainment, a Spanish company involved in making pornographic films such as Psycho Sex, Wide Open and Sex Carnage.
In documents filed at the High Court, Newnham alleges that Hanson has a financial interest in Woodman and, in August 2008, guaranteed his salary for two years. He was, however, sacked in October that year and is now seeking to compel Hanson to honour the agreement.
Newnham says he met Hanson at the Mayfair offices of his company Hanson Capital.
It is a Hanson Family Holdings company, of which Hanson is the chairman.
The deputy chairman is Sir Hayden Phillips, the chairman of the National Theatre and charities consultant to the Prince of Wales.
Its directors include the Earl of Dartmouth, the Ukip MEP. There is no reference on the company’s website to Woodman.
Hanson, who was once engaged to the model Sophie Anderton and whose father was a close ally of Margaret Thatcher, declines to comment. He was on holiday yesterday with his wife.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/z_jpf3WGXmFwKKY3s-tGU9w0T18/appointments
Hayden Phillips has business and charitable interests, including a finger in the rather posh pie that is the Prince’s Trust.
He sits on courts and councils, always a useful player at the table, a man with an excellent contacts book.
Hayden Phillips is a famously deft Whitehall figure to whom colleagues offer admiring tributes like “the mandarin’s mandarin“; a man who has “supped the royal jelly of ministerial private offices” for 30 years;
https://www.theguardian.com/public/features/story/0,,1864730,00.html
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20091017/282106337701699
Sir Hayden Phillips
Independent Reviewer
Sir Hayden Phillips has been the Independent Reviewer of ASA Adjudications since 1 January 2010.
Sir Hayden is currently a Director of Westhouse Holdings, of St Just Farms Ltd and of the Energy Saving Trust. He is Chairman of the Digital Cinema Funding Partnership. From 2004 to 2010 he was Chairman of the National Theatre. He was Charities Consultant to HRH The Prince of Wales from 2004 to 2009. He and his wife have a farm in Wiltshire where he is a Deputy Lieutenant, a Lay Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, Chairman of its Fabric Advisory Committee and Chairman of Marlborough College.
Sir Hayden’s previous career was in the Civil Service. He served in senior positions in the Home Office, the European Commission, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury before heading two Departments as Permanent Secretary – the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 1992 to 1998, and the Lord Chancellor’s Department (now the Ministry of Justice) from 1998 to 2004. He has published two reports – on the Reform of the Honours System in 2004, and on the Reform of the Funding of Political Parties in 2007.
https://www.asa.org.uk/about-asa-and-cap/people/independent-reviewer.html
2010
In Lord Ashcroft’s absence, the committee beat up Sir Hayden Phillips, a retired Whitehall eminence who once held the claret jug for Roy Jenkins and later Derry Irvine. Jowly Sir Hayden is florid of face. His hooter is the colour of a lunchtime burgundy.
I sometimes come across him during interval drinks at the Royal National Theatre, where he is chairman. Beautifully-mannered Sir Hayden has the rich creaminess of a ripe Stilton.
Sir Hayden Phillips was Clerk of the Crown in Chancery a decade ago. That fancy title meant he was the top wallah on honours and it was up to him to ensure the formalities of procedure were observed.
Lord Ashcroft has been helping Mr Prentice’s Tory opponent in the marginal seat of Pendle. Mr Prentice is very, very cross about this, believing his Commons career to be in peril.
He accused Sir Hayden of ‘swallowing’ assurances from Lord Ashcroft about his tax status. In effect, Sir Hayden was accused of supervising a lax regime.
Well, dears, of course. The last thing Tony Blair wanted ten years ago was a system which subjected possible new peers to minute examination. Lord Levy would have been horrified!
The Ashcroft affair is undoubtedly whiffy and William Hague was foolish to have become quite so enmeshed with one big donor. But it was hardly surprising. Tory donors make it to the Lords, just like Labour’s trade union friends.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259073/Sir-Haydens-hooter-colour-lunchtime-burgundy.html
Lord James Hanson gave the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, helicopter-flying lessons as a wedding present.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1475684/Lord-Hanson.html
(Left) Quincy Jones – friend of paedophile Michael Jackson
Sarah Ferguson and Robert Hanson – friends of Jeffrey Epstein
^ As millionaire financier Robert Hanson helps to cheer up the near-bankrupt Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, while they celebrate the 75th birthday of billionaire hotelier Sir Sol Kerzner, in Sardinia, he is also preoccupied with his own difficulties.
Sol Kerzner is also listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.pdf
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Sol Kerzner and Heather Kerzner attend the landmark Grand Opening of Atlantis, The Palm Resort, and the Palm Jumeirah on November 20, 2008 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
left to right, Melania , Donald Trump, Heather Kerzner and Sol Kerzner together.
The indictment on which Salerno was convicted in 1988 and sent to prison, where he died, listed the nearly $8 million contract for concrete at Trump Plaza, an East Side high-rise apartment building, as one of the acts establishing that S &A was part of a racketeering enterprise. (While the concrete business was central to the case, the trial also proved extortion, narcotics, rigged union elections and murders by the Genovese and Gambino crime families in what Michael Chertoff, the chief prosecutor, called “the largest and most vicious criminal business in the history of the United States.”)
FBI agents subpoenaed Trump in 1980 to ask about his dealing with John Cody, a Teamsters official described by law enforcement as a very close associate of the Gambino crime family.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a-brief-history-of-donald-trump-and-the-mafia
How Donald Trump (also a friend of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein) knows about South Africa
The world’s two major real estate developers, Donald Trump and Sol Kerzner, have been working together quite a bit in the Bahamas and Dubai. No doubt, Donald has been hearing the reality about South Africa from his friend Sol. As regards to what the degree they “hang out together”, the following images may perhaps clarify the situation.
https://hbooyens.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/how-donald-trump-knows-about-south-africa/
He first came to The Bahamas in the late 1960s “when they started developing Paradise Island, and I came here because I was interested always to go and see new hotel developments. I was only here for two days, and then only returned in the 90s.” That was when he acquired more than 600 acres of prime land and a number of not-so-prime properties from Merv Griffin for only $125 million. Griffin had been involved in a struggle with Donald Trump for control of Paradise Island, which left him with no funds to modernize or refurbish the resort once he acquired it.
http://www.thebahamasinvestor.com/2008/kerzner-the-sun-king-grows-his-empire/
Donald Trump and Heather Kerzner together at another event.
https://hbooyens.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/how-donald-trump-knows-about-south-africa/
The vulgar tycoon – There could hardly be a more vulgar or notorious billionaire than South Africa-born casino magnate Sol Kerzner
He created the infamous Sun City in an independent black state within South Africa, symbol of the worst excesses of that country during the apartheid years. There, white people could indulge their every whim, be it soft porn or gambling, and blacks were there only to serve them.
In December 1986, Kerzner was embroiled in fresh bribery allegations, this time that he paid the then Prime Minister of Transkei, George Matanzima, to gain exclusive gaming rights there.
Documents discovered by the New Jersey gaming authorities a decade later confirmed that one of Kerzner’s companies had indeed transferred £600,000 to the trust account of a middle man “for the ultimate benefit of G Matanzima”.
Matanzima was jailed for nine years and a warrant was issued for Kerzner, but he was never to stand trial. Although Kerzner eventually admitted paying the money, he insisted that it was extorted from him.
He made a secret donation of £600,000 to Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress party
Like James Hanson, Donald Trump has ties to the Mafia
After graduating in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania, a rich young man from the outer boroughs of New York City sought his fortune on the island of Manhattan. Within a few years Donald J. Trump had made friends with the city’s most notorious fixer, lawyer Roy Cohn, who had become famous as lead counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Among other things Cohn was now a mob consigliere, with clients including “Fat Tony” Salerno, boss of the Genovese crime family, the most powerful Mafia group in New York, and Paul Castellano, head of what was said to be the second largest family, the Gambinos.
The indictment on which Salerno was convicted in 1988 and sent to prison, where he died, listed the nearly $8 million contract for concrete at Trump Plaza, an East Side high-rise apartment building, as one of the acts establishing that S &A was part of a racketeering enterprise. (While the concrete business was central to the case, the trial also proved extortion, narcotics, rigged union elections and murders by the Genovese and Gambino crime families in what Michael Chertoff, the chief prosecutor, called “the largest and most vicious criminal business in the history of the United States.”)
FBI agents subpoenaed Trump in 1980 to ask about his dealing with John Cody, a Teamsters official described by law enforcement as a very close associate of the Gambino crime family.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910
A Brief History of Donald Trump and the Mafia
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a-brief-history-of-donald-trump-and-the-mafia
Naomi Campbell ‘s boyfriend Vladislav Doronin, left, and Robert Hanson
Close friends: The Duchess of York and Naomi Campbell
Unbeknown to many of the revellers, who included Naomi Campbell and Ivana Trump, Old Etonian Robert, 49, son of industrialist Lord Hanson, is being sued for £358,000 by the former chief executive of a porn film company who claims Robert agreed to guarantee his salary.
So far, so unremarkable.
But what makes this particular writ embarrassing to Robert and his loftily beautiful new wife, Ivy League-educated Masha Markova – at 25, almost half his age – is that the man issuing the legal action against him is the ex-boss of a pornographic film company.
Naomi Campbell and Simon Le Bon are also listed in convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
Magic time: Illusionist David Blaine, left, joins Naomi Campbell and the Duchess of York in Sardinia on Monday
David Blaine was good friends with paedophile Michael Jackson and is also listed in Epstein’s black book
Jun 23, 2016
Michael Jackson Stockpiled Nude Images Of Children, According To Police Report
Authorities seized more than 80 video recordings and computer hard drives, as well as notes, diaries, documents, photographs and audiotapes.
Michael Jackson, Uri Geller, Greville Janner MP, Paul Boateng, David Blaine
Pierre Woodman is a French pornographic film director.
The company in question, based in Spain, is Woodman Entertainment, founded by fashion photographer- turned-pornographer Pierre Woodman, the creator of more than 60 X-rated films, who claims to have bedded more than 3,500 women.
Hanson, who once dated model Sophie Anderton, herself exposed as an escort girl by a tabloid newspaper, tells me: ‘I am talking to my lawyers and I am not allowed to say anything.
‘But I take this seriously, I can assure you.’
In the writ, it is claimed that Hanson guaranteed the salary of David Newnham, who joined the company as chief executive in August 2008, on a two-year contract on £147,000 a year.
But Newnham left two months later, claiming he had not been paid. Newnham is now claiming the money, plus interest and court fees from Hanson. says a friend: ‘This writ is somewhat absurd. there are two sides to every story.’
But it is all a far cry from when Robert joined Rothschilds in the eighties, later joining the eponymous company of his tycoon father, who was Baroness thatcher’s favourite industrialist.
Prince Andrew’s billionaire paedophile friend, Jeffrey Epstein, given permission to land private jet at RAF base for visit Sandringham
Billionaire Epstein was jailed for 18 months in 2008 after admitting soliciting an under-aged girl for prostitution.
He is alleged to have used his fleet of private aircraft to traffic under-aged girls around the world for sex.
The flight log of Epstein’s Gulfstream revealed it touched down at RAF Marham on December 7, 2000, before he was hosted by the Andrew at the Queen’s Norfolk residence.
Aboard the jet that day were someone with the initials ET – thought to be Miss Maxwell’s assistant Emmy Tayler – a woman called Kelly Spam, Epstein’s friend Tom Pritzker and an unnamed female.
Epstein and Miss Maxwell are reported to have stayed at Sandringham as Andrew’s guests, before leaving the country two days later on the same aircraft from Norwich International Airport.
Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein at The Queen’s residence of Sandringham in 2000. The picture shows just how close she and Epstein were with Prince Andrew
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906981/Bill-Clinton-pictured-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-social-fixer-Chelsea-s-wedding.html
17 yr-old, Alisa Dmitrijeva death: No action over Sandringham body find
Air Hanson, a small charter aircraft company
Air Hanson wins UK royal helicopter contract
The award of the 10-year contract to private firm Air Hanson came after the Royal Household invited tenders and advice from the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.
18 February, 1998
SOURCE: Flight International
Air Hanson has been awarded a ten year contract to operate a Sikorsky S-76 on behalf of the UK’s Royal Family.
The leased helicopter will be based at Air Hanson’s Blackbushe, Surrey, headquarters and will replace two Westland Wessex HCC4s operated by the Royal Air Force’s 32Sqn since 1969.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art…ontract-32904/
9 December 2006
Last year, Prince Andrew was criticised by the National Audit Office for spending £3,000 on a royal chopper to fly him just 50 miles, to a lunch with Arab dignitaries.
In the previous year, after he had been appointed captain of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club, Andrew cost the RAF an eye-watering £32,000, on supersonic jets to fly him between London and St
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/prince-andrew-the-playboy-prince-427707.html
A FATHER and son died when a helicopter crashed in dense woodland near Crowthorne, Berkshire. Another two children and a man were in hospital last night with serious injuries.
Lord Hanson, chairman of Hanson Trust, of which Air Hanson is a subsidiary, said last night that Capt Bates was ‘a highly experienced helicopter pilot’ who had worked for the company for many years. ‘
Captain Colin Bates, Air Hanson’s chief pilot, 46, and his son, Nicholas, 12, were certified dead at the scene.
Nigel Whiteman, 33, Air Hanson’s chief engineer, suffered severe chest and abdominal injuries.
The aircraft was en route from Newmarket, Suffolk, to Blackbushe airport, where Air Hanson is based. A spokesman for the company said that Capt Bates had taken the boys on a day out.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/helicopter-crash-in-woods-kills-pilot-and-son-12-1540456.html
The Hon. Robert Hanson a former merchant banker at N.M. Rothschild. He is now chairman of Hanson Family Holdings (Family Office). The Hanson Family also have a joint venture interest in the corporate advisory group “Strand Hanson Limited”.
His grandfather was also named Robert Hanson and was an Ex-Bankrupt. who effectively and with the help of other Hanson family members and some close friends allegedly swindled their customers from their rightful claim for compensation for loss of property due to a fire.
Robert Hanson sold assets of the company before he was made Bankrupt. His grandfather was severely reprimanded by the court for his unscrupulous actions and his Bankruptcy was latter extended. The Hon. Robert Hanson’s own father Lord (James) Hanson had a long association with asset stripper Jim Slater.
Lord Hanson was miss-informed there was already a casino at The Ritz Hotel. The reason London Clubs International re-locating their casino The Ritz Club Casino from The Ritz Hotel, was due to the fact David Barclay and Ex-Bankrupt Frederick Barclay who own The Ritz Hotel were demanding a totally unrealistic premium of £20 Million for a new lease of the basement. London Clubs International decided to purchase the Freehold grade II listed building at 50 St James’s Street, London for just over £13 Million a more desirable street, then Piccadilly.
Robert Hanson – his dad was Thatcher’s favourite tycoon, but now he’s accused of selling out Venezuelan newspaper to socialists
Caracas staff say son of Thatcherite peer has made his paper a Socialist Party mouthpiece
16 November 2014
His current involvement with the media is… as owner of Venezuela’s best-selling newspaper. He used his company, Hanson Family Holdings, to acquire the paper last year, reportedly for $98m (£62m).
Now the son of Baroness Thatcher’s favourite industrialist, the late Lord Hanson, is attracting media attention again after reporters on Ultimas Noticias became disgruntled over government insiders apparently influencing editorial decisions.
Political observers in Caracas might have been forgiven for expecting Old Etonian Hanson, 54, with his Thatcherite family ties, to be unenthusiastic about Socialist Party President Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chavez in April last year.
During Mr Hanson’s partying years, he reportedly wowed Tom Cruise and other attendees at one of George Clooney’s New York birthday bashes with his “feverish dancing skills” before loudly exclaiming: “I love America! This is the place where things happen!” Not the sort of sentiments to go down well with supporters of the Chavez legacy in Venezuela.
But despite anticipation that the paper would lurch rightwards, the Socialist Party’s former elections adviser Hector Davila has been appointed to the senior role of President-Editor.
And whereas Ultimas Noticias had a history of investigative journalism in exposing features of the Chavez regime, now reporting staff complain that the ruling party exerts editorial control.
One of the reporters, José Rafael Mata, tweeted what he said was a picture of a handwritten note ordering a story to be pulled from the paper’s website because it detailed a former minister’s complaints about the Socialist Party stifling internal dissent. Mr Mata cited the episode as one of the reasons he felt compelled to leave the paper.
However, Mr Davila, a computer scientist, told Reuters that Ultimas Noticias had not abandoned its willingness to criticise the government. “If you’re looking for complaints about the government, pick any edition of the paper and you’ll have [as many as you want],” he said, citing critical stories on problems ranging from decay of public hospitals to corruption by state-backed community groups.
He also said the only instructions he received from the paper’s British owner were merely to run a balanced and profitable newspaper.
Mr Hanson’s father was famous for his close relationships with politicians, including the disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton.He set up Hanson PLC in 1964 and built it up by buying under-preforming assets and turning them around. Hanson bought a succession of high-street names, including John Collyer and Allders department stores, before making his most famous acquisition: Imperial Tobacco Group, bought for £2.5bn in 1986.
Lord Hanson was a founder of the anti-European Business for Sterling group and a member of the Bruges Group, which seeks to reduce the influence of Brussels. It is a very different philosophy from that of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, founded in 2007 by Chavez, with whom Thatcher’s old political adversary Ken Livingstone struck up a rapport – and an oil deal – when Mayor of London.
Behind The Illusion; George Clooney
Excerpts:
You want to know something interesting?
There are 276 Global Intelligence files that mention George Clooney by name. You know, George Clooney, the Hollywood actor.
What Are The Global Intelligence Files
The Global Intelligence Files, published by Wikileaks, is a trove of more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor.
These emails reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher…provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods.
(n August 2018, police shot and killed actress Vanessa Marquez, who very coincidentally had been vocally accusing George Clooney of overseeing an elaborate cover up of the culture of systemic sex abuse on the set of ER.
But I’m getting way ahead of myself here. Let’s start at the beginning to see just who George Clooney really is.
Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce Warren, was a beauty queen and city council woman. His father, Nick Clooney, is a former Corporal in the U.S. Army, and later a journalist, anchorman, game show host, and television host, who in 2004 ran unsuccessfully for Congress.
The Clooney family connections to Washington and politics at the highest level is nothing new. Fun fact, his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of, you guessed it, Abraham Lincoln.
Not only is Clooney related to Washington royalty, he’s not the first person in his family to make it big in entertainment.
Cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was George Clooney’s aunt, the sister of his father Nick Clooney. George’s other aunt, Betty Clooney, was also a famous singer in the 1950’s. And yet another famous singer, “You Light Up My Life” singer Debby Boone, is George’s cousin. Recall that his father was a gameshow and TV host and it almost starts to seem if being from certain families makes it lot easier to break into Hollywood.
There are red flags from the start when it comes to Clooney’s acting career. His very first acting role came in 1978, on the television mini-series Centennial, based on a novel by one of the most well-documented C.I.A. linked novelists, James A. Michener.
The New York Times article, How the CIA Played Dirty Tricks With Culture, talks about Michener being on the CIA payroll. It’s funny to me how Clooney, coming from a background such as his, would land his very first acting gig ever on a C.I.A. sponsored production.
Next Clooney studied acting with leading Scientologist Milton Katselas at his Beverly Hills Playhouse for 5 years, from 1982-1987.
In the book co-authored by the now-deceased-under-extremely-mysterious-circumstances Andrew Breitbart, Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity, Milton Katselas is discussed at length. As well as Scientology in general and it’s connection to Hollywood.
Here’s the cliff’s notes: Think of Scientology’s presence in Hollywood as an intelligence dragnet to identify those who will trade compromising secrets for power and influence. One of the very top lieutenants of that intelligence operation, for decades, was Milton Katselas.
Katselas trained Rob Reiner, Gene Hackman, Jenna Elfman, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tony Danza, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, Jeffrey Tambor, among many others.
One can only assume that Clooney spent those 5 years at the Beverly Hills Playhouse proving he was willing to be the perfect puppet. After his time under Katselas, over the next decade, Clooney appeared on shows like The Facts of Life, Golden Girls and Roseanne.
His first real film role was in the Harvey Weinstein Quentin Tarantino team up From Dusk Till Dawn. So yes, from the very beginning Clooney has been surrounded by Hollywood folks who push deep state CIA agendas.
After One Fine Day, with fellow Katselas alum Michelle Pfeiffer, Clooney ‘landed the role’ (wink wink) in the Joel ‘I’ve slept with 20,000 people’ Schumacher film Batman and Robin.
It’s also worth noting that Clooney’s Batman director every-day-a-new-sex-partner-Joel-Schumacher went on to direct other films with the assistance of the DOD (A Time to Kill) and the CIA (Bad Company). Similarly, the first of Schumacher’s Batman films stars Tommy Lee Jones is the cousin of Chase Brandon, the CIA’s first formal entertainment liaison officer.
Cozy, isn’t it?
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, another Miramax movie, is an adaptation of the cult memoir of Chuck Barris, a game show host who was actually CIA.
Recall the fact that Clooney’s dad Nick was a TV game show host, who got his start in the US army, went on to journalism and now works alongside Clooney meddling on the African continent (getting a little ahead of myself here but you get the point).
Much like the CIA sponsored overt propaganda piece The Recruit, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind shows The Farm (the CIA’s semi-secret agent training facility) and just like in The Recruit, the protagonist is being inducted and initiated into that covert world.
The Men Who Stare at Goats was such a natural next…
Loosely based on Jon Ronson’s book of the same name, The Men Who Stare at Goats is about the esoteric and occult in relation to spy craft.
It tells the story of a journalist who is inducted into the world of psychic soldiers during the Iraq war.
The movie goes on to explain some of the history behind the First Earth Battalion, an experimental Pentagon unit, the film leaves out only by name MKULTRA and similar CIA projects and experiments with these very aims.
In the film, Kevin Spacey plays the CIA head of essentially the MK Ultra division, specializing in trafficking in secrets and so-called human potential, and is described as a failed fiction writer in a not so subtle nod to L. Ron Hubbard, the founded of Scientology.
It was shortly after this film, in 2010, that the now Oscar winner Clooney was invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations, for anyone who doesn’t know, is an elite power structure, filled with unelected journalists and Hollywood and Silicon Valley shills who in lock step with the State Department make foreign policy decisions, completely outside the purview and checks and balances of the democratic process. I mentioned all these people are unelected, right? Just checking.
At the same time he was dipping his toes into the CFR cesspool, he also became involved with John Prendergast, noted Soros funded, deep state agent who fomented genocide in Rwanda.
It was at this point that Hollywood actor George Clooney became “an expert” on the subject of and deeply involved in the politics and wars on the African continent.
Next Came the Underage Sex Parties, Naturally
It was also in 2010 when George attended parties with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berusconi, described as elite orgies where male guests dressed as nuns and preformed stripteases, and where Berlusconi is accused of raping a minor. George was called as a witness in Silvio’s Berlusconi’s rape trial in Milan for paying an underage prostitute for sex.
Berlusconi is accused of paying cash and jewels to have underage girls, very likely trafficked for sex from all we’re now learning from unsealed Epstein documents, at his so-called “Bunga Bunga” parties in 2010. Parties that newly minded CFR member Clooney also attended.
Hope for Haiti Now
The deeper you dig the more you understand that 2010 was Clooney’s year zero. Remember when Clooney, alongside Mockingbird Anderson Vanderbilt Cooper, in the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, organized a telethon called Hope for Haiti Now, raising over $60 million dollars that was funneled to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the UN, OxFam and the Red Cross and not a dime reached Haiti? Cause the cabal remembers. This, my fair-hearted friends, is their love language; stealing from the poor and giving to the rich….
In exchange for using his cult of celebrity to control what people believe is happening there, George Clooney is in fact being paid by the world’s top two war profiteers, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, to oppose war profiteering by Africans disloyal to the U.S. government’s agenda…
Clooney’s wife, incidentally, works for U.S.-friendly dictators and brutal killers in places like Bahrain and Libya…
Let’s end where we began, those 276 Stratfor emails mentioning Clooney, and wondering why an intelligence publisher working on behalf of the military industrial complex and the US government was keeping such close tabs on a Hollywood actor.
Remember, Startfor works on behalf of factions of the US Government as well as major military industrial complex companies, such at Boeing and Lockheed. Understand, that why there are 276 Stratfor files on Clooney is because they are tracking a government and MIC asset.
more here:
https://tiffanyfitzhenry.com/deep-dives/behind-the-illusion-george-clooney/
Liberal Party leader David Steel commented, ”Anyone disposed to cause mischief might be tempted to suggest that the Hanson bid was given the all clear as a ‘thank you’ for Lord Hanson’s role in the Westland affair.”
Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (Lord Hanson’s position) [MT would wish to see Hanson letter to Wyatt] [declassified Feb 2016]
Lord Hanson was unafraid of accusations of nepotism, appointing his Eton and Oxford-educated, polo-playing son Robert to the industrial conglomerate’s board in 1992 at the age of 31. The appointment, after years of speculation about the group’s succession, sent Hanson’s shares into reverse.
Lord Hanson also gave a board position to his niece’s husband, Christopher Collins. Robert, whose previous career included a spell at the merchant bank NM Rothschild, was put in charge of Hanson’s search for expansion opportunities in the Far East. In 1995, he became corporate development director, replacing Mr Collins who moved up to become vice-chairman. He remains in the same post at the Hanson rump following the recent demerger.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/concern-as-sportswear-boss-gives-son-top-job-1237400.html
MEGADEALER FOR THE ROTHSCHILDS
1988
Lord Hanson and Robert Maxwell
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/magazine/meagdealer-for-the-rothschilds.html?pagewanted=all
James Hanson first served as a Territorial with the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment at Halifax, he was called up in 1939, and commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps. For a time he was an announcer on Forces radio. Demobbed in 1946, he joined his father’s company.
James Hanson was knighted in 1976, in the notorious honours list compiled for Harold Wilson by his secretary Marcia Williams (later Lady Falkender) on lavender notepaper.
His support for her preferred rescue plan for Westland Helicopters cost his company some £6 million. Mrs Thatcher returned the admiration, citing Hanson’s American interests as a model of what British companies could achieve abroad. He was created a peer in 1983.
When in London, Lord Hanson worked long hours in his relatively austere headquarters overlooking the gardens of Buckingham Palace. But later he would spend several months of each year at a second home in Palm Springs, California, whence he continued to run his empire from a poolside telephone.
He enjoyed the trappings of great wealth – his Bentley carried the numberplate JH 1 – and occasionally moved in celebrity social circles, hosting parties for Frank Sinatra and giving the Duchess of York helicopter-flying lessons as a wedding present. But he also placed a high value on family life and privacy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1475684/Lord-Hanson.html
James Hanson was Thatchers favourite industrialist.
Big fundraiser.
Who was responsible for fundraising again. Lord Mc (Alpine) wasn’t it.
Secret Neil Hamilton backers named
18 June 2001
Several high profile businessmen and politicians were yesterday revealed as secret backers of Neil Hamilton’s disastrous “cash for questions” libel action against the Harrods owner, Mohamed Al Fayed.
Father and son: Mohamed and Karim at the gallery
Father and son: Mohamed and Karim at the gallery
The business tycoon Lord Hanson, and Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, the company set up by the former Tory party treasurer, and the Duke of Devonshire, a former Tory minister, were all named in the high court by lawyers acting for Mr Fayed, (another friend of paedophile Michael Jackson) who is demanding Mr Hamilton’s backers pay a contribution towards his outstanding £1.3m costs bill.
At discreet meetings in the flat of the pro-Thatcher businessman James Hanson, McAlpine effected the introductions to Reece and an aide of Lord Thorneycraft.
link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe…l-1597826.html
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/busin…tory-1-3230124
http://www.allstarpics.net/pic-galle…anson-pics.htm
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
Lord Alistair McAlpine, who was at the centre of the child abuse scandal in the UK, is listed in convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2015/01/epsteins-black-book-names-listed.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
Lord Hanson with his son Mark Hanson at a celebrity party 6th July 2004 hosted by broadcaster Sir David Frost in Chelsea
A Ruthless Operator
With charm, good looks and fearsome entrepreneurial rigour, Lord Hanson was both loved and loathed by many, but rarely ignored.
He regularly drank whisky with Lady Thatcher, with whom he shared a strong mutual admiration, was once engaged to Audrey Hepburn and supported the disgraced MP, Neil Hamilton.
With an estimated personal fortune of £50 million, Lord Hanson was used to attracting attention and controversy. He was a swashbuckling entrepreneur who built up a £6 billion empire and a reputation as a ruthless asset-stripper. He was knighted by Harold Wilson in 1976 and made a life peer in 1983.
The business which bears his name, which he formed in 1965 with Lord White, reached the height of its success in the 1980s and became a symbol for British boom.
Lord Hanson was one of the largest Conservative Party donors during Thatcher’s leadership and an outspoken Eurosceptic. He was a founding member of the anti-EU organisation Business for Britain and a member of the Eurosceptic thinktank, the Bruges Group.
Known for his fastidious attention to his appearance, he was a striking figure, at 6ft 4ins, and both his dress and his office conveyed an old-fashioned grandeur. A fan of controversial causes, he notably supported the disgraced Conservative MP Neil Hamilton, who lost his libel case against Mohamed Fayed and The Guardian over “cash for questions” allegations.
For three decades, Hanson plc was one the most feared corporate predators in London and New York, taking in chemicals, energy, tobacco and much else.
Keen on quoting Napoleon, Lord Hanson used one of his hero’s sayings, “Circumstances? What are circumstances? I make my circumstances” as a business motto. He once explained his allegiances by saying: “Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.”
As a young man, Hanson had a reputation as a playboy and was one of the founding members of the exclusive nightclub Annabelle’s.
He met Audrey Hepburn at a reception when he was 28 and they dated for two years before she cancelled their wedding in 1952.
He recently said of the broken engagement: “It was a strange situation. My mother had got the 50 chickens ready for the wedding reception and we had all the presents, but the fact was Audrey just did not want to get married at the time.”
In 1959 he married the former model Geraldine Kaelin, an American divorcee. She died of leukaemia in February at the age of 75 after 45 years of marriage.
The couple had a son Robert, now 43, and adopted a son, Brook, now 40. Lady Hanson previously had a daughter, Karyn. They had homes in Palm Springs, California, and Knightsbridge, west London.
James Hanson was born in Huddersfield, the son of a haulier, Robert Hanson. In his youth he served in the Second World War.
Lord Hanson retired as chairman of Hanson Turst in 1997 at the age of 75. Two weeks ago he suffered a fall at his home and had to cancel a lecture and lunch in Leeds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1475618/A-charming-ladies-man-but-a-ruthless-operator.html
Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, threw a party in 1972 that was so different; it still inspires the dark theory that behind the doors of their mansions, the ultra rich are occultists engaged in unspeakable acts of Evil.
Marie-Hélène’s “Surrealists Ball” was held on December 12, 1972, and its combination of opulence and elaborate, odd imagery is said to have inspired the ritual orgy scenes of Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT.
One of the party’s attendees, aristocrat and banker Alexis von Rosenberg, documented the party, and conspiracy theorists maintain that his photos and descriptions are hard evidence of the occult customs of the top levels of the Illuminati.
Audrey Hepburn at Rothschild occult party.
http://www.blumhouse.com/2016/04/14/a-secret-look-inside-the-creepiest-celebrity-party-ever/
1972 Rothschild Illuminati Ball
The Baroness Hanson, wife of the City legend and corporate raider, the Baron Hanson, died 22 February, 2004, in hospital in Los Angeles. She had been suffering from leukaemia.
Lady Hanson had been the wife of the life peer since 1959. The former Geraldine Kaelin, daughter of Mrs S. Kaelin, of East 76th Street, New York, she was a slightly-built, dark haired American divorcee when she met the then James Hanson in the late 1950s.
The swashbuckling playboy millionaire had been engaged in the fifties (for 354 days) to Audrey Hepburn, and had courted the actress Jean Simmons. Geraldine Kaelin bore more than a passing resemblance to Miss Hepburn.
She married – aged 25- the Yorkshire-born James Hanson, then 36, at Upper Agbrigg Register Office, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on 17 January, 1959.
She was the mother of two sons, Robert and Brook, and had a daughter Karyn from a previous marriage. (Karyn took the surname Hanson and was married 20 years ago to C. Cheever Hardwick III, of New York.)
Lady Hanson was _a small, elegant woman who dressed in Chanel or
Valentino when she was being casual. She was a private person with a charming public warmth. Most of her time was devoted to her family and running their homes in London, Berkshire, Florida and California_.
The Today newspaper in 1991 said that at Lady Hanson’s dinner parties the food was served by numerous servants and the grub was devoured with gold-plated cutlery.
Her husband was knighted in 1976 (in Harold Wilson’s infamous
resignation honours) and raised to a life barony in 1983.
The funeral service takes place at St Margaret’s Church, Palm Desert, California, Thursday 4 March, 2004.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/7MwU_6cj_aE
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I think you want to get your facts right!! There never was a home in the South of France they always stayed at the hotel du Cap. The House in Palm Springs was Norwood West. Fifi was Fiona and a great friend of both Lord and lady Hanson. Lady Hanson liked a glass of wine but was not, not an alcoholic. Robert is the natural son of Lord and Lady Hanson, it is Brook who was adopted and Lady Hanson`s daughter is called Karen. Lady Hanson always spoke with a gentle American accent and I never saw Gregory Peck. I was Lord and Lady Hanson`s butler and personal chef for 15 years.
kimber cottageJul 20, 2008
James Hanson married Geraldine, and they are now both deceased. They had homes in the South of France, Palm Springs (Las Palmas Area), and in the UK (Kimber Cottage). FiFi was a young lady, similar in looks to Audrey Hepburn, whom was a “friend” of the family”, though Lady Hanson did not care for her much at all! Geraldine suffered from alcoholism which she tried to keep hush. They have one adopted son “Robert” and his half-brother “Brook”, and “Susan” if I recall, was Geraldine`s daughter`s name. Geraldine was born in New Jersey, but spoke with a british accent! The Hanson`s had celebrity friends, including Margaret Thatcher, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Sydney Sheldon, and Kirk Douglas.
Tory baron’s mistress reveals all
The late industrialist, one of the largest Tory party donors during the Margaret Thatcher years and whose marriage to American divorcee Geraldine Kaelin lasted 45 years, enjoyed a clandestine affair with Seventies pin-up Francoise Pascal.
Now almost 40 years after their liaison, the Mind Your Language actress, whose other lovers include actors Warren Beatty and Sir Michael Caine, speaks out about their trysts for the first time in her forthcoming memoirs, As I Am.
Lord (James) Hanson, who died in 2004 aged 82, met Mauritius-born Francoise when she was 22 at a dinner party she attended as David Niven Junior’s date.
Hanson, who was once engaged to Audrey Hepburn, slipped her his contact details, but it was not until their second encounter at Francoise’s flat that the pair consummated their bond.
‘James was always very cautious how he ate. I guess he needed to have some room for his dinner with Lady Hanson.’
After the affair ended, Francoise adds: ‘We kept in touch for a while but he had to be careful because of his political career, his business and his wife.’
Freemason Lord Hanson
Although most businessmen keep their Freemasonry secret, a few openly admit it. Sir Michael Richardson, chairman of the stockbroker Smith New Court and adviser to many powerful businessmen including Lord King and Lord Hanson, is one.
Society shock as Lord Hanson’s eligible son Robert finally settles down
It is an announcement that London society had almost given up hope of hearing: Robert Hanson, the 49-year-old son and heir of the late Lord Hanson, is to marry.
Lord Hanson’s eligible son Robert is engaged to Masha Markova, a Russian former model
Mandrake can disclose that the seemingly perennial bachelor is engaged to Masha Markova, a Russian former model 25 years his junior.
Hanson, whose industrialist father was a close ally of Margaret Thatcher, numbers Martine McCutcheon, the former EastEnders actress, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (also listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book), the televison presenter, and Sophie Anderton, the model, among his previous girlfriends. Although Masha may be young enough to be his daughter, she is no ingénue.
Two years ago, she declared publicly that she planned to sue Lindsay Lohan, the hard-living Hollywood actress, after the reported loss of a £5,000 mink coat. Masha, who was still a student, said she would take the legal action against the 23-year-old star of Mean Girls after her coat, which was a gift from her grandmother, disappeared during a party the pair attended at the 10ak nightclub in New York.
Masha’s lawyer alleged that Lohan was later pictured wearing the coat and, when it was finally returned, Markova complained that it smelled of “cigarettes and liquor”. The New York state court filing added that Lohan’s actions were “intentional, oppressive and malicious and carried out with reckless disregard”. Lohan settled out of court.
Hanson’s father, incidentally, was once engaged to Audrey Hepburn. The wedding, planned for 1952, was postponed and then cancelled, amicably, after work on her film Roman Holiday overran.
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Peter Pan of Posh
The ‘playboy’ eldest son of industrialist Lord Hanson, is famed for his fondness of life in the fast lane and was, until recently, a seemingly permanent fixture on the London party circuit and a regular at society and royal events.
His own parties are legendary.
Texan model and heiress Normandie Keith – now married to Hanson’s best friend Lucas White – is an old flame, as is It-Girl Tara Palmer Tomkinson. He was briefly engaged to the troubled underwear model Sophie Anderton and dated Lord Halpern’s daughter Jenny, and Lord Baybrooke’s daughter Cazzy, now the Countess of Derby.
His more unusual past amours include former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon, native American model Brenda Schad and Waffa Bin Laden, would-be pop diva and niece of Osama.
This year, the 44-year-old was seen squiring stunning blonde and wealthy Russian socialite Victoria Smirnoff, his guest at the Grand Prix in Monaco, Chicago-born model Kat Mack and, more recently, actress Anouska de Georgiou, 26, daughter of a multimillionaire financier.
Quite the womaniser, then, is Robert Hanson. Yet as he grew older and the girlfriends grew younger, friends nicknamed him ‘The Peter Pan of Posh’ because of his apparent refusal to grow up – something which reportedly drove his exasperated parents at times to despair of him.
But now, with the death of his father from cancer at the age of 82, there has been a profound shift in Robert’s gilded life – and not only because he has become even richer.
He, his adopted brother Brook, 40, and half- sister Karyn, 50 – his mother’s daughter from her first marriage – who were all at Lord Hanson’s side when he died at his mansion near Newbury in Berkshire on Monday, are expected to share an estate worth close to [pounds sterling]50 million.
Lord Hanson’s [pounds sterling]4 million winter mansion in Palm Springs, California, the Mail can reveal, is already technically owned by Robert, presumably to avoid inheritance taxes, and there are also homes in Berkshire and Knightsbridge which form part of the estate.
However, the question being whispered among his circle is: will he carry on being the ultimate ladies’ man – merely richer and even more spoilt for choice – or will the loss of both his parents in the space of just eight months force him to grow up?
One of Lord Hanson’s friends in California, Dr Frank Ercoli,…
Robert used to run with a Brit pack of party animals, including actress Liz Hurley, and socialised with Princess Diana’s lover Dodi Fayed
In 1959, he married American divorcee Geraldine Kaelin, a part-time model who was working as a buyer at a New York department store and struggling to bring up her five-year-old daughter Karyn. Robert was born the following year. In 1964, they adopted a second son Brook.
And what of Robert’s current on/off girlfriend, actress Anouska de Georgiou, whose bedroom scene in the new film Alfie is the talk of the town? She was discovered as a model aged 17 while at a party at Robert Hanson’s home
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-124278635/peter-pan-of-posh
June 13, 2005
Seven months after his death at the age of 82, Hanson’s son Robert hopes to enshrine the peer’s memory by closely overseeing a biography of his late father.
‘By supervising an authorised book about his father, he is rather hoping it will dissuade any muckrakers intent on digging up scandal from doing likewise.’
According to friends, Old Etonian Robert, 44, who inherited his father’s playboy style, is preparing to pay an American writer who knew his father to pen the biography.
‘Robert will then hawk it around publishers because he is keen not to have any interference,’ I am told. ‘This way he can ensure there are no negative bits in the book.’ I understand that interviews with many of Lord Hanson’s friends, including Lady Thatcher – with whom he shared late night glasses of whisky – and former British Airways chief Lord King, are now being planned.
A spokesman for Robert confirmed that the biography is on the cards.
Hanson Brought to Book
Daily Mail (London), June 13, 2005
Lord Hanson, a close friend of Lord King
From Russia with Love: A Mystery Tour
Daily Mail (London), September 20, 2005
HE IS a young man whose playboy image has always been fuelled by his own fortune. So it was no surprise when a legion of his many friends were whisked away on a glossy mystery tour.
The 45th birthday that Robert Hanson was marking was hardly a milestone, but as they boarded a private jet at Luton Airport at the weekend, his 90 guests – who included the Hollywood star Val Kilmer and singer Dannii Minogue – knew that he has long been a generous host.
They were flown to the Black Sea resort of Alushta in the Ukraine, where an armed police escort was on hand to ensure their two days of celebrating could not be interrupted by anything so mundane as a traffic jam. Once settled in their comfortable hotels, the guests were entertained by an army band, musicians from the famous Bolshoi Theatre and Cossack dancers.
Curiously, what many of Hanson’s guests did not know was that the real host of the weekend was someone else. In fact, the party was financed by a former KGB agent who has become fabulously wealthy in the new Russia and who accommodated the group in his own hotel.
He is Alexander Lebedev, the forty something son of a university professor, who now owns the Russian National Reserve Bank and 30 per cent of the former state airline, Aeroflot.
So just why would Robert Hanson accept so much hospitality? ‘He certainly found it quite amusing that the Russians were so deferential to him,’ a friend tells me.
Actress and model Lisa B – wife of property tycoon Anton Bilton – who was among the revellers, says: ‘I am exhausted. It was a fantastic weekend.
We stayed at a fabulous hotel and we had a great time.’ Other guests included Lucas White, the son of Lord Hanson’s business partner, Lord White; the Duke of Marlborough’s son, Edward Spencer-Churchill; hotelier Sir Rocco Forte; and party animals Tim Jeffries and Nicky Haslam.
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-136419640/from-russia-with-love-a-mystery-tour
In January, Mr Hanson returned to his Huddersfield roots to launch a new business venture with storage specialist pH Europe offering specialist plastic crates, boxes and pallets to small and medium-sized businesses.
“It fits into the international story of where we’re going,” Mr Hanson says. “A few years ago, we, as a company, decided to become more international and because my brother and I lived for six years in Hong Kong…we picked China as the place we wanted to expand.” Asia is a huge focus for Mr Hanson who is in the process of buying a Chinese speciality chemicals business, Sinojie Hanson, of which his company currently owns 42 per cent. He is also looking to build a logistics business in China by setting up another joint venture. “The British economy can’t compete and I don’t want to just sit here and try and find customers, I actually want to have businesses and develop them,” Mr Hanson says. “Quite a lot of my time is spent in Asia setting things up and then I leave it to other people to run.” Hanson Family Holdings also includes a group of financial services companies. In 1998 Mr Hanson founded Hanson Capital to capitalise on his worldwide network of close relationships with high net worth individuals. In 2006 Hanson Westhouse was formed by linking Hanson Capital and Westhouse Securities but Mr Hanson switched his allegiance in 2009, selling his 20 per cent stake in Westhouse to form a joint venture investment bank with Strand Partners called Strand Hanson. Mr Hanson says his group of companies has weathered the recession well due to their diversity. He made an early decision in 2008 to sell the delivery business, Home Delivery Network. “We couldn’t figure out whether it was going to be a stupid decision or a brave decision but we sold that business and cut our business in two. It proved very successful,” he says. As a result, Mr Hanson says the businesses avoided making redundancies and instead concentrated on reducing costs, mainly those associated with the Home Delivery Network operation. Now he is looking to build up his portfolio by buying other companies in the chemicals, packaging, logistics or freight forwarding sectors, which will complement the existing businesses.
He grew up in Huddersfield until the age of five when the family, including his brother, Brook, and sister, Karyn, moved to Berkshire.
Mr Hanson was sent to boarding school from the age of eight and was educated at Eton followed by St Peter’s College, Oxford. After graduating he became a banker at N M Rothschild & Sons where he worked initially in London and later at its subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Chile and Spain. In 1990, he joined the family firm becoming a main board director in 1992 responsible for strategy, mergers, acquisitions and disposals. However, he was involved in one of the group’s most high profile mistakes with the attempted takeover of chemical group ICI in 1990 when it bought a 2.8 per cent stake in the firm. Although a formal bid was never made, ICI launched a desperate defence, which severely dented the Hanson empire his father had built.
Mr Hanson resigned from the public company at the end of 1997, after his father broke up the business, to chair Hanson Transport Group, now Hanson Family Holdings.
Lady Geraldine Hanson
Her memorial is the Hanson House Foundation she set up, which looks after victims of accidents.’
Hanson House is a “home away from home” for the loved ones of critically ill and injured hospitalized patients. We also serve the needs of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatment, parents of newborn babies critically ill in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), military families from the Marine base at Twenty Nine Palms and all families of First Responders. Our services are provided at low or no cost. No one is turned away because of an inability to pay.
Frank R. Ercoli, M.D., FACS, Medical Director of Trauma and Critical Care Services at Desert Regional Medical Center conceived and developed the idea to create a place that provided comfort and care to the families of those patients being cared for in the intensive care units of local hospitals. Dr. Ercoli met project benefactor Lord James Hanson, a British industrialist and part-time resident of Palm Springs. Lord Hanson made a very generous seed donation to start the fund for the facility that is now named for him.
Shock death of tycoon Lord Hanson’s adopted son in Belgravia bar
When he was adopted as a child by Margaret Thatcher’s favourite businessman Lord Hanson, Brook Hanson entered a glamorous world where top-level business met high politics.
Sadly, the dashing blond previously seen as one of society’s most eligible bachelors has died suddenly of a suspected heart attack at his local pub in Belgravia, London, to the great shock of fellow regulars.
‘It is very sad,’ says one drinker who witnessed his death at the Duke of Wellington in Eaton Terrace. ‘Brook was a much-loved figure at the pub.’
The death of Brook, whose buccaneering father was once engaged to Audrey Hepburn, came a month after he turned 50 and the party he had hoped for failed to materialise.
Ten years ago, his 40th birthday celebrations were a lavish affair held at the London townhouse of his brother, Robert Hanson, 53, whose ex-girlfriends include former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon, It-girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and model Sophie Anderton.
Friends such as Lady Eloise Anson, daughter of the late royal photogapher Lord Lichfield, had toasted Brook with champagne and presented him with a camera-shaped cake to reflect his love of photography.
‘Brook had become increasingly disillusioned and reclusive after his on/off affair with an Italian socialite foundered,’ says a friend. ‘He had given up drinking and put on a lot of weight, while his hair turned grey.’
His last dinner party in March ended in disaster when the ‘friend’ he had sent out to buy wine from the nearby Duke of Wellington absconded, pocketing the cash.
‘There was a very curious collection of people there, with whom I can’t imagine he had much in common,’ says one guest. ‘I got the impression he was not having fun.’
Since his parents’ deaths and Robert’s move to Los Angeles in 2010 following his marriage to Masha Markova, a Russian model 25 years his junior, there was no one close to offer support. Friends and family will gather for a memorial service at St Paul’s Church in Knightsbridge next month.
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Investment analyst Chin Tong Securities, 1985, James Capel Pacific, Tokyo, 1989. Marketing agent Science Exploration Society, since 1994.
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1983
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1985
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1989
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“After leaving Pangbourne Brook wanted to join the Army but failed his Army Officer Selection Board. He went into banking and worked for Rothschilds Bank in Hong Kong for about six years before returning to London. Sometime after this he studied photography in London and became a professional photographer.Outside of work, Brook had a talent for learning languages and learnt Italian and Japanese and apparently could recite Haiku which is difficult for non Japanese. Ten years ago both his parents and sister passed away in a short space of time, which affected him deeply.”
Lady Hanson
GERALDINE Hanson, American wife of Huddersfield-born business tycoon Lord Hanson, died from leukaemia in a hospital in Los Angeles on February 22.
A memorial service will be held in London in June, led by the Hansons’ close friend, the Archbishop of York.
The couple had a son Robert, a daughter Karyn, and an adopted son, Brook.
Hanson once had a reputation as an international playboy, but his engagement to Audrey Hepburn in the 1950s fell apart over whether her career or marriage should come first. He met New Jerseyborn Geraldine on a U.S. business trip.
Hanson married Geraldine Kaelin, whom he met in New York, in 1959.
16th May 1996
Lord Hanson, launched a withering attack on “destructive journalism” and accused tabloid and broadsheet newspapers alike of lurid disclosures of the private lives of even minor politicians and public figures.
“Of course he had critics, because he had strong political views. He was very much against the idea of nationalisation and one of Margaret Thatcher’s earliest supporters.”
Tory Party leader Michael Howard said Lord Hanson would be greatly missed.
Mr Howard said: “James Hanson will be remembered as one of the great British industrialists of recent times who played a leading role in the economic regeneration of Britain.”
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/tycoon-lord-hanson-dies-82-5084634
Daily Mail (London), June 9, 1997
Tory leadership candidates launch cocktail party offensives to win over wavering MPs.
MICHAEL HOWARD:
Venue: Former Treasury Minister Jonathan Aitken’s opulent house in Lord North Street.
Drinks: Laurent-Perrier champagne provided by party host, multi-millionaire Lord Hanson.
Food: Posh canapes.
Guests: List of 150 includes financier Sir Evelyn Rothschild, advertising guru Lord Saatchi, Viscount Astor and columnist Woodrow Wyatt.
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-110827297/it-s-party-time-ken-is-ale-and-hearty-as-he-and-his
Mr Howard, who is backed by a number of senior MPs and the millionaire businessman Lord Hanson.
Howard’s Camp Fizzes with Fury as Hague Kills Champagne Pact; a Champagne Toast to Pact with Howard . . . but the Young Pretender Changes His Mind at Breakfast
Daily Mail (London), May 7, 1997
While at Oxford, Robert Hanson was a member of the Assassins dining club, a riotous body of very rich young men.
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-111430841/hanson-s-heir-finds-love-with-no-reservations
Pigs’ heads on stakes and a burning map
Another party I went to was a lot smaller – and a lot darker.
It was hosted by the Assassins, another of these elite Oxford drinking societies.
We had to go meet in a park-and-ride on the outskirts of Oxford. We were given a map, which we had to use to drive to the location.
When we arrived the maps were taken from us by people dressed in robes and they performed a ceremonial burning of the map.
There were flaming torches at either side of the entrance gate and two stakes with pigs’ heads mounted on them. There were more stakes with pigs’ heads by the bar.
It sounds exotic but, in Oxford, the covered market has a stall which always has pigs’ heads for sale, so I presume they bought them there.
So, we drove in and parked up. It was at the top of a hill where there was similar music to the other party.
But they made much more of an effort to make it seem mysterious and cryptic. The members were wearing weird robes, looking like a cross between monks and Death.
Someone was wearing a long gown and the mask from the Scream film.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/night-piers-gaveston-society-elite-6486118
The Evening Standard reported that the so-called Assassins club carried out some of Oxford University’s most debauched behaviour in the ’80s.
A court case in 1982 heard that 19 members of the club went to the Thatcher’s pub in Thame (above, now just The Thatch), where they went through 57 bottles of vintage wine and took part in such drinking games as “Drink if your public school cost less than £3,000 a year” and “Drink if your family name became double-barrelled during the last 100 years”.
Members were seen “vomiting and urinating in the garden, smashing plates on walls, and trying to burn tablecloths, causing £600 in damage.”
Robert Hanson, who was there, told the Standard: “I was there on the night, covered in pink blancmange. So I remember it well.”
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Beatbox77Mar 28, 2013
Why was that comment removed about Lady Hanson being a drunk and jealous of Lord Hanson’s “ladies”?