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.ht@Eye5W1de0pen ml
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/06/trump-hunt-johnson-proctor-epstein.html
Jeffrey Epstein ‘gave Bill Gates advice on how to end his ‘toxic’ marriage to Melinda during dozens of ‘men’s club’ meetings at pedophile’s NYC home’, claims new report
The two men were ‘very close’, according to the source
@kirbysommers
… we have two Presidents who were thisclose with Jeffrey Epstein, a child sex trafficker, and both are allowed to keep going like nothing happened.
Former New Mexico Democratic Governor Bill Richardson is accused of raking in hundreds of thousands in bribes and kickbacks to fund debauched lifestyle including ‘sexual services and favors’
- Bill Richardson has been accused of running a scheme in which he raked in over $100k of dollars in bribes while in office
- Richardson, 72, served as Governor for New Mexico from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2010
- According to a recently unsealed legal complaint obtained by DailyMail.com, Richardson used the money to fund a luxury and debauched lifestyle
- His lifestyle allegedly included ‘sexual services and favors’ funded by the scam dubbed the ‘Richardson Ring’
- The lawsuit claims that Governor Richardson was able to place his trusted ‘operatives’ in state government jobs to cover-up his wrongdoing
- Richardson, a career politician, was previously accused of having sex with Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts when she was underage, a claim he has denied
- Roberts named Richardson among several others as men Ghislaine Maxwell told her to have sex with in court documents
Former Nobel Committee chair Thorbjørn Jagland denied having met Jeffrey Epstein when asked by the current chairperson. An investigation by Norwegian business newspaper DN reveals Jagland was hosting Epstein and Bill Gates in his Strasbourg residence in 2013.
Oct 2, 2020
December 2019: Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Nobel Committee, had a question for the members of the committee. Queried by the Norwegian business daily DN, she asked whether they had ever had contact with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and well-connected financier.
Former chair Thorbjørn Jagland, by now a regular member of the committee, was among those answering no.
It turns out the answer was yes.
Not only did Jagland meet Epstein, he hosted him at his lavish residence in Strasbourg, France. At the time, Jagland was the sitting chair of the committee, which awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. Also present: a philanthropist touted as a possible Prize recipient.
One of the richest men of the world
As the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Jagland had his own residence, able to host several hundred guests. On the afternoon of March 27, 2013, Jagland hosted a small but exclusive group of very famous people.
One of those attending was Bill Gates, at the time the second-wealthiest man in the world and head of the largest charitable foundation in the world. Since leaving Microsoft a few years earlier, Gates had become a dedicated philanthropist. Having invested heavily to eradicate polio, he was among those mentioned as possible candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Also present were representatives of the think tank International Peace Institute (IPI), who later that year partnered with Gates’ foundation in the fight against polio.
In addition to Gates and his assistants, another financier was also present. A person well-known for his network of powerful people and accused of participating in trafficking and sexual abuse.
A convicted sex offender, why was Jeffrey Epstein present in Strasbourg?
Several million dollars
The Norwegian Business Daily (DN) has spoken to a number of sources familiar with the meeting in Strasbourg, and has reviewed documentation that ties Epstein to the meeting.
According to the sources, Gates and his assistants were already present when the representatives of IPI arrived. Epstein, who knew Gates, was the person that introduced the billionaire to IPI.
The meeting, where IPI introduced Gates to a polio eradication project, was to be very successful. Later the same year, Gates’ foundation granted IPI 2.5 million dollar. Since then, an addition 6 million dollars has followed, according to the foundation. The most recent grant was earlier this year, with an additional 250,000 dollars.
Served
The meeting, in March 2013, happened several years after Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting a prostitute, with a minor, as well as paying compensation to a number of women. A federal investigation had identified at least 36 victims, according to the Miami Herald.
As early as 2006 as the investigation of Epstein was under way, some politicians had returned money from Epstein. Later, in 2011, the British Prince Andrew was criticised for maintaining his friendship with Epstein. Last year, Prince Andrew stated he showed «poor judgment».
Despite the verdict, Epstein managed to re-enter the elite after serving his sentence. Last year, The New York Times reported that he kept being included among the powerful of New York City. Anchor Katie Kouric and Woody Allen attended dinner at his home in 2010. The following year he attended a party together with among others Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, founders of Amazon and Tesla respectively. Several notable institutions praised him and boasted of his achievements, including the prestigious Harvard university.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway met Epstein several times between 2011 and 2013. Last year, she apologised for not scrutinising his past more thoroughly. Former prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of Norway met Epstein at a dinner party in 2013, but declined to pursue funding from Epstein having found out about Epsteins past in a Google search.
Epstein had been suspected of a larger number of crimes than was included in his plea deal. Last year, he was arrested in the US, and charged with further crimes of trafficking and abuse. He was never charged, as he died in custody in August 2019. The coroners found he took his own life.
Jagland: Gates and Epstein arrived together
Last fall, DN published a number of articles on the connections between Epstein Norwegian contacts and IPI. Since then the Norwegian Auditor General has opened an investigation into the relationship between the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the think tank. IPI, which has received grants surpassing 130 million Norwegian krones, has several connections to Epstein.
During the last year, DN has asked Jagland a number of questions on his association of Epstein.
— There was no connection, of a financial or any other nature, to the Council of Europe. Any other Norwegian connections, which I understand the article will be about, I have no knowledge of, he wrote in an e-mail November 11, 2019.
After several inquiries this last week regarding new information about the meeting, Jagland confirmed that Gates and Epstein attended a meeting at his residence in March 2013, at an official meeting. According to him, Gates and Epstein arrived together.
Clare Bronfman Is Sentenced to 81 Months in Nxivm ‘Sex Cult’ Case
“Will you never stop?” a former member of the group asked Ms. Bronfman, a Seagram’s heir, who used her family fortune to intimidate critics of Nxivm, prosecutors say.
Sept. 30, 2020
Clare Bronfman discovered Nxivm in 2003. Nxivm gave her a sense of purpose, she wrote in court papers.
In the course of the next 15 years, she became part of the group’s executive board, even as Nxivm faced mounting criticism that it was an abusive cult that coerced women into sexual slavery. Tapping her fortune, Ms. Bronfman unleashed an army of lawyers and investigators to pursue Nxivm’s critics.
On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced Ms. Bronfman, 41, to six years and nine months in prison for her role in enabling what prosecutors said was a corrupt organization.
“I am troubled by evidence suggesting that Ms. Bronfman repeatedly and consistently leveraged her wealth and social status as a means of intimidating, controlling, and punishing” Nxivm’s enemies, said Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Ms. Bronfman was the first defendant to be sentenced in the Nxivm investigation, which has shattered the sunny facade of an organization that purported to help people achieve their personal goals through “executive success” workshops. Its leader, Keith Raniere, was convicted in June 2019 of racketeering, sex trafficking, fraud and other crimes.
The sentencing hearing lasted more than four hours. Nine victims of Nxivm spoke with emotion about how their lives had been destroyed by Ms. Bronfman, leaving behind ruined marriages, careers and reputations.
Some of them said Ms. Bronfman sued them relentlessly, drove them into bankruptcy and even persuaded local prosecutors to initiate criminal charges against them.
Former Nxivm members said Ms. Bronfman’s pattern of punishing dissenters made them feel incapable of leaving or reporting their abuse to law enforcement.
Ms. Bronfman even hired a company to search for private banking information for perceived enemies of Nxivm, including journalists, judges who oversaw Nxivm litigation and Senator Chuck Schumer, according to prosecutors.
Barbara Bouchey, an ex-girlfriend of Mr. Raniere who left Nxivm, said that even in recent weeks, Ms. Bronfman was still attempting to smear her reputation through litigation.
“You have not stopped damaging me,” Ms. Bouchey said, crying and turning to face Ms. Bronfman. “Will you never stop?”
Bronfman joined Nxivm in 2003 after hearing about the group from her sister and father Edgar Bronfman, the former chairman of the Seagram Company. Bronfman is believed to have used her family’s fortune to bankroll the cult. Pictured above in April 2019
Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman faces five years in prison when she is sentenced this week for role in NXIVM sex cult – a month after she vowed to stand by founder Keith Raniere, saying he ‘changed my life’
- Seagrams liquor heiress Clare Bronfman, 41, will be sentenced on Wednesday
- Prosecutors are asking she serve five years in jail for role in the Nxivm sex cult that posed as a self-help group led by Keith Raniere
- In April 2019 she pleaded guilty to conspiring to conceal and harbor illegal immigrants for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification
- The hearing will be the first time victims and former members of Nxivm will speak out to the judge by video and in-person statements
- Raniere was found guilty in 2019 of sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, human trafficking and racketeering charges including child sexual exploitation
Sept 26, 2020
@kirbysommers
Child trafficking crosses political lines and frankly every child trafficking scandal, such as The Finders, the Franklin case, and others has been connected to intelligence agencies. So it does not matter if BLUE or RED sits in the oval office.
…politicians, powerful & wealthy individuals, the royal family, and many others took part in & covered up the child sex abuse and trafficking of thousands of children.
Alarmingly, Belvoir Castle, where a cache of Proctor’s sex abuse paraphernalia, startlingly reminiscent of Robert Maxwell’s own collection, was recently discovered, is still the venue for
fund-raising events – a worrying safeguarding issue indeed!
more here:
https://twitter.com/ciabaudo/status/1307041017120645120
https://christinenegroni.com/should-epsteins-pilots-have-foiled-his-child-sex-trafficking-ring/
@VRSVirginia
The public only has a 1/4 of the flightlogs btw- Larry Visoski (Epstein’s main pilot) has the remainder of them, which is why I went to his gated community to ask him personally to hand over the rest of the flight logs. Guess what he said- I’ll let you figure that one out
@kirbysommers
Leslie Wexner wants the world to move on without any further talk of him having financed and created Jeffrey Epstein. So much so that ‘The Daily Mail’ is printing garbage like “a source” confirms Epstein’s money came from Robert Maxwell. Total nonsense.
Kevin Spacey sued for alleged sexual assault of two teenagers in 1980s
Actor Anthony Rapp and another man file suit against Hollywood star at Manhattan court
Sept 10, 2020
Actor Anthony Rapp and another man filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Kevin Spacey, accusing him of sexual assaults in the 1980s when they were teenagers.
Rapp, who starred in Rent on Broadway and in Star Trek: Discovery on TV, had first spoken out against the Oscar-winning Spacey in 2017, a decision that led to others speaking up and Spacey’s celebrated career coming to an abrupt end.
In the lawsuit, filed at the state supreme court in Manhattan, Rapp detailed what he has said publicly about Spacey: that the older actor made a sexual advance to him when Rapp attended a party as a teenager.
When Rapp first made the accusation, Spacey issued a statement saying he didn’t remember the encounter but apologised.
The other plaintiff, who goes by the initials CD, said that he met Spacey as a teenager while taking an acting class, and that Spacey invited him to his apartment on multiple occasions and engaged in sexual acts with him. In the lawsuit, the plaintiff said Spacey attempted to assault him sexually on his final visit.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
An email seeking comment was sent to Spacey‘s attorney.
Since the allegations started emerging, Spacey has been embroiled in other legal cases. Last October, prosecutors in Los Angeles rejected a sexual battery case because the accuser had died.
In July, prosecutors in Massachusetts dropped a case after the 18-year-old man who accused Spacey of groping him refused to testify.
The Associated Press does not normally name people alleging sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, as Rapp has done.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8491383/Palace-prank-thank-backfire-Prince-Andrew.html
@KirbySommers
The Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell pedophile ring.
The Franklin Scandal pedophile ring.
The Marc Dutroux aka the Belgium pedophile ring.
The Finders Cult.
The Hampstead SRA incident.
The above and others all originate out of military intelligence. Secret services.
Bain Capital, co-owned by Mitt Romney and who received seed capital from Robert Maxwell in 1984 owns our voting machines.
How Mitt Romney’s $250m fortune was built by two of England’s most disreputable business figures
- Newspaper boss Robert Maxwell and Guinness fraudster Jack Lyons invested millions is Republican’s first equity fund at Bain & Company
- Bain’s British office was subsequently caught up in Guinness scandal as advisers to the drinks firm
- Romney under pressure to release tax returns for the years before 2010 as Obama accuses him of profiteering from the destruction of companies
Lyons, who died in 2008, was one of the notorious ‘Guinness Four’ convicted for a massive share trading fraud in which they attempted to inflate the price of Guinness shares to assist a take-over bid for Scottish drinks company Distillers.
He was subsequently fined £4 million for theft and false accounting and stripped of his knighthood.
In 1984 Lyons, a former colleague of Mr Romney’s at Bain & Company, along with members of his family invested almost $3million in Mr Romney’s capital fund.
He then recruited Maxwell who invested $2 million in the fund.
Both Lyons and Maxwell kept money in tax havens and the latest revelations will be a blow to Romney whose financial career is increasingly being brought into question.
Around $12 million was invested by Bains partners including Mr Romney who is believed to have put up at least $160,000.
Among the funds other investors were families from El Salvador who were later linked to Right-wing ‘death squads’ who murdered thousands during the country’s civil war.
Peter Mandelson lives in a home owned by his friend Nat Rothschild (Mandelson is also close to Nat’s father, Jacob) Mandelson’s home adjoins Nat’s estate Pictured: The Rothschilds (Evelyn & Jacob are cousins), Mandelson & Jeffrey Epstein
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2
The Duchess of York’s involvement likewise proved useful.
More here:
https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1282515681502789633
‘Please don’t let the cat out of the bag’: Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team bid to keep pages of potentially embarrassing deposition secret, claiming it would stop her from having a fair trial
- Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers are trying to block the release of documents from her case against Virginia Roberts in 2016
- They say that ‘intimate’ information about Maxwell would ‘spread like wildfire’
- Maxwell denies charges of helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and abuse three girls
Steve Bannon’s links to Brexit: Indicted Trump aide is an ally of Nigel Farage and helped found Cambridge Analytica
- Bannon served as Donald Trump’s top White House adviser for almost two years
- He has championed the Leave movement in Britain and Eurosceptic parties
- He founded Cambridge Analytica, which is alleged to have had ties to Leave.EU
- The firm was accused to have harvested Facebook data during the Brexit vote
Aug 20, 2020
Steve Bannon trying to get on disgraced Jeffrey Epstein’s good side
August 11, 2018
Steve Bannon shared a secret meeting with reviled billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at the financier’s notorious Upper East Side mansion.
Former White House chief strategist Bannon was spotted stepping out of his SUV and entering the registered sex offender’s sprawling 21,000-square-foot mansion at 9 E. 71st St. shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday.
https://pagesix.com/2018/08/11/steve-bannon-trying-to-get-on-disgraced-jeffrey-epsteins-good-side/
Epstein’s Paris Apartment Employee Claims Steve Bannon Visited in 2018
According to Gabriel, Bannon visited Epstein in Paris in the fall of 2018.
Epstein victim alleges the financier showed her off to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14, lawsuit says
Aug 17, 2020
“‘This is a good one, right?’ Epstein asked the future president, who allegedly smiled and nodded,” the lawsuit states
Ruling involving Victoria’s Secret pioneer could spill more Jeffrey Epstein dirt
A federal judge Monday ordered the unsealing and release of correspondences from attorneys for celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Victoria’s Secret longtime owner Leslie Wexner in a defamation case that is likely to reveal more about the secretive life of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled Monday that there was no cause to conceal the legal requests and responses and set an Aug. 17 date for a hearing on whether the retail magnate Wexner can be forced to testify in a defamation case involving one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
Preska wrote that she saw “no reason for that correspondence to remain under seal,” and told the parties to file their respective letters on the public docket, which happened Monday afternoon. The documents show that Dershowitz alleges that Giuffre — who is suing him for defamation — is trying to extort money from him because of his relationship as a longtime friend to and lawyer for Epstein. And Dershowitz wants Wexner and his attorney John Zeiger to testify that they had privately settled a similar claim threatened by Giuffre.
These are interconnected. They involve the same ppl.
Danny Casolaro
Epstein’s co-conspirators from 2008 sweetheart deal with Florida prosecutors could be finally be named as appeals court rules to allow his victims to argue that their rights were violated by the agreement
- The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday vacated a ruling that upheld Epstein’s 2008 deal with Florida prosecutors
- It means now victims from that case may seek relief because, they say, prosecutors violated their rights by keeping the deal secret
- It could also open the door up to naming the co-conspirators the deal protected
- The deal protected three unnamed people who are alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein
- Victim Courtney Wild, who is fighting to void the sweetheart deal, said she ‘knew this day would come’
Featured here are the descendants and progeny of the ancient rape&pillage dynasty, who sprawled the earth and settled it on the bedrock of child rape. Every institution functioning now is their brainchild.
Their most successful rape&pillage branded businesses are church, state and banking. All their wealth has been stolen off the backs of others, as slave labor beginning more than 13K years ago, continuing today primarily in the sale of children of all ages, as sex commodities
Prostitution finances and gratifies their lifestyle, using OUR children as their gold and their drugs. The hebephiles like Andrew, Epstein and Trump are tip of the iceberg and form the largest percentage of predators.
But the pedophiles (prob Charles and vlad in addition to priests nuns and rabbis)… Poor families are their factories. Orphanages are their warehouses. Every decision they make is to acquire vulnerable children to serve themselves.
The broader prostitution n porn market is a convenient mass-market business that continues to finance their gold-plated world. War, poverty, psychological manipulation (religion) are their primary weapons against us.
Because their international presence includes leadership in East Asia and the Middle East. By now, almost every global leader has been compromised, and brought into the pedophile’s fold.
https://twitter.com/BoreDaily/status/1198263458497728512
Jeffrey Epstein Documents – Unsealed Thursday, July 30
https://www.scribd.com/document/470961991/Jeffrey-Epstein-Documents-Unsealed-Thursday-July-30
Bill Clinton was at Epstein’s island with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and “2 young girls.”
Ghislaine Maxwell slept with girls as young as 15 and trained victim as sex slave, newly unsealed documents claim
31 July 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell had orgies with girls as young as 15 on the private Caribbean island owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and trained one of her alleged victims as a “sex slave”, newly unsealed court documents claim.
Virgina Giuffre, who has accused both Epstein and Ms Maxwell of abusing her, said the former used his residence, dubbed “paedophile island”, to host orgies that were attended by young women who had been flown in from across Europe.
“There were blondes, there were brunettes, there were redheads. They were all beautiful girls. I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21,” Ms Giuffre alleges in court documents, made public by US District Judge Loretta Preska late on Thursday evening.
Ms Guiffre’s testimony dates back to a now-settled 2015 civil litigation against Ms Maxwell, who she claims procured young girls for Epstein to have sex with.
Ms Maxwell, the 58-year-old daughter of disgraced media tycoon Robert, has since been charged with aiding Epstein’s abuse of underage girls. She denies the charges and currently awaits trial in a New York prison following her arrest earlier this month.
Following an intense legal battle and a last minute attempt by Ms Maxwell’s legal team to have the documents suppressed, Judge Preska published a raft of documents on Thursday, stating: “The court finds that the countervailing interests identified fail to rebut the presumption of public access.”
Defence lawyers acting for Ms Maxwell had argued that publication of the documents would reveal embarrassing details of their client’s sex life.
In her 2015 testimony, Ms Guiffre alleged that Ms Maxwell “trained me as a sex slave”. She also claimed that she was pressured into having sex with a host of rich and powerful men, including Prince Andrew, who strenuously denies the allegations.
The documents also revealed that Ms Maxwell had been in contact with her former associate as late as 2015, appearing to contradict a claim made by her legal team that the pair had not spoken in a decade.
Court files show that Epstein composed an email that appears to have been written for Ms Maxwell to use as a statement in distancing herself from the disgraced financier, who took his own life in August 2019 while awaiting trial for a litany of sex offences.
The statement goes on to claim that media reports linking the pair and Ms Maxwell’s alleged crimes are inaccurate. They are “false allegations of impropriety and offensive behaviour that I abhor and have never been a party to,” Epstein wrote.
Ms Maxwell then wrote to Epstein on 24 January 2015 asking him to make public a relationship he allegedly had with a woman named “Shelley”. “I think she was [your girlfriend] from end 99 to 2002,” Ms Maxwell wrote.
It is unclear who Shelley is or whether Epstein had a relationship with her. Ms Maxwell was denied bail earlier this month and her trail has been scheduled for July 2021.
Court docs detail Maxwell’s ‘constant’ orgies with young girls on Epstein’s island
31 July 2020
Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell used his private Caribbean island to host “constant” orgies and once flew in a group of European models to fulfill their sexual fetishes, an Epstein accuser claimed in newly released court documents.
Virginia Giuffre, who has accused Epstein and Maxwell of abusing her, detailed the sex-obsessed world of the pair in a 2016 deposition in a civil case against Maxwell that was made public for the first time Thursday.
Giuffre testified that Maxwell had “continuous” sex with girls and women in front of her, some she believed were as young as 15.
“There’s just a blur of so many girls,” Giuffre told Maxwell’s attorneys when asked if she could name girls she saw Maxwell have sex with.
“There were blondes, there were brunettes, there were redheads. They were all beautiful girls. I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21.”
When asked where she saw Maxwell have sex with other women, Giuffre said “100 percent” the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned his private Little St. James Island
“The island was a place where orgies were a constant thing that took place. And again, it’s impossible to know how many,” Giuffre said.
She added she saw Maxwell have sex with women all over the island — by a pool, near the beachfront, in small huts and in Epstein’s cabana.
“One occasion stands out,” she said. “Models were — I think they were models — were flown in. There were orgies held outside by the pool.”
She said the girls were “beautiful, tall, some were blonde, some were sandy brown.”
The girls, she said, spoke in a European language she thought was either Russian or Czechoslovakian.
“Ghislaine, myself, Jeffrey, another girl in this blue, outdoor — I don’t know what you want to call it. Cabana, that … just a bed could fit in,” she added.
Giuffre added that she traveled to Europe with the pair on several occasions and was trafficked to rich and powerful men, including England’s Prince Andrew and high-powered attorney Alan Dershowitz.
Maxwell and Epstein constantly reminded her of the powerful people they knew to warn her not to aggravate them, Giuffre testified.
“Jeffrey did a lot more of that than she did. But she definitely made it aware that we shouldn’t cross boundaries with them,” she said.
The testimony was released as part of a huge cache of documents that were unsealed Thursday in a now-settled defamation suit that Guiffre brought against Maxwell.
Maxwell has been criminally charged with perjury for allegedly lying under oath in the depositions. She’s also charged with acting as a sex trafficker for Epstein and has pleaded not guilty.
Email between Epstein and Maxwell:
They were accused of running an sex trafficking scheme involving underage girls — but Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell she had nothing to worry about.
“You have done nothing wrong and I would urge you to start acting like it,” Epstein wrote Maxwell in Jan. 2015, as more allegations about Epstein’s depraved activities were becoming public.
“Go outside, head high, not as an escaping convict. Go to parties, deal with it.”
Epstein — a notorious namedropper — wrote in the email that he’d just spoken to a Swedish diplomat, Lisa Svensson, who was assigned to advocate ocean-related issues.
“She said no one on her ocean panel takes this stuff seriously and you would be welcome to the ocean conference water conference etc,” Epstein wrote.
The correspondence was disclosed in a trove of documents unsealed late Thursday over Maxwell’s ardent objections.
Dr. Lisa Svenson, Director for Ocean, at the UN Environment
Lisa Emelia Svensson
Lisa Emelia Svensson is the UN Environment’s ambassador for ocean, where she leads work on global ocean issues.
Ghislaine Maxwell loses ‘extraordinary’ last-minute appeal to stop release of ’embarrassing’ confidential documents
30 Jul, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell has lost a desperate last-minute appeal to stop “embarrassing” confidential documents from being released.
US District Judge Loretta Preska confirmed her ruling that the files must be unsealed and released to the public, despite Maxwell’s lawyers’ “extraordinary request” for her to reconsider.
Judge delays release of bombshell Ghislaine Maxwell court documents until at least next week after her legal team filed a last-minute appeal
- Sealed documents in Ghislaine Maxwell case were due to be made public today
- They contain potentially-incriminating testimony she gave to officials in 2015
- But judge blocked their release until at least next week after last-minute appeal
- Appeal allows Maxwell, who is being prosecuted by New York’s Southern District, to appeal to the Second District – which may keep testimony hidden
July 30, 2020
On Tuesday, a judge ordered five documents which are part of the seven-hour, 418 page-long deposition Maxwell gave in the now-settled lawsuit, to be made public.
Maxwell’s legal team were given a week to appeal against the decision on the ruling, that was made last week in a court hearing, however the judge upheld her decision and said the documents will be unsealed on Thursday.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12352042
Board of Trustees
Elizabeth M. Eveillard, Chairman
https://www.frick.org/about/trustees
Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard (Betty) grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts area. She graduated from Smith College in 1969 and after working for a year attended Harvard Business School. In 1972 she began a 30-year career in investment banking. Since retiring in 2003, Betty has served on a variety of for-profit and non-profit boards. She recently retired as Chair of the Board of Smith College. Presently she serves as the Chair of the Board of The Frick Collection.
Upon graduating from Harvard, she joined Lehman Brothers investment banking division where she rose to the level of Managing Director and Co-Head of the Merchandising Group. In 1988 she joined PaineWebber as a Managing Director, heading its Retailing Group until the firm was sold in 2000. She then joined Bear Stearns, retiring in 2003.
Over a 30-year career, Betty worked on a wide variety of transactions. At Lehman Brothers, in addition to working in the New York office, she spent three years with their London office. She also worked in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Department specializing on the sale of companies before becoming a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Merchandising Group. Betty acted as the retailing investment banker on transactions such as the IPO of Tiffany, the sale of Kohl’s Supermarkets to A&P and the sale of Associated Grocers of Arizona to Fleming.
In 1988, she joined PaineWebber to manage its Retailing Industry Group. For over 12 years, until PaineWebber was sold in 2000, she was responsible for client development. Her clients included Staples, Barnes & Noble, Petco, Men’s Wearhouse, Escada, Vestar and Investcorp. She advised family businesses such as St. John Knits and Spec’s Music in the sale of the companies. She represented Vestar in its later acquisition of St. John Knits and Investcorp in its acquisition of Star Markets. In 1999, Betty was featured in the PaineWebber annual report as the banker responsible for originating and strategizing the sale of Giant Foods of Washington to the Dutch supermarket operator, Ahold. This was one of the largest M&A transactions in PaineWebber history. After the sale of PaineWebber, Betty was recruited to Bear Stearns where she originated transactions with Limited Too, Carolee and Birks, among others.
Over the years, Wexner built a retailing and marketing conglomerate that included Victoria’s Secret, Pink (Victoria’s Secret for teens), Bath & Body Works, Henri Bendel, The White Barn Candle Company, and La Senza. Previous brands that were spun off include: Lane Bryant, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lerner New York, The Limited Too (now Tween Brands, Inc.), Structure 9, Aura Science, The Limited (which closed its brick-and-mortar stores while retaining its online presence), and Express (which closed its Canadian stores and hundreds of its US-based stores)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner
Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976
John Kerry was a Jeffrey Epstein “associate”. But, wait, there’s more.
Jeffrey Epstein ‘had another royal in infamous black book – the Queen’s nephew’
EXCLUSIVE: The Earl of Snowdon, widely known by his professional name David Linley, was in the paedophile’s list of contacts that includes Donald Trump and ex-US president Bill Clinton
One of the lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims wants to speak to everyone named in his infamous black book – including the Queen’s nephew David Armstrong-Jones.
The Earl of Snowdon, widely known by his professional name David Linley, was in the paedophile’s list of contacts.
The Earl is known as the royal carpenter due to his high-end furniture business Linley’s. His mother Margaret, the Queen’s sister, died in 2002 and he became the 2nd Earl of Snowdon after his father died in 2017.
The Earl, now set to divorce after more than 25 years of marriage, was picked by his first cousin Prince Charles as No2 in The Prince’s Foundation.
The appointment in 2018 raised eyebrows as he was chosen ahead of William and Harry.
A friend said: “David is very, very close to the Queen and Prince Charles. He goes to Sandringham at Christmas and Balmoral in the summer. He is George VI’s grandson and in the inner circle of royals.
He is also Mr Non-Grand Royal.
He turns up on his cycle in a high-vis jacket and gets mistaken for a warden. He is popular and social.”
His daughter Lady Margarita, 17, was a flower girl for the Duchess of Cambridge when she wed William.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeffrey-epstein-had-another-royal-22416534
@MrLilburne
June 13, 2004
Markets too tough for A Small World IPO
May 19, 2008
A Small World, the Facebook for jet-setters that counts model Naomi Campbell and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as members, said market turbulence was preventing it from listing shares in Europe.
GHISLAINE Maxwell would brag and claim she had connections to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at parties, insiders have claimed.
The British socialite – who is in jail over her alleged links to Jeffrey Epstein – is said to have run in the same circles as billionaire Bezos and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
She also mentioned British billionaire Sir Richard Branson.
Maxwell is even said to have been invited to Bezos’ ultra-exclusive book retreat, known as Campfire, in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2018.
“She bragged about knowing Jeff Bezos well a few times as I remember.
“All I remember is that she knew Bezos well.”
Bezos, 56, the world’s richest man with a net worth of $178billion, has not commented on his alleged ties to Maxwell.
Another insider saw pictures of Maxwell with ex-US President Clinton and Pope John Paul II at her Manhattan home.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12211903/ghislaine-maxwell-jeff-bezos-boasted-friendship-amazon/
(Bill) Barr’s Dad, Donald, was known as ‘Chester the Molester’ when he was Headmaster of Hackley School in the 80’s. He wrote sci-fi novels about teenage sex slaves. His pal Epstein built a replica of Barr’s ‘Sex Temple’ on his Island. He shipped a tile remover & shredder there before
Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale is a space opera novel by Donald Barr, the father of current US Attorney General William Barr, originally published on 17 September 1973 by Charterhouse and distributed by McKay, and reprinted by Fawcett Crest Books in February 1975. It is one of only two novels Barr is known to have written, the other being A Planet in Arms.[2]
Plot
In the future, humans have formed an intergalactic empire ruled by aristocrats. During a time of war with the Plith, an empire of ant-like alien bug people, ambassador John Craig, a formerly Liberal Earth man in his 30s, is dispatched to the strategically important planet Kossar, a human colony that was settled by the Carlyle Society as a place of exile for political extremists and now is ruled by an oligarchical high council of seven nobles, each of whom is in charge of a different domain with its own traditions. Their boredom and absolute power have driven them to madness, to the point that Kossar’s entry into the empire has been stymied by the Man-Inhabited Planets Treaty’s clause (written by Craig) against alliances with slave owning societies, due to its practice of kidnapping humans to become illegal playthings of the galaxy’s super-rich.
Craig, who now is campaigning to bring Kossar into the empire, had previously been to the planet when the passenger ship on which he was travelling on a return trip from the Betelgeuse Conference was captured by space pirates. While en route to Kassar, one of the pirates awakened Craig and the other prisoners to rape a 15-year-old virginal redheaded female captive in front of them; the rapist’s fellow pirates later hear of this and dock his pay as punishment for spoiling her market value. Craig then spent two years as a slave of the beautiful, sensual, and sadistic Lady Morgan Sidney, the only female member of the oligarchy, with whom he became romantically involved. Together, they lived in her castle, ruling over and engaging in sexual relations with those under their dominion, including an enslaved teenager at a clinic used to breed enslaved people. When Craig stumbles on hints of an alien invasion, he realizes he must escape to save humanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bid for Gag Order in Case Denied by Judge
July 23, 2020
The federal judge presiding over Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial rejected a request by her defense lawyers to impose a gag order preventing prosecutors, federal agents and lawyers for the alleged victims from discussing the case.
U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan said Thursday she did not “believe that further action is needed at this time to protect the Defendant’s right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.” But Nathan warned lawyers and witnesses that she “wouldn’t hesitate to take appropriate action,” if she determined they violated court rules barring them from making comments about the the evidence outside of court.
In 2002, not long after he was pictured alongside Maxwell, Trump described Epstein as a ‘terrific guy’ who liked women ‘on the younger side’.
But a month before the financier’s death in a New York jail cell in August, Trump had changed his tune.
He told reporters in the Oval Office: ‘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.’
A video tape from 1992 shows Trump at a private party with Epstein, who was a guest of Trump’s at Mar-a-Lago in November of that year and was surrounded by a group of models and cheerleaders.
There are now three people sending well wishes to accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump and Geraldo Rivera.
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to ‘smear Epstein victims and to get prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to stall sex trafficking investigation against her’
- Ghislaine Maxwell hired Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and her, a former friend told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview
- As part of a $25k deal, Wohl and his lobbyist colleague Jack Burkman also allegedly pushed to get former New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman fired
- Wohl and Burkman are far-right lobbyists who have become a laughing stock in DC after several failed attempts to smear top political figures
- Maryland paralegal Kristin Spealman claims she was initially contacted by the duo to use her in a smear campaign against Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz
- Spealman told DailyMail.com they bragged to her they had been hired in early June for $25,000 to dig up dirt on Maxwell’s alleged sex trafficking victims
- Federal documents filed this month show a company linked to Maxwell had hired Wohl and Burkman to lobby on ‘issues relating to US DOJ, Senate Judiciary, House Judiciary,’ DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal
- Berman’s removal was intended to stall or stop the criminal investigation into Maxwell, Spealman said
- Berman was ultimately pushed out by Barr in June, but two weeks later Maxwell was charged as part of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring
Roy Den Hollander ID’d as suspect in shooting at Judge Esther Salas’ home
July 20, 2020
Trump’s tax battle puts Deutsche Bank in the firing line
Donald Trump is the first American president since Richard Nixon not to voluntarily release his tax returns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/07/10/trumps-tax-battle-puts-deutsche-bank-firing-line/
Federal judge’s son, 20, is shot dead and her criminal defense attorney husband is critically injured after a gunman disguised as a FedEx driver ambushed their home – four days after she was assigned a case linked to Jeffrey Epstein
- The gunman shot and killed Judge Esther Salas’ son, Daniel, 20, and injured her husband Mark, 63
- The assailant opened fire after Daniel, a college student, opened the door to him at their home at around 5pm
- His father Mark was shot several times at the front door and is now in critical condition in the hospital
- Judge Salas is believed to have been in the basement during the shooting and was not harmed
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Last week, the judge was assigned a civil financial fraud lawsuit against Deutsche Bank
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Investors say they were misled by the bank which continued to do business with Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting child prostitutes
- Salas previously presided over the trial of former Real Housewife Teresa Giudice in a case regarding financial fraud
July 20, 2020
Mark Lennox-Boyd/Harvey Proctor/Duke of Rutland/Ghislaine Maxwell/Jeffrey Epstein/Earl of Iveagh’s wife – Clare Hazell/Earl of Iveagh/Mark Lennox-Boyd
Lord Iveagh On His 93rd Birthday With Grandchildren Mark Lennox Boyd And Simon Lennox Boyd And His Great Grandchildren Charlotte Lennox Boyd And Benjamin Lennox Boyd. Mar 29, 1967
Countess who took 30 flights on paedophile’s ‘Lolita Express’ quits NSPCC: Lady Iveagh flew with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on trip to private island
- Clare Hazell raised thousands of pounds for the NSPCC with classic car shows
- The interior designer repeatedly travelled with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
- Lady Iveagh had been president of the NSPCC’s West Suffolk branch since 2011
‘Striking blonde British socialite has vital clues about Prince Andrew’s paedo pal’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/striking-blonde-british-socialite-vital-22039036
One of Epstein’s accusers, Maria Farmer, recalled that Ms Hazell ‘liked having nice drinks, piles of cash and nice outfits’.
Ms Hazell became a Countess when she married the Earl of Iveagh, Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, in 2001, and gave birth to an heir called Arthur in 2003.
Reports at the time said the Earl was the 30th-richest man in Britain with a £375million ($470million) fortune.
The wife of an aristocrat who flew more than 30 times on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ private jet has stepped down from her role at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Clare Hazell raised thousands of pounds for the charity by hosting a classic car show each year at her family’s sprawling Elveden Estate in Norfolk.
The Mail on Sunday last month revealed that the interior designer – who became the Countess of Iveagh in 2001 when she married Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh and a member of the brewing dynasty – had repeatedly travelled with serial paedophile Epstein on his private jet.
The couple are the owners of the Elveden Estate in East Anglia, which has been in the Guinness family since the late 19th century.
Ms Hazell was studying at Ohio State University in the 1990s and reportedly had a modelling agency and an apartment in Columbus, Ohio.
The friend described her as being at Epstein’s ‘beck and call’, saying how mutual plans would be cancelled immediately if she was needed by Epstein and Maxwell. –Daily Mail
NSPCC – elite supporters
https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1285348013083328516
@MrLilburne
The Maxwells Robert Maxwell chaired the NSPCC Media Committee Other members included David Frost (RAINS list), Jocelyn Stevens & Alan Protheroe (BBC), “who asked Tim Tate to make inquiries into Leon Brittan abuse rumors” Ghislaine continued the family’s NSPCC involvement!
July 1, 1984
Alan Protheroe was involved with Maggie’s Militant Tendency In January 1984, Panorama broadcast an episode which claimed that three Conservative MPs (Neil Hamilton, Harvey Proctor and Gerald Howarth) had links to far-right organisations both in Britain and on the Continent
Hazell, hosted events for the “charity” at Elveden Hall in which several scenes from Eyes Wide Shut were filmed..
https://davidburr.co.uk/east-anglia-film/
The Eldeden hall is located within the Elveden estate in Suffolk, England.
It is currently occupied by Edward Roy Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh and his wife Clare Hazel. Interestingly enough, Maria Farmer who was the first to speak out about Epstein’s, Maxwell’s and Wexner’s pedophile ring back in 1996 claims Clare Hazell secured some English girls for Epstein.
https://www.quora.com/Where-was-the-ceremony-scene-in-Eyes-Wide-Shut-filmed
@JamesRusbridger
“The Hall itself is used only occasionally, mostly for NSPCC balls and occasional events supported by the Iveaghs, as well as becoming a film backdrop, with a starring role in Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.”
http://www.dominicbradbury.net/interviews_lord_and_lady_iveagh_text.html…
Earl of Iveagh / Edward Roy Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh and his wife Clare Hazel
NEW CITY INITIATIVE EUROPE
21-27 Lambs Conduit Street,London,WC1N 3GS
co-directors:
Derek Laud, Earl of Iveagh (husband of Clare Hazell) and Crispin Odey
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/07250381/NEW-CITY-INITIATIVE-EUROPE/companies-house-data
Derek Laud
Derek Laud who links to the Earl of Iveagh and to Harvey Proctor
Mr (Harvey) Proctor would like to thank his family and friends,his former colleagues, his financial backer, Mr Derek Laud and one other who wishes to remain undisclosed. Mr Laud, who has himself had his studies interrupted at Oxford University to deal with these matters, has been a tremendous friend and adviser. Mr Proctor also wishes to thank Geoffrey Robertson QC and Mark Stephens of Howard Kennedy Solicitors and Sakhi Solicitors of Leicester and the whole legal team for their fulsome support and encouragement in these dark days without which he feels he could not and would not have survived. I would also wish to thank Northumbria Police for its forensic investigation of the fantasist Mr Carl Stephen Beech. It is a pity that all police forces are not of their quality.
DEREK LAUD with LORD MONTAGU BEAULIEU
Harvey Proctor backer, Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd, is a co-director with the Earl of Iveagh for the
IVEAGH TRUSTEES LIMITED
and ENDURANCE FUND MANAGEMENT LIMITED
IVEAGH TRUSTEES LIMITED(THE)
25 Shaftesbury Avenue,London,W1D 7EQ
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/00897714/IVEAGH-TRUSTEES-LIMITEDTHE/companies-house-data
ENDURANCE FUND MANAGEMENT LIMITED
No 1 Bishops Wharf,Walnut Tree Close,Guildford,Surrey,GU1 4RA
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Tory MPs who put money into Harvey Proctor’s company included Mark Lennox-Boyd, David Heathcoat-Amory, Richard Shepherd, Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Philip Oppenheim and Michael Brown. Another investor was David Lightbown, the a former Conservative whip who died last year.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/court-threat-to-proctor-over-shop-accounts-1270333.html
Prince Charles and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.
Rothschild = intel.
@kirbySommers
Gates employee sentenced for child pornography collection
Seattle man admits to possessing child molestation video, sentenced to 90 days in jail
Bill Gates’ father, William H. Gates Sr is Black Cube’s attorney and advisor. The intelligence agency who Harvey Weinstein hired to destroy Ronan Farrow and Rose McGowan.
He got money from the Rockefellers who got their money from the Rothschilds via Jacob Schiff.
The Maxwell Family Business: Espionage
Many were surprised to learn earlier this month that the key co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein’s intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation, Ghislaine Maxwell, had been in hiding in New England since Epstein’s arrest and subsequent “suicide” last summer. Her recent arrest, of course, has returned attention to the Epstein scandal and to Ghislaine’s ties to the entire operation, in which she played a central and crucial role, arguably more so than Epstein himself.
Ghislaine was first reported to be living in New England at the mansion of her alleged boyfriend Scott Borgeson on August 14th of last year. Though Maxwell is believed to have stayed there until purchasing the nearby New Hampshire home where she was arrested, attention from her presence on the East Coast was immediately and sensationally re-directed to the West Coast when, a day later on August 15th, the New York Post published a picture allegedly depicting Maxwell reading a book on “CIA operatives” at an In-N-Out Burger in Los Angeles, California. The photo was later revealed to have been photoshopped and a fake, but ultimately served its purpose in distracting from her actual location in New England.
While the media frenziedly covered the fake In-N-Out Burger photo, the appearance of an unexpected visitor nearby Borgeson’s mansion succeeded in largely slipping under the radar. On August 18th, Ghislaine’s sister Christine was spotted “packing up a number of bags” into a SUV just a few miles from Borgeson’s “secluded beachfront” home. Christine, who currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas, declined to comment on why she was visiting the exact area where Ghislaine was allegedly hiding at the time.
Out of the seven Maxwell siblings, Ghislaine Maxwell has undoubtedly received the bulk of media scrutiny both in recent years and arguably ever since the suspected homicide of the family patriarch, Robert Maxwell, in 1991. In the years since his death, Robert Maxwell’s close ties to Israeli intelligence and links to other intelligence agencies have been documented by respected journalists and investigators including Seymour Hersh and Gordon Thomas, among others.
While Ghislaine’s own ties to intelligence have since come to light in relation to her critical role in facilitating the Jeffrey Epstein sexual blackmail operation. Little, if any attention, has been paid to her siblings, particularly Christine and her twin sister Isabel, despite them having held senior roles at the Israeli intelligence front company that facilitated their father’s greatest act of espionage on Israel’s behalf, the sale of the bugged PROMIS software to the U.S. national laboratories at the heart of the country’s nuclear weapons system.
Not only that, but Christine and Isabel later became directly involved with technology-based business ventures that directly involved Ghislaine during the very period she worked with Epstein on behalf of Israeli and U.S. intelligence to ensnare powerful U.S. political and public figures in a sexual blackmail scheme involving minors. At the time, Ghislaine described her profession to a number of newspapers as “an internet operator.” Then, after this venture’s multi-million dollar sale to a competitor, Christine and Isabel became involved with successors to the PROMIS software scandal that were closely tied to U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, respectively.
Ghislaine herself also became involved in these affairs, as did Jeffrey Epstein following his first arrest, as they began courting the biggest names in the U.S. tech scene, from Silicon Valley’s most powerful venture capital firms to its most well-known titans. This also dovetailed with Epstein’s investments in Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms and his claims of having troves of blackmail on prominent tech company CEOs during this same period.
With Ghislaine’s name and her ties to intelligence now inking their way back into the media sphere, detailing the decades-long course of these technology-focused espionage operations and their persistent ties to the Maxwell sisters demands the attention it deserves, as the need to air out the real Maxwell family business – espionage – is now greater than ever before.
Trap doors and Treason
One of the most brazen and successful operations conducted by Israeli intelligence on a global scale is undeniably its sale of a bugged software program to governments, corporations and major financial and scientific institutions around the world. That software program, known as the Prosecutor’s Information Management System or by its acronym PROMIS, was orginally created and marketed by Inslaw Inc., a company created by former NSA official Bill Hamilton and his wife Nancy.
In 1982, Inslaw leased its revolutionary PROMIS software to the U.S. Justice Department, then headed by arch neocon Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan’s most trusted advisor and who would later go on to advise Donald Trump following the 2016 election. The success of the software, which allowed integration of separate databases and information analysis on a previously unimaginable scale, eventually caught the attention of Rafi Eitan, the notorious and legendary Israeli spymaster and handler of the “most damaging spy” in American history, Jonathan Pollard. Eitan, at the time, was serving as the then-head of the now defunct Israel intelligence service known as Lekem, which focused specifically on espionage related to scientific and technical information and discoveries.
Eitan had first learned of PROMIS from Earl Brian. Brian was a long-time associate of Ronald Reagan who had previously worked for the CIA in covert operations and had been in charge of Reagan’s healthcare program when Reagan was governor of California. Brian often bragged of the nickname he had acquired in overseeing that health care initiative – “the man who walked over the dead.” In 1982, however, Brian was attempting to build a business empire, in which then-AG Ed Meese’s wife was a major investor, and he had first met Eitan while attempting to sell a healthcare system in Iran.
Brian divulged the efficacy of PROMIS, but – instead of praising its revolutionary approach to data analysis – expressed his frustration that the software enabled U.S. federal investigators to successfully track and target money laundering and other financial crimes. He also expressed frustration that he had been left out of the profits on PROMIS, the development of which he had followed closely for several years.
As their conversation wore on, Eitan and Brian hatched a plan to install a “trapdoor”, today more often referred to as a back door, into the software. They would then market PROMIS throughout the world, providing Israeli intelligence and allied elements of U.S. intelligence with a direct window into the operations of its enemies and allies while also netting Eitan and Brian massive profits for the sale of the software. Brian, of course, would also be able to use PROMIS to circumvent authorities investigating financial crimes.
According to the testimony of ex-Mossad official Ari Ben-Menashe, after a copy of PROMIS was obtained by Israeli military intelligence (via direct collusion with the U.S. Department of Justice), Ben-Menashe contacted an Israeli American programmer living in California on Eitan’s orders. That programmer then planted a “trapdoor” or back door into the software that would allow Lekem covert access to any database connected to a device on which the software was installed.
Once the back door was present, Brian attempted to use his company Hadron Inc to market the bugged PROMIS software around the world, though he first had tried to buy out Inslaw to do so. Unsuccessful, Brian turned to his close friend, then-Attorney General Ed Meese, and the Justice Department then abruptly refused to make the payments to Inslaw that had been stipulated by the contract, essentially using the software for free, which Inslaw claimed to be theft.
Meese’s actions would force Inslaw into bankruptcy and Inslaw subsequently sued the Justice Department, with a US court later finding that the Meese-led department “took, converted, stole” the software through “trickery, fraud and deceit.” With Inslaw out of the way, Brian sold the bugged software to Jordan’s and Iraq’s intelligence services, a major boon for Israel, and to a handful of companies. Despite this, Eitan was unsatisfied with Brian and Hadron and he quickly turned to the person he thought could most effectively market and sell PROMIS to governments of interest all over the world, Robert Maxwell.
First recruited as an asset of Israeli intelligence in the early 1960s, Maxwell’s standing with Israeli intelligence would strengthen considerably beginning in the early 1980s, when he purchased a web of Israeli companies, many of which were official “service providers” for the Mossad. One of these companies, a computer firm called Degem, had been used for years to provide cover to Mossad assassins that conducted kidnappings and murders in Latin America and Africa.
Through Degem and other Maxwell-owned companies based in Israel and elsewhere, Maxwell marketed PROMIS so successfully that Israeli intelligence soon had access to the innermost workings of innumerable governments, corporations, banks and intelligence services around the world. Many of Maxwell’s biggest successes came in selling PROMIS to dictators in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. Following the sale and after Maxwell collected a handsome paycheck, PROMIS’ unparalleled ability to track and surveil anything – from cash flows to human movement – were used by these governments to commit financial crimes with greater finesse and used to hunt down and disappear dissidents. Israeli intelligence, of course, watched it all play out in real time.
In Latin America, for instance, Maxwell sold PROMIS to military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina, which were used to facilitate the mass murder that characterized Operation Condor as the friends and families of dissidents and so-called subversives were easily identified using PROMIS. PROMIS was so effective for this purpose that, just days after Maxwell sold the software to Guatemala, its US-backed dictatorship rounded up 20,000 “subversives” who were never heard from again. Of course, thanks to the back door in PROMIS, Israeli intelligence knew the identities of Guatemala’s disappeared before the victim’s own families. Israel was also intimately involved in the arming and training of many of the same Latin American dictatorships that had been sold the bugged PROMIS software.
Though Israeli intelligence found obvious use for the steady stream of sensitive and classified information, their biggest prize was yet to come – top secret government laboratories in the United States. Eitan tasked Maxwell with selling PROMIS to US labs in the Los Alamos complex, including Sandia National Laboratory, which was and is at the core of the US nuclear weapons system. Notably, the eventual sale of PROMIS to these laboratories by Maxwell occurred during the same period in 1984 when Eitan tasked one of Israel’s top experts in nuclear targeting with supervising Jonathan Pollard’s espionage of U.S. nuclear secrets on Israel’s behalf.
In order to plot how he would accomplish such a feat, Maxwell would meet with none other than Henry Kissinger, who told him that – in order to sell PROMIS to these sensitive laboratories – he needed to enlist the services of then-Senator for Texas John Tower, who was the head of the Senates’ Armed Services Committee at the time. Maxwell quickly struck a deal with Tower and then, using Mossad money, paid Tower $200,000 for his services, which included opening doors – not just to the Los Alamos complex, but also to the Reagan White House. Tower would arrange a trip for Maxwell to travel to Sandia National Laboratory, where he would market PROMIS. Unlike most other PROMIS sales, this one would not be handled by Degem, but a US-based company called Information on Demand.
It is worth noting that, despite Tower’s obvious and treasonous actions with respect to U.S. national security, another long-time “source” of Robert Maxwell, George H.W. Bush, would attempt to nominate Tower to serve as U.S. Secretary of Defense. When the Senate refused to confirm Tower, only then did Bush nominate Dick Cheney, who would then head the Pentagon and oversee the U.S.’ role in the First Gulf War. Not long after his failure to secure the nomination as Pentagon chief, Tower died in a suspicious plane crash soon after the equally suspicious death of Robert Maxwell.
Front Companies and FBI Cover-ups
Robert Maxwell purchased Information on Demand from its founder, Sue Rugge – a former librarian, through the Pergamon Group in 1982 – the very year plans were made by Rafi Eitan and Earl Brian to subvert PROMIS. Its offices were just a few doors down from the home of Isabel Maxwell and her first husband Dale Djerassi, son of the scientist credited with creating the birth control pill.
According to FBI files obtained by Inslaw Inc. via a FOIA request in the 1990s, San Francisco’s FBI opened an investigation into Information on Demand a year later in October 1983 and subsequently interviewed Rugge about the business and its activities. She told the FBI that the company’s sources “include over 250 computer data bases” and that company uses these to “locate single facts as well as provide answers to complex questions dealing with such areas as comprehensive marketing research, custom data summaries, sophisticated literature searching, current awareness service and global information capability.
One of these databases included Lockheed’s Dialog database and “the Defense Technical Center which is connected to the Department of Defense (DOD) which contains classified information. ” She asserted, however, that the company “has no password for access and further no need for access.” Elsewhere in the document, it notes that Information on Demand claimed not have any access to classified information “to the best of their knowledge” and “includes information concerning government and various available means of tapping government information databases.”
The FBI asked Rugge about one client of the company in particular, whose name and identifying information is redacted in its entirety, but notes that this mysterious client had worked with Information on Demand since at least 1973. Subsequent efforts by Inslaw Inc. and others to learn the identity of the redacted client have been unsuccessful since 1994.
Notably, just one month before the FBI opened an investigation into Information on Demand and interviewed Sue Rugge, another related Maxwell-owned firm, Pergamon International Information Corporation, had sent a letter to then-CIA Director Bill Casey, offering to provide the agency with access to patent databases. The only redacted portion of the letter is the identity of PIIC’s Executive Vice President, who had written the letter to Casey.
After Rugge had been interviewed, FBI interest in Information on Demand peaked soon after in June 1984, when a formal investigation was opened. This took place after two employees of Sandia National Laboratory who worked in technology transfer approached the Bureau over Information on Demand’s efforts to sell PROMIS to the laboratory. Those employees were compelled to contact the FBI after obtaining information from employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) regarding “the purchase of Information on Demand Inc. by one Robert Maxwell, the owner of Pergamon International.” The specific information on this purchase from the NSA is included in the report but redacted in its entirety. Two months later, one of the Sandia employees followed up with the Bureau, suggesting that the NSA and FBI jointly investigate Information on Demand, but was essentially stonewalled and told to take it up with FBI headquarters.
The FBI case file is coded as a foreign counter-intelligence investigation specifically, suggesting that the case was opened because the FBI was made aware of the alleged involvement of a foreign intelligence service in some aspect of Information on Demand’s activities that related specifically to the “dissemination, marketing or sale of computer software systems, including but not limited to the PROMIS computer software product.” It also noted that Maxwell himself had previously been the subject of a “security investigation” conducted by the FBI from 1953 until 1961, the year Maxwell was formally recruited as an Israeli intelligence asset.
In early August 1984, FBI headquarters and other higher-ups in the Ed Meese-led Department of Justice, which itself was complicit in the whole sordid PROMIS affair, ordered the New Mexico office to halt its investigation into Information on Demand, Maxwell and PROMIS. The cover-up, oddly enough, continues today, with the FBI still refusing to release documents pertaining to Robert Maxwell and his role in the PROMIS scandal.
Several months following the shuttering of the FBI investigation into Information on Demand, Robert Maxwell again returned to Sandia National Laboratories in February 1985, signing the contract for the sale of PROMIS and listing himself as President and CEO of Information on Demand. A few months later, he passed that role on to his daughter Christine, who served as the company’s president and CEO up until her father’s death in 1991, according to her résumé. Upon the collapse of his business empire shortly after his demise, which also resulted in the closure of Information on Demand, Christine created a company called Research on Demand that offered similar services and specialized “in Internet- and Big Data analytics-related market studies for companies in the Telecoms.”
In addition, Isabel Maxwell, who lived in close proximity to the company’s offices in Berkely, CA, told Haaretz that she had also worked for Information on Demand, which she refers to as “her sister’s company,” following her 1989 divorce from Dale Djerassi.
Recreating their Father’s Legacy
After the death of Robert Maxwell, in what most of his family and many of his biographers regard as a murder conducted by Israeli intelligence, his children began to pick up the pieces and sought to rebuild their father’s empire. Of his seven children, five took on different aspects of their father’s vast portfolio.
Kevin and Ian Maxwell took over much of his businesses (and the associated fall-out) and his murky network of interlocking companies, trusts and foundations spread throughout the world. Ghislaine, having already positioned herself in New York at her father’s behest to anchor his efforts to expand his empire and operations into Manhattan, began a sexual blackmail operation on behalf of Israeli intelligence alongside Jeffrey Epstein. Christine and Isabel, however, would take off where Maxwell’s intelligence-linked work with PROMIS and in technology had left off by cashing in on a new revolutionary technology, the Internet.
“We literally were trying to think about how to restart this whole business” that had collapsed after their father’s death, Christine Maxwell would later say of her decision to found, along with her husband Roger Malina, Isabel and Isabel’s then-husband David Hayden, their internet services company – the McKinley Group – in January 1992. Isabel would remember the decision similarly, telling Wired in 1999, that she and her sister had “wanted to circle the wagons and rebuild,” seeing McKinley as “a chance to recreate a bit of their father’s legacy.” In 2000, Isabel would tell The Guardian that her father would “love it [the internet] if he was still here.” “He was very prescient….He’d be in his element, he’d be having a blast, I’m sure he’d be thrilled to know what I’m doing now,” she told the UK-based publication while “throwing back her head and laughing loudly.” Notably, at that time, Isabel was leading Israeli software company with ties to Israeli military intelligence and powerful Israeli political players, including some who had previously worked directly under her father.
It’s not hard to see why Christine and Isabel saw the internet as their chance to expand upon and rebuild upon Robert Maxwell’s “legacy.” As previously mentioned, Christine, right up until her father’s death, had been president and CEO of the Robert Maxwell-owned Israeli intelligence front company, Information on Demand, where Isabel had also worked. Upon his death, Christine had founded a related company called Research on Demand, which specialized in “internet and big data analytics” for telecommunications firms, and would later overlap with the McKinley Group’s work. McKinley began as a directory with a rating system for websites, later transitioning into the Magellan search engine, all of which Isabel Maxwell told Cnet in 1997 were all Christine’s idea.
McKinley created what became known as the Magellan online directory, remembered as “the first site to publish lengthy reviews and ratings of websites.” Magellan’s “value-added content” approach attracted several large corporations, resulting in “major alliances” with AT&T, Time Warner, IBM, Netcom and the Microsoft Network [MSN] that were negotiated by Isabel Maxwell. Microsoft’s major alliance with McKinley came in late 1995, when Microsoft announcedthat Magellan would power the search option for the company’s MSN service. Time Warner first chose Magellan for its early web portal called Pathfinder and Magellan was on the homepage of the internet browser Netscape for much of the 1990s.
However, McKinley’s fortunes were troubled as its efforts to be the first search engine to go public fell through, igniting a stand-off between Christine Maxwell and Isabel’s husband that also resulted in the company’s essentially falling behindother market leaders both missing the window for a second IPO attempt and lagging behind in adding ad revenue to their business model. Excite, which was later acquired by AskJeeves, ultimately bought the McKinley Group and Magellan for 1.2 million shares of Excite stock in 1996, which was then valued at $18 million. It was allegedly Isabel Maxwell who made the deal possible, with Excite’s CEO at the time, George Bell, claiming she alone salvaged their purchase of McKinley.
Despite the company’s lackluster end, the Maxwell sisters and other stakeholders in the company, Ghislaine Maxwell among them, not only obtained a multi-million dollar payout from the deal, but also forged close connections with Silicon Valley high-rollers. Upon McKinley/Magellan’s sale, the overt ties of Christine and Isabel Maxwell to intelligence in both the U.S. and Israel would grow considerably.
A Family Affair
While the company is often framed as being a venture between Christine and Isabel Maxwell, McKinley Group and Magellan were much more than just the twin sisters’ business. For instance, a November 2003 article in The Evening Standard notes that Christine and Isabel launched the company with considerable help from their brother, Kevin Maxwell who the article described as being “consumed by an overwhelming desire to be his ‘dad reincorporated’” according to confidants. Another Evening Standard article from March 2001 cited report that “Kevin played a major role” in the company’s affairs.
In addition, at the time, The Sunday Times noted in November 2000 that Ghislaine Maxwell “had a substantial interest in Magellan” and netted a considerable sum following its sale to Excite in 1996. It also noted that Ghislaine, throughout the 1990s, had “been discreetly building up a business empire as opaque as her father’s” and that “she is secretive to the point of paranoia and her business affairs are deeply mysterious.” However, she would nonetheless describe “herself as an ‘internet operator’” even though “her office in Manhattan refuses to confirm even the name or the nature of her business.” A separate article in The Scotsman from 2001 also notes that Ghislaine “is extremely secretive about her affairs and describes herself as an internet operator.”
Exactly how involved Ghislaine Maxwell was involved in the McKinley Group and Magellan is unclear, though her decision to describe herself as an “internet operator” and her documented “substantial interest” in the company suggest that it was more than superficial. What is notable, however, is that Ghislaine’s time as an “internet operator” and her business interests in Magellan overlap directly with her time working alongside Jeffrey Epstein in an Israeli intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation.
During this period of time, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein frequently had considerable overlap in their finances, with press reports from the time often asking whether Ghislaine’s expenses were paid by Epstein or through her access to the “lost Maxwell millions” that had been hidden in a web of murky, untraceable financial entities and allegedly “disappeared” following his 1991 death.
The latter is certainly a possibility as it was Ghislaine who was the first to walk into her late father’s office on the Lady Ghislaine following his death, where she “shredded all incriminating documents onboard,” according to journalist John Jackson who witnessed the scene. This would likely mean that she was quickly able to distinguish which documents were “incriminating” and was intimately aware of his more unsavory business activities. In addition, prior to his death, Robert Maxwell had provided Ghislaine with a “tailor-made” New York corporation called Maxwell Corporate Gifts, of which little is known. The corporation was reportedly intended to aid her in establishing a foothold in New York’s power base for Robert Maxwell’s planned expansion into New York society, a plan first set into motion following his purchase of the New York Daily News.
Notably, an article from The Evening Standard in 2001 makes an odd comment about a major source of income from Epstein during the 1990s, stating that “has made many millions out of his business links with the likes of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose trust he runs.” In addition, Epstein victim Maria Farmer noted in an interview that she overheard Ghislaine and Epstein discuss Bill Gates as though they knew him well in 1995. However, these mentions of Bill Gates here defies the official narrative about the Epstein-Gates relationship, which claims they first met in 2011.Given the “major alliance” between McKinley/Magellan and Microsoft that was forged in 1995-1996, it is certainly possible that Epstein’s pre-2001 “business links” with Bill Gates were, in fact, related to Ghislaine’s involvement and stake in Magellan. This is also supported by the fact that, as will be shown in Part 2 of this report, Magellan co-founder Isabel Maxwell had a personal relationship with Bill Gates and that he put her subsequent company, Israel-based CommTouch, “on the map” after a major investment that had been brokered between Gates and Isabel personally. Part 2 will also show how both Isabel and Christine’s overt involvement, with Israeli and U.S. intelligence, respectively, deepened after Magellan was sold to Excite in 1996.
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Cosmopolitan was the first magazine to write about Jeffrey Epstein. Cosmopolitan has been accused of targeting minors while presenting themselves as a magazine for young women. Placing Epstein as ‘Bachelor of the Month’ in Cosmo was an intentional act on the part of the CIA.
Ghislaine Maxwell cries as she’s refused bail and accused of having ‘no remorse’
JULY 15, 2020
British socialite Maxwell, 58, could remain in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for a year with her trial not due to start until next July
She has been charged with six criminal counts, including four related to transporting minors for illegal sexual acts and two for perjury.
Nathan said the evidence currently “appears strong” against Maxwell, who faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted.
Statements by two women who have accused Maxwell of enabling their abuse were presented at the hearing – which lasted over two hours.
One of the women, Annie Farmer, said Maxwell “has never shown any remorse for her heinous crimes” and that “the danger Maxwell poses must be taken seriously.”
Maxwell has demonstrated she can “live off the grid indefinitely,” Moe said, adding it took a year after Epstein’s arrest to find her.
Prosecutors said her wealth and multiple citizenships – American, French and British – also supported the need for detention.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-cries-shes-refused-22356952
July 14, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell has been denied bail.
Nathan scheduled Maxwell’s trial to begin on July 12, 2021.
Moe said she expected the trial would take three weeks.
The hearing came a day after the Bloomberg news service reported that Maxwell is also under investigation by the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Justice Department for her alleged participation in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. Epstein owned a large private island in the Virgin Islands, which was locally known as “Pedophile Island.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/jeffrey-epstein-case-ghislaine-maxwell-sex-crimes-bail-ruling.html
Judge Rules Virginia Giuffre’s Lawyers Must ‘Destroy’ Jeffrey Epstein Files
7/2/20
Attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking, must destroy files they obtained on Epstein after a Wednesday ruling by a federal judge.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking. Allegedly, Epstein procured women to have sexual relations with high-profile individuals, such as Prince Andrew. Information about Epstein, culled from a 2015 civil suit filed against Epstein by Giuffre, allegedly contained the names of individuals with whom Epstein had conducted business.
Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled Wednesday that Giuffre’s lawyers had come into possession of the documents improperly, noting that the protective order could only be enforced during the civil lawsuit proceedings which had already been settled. Preska wrote that all the materials in the files “shall be destroyed.”
Preska also requested proof that the documentation had been destroyed. “Counsel shall submit an affidavit detailing the steps taken to do so,” Preska’s ruling added.
Preska’s ruling came after a request by attorney Alan Dershowitz to gain access to the documents. Giuffre has claimed that Dershowitz was one of the men Epstein forced her to have sex with. In response, Dershowitz sued Giuffre for defamation in 2019. Dershowitz claimed that obtaining the Epstein files would be an asset to his defense.
Preska said in her ruling that Dershowitz’s desire to see all of the files “with over a thousand docket entries” was not a “targeted strike” but a “carpet bombing.”
In a statement sent to Newsweek on Thursday, Dershowitz said the evidence should remain intact.
“I oppose the destruction of evidence that may contain smoking gun proof that my false accuser made up her story,” Dershowitz said. “I want all the evidence preserved because I have absolutely nothing to hide. I did nothing wrong. The evidence to be destroyed may also contain proof of wrongdoing by others. It should be preserved for appeal and for history. Destroying evidence risks destroying truth.”
Upon returning from a trip to France in 2019, Epstein was arrested. Indictment documents alleged that Epstein had “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations.” Epstein also allegedly “created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit.” Investigators also reported finding incriminating photographs of underaged naked girls inside a safe in Epstein’s Manhattan home.
Giuffre claimed that she had been brought into Epstein’s circle by Epstein’s lover Ghislaine Maxwell. While involved with Epstein, Giuffre alleged that she had been involved in sexual relations with Prince Andrew while she was 17 years old at Epstein’s behest.
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How Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey relaxed at Buckingham Palace ‘as guests of Prince Andrew’
3 July 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell sat on the Queen’s throne during a private tour of Buckingham Palace organised by the Duke of York, it has been reported.
A photograph printed by the Daily Telegraph appears to show the British socialite reclining in the ceremonial chair next to actor Keven Spacey in 2002.
They were on a private tour of the palace organised by the Duke of York for former US president Bill Clinton, according to the newspaper.
It comes after Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on Thursday over allegations she helped disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, her former boyfriend, “identify, befriend and groom” girls, including one as young as 14.
Epstein was not on the palace tour when the picture was taken, the Telegraph said. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
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Jeffrey Epstein victims cheer arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell
July 2, 2020
Jeffrey Epstein’s reputed longtime madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been arrested by federal authorities and is in the custody of federal authorities. She was detained at 8:30 Thursday morning in a residence in the small town of Bradford, New Hampshire.
The British socialite allegedly helped procure girls for the financier, who died in August 2019 in a jail cell after being arrested himself a month earlier on federal charges of sex trafficking.
Maxwell has been charged with four counts of sex trafficking a minor and two counts of perjury, according to the federal indictment.
The charges involve three girls who were under the age of 18 when Maxwell allegedly recruited them to engage in sexual acts with Epstein from the years of 1994 through 1997. According to the charges, Maxwell “groomed” the three girls for Epstein and, in one case, took part in the sexual activity. The girls were allegedly abused at multiple locations, including Epstein’s New York mansion, his estate in Palm Beach, his ranch in New Mexico and Maxwell’s personal residence in London.
“Maxwell’s presence as an adult woman helped put the victims at ease as Maxwell and Epstein intended,” said Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. attorney, in announcing the charges against Maxwell at a Thursday news conference.
Speaking about the perjury charges brought against Maxwell, based on statements Maxwell made in 2016 in a civil suit brought by one of Epstein and Maxwell’s alleged victims, Strauss said, “Maxwell lied because the truth, as alleged, was almost unspeakable.”
Federal prosecutors asked that Maxwell be held without bail, saying she “poses an extreme risk of flight.”
“Maxwell has three passports, large sums of money, extensive international connections, and absolutely no reason to stay in the United States and face the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence,” prosecutors wrote in a filing Thursday.Maxwell made an appearance by video before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea Johnstone in New Hampshire Thursday afternoon and is being transferred by the U.S. Marshals Service to New York, where she will face a hearing on the government’s request to deny her bail.
Before the call started, a woman with her British accent could be heard sobbing on the line saying, “I don’t understand, I don’t understand.”
“Maxwell has three passports, large sums of money, extensive international connections, and absolutely no reason to stay in the United States and face the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence,” prosecutors wrote in a filing Thursday.
Maxwell made an appearance by video before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea Johnstone in New Hampshire Thursday afternoon and is being transferred by the U.S. Marshals Service to New York, where she will face a hearing on the government’s request to deny her bail.
Before the call started, a woman with her British accent could be heard sobbing on the line saying, “I don’t understand, I don’t understand.”
Maxwell is the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, who himself died under mysterious circumstances in 1991.
Maxwell’s whereabouts have been a subject of much interest since the new charges were filed against Epstein. Her lawyer claimed last year that Maxwell’s e-mail server had been hacked.
At times she appeared to play a cat-and-mouse game with the public, such as when she was photographed at a Los Angeles area In-N-Out Burger sitting at a table while holding a spy book — a photo published in the New York Post last August.
Rumors have linked both Maxwell and Epstein to intelligence agencies.
Federal authorities were monitoring Maxwell’s movements throughout the course of the investigation, said William Sweeney, the assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office.
“We had been discretely keeping tabs on Maxwell’s whereabouts as we worked this investigation and more recently we learned that she had slithered away to a gorgeous property in New Hampshire, continuing to live a life of privilege while her victims live with the trauma inflicted upon them years ago,” Sweeney said.
Lawyers representing alleged victims of Epstein and Maxwell said that their clients were relieved to see the charges.
“Today is a long time coming for many victims,” said Bradley Edwards, an attorney who represents more than 20 alleged victims. “I have talked with many of my clients this morning who are relieved that justice is being served. They are so thankful for the dedicated work of the New York prosecutors.”
Spencer Kuvin, an attorney representing a number of other alleged victims, said his clients hope the charges against Maxwell are the first of many against other Epstein associates alleged to have taken part in the sexual abuse of underage women.“With the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, this welcomed news will hopefully be the first of many co-conspirators to face the consequences of this horrific crimes,” Kuvin said in a statement.
One of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, stated in a defamation suit against Maxwell that Maxwell had recruited her in 2000 to be a personal masseuse for Epstein. Maxwell had seen Giuffre around the time of Giuffre’s 17th birthday reading at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, where Giuffre had been working at the time as a spa assistant, Giuffre said.
Giuffre said in court documents that she had been directed by Epstein and Maxwell to have sex with a number of prominent men, including Prince Andrew, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell and Hyatt Hotels magnate Tom Pritzker, among others. The men have denied her accusations. The suit was settled in 2017. Dershowitz and Giuffre, meantime, have sued each other for defamation.Epstein’s many prominent friends over the years have included President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Giuffre said she was not directed to have sex with either of those men and had no knowledge of them having sex with any of the other girls allegedly recruited by Epstein and Maxwell.
Strauss said Thursday that the investigation into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators is ongoing and encouraged anyone who believes they were victimized or has information about abuse to come forward.
She didn’t rule out trying to seek cooperation from Maxwell, despite the perjury charges.
David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor, said that Maxwell could be looking at 10 to 20 years in federal prison, adding the fact that federal prosecutors are seeking her cooperation suggests there could be high-profile targets on their radar.
“They will use all of this to pressure her into cooperating against other known and unknown conspirators,’’ said Weinstein who is now in private practice. “Those co-conspirators would have to be high-profile individuals to warrant accepting her cooperation.’’
The fact that the case is being handled by the office’s public corruption unit, which typically handles investigations into misdeeds by public officials, has raised questions among some legal observers about the scope of the current federal investigation.
“If I was Alexander Acosta today, I would be having a very lousy weekend,’’ said Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director.
“This case is not over. I’ve supervised these kinds of cases in big cities and I’ve never seen public corruption prosecutors involved and if they are still in it, there is a reason for it.’’
Acosta, who resigned last year shortly after Epstein’s arrest, would be someone that public corruption prosecutors would be looking at, he said.
“Because of the lenient posture that Acosta took with Epstein, it begs the question as to why he chose to go lightly on Epstein, and that question, and at what level and for whom he was doing this for — is likely the subject matter of investigation.’’
What Prince Andrew REALLY did inside Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion: Billionaire paedophile ‘lined up three women to meet Duke who was given room nicknamed Britannica and had foot massage while watching King’s Speech film’, says woman who was there
Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein arranged for three young women to meet Prince Andrew at his notorious New York mansion, a former model who was part of the billionaire’s inner circle claimed last night.
The women, who were all in their early 20s, were told to ‘dress up beautifully’ for the meetings with the Duke of York at the tycoon’s £60 million home, she claimed in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday.
At least two of the alleged meetings are believed to have been during Andrew’s now-infamous stay with the convicted sex offender in December 2010.
f true, the claims would undermine Andrew’s account of the six-day trip which has plagued him for almost a decade and ultimately led to his withdrawal from public life.
In his disastrous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis last year, Andrew insisted that the ‘sole purpose’ of the visit was to cut ties with Epstein.
Many were astonished by his claim and questions were raised about why he needed to stay at the mansion at all – and why he stayed for so long.
The comings and goings of a string of glamorous women and celebrities, including Woody Allen, also raised eyebrows. Now one woman, who was so close to Epstein that she was in the financier’s Upper East Side townhouse at the same time as Andrew, has broken her silence to reveal her version of events.
It is the first time a source close to the paedophile, who was found dead in his New York jail cell last year, has given an account of what happened during Andrew’s stay in Manhattan.
In bombshell testimony, the insider, who we have agreed not to name, claimed:
- The Duke treated Epstein’s house ‘like it was his’ and stayed in an opulent bedroom that was dubbed ‘Room Britannica’
- Epstein used Andrew to ‘attract women’ to his home and as a ‘promotion tool’ to rebuild his reputation after serving 13 months in jail following his conviction for sex offences in 2008
- The tycoon falsely promised young women that their ‘reward’ for meeting the Duke would be a ‘bright career future, powerful connections and money’
- Andrew asked one of the women whether she had a boyfriend
- Epstein bragged about watching the film The King’s Speech with Andrew in an exclusive screening at his home before its UK release
- Andrew may have had his feet massaged by a woman while watching the Oscar-winning movie starring Colin Firth, which depicts how his grandfather, King George VI, battled to overcome a stammer.
A spokesman for the Duke last night declined to comment.
The claims come after this newspaper disclosed in March details of an explosive book by US lawyer Bradley Edwards, who has represented a number of Epstein’s victims, including Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts.
His book showed how US prosecutors ‘conspired’ with Epstein’s lawyers to hide the scale of his child sex abuse. Andrew has been accused of sleeping with Miss Roberts – allegations he has repeatedly and strenuously denied.
The new claims today will pile pressure on Andrew, who has been accused of failing to co-operate with an FBI probe into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.
Our source was close to Epstein for several years and, like many of the women in his orbit, is from a former Eastern Bloc country, which the MoS has chosen not to name to protect her.
She claims not to be one of his victims although, over the course of successive interviews, she made it clear she was terrified of him.
‘I still have nightmares that he is alive and knows that I communicate with reporters,’ she said.
During Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview in November, he said that he stayed in Epstein’s palatial 71st Street home because it was a ‘convenient place to stay’ and it was ‘honourable’ to end his friendship with the financier in person.
The Queen’s second son likened the 21,000 sq ft mansion to a railway station due to the fact that ‘there were people coming in and out of that house all the time’.
Pushed on why he stayed at the home of a convicted sex offender, he said: ‘Now, I went there with the sole purpose of saying to him that because he had been convicted, it was inappropriate for us to be seen together.’
The insider, however, believes Epstein asked Andrew to New York – and then invited a number of young women to meet him.
‘I think that it was Epstein who invited Andrew to NYC,’ she told the MoS. ‘The girls were going to Epstein’s house specifically to meet Andrew, not just Epstein
‘I think Andrew was incredibly useful for him as a promotion tool. He had just left jail, and to show a guest of such a level was perfect for his social capital. He was telling everyone that the prince was in the city.’
The source has named three women – all in their early 20s – who she says were specifically invited to meet the Duke. The MoS has seen evidence that at least two of the women – and possibly all three – visited the mansion during his stay at Epstein’s home in December 2010.
‘Before they came, they were asked to get dressed beautifully, and as a reward they were promised a bright career future, powerful connections and money,’ the source said. ‘Andrew asked one of the girls if she had a boyfriend.’
The source claims the women would have waited in a room known as the Oval Office on the ground floor of the mansion beforehand. ‘Girls were coming at different times – it was a lot like a private viewing,’ she added.
One of the three women named by the insider was Latvian-born model Lana Zakocela, who has worked for Victoria’s Secret, the company owned by Epstein’s only known financial client, Les Wexner
The Mail on Sunday has agreed not to identify the other two women named by the source.
Miss Zakocela, 32, was photographed arriving at the townhouse at 3.46pm on December 6. At 4.30pm on the same day, Andrew was filmed peering from the door of the mansion and waving to Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating. Miss Keating is not one of the women named by the source.
From her luxurious home in the Hollywood Hills, Miss Zakocela said she was told to go to Epstein’s mansion by her agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who had close ties with the financier.
Miss Zakocela, who is now a ‘health and wellness adviser’, described attending a gathering at the house but does not remember meeting Prince Andrew or even whether he was there.
‘Jean-Luc he would say, “You, you and you… you’re going here”. And we would go to these things. They happened all the time – it was part of business. There were other girls there and there were Jeffrey’s friends – men and women.
‘I don’t remember the names. I don’t know if Andrew was there. I didn’t know who he was.’
She added: ‘I only met Jeffrey once or twice. What people won’t say is that he was nice, he was intelligent, he was good fun. He never behaved badly with me.’
On December 2, four days before Miss Zakocela’s visit, Andrew is believed to have been the guest of honour at a dinner organised in the mansion by PR guru and party host Peggy Siegal.
In the following days, a string of people were seen leaving the property including Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn, and Susan Hamblin, a confidante of Epstein.
Speaking to Vanity Fair magazine earlier this year, Ms Siegal said Epstein had asked her to arrange guests for the party – on the day of the event. She wanted to be involved, she added, because she was promoting The King’s Speech, which was being released in the UK the following month and which was later crowned Best Film at the Oscars.
‘I thought it was strange that someone who had a prince in his house as a houseguest couldn’t figure out a few people to invite for dinner,’ she said. ‘On the other hand, I had my own selfish reasons because I wanted to tell Andrew about The King’s Speech.’ The MoS source claimed Andrew and Epstein watched the film together in a private screening probably organised for them by Siegal.
‘I know Epstein and Andrew watched The King’s Speech together before the official release, because Epstein was sharing with us how fascinating it was for him to watch the movie with Andrew,’ she said.
‘I think it was Peggy Siegal who shared all the movies with him before they were released.’
The source claims that Epstein – who she said had a home cinema in a loft room on the top floor of the mansion – would insist on having his feet massaged while he watched films and believes Andrew may also have had one too.
‘Whenever Epstein watched a movie, he requested girls to give him and his guests a foot massage,’ she said. ‘I am pretty certain Andrew was given the same treatment. It is unlikely they watched the movie alone and without a massage.’
It emerged last year that an influential literary agent had claimed he saw Epstein and Andrew being given foot massages by two Russian women. John Brockman claimed the Duke – introduced to him as ‘Andy’ – complained that, unlike him, Prince Albert of Monaco was able to go out and ‘does whatever he wants, and nobody cares’.
‘At that point I realised the recipient of… [the] foot massage was Prince Andrew, Duke of York,’ he told a client in an email exchange published in a US magazine. Andrew denied the claim last year during his Newsnight interview.
The source said one of the three women she claims were invited to meet the Duke was regularly ordered to give foot massages in Epstein’s New York home.
She described a ‘hierarchy’ of young women around Epstein and how those who had little or no modelling experience – or came from poorer backgrounds – were forced to give foot massages by Epstein.
But a source close to Prince Andrew said: ‘This has all the hallmarks of a campaign that’s been waged against the Duke for more than a decade.
‘There’s never any allegation of criminality, just insinuation he’s somehow done something “wrong”. In short, it is yet another attempt to traduce the Duke.
‘To deliberately conflate serious cases of wrongdoing by Epstein with whether or not the Duke enjoyed a foot massage a decade ago is both misleading and counterproductive to justice.’
Despite the steady thoroughfare of guests coming and going at the property, the source claims Epstein rarely invited friends to stay over in his house for extended periods.
Andrew, however, was an exception. The Duke would stay in a room decorated like a Royal residence on the third floor, she claimed.
She described how it had dark green walls, long curtains and a marble bathroom. The second floor of the mansion, she said, was ‘Epstein’s personal floor’.
‘I think it was Epstein who told me that the room was decorated just like Andrew’s palace, with dark green walls and a certain type of curtains. The room was even nicknamed Room Britannica. Epstein hosted plenty of guests.
‘He loved to brag about his beautiful houses and how rich he is. If he himself stayed in the house for a month, then guests stayed for a day or two. All of them had to come for a short visit. It was different with Andrew – because he was a prince.’
She added: ‘It seems to me that Epstein used Prince Andrew to attract women.’ The source claimed Andrew was perfectly at home in the huge townhouse.
‘Andrew behaved like he felt himself at home there, he was even going to the kitchen where people were cooking meals… he moved around the house like it was his.’
The source described how Epstein effectively ran a cult. For years she accepted his outrageous lie that he had only once been involved with an underage girl, and that was because he had been tricked by a fake ID document. She now, however, concedes that her former friend ‘crippled many lives’.
Epstein’s death last year emboldened the source to discuss the tycoon’s relationship with Andrew.
‘I am ready to share my thoughts and my memories. I have notes from the past, and there is a desire to share,’ she said. ‘There was definitely a cult. We were scared of him and there wasn’t even a thought we could have done something that he would not like. Not a thought.’
Last night David Boies, a lawyer who represents more than a dozen women who say they were abused by Epstein, questioned the Duke’s claim that he visited the financier to break off their friendship.
‘One suspects, given the length of time he was there, it was a trip like any other trip,’ he said.
Prince Andrew repaid own charity after queries from regulator
https://www.ft.com/content/03d8400b-38a1-433e-9729-c264857d11e0Prince Andrew has suffered further embarrassment after the charities regulator questioned £350,000 of payments to his former private secretary. The affair is the latest setback for the Duke of York, the Queen’s third child, who has been off public duties since a furore over his links with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after news that the prince and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson — who remains a close friend — are in a legal dispute about an outstanding £5m payment for a chalet in Verbier, Switzerland, first reported by the Daily Mail on Thursday. The Charity Commission, which regulates non-profit organisations in England and Wales, intervened over payments made to Amanda Thirsk, Prince Andrew’s long-serving private secretary who left shortly after his disastrous interview with BBC Newsnight last year. Ms Thirsk was a trustee of the prince’s umbrella organisation, the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust (PACT), as well as a director of its profitmaking subsidiaries, including Pitch@Palace, his venture for introducing entrepreneurs and investors. The Charity Commission tightly controls the use of philanthropic funds to pay trustees.
https://www.ft.com/content/03d8400b-38a1-433e-9729-c264857d11e0According to PACT’s annual report, the regulator “raised a concern about remuneration paid to one of the Trustees . . . which the Commission considered to be an unauthorised Trustee benefit”. As a result, a total of £355,297 — relating to five years of payments to Ms Thirsk — was repaid by the Duke of York’s household. The matter was raised by PACT’s trustees in correspondence to the Charity Commission; the commission made no suggestion of wrongdoing by Ms Thirsk. Buckingham Palace and Ms Thirsk declined to comment. “Most charities are supersensitive to the need to comply with the strict laws around trustee benefit,” said Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister. “It is unfathomable to me that a grown-up charity like Prince Andrew’s Charitable Trust got this so wrong.” The affair shines a light on Prince Andrew’s unusual finances. He does not receive a direct public grant and instead has relied on income from his commercial activities. Pitch@Palace rose to prominence after organising events at locations including St James’s Palace. Its growth allowed Prince Andrew to hire more staff and to travel internationally after he was forced to resign as an official UK trade envoy in 2011. PACT is currently in liquidation, along with the UK arm of Pitch@Palace. However, Pitch@Palace Global, the international arm, which reported nearly £600,000 in profits in the year ending March 2019, is expected to live on. It has removed all references to the prince from its website, and is working to “refresh the brand”. Ms Thirsk, Prince Andrew’s private secretary since 2012 until January, is widely seen as having orchestrated the Newsnight interview last year about his links to Epstein. Intended to restore his reputation, the interview had the opposite effect, particularly because the prince declined to say that he regretted his friendship with the convicted sex offender. PACT filed a serious incident report with the Charities Commission after the interview, after becoming “aware of the potential reputational risk by association”.
https://www.ft.com/content/03d8400b-38a1-433e-9729-c264857d11e0
Harvard Gave Jeffrey Epstein His Own Office on Campus
5/2/2020
A new report published this week details the extensive ties between Harvard University and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who mysteriously died in a Manhattan prison last fall. Harvard reportedly gave Epstein his own office on campus in exchange for almost $10 million in donations he gifted to the university between 1998 and 2007.
According to a report by the Boston Globe, Harvard University gave Jeffrey Epstein an office on campus that he continued to visit after he was convicted of underage sex crimes in 2008. In fact, Epstein reportedly visited the campus more than 40 times after been released from jail in 2010. The office was reportedly equipped with Epstein’s personal keepsakes and a dedicated Harvard phone line.
Breitbart News reported in September 2019 that Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow said that the Ivy League institution feels “regret” accepting nearly $10 million in gifts from Jeffrey Epstein. The university blocked Epstein from donating in 2008 when Epstein was convicted on child sex charges.
However, individual professors at Harvard continued to solicit private donations from Epstein after 2008. Martin Nowak, Director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, used a $6.5 million donation from Epstein in 2003 to establish the program. Nowak reportedly rewarded Epstein with private office space on campus for his donation.
The controversy surrounding Epstein forced Bacow to address these private gifts in a letter to the Harvard community. “The report issued today describes principled decision-making but also reveals institutional and individual shortcomings that must be addressed — not only for the sake of the University but also in recognition of the courageous individuals who sought to bring Epstein to justice,” Bacow wrote.
Harvard announced on Friday that Nowak has been placed on paid administrative leave for a potential violation of the university’s grant funding policies.
Claudine Gay, Harvard’s dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, argued that faculty at elite universities should be held to a high moral standard. “We are reminded on a near daily basis what a privilege it is to be a member of this academic community,” Gay wrote. “With that privilege comes a responsibility to hold one another accountable and to make sure, as an institution, we align our practices with the highest ethical standards.”
Breitbart News reported in September 2019 that the Director of MIT’s Media Lab was forced to step down over his ties to Epstein. The decision came after the New Yorker published a report revealing Epstein’s extensive financial ties to the MIT program.
Harvard got $9.1 million from Jeffrey Epstein. Belatedly, it gave $200,000 to charity.
Harvard University joined its cross-town rival MIT in belatedly acknowledging deeper-than-disclosed, extensive ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In a letter to alumni on Friday, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow detailed an internal review of the Ivy League school’s relationship with the late Epstein, concluding that the $9.1 million in gifts he gave directly came to a halt following his sex-crimes conviction in 2008. His relationship with the school continued, however, with gifts through surrogates and more than 40 visits to a program that he had given money to before his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
He even maintained until 2017 what came to be “Jeffrey’s Office” on campus.
“The report issued today describes principled decision-making but also reveals institutional and individual shortcomings that must be addressed — not only for the sake of the university but also in recognition of the courageous individuals who sought to bring Epstein to justice,” Bacow said in concluding his letter to alumni.
Harvard launched an internal review last Sept. 12, barely a month after Epstein’s reported death by suicide on Aug. 10 in the Metropolitan Correctional Center amid circumstances still under investigation. At the time of Harvard’s review, the university had already determined he had given $9.1 million between 1998 and 2008. The giving ended when he was convicted of sex crimes and given a remarkably lax deal that became the basis for the Miami Herald’s Perversion of Justice series in November 2018 and later led to the resignation of Alexander Acosta, the Trump administration’s labor secretary who was a South Florida federal prosecutor involved in the deal.The revelations by Harvard follow a similar mea culpa by MIT earlier this year. MIT released a report on Jan. 10, spelling out nine visits to the campus by Epstein and donations of $850,000, many of which occurred when Epstein was already a notorious Level Three sex offender. For both elite schools, a relationship with Epstein has proven a profound embarrassment.
Results of the deeper Harvard review released Friday — led by Vice President and General Counsel Diane Lopez and covering more than 250,000 pages of documents — show that school administrators became aware of Epstein’s predatory sexual behavior only after his 2008 conviction.
“During the years before Epstein’s criminal activity became known to the public, various Harvard faculty and administrators pursued donations from him, knowing he was a wealthy individual interested in science and philanthropy,” Lopez wrote. “Some members of the Harvard community continued their relationships with Epstein even after his conviction, but these relationships in and of themselves did not violate Harvard policies.”
But in 2008, Harvard’s new president, Drew G. Faust, had to weigh a gift from Epstein. She learned of the allegations against him and ruled against any more gifts from the financier. In 2013, several faculty members sought to overturn that, requesting reconsideration by the then-dean of faculty of arts and sciences, Michael D. Smith. He too said no.
Presumably looking to restore his tattered reputation, Epstein persistently stayed involved with the prestigious higher-learning institution. Two faculty members, the Lopez report concluded, continued to receive funding from donors they were introduced to by Epstein, although the money was not apparently from him.
“Our review did not reveal information that would establish anything to the contrary. Nevertheless, development officers at Harvard knew about Epstein’s continued involvement in encouraging others to donate to Harvard and did not take steps to discourage these efforts despite knowing that gifts would not be welcome from him,” Lopez wrote Friday. “No one violated any Harvard policy in this regard, as there is none; a matter we recommend be rectified.”
Then there is the matter of repeated visits by Epstein to campus to visit the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Evolutionary dynamics involves study of the principles of mathematics that researchers think guided evolution, and Epstein initially funded the program in 2003 with his biggest gift — $6.5 million.
“Epstein maintained a relationship with the director of the PED, Professor Martin Nowak, over the next 15 years, including after Epstein’s release from prison,” Lopez wrote. “While we have not been able to determine the precise number of campus visits, we understand that Epstein visited the offices of PED in Harvard Square more than 40 times between 2010 and 2018.”
There was no evidence Epstein interacted with undergraduate students, she said, and the financier appeared to use the visits to speak to academics in the Cambridge area, covering both Harvard and MIT.
Lopez added that “aspects of his relationship to the PED, such as his access to the program’s offices, treatment on the PED’s website and interactions concerning one grant application do implicate Harvard policies and our findings and recommendations address these issues.”
Her comments, which accompanied the president’s letter to alumni, don’t do justice to what was actually in her 27-page report. For example, it detailed how Epstein retained a visitors keycard until at least 2017, and his own office, a premium in the cutthroat world of academics.
“But others who worked at PED, where office space was often scarce, generally did not view it as interchangeable with other offices, and believed it was reserved for Epstein’s use when he came. (Epstein did in fact use the office when he visited.) Until 2017, PED maintained a Harvard telephone line in that office identified as Epstein’s.”
The report recommended the school consider disciplinary action against Nowak, alleging he effectively allowed Epstein to launder his dirty image.
“When Professor Nowak agreed to devote a page of PED’s website to Epstein, and agreed to link Epstein’s own websites (containing false claims about Epstein’s donations to Harvard) to the PED website, it appears that Professor Nowak failed adequately to consider Harvard’s interest in seeing that its name is well used,” the report said..
Epstein’s rise from a poor kid in the New York suburbs to a high-flying financier with an estate valued at more than half a billion dollars at the time of his death is a story full of holes yet to be filled in. He never finished college and enjoyed none of the trappings associated with arriving at an Ivy League school. All that adds to the intrigue on how a college dropout later in life became a visiting fellow at Harvard, something Lopez addressed in more detail as well.
The position then and now is one of an independent research and registered through Harvard’s Graduate School of the Arts and Science as a graduate research student. Lopez said Epstein’s name was submitted by Dr. Stephen Kosslyn, who between 1998 and 2002 had received $200,000 in donations for his work and did not disclose it in the submission for Epstein to become a visiting fellow. The timeline of the fellowship overlaps with the timeline of Epstein’s eventual arrest and conviction — the first complaint to child sex abuse coming to Palm Beach police in late 2005 and investigation that dragged into a June 2007 indictment.
“After reviewing these records, we conclude, and no one argues to the contrary, that Epstein lacked the academic qualifications Visiting Fellows typically possess and his application proposed a course of study Epstein was unqualified to pursue,” Lopez wrote. “Epstein’s application was, nevertheless, approved, having been supported by a department chair.”
As a visiting fellow, Epstein paid the necessary tuition and showed up for registration, but Lopez said he appeared to do little coursework. Epstein applied to be readmitted for the 2006-2007 academic year and was renewed but withdrew from that appointment later following his indictment.
Harvard said Friday it had donated nearly $201,000 of unused Epstein donation money to two Boston-area charities that combat sex trafficking.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article242439476.html
This is how I see the power dynamics of the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking operation.
There are connections between Keith Rainere’s NXIVM slave cult and Epstein/Maxwell/Wexner that to date have not been revealed.
Remember Rachel Chandler?
On her instagram she posted a photo of Nancy Salzman who she wrote is her “mother”.
Saltzman is the co-founder of NXIVM.
Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman pleads guilty in sex cult case
https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/nxivm-co-founder-nancy-salzman-pleads-guilty-in-sex-cult-case/
And, Epstein, I was told by someone I interviewed “supplied” girls to Keith Raniere.
Let’s remember Epstein had people “supplying” him with girls, too.
Jean Luc Brunel, for one and other “feeder” networks.
SEX, SPIES AND LIES: Sex Slave Survivor Reveals All on Psychological Abuse by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
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KIRBY Sommers’ new book ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Predator, Spy’ she states that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell created such extreme situations for their victims that even when the teenagers that were being abused told someone it was difficult to believe. Sommers is a sex slave survivor to a billionaire friend of Epstein.
Sommers has been investigating the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell crimes related to their international child sex trafficking ring “Gonzo-style”.
She says her journey into the world of Jeffrey Epstein is informed by having survived various sexual assaults throughout her life from the time she was a child.
Kirby tells Politicalite that Throughout history when children have been sexually abused by the elites in the United States, the United Kingdom or elsewhere, these stories usually involve occult practices.
Fraudsters and high-level child abusers use optical and psychological illusions to get away with their crimes. No one has connected these two arts before; however, it is time we take a look at how magic and deception have been used in a series of unspeakable crimes against minors.
There were occult symbols throughout Epstein and Maxwell’s homes. A mask of the devil hanging on a red lacquered wall as seen in Ghislaine’s New York City townhouse.
The mysterious occult symbols are also found in the 75-acre Little St. James – Epstein’s private island are examples.
On the end of the island stands a mysterious blue and white striped temple with a golden dome.
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.”
Aside from the fake windows and the fake door is the fake reinforcing bar. If it is meant to keep people locked on the inside, then it would have been placed on the inside, not on the outside – where it appears to be locking people who are on the inside from getting out. .
‘Psychological operations’ known as (PSYOP) are meant to convey selected information and indicators to people in order to influence their emotions and to change their objective reasoning. This method was used by the United States in counterpropaganda and resistance efforts during World War I to achieve their global security goals. Psyops are also used by governments and intelligence agencies in most countries with the goal of targeting the “hearts and minds” of people in order to evoke a planned psychological reaction.
Not surprisingly, these tactics are taught by government intelligence agencies to be used by their spies.
In 2017 Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami, who in 2007 struck the non-prosecution agreement with Epstein was questioned by Trump’s transition team.
“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?”
Acosta’s response was jaw-dropping, “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”
No further questions on the subject of intelligence were asked and Acosta was hired.
There is no question but that Epstein and Maxwell were intelligence assets. And, it is worth noting that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s father, after falling off his yacht near the Canary Islands in 1991 was given a hero’s funeral in Israel. He has since been known as “Israel’s Superspy”.
On Epstein’s island and in Ghislaine’s home we are looking at optical illusions. Intentional visual deceptions meant to deceive the eyes and the alter the mind.
The element of deception was perhaps the most powerful tool in Epstein and Maxwell’s arsenal against both their underage victims and the public. Tools of war.
So that when any of the victims made the claim of having being raped and spoke about well-known politicians, celebrities and even members of the Royal Family, like Prince Andrew, the victims were not initially believed and even subjected to ridicule.
Add to this when one of these elite public figures, as in the case with Prince Andrew, then states on the BBC that he did not know, nor had ever met, nor has any recollection of Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre, in court documents, has made the allegation that Epstein and Maxwell forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions.
Are these public denials other forms of illusion? I think so. It is called gaslighting. It is an old tactic meant to make a person appear foolish, and perhaps even make her question her own sanity.
The term ‘Gaslight’ comes from the 1940 movie of the same name where a husband (played by Charles Boyer) slowly manipulates his wife (portrayed by 18-year old Angela Lansbury) into making her believe she is going insane. He arranges for a series of odd things like missing photographs, the sound of strange footsteps, and the dimming of lights without anyone touching them. When she complains, he tells her she’s imagined it. He denies the truth with the intent of driving her crazy and distracting her from his criminal activities.
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As I dove deep into the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as well the persons in their circle I was intrigued when I spotted magicians.
It seemed odd when I read in Alan “Ace” Greenberg’s obituary that he was a magician. Greenberg was the chairman of Bear Stearns where Epstein got his start in the world of finance. However, when I spotted a second magician and then a third and then even a fourth, it begged closer scrutiny.
This led me to illusionist David Copperfield whose birth name is David Seth Kotkin. At the age of 18, he played the lead role in the musical ‘The Magic Man’ in Chicago and it was at this point that he began to call himself “David Copperfield” – taking the name from the famous Charles Dickens novel. Long before he became a well-known magician, he was one of my neighbors in New York City.
Even then, however, Copperfield managed to pull off a magic trick by convincing our landlord to tear off a chunk of the ceiling in his studio apartment and transform it into a one-bedroom duplex. He was one of the first people on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to have a spacious bedroom with an en-suite bathroom leading to a private roof deck.
The landlord sidestepped the law and built it without acquiring the proper permits. Copperfield abandoned his new spacious digs when he began to make money. This did not upset our landlord since he then charged more than twice the amount Copperfield paid for the “duplex with roof terrace”.
In 2005 when the Palm Beach Police Department were going through Jeffrey Epstein’s trash, they found a message pad containing several messages from Copperfield to Epstein. One dated January 22, 2005 and received at 7:30pm reads, “It’s Jackpot.”
Another call from Copperfield reads, “Magic David called”. In total there were seven messages during a period of just a few months. One of Epstein’s victims, Johanna who was recruited by Maxwell, said she met Copperfield many times.
Epstein’s housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez testified that David Copperfield was a guest at Epstein’s house on several occasions. It has also been publicly reported that Copperfield himself has had allegations of sexual misconduct made against him by women claiming he sexually abused them when they were minors. In lawsuits, the victims claim the illusionist lured them to his private island (which is near Epstein’s island), and raped them. Those lawsuits have disappeared.
Brad Edwards, an attorney for many of Epstein’s victims, attempted to interview Copperfield for civil lawsuits he was pursuing on behalf of several of his victims. In 2009 Edwards served Copperfield with a subpoena outside of one of his Las Vegas shows. With cleaver maneuverings and in all likelihood with the help of Epstein, Copperfield managed to avoid being deposed.
When Edwards was deposing Epstein, he took the Fifth rather than answer the question: “Did you ever socialize with David Copperfield in the presence of females under the age of 18?”
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It’s important to note that intelligence agencies study and use magic to aid them in their covert activities. Both the CIA in the United States and the Israeli Mossad have documented use of magicians and illusionist they have employed to help them with “magic tricks”.
During the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia, John Mulholland, a renowned magician, was hired by the CIA to write a manual for their agents on “misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft”.
Mulholland was born in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at Columbia University and the City College of New York. During 1919 through 1925 he supplemented his income by teaching industrial arts at Horace Mann School. An interesting side note is that William Barr, the Attorney General of the United States during Epstein’s first arrest and also the Attorney General for Donald Trump during Epstein’s second arrest attended Horace Mann before going on to Columbia University.
Mulholland was a close friend of Harry Houdini, who is also alleged to have been a spy.
In 1953 he began to work for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and wrote a series of in-house guides detailing the secrets of magic that could enhance the art of espionage.
The CIA ordered all traces of his work to be destroyed but in 2007 some of his manuals resurfaced. The contents were turned into an illustrated book “The Official C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception” and describes a series of tricks like how to slip poison into the enemy’s drink or how to surreptitiously remove documents.
One book written by Mulholland as a “spell-book” for solders is now owned by David Copperfield.
. . .
The CIA has spent a considerable amount of time and money studying human behavior, and trying to learn how to control how individuals think and respond.
In the 1950s, the agency, via a highly classified program MK-ULTRA conducted experiments on people using LSD, marijuana and other drugs. Sometimes on unsuspecting people to tap into “brain warfare”.
They preyed upon vulnerable members of society. They targeted state hospitals (where my father was a patient), schools for mentally impaired children (where my oldest brother was a patient before he committed suicide at the age of 21), and prisoners (Whitey Bulger, former crime boss, who in 1957 was used as a test subject).
These unsuspecting people were administered electro-shock therapy, hypnosis, radiation, a variety of drugs, toxins and chemicals. The goal of the CIA was chilling. They wanted to “gain control of bodies whether they were willing or not.”
In 1957 the CIA’s Inspector General made it clear their covert activities in had to be kept secret from the general public. He stated, “the knowledge that the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its mission.”
The following is a CIA excerpt from a 1957 report to influence human behavior:
In considering the objectives, it is helpful to examine the operational problems the program is designed to meet: One of the major problems is that of improved interrogation techniques. Many different methods are used to break down an individual’s resistance to interrogation but there is always doubt about the accuracy and reliability of information obtained by the classical methods of pressure, duress or torture. The use of drugs or psycho-chemicals in this respect is not new. So-called “truth serums” have been used, sometimes successfully but more often not. The approach being taken by the Chemical Division is to use psycho-chemicals to create within the individual a mental and emotional situation which will release him from restraint of self-control and induce him to reveal information willingly under adroit manipulation.
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Some of Epstein’s victims with whom I have spoken have told me they were at first approached in a friendly, non-threatening manner by Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is alleged to have been the top recruiter. She pretended to care while gathering information from them, like their grades, whether or not their father was alive, gathering information from them for the purposes of manipulation.
Let’s take a look at another CIA document. This one from a letter dated October 12, 1959.
“In consideration of the possibility of removing the receptionist in Building 13 and substituting a secretary, Mr. _____ (blacked out) stated he believed the receptionist served a useful purpose. He stated that as an older woman she is most helpful in calming employees, particularly young girls.”
. . .
One of the first covert missions of the Mossad in the 1940s was as dubbed ‘Operation Magic Carpet.” Decades later Victor Ostrovsky, a Mossad operative would say of the assassination of Robert Maxwell that “making it look impossible was part of the kidon magic.” He claimed that spies trained by the Mossad work like highly trained illusionists.
David Copperfield was in Epstein’s black book and in 1990 he wrote ‘Tales of the Impossible.’
‘Tales of the Impossible,’ 1995 book by David Copperfield
It is not far-fetched to conclude that Copperfield, among perhaps other magicians, played a significant role within the CIA or the Mossad in teaching Epstein and Maxwell new tricks and techniques into fooling unsuspecting children the adults in their orbit.
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In 2010 the author Martin Dillon, was approached by a Palm Beach socialite to ask him to write a book on Jeffrey Epstein. Dillon has won international acclaim for his investigative reporting and co-wrote ‘Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy – The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul’ with Gordon Thomas. Thomas, who passed away in 2017, was a British investigative journalist, and specialized in writing about the Mossad.
The un-named socialite claimed to have a lot of sources within the police department and access to information the public had not seen. She produced phone messages and flight logs which showed Dillion the high-powered world leaders Epstein associated with. She explained the girls were very young – within the ages of 12 to 14. And she was also very concerned about Ghislaine Maxwell’s sexual relationship with them.
One day, the socialite, while in her Manhattan apartment was threatened. Someone used a very powerful laser to put the image of a penis on her bedroom ceiling. She became terrified and immediately called Dillon and told him it was Epstein’s egg-shaped penis.
He was very skeptical of her statement and wondered if she was to be trusted at all. To investigate further Dillon contacted a person he knows in the intelligence community. His contact told him it would require scoping out her apartment, and that a laser like that only exists within the Industrial Military Complex. He concluded that whoever did this had to have very “serious friends”.
Whether she had previous sexual relationship with him or saw his privates in photographs kept by the Palm Beach police department is unknown.
Even with the information he had been given by his intelligence contact, it wasn’t until strange things began to happen to him that he realized she had been telling the truth.
Dillon began to have serious concerns about working on a book about Epstein because he said he knew it was possible for Epstein to bring serious trouble to his life.
Neither Dillon nor the socialite pursued the project any further.
https://www.politicalite.com/epstein/updated-sex-spies-and-lies-jeffrey-epstein-maxwell/
David Blaine and David Copperfield
@kirbysommers
Remember, the reason there have been no additional arrests in the Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell child sex trafficking case is because those who abused these children sit in positions of authority.
Worldwide.
@kirbysommers
Intelligence agencies across the globe operate as “above the law” criminal organizations on behalf of the elite.
The Jeffrey Epstein slip gave us a peek into their secret world.
@JamesRusbridger
OXFORD UNI BORIS JOHNSON
Balliol 1983-87 k’butz 1984
GHISLAINE MAXWELL Balliol 1982-85 k’butz 1980,81 or 82
ARIADNE CALVOPLATERO ChristChurch 1982-85
CRESSIDA DICK Balliol 1979-82
STEPHEN TWIGG Balliol 1985-88
KEIR STARMER St Edmund 1985-86
GEORDIE GREIG St Peters 1979-c81
Keir Starmer
Prince Andrew won’t voluntarily cooperate in Epstein inquiry, prosecutor says
Despite public offer to help with investigation Andrew has ‘completely shut the door’, and New York attorney general is now considering other options
Mar 9 2020
Prince Andrew has “completely shut the door” on cooperating with US investigators in the Jeffrey Epstein case and they are now “considering” further options, a New York prosecutor said on Monday.
Andrew was a friend of Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender whose death in custody while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in New York last year was ruled a suicide.
Andrew denies all claims of sexual misconduct relating to the Epstein case but has stepped back from public duties as a result of his connection to it.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Manhattan US attorney Geoffrey Berman said: “Contrary to Prince Andrew’s very public offer to cooperate with our investigation into Epstein’s co-conspirators, an offer that was conveyed via press release, Prince Andrew has now completely shut the door on voluntary cooperation and our office is considering its options.”
In November, Andrew said he was “willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations if required”.
Berman made a similar claim in January, which former sex crimes prosecutors told the Guardian was most likely a move designed to win political support for the investigation.
Buckingham Palace said then it would not comment and the matter was being dealt with by the prince’s legal team. Contacted on Monday, the Palace repeated that statement.
Andrew has been accused of having sex with a young woman provided by Epstein, a claim he categorically denies.
In a December interview with the BBC, the accuser, Virginia Giuffre, now 35, called Andrew’s denial “BS”.
“He knows what happened,” she said. “I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth, and I know that’s me.”
The Guardian has reported that according to flight logs, Andrew was among nine people on Epstein’s plane for a trip from the US Virgin Islands to Florida in February 1999.
A lawsuit filed by the US territory’s attorney general in January cites new evidence that Epstein “held captive underage girls” there as recently as 2018.
@kirbysommers
Excerpt from: ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Predator, Spy’:
“Israel was heavily involved… and at one point in the 1980s Vince Foster became linked to the Mossad.
Some of the same handlers of Jonathan Pollard worked with Foster. Through his work, Foster ended up being involved in PROMIS, and in the BCCI bank scandal – which…
Prince Andrew hires leading extradition lawyer to fend off FBI probe into his links with paedo Jeffrey Epstein
8 Mar 2020
He has taken on Clare Montgomery, whose previous clients include Shrien Dewani — cleared of murdering his bride on honeymoon in South Africa.
Ms Montgomery, 61, is thought to earn £1,000 an hour.
She is briefed by Gary Bloxsome, who defended Brit troops against war crime claims.
A pal said: “He is as sharp as a blade, absolutely brilliant.”
Mr Bloxsome was also appointed directly by Andrew, 60.
Buckingham Palace has previously refused to reveal who acts for him.
Sources have confirmed the duke has regular meetings with his team about the investigation into associates of Epstein, who killed himself in jail last year.
In January, US prosecutors publicly accused the royal of ignoring attempts to contact him.
New York attorney Geoffrey Berman said the duke had given zero co-operation.
Buckingham Palace will only say it does not represent him as he is no longer a working royal.
As a rule, US prosecutors wanting to speak to a witness in Britain would go through the legal attaché at the US embassy in London.
But sources at the New York prosecutor’s office said they went directly to Andrew’s lawyers.
The duke has said he is “willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations”.
Businessman Dewani, of Bristol, was cleared of organising a hit on bride Anni, 28.
She died after their taxi was hijacked near Cape Town in 2010.
Ms Montgomery represented Dewani at extradition hearings in 2012.
He was eventually sent to trial in South Africa in 2014.
The senior barrister, of Matrix Chambers, co-founded by Tony Blair’s wife Cherie, has also represented ex-Chile dictator Augusto Pinochet and Nirav Modi, wanted for India’s biggest fraud.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11122534/prince-andrew-hires-extradition-lawyer-fbi-probe/
@KirbySommers
The involvement of intelligence agencies goes back many decades. The players change. Iin 1970s it was Bernie Cornfeld, Robert Vesco, Hugh Hefner. In the 1990s-2000s it’s Jeffrey Epstein, Leslie Wexner. The game stays the same.
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1159519463542263813 …
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Richard Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell was the person, according to Jeffrey Epstein, who “introduced” him to Steven Hoffenberg. According to Steven Hoffenberg the person who “introduced” him to Epstein was Ed Leese.
Some overlapping characters.
Richard Nixon’s nephew Donald Nixon worked for Robert Vesco.
Donald Nixon also worked for Steven Hoffenberg at Towers Financial.
Towers Financial also employed Jeffrey Epstein.
@kirbysommers
Mark Epstein and his very close friend Michael Bloomberg.
Miami Herald challenge denied, leaving some Jeffrey Epstein records under seal
February 27, 2020
A federal judge’s rejection of a Miami Herald appeal for release of documents related to the investigation of disgraced financier Jeffrey E. Epstein raises the chances that the public may never learn the names of men who preyed on underage girls with him.
In a four-page decision written in a mocking tone, Judge Loretta Preska on Wednesday shot down a request for reconsideration from the Miami Herald and reporter Julie K. Brown, whose Perversion of Justice series led to the late Epstein’s re-arrest and downfall.
The decision is a setback, said Sanford L. Bohrer, a lawyer with Holland & Knight, which has represented the Herald in numerous Epstein matters. While an appeal is being considered, those who participated with Epstein in the sexual abuse of minors can breathe easier, he lamented.
Like Epstein, Copperfield has a mannequin hanging from his chandelier. Instead of eyes on the walls like Epstein had, Copperfield has bodies.
Epstein was “very close” to Tim O’Brien. Who is Tim O’Brien? He went to Lakefield. The same high school Prince Andrew attended in CANADA. That is where O’Brien met the Duke of York. Almost everything about O’Brien has been scrubbed off the internet.
Tim O’Brien made ‘The Boys Club’ and many other films. Jeffrey Epstein was a “financial contributor” to some of O’Brien’s films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_Club …
Lakefield/Prince Andrew/Father Gleed
Former royal protection officer says ‘rude’ Prince may have stayed at Buckingham Palace and NOT his Sunninghill home as he claimed on night he is accused of sex with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts
- Officer contradicted Prince Andrew’s account of movements on March 11, 2001
- He believes the Duke may have returned to Buckingham Palace in the early hours
- He recalls Prince arriving by car and hurling abuse at guards over police radio
- The Duke was allegedly shouting: ‘Open these bloody gates, you buffoons!’
- Ms Roberts claims earlier that night she was coerced into having sex with him
A highly respected former Royal protection officer has raised questions about Prince Andrew‘s ‘alibi’ for the night he allegedly had sex with teenage trafficking victim Virginia Roberts.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, the officer says he believes the Prince may have returned to Buckingham Palace in the early hours of March 11, 2001 – contradicting his account of being ‘at home’ all evening after taking his daughter Beatrice to Pizza Express in Woking.
Ms Roberts, then 17, claims that earlier that night she was coerced into having sex with the Duke after being flown to London by serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaking for the first time, the officer – who had an ‘exemplary’ 23-year career in the Metropolitan Police – recalls how the Duke of York arrived by car at the front of the Palace in the middle of the night and hurled abuse at guards when they did not open the gates quickly enough.
Crucially, he believes it could have been the same evening the Duke was alleged to have had sex with Ms Roberts at the home of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell after dancing at Tramp nightclub in London.
If correct, his bombshell account would shatter Andrew’s so-called alibi.
The officer has neither requested nor received payment for his interview, and wishes to remain anonymous. But he says he has spoken out through a desire ‘to see justice done’.
He has agreed to speak to the lawyers acting for Epstein’s victims, who have repeatedly urged the Prince to cooperate with them.
The astonishing claims – provided in an affidavit signed by the officer…
The offspring of Yehuda Koppel (Abigal) and Livia Chertoff (Michael) who were mossad agents continue to employ deception tactics into the Era of Jeffrey Epstein.
Abigail at age 33 marries Leslie Wexner age 55 in January 23, 1993.
Michael Chertoff is the 9-11 for Epstein.
El-Al was also involved with SPYING activities and even the earliest members of their staff were Mossad agents.
El-Al was also involved with SPYING activities and even the earliest members of their staff were Mossad agents.
Koeppel worked with Michael Chertoff’s mother, Livia.
Livia was a mossad agent and was involved with Operation Magic Carpet which also included the CIA’s help.
Michael Chertoff was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving under President George W. Bush.
Michael Chertoff’s mother is Livia Chertoff (née Eisen), an Israeli citizen and the first flight attendant for El Al.[2]
For the 2016 presidential election, Chertoff, who was involved as special counsel investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton for Whitewater in the 1990s, endorsed Hillary Clinton.[29]
@kirbysommers
I think it’s important to keep the real estate transactions in mind when studying Jeffrey Epstein and his role as an “intelligence asset”.
In 1992 the Office of Foreign Missions rented to Jeffrey Epstein the residence located at 34 East 69 Street
Adnan Khashoggis had one of his business associates partner w/a French woman Mireille Griffon aka Madam Mimi 2 run an escort service. They maintained a roster of 300 girls who serviced Adnan + his clients.
Epstein took a page from AK’s book.
Let’s remember that Ehud Barak, Israel PM, and Jeffrey Epstein were “partners” + that Barak was also the recipient of $2.3 million “grant” from Leslie Wexner’s “Foundation” between 2003-2006. No specific reason cited.
Prince Andrew stayed with billionaire accused of raping 10 women – some as young as 14
The scandal comes as another embarrassment for Buckingham Palace as Prince Andrew is linked to Peter Nygard – months after the Duke of York faced questions over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
15 FEB 2020
He stayed at the Bahamas mansion of fashion mogul Nygard, who is facing a civil lawsuit in which it is alleged he raped 10 teenagers.
Three of them were said to be only 14 and another three 15 at the time.
The claims come after Andrew quit royal duties over his friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein.
He and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson stayed at 77-year-old Nygard’s Caribbean home in 2000.
The Finnish-Canadian billionaire is accused in a New York court of luring the females to his mansion with promises that he would help them with their modelling careers.
It also claims he “initiated a scheme to purchase police protection and political cover in the Bahamas by making regular payments of tens of thousands of dollars to law enforcement, government officials, regulators and even to a former Cabinet minister who became the Prime Minister of the Bahamas”.
And it claims the businessman “paid people, using Nygard Company money, to intimidate his former ‘girlfriends’ by slashing their tyres, committing arson, paying police to threaten to arrest them and by having them followed”.
The alleged rapes took place between 2008 and 2015.
Women’s wear mogul Peter Nygard accused as vile sexual predator, hosted ‘pamper parties’ to rape and abuse aspiring models and underage girls, according to Manhattan lawsuit
Peter Nygard seen at Fame and Philanthropy’s Celebrates the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at The Vineyard Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, CA.
Rags-to-riches garment business legend Peter Nygard was accused of sex trafficking paid underage “girlfriends” to both satisfy his perverse sexual peccadilloes and lure new victims to drug-fueled “pamper parties” at his beachfront Bahamas home, a stunning new lawsuit alleged Thursday.
The Manhattan Federal Court filing claimed the 76-year-old Nygard raped seven teenage girls, ages 14 to 16, at his private Nygard Cay getaway in the Bahamas — with some of the terrified teens drugged before they were sexually assaulted.
Among the guests at Nygard’s luxury property over the years was Prince Andrew, who came under scrutiny for his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein before the accused sex fiend committed suicide last year.
Nygard, 76, amassed a decades-old database of more than 7,500 women and underaged girls, dating back to 1987 and maintained by the Nygard Companies’ IT department, according to the class action suit that identified 10 “Jane Does” as plaintiffs.
The victims were often recruited through regular company events known as “pamper parties,” where women promised interviews for high-end modeling jobs were instead used for sex at wild parties featuring cocaine and alcohol inside the Bahamas residence, the federal court paperwork charged.
“Nygard used his considerable influence in the fashion industry, his power through corruption of officials, and a network of company employees under his direction to groom and entice underage girls and women,” the lawsuit alleged.
“Nygard would use means of alcohol, drugs, force fraud and/or other forms of coercion to engage in commercial sex acts with these children and women … in many cases, with knowledge that they were less than eighteen years old.”
An email to Nygard’s business for comment on the salacious allegations was not returned Thursday.
Two years ago, the company — with its Times Square global headquarters — marked its 50th anniversary, the culmination of its founder’s unlikely ascension from Finnish immigrant to worldwide success and head of his eponymous clothing empire. The self-made man, who borrowed $8,000 to launch his women’s clothing business, once lived in a Manhattan apartment near his flagship Midtown store.
A Daily News reporter was escorted from the building after asking about Nygard and the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, some of the girlfriends were placed on the Nygard Companies payroll and paid monthly for “modeling and promotional services” rather than their duties as full-time sex workers.
Designer Peter Nygard arrives for Norby Walters’ 24nd Annual Night Of 100 Stars Oscar Viewing Gala held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2014. It’s unknown if the unidentified women pictured with Nygard here are part of the lawsuit.
Nygard, known for a flowing mane of hair spilling down to his shoulders and a buff physique belying his age, launched his business in 1968. He has steered clear of the Bahamas property since he was sentenced last year to 90 days in jail and a $150,000 in fines for alleged environmental violations at Nygard Cay.
Back in 1987, Nygard designed and built the luxurious property that, according to the lawsuit, was turned into a den of torture where underaged girls were routinely assaulted.
The new lawsuit alleged that local Bahamian police were paid by Nygard to harass or threaten any sexual abuse victims considering legal action against their accused tormentor.
“Due to his power and influence in the Bahamas and worldwide, Nygard’s victims reasonably believe that he can have them killed if they pursue their claims,” the lawsuit alleged.
“…been a part of what was essentially a “sex trafficking ring”.
‘The prince and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson stayed at Nygard Cay, near Nassau, with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie (pictured with Nygard)’
Prince Andrew’s visit to second tycoon facing child rape claims as fashion boss Peter Nygard accused of abusing 10 teens
14 Feb 2020
PRINCE Andrew visited a billionaire tycoon accused of raping 10 teens at a Bahamas mansion.
Peter Nygard, 77, is the second of the Duke’s associates to be accused of sex offences, following his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Fashion mogul Nygard is alleged to have invited ten girls to his lavish estate under the guise that he would help them with their modelling careers.
Prince Andrew reportedly stayed with Nygard’s mansion in the Bahamas with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2000.
A lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York claimed that Nygard plied his subjects with alcohol and drugs before they were violently assaulted, raped and sodomised.
Nygard, worth a reported £1.3bn and runs women’s clothing company Nygard International, has strongly denied the allegations.
There is no suggestion he knew of Nygard’s alleged criminality.
In the case against Nygard, the teenagers, some as young as 14, launched a class action lawsuit in Manhattan – claiming to have been a part of what was essentially a “sex trafficking ring”.
The suit alleges the girls would be entertained at so-called “pamper parties” where Nygard would have bartenders at his Mayan-themed vacation home spike their drinks with Rohypnol.
The lawsuit details how one of the victims who was 15-years-old at the time had been taken to Lyford Cay, Nygard’s estate.
During the evening, Nygard allegedly tried to anally sodomise her before raping her and then asking her to defecate and urinate in his mouth in a bizarre sexual fetish known as Coprophilia.
Another of complainants tells how her encounter with Nygard began with him showing her pornography.
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Nygard then asked her to use a sex toy on him and when it ended, he raped her “causing her extraordinary trauma and pain”.
A press release about the lawsuit stated: “This horrific episode is just one of many like it detailed in the complaint against Nygard and his business entities by 10 brave women.
“The class action lawsuit accuses Nygard of sex trafficking and rape – all financed and facilitated by his family of corporations and their employees.”
Ten women in total, now aged between 18 to 36, have detailed their alleged encounters.
Nine of the women are from the Bahamas while one is from the US, although none have had their names revealed in the suit.
Three of the women were 14-years-old at the time of the alleged rapes which took place between 2008 and 2015, while three others were 15.
Barclays boss Jes Staley’s links to Jeffrey Epstein investigated
City watchdog and Bank of England examine bank CEO’s ties to disgraced US financier
13 Feb 2020
The City watchdog and the Bank of England are investigating the Barclays chief executive, Jes Staley, over his links to the sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The inquiry was launched after emails between the two men were handed to the UK regulators by their counterparts in the US.
Barclays revealed the existence of the investigation in a statement to the stock exchange. It said the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), part of the Bank of England that oversees banks, had launched the investigation in December.
Barclays said it focused on Staley’s “characterisation to the company of his relationship with Mr Epstein and the subsequent description of that relationship in the company’s response to the FCA”.
The American banking boss, who joined Barclays in 2015, says he developed a relationship with Epstein in 2000 when he was hired to lead the private bank at JP Morgan which deals with wealthy customers. Epstein was already a JP Morgan client when Staley joined.
It is common for bankers to work closely with wealthy clients, whose accounts are lucrative for the business. But Staley stayed in touch with Epstein for seven years after the financier was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. Staley visited Epstein in Florida while he was still serving his sentence and out on work release in 2009.
The relationship did not end after Staley left JP Morgan for hedge fund BlueMountain Capital in 2013. The Barclays boss said the relationship started to “taper off’” after he left the US bank, with contact becoming “much less frequent” before it ceased altogether two years later.
But the pair remained close enough that Staley’s final visit involved sailing his own yacht, the Bequia, to Epstein’s private Caribbean island in 2015.
Staley said his final contact with the financier was in “middle to late 2015”, shortly before he took over as Barclays’ chief executive in December. It is not clear why Staley decided to cut ties with the former banking client.
Staley volunteered to explain his ties to Epstein last summer, when the media cast a fresh spotlight on their relationship.
The chief executive shared his account with key executives and the Barclays chairman, Nigel Higgins, and told the board he had made no contact with the financier since joining the UK bank.
It is understood the email exchanges, first reported by the Financial Times, suggest the two men were closer than Staley had said.
As the investigation was revealed on Thursday, Staley said he regretted his ties with Epstein. “Obviously I thought I knew him well, and I didn’t. And for sure with hindsight of what we all know now, I deeply regret having had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Barclays said it had conducted an internal review and had no concerns over the way its chief executive had characterised his dealings with the convicted sex offender.
A spokesman said the bank had been aware of the relationship with Epstein before Staley’s appointment in October 2015.
Barclays added that Staley had “confirmed to the board that he had no contact whatsoever with Mr Epstein at any time since taking up his role as Barclays Group CEO in December 2015”. Barclays has seen the email exchanges sent to the regulators.
The board said it “believes that Mr Staley has been sufficiently transparent with the company as regards the nature and extent of his relationship with Mr Epstein. Accordingly, Mr Staley retains the full confidence of the board, and is being unanimously recommended for re-election at the annual general meeting.”
News of the Epstein investigation comes less than two years after Staley was personally fined almost £650,000 for attempting to unmask a whistleblower at Barclays in 2016.
An FCA spokesman said: “The FCA and PRA confirm there is an investigation concerning Mr Staley. We are unable to comment any further.”
Staley said: “It’s been very well known that I had a professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It goes back to the year 2000 when I was asked to run the JP Morgan private bank. And he … already was a client when I joined the private bank. The relationship was maintained during my time at JP Morgan, but as I left Morgan the relationship tapered off quite significantly. We occasionally stayed in contact, and that all ended in late 2015.”
Staley added that the investigation “is focused on my transparency and openness with the bank regarding my relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. I feel very comfortable, that, going all the way back to 2015, I have been very transparent.”
The news overshadowed the release of the bank’s annual earnings, which showed pre-tax profit rose 25% to £4.4bn. Excluding legal and conduct costs, profit rose 9% to £6.2bn.
Staley received a pay package worth £5.9m in 2019, up from £3.4m a year earlier. That figure was due to a long-term incentive plan worth £1.5m. His bonus also rose to £1.7m.
When asked whether any of Staley’s pay would be impacted by the regulatory investigation, a Barclays spokesman said: “There is always the option to make an adjustment in future if it’s called for.”
Sara Bronfman and Heather Kerzner [gay divorcee of billionaire hotelier Sol Kerzner] attend the
Nxivm Sex Cult Financier Sara Bronfman Once Attended Luncheon for Children in Crisis with Duchess of York – While Raniere’s Son Was in Hiding
Judge demands answers from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate after millions of dollars flood into his dormant offshore bank in the Virgin Islands in the months following the pedophile’s death
- Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his New York jail cell in August last year
- The disgraced financier had previously set up a bank for offshore clients in 2014
- After his death, huge sums of cash were sent to his Virgin Island offshore bank
5 Feb 2020
Millions of dollars that were sent from the estate of disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein into a bank he owned – but appeared to never have operated as a business – has raised questions from a judge overseeing a court case over his remaining assets.
In a hearing yesterday in the Virgin Islands over the disgraced financier’s remaining assets, Judge Carolyn Hermon-Purcell told lawyers representing his estate she wasn’t satisfied with their account of large sums being sent to a bank first set up by the pedophile in 2014.
The judge has been tasked with assessing Epstein’s assets and possibly creating a victims’ fund for the women he assaulted.
In documents presented to the judge, transactions show a series of multi-million dollar payments from Epstein’s estate to his bank, Southern County International, after his death.
Despite the territory approving the bank’s operation in 2014, the bank showed no signs of having been operational in the years before Epstein’s death.
In August last year, when Epstein was found hanged in his jail cell, the bank – which was specifically opened to manage offshore payments and investments – had just $693,157 in assets.
In December 2019, Epstein’s estate transferred $15.5 million to the bank. The bank sent back $2.6 million, leaving $12.9 million.
There was then a withdrawal of nearly all funds before the end of the year, leaving the balance at around $500,000.
Judge Hermon-Purcell said: ‘There’s no explanation for it.’
The payments were listed among everyday bills, for things like cable payments.
Epstein’s lawyers said the transfers were made in error but Judge Hermon-Purcell has demanded Epstein’s estate provide further details on the accounting irregularities.
In his 2014 application for the license to run the bank, which his criminal history shouldn’t have allowed him to obtain, he described himself as one of the ‘pioneers’ of investment.
He added that he would like to chase the ‘dynamic discipline of international banking.’
The application he was approved for allowed him to run one of the US Virgin Islands’ first international banking institutions.
This was an international bank, which would allow him to deal with offshore clients and investments.
To be the owner of a bank, one must undergo extensive background checks and it’s a surprise that the application was approved with Epstein’s prior history of sexual assault, according to the New York Times.
The bank renewed its license every year up until Epstein apparently killed himself.
Despite the renewals, there has been no indication that the bank was operating as a business in the the time it was open.
At the time of his death last August, the disgraced pedophile’s estate was said to be worth $577 million, but the revised sum ($57 million more) is now laid out in a new quarterly accounting document obtained Monday.
In the six months since he died, Epstein’s executors have liquidated four of bank accounts and sold off his fleet of luxury cars to bolster the worth of his estate.
Epstein, who grew up in a working class Brooklyn family, was a financier, but there is still some mystery as to how he managed to acquire such astronomical sums of money.
According to the new documents, the executors have sold five of Epstein’s cars including a $195,000 Bentley, a $133,200 Mercedes and three Chevrolet Suburbans worth a total of $112,000.
The identities of the purchasers have not been disclosed.
Epstein’s estate also closed four bank accounts associated with his companies. The accounts held more than $500,000 in cash combined.
The document also reveals that Epstein did his main banking through two banks in Puerto Rico – 1 First Bank and Banco Popular.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7969451/Epsteins-mystery-bank-came-alive-death.html
These Scrubbed Reports Reveal New Secrets into the Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein Relationship
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…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex-Housekeeper Facebook Photos Show Her With Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton
Florida prosecutors release trove of Jeffrey Epstein files
Feb 3 2020
Florida prosecutors released their entire Jeffrey Epstein case file Monday in the largest public records dump since the financier was first investigated for serial pedophilia more than a decade ago.
The trove of records is from the Palm Beach state attorney’s fumbled 2008 investigation into Epstein in which the mogul managed to walk away with a low-level charge of solicitation of a minor after he was accused of abusing dozens of minors.
The case file includes three videos of a walk-through of Epstein’s Palm Beach estate, audio recordings of interviews with suspects and other internal documents related to the office’s investigation.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/03/florida-prosecutors-release-trove-of-jeffrey-epstein-files/
Prince Andrew ‘had visits from Ghislaine Maxwell 4 times a day’ says ex-protection officer
Prince’s Andrew’s former protection officer says the Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were so close the pair enjoyed intimate picnics on the grounds of Buckingham Palace
Jan 25 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell was so close to Prince Andrew she visited him at Buckingham Palace up to four times a day, an ex-cop claims.
The British socialite, accused of being a fixer for depraved paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, also allegedly enjoyed intimate picnics with Andrew in the grounds – in view of the Queen’s bedroom window.
The revelations by former Met cop Paul Page, who was a protection officer for Andrew from 1998 to 2004, come as the prince faces further scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein.
Mr Page said: “The first occasion I had cause to meet Ghislaine was when the privy purse phoned down and said, ‘We’ve got a guest coming for Andrew but the name is not to be entered in the book’. That was about 2001.
“She turned up in a chauffeur-driven Range Rover and we let her in. Half an hour after that me and my colleague walked through the garden to go back to the police lodge and he was having a picnic with her by the summer house, opposite the Queen’s bedroom window.
“One of my colleagues saw her come in and out the Palace four times in one day.”
The FBI is still probing Epstein’s crimes and it is believed Andrew would be questioned if he steps on US soil.
But Mr Page played down talk of a grilling, saying: “I don’t think anything is going to happen. There’s no evidence that I can see that’s gonna come to light that can put him in the frame.
“Even if the FBI request information from the Royal Protection Command, they will get a big fat no.
“They’re not going to get any documentation from the British police in terms of Prince Andrew’s movements or anything else.
“If his legal team thought there was any possibility of indictments coming his way, they’d have shut the idea of doing the TV interview down. So he must have had some guarantees that this isn’t going anywhere to publicly speak.”
Protection
Mr Page added that Andrew is now trying to distance himself from Ghislaine.
He said: “He’s obviously been advised to. She’s not going to be afforded the same protection as Andrew, in terms of the FBI investigation. But I can’t see that Ghislaine is going to give any information against Andrew. I just can’t see it.”
Mr Page lost his job when he was convicted over a £3million investment fraud in 2009. But he insists his crime was unrelated to his job.
@KirbySommers
I have a source who is a Jeffrey Epstein victim (does not want to go public) who tells me that the Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell ring was connected to the Craig Spence “call-boy” ring of Washington D.C. Spence, like Epstein, “suicided.”
Craig J. Spence (1941 – November 10, 1989) was a Republican lobbyist who was found dead in a Ritz-Carlton hotel room in 1989.[1][2]
Spence was implicated in a scandal around a gay call-boy ring that arranged after-hours visits to the White House, the Washington Times and other papers reported in June 1989. Afterward, Spence committed suicide in a Boston hotel.
Washington call-boy scandal
Spence’s name came to national prominence in the aftermath of a June 28, 1989 article in the Washington Times identifying Spence as a customer of a homosexual escort service being investigated by the Secret Service, the District of Columbia Police and the United States Attorney’s Office for suspected credit card fraud. The newspaper said he spent as much as $20,000 a month on the service. He had also been linked to a White House guard who has said he accepted an expensive watch from Mr. Spence and allowed him and friends to take late-night White House tours.[4]
Spence entered a downward spiral in the wake of the Washington Times exposé, increasingly involving himself with call boys and crack,[5] and culminating in his July 31, 1989 arrest at the Barbizon Hotel on East 63rd St in Manhattan for criminal possession of a firearm and criminal possession of cocaine.[6]
Months after the scandal had died down, and a few weeks before Spence was found in a room of the Boston Ritz-Carlton Hotel, he was asked who had given him the “key” to the White House. Michael Hedges and Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reported that “Mr. Spence hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons”, including Donald Gregg, national security adviser to Vice President George H. W. Bush at the time the tours were given.[5]
When pressed to identify who it was who got him inside the White House, Spence asked “Who was it who got [long-term CIA operative] Félix Rodríguez in to see Bush?”, agreeing that he was alluding to Mr. Gregg.[5]
Gregg himself dismissed the allegation as “absolute bull”, according to Hedges and Seper. “It disturbs me that he can reach a slimy hand out of the sewer to grab me by the ankle like this,” he told the reporters. “The allegations are totally false.”[5]
Death
On November 10, 1989 Spence was found dead in Room 429 of the Boston Ritz Carlton, the city’s most expensive hotel.
During a lengthy interview at a Manhattan apartment a few months before his death, Spence alluded to more intricate involvements. “All this stuff you’ve uncovered (involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours), to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I’ve done. But I’m not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on.”[7]
Before long, the man from nowhere (he was, in fact, briefly a reporter for ABC in Viet Nam, and was said to have ties to Asian businessmen who were paying for his house, two bodyguards and Mercedes) had reportedly been host to John Mitchell and William Casey, journalists Ted Koppel and William Safire, and several Congressmen.
Spence would probably still be throwing dinners at the posh Four Seasons Hotel for people like Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, as he did last spring, if the police had not raided a male prostitution service in February. The raid turned up thousands of dollars’ worth of credit-card receipts signed by Spence. Though he was not the only Washington figure to use the service (the Washington Times, which broke the story, says some White House and congressional aides will be implicated), Spence must have been among its best customers. He ran up a $1,525 tab in one day, $20,000 in a month.
To show off his clout last year, Spence took two clients and a pair of male prostitutes on a midnight July 4 tour of the White House.That same weekend, Spence gave Secret Service agent Ronald deGueldre, who arranged the tour, his $8,000 Rolex; deGueldre gave Spence his $22 Casio — all out of friendship, says deGueldre. The agent’s house in Virginia was searched last week for pieces of Truman china, a set of presidential cuff links and a tiepin that disappeared mysteriously after the tour. Officials will not say if anything was found.
https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958213,00.html
@BoreDaily
So. Ken Starr and toad @AlanDersh , BOTH of whom won #epstein a ridiculously light jail term for abusing @vrsvirginia in 2008, and resulting in many more kids being abused, are now @realDonaldTrump impeachment counsel. Like … hold your nose ….
@KirbySommers:
#Epstein #Maxwell #Wexner #Starr #Dershowitz
There is something wrong when Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz become attorneys for President Donald Trump in view of the fact these where attorneys (and in one case an alleged abuser) for Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators.
Alan Dershowitz, close friend of pedophiles Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell (and other alledged abusers of Epstein’s child sex slaves) ALSO represented another pedophile:
Roman Polanski who raped a 13 year old.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘first victim’ says he introduced her to Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s when she was 14 and the pedophile said ‘she’s a good one, right?’
- A woman claims she was convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s first victim in a new lawsuit against his estate
- And she alleges the now-deceased financier introduced her when she was 14 to Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort in the 1990s
- The now-deceased Epstein was alleged to have said to Trump at the time, ‘This is a good one, right?’ The litigation doesn’t accuse Trump of any wrongdoing
- The woman, identified as Jane Doe, alleges that she met Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislane Maxwell, when she was 13
- The victim says Epstein and Maxwell groomed her for abuse by frequently talking about sex and insisting she indulge their every whim
- Epstein took his life in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting sex-trafficking charges in August
A woman has alleged in a new lawsuit filed against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that she was the convicted pedophile’s first victim and he introduced her to Donald Trump when she was 14.
The woman, known as Jane Doe in the suit, alleges that when the now-deceased pedophile made the introduction at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort in the 1990s, he asked, ‘This one’s a good one, right?’
Trump, according to the litigation, ‘smiled and nodded in agreement
An image from footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a 1992 party, obtained by the ‘Morning Joe’ show on MSNBC. A woman has alleged in a new lawsuit filed against Epstein’s estate that he introduced her to Trump when she was 14
The case was filed in Manhattan Federal Court Friday, the Daily News reports.
The woman was too young at the time to understand when Trump and the financier ‘chuckled,’ and she was left to feel uncomfortable, the suit says, the Daily News reports.
Trump is not accused in the suit of any wrongdoing.
The suit is one of more than two dozen filed by women against the dead financier’s estate, alleging they were sexually abused by Epstein, who at age 66 took his life in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in August.
The victim, according to the litigation, met Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, when she was 13, and while attending Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan.
The suit says the victim at the time was attending the camp for vocals.
Epstein and Maxwell groomed the young girl for abuse by frequently talking about sex and insisting she indulge their every whim, according to the suit.
She alleges she was first sexually abused by Epstein in late 1994, and claims she traveled with him and Maxwell on his private jet.
The alleged abuse took place at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion in Manhattan, Palm Beach home and New Mexico ranch, according to the suit.
The victim says she was raped by Epstein several times, starting in 1997.
She is seeking financial compensation from the $577 million estate.
Epstein’s estate wants the plaintiffs to be compensated from an optional out-of-court claims settlement program.
Prosecutors are still conducting an investigation to identify those who helped Epstein snare his victims. He and Trump, who were pals within the same social circles for many years, had a falling out over a real estate dispute, the Daily News reports.
‘I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you,’ Trump said after Epstein was arrested last year.
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The United States allowed Robert Maxwell (who is alleged to also have been working for the CIA, as well as MI6, Mossad and the Russians) to steal nuclear secrets from Sandia Labs when he sold them a compromised PROMIS software
The trojan horse gave Israel access to the U.S. nuclear secrets.
PROMIS had been stolen right from under INSLAW by the U.S. Government. However Inslaw turned around and sued the United States for the theft. Inslaw’s lawsuit, initially won, was appealed and reversed.
The company was then stonewalled repeatedly. Three people directly involved with knowledge of the case were said to have been murdered. One of these people was Danny Casolaro (who I have discussed before).
In 2003 an attorney for INSLAW was able to get an explanation for why the Bush administration refused to settle the case. Several people were named as being part of the #coverup and #stonewalling. These people are: Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense),
Scooter Libby (Chief of Staff and National Security advisor to VP Cheney), Richard Perle (Chair of the Defense Policy Board). The reasons they cited were that a settlement would embarrass then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Further since these parties “knew” about the U.S. having given nuclear secrets to Israel they cited that settling with INSLAW would “complicate U.S. policy in the Middle East.”
Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father and partner of Jeffrey Epstein, was involved in the
breach of nuclear secrets by selling a compromised version of PROMIS (with a second back door) to our nuclear labs located in New Mexico.
Maxwell’s involvement goes further. As you know he owned a publishing empire (no doubt with dirty money). One of his newspapers was the
Daily Mirror where he employed former mossad spies as journalists.
In 1988 Mordechai Vanunu, a junior technician/nuclear scientist at Israel’s Nuclear Research Center in Dimona told a reporter at the Daily Mirror about Israel’s nuclear capacity.
Robert Maxwell, a spy for Israel, then told Israel. In turn Vananu was arrested and convicted of espionage and treason for 18 years. To this day he remains a hostage of Israel where he is routinely harassed, threatened and detained in what has become a life of torture.
Kenneth Starr part of deep state. This is one of my threads from December. It talks about #coverups re: PROMIS and why Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes were protected. Exposing Epstein would have unraveled even darker crimes.
Kenneth Starr did not become Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney by chance. Starr was tasked with protecting Epstein. Why? Because through the child trafficking ring another more closely held secret was going to be revealed.
https://twitter.com/StoneTurnr/status/1211366297797349376 …
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1211374406804459520
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Adnan Khashoggis had one of his business associates partner w/a French woman Mireille Griffon aka Madam Mimi 2 run an escort service. They maintained a roster of 300 girls who serviced Adnan + his clients.
Epstein took a page from AK’s book.
Let’s remember that Ehud Barak, Israel PM, and Jeffrey Epstein were “partners” + that Barak was also the recipient of $2.3 million “grant” from Leslie Wexner’s “Foundation” between 2003-2006. No specific reason cited.
Everyone seems to forget that Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump in his little black book, including emergency numbers. He also had Ivanka, Ivana and Melania’s number.
Trump and Robert Maxwell were in the same social circles in the 90’s. Trump joked that his yacht was bigger than Maxwells (The Lady Ghislaine) while at a social gathering on Maxwell’s. Both were weirdly sold to them by Khashoggi’s (the guy that SA chopped up) uncle, a Saudi arms dealer.
Ghislaine Maxwell asked her father to introduce her to Trump. His response;
“Have you got your bum in your head?” the elder Maxwell responded, according to an account by the late Nicholas Davies, a Mirror editor who wrote Maxwell’s biography. “Why the f— would Donald Trump want to waste his time seeing you with your crappy gifts when he has a multimillion-dollar business to run?”
She must have made it happen because in 1997 a writer for the New Yorker wrote in an article that they shared a ride on Trumps plane with Eric Trump and Ghislaine. She was also a frequent guest at Mar a largo. It is unsure if she was the one that introduced Epstein to Trump.
Epstein lived next door to Trump in Palm Beach and NY. So no need for a plane ride. There is at least one account that places Trump at Epsteins mansion in Palm Beach creepy house where he oddly ate his dinner in the kitchen with the houseman.
“He would come, have dinner. He never sat at the table,” said Alessi, who described himself as Epstein’s majordomo. “He eat with me in the kitchen.”
They were jointly accused of binding and raping a 14yo girl at Epsteins creepy house in Manhatten. (Hidden rooms, hidden cameras ect.). She dropped the suit because of multiple threats. Something Stormy Daniel also claimed. Michael Cohen testified he wasTrumps pitbull.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., asked Trump’s former lawyer, “How many times did Mr. Trump ask you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf?” She asked if it was 50, 100, 200 or 500 times. He agreed with 500.
An example of Cohen threatening the Daily Beast if they released the testimony from Ivana describing how Trump beat and raped her after a botched scalp reduction
“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”
“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet… you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” he added.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-me-feel-violated-during-sex
Trump appointed Acosta to Sec. Of Labor and Dershowitz as his personal lawyer. Both oversaw Epsteins first case of sexual assault and made an illegal deal that was never shown to the victims which allowed Epstein to walk free for the most part and prevented the victims from accusing anyone else.
Epstein frequently attended events at Mar a largo for the span of a decade and they were close enough to hold a private party for just the two of them and a few dozen calender girls.
Epstein boasts he introduced Melania to Trump.
Epstein black book contained 14 private numbers for Trump, including emergency numbers. He also had numbers for Ivana, Melania and Ivanka.
The whole “He likes girls on the younger side” thing which Trump had also been known for.
Virginia Giuffre, the woman that testified against Epstein and got him locked up was procurred from Mar a Largo when she was a young teen that was learning to give massages.
This narrative that Trump only knew Epstein in passing is just not true.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/21/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-1424120
Nicole Junkermann v Johnny Vedmore: Secretive German Court Censorship to Hide IDF and Epstein Links
Epstein associate uses German courts to silence and intimidate journalists
The envelope marked with a Berlin postmark turned out to be a bill for ¾ of Nicole Junkermann’s legal costs for her taking out an injunction on me. I have no idea what the injunction says, or what excuse Nicole Junkermann’s legal team gave to the Landgericht Berlin to allow her to cover up her sordid links. There has been no attempt to follow due process and the Berlin regional court only publishes the cases which it deems ‘worthy’, this case is apparently not seen as such. So I cannot believe that this injunction is legitimate in any way whatsoever as there is no record of it available anywhere and I have never been officially informed. This is an attempt to silence an independent journalist through intimidation and I’m not the only one. After putting my predicament on Twitter it has become clear that Nicole Junkermann’s attempt to cover up my article has affected many other independent journalists. Others have been targeted and censored.
One of the first to fall as a result of my initial article were the intrepid researchers who made up Voat.com. They were initially put out of action by a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack and they would never be allowed to return. Soon after releasing the articles I would receive emails from Germany calling me anti-Semitic – for writing an article about a Catholic woman who is married to the man who runs the Vatican Bank – and they would also ask for “my price” to drop the story. A person claiming to be the photographer for the dystopian IDF backed company headed by Nicole Junkermann, Carbyne, would threaten me with legal action for using her pictures, ignoring fair use. She used multiple spellings of her name and when questioned about the people she worked for, and asked to confirm her details, she was never heard from again. They also attempted to scare Jason Bermas off in the same way but Jason doesn’t scare easily. I was informed by Ed Opperman that my initial interview with him was in the German courts. Apparently, Junkermann had YouTube take the interview down in Germany only via a court order. Another apparent German court order which I’ve been unable to find any evidence of. I went back to listen to the interview only to find that much of the audio had been distorted. French blogger Panamza, of http://www.Panamza.com, is also being targeted by Junkermann using the German court system to intimidate journalists.
This is what a real cover-up looks like. I knew that this story would be very spicy and that was part of the reason why I took so long in researching it before I published anything. I can understand why no member of the mainstream media has dared to cover it. The mainstream media are cowards. I contacted almost every newspaper, media outlet, journalist and hack I could in both the United Kingdom and Germany when I first released it. They all chose to ignore the piece. And when the story was being shared relentlessly by an army of concerned members of the public, they still ignored it. Matt Hancock MP didn’t respond to any questions about the NHS Healthtech Advisory Boards inclusion of Nicole Junkermann and one of her businesses OWKIN. Since the article, there has been no more recorded meetings of the Healthtech Advisory Board.
My own website has also been a target for a mass of censorship. So much so that someone has even used the “Right to be Forgotten” laws on my behalf. If you now search Google for Johnny Vedmore my own website www.JohnnyVedmore.com doesn’t even register. It’s still there, but they’ve fraudulently had my name removed from Google Search to hide their negative press. If I wasn’t connected to the many very fearless independent journalists online, I may not have even learnt about the many acts of censorship. I don’t want to be forgotten but they’re now using European data protection laws to wipe me off the internet in secret. And Junkermann isn’t the only person using every available method to help wipe one of my articles from the world wide web. The number one cheerleader for establishment peadophillia, QC Barbara Hewson, is also having my websites results removed on Google Search to hide her own intriguing history.
Being censored is enough to drive someone crazy. If you deny people’s right to free speech in these ways then it will end in violence, we have all seen examples of this. Even though personally I’m not going to become a terrorist quite yet, I am but one of millions of humans who are experiencing the same sort of sinister behaviour. Censorship isn’t only happening in China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Wake up.
For now, I will be having my original Junkermann articles translated into German. It’s very clear that Nicole Junkermann is trying to hide her Epstein and IDF connections from the German public. I will be contacting members of the Bundestag to help me fight on behalf of free speech and a free press. The more I am intimidated and censored, the louder I shall become.
My Message to Nicole Junkermann
My public message directly to Nicole Junkermann is simple. It is you that flew on Epstein’s Lolita Express, it is you that met two senators with Epstein at the Wexner mansion in the UK, it is you that took Epstein’s money, it is you that publicized your connections with the IDF and publicly ran Carbyne, it is you who helped win the exclusive TV rights to the FIFA world cup using Sepp Blatter’s relative to sweeten the deal, it is you that was caught hiding money offshore and was exposed in the Panama Papers, it is you who is on a tech advisory board of the NHS – a public sector institution paid for by UK taxpayers like myself, and it is you who needs to take ownership for these decisions.
You are currently behaving like a spoilt little rich girl who is unable to take ownership for the consequences of her own actions and that is the problem. You must take responsibility for your own actions Nicole, you’re a grown woman.
Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre appear in court to hash out plan to unseal documents that name MORE high profile individuals connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring
- Neither Ghislaine Maxwell nor Virginia Giuffre appeared at hearing in Manhattan court today to work out the release of documents in the defamation case
- Giuffre’s filed a defamation suit against Maxwell in 2015 after Epstein’s procurer called her a liar
- When asked about Maxwell’s whereabouts the plaintiff’s lawyers admitted they have no idea where she is in hiding
- Judge Loretta Preska urged the lawyers to streamline the review and set a timetable for the release
- Maxwell’s attorney, Laura Menninger, said that some of the ‘non-parties’ are ‘in positions of means with counsel’
- But others ‘live out of the country or in remote places… without counsel’ and so would need a fair chance to file their objections via letter
16 Jan 2020
Neither Giuffre nor Maxwell appeared at the hearing and when asked about Maxwell’s whereabouts the plaintiff’s lawyers admitted they still have no idea where she is hiding. Recent reports claim she is being hidden from the FBI in a series of safe houses.
Judge Preska today urged the lawyers to streamline the review of documents and suggested that the motions be grouped into ‘batches of five’, meaning they would be released on a ‘rolling basis’.
The judge also asked for a plan on how ‘non-parties’, whose names are in the documents, would be notified and given the chance to respond.
The Judge said that Maxwell had written to the court on December 5, 2019, citing ‘various reasons for maintaining sealed materials’ with ‘privacy’ being a key concern.
Maxwell’s attorney, Laura Menninger, said that some of the ‘non-parties’ are ‘in positions of means with counsel’ but noted that some ‘live out of the country or in remote places… without counsel’ and so would need a fair chance to file their objections via letter, to which Judge Preska agreed.
The non-parties are to be notified in two weeks, Judge Preska said. Once the non-parties respond, Maxwell and Giuffre’s legal teams will be able to file their oppositions.
Sigrid McCawley, attorney for Giuffre, raised the issue that the next document dump of material would be reflect badly on her client as ‘Maxwell is not objecting to any items that could be negative to Virginia’.
Preska said that she no reason for documents to be withheld ‘to which there is no countervailing interest’ and said they should be released ‘ASAP’.
Following the court hearing, Menninger ignored a question on the whereabouts of Ghislaine Maxwell.
McCawley addressed the fact that Maxwell had not objected to documents being unsealed which are ‘negative’ to Virginia.
‘In this process, we want it to be fair and equal and Virginia was always willing to have this be an open process, but she wanted it to be open on both sides.
‘In other words, that all documents in the case would be revealed, not just piecemeal documents that Maxwell wanted to be released.’
There is no set date on when the next document dump will be, other than in the ‘near future’.
McCawley said the next step was that the non-parties would be notified in two weeks and ‘get a two-week period to file an objection if they so want’.
‘The Judge will be reviewing those, assessing what she is allowing Maxwell to do which is set forth countervailing interests.’
McCawley said that that ‘might be where the battle lies’ because Maxwell has set forth an extensive list of reasons why these documents should not be released.
‘We will argue against that,’ she added.
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate is sued by U.S. Virgin Islands over alleged widespread sex abuse
15 Jan 2020
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate was sued on Wednesday by the U.S. Virgin Islands, which claimed that the late accused sex offender raped and trafficked in dozens of young women and girls on a private Caribbean island he owned.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the top law enforcement officer in the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges that multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually trafficked hundreds of young women and girls on his private island, some as recently as 2018, aided by a web of shell companies to carry out and conceal his crimes.
The allegations, if validated, broaden the scope of Epstein’s sexual trafficking, and shed new light on the tactics Epstein used to hide his illicit activities.
The lawsuit seeks forfeiture of the islands, valued by managers of Epstein’s estate at more than $86 million, because of their use in alleged crimes.
The complaint filed by Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George significantly broadens the scope of the financier’s alleged misconduct, saying it spanned from 2001 to 2018 and targeted girls who appeared to be as young as 11 or 12.
It seeks civil penalties plus some assets from Epstein’s estimated $577.7 million estate, including the forfeiture of his two private islands, Little St. James and Great St. James.
Wednesday’s lawsuit could reduce the sums available for the more than 20 other Epstein accusers already suing the estate, after his suicide cost them a chance to see him convicted.
Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the estate’s executors, have set up a fund to compensate victims.
In a statement sent on their behalf, a lawyer rejected George’s contention that the fund subjects claimants to “confidentiality requirements,” and said the fund is not intended to shield anyone from liability.
Epstein died last Aug. 10 at age 66 by hanging himself in a Manhattan jail cell, after pleading not guilty to abusing and trafficking in women and girls in Manhattan and Florida from 2002 to 2005.
He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to a Florida state prostitution charge, and completed a 13-month jail sentence now widely considered too lenient.
Epstein was also friends with people like Britain’s Prince Andrew, who retreated from public life in November after a disastrous TV interview where he appeared unsympathetic to the financier’s victims.
According to the complaint, Epstein, with help from accomplices, “trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted and held captive” girls and young women at his properties in the Virgin Islands, where he had registered as a sex offender in 2010.
The complaint said Epstein kept a computerized database to track girls who could be sent to Little St. James, which he bought in 1998 as “the perfect hideaway” to traffic them “for sexual servitude, child abuse and sexual assault.”
Epstein then allegedly bought nearby Great St. James in 2016, using a straw purchaser to conceal his identity, to keep people from monitoring him from there, and keep victims from escaping there.
As recently as July 2018, Epstein refused to let a Virgin Islands investigator and U.S. marshals enter Little St. James beyond its dock, which he called its “front door,” the complaint said.
Prince Andrew pictured with sex scandal governor – amid concern he stayed at infamous Epstein ranch on official visit
14 Jan 2020
PRINCE Andrew is pictured swapping gifts with sex-scandal-hit former New Mexico governor – amid concern he may have stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s nearby ranch during an official state visit.
In pictures unearthed by The Sun, the Duke can be seen grinning as he gives a gift to Bill Richardson, the former Governor of New Mexico, who has been implicated in the Epstein sex scandal, during an official visit to New Mexico in 2003.
Now there’s mounting concern that Andrew stayed at pedophile Epstein’s notorious “baby-making” Zorro ranch, which is just a short 45 minute drive from where the official state visit took place.
The prince spent three days in New Mexico – October 20, 21 and 22 as the UK’s trade envoy – but neither the Palace or the office for the governor of New Mexico can confirm where he stayed.
On the first day, he held a press conference with Richardson in Santa Fe – an hour’s drive from Zorro Ranch – where they both swapped presents.
Andrew received a black concho belt while Richardson was given a wine coaster, which was handmade by a cousin of the royal.
The trip was covered by the local newspaper The Santa Fe New Mexican, who spoke to Andrew at the time and said he was ‘honoured’ to be in New Mexico.
He added: “We have a great deal in common. We want to improve trade with you and the United States.”
Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Guiffre, formerly Roberts, has since claimed in court documents that she was told by the disgraced financier to have sex with many prominent men including Richardson. Both Prince Andrew and Richardson have denied any wrongdoing.
Even though there is no official record of where the Duke stayed, he has admitted to staying at Epstein’s “houses” in the US during their friendship.
In his recent BBC Newsnight interview the Prince Andrew said he saw Epstein two or three times a year, adding: “Quite often if I was in the United States and doing things and if he wasn’t there he would say, ‘Why don’t you come and use my houses?’ so I said, ‘That’s very kind thank you very much indeed’.”
It comes after a former staff member at Zorro ranch revealed how Prince Andrew visited Zorro ranch in the early 2000s, where he was entertained by a “beautiful neurosurgeon”, believed to have been hired by Epstein.
Deidre Stratton told the podcast Epstein: Devil in the Darkness that the woman in her 20s stayed with the Duke in a three-bedroom cottage at the ranch called the Lodge.
During the alleged visit the woman believed to be hired to entertain him apparently came down to the property’s kitchen to ask if they had any tea that would make the Royal “horny”.
The Sun has obtained the first pictures of the “Lodge” the Duke allegedly stayed in.
Deirdre believes that visit took place in 2001 or 2002 but admits that she could have had the exact year wrong – and says she did work at the ranch in 2003.
The prince’s trip was front page local news, where he also visited a local college and observatory.
According to the local newspaper, “the visit is part of his role as his country’s ambassador of international trade and investment.
“He is seeking support for United Kingdom companies trading internationally and to encourage foreign investment.”
This blurry photo shows the fertility room, apparently full of naked pictures and statues
The court circular for October 19 to October 21 describes the visit and lists his various engagements – but does not state where he stayed.
On October 20, it states: “The Duke of York this evening attended a Dinner given by the Governor of New Mexico, at the Governor’s Mansion, Santa Fe, New Mexico.”
Again it does not state whether Prince Andrew spent the night at the Governor’s Mansion or elsewhere.
The mansion is around 37 miles from Epstein’s 10,000 acre ranch.
When asked whether or not Prince Andrew stayed or visited Zorro Ranch on official state business, the Palace said: “All official engagements undertaken by members of the Royal Family are recorded on the Court Circular.”
They declined to comment further.
A representative for the Office of the New Mexico Governor said they had no records of where the royal stayed.
Richardson has denied ever meeting Guiffre, while Prince Andrew has always denied any wrong doing and tried to downplay his friendship with Epstein.
It comes after The Sun revealed last week how Epstein ordered a masseuse for the Duke during a visit to LA, three years before Andrew claims they met.
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Nader was photographed frolicking around on Jeffrey Epstein’s island with Bill Clinton, Tony Podesta, Ricardo Cheaz, and Rolando Gonzalez Bunster.
Police won’t say where Prince Andrew’s guards were on night he’s accused of sex with teen
Jan 14 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The Met Police have come under fire after refusing to reveal where the royal’s protection team was on the day Virginia Giuffre – who was trafficked by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – claimed to have had sex with Andrew when she was 17. The Duke of York said he was at Pizza Express in Woking.
Police have come under fire for refusing to release details about Prince Andrew’s bodyguards’ movements on the night he allegedly had sex with a teenage girl.
Prince Andrew infamously claimed he was at Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey, on March 10, 2001 – the day he’s accused of having sex with Virginia Roberts, now Virginia Giuffre, in London.
Virginia, who was 17 at the time, says she was trafficked by the prince’s paedophile billionaire pal, Jeffrey Epstein.
Mirror Online submitted a Freedom of Information Act request asking for details of his police bodyguards’ movements on that day – but the Met has knocked it back, claiming the information could put national security at risk and aid criminals.
“In my opinion the police are keen not to risk embarrassing the royals and are misusing legitimate exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to let themselves off the hook”?
And he continued: “The police are tasked with protecting the royals from physical harm, not from legitimate inquiry, criminal investigation or embarrassment.
“I hope this decision will be challenged as far it needs to go.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-wont-say-prince-andrews-21261789
An MIT report into the university’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein has identified a number of senior figures who facilitated donations from the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, including three vice presidents, mechanical engineering professor Seth Lloyd, and former Media Lab director Joi Ito.
MIT has placed Lloyd on paid administrative leave, after the investigation found that he “purposefully failed” to tell administrators about a $100,000 donation from Epstein in 2012, years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for securing an underage girl for prostitution. Ito resigned last year after news of the scandal became public.
The details: The findings show that Epstein, who died in jail last August while on charges of sex trafficking minors, donated about $850,000 to the university between 2002 and 2017. This was higher than the $800,000 reported after the news of the controversial payments first emerged. Three vice presidents—Gregory Morgan, Jeffrey Newton, and Israel Ruiz—all knew and approved of gifts starting in 2013. Morgan and Newton have previously retired. In December, MIT announced that Ruiz would step down after this semester.
Lloyd also failed to disclose a $60,000 personal gift from Epstein that was made around 2005, before the conviction. He then received two donations of $50,000 in 2012, which the report claims Epstein used to test MIT’s willingness to accept donations after his conviction, writing to Lloyd that “im going to give you two 50k tranches to see if the line jingles.” Lloyd was not immediately available for comment.
The background: MIT first came under fire for accepting donations from Epstein last summer. Initially, the focus was on the Media Lab and Ito, who apologized for taking $525,000 from Epstein for the Media Lab and $1.2 million for his private ventures, and later resigned.
This is a photo taken on November 24, 1991 of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell (and Tony Randall) at a tribute for her mother, Elisabeth, and in honor of Robert Maxwell.
It was given by the YIVO Institute. In an interesting twist, Jeffrey Epstein gave YIVO Institute in 2011 a gift of $50k. It was the last donation he made and the money is said to have been part of the money Leslie Wexner put into Epstein’s non-profit.
On November 5, 1991 Robert Maxwell *fell* off his yacht and died.
On November 7, 1991 Ghislaine Maxwell read a statement in Spanish while standing on the Lady Ghislaine yacht to the Spanish authorities who found her father’s body.
Ghislaine is photographed in Israel on November 8, 1991 when her father’s body arrived to be buried at the Mount of Olives in Israel.
On November 9, 1991 this photograph was taken of Ghislaine Maxwell and her mother, Elisabeth, in Jerusalem after Robert Maxwell was buried.
On November 24, 1991 this is a photo of Ghislaine’s mother, Elisabeth at the event in New York City standing next to a photo of her deceased husband, Robert Maxwell.
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In 1991 Leslie Wexner is already a multi-billionaire. He is 54 years old. Is unmarried. And he hands over his entire net worth to Jeffrey Epstein. This is what enables Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell to begin their 20 year reign of terror on trafficked children.
Jeffrey Epstein “inherits” Robert Maxwell’s blackmail operation.
1991. Ghislaine Maxwell is brought to New York by Jeffrey Epstein. They are photographed here at the Plaza (then owned by Donald Trump). The event was a tribute to her recently deceased father, Robert Maxwell.
This is the same event at the Plaza Hotel in New York City that Jeffrey Epstein attended with Ghislaine Maxwell.
“The (U.S.) government gave PROMIS to Israel.”
Robert Maxwell, on behalf of Israel, then went to New Mexico where he sold compromised versions of PROMIS to Sandia Labs. This meant that Israel had access to all the nuclear secrets of the U.S.
Was this intentional on behalf of the U.S. to give Israel a back door into our nuclear program?
Or was it a slip-up, a mistake — one done for profit by a group of people at the top of government and one which has to be kept secret to present day?
The successor of the PROMIS software is PRISM.
Of PRISM, Edward Snowden made this comment: “I, sitting at my desk [could] wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1213485633584467970
Judge denies release of Jeffrey Epstein’s grand jury records
7 Jan 2020
A judge Tuesday rebuffed criminal investigators looking at sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s cushy treatment by South Florida authorities over a dozen years ago.
It happened when special prosecutors appointed by the governor came to the Palm Beach County Courthouse seeking records from a 2006 grand jury that indicted Epstein on a single felony prostitution count.
They said they’d like to know whether the grand jurors ever heard that police had evidence that several minor girls were molested by the financier at his Palm Beach estate.
Not so fast, ruled Chief Circuit Judge Krista Marx, refusing to order the release of the grand jury tapes at this time.
Marx pointed to well-established Florida law that the closed-door grand jury proceedings can be unsealed only as a “last resort,” and when it is clear that doing so will lead to a discovery of wrongdoing.
Jeffrey Epstein’s socialite ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell ‘is being hidden from the FBI in a series of safe houses because of the information she has on powerful people’
- Maxwell has remained incognito since Epstein’s arrest and death behind bars
- New report claims both she and Epstein were ‘assets’ for a foreign government
- Source says they funneled dirt on the rich and powerful to foreign spies
- Now Maxwell may be hiding in a safehouse in Israel, the new report claims
- She is a British and US citizen, and daughter of an alleged Mossad operative
1 Jan 2020
Born in France, Maxwell is both a U.S. citizen and British subject. Her family’s alleged ties to Israel’s national intelligence service, Mossad, have been well documented.
Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, was a Czech-born British media mogul whose financial fraud in raiding the Mirror Group pension fund was discovered after his death in 1991.
Also a British member of parliament, Robert Maxwell reportedly had ties to British intelligence, the Soviet KGB, and Mossad — and was suspected of being a double or even triple agent by British Foreign Office officials.
After his mysterious death on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands in 1991, Robert Maxwell was buried in Jerusalem with high honors, with Israel’s prime minister and multiple current and former heads of Israeli intelligence services in attendance at the funeral.
‘They were like partners in business,’ Janusz Banasiak, Epstein’s house manager, said in a deposition.
Epstein’s butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, described Ghislaine Maxwell in a deposition as ‘the boss.’
Epstein’s accusers have said that Maxwell’s authority extended to managing the complex logistics of his perverse activities with girls as young as 14.
‘She orchestrated the whole thing for Jeffrey,’ said Sarah Ransome, one of some two dozen women who spoke out before a federal judge in New York in August.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein are seen on a pheasant ahoot with Prince Andrew in Sandringham, Norfolk, Britain in December 2000
Urramoor Limited, Urramoor Property Ltd and Urramoor Hydrocarbons, and Naples Gold
Revealed: Duke of York set up secret investment fund under assumed name ‘Andrew Inverness’
The Duke of York secretly set up a private investment fund under an assumed name to channel deals brokered in Buckingham Palace.
The Duke is the owner of four linked companies registered at Companies House under the name ‘Andrew Inverness’. The Duke, 59, was given the title Earl of Inverness by the Queen when he married Sarah Ferguson in 1986.
But critics will suggest that in deliberately choosing to register the businesses under the name ‘Andrew Inverness’, the Duke was attempting to avoid scrutiny.
The first of his group of companies were set up six years ago but the Duke’s links to the companies have not been made public until now.
The first business called Urramoor Limited was incorporated in February 2013, 18 months after the Duke was stripped of his UK trade envoy role over his continued association with Jeffrey Epstein, a US financier who had been convicted of child sex offences.
The timings suggest the Duke was seeking new business opportunities after being ordered to step down from his public trade envoy role that had allowed him to travel the world as a representative of the Government.
There is almost no detail in the public domain about Urramoor and it does not have a website. But a US-South African investment firm which had a tie up with Urramoor described the company as “The Private Investment Office of HRH Duke of York”.
Maya Stendhal, who boasts of financial connections in Saudi Arabia, was at one stage listed as the chief executive of Issar UK, an investment fund, who “leads the joint venture between Issar and Urramoor”.
Three further Urramoor companies have been registered in the past six years, including Urramoor Property Ltd and Urramoor Hydrocarbons, which was jointly run with a Turkish tycoon who made his money developing golf courses.
2013 Jessica Yadloczky HRH Duke of York Prince Andrew Charley Hull National Golf Club Chairman Bülent Göktuna
Bulent Goktuna is founder of Turkey’s national Golf Club, and chairman of Mineks International, a telecoms and energy conglomerate based in Istanbul. Urramoor Hydrocarbons was set up in 2014 but shut down less than two years later without publishing any accounts.
Urramoor is run by Libby Mitford Ferguson, 51, a Cambridge University educated barrister who runs her own separate property company. Ms Ferguson – who is not related to the Duke’s ex-wife but who has been photographed with her – was on the guest list for an event at Buckingham Palace at which tech start-up companies tried to attract investors.
The Pitch@Palace event was another commercial enterprise set up by the Duke. It is not clear if Urramoor was involved in negotiating deals at the Pitch@Palace event.
In December last year, a representative of Urramoor attended an agricultural investment conference held in London. Ms Ferguson declined to comment when approached by the Telegraph.
In a text message, she wrote: “There is no story about Urramoor. It is a dormant company and about to be struck off.”
The most recent ‘micro entity’ accounts for Urramoor Ltd show creditors are owed more than £180,000 but gives no information to their identity.
Another company Urramoor Property Ltd lists as its director Amanda Thirsk, the Duke’s private secretary. It shows no activity in its latest accounts.
Asked about the companies, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said it was not something they would comment on.
The spotlight has turned on the Duke’s business activities in the wake of the uproar over his friendship with Epstein who killed himself in the summer while facing multiple child sex charges.
The Duke suggested in the catastrophic Newsnight interview that Epstein had provided him with commercial nous that he had been pleased to acquire. The Duke insisted he did not regret his friendship with financier because of “the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful”.
The Telegraph has found evidence of the Duke using the name ‘Andrew Inverness’ to make hotel bookings and on one occasion in a business deal that went wrong.
Under the name ‘Andrew Inverness’, he was listed as a creditor when a luxury ski holiday company went bust, owing the prince £27,000, as long ago as 2009.
Descent International had offered high end chalets in the Alps in locations such as Klosters, Switzerland. The Duke had stayed at the company’s chalet in Klosters when attending the World Economic Forum in nearby Davos.
The Duke is also listed as a director at Companies House under the name ‘Andrew Inverness’ for another business Naples Gold Limited, which was incorporated in November 2002. It has filed paperwork ever since, including a recent set of accounts, showing no trading activity, submitted to Companies House earlier this month.
He also used the name to register a 40 percent holding in Inverness Asset Management (IAM), a company set up with David Rowland, a wealthy British property developer. IAM remained active until March this year.
The Duke’s commercial interests have come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Newsnight interview. His Pitch@Palace flagship project is in turmoil as a consequence with the British arm being wound up while directors have quit the Pitch@Palace Global, a worldwide profit-making businesses, that matches investors with tech start-up companies.
The Duke has been forced to step down from all public engagements and is quitting almost 200 charity patronages as a result of the latest row over his friendship with Epstein, 66, who killed himself in the summer while awaiting fresh child sex abuse charges. Virginia Roberts, who was trafficked by Epstein, has claimed she was forced to sleep with the Duke three times when she was aged 17 in 2001. The Duke has vehemently denied her claims.
AMANDA JANE THIRSK
Jeffrey Epstein accused of sexually abusing ANOTHER schoolgirl who was lured to his Manhattan mansion age just 14
28 Dec 2019
Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused a 14-year-old and then offered her cash to lure other high school girls to visit him, a new lawsuit claims.
The woman – now 30 – says the sickening abuse took place at the shamed tycoon’s New York mansion between 2003 and 2006.
The claim – filed at the Manhattan Federal Court anonymously under the name Anastasia Doe – states she was sexually abused at 14 and eventually raped by the financier when 16.
The alleged victim says that after three years of abuse he then asked her to bring him more young girls saying he would pay for each one, the New York Post reports.
She herself was recruited by an underage friend who told her she could get $300 to give a massage ‘to a rich man in Manhattan’, according to the court papers filed Friday.
When she and the friend first arrived, Epstein was laying face down on a massage table where he allegedly told the girls to get naked.
He then began touching Anastasia’s private parts and abused her with a sex toy, the suit says.
Over the next three years she was ‘contacted regularly’ to schedule weekly meetings with the now dead paedophile, the court papers say.
Then when she was 16, Epstein had sexual intercourse with her after paying her $400 instead of the normal $300 payment, the suit alleges.
Epstein also encouraged ‘Anastasia’ to bring over other high school friends of hers adding that he would pay her $300 for each one she brought, the court papers claim.
“Plaintiff did as she was instructed to do and brought Jeffrey Epstein other females as young as 14 years old,” the lawsuit says.
The woman now suffers from “psychological trauma, mental anguish, (and) humiliation,” and she has “incurred medical and psychological expenses,” the court papers say.
She is suing Epstein’s estate and the estate executors for unspecified damages.
A lawyer for the executors and a lawyer for the estate did not immediately return a request for comment.
Last week another lawsuit claimed Epstein raped a 13-year-old girl after hiring her to work as a babysitter even though there were no kids at his home.
She claims she was sexually assaulted after being given drink and drugs by the shamed tycoon at a luxurious holiday rental in Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1984.
The woman – identified as Jane Doe 4 in legal documents – claims a pattern of “abuse and assault” then continued for several years when Epstein visited the area during the summer.
‘INTIMATE’ GATHERINGS
The lawsuit alleges Epstein later took her to New York to “essentially offer her up as fresh meat” to wealthy men at several “intimate” gatherings.
The alleged victim is one of two women to sue the estate of “sex trafficker” Epstein as part of a $100m lawsuit.
They say he abused them decades ago in New York City and South Carolina, according to a complaint filed in the Southern District of New York.
In the court documents, the other woman – identified as Jane Doe 3 – said she was 15 when she met Epstein after a casting call for a modelling agency in 1990 in New York City.
The agency’s president sent her to a home on the Upper East Side, where Epstein allegedly posed as a fashion photographer and told her to undress, the suit states.
He is accused of then photographing her naked and assaulting her, according to the documents.
The two suits are among the five lawyer Lisa Bloom has either filed or is planning to file against the executors of Epstein’s estate.
Nine other women sued Epstein earlier this month, saying he had “sexually battered, assaulted and abused” them at his homes in New York, Palm Beach, Florida, New Mexico and the US Virgin Islands.
Epstein, 66, was arrested July 6 on accusations of trafficking and abusing dozens of girls in the early 2000s.
He pleaded not guilty and died after apparently taking his own life in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10630393/jeffrey-epstein-schoolgirl-rape-manhattan/
BREAKING NEWS >> Kenneth Starr did not become Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney by chance. Starr was tasked with protecting Epstein. Why? Because through the child trafficking ring another more closely held secret was going to be revealed.
https://twitter.com/StoneTurnr/status/1211366297797349376 …
Danny Casolaro (investigative journalist) was murdered on August 10, 1991 to preclude his exposing the link between the PROMIS intelligence software (a collaborative effort on the part of the US and Israel) and the worldwide laundering of drug profits.
PROMIS had more than one purpose. It traced money. PROMIS was used in international banking for the monitoring of money flow – the same software was used for the proactive laundering of money – especially drug money – through direct computerized access to the mainstream international banking system. Including profits from Iran Contra. Clinton, Bush, Reagan all involved in this. Starr was involved in the investigation of the 2nd back door of PROMIS. It’s role in money laundering.
Brothel keeper (Brandy Baldwin) reveals – I provided girls for camp (Bohemian Grove) where Reagan elite love to frolic
It is important 2 remember that when word about Iran Contra was leaked to the public then President Ronald Reagan lied.
He then appointed John Tower (on left) to “investigate”. Tower was a crook accepting a $200/k bribe from Robert Maxwell.
In 1995 Systematics was discovered to be used as a covert intelligence banking vehicle during the Reagan and Bush administrations. According to people with knowledge about PROMIS money laundering/INSLAW at the request of NSA and its partner, the Israeli intelligence agency,
MOSSAD – Systematics covertly implanted into the computers of its bank customers a back door that allowed these agencies to track and monitor the flow of money. Hillary Rodham Clinton was the attorney for Systematics and Kenneth Starr was sitting judge
The Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell international child sex trafficking ring was one of the tentacles of this covert use of PROMIS for the banking industry.
Jeffrey Epstein traveling to the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv and meeting with a group of “researchers” and “scientists” while visiting the military bases in Israel.
Epstein’s federal-state prosecution a decade ago occurred concurrently under the administrations of President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush (1999-2007) and Jeb Bush’s successor Charlie Crist (2007-2011), who had been state attorney general during the beginning of the Epstein case.
@KirbySommers
It is clear Leslie Wexner, who was the conduit through which money was funneled to Jeffrey Epstein for his child sex trafficking, has been busy pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Wexner is an asset of the State Department and like Epstein he, too, is a CIA/Mossad operative
Epstein’s pals like Leon Black also have a long history with Biden.
Leslie Wexner, who strategically disowned the “republicans” in 2018 has been planning his support of the Biden/Bush ticket for a while.
Leslie Wexner + Jeb Bush. Fine friends. On July 15, 2015 Leslie Wexner handed Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush a hefty $500,000.00 check. Wexner’s ties to the Bush family go way back to the beginning. WHY DID LESLIE WEXNER WANT JEB BUSH AS PRESIDENT?
In 1991 when Leslie Wexner signed over Power of Attorney to Jeffrey Epstein G.W. Bush was President. This was no coincidence. Kenneth Starr (Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney and the man responsible for the NPA was the U.S. solicitor general, from 1989 to 1993, under George H. W. Bush
@jkbjournalist
One last thing. I very much doubt that @ABC news special report will report this — or anything other than the salaciousness of Epstein’s crimes. I hope they interviewed Ric Bradshaw, Alan Dershowitz, Alex Acosta, Barry Krischer, and all the other men who buried this story.
Palm Beach Sheriff Rick Bradshaw — who gave serial pedophile #jeffreyepstein such a great work release deal AND LOST Jeffrey’s visitors log. There dozens of sheriffs deputies who looked the other way. Do any of you have something to say? How did this happen? (1)
@trebillion
Sabrier established the Famsa Foundation[5] in 2011, a non-profit organisation that contributes to a number of projects in the charitable, educational, cultural and medical fields. He is also the Founder and President of Children Action, a charitable foundation for disadvantaged children throughout the world[6].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sabrier
Sabrier is a founding member of MAMCO, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva.
Epstein black book: Arpad Busson Managed money for the Bin Laden family, through EIM, who lost 230 mil to Madoff. Runs ARK a children’s charity tied into allegations and convictions of sexual abuse of minors. Wasn’t Jeff sent to collect for BIn Laden?
https://www.nourishingobscurity.com/2010/04/paedophilia-rings/…
Tower Financial Madoff Ponzi Scheme Epstein along with a nonprofit 2016 Trump $50M donor
The same Arpad Busson?
https://twitter.com/trebillion/status/1162910560486219776
Arpad Busson’s friends, colleagues, and business partners are largely the same group of people associated with Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophile paradise.
Hope and Homes for Children and Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) have been working together since 2002.
https://www.scribd.com/document/444565627/419-ARK-and-Hope-and-Homes-in-Partnership
Arpad Busson is patron of Hope and Homes for Children
Lord Dannatt
A former Defence Minister and spy watchdog is recreating the comic songs of Flanders & Swann to raise money for orphaned children.
Michael Mates will perform classics like Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud and The Gasman Cometh in aid of Hope & Homes For Children next week.
The charity was founded by the former British commander in Bosnia, Col Mark Cook, after he found a cellar full of starving children in war-torn Sarajevo.
Hope and Homes for Children charity
Mark Cook founded the charity[28] and was awarded several honours including an OBE and a Heart of Gold award from Esther Rantzen; Caroline Cook was also appointed an OBE.[29] Martin Bell OBE was with Mark Cook when he founded the organisation;[28][30]
In 2010 former Defence Minister The Rt. Hon. Michael Mates with William Godfree performed Flanders and Swann songs in aid of the charity.[32
Other patrons include Kristin Scott Thomas OBE,[38] The Rt. Hon. The Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE PC, Martin Bell OBE, Arpad Busson, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Carrington KG, General The Rt Hon The Lord Dannatt KCB, CBE, MC, David Furnish, The Lady Jopling, Gordon McInally, H E Rt. Hon Donald C McKinnon,Mrs Lily Safra, The Rt Hon The Lord Selkirk of Douglas PC QC, Princess Marina Sturdza, Sam Taylor-Wood OBE, James Whiting, Claire Wright, Kate Adie OBE and Matt Bell.[39]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_and_Homes_for_Children
Mates set to make over £100,000 from Dolphin Square windfall
Nicholas Fairbairn had affair with Charles Morrison’s secretary.
(Charles’ brother was Peter Morrison linked to Bryn Estyn children’s home abuse )
Nicholas Fairbairn and Michael Mates visit Rhodesia together.
Nicholas Fairbairn had affair with Charles Morrison’s secretary. It got messy, and Michael Mates helped clean up
http://m.theargus.co.uk/news/national/11614236._Cover_up__fear_over_boy_s_murder/
Michael Mates MP > Northern Ireland > Nadir > Scallywag > Angus James Wilson – Vishal Mehrotra body
aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/vishal-mehrotra-michael-mates-asil-nadir.html…
Vishal Mehrotra (above) is believed to have been murdered by the VIP child abuse ring that contained top UK politicians and top people in the UK military and security services.
Father claims Scotland Yard covered up son’s murder by Westminster paedophiles
The father of murdered eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra says police ignored a tip-off that the boy may have been abducted by a VIP paedophile ring
Michael Mates was convicted paedophile Partick Rock’s campaign manager
London, Greater London, England
Michael Mates links to paedophile Roddam Twiss who links to paedophile, child killer Lennie Smith.
Lennie Smith shacked up with Twiss Lennie Smith part of the Dirty Dozen who murdered Jason Swift and other young lads.
Twiss rented a room to Lennie Smith, one of Britain’s most vicious paedophiles.
The charity ARK’s (Absolute Return for Kids) ventures include school scponsorship, HIV/AIDS and orphans.
Ark helf fundraisers every year from 2002 to 2012. Those at ARK fundraisers have included a number of people either linked to Ghislaine/Robert Maxwell or mentioned in Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’. This includes:
https://www.scribd.com/document/441228678/383-Jeffrey-Epstein-and-the-charity-ARK
https://www.scribd.com/document/441228678/383-Jeffrey-Epstein-and-the-charity-ARK
Sir Elton show ‘raises £3m
Among the 200 guests were Prince Charles and his partner, Camilla Parker Bowles, who was greeted with a kiss from Sir Elton.
Each guest paid an undisclosed sum to attend the event, which was in aid of Somerset House and the children’s charity Absolute Return For Kids (ARK).
The black-tie event was co-hosted by Lord Rothschild and Lily Safra and included an auction offering a chance to meet Arsenal football stars.
‘Wonderful charity’
Other prizes included a day’s pheasant and partridge shooting at Ashcombe, the £9m Wiltshire estate of Madonna and Guy Ritchie and the chance to play tennis doubles against Sir Elton and Guy Forget, captain of the French Davis Cup team in 2001.
Other guests included Elle Macpherson, Joanna Lumley, Jemima Khan and Sophie Dahl, who arrived with Tim Jefferies.
ARK helps youngsters who are the victims of abuse, disability, illness and poverty.
The charity also works with deprived children in eastern Europe, including the aftermath of war in Kosovo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2123938.stm
Lord Fink
ARK Trustee
Lord Fink is Chairman of ISAM, an alternative investment manager which specialises in quantitative investing, which he joined in 2008. Before this he was CEO and Deputy Chairman of Man Group plc, having had an illustrious career with them spanning 21 years, helping to build the company into the largest hedge fund in the world. Lord Fink was principal treasurer of the Conservative Party and was elevated to the Peerage in 2011. He is a committed philanthropist whose passions include education (he is Chair of Governors of Ark Burlington Danes Academy), health and the reduction of global warming via application of carbon markets and new technology.
https://arkonline.org/about-us/who-we-are
Lord Fink
In September 2009 Fink was appointed chairman of Absolute Return for Kids.[26]
In January 2009 Fink was appointed Co-Treasurer of the Conservative Party.[19]
He stepped down from this role in February 2012 to focus on his business interests and philanthropic work. He was replaced by Michael Farmer.[4]
However, Fink was asked to step back into the role the following month amid a scandal caused by a ‘cash for access’ newspaper sting on co-treasurer Peter Cruddas, who resigned on 25 March 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fink,_Baron_Fink
Launched in 2011 at The Natural History Museum in London Global Party UK with its funky (and familiar) tattoo zen logo united the “luxury hospitality industry with thousands of invited VIP guests” in support of The Global Charity Trust and its hundreds of worldwide benefiting causes. Cause such as Boris Johnston’s Mayoralty (Below with Fink on the left) Fund for underprivileged children.
Co speakers, at the opening 2011 UK Global Party event included Sir Philip Green and Sir Richard Branson. Branson would later be embroiled on the fringes of the NXIVM Hollywood sex trafficking and sex cult scandal – after the cult used his island for a series of seminar which Branson is said to have attended. Cult members kept ‘slaves’ which they degraded sexually (and who were encouraged to recruit further members including under age girls) and indulged in sadomasochism with their slaves.
*Stephen Crabb* – A glance at the Register of Interests shows trips to various exotic destinations being paid for by a whole host of organisations, including Christian Aid, Oxfam Novib, International Alert, ActionAid and Christian Solidarity Worldwide (president Jonathan Aitken, former jailbird and disgraced ex-Tory minister) . In 2005 on another visit to India, we read that flights were paid for by Dr Liam Fox’s office with a donation from a man described as a Middlesex businessman called Stanley Fink
Stanley Fink would appear to be the same Stanley Fink who is co-treasurer of the Conservative Party, a hedge fund manager and pal of Lord Levy. Lord Levy, it will be remembered, is Tony Blair’s friend who was interviewed by the police as part of the Cash for Honours scandal. What a small world.
(Crabb)…fretting about the far-flung Christians of Orissa and Burma, and championing Israeli security. In the recent scandal involving Dr Liam Fox, we learned of an agenda to strengthen ties with the American Right and Israel, with a motley mix of arms dealers, Tea Party lunatics and Christian fundamentalists trying to shape government policy here
The interest in the fate of Christians in far-flung places, and Mr Crabb’s unswerving support for Israel may well be explained by his membership of CARE (Christian Action Research and Education)
Lord Stanley Fink has made large donations to Liam Fox and Boris Johnson
https://powerbase.info/index.php/Stanley_Fink
More on Arpad (Arki) Busson of Ark:
Standard profile: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu…h-7811787.html
More interesting associations: http://www.democraticunderground.com…ress=219×28761
‘Now chaired by Stanley Fink, doyen of hedgies, Ark has moved from being a supplier of grants to being, as Busson puts it, “an implementer”, running eight academy schools here, as well as projects overseas.’
@kirbysommers
Abigail Wexner
Strauss accusers call on OSU to investigate trustee Abigail Wexner due to Epstein ties
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Five former Ohio State University athletes who have accused Dr. Richard Strauss of sexually assaulting them have called on officials to investigate another alleged sexual assault allegation, specifically calling on OSU to investigate one of its Board of Trustees.
In a letter dated Dec. 5, the former students call on Ohio Attorney General David Yost and U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Ohio David DeVillers to investigate the claims of Maria Farmer, who has accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexual assault on a property owned by L Brands founder Les Wexner and his wife Abigail in New Albany in 1996.
The letter specifically calls on OSU to have Abigail Wexner, vice-chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees, and her husband investigated for their ties to Epstein and his alleged crimes.
“It defies comprehension that Mrs. Wexner is still on the Board of Trustees given the credible allegations on her complicity in keeping Ms. Farmer captive for Jeffrey Epstein in 1996, while, at the same time, Ohio State grapples with how to atone for its complicity in allowing a monster to prey on its students for nearly two decades,” the letter states. “Simply put, given the allegations, it appears Mrs. Wexner is as guilty as Ohio State was in facilitating the crimes of a serial sexual predator.”
“To its credit, Ohio State hired an independent law firm to evaluate its conduct vis-a-vis Dr. Richard Strauss,” the letter adds. “We are asking nothing more than a similar independent review of the Wexners’ conduct vis-a-vis Maria Farmer and Jeffery Epstein.”
In a sworn affidavit, Maria Farmer said she was hired by Epstein to “help him with acquiring art.” She said Epstein arranged for her to work on an “art project” at the Wexner’s home on Kitzmiller Road in New Albany in the summer of 1996.
Farmer said Epstein and a female companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, “asked me to come into a bedroom with them and then proceeded to sexually assault me against my will. I fled from the room and called the sheriff’s office but did not get any response. The Wexner’s security staff refused to let me leave the property. I pleaded with them and my father drove up from Kentucky to Ohio to help me. I was held against my will for approximately 12 hours until I was ultimately allowed to leave with my father.”
According to the letter, citing an interview Farmer gave to the Washington Post, Farmer would only be allowed to leave the Wexner property with permission from Abigail Wexner.
“Although Ms. Farmer never met Abigail Wexner in person, they did talk on the phone when Ms. Farmer wanted to leave,” the letter states. “Epstein told Farmer, ‘Les [Wexner] loves me. He’ll let me do anything.’”
Les Wexner has denied any knowledge of the alleged assault at his home.
A Wexner family spokesperson released the following statement late Saturday:
“Mr. and Mrs. Wexner have condemned Jeffrey Epstein’s abhorrent behavior in the strongest possible terms and severed all ties with him more than a decade ago. Prior to the recent news coverage of Ms. Farmer, Mr. and Mrs. Wexner had no knowledge of her, never met her, never spoke with her, and never spoke with Mr. Epstein or anyone else about her.”
“The Epstein house was not a Wexner guest house, was not on land owned by the Wexners, and was nearly one half mile away from the Wexner home.”
While there has been no evidence directly linking the Strauss and Epstein cases, the five former OSU students do cite in the letter the fact that Abigail Wexner was a member of the Board of Trustees at the time OSU “was continuing to cover-up for the serial misdeeds of perhaps the most prolific sexual assaulter in American history, Dr. Richard Strauss.”
“That these events were taking place simultaneously is not a coincidence in our view,” the letter states.
The letter ends with the former student-athletes reiterating their call for an investigation into Farmer’s allegations into Epstein and any ties the Wexners may have to those allegations.
“Only by holding accountable those who promote sexual assault can we expiate the sins of the past and present, allowing all victims of Dr. Strauss to move forward in a healthy and productive manner,” the letter closes.
@kirbysommers
This piece stating Epstein was killed over “nuclear secrets” in a sex and Mossad blackmail scandal.
https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/08/was-jeffrey-epstein-murdered-over-nuclear-thefts/ …
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s finances: a billionaire’s daughter, tuition payments to models, and the possibility of more money for victims
Dec 18, 2019
@kirbysommes
The main co-conspirators of the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking crimes are Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Neither of who seem to be giving a damn.
In the Jeffrey Epstein case not only does camera footage deemed unusable but documents go missing.
Let’s see where else have I heard this, oh, wait, Leslie Wexner’s attorney Arthur Shapiro who was murdered mob-style in 1985. Those files went missing 2
Surveillance footage outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during suicide attempt is missing
@kirbysommers
In 1995-96 Mark Epstein had a tenant at 30 Van Dam Street in New York City that ran a prostitution ring.
Seems the Epstein brothers are never far away from commercialized sex.
@Tiff_FitzHenry
Richard Cook flew on the Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein in February of 2002, the very same week he became Chairman of Disney Studios. I find that interesting, don’t you?
Disney chairman Richard ‘Dick’ Cook took trips on the Lolita Express in 2002 with Ghislaine and Epstein. 3 unidentified females on that flight. Only 3 days after he was appointed to chairman by Iger.
Glenn Dubin is also listed on that flight
Not only were they my “Tester” couple but Eva who laid in bed heavily pregnant in the next room knew exactly what her husband was doing with me. She was Epstein’s 1st madam- they go way way back, all will be revealed in good time
@Psalm82_3
Epstein’s longtime companion and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. According to Giuffre’s May 2016 deposition,Dubin was the “first” powerful person that Maxwell sent her to have sex with “after my training.”
She also said that she was instructed by Maxwell to have sex with” among others, Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law professor; George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator; Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor; and Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout.
“The Dubins’ social circle overlapped with Epstein in New York, too. A source with knowledge of the matter said that Andersson-Dubin was “friendly” with Lana Pozhidaeva”
https://twitter.com/Psalm82_3/status/1225671526189416454
Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has taken money from Glenn Dubin. Virginia Giuffre says she was trafficked to him underage when she was in Jeffery Epstein’s circle.
Here Are The Billionaires Backing Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential Campaign
Joe Biden, Michael Bennet, Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang, DAVID GEFFEN, WENDY SCHMIDT, WIFE OF ERIC SCHMIDT…
Police Uncover Massive Pedophile Ring At Disney World
Dec 5 2017
Police have uncovered a huge pedophile ring at Disney World, Florida, with over 35 employees arrested for alleged child rape offences.
The Disney employees include people from management, a concierge, a tour guide, and a ticket seller.
Disney has downplayed the arrests…The CNN investigation found far more child sex arrests at Disney than at Universal Studios, which had five, or SeaWorld, which had two.
Richard W. Cook is an American film entertainment executive, and has served on the Board of Directors of Legendary Pictures since 2011. Prior to joining Legendary Pictures, he was the Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios from 2002 to 2009. At the time of his separation from the company, he was the only remaining top Disney executive who had worked for the company since before Michael Eisner took charge in 1984.
Cook began his career with Disney in 1970 as a monorail and steam locomotive amusement park ride operator at Disneyland[1] a
In 2005, Cook was awarded the Walt Disney Man of the Year Award, in recognition of “inspiring and positive role models for young people” from within the entertainment community, by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles & the Inland Empire.[4][5]
On April 19, 2015, Cook announced the formation of Dick Cook Studios with an investment of $150 million by Citic Guoan Group Co. Ltd., a state-owned and largest Chinese conglomerate Citic Group subsidiary.[9]
The first film using the financing is expect to be “Ranger’s Apprentice” from director Paul Haggis.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cook
Haggis
Sexual misconduct and rape allegations
On January 5, 2018, Haggis was accused of sexual misconduct including multiple rapes. He is facing a civil lawsuit over these allegations.[14][15][16][17][18]
After maintaining active membership in the Church of Scientology for 35 years, Haggis left the organization in October 2009.[23][24][25][26]
A special report on Occurrences: Foreign and Domestic identifies the fact that one of Jeffrey Epstein’s suspected trafficking aircraft shared the same tail number (N474AW) as a State Department Bronco used under contract by DynCorp. The use of this tail number by the Department of State and DynCorp can be corroborated by official government records.(1)
This would mean that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked underage girls using a tail number registered by DynCorp and during the same time period as DynCorp when they trafficked minors in Bosnia and other parts of the Balkan states. If issued by some sort of accident or if one of the two aircraft was decommissioned, the statistical odds of just two craft sharing the same number would still be over 1 in over 900,000.(2)
Epstein does have a storied history with underage girls from the Balkan states: from purchasing his Yugoslavian sex slave, Nadia Marcinkova (12); to the modeling agency, MC2, Epstein had with Jean Luc Brunel to traffic Eastern European girls (13); to a dinner party Vanity Fair mentions, where guests were “horrified” that they were surrounded by Epstein’s young “Russian” girls (14). It may yet to be revealed how much of a role Epstein may have played in the human trafficking epidemic in the Balkans.
What the UN Doesn’t Want You to Know
Dynacorp trafficking
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9041974/What-the-UN-Doesnt-Want-You-to-Know.html
Prince Andrew spotted at members club seconds before tycoon who Duke ‘faked name to set up firm with’ just 7 weeks ago
14 Dec 2019
PRINCE Andrew was snapped leaving a members club seconds before his tycoon pal – the same friend who he was revealed to have set up a firm with under a fake name.
Tycoon Johan Eliasch and the Duke of York were pictured leaving Harry’s Bar in Mayfair moments apart were taken just seven weeks ago, suggesting the old pals could still be in touch 17 years after they reportedly went into business together.
The Queen’s son reportedly used the name Andrew Inverness as he launched Naples Gold Limited with Mr Eliasch – the businessman who organised the 2001 holiday that saw the royal photographed with a “bevy of topless beauties”.
It is believed the royal had been visiting his friend when he was pictured on the yacht off Thailand in 2001, with the Monaco businessman footing part of his bill at the luxurious Amanpuri Hotel.
‘BUSINESS PARTNERS’
And the Daily Mail reported the pair also went into business together, launching the company in 2002.
In business documents, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor uses the name Andrew Inverness, apparently taken from his lesser known title, the Earl of Inverness.
Both Prince Andrew and Andrew Inverness – who lists himself as a professional consultant – share the birthdate of February 19, 1960.
The decision to use the pseudonym was “in order to avoid media attention”, it was claimed.
Since its inception 17 years ago, Prince Andrew has not spoken publicly about Naples Gold Ltd.
It was previously claimed Prince Andrew has used the same fake name, holding a 40 per cent stake in a company called Inverness Asset Management.
The company is registered in the British Virgin Islands, set up with wealthy benefactor David “Spotty” Rowland.
The royal was again linked to another company – listed as a creditor of a luxury ski company called Descent International.
While the company collapsed, a liquidator spokesperson said they understood the listed “Andrew Inverness” was the Queen’s second son.
EMBATTLED ROYAL
The revelations come as Prince Andrew has been faced with mounting criticism over his friendship with paedo financier Jeffrey Epstein.
It is understood Epstein and his alleged madame Ghislaine Maxwell – who has vanished amid the investigation – were also in Thailand at the time the photograph was snapped of Prince Andrew in 2001.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10551631/prince-andrew-johan-eliasch-members-club/
@jkbjournalist
ICYMI: More on the allegations against Dershowitz here
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate
Alan Dershowitz Torn to Shreds by CSPAN Caller Over Epstein Defense: You’re Obviously No ‘Judge of Character’
“I didn’t know there were little girls.” – Alan Dershowitz
@kirbysommers
Leslie Wexner, like my abuser Ira Riklis (son of junk bond king Meshulam Riklis) is very tied in to Israel. I always knew Wexner was a spy as was Epstein
But now w/ Ari Ben Menashe, Steven Hoffenberg stating Epstein/Maxwell were spies – it is clear Wexner began his relationship with Epstein fully aware not only of the ongoing Ponzi scheme being perpetrated by Epstein in Towers Financial but of what Epstein’s role in espionage was.
You don’t just randomly add some major spying equipment in a house you gift Jeffrey Epsten/mossad spy.
I think no one is going 2 name Leslie Wexner as being involved 3 fear of being killed. That includes Steven Hoffenberg who is now a witness in the case – and really I do not believe the authorities want to mess with Wexner. Wexner is as powerful as my abuser. They created Israel.
Jeffrey Epstein’s former boss Steven Hoffenberg, who was jailed for almost 20 years for a Ponzi scheme, claims his one-time protégée was involved in the same $460m fraud
Steven Hoffenberg is the former chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, a debt collection agency, that he used in a Ponzi scheme. He was the owner of the New York Post. The firm collapsed in 1993, and in 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. The SEC considered his financial crimes as “one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history” prior to Bernie Madoff‘s crimes a decade later.[1]
In 1987 Hoffenberg hired Jeffrey Epstein to help with the Tower Financial Corporation. Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the Villard House.[2] They unsuccessfully tried to take over Pan Am in a corporate raid with Tower Financial as their raiding vessel. Their bid failed, in part because of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, which ultimately contributed to the airline’s bankruptcy. A similar unsuccessful bid in 1988 was made to take over Emery Air Freight Corp. During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg’s private jet.[2][3][4]
In 1993 the Towers Ponzi scheme imploded, in court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the scheme.[5][6] Epstein left Tower Financial before it collapsed and was never charged for being involved with the massive investor fraud committed.
In 1997 Judge Robert W. Sweet sentenced Hoffenberg to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine and $463 million in restitution (per the Bureau of Prisons he was released in October 2013). He settled a civil suit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $60 million. Hoffenberg is currently paying back all of the above investors debt.[7][8]
In July 2019, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was his “uncharged co-conspirator” in the Ponzi scheme.[9] Former Towers investors also made that allegations in a lawsuit filed in August 2018. It also alleges that the millions in stolen investment was the seed capital for Epstein’s hedge fund, which it values at $50 billion.[10]
@kirbysommers:
Steven Hoffenberg alleges that
Darren Indyke (executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate) is using Epstein’s money now in an offshore account to pay Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney, Jeffrey Pagliuca, for her legal expenses.
Attorney Jeffrey S. Pagliuca, lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell leaves Manhattan Federal Court following a hearing in a defamation lawsuit filed by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, in New York, U.S., September 4, 2019
Further he claims that again through Darren Indyke Jeffrey Epstein’s estate assets are being used to pay for the co-conspirators and that this poses a terrible problem for the SDNY.
Steven Hoffenberg claims that Darren Indyke who has been Epstein’s attorney for 20 years is also a “spy” and that authorities know this.
Donald Nixon, Richard Nixon’s nephew worked with Jeffrey Epstein and Steven Hoffenberg at Towers Financial in the capacity of VP. Here is an old 1987 article linking Nixon to Hoffenberg who had yet to be outed for the Ponzi.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-16-mn-1923-story.htm …
Steven Hoffenberg, Jeffrey Epstein’s former partner alleges that Epstein, his attorney Darren Indyke, Alex Acosta, Preet Bharara, and former federal prosecutor Robert Gold set him up and were given bribes by Epstein to avoid prosecution in Towers Financial.
Steven Hoffenberg claims that Jeffrey Epstein attempted to recruit him as a spy back in the 1980s and that he refused. He said it (the spying) began in London and in the Middle East and that Epstein ingratiated himself with the PMs of Israel Ehud Barak was a general and a senior intelligence officer and that Barak became one of Epstein’s “closest friends.”
Hoffenberg reiterates that Epstein’s spying has been confirmed by 10 different intelligence sources – with Ari Ben Menashe being only one of these sources.
He claims that both the CIA in Israel and that MI6 in England knew about the spying activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxell.
Again he claims there are at least 10 sources that can confirm the spying activities of Epstein/Maxwell.
Steven Hoffenberg claims that Bill and Hillary Clinton were an important part of Jeffrey Epstein’s life. He befriended them both for spying purposes He claims Epstein “recorded” the Clinton despite Brad Edwards claiming otherwise.
The way it worked:
For example in Clinton’s case:
Epstein did a lot of work for the Clinton Foundation. He was in fact instrumental in the invention and creation of the CF. A 2008 document that JE lawyers submitted to the court was instrumental
in helping Epstein get the NPA.
However the Clintons were very much part of the intelligence gathering of Epstein and Maxwell.
Steven Hoffenberg claims that Prince Andrew was a “target” of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for a long-time. That what is happening now is a #coverup (my words here: probably of embarrassment – a Prince being conned by a spy).
Steven Hoffenberg on what happened to Jeffrey Epstein:
Hoffenberg claims that 25% of the population are talking about Epstein having been murdered. He says that very few people are talking about Epstein being “walked out” of the prison. He states that In order to walk him out the President of the US would have to sign a document saying that it is in the interest of public safety. He says that you cannot just walk out the person responsible for the crime of the century or say he died
He says he been asked that question repeatedly.
HOFFENBERG: “My opinion is only an opinion but something is very confusing that is for sure. It is going to come out.”
It appears that Hoffenberg believes Epstein was “walked out of the prison” and is alive.
If Hoffenberg is right about Epstein being walked out and being alive it would explain why nothing has happened to Ghislaine Maxwell and why nothing is going to happen to her.
Keep in mind Hoffenberg states he has NO PROOF and that this is only his take on what happened.
Jeffrey Epstein’s investment in an Israeli start-up reveals a myriad of links to Donald Trump and Israeli spies.
It’s been thirty-two years since the “Pollard Affair” pierced the seemingly impenetrable facade of U.S.-Israeli relations. Now, two suspected Israeli agents are in jail – indicted on separate charges of sex trafficking of minors.
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 and charged with trafficking minors across state lines. George Nader – a key witness for Robert Mueller – was arrested last month for possession of child porn and transporting a minor for sex from Europe.
Epstein and Nader share a personal network that includes Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Erik Prince, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohamed Bin Zayed.
But their association goes further than powerful friends and proclivities for teenage boys and girls. Epstein and Nader are believed to be agents for Israeli Intelligence. Narativ has independently confirmed with two separate sources who were in a position to know that Epstein worked for Israeli military intelligence.
Both men also have ties to a burgeoning Israeli tech sector which is bringing Mossad-style military intelligence to the private sector and endangering the global balance of power.
The Haaretz newspaper has previously reported that Epstein, who was Donald Trump’s friend through the ’80s and ’90s, partnered in an Israeli start-up alongside former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Barak is seeking to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister in the upcoming re-run elections scheduled for September. Since 2015, he has been the front-man for Carbyne, an Israeli start-up which purports to be a high-tech solution for 911 emergency call centers, but the platform’s architecture and investors raise serious privacy concerns.
Narativ undertook an extensive investigation into Carbyne, and can now reveal a myriad of troubling connections between the start-up and people connected to Donald Trump.
The Michael Cohen Connection
In addition to Epstein and Barak, Russian oligarchs Viktor Vekselberg and Andrew Intrater bought 24% of Carbyne’s Class A-1 shares through Intrater’s Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP) in September 2017. Vekselberg and Intrater are under U.S. sanctions because of Russia’s malign activities. Ukrainian-born Vekselberg is close to Vladimir Putin and was interviewed by prosecutors from Robert Mueller’s office.
While still employed as Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen consulted for Columbus Nova until August 2017 under a $1 million agreement to his company, “Essential Consulting.” Cohen used the same company to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels, who had an affair with Trump.
Between election day and July 14, 2017, Intrater and Cohen exchanged 230 phone calls and 950 text messages.
Carbyne is a plug-in for 911 call centers and an app for consumers. It provides unprecedented access to a caller’s camera and GPS, providing the dispatcher with a live video feed.
The system also automatically cross-references your identity with criminal or other records added to the database. At least two U.S. counties have implemented Carbyne, with many others considering it.
Epstein is a sex offender and known pedophile. He was brought in as an investor by Barak, his close friend of 17 years. Epstein invested $1.5 million in a company (SUM) with Barak in 2014. All of that money went into Carbyne in 2015. Barak has since been a front-man for the company appearing on Fox News to pitch the product. Barak has life-long ties to Israel’s spy services.
CEO Amir Elichai served in Israel’s elite military intelligence group. Pinchas Berkus, a former Brigadier of the elite 8200 unit, is a company director. Lital Leshem, a co-founder, still serves as a reservist in the Israeli Defence Force. Alex Dizengof, the CTO, worked in cybersecurity for Israel’s Prime Minister’s office.
The American Connection
Carbyne also has deep roots in the Military-Industrial complex of the U.S.
Michael Chertoff, who ran Homeland Security under George Bush, serves on Carbyne’s advisory board. Chertoff wrote the Patriot Act, which authorized digital surveillance of Americans.
Peter Thiel, who founded Facebook and Palantir, is also a Carbyne investor. Thiel is an outspoken supporter of Trump and invests heavily in companies with military and intelligence applications. According to Bloomberg, Thiel’s Palantir uses “war on terror tools to track American citizens.”
Trae Stephens, another Palantir alum, serves on Carbyne’s advisory board. Stephens was also chair of Trump’s Department of Defense transition team. Eliot Tawil, a real-estate developer and a major Trump donor also advises the company despite having no background this space.
None of the members of the board of directors or the advisory board appear to have any experience in emergency response. Almost all have ties to Israel and the U.S. military-industrial complex.
The China Connection
Carbyne has ties to China through Co-founder Lital Leshem. Leshem, who remains a shareholder at Carbyne, now works alongside Erik Prince at Frontier Resources Group (FRG). FRG is based in the UAE and is a subsidiary of Prince’s Frontier Services Group (FSG).
Prince sold a majority stake in FSG to the Chinese in 2013. His boss is now Chang Xhenming, who is very close to President Xi Jinping. Chang is also chair of China’s massive Citic Group.
Prince is a former U.S. Navy Seal and a founder of Blackwater, a mercenary contractor. FSG is one of the companies helping to build “re-training” camps for ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim communities in China’s Xinjiang province. China detains 1 million people in those camps and keeps 13 million people under surveillance.
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, power usage, and tracks a user’s movement. “Did the family say something religious? Did they exit through the front door or the back door? (Going through the back door is presumably more suspicious),” Human Rights Watch says.
Nader, Israeli Intelligence and Trump
U.S. authorities are currently holding George Nader on child porn and trafficking charges. Nader is a representative for the Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart Mohamed bin Zayed.
Nader is also speculated to have ties with Israeli Intelligence. His relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu dates back to the Israeli Prime Minister’s first days in office. Nader’s work for U.S. allies could explain why he’s been able to travel freely in and out of the U.S. despite a previous child pornography arrest.
In August 2016, Nader and Erik Prince attended a meeting at Donald Trump Jr.’s office in Trump Tower in August 2016. Nader brought with him Joel Zamel, who served in Israeli Military Intelligence and is the young CEO of another Israeli start-up, Psy Group.
Zamel proposed an extensive social amplification campaign to support Trump’s 2016 campaign, and Nader is reported to have pledged the Saudis and the UAE would foot the bill. Nader would later give Zamel $2m for those services, although Zamel disputes that claim.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated Zamel’s Psy Group for its involvement with the Trump campaign, which lasted a full year from early 2016 to January 2017.
In January 2017, Nader and Prince also took part in a meeting in Seychelles. The backchannel get-together discussed bringing Russia closer to the incoming Trump administration as part of an anti-Iran alliance with Israel, KSA and UAE. Erik Prince represented the Trump administration. Kiril Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, represented Putin.
Evading Justice
“I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” Alex Acosta, former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta to Trump Administration.
George Nader’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s arrests, after decades of authorities turning a blind eye to the exploitation of teenagers, suggests a shift in U.S. policy towards Israeli Intelligence. Nader and Epstein were considered untouchable until recently, possibly because of their Israeli Intelligence ties and various cooperation agreements.
There has been extensive reporting on Epstein’s charges and sentencing around the underage girls. But Epstein also entered into a cooperation agreement for his financial crimes. Of note, Epstein cooperated with prosecutors to avoid charges for his involvement in a $450 million Ponzi scheme, which he blamed entirely on co-conspirator Steven Hoffenberg amid allegations of bribery.
All told, Epstein spent only 13 months in jail for what appears to be a 38-year crime-spree. How did Epstein evade justice? The answer may lie in a gentlemen’s agreement that governs the Israel-US intelligence relationship. Basically, spies can operate with impunity, even when committing criminal acts.
Mossad For Hire
Israeli spies are renowned the world for their ability to run complex stealth operations which go undetected. As one former KGB spy told me: “A good secret service never leaves any tracks.” Now, that very skillset has entered the private sector, merged with big data operations, and is being commercialized.
Since 2009, Israel’s spy-tech sector has been booming, supported by the easy flow of capital ferried into Israel by Russian oligarchs. This includes start-ups like NSO, which makes the Pegasus spyware capable of hacking any phone; Black Cube a high tech private fixer; and Zamel’s Psy Group, a social media manipulation company.
These start-ups have influenced elections and politics around the world, including the 2016 U.S. election. Cambridge Analytica used Black Cube to set up honey traps. Harvey Weinstein hired Black Cube to discredit many of his accusers, and the company also tried to frame former Obama Administration figures.
Saudi Arabia uses NSO’s Pegasus hacking software to track dissidents. There is some reporting that Pegasus was used in the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Israel has been exporting these services to despots and authoritarians around the globe. The high tech spy companies packed their advisory boards with former generals, heads of Mossad and politicians, creating a thin veneer of respectability.
Beneath the surface, questionable ethics, surveillance concerns, and dubious sources of funding have turned Israel’s spy-tech sector into a real threat to global security and balance of power.
According to Newsweek, the U.S. has identified Israeli espionage as a significant and growing threat in the U.S. going back to 2013. One former congressional staffer familiar with the classified material told Newsweek the situation was “terrifying”.
Israel’s spy-tech sector is funded by sanctioned Russian oligarchs and involved with dangerous criminals like Jeffrey Epstein and George Nader. Their services enable authoritarians and represent a serious risk to U.S.-Israeli relations. The sector requires serious investigation. Our very freedoms may depend on it.
https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/
more here
https://twitter.com/OldTomYoung/status/1051579272010326016
Jeffrey Epstein is the visible side of a vast and nasty secret network of private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe, centered in the British House of Windsor, the state of Israel, and their intelligence partners in the US.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Upper East Side house, for example belonged to Lynn Forester de Rothschild; with Leslie Wexner (Zionist/Mossad) covering for Jeffrey Epstein and giving him the Upper East Side mansion.
When Ghislaine Maxwell sold her Upper East Side mansion that was owned by Lynn de Rothschild it was purchased by Fred Rudd, a businessman whose wife died under mysterious circumstances.
Had Epstein not been exposed – no one would have known.
The Jeffrey Epstein / Ghislaine Maxwell case has, probably for the first time, shown the public snippets of the “backroom operations” that continue between the UK, Israel and the US.
So that, for example, you have Jeffrey Epstein who from “nowhere” becomes very wealthy.
However, behind say Leslie Wexner (Zionist), are the powerful players, bankers, organized crime, that are used to pump money into the Epstein “machine.”
We can thank Prince Andrew and his botched BBC interview for re-opening the Epstein case to the world. A case that was meant to be put to rest by Epstein’s “death.”
Lynn Forester de Rothschild also introduced Epstein to Dershowitz.
As early as 1993, records show, Epstein donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association and attended a donors’ reception hosted by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Around the same time, according to a source familiar with the connection, Epstein visited presidential aide Mark Middleton several times at the White House. Two years later, businesswoman Lynn Forester de Rothschild wrote a personal letter to Clinton thanking him for their talk about the financier.
My Fifteen Seconds of Access’
Jeffrey Epstein’s name shows up again in the Clinton Library archives in a letter dated April 27, 1995, from Lynn Forester to “President William T. Clinton.” Forester—who became Lynn Forester de Rothschild after her marriage in 2000 to Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild—served on Clinton’s National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee and on the president’s Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. She and her husband also spent the first night of their honeymoon in the Lincoln Bedroom by invitation of the Clintons.
In the 1995 letter, Forester de Rothschild writes, “Dear Mr. President: It was a pleasure to see you recently at Senator Kennedy’s house. There was too much to discuss and too little time. Using my fifteen seconds of access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization, I neglected to talk to you about a topic near and dear to my heart. Namely, affirmative action and the future.” She then goes on to note that she’s sending him a memo on the latter subject, which George Stephanopoulos had asked her to write, and signs off, “Sincerely, Lynn Forester.”
Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s onetime lawyer, previously claimed Forester de Rothschild was the first to introduce him to his future client. In a recent interview with New York magazine, Dershowitz recounted that in the summer of 1996, at a party on Martha’s Vineyard for Lord Rothschild, Forester de Rothschild told him, “I have this friend, he really would like to meet you.”
The friend turned out to be Epstein.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild (far right)
Living History by Hilary Clinton Book Party Hosted by Lady Lynn Forester De Rothschild at the Orangery, Kensington Palace London, UK – 3 Jul 2003
^ Many names listed in Epstein’s black book and other notorious people attended this event
Bronfman/Rothschild
Bronfman’s sisters run the Nxivm sex cult in Albany, NY
Clare Bronfman, who ran Nxvim in Albany, is the sister of Matthew Bronfman….who runs Bronfman Rothschild Wealth Advisors w/ Lynn de Rothschild.
NXIVM, Sex Cult, & Slavery
NXIVM started to punctuate the headlines around the tail end of 2017 onwards. A truly disturbing organisation with allegations of slavery, mind control, and alleged people and even child sex trafficking.
Originally from its inception, the group was designed to help empower people, grow them spiritually as well as professionally. Strangely roughly 15 years ago disturbing information concerning its methods in enslavement and brainwashing using MK-Ultra / Monarch style programming started to surface. It has taken since then for law enforcement to take notice, and for arrests to be made.
more here:
https://reconsider.news/2018/06/15/44163/
Gary Ackerman
Alan Dershowitz, Gary Ackerman and Larry David
@kirbysommers
Gary Ackerman was named by Paul Bonacci of the Franklin child abuse case of being “1 of the leaders” of CIA’s Monarch Program.
@kirbysommers
Ackerman was married to Mona Riklis Ackerman who is the deceased sister of my rapist Ira who turned me into his sex slave. These ppl are all connected.
@kirbysommers
Gary Ackerman, the former long term Congressman, who was named as part of the Monarch Project by Paul Bonacci was sued last yr by a man who alleges he was raped by Ackerman when he was a teenager in 1966 at a summer camp.
@REALCATHYOBRIEN
Former US Congressman Gary Ackerman (D.NY) Chair of Asian Subcommittee, currently accused of sexual assault, is named in TRANCE for skillful use of MK Ultra controls for perverse abuse of me, and for complicity in Asian Heroin ops thru Long Island. thehill.com/blogs/blog-bri
Lynn de Forester, Andrew Stein and Trump
Epstein also said that his friend Lynn Forester, now married to billionaire Evelyn de Rothschild, needed his financial help during her 1990s divorce from politician Andrew Stein, and that he had graciously floated her.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler
Edward the Earl of Derby with His Wife Cazzie the Countess of Derby
Matthew Freud – son of paedophile Clement Freud
Lord Weidenfeld
Lynn De Rothschild’s Party For Hillary Clinton
UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 04: Dominic Lawson, Rosa Monkton With Bob Geldof, Lynn De Rothschild’s Party For Hillary Clinton, To Celebrate The Launch Of Her Book “Living History” At The Orangery, Kensington Palace
Virginia Bottomley
Bob Geldoff
Alastair Campbell And His Parner Fiona (very Rare), Lynn De Rothschild’s Party For Hillary Clinton
Taki
John Sainsbury
Lord John Sainsbury interbred with the Havers family, who have excelled at producing bent lawyers and judges who concealed the Westminster Paedophile Ring and blocked prosecutions of High Society sex offenders
http://www.drsallybaker.com/category/north-wales-child-abuse-scandal/page/4/
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild with His Wife Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild with John Reid and His Wife Carine Adler‘s wife and another shocking erotic film
2007
The wife of the Home Secretary is to make another erotic film – this time about an abused housewife and a self-help guru obsessed with hard-core pornography.
Carine Adler’s shocking new movie is to star Kristin Scott Thomas, better known for her portrayal of aristocratic English roses.
The Brazilian-born director, John Reid’s second wife, caused a sensation with her debut work Under The Skin, described as an exploration in ‘nymphomania’.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/john-reids-wife-and-another-shocking-erotic-film-7210614.html
Reid was also dogged for a time by the saga that culminated in the inquiry by Elizabeth Filkin, the Commissioner of Standards, into claims that taxpayers’ money had been used to pay political researchers, including Reid’s son Kevin.
The smack of arrogance
…the appointment of John Reid to be Mr Mandelson’s replacement as secretary of state for Northern Ireland is something of a surprise to those – admittedly few in number – who read the report of the parliamentary commissioner, Elizabeth Filkin, expediently published just as journalists were packing up for the Christmas break.
Mrs Filkin is damning about the behaviour of Mr Reid, both towards her inquiry and towards the key witnesses in the case, which concerned allegations that Mr Reid and his colleague, John Maxton, had used their House of Commons allowances to pay three Labour party researchers and had misled the fees office. Mr Reid challenged the reliability of the complainant – a journalist – and challneged the veracity of the witnesses. His solicitor was found to have launched an unwarranted attack on the integrity of Mrs Filkin. The standards and privileges committee, while disagreeing with her conclusions, found her investigation to be careful, fair and competent.
Mrs Filkin found that many witnesses felt under considerable pressure about their evidence and whether they should cooperate with her inquiry at all. She took evidence that Mr Reid had made threats of “a particularly disturbing kind” against one witness, who was so alarmed he started to tape record his future conversations with Mr Reid. The witness accused Mr Reid of trying to change his evidence in order to mislead the inquiry. Having listened to these tapes Mrs Filkin directly concluded that Mr Reid’s behaviour was “an attempt to frustrate my investigation”. The committee, while finding no threats, said it was “at best unwise” for Mr Reid to have discussed the investigation with witnesses.
John Reid MP
Minister of Defence (1997-1998) and the Minister of Transport (1998-1999), as well as the Secretary of State for Scotland (1999-2001), Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2001-2002), leader of the House of Commons (2003), Secretary of State for Health (2003-2005), Secretary of State for Defence (2005-2006), and Secretary of State for The Home Office (2006-2007).[2]
In 1989 Kinnock appointed John Reid Shadow front bench Spokesman for children.
http://www.drsallybaker.com/tag/john-reid/
Patricia Scotland worked for John Reid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Scotland
Scotland acted as Counsel for the Welsh Office at the Waterhouse Inquiry and cross-examined the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles so aggressively that some of them collapsed.
http://www.drsallybaker.com/tag/john-reid/
John Reid – former Chairman of Celtic Football Club (2007 -11)
Former Celtic chairman claims ‘no knowledge’ of his business links to Boys’ Club sex beast Jim Torbett
Kevin Kelly denies he was a director of the Trophy Centre which was the firm run by convicted paedophile Torbett..
10 JUN 2019
Former Celtic chairman Kevin Kelly has claimed ignorance of his business links with Celtic Boys’ Club beast Jim Torbett.
Speaking for the first time since the abuse scandal emerged, he said he had no idea that beasts Torbett and Frank Cairney were preying on children over decades on his watch.
The Daily Record revealed last month details of a 1986 probe by the Celtic FC board into allegations of boys being taken to weekend tournaments that did not exist, boys being taken out socially and boys being late home from training.
It appeared to be at odds with Celtic’s claim that the boys’ club was “entirely separate” from Celtic FC and that the club had first learned of allegations against boys’ club predators in the 1990s.
Four paedophiles linked to the boys’ club have been convicted of preying on children in recent months.
At the time of the 1986 probe Kelly, now 81, was vice-chairman of Celtic FC, president of Celtic Boys’ Club and worked for Torbett at his Trophy Centre business.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/ex-celtic-chairman-claims-no-16490968
Celtic confirm sex abuse probe and deny ‘doing nothing’
1 June 2019
Celtic FC has been conducting its own two-year investigation into historical child sex abuse, according to its chief executive.
In letters to two MSPs, Peter Lawwell hit back at “misconceptions” the football club had been “doing nothing”.
He said the club’s insurers had appointed a “wholly independent and experienced lawyer” to investigate.
Last month the club expressed “regret and sorrow” 10 days after an ex-youth coach was jailed for child sex abuse.
Jim McCafferty, 73, was the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be convicted of child sex offences in the past year.
- MSPs criticise Celtic over sex abuse
- Celtic abuse regret ‘too little, too late’
- The abuser who preyed on dreams of football stardom
The full list: The Blairs’ dinner guests
Saturday 23 October 1999
Miss Karine Adler
Admiral Sir Michael Boyce KCB OBE
Dame Judi Dench DBE
Mr John Farrell
Mrs Farrell
Mr Luke Lucas
Mr Alan McGee
Mrs McGee
Dr David Potter CBE
Mrs Elaine Potter
Sir Jimmy Savile OBE
The Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP
Mr Michael Williams
….
John Reid:
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2001-2002)
G4S
In 2009, just months after Reid had been hired by G4S, the company won a huge contract from Reid‘s former employers, the Ministry of Defence, worth tens of millions of pounds, to supply private security guards for around 200 Ministry of Defence and military sites across Britain. G4S denied Reid playing any part in them securing the contract.[3]
https://powerbase.info/index.php/John_Reid_(MP)
Letter from Lynn Forester de Rothschild to President Bill Clinton mentioning Jeffrey Epstein. (She has the wrong middle initial for him).
Various photos taken when Bill Clinton was President. Ehud Barak and his first wife Neva.
Jeffrey Epstein if you recall went to Clinton’s White House a couple of times. Epstein even made a replica of the Blue Room at the WH for his UES mansion.
Jeffrey Epstein allegedly kept nude portrait of Ghislaine Maxwell ‘with her legs open’
December 12, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein had a huge portrait of accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell completely naked with her legs wide open in a party room in his New Mexico ranch, a former employee claimed Thursday.
The graphic painting of the British media heiress was a centerpiece in the poolroom of the “Zorro Ranch,” where Maxwell was an almost constant presence and even had an office, the staffer told The Sun.
The late pedophile — who famously had a bizarre painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress — also filled the ranch with photos of his famous pals, including Clinton, Prince Andrew and even John Travolta, his former IT worker told the paper.
He said Maxwell — long accused of being Epstein’s madam — had an upstairs office and “spent more time at the ranch than he did.”
“I’d see what was on her computers, modeling pictures of girls and that kind of thing,” he insisted, saying some looked like professionals.
The staffer, who said he worked on Epstein’s “internet, security and communications,” said there were “pictures everywhere” at the ranch.
“John Travolta, Bill Clinton, and there were a bunch of photos of Prince Andrew in the house, mostly in the common areas,” he said. “He liked to brag about the people he knew.”
He said one room in the home was “sex-obsessed,” with everything showing “nude women, couples having sex or fertility statues.”
The ex-employee said the raunchy photos came down in 2005, when Epstein learned he was under investigation for allegedly trafficking young girls for sex.
Another source told the paper that some staff — who are reportedly still being paid by the dead man’s estate — refuse to believe the well-connected pedophile is dead.
“Some employees think he’s still alive,” the source insisted. “It might be stupidity or Stockholm Syndrome or, like a real-life Bond villain, who could break out of federal jail and fake his own death.”
@kirbysommers:
Here’s a good one. Ghislaine Maxwell’s nephew, Alexander Djerassi worked in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Alexander is the son of her sister Christine and ex-husband Carl Djerassi birth control inventor
The problem with this is that as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and Ghislaine’s nephew had access to top secret information. The things that only spies would know.
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein: I’m a sex offender, not a predator
@KirbySommers As we have seen Jeffrey Epstein truly behaved/believed he was above the law – and he was. JE was more than an “intelligence asset” as Alex Acosta stated. He was the head of the snake with orders to collect secrets.
There is no way any other person would have openly used minors.
Billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein is back in New York City — and making wisecracks about his just-ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl.
February 25, 2011
“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’ ” the financier told The Post yesterday.
“It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” said Epstein.
Epstein’s flippant reasoning aside, a New York judge ruled at a hearing last month that the moneyman is the most dangerous kind of sex offender: a Level 3.
That means, according to the state, Epstein is at “high risk” to repeat his offense and poses “a threat to public safety.”
But Epstein doesn’t seem bothered by the designation.
“The crime that was supposedly committed in Florida is not a crime in New York,” he said.
Epstein recently returned to his $50 million East 71st Street mansion and celebrated his release from a Florida jail with his close pal, Britain’s Prince Andrew.
Epstein served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
In court papers, the victim was identified as a 14-year-old girl.
At one point, Epstein was facing 10 years to life on multiple counts of statutory rape, according to investigators. Court documents in that case claimed he routinely sought out girls as young as 14 and paid them $200 to $1,000 for sexual massages in his homes in Palm Beach, Fla., and Manhattan.
He also molested girls he had brought in from South America and Europe and once was given three 12-year-old girls from France as a “birthday gift,” the documents alleged.
Epstein struck a secret nonprosecution deal with the feds. The government agreed to drop its probe of various sex-crime allegations if Epstein copped to prostitution felonies in Florida state court.
But in New York’s sex-offender database, Epstein doesn’t come up in a ZIP code search. He shows up only via the “name search” option, and no New York address is listed.
That’s because Epstein’s Upper East Side home is considered “temporary.” By state law, he is required to provide only his permanent address to the database, and Epstein listed his Florida home.
https://nypost.com/2011/02/25/billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-im-a-sex-offender-not-a-predator/
The Pandora’s box has been opened.
Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1167114465273425922
@KirbySommers
BREAKING NEWS: In 1999 Gordon Thomas claimed that a Mossad agent with the code name MEGA infiltrated Bill Clinton’s White House. The CIA has bashed Thomas’s book BUT no one has put MEGA = JEFFREY EPSTEIN until today. Jeffrey Epstein was MEGA !!!!
Jeffrey Epstein = “Mega” Israel’s spy. Remember offer by Epstein’s attys? JE 2 give up names of individuals who paid in exchange for a sentence not to exceed 5 years. Was this a genuine offer or a threat ala Clinton/Lewinsky scandal exposed by Mossad?
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1207674028015702021 …
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1208039545008250880
If we look at all the threads of the Epstein crimes and the fact that we can agree he was as Alex Acosta said “an intelligence asset” and we know about MEGA the group of billionaires and how Epstein was able to evade justice >> then Epstein’s Mossad code name was MEGA!
I posted these two MSM accounts of MEGA. In the articles “mega” is said to be a person. I first believed MEGA was the Wexner/Bronfman group — and it is — because they are the PUPPET MASTERS on behalf of Israel. But Jeffrey Epstein is MEGA.
@KirbySommers
The Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell crimes are more than child trafficking – they show the United States government to have become an accomplice in lying to Epstein’s victims and in securing for Epstein a NPA.
Is the “financial advice” Jeffrey Epstein provided to Leslie Wexner and Leon Black really a cover for the sale of “PRIVATE INFORMATION” Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell obtained while trafficking the children to the rich and powerful?
The name Leon Black is going 2 pop up again w/ the renewed interest in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Black’s connection to Epstein is, again, via Iran Contra, Michael Milken +underworld figures.
To understand u need 2 know about Leon’s father Eli.
Fields within fields. “Assets in plain sight.”
Leon Black first appeared on the national scene in 1975 when his father “fell” to his death from the 44th floor of Manhattan’s Pan Am Building. Two years later, he emerged as head of mergers
In the 1970s Carl Lindner and his American Financial Group began investing in United Fruit. To escape the firm’s notorious past, its name was changed to United Brands and then Chiquita Brands International.
After the death of CEO Eli Black, Carl Lindner assumed control.
United Fruit became a key conduit for moving Israeli arms into covert wars throughout Latin America, culminating in the Iran-Contra scandal of 1987.
That scandal discredited presidency of Ronald Reagan when he was forced to concede that his administration sold arms to Iran, an avowed enemy, and used the funds to arm Nicaraguan rebels despite a Congressional ban.
The term “Banana Republic” traces to the corrupting influence of United Fruit.
Remember the Time’s Square bombing of 2010?
Faisal Sharzad — AKA The Times Square Fizzler worked for Leon Black.
@KirbySommers
This is the original Arthur Shapiro murder file which Leslie Wexner managed to squash.
In addition to some funny tax matters the report links Wexner to escort services and prostitution and to organized crime
The report states:
“The Genovese/LaRocca crime families might consider Wexner a friend.”
https://www.kirbysommers.com/blog-1/2019/12/7/the-arthur-shapiro-murder-file
Somehow Faisel found himself on the busiest streets in midtown Manhattan just as the United Nations — in midtown Manhattan — was preparing to debate a treaty to create a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.
………………………………………………………………
It revolves around the narrative of forming the state of Israel + maintaining nuclear force.
More here
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1183077595119796224
The reporting on Leon Black to date suggests that Black turned to Jeffrey Epstein for “financial advice.”
What if that “financial advice” was in fact the PURCHASING OF INFORMATION?
Leon Black owns a private army contracted to the U.S. 4 military operations; said corp has been accused of child sex trafficking + he sits on The Council on Foreign Relations.
Despite having more than one connection to child trafficking will Leon Black also escape punishment?
Leon Black, via Apollo, purchased Blackwater – which is the largest private security company that works for the US government.
Blackwater has been accused of murder, gun running, and using children as prostitutes.
Blackwater was owned by Eric Prince before being purchased by Leon Black.
Prince is also the younger brother of United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, appointed under the Trump administration.
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/blackwater-chief-accused-murder-gun-running/story?id=8258915
In 2010 amid mounting legal problems in the US Erik (with a K) Prince moved to Saudi Arabia.
He was hired by Sheik Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi hired Erik Prince to build a fighting force.
Remember Jeffrey Epstein’s saudi passport?
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/world/middleeast/15prince.html
Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (M.B.S.) has a new private army w/ the help of Erik Prince.
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/saudis-crown-prince-creates-personal-blackwater-army-2972212 …
To see how these “intelligence assets” interweave throughout our history when elected president in 2008, you might remember that Barack Obama appointed Eric Holder as his Attorney General.
Eric Holder was former counsel to Carl Lindner.
Mar 31, 2020
FERGIE HAS CALLED FOR SOCIAL MEDIA USERS BLASTING PRINCE ANDREW OVER HIS PAEDO SHAME TO SHOW MORE “RESPECT”’
@Eye5W1de0pen
Today, some of Andrew’s friends cast doubt on him dancing with Virginia. Back in 2001, some of his friends had this to say about him:
(Excerpts from the Evening Standard, January 22, 2001 – 7 weeks BEFORE he abused Virginia)
Leslie Wexner, whose trust he runs.
Bill Gates made donations to MIT through Jeffrey Epstein —here are all of the tech mogul’s connections to the financier
Bill Gates, who said he had no relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, reportedly met with the disgraced financier multiple times, including a 2011 meeting with billionaire Eva Dubin and her teenage daughter
Oct 12, 2019
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Nephew, Son of Blasphemous Artist, Worked For Hillary’s State Department
Ghislaine Maxwell’s socialite sister Isabel Maxwell married Dale Djerassi, son of birth control pill inventor Carl Djerassi, in 1984 and had son Alexander that same year, as shown by the Maxwell family tree. The couple later divorced. Carl Djerassi pursued a career in art while his son Alexander pursued politics. Both Dale and his son Alexander are on the Board of Trustees for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Dale and Alexander have been pictured together as father and son by the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications.
Alexander Djerassi, who is Ghislaine Maxwell’s nephew, was a high-ranking official in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Here is Alexander Djerassi’s bio from his time as an associate with the Carnegie Endowment:
“Alexander Djerassi was a nonresident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focused on Tunisia and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and North Africa. From 2009 to 2012, Djerassi was chief of staff and special assistant in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering U.S. relations with Arab states, Israel, and Iran. He worked on matters relating to democratization and civil society in the Arab world, the Arab uprisings, and Israeli-Palestinian peace. Djerassi has served as a U.S. representative to the Friends of Libya conferences, Friends of the Syrian People conferences, U.S.-GCC Strategic Coordination Forum, and several UN General Assemblies.”
The Maxwell family has drawn scrutiny for its association with the Bronfman family, which counts NXIVM child trafficking cult benefactors Clare and Sara Bronfman as members.
Jeffrey Epstein served as patriarch Edgar Bronfman’s tax mitigation specialist when he worked for Bear Stearns in the 1970’s.
Dale Djerassi took part in a blasphemous art display that caused some political trouble for Hillary Clinton when she ran for Senate in New York in 2000.
The New York Post reported on the blasphemous art display in 2000.
Catholic League president William Donohue wrote in a September 2000 statement:
“I was disturbed to read an article in today’s New York Post by Robert Hardt Jr. and Gregg Birnbaum that cited a donation of $8,200 by Dale Djerassi to the ‘New York Senate 2000’ committee of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. They reported that Djerassi had participated in a ‘St. Batman Crucifixion’ in 1994. As they said, ‘The performance art piece was a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus, featuring a naked man wearing a Batman medallion and mask being tied to a giant cross by Djerassi and another man.’ (Pictures can be accessed on the web at popov.com.) Their description is actually an understatement: the pictures show full-frontal male nudity complete with a graph of the Christ-figure falling to the ground carrying the cross.
“It should also be known that the ‘St. Batman Crucifixion’ was performed at the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, California. The secretary of the foundation is Dale Djerassi. The foundation, now known as the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, is a current and past recipient of NEA money.
“Not surprisingly, Djerassi runs in the same circles as Mrs. Clinton: in June 1999, he was one of 30 people at a private fund-raising event that was organized by Mrs. Clinton’s friend, Susie Tompkins Buell (Hillary was traveling at the time and couldn’t make it).
“The Catholic League wants Mrs. Clinton to return the money. She set the precedent: in April of this year, she returned a $22,000 donation from a Miami businesswoman tied to international drug trafficking. The woman, Vivian Mannerud, made the contribution in the form of ‘soft money,’ exactly the kind of transfer made by Djerassi in June.
William Donohue
Maxwell’s nephew was a top official in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s socialite sister Isabel Maxwell married Dale Djerassi, son of birth control pill inventor Carl Djerassi, in 1984 and had son Alexander that same year, as shown by the Maxwell family tree. The couple later divorced. Carl Djerassi pursued a career in art while his son Alexander pursued politics. Both Dale and his son Alexander are on the Board of Trustees for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Dale and Alexander have been pictured together as father and son by the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications.
Alexander Djerassi, who is Ghislaine Maxwell’s nephew, was a high-ranking official in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Here is Alexander Djerassi’s bio from his time as an associate with the Carnegie Endowment:
“Alexander Djerassi was a nonresident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focused on Tunisia and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and North Africa. From 2009 to 2012, Djerassi was chief of staff and special assistant in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering U.S. relations with Arab states, Israel, and Iran. He worked on matters relating to democratization and civil society in the Arab world, the Arab uprisings, and Israeli-Palestinian peace. Djerassi has served as a U.S. representative to the Friends of Libya conferences, Friends of the Syrian People conferences, U.S.-GCC Strategic Coordination Forum, and several UN General Assemblies.”
Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad spy, says investigative journalist Dylan Howard
8 December 2019
effrey Epstein was the jet-setting billionaire playboy who was friends with everyone from politicians to a prince.
But in reality, he was a depraved and prolific paedophile and sex trafficker whose crimes were repeatedly overlooked by authorities.
Watch the full story above.
In August, while awaiting trial, Epstein was found dead in a New York prison cell – and his sudden death has left many unanswered questions.
Now, a new book is attempting to fill in those chilling details – with journalist Dylan Howard and a team of investigative reporters spending years trawling through all of the Epstein evidence.
“Jeffrey Epstein grew up in blue-collar New York City, but soon found his way working on Wall Street – but he left job from job to job in controversy,” Howard said.
“He seemingly never had a job but amassed a $600 million fortune.
“He was a man who had vast estates here in New York City – including the largest townhouse in the city itself – a Palm Beach mansion, his own island in the US Virgin Islands, a home in Paris, and a ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“What people don’t know is that every room in every one of those homes had cameras.
“One would ask, why would you have cameras in every single room? Well, as part of our investigation, we’ve established that Epstein had another room next to where all those cameras fed into, and there were industrial-sized Xerox machines.
“So whatever was taking place inside the four walls of his homes, he was recording it, and printing it out, and keeping DVDs.”
International spy
In his book, Howard speculates that Epstein may have also been an international spy.
“As part of our investigation, we spoke to Ari Ben-Menashe, who is a former Israeli spy,” Howard said.
“He said, on the record, unequivocally, that Jeffrey Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence operations, the Mossad, and running a classic honey trap operation: that is, lure people inside, record their activities, and use it to blackmail them.
“This person was also the handler of Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is a central figure in this story, and her whereabouts at the moment is unknown. She was said to have been one of the women who helped to procure the underage girls for Epstein, but she has denied that.
“But her father was Robert Maxwell, a media and press baron. He was a former Mossad agent, and according to Ari Ben-Menashe, the business that Robert Maxwell had was turned over to Jeffrey Epstein almost in a switch before Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances in 1991.”
Prince Andrew a ‘liar’
“A critical witness that we spoke to was a woman who worked as a housekeeper at the Santa Fe New Mexico ranch,” Howard said.
“As we know, Prince Andrew has said that he met Jeffrey Epstein only on a handful of occasions and protested his innocence. But according to this woman, Prince Andrew is not telling the truth.
“He made a visit to that ranch where she was given explicit orders from Team Epstein to make sure that Andrew was satisfied – and that meant ensuring he had the company of a very young woman.”
@LincolnsBible
Guess where Semion sent his top men (thanks to his business partner, Robert Maxwell’s passport scheme)..
Ivankov went to Trump Tower & Taj Mahal… https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate … [Screenshot Source: “Red Mafiya” – Robert Freidman]
And the super tricky Agron ran his ops out of Michael Cohen’s family catering biz, the El Caribe Club.
Surprise!
But Agron got a little sloppy with his murdering & sh*t (side note: his buddy was also vicious on the phone – with threats & recordings. I wonder if little Mikey was under the desk, picking up tips)… so, Ivankov just took over that sh*t.
While Semion was sending all these thugs to Brighton Beach, what was happening with his partner Robert Maxwell, you ask?
YACHTS!
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/24/mondaymediasection6 …
That last screenshot above is the quote from Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine.
Perhaps you recognize her…
Ghislaine is/was Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend/madame. Yes. Semion’s former partner’s daughter sidled up immediately to Epstein after her father’s death.
Do we need to go over mob families at this point?
Any questions on who’s money Epstein was laundering?
Anyone? No?
Good.
Prince Andrew’s other pedophile friend: Prep school priest who came to his 1986 wedding to Sarah Ferguson
The Duke of York also stayed loyal to an Anglican priest who was the chaplain at the elite prep school he attended as a teenaged exchange student 40 years earlier.
That priest, Keith Gleed, was later accused by at least five former students of sexually abusing them when he worked at Lakefield College School in Ontario from 1974 to 1980, when the school was an all-boys academy and when Andrew attended the school.
@Just_Cat1
Royal Nonce Brothers
So.. Andrew visited paedo child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s house (where children have been abused)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELQw0TwWoAA8kUR.jpg
& Charles visited paedo-satanist child procurer Jimmy Savile’s house (where children have been abused)
Ghislaine Maxwell snapped in London on June 6 ahead of meeting with Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace
8 Dec 2019
GHISLAINE Maxwell is pictured on June 6, the day of her summit with Andrew at Buckingham Palace.
We told last month of their meeting.
Ghislaine Maxwell was last picture on June 9 at a yacht party in Monaco
The Duke has denied discussing pal Jeffrey Epstein in the chat at his quarters.
Maxwell was in London for the Cash & Rocket rally for “80 of the world’s most successful women”.
She is seen ahead of a rally photocall at Wellington Arch, with Queen’s Guards in the background.
That day she and Nettie Mason, wife of Pink Floyd drummer Nick, left the capital in a red Ferrari.
The rally visited Paris and Geneva before finishing in Monaco on June 9.
Maxwell is pictured at a yacht club party there. She has not been seen since.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10506657/ghislaine-maxwell-london-prince-andrew-meeting/
Shocking photo shows paedo Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein & ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell at Beatrice’s 18th birthday bash
8 Dec 2019,
DEPRAVED Jeffrey Epstein, his alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell and disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein grin at Princess Beatrice’s Windsor Castle party.
Epstein was already being investigated by police at the time of the party
As they mingled with royalty at Beatrice’s 18th, police had already prepared an arrest warrant for Epstein on child sex abuse charges and raided his Florida mansion.
Eight days after the billionaire posed in a US Navy Seal uniform for this snap he was in cuffs.
Tuxedo-wearing Weinstein is due in court next month accused of a sex offence in 2006 – the same year this photo was taken.
Maxwell, seen in a gold mask and red headdress, is now being investigated by the FBI on suspicion of procuring girls for Epstein.
A source told The Sun on Sunday: “This photograph sums up just why the Epstein affair has been so disastrous for Andrew.
“He brought these people into the royal fold, to Windsor Castle no less, where they could rub shoulders with the great and good.
“It is an astounding lack of judgment at the very least.
“This picture will raise further questions about Andrew’s interaction with these individuals.”
We first revealed in September how Epstein, Weinstein and Maxwell had joined Andrew at Windsor Castle to celebrate Beatrice’s coming-of-age.
Now we can reveal the full details behind the disturbing photograph, taken at the £400,000 ball in Berkshire on July 15, 2006.
Around 400 guests turned up in mainly Victorian dress for the party’s 1888 theme marking 100 years before Beatrice was born.
The trio were pictured on a patio, next to a wicker sofa, in front of the lush Windsor grounds. It is an identical backdrop to official photos of the event showing Andrew, ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, Beatrice and sister Eugenie.
The ball continued the Queen’s tradition of giving her grandchildren a party to mark their entry into adulthood, though she and Prince Philip did not attend.
Royals at the bash included Peter and Zara Phillips and Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex.
Celebrities included Demi Moore and then-husband Ashton Kutcher, Pixie Geldof, Kelly Osbourne and Sir David Frost.
Guests guzzled 400 bottles of champagne and ate 4,000 canapes while listening to the Royal Philharmonic and watching burlesque troupe Circo Rum Ba Ba.
About 250 guests were invited to a three-course dinner. A further 150 arrived for canapes and champagne at 10pm.
Beatrice wore a £10,000 blue taffeta gown created by Sarah Ferguson’s British designer friend Georgina Chapman. She was the future wife of Weinstein.
Ms Chapman, 43, divorced Weinstein following the #MeToo scandal, when dozens of women claimed he sexually abused or harassed them.
The Oscar-winning producer, 67, will go on trial in New York on January 6.
FRIENDS FOR YEARS
He and Epstein are believed to have been friends for years.
By May 2006, Palm Beach Police Department in Florida had prepared a warrant for Epstein’s arrest.
They had been investigating him since March 2005, when the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl complained that he had sexually abused her.
Back then, five teenage girls told how they would give him massages in their underwear for cash at his Palm Beach home – which Andrew visited at least four times.
Epstein was arrested on July 23, 2006. He was controversially charged with only one count of solicitation of prostitution.
In his Newsnight interview last month, Andrew, 59, claimed he had no idea of the probe into Epstein at the time of the Windsor Castle birthday bash.
Jack Scarola, 72, a lawyer for Epstein’s victims, told The Sun on Sunday: “There was a fairly extensive investigation under way by then.
“It is absolutely certain that at the time of the Windsor Castle gathering, Jeffrey Epstein was aware an investigation was going on – a search warrant had been executed on his home.
“I will leave it to others to judge whether it goes to the heart of concerns about the conduct of Prince Andrew.”
Epstein managed to cut a deal with prosecutors and served just 13 months in jail.
The monster, 66, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell last August shortly after being arrested for a second time.
He was suspected of abusing girls as young as 14 in a sex trafficking ring.
FBI prosecutors are said to be pursuing alleged co-conspirators accused of enabling his abuse, including his ex-lover Maxwell, 57.
The socialite and daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell is suspected of procuring young girls for Epstein and even taking part in sexual abuse.
She is in hiding and has denied all claims of wrongdoing.
One of the girls she allegedly recruited for Epstein was Virginia Giuffre, formerly Roberts, who says she was kept as a sex slave.
Ms Giuffre, now 36, has claimed she slept with Prince Andrew three times as a teenager — recounting sexual encounters in London, New York and the Caribbean.
Her allegations of sex with Andrew were aired on BBC’s Panorama on Monday.
Following the interview Buckingham Palace reiterated Andrew’s denials of any sexual contact with Ms Giuffre.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10505670/jeffrey-epstein-harvey-weinstein-princess-beatrice-birthday/
Prince Andrew’s ‘pimp’ pal Ghislaine Maxwell ‘had sex with dozens of underage girls’
5 Dec 2019
PRINCE Andrew’s “pimp” pal Ghislaine Maxwell had sex with dozens of girls, it is alleged in court papers.
The claims are in statements by Virginia Giuffre, who says she was forced to sleep with the duke aged 17.
Ms Giuffre, 35, says the Brit socialite procured girls for the billionaire financier and his pals.
In the US papers she is asked by investigators: “It is your contention Ghislaine Maxwell had sex with underage girls virtually every day, correct?”
Ms Guiffre says: “Yes. There’s a lot of girls that were involved.”
Epstein, 66, killed himself in jail earlier this year while on sex trafficking charges.
Prince Andrew, 59, has kept in touch with Maxwell, 57, throughout the crisis. He denies any wrongdoing.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10493144/ghislaine-maxwell-sex-dozens-of-girls/
Stowe School Cabal and the Dirty Dirty Duchess
https://threads.greatscaleanalytics.com/thread/1194654879320543238
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were also close to paedophile Jimmy Savile
Sir Jimmy’s amazing collection of memorabilia reveals how he forged warm friendships with Prince Charles, Princess Diana and other Royals including Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson over the years.
Sir Jimmy Savile was also a firm favourite with Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson.
One Christmas card features a Thelwell-style photo of the young Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie wearing riding hats and jodhpurs at a stables and another card is signed: ‘Dear Jimmy, Bestest wishes for a great birthday, Andrew, Sarah, Beatrice, Eugenie.’
Prince Charles, who hailed Sir Jimmy as ‘a national treasure,’ presented him with a pair of Asprey and Garrard silver and blue enamel cufflinks with his fleur de lys crest for his 80th birthday, which are expected to sell for £300 to £500.
Sarah Ferguson with Jeffrey Epstein house keeper ( husband & wife) in Little St James Island
Fergie who seems to have spent a lot of time with Epstein at his various homes.
‘Appalling’ Sarah Ferguson savaged over reaction to Prince Andrew Epstein scandal
SARAH FERGUSON has come under fire after suggesting speculation surrounding Prince Andrew’s association with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein should be dismissed as “nonsense”.
Dec 13, 2019
Sarah Ferguson, also known as Fergie, insisted Prince Andrew has gone through “enormous pain” because of the rumours about his connection to convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. The Duke of York opened up about their relationship in an unprecedented interview with BBC Newsnight last month which ignited criticism rather than dissipate it. But Fergie herself came under fire for an apparent lack of sympathy for the Epstein’s victims in her latest interview in Vogue Arabia.
“It’s an extraordinary interview because you have the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and she does not acknowledge them.
“But she acknowledges the terrible time Prince Andrew has had.”
“To see such a wonderful man go through such enormous pain. He is the best man I know.
“It’s just incredible what he has done for Britain, and it’s all nonsense.”
In her 1995 memoir, The Housekeeper’s Diary, the Prince of Wales’s housekeeper Wendy Berry recalled Jimmy Savile dropping in at Highgrove on one of his regular visits.
‘As he waited for the Prince he puffed on his cigar and sent great clouds of blue smoke into the air. He knew that smoking was officially frowned on in the house but just laughed it off, saying, “Oh, the Boss won’t mind. He knows how much I like my cigars.”’
Strolling around in his tracksuit, with the laces of his training shoes left undone, Jimmy Savile was the most unlikely spiritual comforter for Charles that could be imagined. He would drive up in his enormous mobile home and leave it parked like some incongruous monster in the back yard.
‘“Ah, Jimmy,” laughed the Prince as Paul [the butler] ushered him through to the drawing room. “How nice of you to come.” The pair remained shut away for over an hour.’
Memoirs written below stairs tend to be infinitely more revealing than those written above. Recalling the two younger Princes, Wendy Berry found Edward ‘utterly charming and polite’, but Andrew boorish and rude. Her son James, who worked at Buckingham Palace, told her of Andrew’s tendency ‘to barge his way around the house, expecting to be looked after and served for every whim’.
A propensity for parading naked in front of staff was, it seems, evident. On a weekend’s shooting with the Duke of Westminster, ‘the Prince had just gone off for a bath when the bell rang. “Come in, come in,” shouted Andrew as James knocked on the door. “Where the bloody hell are my black socks — the ones with the stripe at the top?” He was standing in the middle of the room stark naked, vigorously rubbing his wet hair with a towel . . . Staff were practically invisible as far as he was concerned’
Peter Watt, head of the NSPCC helpline, said: “It’s now looking
possible that Jimmy Savile was one of the most prolific sex offenders the
NSPCC has ever come across.”
Savile said getting knighthood was ‘a relief because it got me off the hook‘ … folder contained a handwritten letter from Angus Ogilvy
“The folder encloses the letter from the Prime Minister offering him a knighthood, the envelope it came in, some bumf about keeping it secret till the proper date and then – proudest of all – telegrams from Charles and Diana, from Prince Philip, a handwritten letter from Angus Ogilvy and a very sweet homemade card with a stuck-on snapshot of Princess Bea, from the Duchess of York.
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One cannot look at the int’l names connected with Jeffrey Epstein +not realize the sex trafficking of minors was part of a larger spy ring. Look at Dani’s @Daniell32703718 visual map of the Black Book.
@Daniell32703718
Here version 17 of the Epstein Network Map w/ 63 additions & 15 updates. Detailed are at least 45 victims & those connected to him in fashion, real estate, finance, Harvard, Sci/Tech, entertainment, politics, royalty, New Mexico, Florida, USVI & much more!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIr_LI6JoXT12VY-2bxhFcShncC33aCw/view?usp=drivesdk …
Jeffrey Epstein accused of sexually assaulting NINE more women as young as 13
4 Dec 2019
NINE more women have come forward to claim they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
They alleged Epstein’s abuses spanned more than two decades and involved children as young as 13.
The women, who filed suit anonymously as Jane Does, alleged they were either sexually assaulted or raped by the multimillionaire, and in some cases, his associates, a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit claims..
Seven of the women say “Epstein and his associates sexually assaulted, abused, battered and raped,” them, and for two of the victims, this happened “repeatedly”.
The earliest incident occurred in 1985 when a then-23-year-old woman says “Epstein sexually assaulted, abused, and battered her,” the court documents allege.
The most recent abuse happened to a 21-year-old in 2007, it is claimed.
‘VICTIMS DEVELOPED MENTAL ILLNESS’
The accusers’ lawyer, Jordan Merson, said the alleged abuse occurred in New York City, Florida, New Mexico and the US Virgin Islands.
The women were left with mental health issues including post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders and issues that led to attempted suicide.
Mr Merson said: “These women have lifelong trauma as a result of what Epstein did to them and now they have a chance at justice.”
Investigating into who the involved Epstein “associates” is ongoing.
He said: “The Executors of Epstein’s Estate have an opportunity to show that they do care for the survivors and turn over the full amount of his Estate to allow these women to be justly and fully compensated for all of their injuries.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10479212/jeffrey-epstein-accused-sexually-assaulting-nine-more-women/
Bill Clinton was Jeffrey Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and a frequent guest at his New Mexico ranch with wife Hillary, staying at the pedophile’s cowboy-themed village, say estate workers
- Bill and Hillary Clinton would stay at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch frequently after they left the White House, former estate workers told DailyMailTV
- The former president was Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and the Clintons visited Zorro Ranch ‘a whole bunch of times’, a former contractor who ran the IT system at the property said
- The family never stayed in the main house but bunked down in a special cowboy-themed village created by Epstein, which lies a mile south of his own villa, sources said
- The guest homes are next to other traditional Wild West-style buildings such as an old schoolhouse and saloon bar, which are all near Epstein’s private airstrip, where he arrived on his private planes
- This is all according to security expert Jared Kellogg, who was brought in by long-standing ranch manager Brice Gordon to improve security and set up a camera system at the main house and ‘cowboy village’
- Kellogg said: ‘I was saying how cool the replica houses were. [Gordon] said: ”Yeah, they’re built for guests… It’s really cool the Clintons come out and hang out [with Epstein]”’
- Bill Clinton and Epstein were once friends, and in August DailyMailTV revealed the convicted pedophile had a bizarre portrait of Bill in a dress – worn by Hillary – hanging on the wall of his New York mansion
- Clinton has flown on Epstein’s private plane, the Lolita Express, several times but denied ever visiting one of Epstein’s residences, apart from one time at his New York home
Bill and Hillary Clinton stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘baby-making ranch’ almost every year after they left the White House, according to the disgraced financier’s estate manager.
The former president was Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and the Clintons, along with daughter Chelsea, visited Zorro Ranch ‘a whole bunch of times’, a former contractor who ran the IT system at the property told DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview.
The family visited the 10,000-acre estate in the New Mexico desert often, but never stayed in the main house.
Instead, the Clinton family bunked down in a special cowboy-themed village created by Epstein, which is a mile south of his own luxury mountaintop villa. They’d use one of the two guest houses, which look like they’re straight out of the 19th century.
Seen in exclusive DailyMailTV images, the guest homes are next to other traditional Wild West-style buildings such as an old schoolhouse and saloon bar. An American flag is raised high above the village, which is next door to Epstein’s private airstrip, where he arrived on his private planes, including his infamous ‘Lolita Express’.
This is all according to security expert Jared Kellogg, who was brought in by long-standing ranch manager Brice Gordon to improve security and set up a camera system at the main house and ‘cowboy village’.
When contacted by DailyMail.com for comment, Bill Clinton’s press office referred us to a statement released over the summer. The statement denied he had ever visited any of Epstein’s residences, apart from once at Epstein’s home in New York City. DailyMail.com reached out to Hillary Clinton’s office for comment as well.
Kellogg said that at the time of his site walk of Epstein’s property, he had barely any knowledge of Epstein’s reputation but he said Gordon spent most of the time boasting about the Clintons’ frequent appearance at the estate.
The ranch is one of several Epstein’s homes where underage girls were flown in from all around the world.
The New York Times claimed the convicted pedophile confided in scientists that he planned to impregnate up to 20 women at a time at the ranch to improve the human race with his genes.
Kellogg said: ‘My contact was Brice, their main concern was that there was no video surveillance on the property at all. I thought this was a simple request, as they wanted surveillance to protect their investment. It’s a huge site.
‘But what was weird was that the whole time I was on site, Brice would be bragging about how the Clintons would visit, the whole family. Not just Bill, but Bill, his wife, their kid, and they would stay on the ranch itself.
‘He had built this Western replica village with a saloon, barn houses, old school house and when you’re walking through it, it feels like you’re walking through the 1800s.
‘His biggest concern was monitoring and covering that area, so my main focus was mounting cameras on poles to cover the driveways, walkways, the ins and outs of each house and facilities.
‘It was like Westworld, it’s like they built a functioning movie set, they put a lot of thought and detail into it, the flooring and facilities in there.
‘I was saying how cool the replica houses were, they’re pretty neat like the 1800s. He said: ”Yeah, they’re built for guests, we get a lot of visitors. It’s really cool the Clintons come out and hang out [with Epstein].”
‘It sounded like a normal summer vacation.’
Epstein and Bill were once friends, and in August DailyMail.com revealed the convicted pedophile even had a bizarre portrait of Bill wearing a dress hanging on the wall of his New York mansion.
The picture depicted the former president apparently lounging on a chair in the Oval Office, wearing red heels and posing suggestively in a blue dress redolent of Monica Lewinsky and was in a room off the stairway of Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse, estimated to be worth $56 million.
The dress is also strikingly similar to one worn by Hillary Clinton at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.
Bill has admitted on his own account he has visited Epstein’s town house once – making it possible he could have seen the bizarre painting.
He has also flown on the now deceased financier’s private plane, dubbed the Lolita Express, several times,
Clinton has however denied being on Epstein’s ‘pedophile island,’ Little St. James but one of Epstein’s former sex slaves, Virginia Roberts, claimed she saw Clinton on the island for a dinner held in his honor shortly after he left office, and stood by the claim when questioned under oath.
Over the summer, the former president’s office said Bill had not known anything of Epstein’s crimes and had taken four trips with him in 2002 and 2003 – although flight logs showed that he had taken a total of at least 26 individual flights in the course of those years.
Kellogg said he was stopped from going into certain areas of the estate, but did briefly go into an underground section of the main house. In November, a former contractor revealed to DailyMail.com that Epstein had built a secret basement ‘strip club’.
‘My access was very controlled. During the site walk, it was dictated where I could and couldn’t go. There were certain facilities I wasn’t allowed to go in, which was odd, as they were boarded up, and they looked like they could have big parties in them, but I didn’t think much of it.
‘They wanted to put very, very limited camera coverage on the main house itself. I was going to put up a couple of cameras on the exterior of the main entrance.
‘At the main entrance, there’s a downward slope at the back that goes into the basement. I was able to briefly go in. There was a long hallway to a big foyer and there was a door and that was about it. The two guest houses I was not permitted to go into,’ Kellogg sai
Another former contractor revealed Epstein built an underground club. In one picture from his New Mexico ranch, a staircase leads downstairs although there are no images of the actual ‘club’. ‘It’s an underground layer of 1,000 square feet. Like a nightclub, with stripper poles, it’s not directly underneath the house. Most activity took place there, like dancing, hanging out, it was the entertainment area, no one [staff] was allowed down there, they installed cameras down there,’ he said
‘Due to security reasons, I wasn’t permitted to even put a camera location on the drawing that we would then have on our records.
‘What is odd is that as a security professional, for me to give the best protection I can give a customer, I need the full layout of the land. I need to see the nooks and crannies, all the blind spots. They were limiting that access.
‘The staff only lived in one house, as far as I was aware, which is the the one nearest to the main gate. The saloon bar is in the center [of the village], there’s a bar area and looks like where they’d throw parties from my own observations. There’s also a barn/hay storage, and they’d put tractors and other vehicles in it.’
Considering Epstein was a multi-millionaire, Kellogg said Gordon wanted to do the security on the cheap.
Instead of using an expensive, robust camera system, which used underground cables, he wanted a ‘point-to-point wireless fluid mesh design’, which means cameras are operating via antenna, and is considerably cheaper.
After Kellogg did an estimate and sent in a plan, he never heard back.
He said: ‘They had this huge facility, but it felt like they didn’t have the money to do anything. They were trying to find the most cost-effective way to transmit video footage and we had to come up with a point-to-point wireless fluid mesh design because normally we want to trench everything. It saves money as you don’t have to build a trench and put in a cable.
‘What was odd to me was that I wasn’t able to interact with Epstein. If it’s your house, you have your concerns, the task had been delegated to Brice, he seemed to be in charge of everything.
‘I did my site walk, I did my estimate, I sent it in, and it basically fell on deaf ears and there was no contact back to me.’
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Thomas Bowers was Jeffrey Epstein’s banker at Deutsche. Bowers was Rosemary Vrablic’s boss who handled millions 4 Donald Trump. Bowers commits suicide. Judge Salas overseeing Deutsche had her husband & son killed by FedEx man who suicides same day.
Banker linked to both Trump & Epstein kills himself.
Former Deutsche Bank Exec Connected to Trump Loans Dies by Suicide in Malibu
According to the New York Times, Deutsche Bank agreed to lend Mr. Trump more than $500 million in 2005. He personally guaranteed $40 million of it. The terms of the loan state the bank could come after his personal assets if he defaulted.
Trump convinced Deutsche Bank to extend the terms of the loan. Rosemary Vrablic was assigned the Trump portfolio soon after. The relationship between Deutsche Bank and Trump was solidified. However, it went sour in 2008 due to Trump being unable or unwilling to repay the first loan.
By 2010, Trump and Deutsche Bank were on lending terms again. Deutsche Bank settled the lawsuit they filed against him for defaulting on the $500 million 2005 loan. Trump reached out to Vrablic via his recently acquired son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kushner was also one of Vrabic’s clients.
On Trump’s dime, Vrablic arrived in Miami to inspect the Doral Golf Resort and Spa. The star of NBC’s The Apprentice needed $100 million to purchase the resort.
At the same time, Trump made an unusual request for a second loan.
He wanted an additional $48 million to infuse into the Chicago skyscraper bearing his name. Part of that second loan would help him pay off what he owed the bank’s investment banking division.
Deutsche Bank loaned Trump $170 million to transform the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C. into a hotel. Trump received the loan because Bowers and Vrabic went to bat for Trump with senior executives in Germany.
Deutsche Bank also funded Trump’s ultimately unsuccessful billion-dollar efforts to purchase the Buffalo Bills. Again, due to Bowers and Vrabic.
Deutsche Bank’s relationship with Trump continued into 2015 when an additional $19 million loan was dispensed for Trump’s Doral estate. One final loan was broached in 2016. Trump needed money for his golf course in Scotland. But by then, Deutsche Bank executives had tired of Trump’s boastful rhetoric. Deutsche Bank’s upper echelons and their reputational risk committee ended the relationship.
Deutsche Bank executives in Germany sacked Bowers. He joined Starwood Capital Group in 2015.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Banker at Deutsche & Citi Found Swinging From a Rope; Executive ‘Suicide’ Before FBI Questioned Him
Dec 3, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s private wealth banker, who brokered and signed off on untold multiple millions of dollars in controversial Deutsche Bank and Citibank loans spanning two decades for the convicted pedophile, has died from a reported suicide.
The news of yet another mysterious Epstein-linked death comes shortly after the FBI was seeking to interview the bank executive about loans he approved for Epstein and the indicted child trafficker’s labyrinth of US-based and offshore companies.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed Thomas Bowers died by an apparent suicide by hanging at his home before Thanksgiving.
Epstein likewise died from a reported suicide by hanging, according to the New York City Medical Examiner.
Bowers headed the private wealth banking division for Deutsche Bank and signed off on millions in loans to Epstein. Bowers, prior to taking over the private banking arm at Deutsche Bank, served in the same top position at Citibank, as the head of the bank’s private wealth arm. Citigroup also made massive loans to Epstein, according to records and banking sources who spoke to True Pundit.
True Pundit founder Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore previously headed anti-money laundering for a major Citigroup division during the time frame Citi commenced large loans to Epstein.
“The loans to Epstein were personal and commercial,” Paine confirmed. “The Citi loans I can confirm were for more than $25 million. Some were secured, some were not.”
Did Citi bend its lending rules for Epstein? Paine said that appears “quite likely,” with Bowers and other Citi executives he later recruited to work for him at Deutsche all working to secure the approvals regardless of compliance-related red flags.
And sources said Citi loaned Epstein much more money, eclipsing $100 million and also allowed Epstein to use the bank to send thousands of wire transfers from his accounts. Bowers, who turned up dead just days ago, brokered the loans for Epstein, sources said.
Bowers was the chief of Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management division and worked from the bank’s Park Avenue offices in New York City. At Citi, Bowers served as the chief of the The Citi Private Bank and previously ran Citigroup’s Global Markets and Wealth Management businesses.
And when Bowers left Citi for Deutsche Bank, Epstein followed.
Meanwhile, Epstein stopped making payments on his millions in outstanding Citi loans. But that mattered little because Bowers approved new high-risk loans and credit lines from Deutsche Bank, sources said.
And that relationship with Epstein continued until Bowers left Deutsche Bank in 2015. By that time, Epstein had chalked up untold millions in loans with the help of Bowers who recruited many of his top private wealth top bankers from Citi to Deutsche Bank.
The FBI who was interested in interviewing Bowers, sources confirm. The FBI subpoenaed Deutsche Bank in May for all loans and accounts linked to Epstein and there were many unanswered questions. Deutsche Bank closed out Epstein’s accounts weeks after the bank was served federal subpoenas.
Federal law enforcement officials said the FBI planned to interview all Wall Street wealth fund managers who worked for Epstein. Bowers included.
How much money did Deutsche broker for Epstein? That number to this point has proven elusive. The FBI is not talking, but one executive divulged Epstein had secured more than $60 million from Deutsche Bank’s U.S. and German arms. Likely that number is larger, but at this point the bank is keeping its exposure quiet.
Just like Bowers had brokered for Epstein at Citi, Deutsche also set the convicted pedophile up with over a dozen bank accounts that Epstein employed to receive and send wires and funds.
One banking executive said Bowers had visited Epstein on his private island at least once. Bowers had also visited Epstein in New York and attended social events at his mansion. Federal law enforcement sources did not comment about these new revelations. However, Citi executives who worked with Bowers said the bank executive maintained an active night life and enjoyed the party circuit.
Epstein also helped bring in a plethora of new business from wealthy associates to Bowers at both Deutsche Bank and Citi, sources said.
“Epstein made Bowers and his financial institutions hundreds of millions of dollars,” one executive said. “It really didn’t even matter that Epstein stiffed Citi for $30 million in defaults because he brought so much new money, new blood in. Citi made far more than it lost.”
Seems like a pattern. The American Banker reports:
Epstein brought lucrative clients into JPMorgan’s private-banking unit and was close to former head Jes Staley, who visited Epstein’s private island as recently as 2015. Leon Black, Apollo Global Management’s billionaire chairman, met with the financier from time to time at the company’s New York offices, and used Epstein for tax and philanthropic advice.
Police reportedly found Bowers hanging from a rope in his California home.
He was 55.
Previous press releases detailing Bowers’ role with the private wealth arm of Deutsche, detailed the division and its target clientele:
Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management has been serving the interests of wealthy individuals, families and select institutions for more than a century. With offices across the U.S., Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management business division provides a variety of customized solutions to private clients worldwide including traditional and alternative investments, risk management strategies, lending, trust and estate services, wealth transfer planning, family office services, custody and family and philanthropy advisory. Private Wealth Management includes the U.S. Private Bank and Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the private client services division of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., the investment banking and securities arm of Deutsche Bank AG in the United States and a member of NYSE, FINRA and SIPC.
Epstein and Maxwell were running a “brownstone” operation to sexually blackmail important powerful people, politicians and scientists so that they can be controlled. The best blackmail material is child sexual abuse material.
Epstein and Maxwell were working in league with the CIA and Mossad and corrupt figures in the criminal cabal who had infiltrated DOJ and most of the US Government. In reality, the “intelligence services” do not work for the individual countries but on behalf of New World Order bosses who operate in the shadows.
Epstein was a “philanthropist” who funded much science in controversial areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), eugenics, and genetic modification, and has compromised individuals and universities. [21] 2019 Sept 6 cathy fox blog Epstein and the Edge
Thus Epstein’s personal sexual abuse was a drop in the ocean compared to what influence his operation had for the people running it.
The programme totally glossed over Epsteins death in prison as a suicide, not even mentioning in passing that probably the majority of the population who know anything about the case think that Epstein did not kill himself, the huge global meme from this and all the irregularities surrounding his death. Admittedly they could make a whole programme in itself on Epstein’s death, but to gloss over this without mentioning anything was remiss.
Panorama was careful not to mention that this girl Katherine Keating who Prince Andrew saw off from Epsteins mansion in Manhattan, (whilst on the honourable 5 day trip to say that he was never ever going to see Epstein again) is the daughter of ex PM of Australia who has long standing allegations of child abuse against him as well.
Prince Andrew saying toodleloo to Katherine Keating from Epsteins Manhattan Mansion
Other characters are –
Alan Dershowitz was part of a team of Attorneys who negotiated an absurdly light sentence for Epstein in approx 2009, for the crimes he had already committed.
I believe the Panorama team trod very softly round Dershowitz due probably to his litigious nature and reputation as a lawyer and his connections. Virginia accuses Dershowitz of having slept with her, though I dont think I saw that accusation directly in the programme, though I could be wrong.
Dershowitz admits little, apart from getting one massage, keeping his underpants on and I think spending one night there. However he cannot have been unaware of the naked pictures of young girls around Epsteins place. However if guilty he has more to gain by taking this approach than admitting his guilt….
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There are hundreds of links that the Royal family have with pedophiles Wildcat Royal Family Links [20]
Late news – Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Banker at Deutsche & CitiBank is Found Swinging From a Rope Before FBI Questioned Him– not a surprise to many following this case – [24] 2019 Dec 3 True Pundit Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Banker at Deutsche & Citi Found Swinging From a Rope; Executive ‘Suicide’ Before FBI Questioned Him
https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/panorama-the-pervert-the-prince-the-pimp-and-the-survivor/
@JamesRusbridger:
Bill Clinton was Jeffrey Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and a frequent guest at his New Mexico ranch with wife Hillary
PRINCE ANDREW’S ‘FRIENDSHIPS’:
Ghislaine Maxwell & Jeffrey Epstein (“sex trafficking, child abuse”)
Saif Gaddafi (“crimes against humanity; torture and enslavement”)
Ilham Aliyev (“human rights violations”)
Timur Kulibayev (“corruption?”)
Both Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein were being investigated in the late 1980s and early 1990s for public corruption, bribery and information related to the murder of Columbus attorney Arthur Shapiro in Ohio.
David Sturtz, Ohio’s first inspector general, referred to Epstein as Leslie Wexner’s “boyfriend.”
The report containing information on the mob style murder of Arthur Shapiro was destroyed by police Chief James G. Jackson.
Jeffrey Epstein had a documents in his safe about the murder of Arthur Shapiro. The murder of Arthur Shapiro remains an unsolved mystery. And it is clear both Jeffrey Epstein and Leslie Wexner continue to be protected by higher ups. The question is why?
The answer is because this was an undercover operation funded by politicians. It is the reason Clinton, Wexner, Epstein are connected to the Iran Contra, CIA front company Southern Air Transport.
This is a multi-national criminal enterprise. It’s reach is beyond our borders.
Southern Air Transport (SAT) (1947–1998), based in Miami, Florida, was a cargo airline best known as a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (1960–1973) and for its crucial role in the Iran-Contra scandal in the mid-1980s. During the affair, Southern Air transported arms to Iran and to the US-backed stateless mercenary army in Central America known as the Contras, which were fighting the revolutionary Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
1994 Edmund James, president of James and Donohew Development Services, negotiated with SAT and announced that it was locating to Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. Much of the Hong Kong-to-Rickenbacker cargo was for Leslie Wexner‘s The Limited Inc. Governor George Voinovich stated: “I am extremely pleased to welcome Southern Air Transport to Ohio, as it will be the first airline to have its world headquarters located at Rickenbacker Airport. This will help Columbus tremendously in becoming a world-class inland port.”[9]
A new book ‘Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ asserts that Robert Maxwell was a spy for England, Russia and Israel and that Ghislaine followed in her father’s footsteps. Jeffrey Epstein had been recruited as a spy earlier.
Ari Ben-Menashe, an ex Israeli mossad agent, who claims to have been the handler of Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein was involved since early 1980s start w/ smuggling arms for Iran-Contra.
Leslie Wexner, Bill Clinton, The Bush family were all associated and ultimately exposed as being part of the Iran Contra scandal.
According to Ben Menashe both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell carried on with Robert Maxwell’s work.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s friendship with Prince Andrew appears to have been intelligence gathering.
What better way to ply Britain’s secrets from Andrew than by getting an underage girl for him to sleep with.
Did Andrew pay Epstein for his business introductions?
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were spies who used underage sex to blackmail politicians, ‘ex-handler’ claims
Ben-Menashe is a mysterious Iranian-born Israeli businessman who claims to have worked for Mossad from 1977 to 1987.
He was arrested in 1989 in the US on arms dealing charges but was acquitted in 1990 after a jury accepted he was acting on behalf of Israel.
Israel tried to distance themselves from him, with government sources saying he never had anything to do with intelligence services, although other news reports – in both the US and Israel – confirmed he did.
This is a letter dated September 4 1987 confirming Ari Ben Menashe worked as an intelligence officer for Israel.
He later wrote a book called Profits of War: Inside the US-Israeli Arms Network and in the early 1990s claimed that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s dad, worked for Mossad.The new book takes this further and claims Maxwell may have worked for other governments too as as a double or triple agent.Ben-Menashe claims that despite reports Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell met in the early 90s in New York, they actually met much earlier – through the socialite’s father.He claims that Robert Maxwell introduced Epstein to Mossad and then Ghislaine got involved later.Files from the British Foreign Office, released in 2003 appear to back the claims Robert Maxwell may have been a spy, with one report describing him as a “thoroughly bad character” who was being “financed by Russia” and another saying his “questionable activities” had been brought to the attention of the Foreign Officer “on several occasions”.While the Maxwell family have always denied such reports, family friend Laura Goldman says in the book: “My feeling is that he probably was an agent to the Russians, the Israelis, and the British. I believe that Ghislaine continued his work.”It is not known whether Maxwell and Epstein gathered any intelligence about pal Prince Andrew in their alleged espionage work – although the book suggests the Royal was a target.… Epstein’s and Maxwell’s links with prominent people from the science and technology industries – and believes the pair not only ran a honeypot operation but also an information-gathering operation.
Laura Goldman, is a convicted stalker
How Did This Convicted Stalker From Philly Get White House Press Credentials?
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/03/16/laura-goldman-stalker-white-house-press-pool/
Open Letter to the Sun: Stop listening to Ghislaine Maxwell’s “spokesperson” Laura Goldman
Witness who ‘saw Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts in Tramp nightclub in 2001’ comes forward to Epstein victims lawyer
3 Dec 2019
A BOMBSHELL new witness has come forward saying she saw Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts together in Tramp nightclub in 2001, according to a lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.
Ms Roberts claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York after spending the night with him at the London nightclub in March 2001.
Prince Andrew denies the allegations and says he has ‘no recollection’ of ever meeting Ms Roberts.
But Lisa Bloom, a civil rights lawyer representing other sex abuse victims of disgraced US billionaire Jeffrey Esptein, has said a witness has come forward to her backing up Ms Roberts’ version of events.
She said: “I’m representing a witness that says she was there that night in 2001.
“She saw Prince Andrew with Virginia, she remembers it vividly because she was told this is a member of the Royal Family and that was a very big thing to her.
“She was shocked and she saw Virginia there with him.
“I’m going to take her to the FBI, they can investigate her claims and I call on other witnesses to come forward.”
Ms Roberts says she was groomed into becoming a ‘sex slave’ by Jeffrey Epstein and his ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell after being invited to a job interview for a masseuse role shortly after her 17th birthday.
She claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew in London, New York and the US Virgin Islands in 2001.
The 35-year-old told BBC Panorama she was flown by private jet to London where she stayed at the Belgravia home of Ms Maxwell.
It was there she says an infamous picture of Prince Andrew with his arm around her was taken.
The Duke of York claims he was at Pizza Express in Woking taking daughter Beatrice to a party on the night in question and has suggested the picture may have been faked.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10472772/prince-andrew-virginia-roberts-tramp-nightclub/
President Donald Trump has claimed that he does not know Prince Andrew, but a recently resurfaced interview with People from 2000 says otherwise, showing Trump describing Andrew as “a lot of fun to be with.”
“He’s not pretentious. He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump told People in 2000, speaking of Andrew. The article also states that Trump and Andrew, as well as Trump’s then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, had “chatted” at a Halloween costume party hosted by Heidi Klum in New York City in 2000.
The republished article from People contradicts Trump’s claims from just a day earlier that he does not know Andrew.
“I don’t know Prince Andrew, but it’s a tough story,” Trump said on Tuesday while attending the annual NATO meeting in London. “I don’t know him, no.”
Donald Trump DENIES knowing Prince Andrew despite chatting with him on state visit THIS YEAR and being pictured with him and Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach in 2000
- Trump was grilled by reporters at a press conference at Winfield House today
- Asked what he thought about Andrew stepping down he said: ‘I don’t know him’
- Pair were pictured smiling together at Westminster Abbey during June state visit
- Pictures also show him with a younger Trump and Melania in Florida in 2000
3 Dec 2019
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Donald Trump said today, “I don’t know Prince Andrew“. When we interviewed him in July 2018, he told us he played 18 holes of golf with Andrew (and he insisted he won too).
Trump, Prince Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell
Donald Trump wraps his arm around Ghislaine Maxwell at ‘hookers and pimps’ party which Prince Andrew attended
An eyewitness said that Trump and Maxwell appeared to know each other and spent around 15 minutes chatting before she left to go to another party with Andrew.
Andrew also said hello to Donald, they were friends
@JimMFelton
Trump just said “I don’t know Prince Andrew, but that’s a tough story, it’s a very tough story, I don’t know” Here he is not knowing him at Westminster Abbey, taking a nice stroll on a separate occasion he didn’t know him and finally not knowing him whilst partying with Epstein.
Trump attended an Epstein dinner with Prince Andrew
@JustFollowingP3
Lynn Forester de Rothschild also introduced Dershowitz to Epstein. The Rothschilds are neck deep in Epstein. One might speculate this as a contributing factor to why the story cannot be cracked.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-grows-more-grotesque
‘Got some questions about Virginia Roberts’: Prince Andrew’s bombshell 5:50am email to Ghislaine Maxwell just hours after ‘trafficked slave’ said she had sex with the royal is uncovered by BBC probe
- Virginia Roberts claims she had sex with Duke, which he categorically denies
- Andrew sent a 5.50am email to Ghislaine Maxwell to say he had ‘specific questions’ about Virginia Roberts, in 2015 after elements of the allegation broke
- Five other women have claimed Andrew witness Epstein’s sexual abuse
- Ms Roberts spoke of feeling ‘horrified ashamed and dirty’ after sex with Andrew
- Andrew has repeatedly and categorically denied any sexual conduct with minors
Prince Andrew sent an email to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell at 5.50am to let her know he had ‘specific questions’ about Virginia Roberts in 2015.
Tonight’s BBC Panorama investigation uncovered the email which suggests he asked for Ghislaine Maxwell’s help in responding to Virginia Roberts’ claims he had sex with her when she was 17 and a trafficked ‘sex slave’ of Epstein.
In the email the Prince tells Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts.’
Ghislaine replies: ‘Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.’
The Duke of York sent an email to Ghislaine Maxwell at 5.50am in 2015 to let her know he had ‘specific questions’ about Virginia Roberts after elements of the allegations came to light
The 35-year-old has continually alleged that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and had to have sex with Andrew, which the Duke of York categorically denies.
She told the BBC‘s Panorama in an interview on BBC One at 9pm tonight that ‘The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses – like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein.
‘I mean, come on, I’m calling BS on this, because that’s what it is.’
Sticking to her story she described feeling ‘horrified, disgusted and ashamed’ after sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 at the direction of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
The 35-year-old told the BBC tonight that after leaving Tramp nightclub with Prince Andrew: ‘In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey.
‘And that made me sick. I didn’t expect it from royalty. I didn’t expect it from someone that people look up to and admire – the royal family.’
She said: ‘There was a bath and it started there and it led into the bedroom. It didn’t last very long the whole entire procedure. It was disgusting.
‘He wasn’t mean or anything. But he got up and said thanks and walked out. And I sat there in bed just felt horrified and ashamed and felt dirty.’
She added: ‘I had just been abused by a member of the royal family.’
She also told the BBC that she knew she ‘had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell, Epstein’s then-girlfriend) would have expected from me.’
Miss Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, urged the British public to ‘stand up beside me to help me fight this fight’ and ‘not accept this as being OK’.
In the interview with BBC Panorama, she told how Andrew was ‘the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life’ and ‘his sweat was … raining basically everywhere’.
Miss Roberts’s interview took place before the duke’s appearance on Newsnight.
In the broadcast she revealed she was sexually abused from the age of seven and had run away from home.
She said: ‘ I was abused from a very young age. Seven years old and my childhood was quickly taken away from me.
‘I was just so mentally scarred already at such a young age and I ran away from that. I found nothing on the streets except for hunger and pain and abuse and it was scary, I wanted to get out of it.’
Maxwell replied to say she had ‘some info’ and recommended Andrew telephone her
In moving and at times tearful interviews tonight, Virginia Roberts also said she is ‘calling BS’ on ‘ridiculous excuses’ from ‘people on the inside’ which seek to rubbish her claim of having had sex with Prince Andrew while a teenager trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, adding, ‘because that’s what it is’.
The 35-year-old has continually alleged that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and had to have sex with Andrew, which the Duke of York categorically denies.
She told the BBC‘s Panorama in an interview on BBC One at 9pm tonight that ‘The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses – like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein.
‘I mean, come on, I’m calling BS on this, because that’s what it is.’
Sticking to her story she described feeling ‘horrified, disgusted and ashamed’ after sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 at the direction of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
The 35-year-old told the BBC tonight that after leaving Tramp nightclub with Prince Andrew: ‘In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey.
‘And that made me sick. I didn’t expect it from royalty. I didn’t expect it from someone that people look up to and admire – the royal family.’
She said: ‘There was a bath and it started there and it led into the bedroom. It didn’t last very long the whole entire procedure. It was disgusting.
‘He wasn’t mean or anything. But he got up and said thanks and walked out. And I sat there in bed just felt horrified and ashamed and felt dirty.’
She added: ‘I had just been abused by a member of the royal family.’
She also told the BBC that she knew she ‘had to keep him happy because that’s what Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell, Epstein’s then-girlfriend) would have expected from me.’
Miss Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, urged the British public to ‘stand up beside me to help me fight this fight’ and ‘not accept this as being OK’.
In the interview with BBC Panorama, she told how Andrew was ‘the most hideous dancer I’ve ever seen in my life’ and ‘his sweat was … raining basically everywhere’.
Miss Roberts’s interview took place before the duke’s appearance on Newsnight.
The prince was photographed with Miss Maxwell at several other private functions in the UK and the US that year.
At the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in Wiltshire in September 2000 and at a ‘Hookers and Pimps’ themed Halloween Party in Manhattan.
And finally, Miss Maxwell and Epstein were seen together at Sandringham in December of that year to attend what the prince has described as a ‘straightforward shooting weekend.’
Early the following year, in the most infamous photo of all, the Duke of York was pictured with his arm around the waist of 17-year-old Virginia Roberts with Miss Maxwell stood in the background.
Ms Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, told BBC’s Panorama on Monday night that she was trafficked to London by Epstein and instructed to have sex with Prince Andrew, prior to the photo being taken in Miss Maxwell’s Belgravia townhouse.
Ms Giuffre told the programme: ‘The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses – like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, or he came to New York to break up with Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, come on, I’m calling BS on this, because that’s what it is.’
Duke of York’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein since 1990s
Gruesome threesome’s Ascot day out: Prince Andrew is seen at the races with Ghislaine Maxwell and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in never-before-seen photos
- Prince Andrew was pictured at Royal Ascot with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in June 2000
- Miss Maxwell, who walks in between the prince and Epstein, is obscured by a woman walking in front of her
- Their outing at Ascot was at a time when the prince has claimed he was seeing Epstein once or twice a year
- It was during this time that Miss Maxwell and Epstein attended Windsor Castle for the prince’s 40th birthday
Newly unearthed photographs show Prince Andrew‘s friends, billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell at Ascot racecourse.
Epstein, dressed in a top hat and morning suit, has a grin across his face as he walks with Miss Maxwell and the Duke of York through the heart of the British establishment.
Pictured in June 2000, Prince Andrew had been introduced to Epstein just months before by Miss Maxwell, then known for being the daughter of newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.
Miss Maxwell, who walks in between the prince and Epstein, is obscured by the hat of a lady walking in front of her.
It was during this time that Miss Maxwell and Epstein were to attend Windsor Castle, just a few miles from the racecourse, as guests of the prince for his birthday.
The Dance of the Decades, a lavish party hosted by the Queen, celebrated four royal birthdays, including Prince Andrew’s 40th, the Princess Royal’s 50th, the Queen Mother’s 100th and Princess Margaret’s 70th.
In Prince Andrew’s interview with Newsnight last month he said Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family’s. He added that the financier was Miss Maxwell’s ‘plus one.’
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Prince Andrew ‘lied’ about Ghislaine Maxwell in BBC Newsnight interview, expert claims
PRINCE ANDREW has resigned from royal duties after his disastrous BBC interview last month – but the Duke of York has been accused of not telling the truth in the interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Dec 2, 2019
During the interview, Andrew spoke about the last time he saw Ms Maxwell, saying: “It was earlier this year funnily enough in the summer, in the spring, summer.”
“She was here doing some rally.”
When Ms Maitlis asked if the meeting took place after Epstein’s arrest, the Duke said: “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, this was…this was early spring.”
Mr Myers said: “What was absolutely devastating for him, was when Emily Maitlis asked him when he last met Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein’s former girlfriend and alleged madam.
“He couldn’t remember the date, and then he was floundering, saying was it spring, or summer. When was the investigation open? It was definitely before that.
“Now, that’s pretty much been proven to be a lie.
“There are reports that he met her weeks after the investigation had been re-opened into Epstein.
“Potentially, that she had been invited to Buckingham Palace with men in suits.
“The inference is that she had turned up to the Palace with a load of lawyers and they were trying to get their story straight.
“These are very, very damaging allegations if they are proven to be correct.”
Ms Maxwell was widely reported to have met Prince Andrew at his private quarters in Buckingham Palace on June 6 this year.
The investigation into Epstein started in February this year, when US prosecutors re-opened the case in to the sex offender and his 2007 plea deal.
However, two weeks before the Buckingham Palace meeting, in May, US prosecutors announced their intention to again pursue prosecution against Epstein.
He was arrested on July 6, before his death in custody on August 10.
A source told The Sun last month: “The Duke and Ghislaine met at the Palace. She brought four other people with her.
“They were all smartly dressed and looked very official, very serious and business-like.
There was no way it was a social occasion. They stayed for about two hours.”
They added: “Andrew’s arrogance is breathtaking. To invite a woman accused of such serious wrongdoing into the heart of the Royal Family simply beggars belief.”
Although the FBI reportedly wants to talk with Ms Maxwell, it still remains unclear where in the world she is.
Today, a source has told The Sun: “They have remained constantly in touch by phone and email.
“The Duke has an unswerving loyalty to Ghislaine and she is also very loyal to him.
“Ghislaine will do anything to protect the Duke and the feeling is mutual.
“They both share the same view they have done nothing wrong.’
Another question has been raised by the timeline presented by the Duke of York in the BBC interview.
Andrew told Ms Maitlis that he had met Epstein in 1999.
However, Alastair Watson, the prince’s private secretary for nine years until 2012, wrote a letter to The Times in 2011 saying that the two men were introduced in the early Nineties.
Crown Princess of Norway apologizes over Jeffrey Epstein meetings, tells Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv she should have investigated his past more thoroughly
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway met sex offender Jeffrey Epstein several times, both in the US and in Oslo, Norway, even after he admitted to sex crimes. She apologizes for not investigating his past.
2-12-19
“I never would have associated with Mr. Epstein if I had been aware of the seriousness of the crimes he committed. I should have investigated his past more thoroughly, and I am sorry that I didn’t”, says Crown Princess Mette-Marit in a statement to Dagens Næringsliv, the leading Norwegian business daily.
DN has investigated the Norwegian connections with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who earlier this year committed suicide after being charged with sexual assault and human trafficking.
The investigation revealed that Crown Princess Mette-Marit had a connection to Mr. Epstein. Asked for comment on November 22., the Crown Princess confirmed having been in contact with Mr. Epstein in the statement, distributed December 2.
Epstein and Mette-Marit met several times between 2011 and 2013, after being introduced through mutual acquaintances.
Epstein was charged and served 13 months in prison in 2008, after he admitted to having paid an underage girl for sexual services.
“Through years of work with questions regarding international health issues, I have witnessed first hand the kind of damage sexual assault does to women and children. We all have a responsibility to fight sexual assault, and to support the victims. I wish to express my deepest sympathy and solidarity to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein”, says Mette-Marit in the statement to DN.
Met on vacation
The Royal Palace confirms that the Crown Princess and Mr. Epstein met socially, mostly in the United States. One meeting took place in the Norwegian capitol Oslo.
“One of the meetings took place at Mr. Epstein’s home. The Crown Princess also had a brief meeting with Mr. Epstein while he was in Oslo. There were other people present in all the meetings. When the Crown Princess and the Crown Prince were on vacation in St. Barts in 2012, they ran into Mr. Epstein on the street. Crown Prince Haakon then met Epstein for the first and only time”, says Mrs. Guri Varpe, head of communications at the Royal Palace.
Epstein had several homes, both in New York, Florida and Paris. Royal Palace declined to elaborate in which of these the two met.
According to Mrs. Varpe, neither Crown Princes Mette-Marit nor Crown Prince Haakon were aware of Epstein’s past.
“During the time the Crown Princess had contact with Mr. Epstein, she was not aware of the scope, nor the character of the crimes he had been convicted of, and subsequently served time in jail. She was naturally not aware of the crimes that have been uncovered later”, says Varpe.
Broke with Epstein in 2013
In 2013, the Crown Princess broke all contact with Mr. Epstein.
“In 2013, Mette-Marit chose to conclude her association with Mr. Epstein. Partly, this was because she felt that Mr. Epstein attempted to trade on the relationship he had to the Crown Princess, and use it for his own gain in other relations”, says Mrs. Varpe of the Royal Palace.
The court declined to answer several follow-up questions.
Earlier this year, DN wrote that Mr. Epstein eight or nine years ago attempted to bring at least one Eastern-European woman to Norway. None of the private jets connected to Mr. Epstein are registered as visiting Norway at that time, although Mr. Epstein visited Norway at least once during the 2010s.
Epstein was known for his large network from his base in New York City. Former US President Bill Clinton went on several trips with Epstein, aboard his private jet named Lolita. President Donald Trump has called Epstein his friend, something he later distanced himself from. In the United Kingdom, prince Andrew is facing scrutiny over his friendship with Epstein
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look who’s shaping Britain’s terror policy. https://www.cojit.org/who-we-are/
Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother Ian Maxwell:
Ian Maxwell – 1984, he worked as an adviser to the Prince’s Trust
MIRROR GROUP NEWSPAPERS plc REPORT … – CiteSeerX
Ian Maxwell is a dual British-French national. He is a former Trustee of The People’s Trust, an Anglo-Greek charitable entity providing micro-funding to new and existing businesses in Greece, an enterprise inspired by the work of HRH The Prince of Wales’ Prince’s Trust to whose Youth Business Initiative Mr Maxwell was seconded for a year in the mid-1980s.
Mr Maxwell’s early career (1978-1991) was in the family publishing and media business (where he was Joint Managing Director of Maxwell Communications Corporation plc and a Director and subsequently Chairman and Publisher of Mirror Group Newspapers plc both of which companies owned substantial assets in the USA (including Macmillan, OAG and the New York Daily News) and internationally including MTV Europe and Pergamon Press). He was also a Director of France’s national TV station, TF1 and Managing Director of The European newspaper. Following the collapse of the family business on the death of his father, Mr Maxwell has worked in a variety of industries as an entrepreneurial investor and operator including publishing, telecoms and commercial real estate, where he is currently active in the purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) sector in the UK and in Europe.
http://www.cojit.org/ian-maxwell/
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CHLOE DELEVINGNE:
Went to STOWE SCHOOL
Her mum is close friends with FERGIE
Her sister, Cara, has a VIP godfather: NICHOLAS COLERIDGE, Condé Nast (Tatler, Vanity Fair, Vogue)
Coleridge may be Chloe’s godfather, too
Coleridge and his wife are in GHISLAINE MAXWELL’s Black Book
The weird world of the Delevingne sisters: http://pseudoccultmedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/fashions-illuminati-it-girls-cara.html …
Watch out! Fergie’s gone on holiday with Kate Moss: Pair enjoy break in Greece with model’s boyfriend and Hong Kong tycoon’s family
When choosing a holiday companion, it’s best to stick to friends with whom you have a lot in common.
So it’s perhaps not surprising that fun-loving Sarah, Duchess of York, has opted for a summer jaunt with sybaritic supermodel Kate Moss.
The pair are holidaying in Greece along with the model’s 29-year-old toyboy boyfriend Count Nikolai von Bismarck and Hong Kong tycoon Sir David Tang and his family.
From left to right, meet Kate and Fergie’s shipmates…
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NSPCC 2006
The Bamfords #BB
Mandelson #BB
Rothschild Fndtn #BB
The Bransons #BB
Gerald Ronson #BB
Matthew Freud & ex wife #BB
Wafic Said & wife #BB
Champneys #Savile
Rodney Walker #Savile
Joanna Lumley
John Caudwell
Esther Rantzen
#BB=Epstein Black Book
https://nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/annual-reports/nspcc-annual-report-2006.pdf…
Prince Andrew led the Full Stop Campaign
Who’s who in the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s ‘Turnip Toff’ set?
Prominent Labour MP and Brexiteer Kate Hoey has suffered a vote of no confidence from her local constituency members for “reneging” on general election commitments to oppose a hard Brexit.
Party activists in her south London seat of Vauxhall, which voted overwhelmingly to Remain at the European Union referendum, passed the motion on Thursday evening for the party to remove the whip from Ms Hoey.
Delegates accused Ms Hoey, who has represented the area for nearly three decades, of “collaborating” with the Conservatives and “colluding with Nigel Farage”.
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“Corbyn supporters are fixated with Israel’s destruction” –Simon Sebag Montefiore
He is in Ghislaine’s BlackBook with wife Santa—whom he wed at LJS synagogue Evelyn & Lynn Rothschild’s wedding at LJS was Witnessed by Prince Andrew and Lord Mandelson
Simon Sebag Montefiore. ‘At the start of the 19th century, Montefiore’s great-great-uncle, Sir Moses Montefiore, was an international financier who worked with the Rothschild family.’
Total lie. Wasn’t witnessed by those people at all.
Richard Kay was given inaccurate information?
People associated with LJS Synagogue (St John’s Wood Synagogue): • Evelyn & Lynn de Rothschild (#BlackBook) • Jessica de Rothschild • Simon & Santa Sebag Montefiore (#BlackBook) •Esther Rantzen • Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis • Melanie Phillips
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/11/prince-andrews-friends.html …
Article below about Simon Montefiore written by Vicky Ward
History in the Making
Settling down didn’t come naturally to Simon Sebag Montefiore, the English banking scion with a playboy reputation who gave up finance for war reporting. Then he met the woman he knew he couldn’t let slip away, and started producing a series of acclaimed histories. Our correspondent drops in on the toast of London as he is fêted for his latest prize-winning book, Young Stalin.
By
January 22, 2008
Santa made a glamorous hostess. A tall, graceful blonde, she was dressed in a slim-fitting, knee-length black Prada cocktail dress. Diamonds sparkled in her earlobes and around her neck as she greeted guests and made introductions, at one point bringing Prince and Princess Michael of Kent over to meet Simon’s boxing instructor, Stewart Taylor.
Santa, it is well known, is a close friend of Prince Charles’s—her parents, Hampshire landowners Charles and Patty Palmer-Tomkinson, have skied with him for 30 years. Guests at the party included British shadow minister for housing Michael Gove and Sir David Frost. Also on hand were writers such as Lady Antonia Fraser, Alain de Botton, Philip Kerr, and the Honorable William Shawcross. The publisher Lord George Weidenfeld came; so did Luke Johnson, the head of Britain’s Channel4 network, and Alan Parker, the head of the Brunswick Group, the financial-P.R. behemoth.
Andrew Neil, chief executive of The Spectator magazine and a political commentator on television, stood with friends in a corner.
In December 2006, the Montefiores hosted a private dinner party for eight, including the Prince of Wales and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. Also at the Montefiore’s new Kensington house were two young Conservative politicians, David Cameron, the Tory leader, and Michael Gove—then the shadow secretary of state for children, schools, and families—and their wives.
Afterward the dinner was reported in the British newspapers, which noted that Cameron and the Prince, both active environmentalists, had gotten on extremely well. What was not mentioned was that the Montefiores were probably the only couple in England in a position to make such an introduction in such an informal setting.
Until he met Santa, Simon was what some might call a “late bloomer.” The youngest of four brothers, he attended Harrow, the private boys’ school, then Cambridge. Upon graduating, he toyed with various careers. During his 20s he busied himself in London and New York as an investment banker for Credit Suisse First Boston, then for a smaller boutique firm, Ansbacher Investment Management.
David Tang, the U.K. fashion magnate, who was made Lord Tang this year, recalls how Ansbacher once assigned Simon to meet him at J.F.K. airport first thing in the morning. Simon never showed.
The marriage has remained as atypical as it began, with Simon taking off intermittently on trips to Russia, Georgia, or Israel for research, or to the U.S., at the encouragement of his wife, who likens him to a horse who should not be constrained—particularly when she sees telltale signs of restlessness and depression. “I can tell when he needs another trip,” she says, “because he gets impossible to live with, and he gets snappy—he gets moody and he gets caged in. Then I say, ‘Go someplace—go to America or wherever.’
“I am the least possessive person. We don’t own anybody; we married, but it doesn’t mean that I own him,” she adds. “I haven’t looked at a man since I married him, I really have not looked at another man. Sebag looks at every woman on the street, but that’s just the way it is.”
To Simon’s delight, their rear windows provide views into the gardens of the mansions in what is known colloquially as Millionaires’ Row. The houses, former embassies, are now almost all owned by Russian oligarchs. Montefiore’s books are admired by the likes of Sir Elton John and Sir Mick Jagger, who wanted to produce a movie of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Lord Tang, now a close friend, calls Simon “third time lucky.” Is this how he sees himself?
Prince Andrew: Demands grow for probe into Duke’s business affairs
PRINCE ANDREW should be subjected to a Parliamentary inquiry after an exposé into his business affairs, politicians said yesterday. A trail of emails appeared to show that the Duke of York allegedly exploited his taxpayer-funded role as Britain’s trade envoy to help a multimillionaire financier with whom he co-owned an offshore fund in the British Virgin Islands tax haven.
Prince Andrew: Demands grow for probe into Duke’s business affairs
David Rowland, who decided not to take up his post as Conservative Party treasurer gave £40,000 to Kate Waddington, the Duchess’s former aide, it has emerged.
The Duchess apologised for a “gigantic error of judgment” in allowing the Duke’s friend, Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile, to pay off £15,000 of her £5 million debts.
The Duke, who was guest of honour when Mr Rowland opened a bank in Luxembourg two years ago, was last night forced to deny soliciting the payment from the property magnate.
Exposed: The damning details of Prince Andrew’s deals with tax haven tycoons… so does THIS help explain how he funds his billionaire lifestyle?
- Duke of York plugged private Luxembourg-based bank on official trade missions
- The Prince allowed financier David Rowland to insert meetings into trade tours
- Andrew co-owned a business with Rowlands in a secretive Caribbean tax haven
- Was to be used to lure Prince’s Royal contacts to invest in tax-free offshore fund
Prince Andrew (right) with David Rowland at the financier’s luxury home on the island of Guernsey
Scandal-hit Prince Andrew is plunged deeper into crisis today by a devastating exposé of his business activities by The Mail on Sunday.
We can reveal how the Duke of York repeatedly exploited his taxpayer-funded role as Britain’s trade envoy to work behind the scenes for his close friend, the controversial multi-millionaire financier David Rowland.
Bombshell emails reveal that while on official trade missions meant to promote UK business, Andrew was quietly plugging a private Luxembourg-based bank for the super-rich, owned by Rowland and his family.
In an astonishing conflict of interests, the Prince allowed the Rowlands to shoehorn meetings into his official trade tours so they could expand their bank and woo powerful and wealthy clients.
He also passed them private government documents they had no right to see. It can also be revealed that, at the time, Andrew co-owned a business with the Rowlands in a secretive Caribbean tax haven.
It was to be used to lure the Prince’s wealthy Royal contacts to invest in a tax-free offshore fund. One email exchange reveals that when Andrew was facing the sack from his envoy role because of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Rowland’s son and business lieutenant, Jonathan, suggested their commercial activities could continue ‘under the radar’. Andrew responded: ‘I like your thinking.’
The devastating revelations come as the Duke faces mounting questions about how he funds his opulent lifestyle. They follow in the wake of his car-crash TV interview about his links to Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail this summer while awaiting trial for trafficking underage girls.
He will face further pressure tomorrow when an interview with Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein’s victims, airs on BBC1’s Panorama. Ms Roberts, who now uses her married surname Giuffre, claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 – although he has always strenuously denied her claims.
Financier David Rowland arrives at Princess Eugenie’s wedding to Jack Brooksbank
She tells the show: ‘It was a really scary time in my life. He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there’s only one of us telling the truth.’
Last night, former MP Norman Baker called for Prince Andrew to be stripped of his HRH title following this newspaper’s investigation into his business links.
And Chris Bryant, who was a Foreign Office Minister at the time Andrew held his trade envoy role, demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the Duke’s business behaviour, which he called ‘morally offensive’. ‘It all just stinks,’ said Mr Bryant. ‘I don’t think he has ever been able to draw a distinction between his own personal interest and the national interest. It’s morally offensive. Either the Foreign Affairs Committee or the Public Accounts Committee should launch an inquiry into this.’
Nigel Mills, a Tory member of the Public Accounts Committee before the Election was called, also demanded an inquiry, adding: ‘He clearly was never fit to hold that office.
‘Anyone in public life knows these rules about separating your own interests from those of the job you are doing. What he is doing here isn’t even close to the line – it’s a million miles over it.’
David Rowland, a 74-year-old property tycoon, was a tax exile for decades and helped pay off Sarah Ferguson’s huge debts.
He quit as Tory Party treasurer shortly after he was appointed in 2010 amid controversy surrounding his business affairs.
Leaked emails from Jonathan Rowland also claim Andrew was due to take a financial stake in the Rowland family bank he was secretly helping to promote.
The MoS has also learned that in August, a whistleblower personally emailed Prince Charles and warned him about his brother’s troubling business links with David Rowland.
Our investigation reveals for the first time how:
- Prince Andrew had a 40 per cent stake in a firm based in the British Virgin Islands called Inverness Asset Management that was in existence until March this year;
- A document reveals that ‘contacts’ of the company – including Royal families, heads of state, government institutions and wealthy individuals – would be targeted as potential investors in a separate investment fund to be based in the Cayman Islands and promising a tax-free income;
- Prince Andrew allowed Jonathan Rowland to accompany him on a taxpayer-funded trade mission to China which Mr Rowland then used to plug his family’s bank. The Duke invited Rowland to choose which meetings he wanted to attend;
- Rowland inserted into Andrew’s China schedule a meeting with Louis Cheung, the president of Ping An, the world’s largest insurance company, worth an estimated £171 billion, and proposed that they could become business partners;
- In an astonishing breach of protocol, Andrew’s aide, Amanda Thirsk, handed the Rowlands a Foreign Office diplomatic cable intended only for government officials that contained details of Andrew’s one-to-one conversations with senior Chinese politicians;
- On another occasion, Andrew demanded a private briefing memo from Treasury chiefs about the Icelandic financial crisis, then passed it to the Rowlands. Months earlier, they had bought part of a collapsed Icelandic bank in a £86 million deal;
- Andrew also took Jonathan Rowland on an official trade mission to Saudi Arabia where the pair met Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abulaziz al Saud, the second son of the country’s current monarch. Following that meeting, Mr Rowland told the Saudi royal, via an aide, that Andrew was considering becoming a partner in his family’s bank and asked him if he would like a stake in it, too;
- In one exchange of emails with the Saudi Prince, Mr Rowland boasted that he acted as a middle man not just for Prince Andrew but for the British Royal Family;
- During another taxpayer-funded trade trip, Prince Andrew lobbied the King of Bahrain about the Rowlands’ plan to open an offshoot of their bank in the Middle Eastern country. He later telephoned an official to help get the potentially lucrative venture off the ground.
The devastating revelations come just weeks after Andrew was stripped of his Royal duties amid anger over his links to Epstein and his calamitous BBC interview.
There are also suggestions that Andrew may have to resign his role leading Pitch@Palace, his pet project which matches investors with tech start-up companies, after it emerged he was entitled to a two per cent share of any investment deal struck.
He says he has never taken advantage of that clause. The son of a scrap metal dealer, David Rowland, whose nickname is ‘Spotty’, made his first million aged 24 and went on to amass a property and investment fortune worth a reported £612 million. He and his son Jonathan are ranked 226th in the Sunday Times Rich List
Andrew and publicity-shy David Rowland have been friends since at least 2005. That year, the Prince unveiled a bronze statue of the financier in the grounds of Havilland Hall, Mr Rowland’s sprawling estate in Guernsey. In 2009, Andrew publicly launched the Rowlands’ bank in Luxembourg.
Bought from the ashes of a collapsed Icelandic financial institution, it was renamed Banque Havilland, after Mr Rowland’s Channel Island home. It offered discreet private banking services for the world’s billionaires.
Mr Rowland was invited to Balmoral as Andrew’s guest in 2010 and reportedly met the Queen and had tea with Prince Charles. Four months later, Mr Rowland paid £40,000 to help clear the massive debts of the Duke’s former wife Sarah Ferguson.
Last night, Norman Baker, a former MP who recently published a damning book about Royal finances, said last night: ‘This is outrageous behaviour by Prince Andrew. Any Minister who behaved in this way would be summarily sacked. Even an MP who behaved in this way would face questions from the Commons Standards Committee. We have all had enough of Prince Andrew. He should have his HRH designation removed. As far as I am concerned he should be persona non grata and not be seen in any way to represent this country.’
The MoS approached Buckingham Palace with the results of our investigation last Monday, detailing 24 questions for the Duke.
Six days later, the Palace issued the following statement: ‘The Duke was the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment between 2001 and July 2011 and in that time the aim, and that of his office, was to promote Britain and British interests overseas, not the interests of individuals.’
The Duke did not provide a comment for publication, and the Rowlands declined to comment for legal reasons.
A secretive Caribbean tax haven and an investment fund for the Duke of York’s super rich contacts. So does this help explain how he funds his billionaire lifestyle?
Prince Andrew and his friend, the controversial property tycoon David Rowland, jointly owned a company in a secretive Caribbean tax haven that was to be used to cash in on the Duke’s Royal and political connections.
An extraordinary document, seen by The Mail on Sunday, reveals how the firm was registered in the British Virgin Islands with a plan to persuade Prince Andrew’s wealthy ‘contacts’ to sink millions of pounds into an offshore investment fund – promising them tax-free income.
Our revelation raises troubling questions about the Prince’s mysterious finances, which have come under intense scrutiny in the wake of his public humiliation over his links with Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire sex offender.
There have been questions about the source of Andrew’s wealth because his only official income amounted to a £20,000-a-year Royal Navy pension and a reported £249,000 paid privately each year by the Queen to run his official office.
For a decade, the Duke of York worked full-time as Britain’s roving ‘trade ambassador’, sent on taxpayer-funded trips aimed at encouraging foreign investment in UK companies.
The official role enabled Andrew to travel the globe, rubbing shoulders with wealthy business leaders, sprinkling his Royal stardust on influential politicians and heads of state.
Now it can be revealed that at the same time as carrying out his Government-backed duties, the Queen’s second son was in business with former British tax-exile Rowland and his son Jonathan.
Worth a reported £612 million, the pair head a sprawling family business empire.
David Rowland owns the largest private estate in Guernsey, which boasts a huge bronze statue of the financier unveiled by Prince Andrew. Nicknamed ‘Spotty’ after becoming a millionaire by the youthful age of 24, David Rowland was once described as being ‘like an older surrogate brother’ to the Duke.
Nine years ago, the cigar-loving tycoon stumped up £40,000 to help pay off the vast debts of Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. The Rowlands’ plan, according to a document seen by this newspaper, was to woo the super-rich contacts Andrew amassed using his Royal status into investing millions of pounds in the potentially lucrative offshore fund.
David Rowland makes no secret of the fact that he has acted as a financial adviser to Andrew. But the detailed five-page business prospectus reveals for the first time that the Prince held a 40 per cent stake in a company owned by Rowland’s family business, Blackfish Capital Management.
Called Inverness Asset Management (IAM), it was rethigistered in the British Virgin Islands, a stunning paradise playground for billionaires and one of the world’s most notorious tax havens.
IAM was set up, the document says, because of the ‘very long’ and ‘successful’ relationship between ‘DR [David Rowland] and HRH Prince Andrew.’
The Duke of York also enjoys the title the Earl of Inverness. The company was to target super rich investors, many of whom Andrew would have met during his globetrotting trade role and official Royal duties, and persuade them to put money into a fund structured in the Cayman Islands, another tax haven.
Only those with at least $ 1million (£775,000) to spare would be allowed to invest in the scheme called The Blackfish Money Plus+ Fund. The product was not to be sold to the ‘wider public’.
The 2007 document goes on to explain a plan to exploit ‘contacts of IAM, consisting of Royal Families, HNW [high net worth] families, Heads of State and Government institutions.’
The revelation that Andrew was involved in a company seeking investment into a controversial tax haven will heap more pressure on the beleaguered Prince – especially given his role between 2001 and 2011 was to promote British firms and inward investment into the UK.
Secrecy surrounding businesses’ activities in the British Virgin Islands make it impossible to know if the venture ever made any money for Andrew, or if the Blackfish Money Plus+ Fund ever operated.
But The Mail on Sunday has discovered that IAM existed until March this year.
Serious questions have been raised about how Andrew funds his extravagant lifestyle after he told Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis in his damaging BBC interview last month that his tawdry association with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had been a ‘very useful’ entree into a world awash with wealthy and glamorous business people.
The Prince seemed to infer that the people Epstein introduced him to could assist with his official trade role. However, it has been suggested they also had the ability to enhance his own personal business interests.
Since leaving the Royal Navy in 2001, according to reports, Andrew has leveraged his Royal status and the wealthy contacts made during the course of official work on behalf of British taxpayers to act as a facilitator, helping businessmen set up lucrative deals all over the world.
If so, the deals and the commission he earned on them have remained secret but last week were cited as an explanation as to how Andrew appears to have amassed enormous wealth.
On Sunday, in a highly unusual intervention, a friend attempted to lay to rest suggestions that Andrew had exploited his Royal status to secure multimillion pound commissions.
The friend told The Sunday Times: ‘The fact is that all his wealth ultimately derives from gifts from the Queen and none of it comes from business dealings… he has never earned or expected any introduction fees or commissions for arranging or fixing business deals either while acting as a UK trade envoy or at any other point in his life.’
However, in recent years, ‘Air Miles’ Andy, as he has been nicknamed, has lived like a billionaire, holidaying on luxury yachts and travelling the world by helicopter and private jet.
No doubt he has enjoyed the free hospitality of some of his wealthy friends but in addition to this a total of £7.5 million has been spent refurbishing Royal Lodge, his spacious home in Windsor.
And in 2014, he and his ex-wife acquired a £13 million luxury lodge in the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Verbier. Called Chalet Helora, it has seven bedrooms, living rooms bedecked with furs and antiques, a 650 sq ft indoor swimming pool, sauna and sun terrace.
Guests have previously rented it out for £22,000 a week, and neighbouring homes are owned by Sir Richard Branson, the singer James Blunt and a host of ski-loving billionaires.
Today, Andrew boasts a collection of expensive wristwatches including several Rolexes and Cartiers, a £150,000 Patek Philippe and a £12,000 Apple Watch.
A small fleet of cars includes a new green Bentley. Quite how he has funded all this has never been clear. At the very least, his involvement in the offshore fund and his links to the mega-rich Rowlands offer yet another possible explanation.
Last night, Andrew faced criticism for his involvement in a firm in a tax haven while he was working as Britain’s trade ambassador.
There have been serious concerns over the lack of transparency in the financial service sector in places such as the British Virgin Islands. Earlier this year, the Tax Justice Network pressure group ranked 64 countries based on how much tax avoidance they enabled, taking into account the size of their economies. The British Virgin Islands topped the list.
The proposed fund made no secret of the tax-free profits on offer. The document leaked to The Mail on Sunday says: ‘Income is tax-free so far as the Fund is concerned.’
It added: ‘Money Plus+ Funds will appeal to investors seeking security of capital, low risk and active management of their cash deposits.’
The document makes clear that Blackfish is looking for ‘an established international bank’ to become its partner in managing the fund.
As well as introducing clients, IAM would also act as a ‘co-adviser’ to the fund. Company records from the British Virgin Islands, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, show that Inverness Asset Management was registered in the tax haven in April 2007.
Its address was listed as a PO Box in ‘Sea Meadow House’ in Road Town, the capital of the BVI. The company was only dissolved in March this year.
The leaked document also shows that the Blackfish Capital Money Plus+ Fund was due to be structured in a type of company in the Cayman Islands known as a segregated portfolio company (SPC). Company records obtained by this newspaper show that five different SPCs were registered between November 2006 and March 2008 in the Cayman Islands with ‘Blackfish Capital’ and ‘Fund’ in their titles.
It is unknown, however, whether any of these included the Blackfish Money Plus+ Fund.
Chris Bryant, a former Foreign Office Minister in Gordon Brown’s government, said the revelation of Andrew’s stake in IAM is more damaging than the disclosure in the 2017 ‘Paradise Papers’ that money from the Queen’s private estate had been invested in a Cayman Islands fund.
‘This is far more significant because it is a senior member of the Royal Family engaged in offshore shenanigans,’ he said. ‘The word that comes to mind is entitlement, really. Because he is a Duke, he can get away with anything.’
The Duke of York declined to provide a comment for publication. Jonathan Rowland declined to comment for legal reasons.
The scrap dealer’s son who met Queen at Balmoral
For David ‘Spotty’ Rowland, a visit to Balmoral to meet the Queen in the summer of 2010 marked the peak of his social ascent.
Mr Rowland’s host that day was his old friend Prince Andrew, who, having introduced him to his mother, found a secluded spot on the Deeside estate for the two men to have lunch.
Perhaps the secretive property magnate, then 65, allowed himself a moment of reflection as he drank in his surroundings.
In addition to counting Royalty among his acquaintances, he was one of the richest men in Britain and, as the Tories most generous benefactor – he once paid £20,000 for a portrait of then Prime Minister David Cameron – had just been appointed party treasurer.
For David Rowland (pictured at 26), a visit to Balmoral to meet the Queen in the summer of 2010 marked the peak of his social ascent
Not bad for a scrap metal dealer’s son from South London who left school without a single qualification.
But just nine days after his Balmoral sojourn (Andrew’s paedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein was given a similar tour six years earlier), Mr Rowland quit before he could take up his new Tory post.
It followed media scrutiny of his business dealings and colourful private life, and fears he might tarnish the party’s reputation.
Ironically, it was his links to Royalty, along with his cash, that had reassured party chiefs when doubts about his suitability first emerged.
Starting his working life as an office boy, he bought his first house at 18, sold it, bought another one, sold that and formed his own property company.
By the time he was 23, he had made his first million and he floated his company, Fordham, on the Stock Exchange a year later.
The precocious entrepreneur was dubbed ‘Spotty’ because of his relative youth and lingering acne – and the nickname stuck.
His business activities frequently kept him in the headlines. He was one of the first financiers to spot the potential money-making value of top soccer clubs, and was the secret figure behind the £800,000 takeover of Edinburgh Hibernian, parent company of Hibs football club in the Scottish capital, in 1987.
But the deal turned sour when the company went into receivership – after having asked thousands of fans to plough their money into the club.
In addition, he used one of his trusts to buy the upmarket estate agents Chesterton, which later also went into receivership after 200 years of trading.
His UK interests were first controlled by companies in the Bahamas and Panama before they were transferred under the aegis of family trusts to the tax haven of Guernsey, where Mr Rowland occupies the island’s largest privately owned estate.
His critics speak of his vainglory, which peaked with him erecting a statue of himself outside his mansion, Havilland Hall, and unveiled by Prince Andrew. Who else?
Members of the Royal Family visiting the island have always stayed at Government House, official home of the Lieutenant Governor. On this occasion, 2005, Andrew stayed with the Rowlands. The official explanation was that ‘it was going to be a late night’.
How the two men first became friends is not known, but, as with Epstein, there is a strong symbiotic element to the relationship. One friend of the Prince said: ‘Rowland is like an older surrogate brother to Andrew.’
Like Epstein, Mr Rowland once came to the rescue of the Duchess of York, paying £40,000 to help clear her debts.
The two men appeared publicly together in 2009. This time it was the Duke of York’s services that were required. He unveiled his friend’s latest acquisition, the Luxembourg arm of an Icelandic bank he snapped up after it succumbed to the international financial crash.
It was renamed Banque Havilland after his mansion. At the time Andrew said: ‘In the past I have had the pleasure to meet and work with the Rowland family in the framework of my functions and I wish the family every success in this new business venture.’
Further links surfaced in 2011 when The Mail on Sunday revealed that the two men secretly flew to Libya together when the Prince met Colonel Gaddafi.
Having built a £730 million fortune, Mr Rowland was a tax exile for more than 30 years but returned to the UK before the 2010 General Election so he could pump £2.7 million into the Tories’ campaign war chest.
Jonathan Rowland, 44, the second of David’s eight children from two marriages, inherited his father’s entrepreneurial flair.
He left school at 16 but seized the opportunity of the dotcom boom of the late 1990s to make £42 million from an internet investment company called JellyWorks. At one point its shares rose 2,000 per cent in a few days.
He tried to repeat the success in 2011 with JellyBook. He launched the investment firm at that year’s Monaco Grand Prix, chartering a 161ft yacht with Italian marble floors to schmooze clients.
The business later had to be wound down after Jonathan suffered a stroke in 2013.
Blackfish Money Plus+ Fund
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7742249/EXPOSED-Prince-Andrews-deals-tax-haven-tycoons.html
Before the election, the Conservatives were dogged by stories about the tax affairs of their deputy chairman and former treasurer, Lord Ashcroft. It seems they never learn, says Andrew Pierce in the Daily Mail. Their new treasurer is another former tax exile whose past business dealings make “Ashcroft seem like a nun”. No doubt David “Spotty” Rowland’s financial expertise and donations (nearly £3m so far) are welcome, but Labour’s attack-dogs are salivating at the thought of him taking up the post in October.
The son of a south London scrap-metal dealer, Rowland, 65, is “a legendary City figure”, says The Times. He left school without qualifications. But, by the age of 23 (when he had barely outgrown his teenage acne – hence the nickname), he had already made his first million as a property wheeler-dealer. A year later, he floated his company and headed for tax exile, living in Paris, then Monte Carlo, before settling down in Guernsey.
Rowland swiftly emerged as one of the most colourful deal-makers of the 1970s and 1980s. His speciality was aggressive corporate raids. Many saw him as a budding Jimmy Goldsmith, noted Forbes in 1989, when Rowland was laying siege to Sir Terence Conran’s Storehouse Group. There were certainly parallels in their private lives (like Goldsmith, Rowland had a domestic ménage, maintaining families with both his wife and mistress). But he wasn’t known for his “finesse” so much as for his “commercial instincts and quick reactions”. Several of his acquisitions (including the upmarket estate agency Chestertons, which was later placed in receivership) came unstuck.
It was Rowland’s activities abroad that proved most controversial. In 1989, he used his listed investment vehicle, Inoco, to acquire a controlling 34% stake in Gulf Resources (a US oil explorer and industrial smelter) from the Barclay brothers. He inherited an environmental disaster: pollution from a decommissioned lead smelter in Idaho had contaminated the area. But, as a series of lawsuits later alleged, instead of using Gulf’s funds to clear up the mess, Rowland diverted tens of millions of dollars into a property deal in New Zealand, before selling out of the company altogether.
Rowland is not without vanity: he commissioned a life-sized statue of himself in Guernsey. But, in recent years, he’s been happy to let his son, Jonathan, front most of his deals. The latter’s listed internet incubator, Jellyworks (once valued at £240m), was a prominent victim of the dotcom crash. But father and son have spent the past decade steadily growing their wealth, which The Sunday Times now puts at £730m.
https://moneyweek.com/30778/david-rowland-city-wheeler-dealer-back-from-exile-49535/
Son Jonathan Rowland
Known for his complicated holding structures and his predilection for offshore tax trusts, Mr Rowland senior appeared to conjure cash from the most unlikely investments.
Over the years his various companies had a 23% stake in the defence group Vickers, 6% of Pleasurama, which later became Rank, 5% of Lord Saatchi’s vehicle Megalomedia and 35% of the oil firm Gulf Resources and Chemicals, which was bought from equally reclusive Monaco residents the Barclay brothers.
Until the end of last year he held 20% of Aim-listed building services firm Artisan, run by entrepreneur Steven Dean.
Today he still holds 22% of the film equipment company VFG, which is chaired by his associate and former Queen’s Park Rangers football club director David Hudd. But Spotty Rowland’s business dealings have not been entirely untroubled. Two of his past bids persuaded the takeover panel to change its rules.
In the late 80s he backed David Duff’s bid to take over Edinburgh’s Hibernian football club and list it on the stock market. Hibernian went into receivership after buying an ailing pub company. Mr Duff was later sentenced to three years in jail for an unrelated property fraud.
The suspicion lingers in the City that it was Spotty Rowland who made the investments, but his son insists that, with the exception of Demon, they were all his own doing, at the age of 21.
“I found them and analysed them,” he said. The investments were the result of the strong relationship Mr Rowland senior has with Durlacher, the investment house which helped set up the companies and was one of the market’s star performers of the 1990s.
Despite his age, Jonathan Rowland has served an eight-year business apprenticeship, first at Colegate Management, the Norwich-based holding company for the family investments, and then under his father’s wing.
Jellyworks was established with £10m of Rowland family money to give Jonathan the chance to strike out on his own. He has chosen to back seven companies initially. TalkCast Corporation, in which JellyWorks has invested an undisclosed sum, is Durlacher’s great white hope; the others have no link to Durlacher.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/07/personalfinancenews.business
Prince Andrew invited a ‘shady’ financier to meet the Queen and Prince Charles shortly before the multi-millionaire paid off £40,000 of Sarah Ferguson’s debts.
David Rowland, a controversial Tory donor who was forced to quit as the party’s treasurer last year after investigations by the Daily Mail, paid nearly half the £85,000 owed to Sarah’s former publicist Kate Waddington.
The transaction was one of a string of deals brokered by Andrew to rescue his ex-wife from nearly £5million of debt, sources confirmed.
The Queen with Prince Philip and Prince Andrew at Gordonstoun on Prince Andrew’s first day as a pupil there. Credit: PA
No mention in article below that Prince Andrew and others of note, attended Gordonstoun as well.
Prince Andrew was also a director of Gordonstoun.
Five Gordonstoun School pupils charged with sexually assaulting fellow student at Prince Charles’ institution
27 Nov 2019
FIVE boys at Prince Charles’ old school have been charged with a sex attack on a fellow pupil.
The teenagers are accused of assaulting the alleged victim at £40,000-a-year Gordonstoun in Elgin, Moray, this month.
Cops are now preparing a report for prosecutors.
A source said: “This has shocked the entire school community. It’s now in the hands of the authorities.”
The youngster at the centre of the allegations did not need hospital treatment.
Gordonstoun has around 600 boys and girls aged eight to 18, with one term’s boarding fees costing over £13,000.
A Police Scotland spokesman confirmed: “Five teenage boys have been charged in relation to an alleged assault in the Moray area on November 11.
“A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and children’s reporter.”
Prince Charles followed in the footsteps of his dad the Duke of Edinburgh to study at Gordonstoun in the 1960s.
Charles famously hailed it as “Colditz in kilts”.
Gordonstoun is one of seven boarding schools set to be looked at as part of the ongoing Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
In September 1973, Prince Andrew entered Gordonstoun, in northern Scotland, which his father and elder brother had also attended.[8] While there, he spent six months—from January to June 1977—participating in an exchange programme to Lakefield College School in Canada.[7][9] (paedophile Father Gleed worked at Lakefield College)
He left Gordonstoun in July two years later.
Amanda Ellingworth attended Gordonstoun school with Prince Andrew. Her father Lord Brabourne was a governor of Gordonstoun
Lord Brabourne and Countess Mountbatten
Police files on child sex abuse at Gordonstoun school have vanished
The Lord Brabourne was an aide-de-camp to 2 paedophiles:
Stowe School in comments
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2019/11/kosher-nostra-plan-for-uk-election-2019.html
Marie @marie52d
Makes you wonder why Lord Mountbatten would be the man to introduce the man who had a tendency to abuse dead bodies, disabled people and children to the royals?
Thousands of DJs in the UK in the sixties but Savile was the chosen one, given honours from the queen, it’s no secret
Prince Andrew sparked Buckingham Palace security breach by ‘smuggling’ female masseuse into bedroom after introduction by Jeffrey Epstein ‘madam’, Ghislaine Maxwell
- Monique Giannelloni was invited to the Palace to massage Prince Andrew on June 30, 2000
- Monique says she wasn’t signed in to the Palace or searched and doesn’t believe any background checks were done on her
- Therapist, then 35, was shown up to Andrew’s bedroom where she massaged the the royal, who was naked beneath a towel
- She was introduced to the Duke by socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was one of her wealthy clients
- Monique said she also massaged Ms Maxwell in her Belgravia home bedroom as billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was present
Prince Andrew sparked a Buckingham Palace security breach by inviting an ‘unvetted’ female masseuse to his bedroom, MailOnline can reveal.
Monique Giannelloni says she wasn’t searched and didn’t sign in during her palace visit to see the Duke after being introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ‘fixer’, Ghislaine Maxwell.
In an alarming set of security lapses, Monique arrived at the palace and was simply asked for her car registration number by aides before being waved inside.
She doesn’t believe any background checks were done on her after a telephone booking made by the Duke’s then-Assistant Private Secretary, Charlotte Manley.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Monique says: ‘It was so easy to get into the palace and it troubled me because I could have been anyone.
‘I didn’t know Andrew and never met anyone from the royal household. Nobody knew me. I wasn’t spoken to by a Royal Protection officer or asked any questions at all.’
‘Nobody checked my bag when I arrived or when I left. I certainly expected more stringent security checks.’
Pictured in 2000, months before she massaged Andrew, Monique says that she was led up to the bedroom by a palace aide and was overwhelmed by the grandeur of Buckingham Palace
Monique says she was booked to give Andrew a treatment by the Duke’s then-Assistant Private Secretary Charlotte Manley, who then signed her cheque of £75 for the treatment she did
Monique, who was a member of the British Register of Complementary Practitioners, was working at a clinic in Kensington and doing home visits at the time of the royal encounter on June 30, 2000, and counted Ms Maxwell among her clients.
After one appointment, Ms Maxwell, who is accused of procuring young girls for paedophile Epstein, told her: ‘I am going to introduce you to someone more famous than God.’
She had been to the socialite’s Belgravia home on two occasions and given her a massage upstairs with 67-year-old Epstein present.
She said initially she had never heard of her wealthy client, who asked her when they met: ‘Don’t you know who I am darling? You should read the tabloids I am a celebrity.’
Later Monique researched her online and saw her pictured with Andrew at a wedding then realising she was the daughter of the disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell.
‘When she told me about that person more famous than God, I thought she may have meant an actor or something.
‘Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be royalty.’
A few weeks later Monique received a call from Andrew’s Ms Manley, inviting her to give the royal a treatment.
She recalled that she was ‘very nervous’ about the invitation to Buckingham Palace.
Now a 55-year-old married mother-of-two who runs a restaurant in the South of France, she said: ‘I am from South Africa and to be walking through Buckingham Palace would have been something I could never have imagined in my life time.
‘As I went along the hallway it was nothing but splendour. There were beautiful draped curtains and a plush carpet which ran along the middle of the hallway.
‘There were gold framed paintings of members of the royal family over the centuries and some beautiful vases on tables.
‘It was all very grand and nothing I could ever have dreamed I would see.’
Monique said she was greeted at the bedroom door by Andrew wearing a bathrobe and gave him a massage naked under a towel on a table beside a photo of his former wife Sarah Ferguson and their two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
In her interview she also shed new light on that now notorious photo of Andrew with his arm around the waist of his sex accuser Virginia Roberts, taken in Ms Maxwell’s Belgravia home in 2001.
In his ‘car crash’ BBC Newnight interview he suggested the picture may have been faked – and said he had never been upstairs in Ms Maxwell’s London home.
But Monique insisted it was taken on the upstairs landing and said the room where she massaged Ms Maxwell is on the left.
She said she first came into contact with Ms Maxwell when she received a call to her mobile phone from the socialite’s secretary.
She said she had been working in London as a massage therapist for four years and worked with a number of celebrity and high net worth clients.
She said: ‘Out of the blue I got a call from Ghislaine’s secretary, I can’t remember her name, but she was based in New York.
‘It was at night and she said her boss was coming into London late that evening. She wanted to book a massage at 11pm.
‘I said I was sorry as I didn’t do massages that late at night. She was quite insistent and said Ms Maxwell would be very tired.
‘But I gave her an appointment for around 10.30am the next morning.
‘I went to her house in Belgravia and recall it was in a cobbled street.
‘She was busy talking to someone, her lawyer or accountant, and kept me waiting.
‘She then asked me ‘Darling…can you go and buy me some cigarettes?’
‘I was annoyed by her arrogant attitude and felt she was wasting my time.
‘I bought her cigarettes and waited for an hour or so by which time she gave me her cheque book and told me to write up what she owed me.
‘Our next appointment was a few days later. I was shown to a room upstairs and was asked to massage her on the bed, but I insisted on using my own table.
‘It was a small room and very little space around the bed which was quite big.
‘Epstein was present during the massage and there was an animated discussion going on between the two that lasted most of the time. They were talking about purchasing an island.
‘They were mentioning millions of pounds and speaking very pretentiously and I thought, ‘Who are these people?’
‘It was all rather awkward because Epstein was there. I felt I wasn’t giving a good treatment and she wasn’t getting much out of it.
‘Epstein was creepy, seedy and very pretentious. I got the impression he and Ghislaine were either brother-and-sister or business partners, never a couple.’
‘She told me about a yacht party she was hosting and asked me if I would be prepared to go and give massages.
‘She told me that I would have to keep private what happened on the yacht. I assumed she meant ‘anything goes.’
‘I politely declined the invitation because it did not sound like the sort of thing I wanted to be involved with.
‘I thought she was very distasteful and pretentious, the way she spoke. I didn’t like her attitude or her at all.
‘I was very shocked when it all came out about Epstein’s friendship with Andrew.
‘In my opinion Epstein was not a good choice of friend for Andrew.
‘At the time I had an instinctive feeling of uneasiness about Epstein but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
‘Now I look back and am thankful that I was 35 and not some vulnerable teenager who could have been another of Epstein’s victims.’
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: ‘We never comment on matters of security.’
In ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Stanley Kubrick Captured Horrors of Jeffrey Epstein Era
7/12/19
The arrest of billionaire influence peddler Jeffrey Epstein for the alleged repeated and systematic trafficking and sexual assault of underage girls is more than an indictment of a sexual predator. It’s also compelling evidence of corruption among the most powerful political and business interests in the United States.
Epstein’s penchant for installing security cameras throughout his homes, combined with dinner parties, allegedly stocked with underaged girls, leaves open the possibility of systematic blackmail, further hinted at when federal agents pulled “compact discs with hand-written labels” like “Young [Name] + [Name]” from a safe in his $77 million Upper East Side mansion. Is there, somewhere in this evidence, a video or videos, possibly from Epstein’s “Lolita Express” or “Pedophile Island,” capable of exposing the depravities of one or many of the politicians, celebrities and financiers in his orbit?
n Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman), explore the possibilities of infidelity, newly possible with their entrance into high society, which lifts them from a state of childish naiveté, until Bill’s explorations bring him to places he will never be allowed. In the movie’s central sequence, Bill, stung by his wife recounting a sexual fantasy, follows an old friend to a secretive event at a Long Island mansion, where he gains entry to a masked orgy with a password. He is found and turned out. Because of his actions, or possibly not, a woman dies under suspicious circumstances.
So what connects Eyes Wide Shut and Epstein? If Kubrick’s movie isn’t a skeleton key for unmasking specific elite depravities, what is it?
Since the 1968 release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick wanted to adapt Traumnovelle, or Dream Story, by Arthur Schnitzler. He held the rights from 1970 on. A 1927 German novella doesn’t immediately suggest the movie’s applicability to a modern understanding of sex crimes among the governing elite.
While subsequent years of child abuse cover-ups and political scandals—Epstein following the Catholic Church, Dennis Hastert, Operation Yewtree and Westminster’s missing “paedophile dossier”—hasn’t made Eyes Wide Shut any more or less shocking, they have made the extremities of orgiastic ritual more plausibly imaginable as a political or systemic phenomenon. Like the Yellow King of True Detective, Eyes Wide Shut‘s orgy came to stand for a whole complex of elite degeneracy.
https://www.newsweek.com/eyes-wide-shut-missing-footage-epstein-kubrick-death-1449108
Larry Celona is known for his work on Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and The Perfect Murder (2014).
Larry Celona from The New York Post was the first to report the death of Jeffrey Epstein, Stanley Kubrick, JFK Jr., and all the NYPD suicides.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148177/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Perhaps this is why @potus refuses to change his position on the Central Park 5 case: another Larry Celona article.
CON ADMITS TO ‘89 ‘WILDING’
Manhattan prosecutors are investigating a convicted killer-rapist’s new confession that he joined the pack of teen thugs who raped and nearly murdered a woman in the vicious 1989 attack known as the Central Park jogger case.
https://nypost.com/2002/06/13/con-admits-to-89-wilding/
Christopher Lee Describes the Power of Satanic Rituals in 1975 Video
In this rare interview, actor Christopher Lee discusses the power of black magic and satanic rituals, adding that there’s “nothing fictitious” about them. He also explains why there was a resurgence of interest in occultism at the time. His answer remains fully relevant today.
When one looks at roles taken by Lee throughout his life, two constants emerge: He often played the role of the villain and he often played in movies with dark, occult themes.
For instance, Lee played the role of Count Dracula in eight movies, the last one being The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973).
The Satanic Rites of Dracula begins with a satanic ritual taking place in an English country house with four prominent members of society: A government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist. Literally the occult elite.
The 1968 movie The Devil’s Bride is about a Satanic cult in South England.
n The Devils Bride, Baphomet himself makes an appearance.
In the 1976 movie To the Devil a Daughter, Christopher Lee plays the role of a “priest” in a Satanic cult who offers a 14-year-old girl to the devil. Disturbing fact: The girl is greatly sexualized in the movie and there’s even full-frontal nudity.
In To the Devil a Daughter, a Black Mass takes place in front of an inverted cross and an inverted “Jesus”.
The least one can say is that Christopher Lee appeared to know a thing or two about black magic and satanic rituals. In an interview about To the Devil a Daughter, Lee serves a lesson on black magic to the interviewer while explaining the power and the danger surrounding these rituals.
While the interview took place over 44 years ago, everything he says remains true and relevant today.
Lee’s mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming.[18] Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, thus became Lee’s step-cousin.
Lee mentioned that during the war he was attached to the Special Operations Executive and the Long Range Desert Group, the precursor of the SAS,[71][72] but always declined to go into details.
I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like.[73]
Lee’s friend Dennis Wheatley, a noted author, was responsible for bringing the occult to him.[91] The company made two films from Wheatley’s novels, both starring Lee.
Lee supported the Conservative Party. He described Michael Howard as “the ideal person to lead the party” in 2003,[157] and also supported William Hague and David Cameron.[69]
Lee played in The Wicker Man
Lee’s stepfather served as a captain in the Intelligence Corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee
Spotlighted: Paul and Linda McCartney and Denny Laine on the album cover with (l-r) Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee and John Conteh
Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts must be ‘put on the grill’ by Panorama when show interviews her, friends of the Duchess of York insist
- Friends of Duchess of York want BBC to subject Virginia Roberts to a TV grilling
- Ms Roberts has accused the Duke of York of having sex with her when she was 17
- Prince Andrew attempted to repair his reputation in a BBC Newsnight interview
- The move backfired and he was roundly criticised and mocked over the debacle
26 Nov 2019
“All day long I saw Ghislaine going to get the women… “She went to places like Central Park. I was with her a couple of times in the car … She would say, ‘Stop the car’. And she would dash out and get a child” –victim Maria Farmer in a TV interview
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/hunt-for-jeffrey-epstein-alleged-enabler-ghislaine-maxwell …
@JamesRusbridger
Former StoweSchool headmaster Jeremy Nichols, “HAD A PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP with serial paedophile BISHOP PETER BALL” – Lord Carey’s Witness Statement to InquiryCSA para. 36
https://iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/5982/view/WWS000201.pdf …
WOODY ALLEN “Woody Allen attended Epstein’s 2010 party; reports indicate they stayed friends long after Epstein became a convicted sex offender. “Allen has been dogged for decades by allegations, including that he sexually abused his adopted daughter.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/25/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-partygoers/ …
EXCLUSIVE: Victoria’s Secret model and think tank director were among revolving door of visitors during Prince Andrew’s fateful weekend stay at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion
- Lana Zakocela and Valerie Brazill-Post are among a number of potential witnesses who were present and who could help the ongoing FBI probe into the billionaire’s activities, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal
- Prince Andrew claimed he ‘never saw’ anything there which aroused his suspicions – the six women and three men photographed entering and leaving during his stay could corroborate or disprove his account
- Brazill-Post has been the Director of Events at the Council on Foreign Relations for two decades
- She told DailyMail.com today that she had visited Epstein’s home for a luncheon on Monday, December 6 where a Nobel-prize winning scientist was speaking but declined to name him
- When asked if Prince Andrew was present at the lunch Ms Brazill-Post asked to be called back and hung up. She did not respond to further messages seeking comment
- Latvian-born model Zakocela, 32, who has been a Maxim cover girl, arrived at the home shortly after Post left
- Zakocela told DailyMail.com that she was introduced to Epstein by her agent, Jean-Luc Brunel at MC2, after she had not long moved to the U.S. and was around 21 years old when she attended an afternoon soiree
A director for the Council on Foreign Relations and a Victoria’s Secret model were among the revolving door of visitors during Prince Andrew’s fateful weekend stay at the mansion of convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Valerie Brazill-Post and Lana Zakocela are among a number of potential witnesses who were present at the time and who could help the ongoing FBI probe into the billionaire’s activities.
In his ‘car crash’ Newsnight interview last week, Prince Andrew likened the $75 million property to a ‘railway station’ on account of the sheer volume of visitors.
Until now, the royal’s five-day, New York sojourn in December 2010 — that proved key to his downfall this week — has largely been shrouded in secrecy.
His Royal Highness’s trip took place 17 months after Epstein’s release from jail for child sex offences.
Prince Andrew claimed he ‘never saw’ anything there which aroused his suspicions, although there were six women and three men photographed entering and leaving during his stay who could corroborate or disprove his account.
Valerie Brazill-Post was seen leaving Epstein’s 71st Street townhouse on the Upper East Side at 3.35pm on Monday, December 6. She has been the Director of Events at the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious, non-partisan think tank on foreign policy, for two decades
At 3.46pm on December 6, Lana Zakocela arrived at the property. Zakocela, 32, is a Latvian-born model, who is signed to New York Model Management, has been a Maxim cover girl and worked on campaigns for Dior, Thierry Mugler and Cartier
On December 6 2010, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was seen outside his home on New York’s East 91st Street before Prince Andrew was also spotted inside
The Duke of York and Epstein are pictured during their infamous Central Park walk, during which Prince Andrew claims he ended their association on December 5, 2010
Brazill-Post was seen leaving Epstein’s 71st Street townhouse on the Upper East Side at 3.35pm on Monday, December 6.
The 55-year-old has been the Director of Events at the Council on Foreign Relations – a prestigious, non-partisan think tank on foreign policy – for two decades, according to LinkedIn. Members of the organization include former Secretary of States Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, Angelina Jolie, philanthropist David Rockefeller and Robert Rubin, secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton.
She is married to Joel S Post, First Vice President of Wealth Management, for UBS.
Brazill-Post told DailyMail.com today that she had visited Epstein’s home for a luncheon where a Nobel-prize winning scientist was speaking but declined to name him.
She told DailyMail.com: ‘It was just a luncheon with a scientist that was there speaking about something that I was very interested in, that I’m involved in the field of. It was a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. And there were a number of people that went to hear him speak.’
When asked if Prince Andrew was present at the lunch Ms Brazill-Post asked to be called back and hung up. She did not respond to further messages seeking comment.
Lane married long-time boyfriend Justin Etzin, 41, a Seychelles diplomat for the United Nations and son of hotel magnate Bernard Etzin, in a lavish four-day ceremony in Florence Italy.
Brazill-Post told DailyMail.com today that she had visited Epstein’s home for a luncheon where a Nobel-prize winning scientist was speaking but declined to name him
Epstein was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for 15 years from 1995 until 2009 and gave the organization $350,000 over a decade of membership as a top donor, the Washington Post reported in September.
It is not clear whether Brazill-Post attended the luncheon, held after Epstein’s membership was revoked, in a private or professional capacity. CFR did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
In his interview with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis, Prince Andrew made no mention of the luncheon, at which time he would have been present in Epstein’s home, as video shows him in the doorway an hour after Brazill-Post left.
Whether he attended the afternoon luncheon is unclear but Prince Andrew is a known supporter of academics and has met with Nobel-prize winning scientists as part of his official Royal duties, according to Manchester Evening News.
Prince Andrew told the BBC that he had attended ‘a small dinner party’ at Epstein’s home during his December 2010 visit.
Maitlis asked: ‘He threw a party to celebrate his release and you were invited as the guest of honour.
He replied: ‘No, I didn’t go. Oh, in 2010, there certainly wasn’t a party to celebrate his release in December because it was a small dinner party, there were only eight or 10 of us I think at the dinner. If there was a party then I’d know nothing about that.’
At 3.46pm on December 6, Zakocela arrived at the property.
Zakocela, 32, is a Latvian-born model, who is signed to New York Model Management. She took part in a campaign for Victoria’s Secret, the company owned by Epstein’s only known financial client Les Wexner.
In 2015, she married long-time boyfriend Justin Etzin, 41, a Seychelles diplomat for the United Nations and son of hotel magnate Bernard Etzin, in a lavish four-day ceremony in Florence Italy.
Among the guests were Lindsay Lohan, singer Craig David and British aristocrat, Edward Spencer-Churchill, according to Tatler.
Etzin filed for an uncontested divorce from Zakocela in February 2017, according to the New York Post.
Zakocela told DailyMail.com that she was introduced to Epstein by her agent, Jean-Luc Brunel at MC2, who had close ties to the financier.
She had not long moved to the U.S. and was around 21 years old when she attended the afternoon soiree at Epstein’s home on December 6, 2010.
Zakocela said that she had been invited to a small party with other models around her age from her agency and said that there was also a number of older people present.
She said that she remembered no one being at the party who was younger than herself. ‘If there were models from my agency, they were older than 18 because they wouldn’t have been allowed to come to the US if they were younger.’
She added: ‘There were a couple of Epstein’s friends that he knew from somewhere. I remember there was a chef girl who could cook.’
The cover girl said that she made very little conversation, as at the time, she barely spoke English. She said that she would not have recognized Prince Andrew and no one was making any introductions at the party.
As she understood it, Zakocela told DailyMail.com, ‘everyone was somebody and nobody would tell who is who’.
Zakocela, pictured with her ex husband, and Brazill-Post were in Epstein’s home at the same time at the Duke of York. At 4.30pm, on the same day, a video of Andrew waving to Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, was filmed
Lana Zakocela, Justin Bieber, Marissa Montgomery and Jamie Reuben attend a Vanity Fair party in 2014. Zakocela told DailyMail.com that she was introduced to Epstein by her agent, Jean-Luc Brunel at MC2, who had close ties to the financier. She had not long moved to the U.S. and was around 21 years old when she attended the afternoon soiree at Epstein’s home
Zakocela said that she had only met Epstein a few times, once in Paris and once in New York, and didn’t know much about him but had ‘weird vibes’ about the whole situation.
Brunel is accused of providing underage girls to Epstein and of drugging and raping models himself. Brunel denied both of these charges.
Zakocela said that she came to realize that things were not right at Brunel’s agency and subsequently moved to a different model agency and went on to have a very successful career, appearing in Vogue, Maxim and working on campaigns for Dior, Thierry Mugler and Cartier.
She has not been contacted by the FBI, she said, because she barely knew Epstein. ‘I’m following the story now but I really had no idea and I’m glad that I left that agency. It’s such a dark, terrible thing.’
Zakocela and Brazill-Post were in Epstein’s home at the same time at the Duke of York. At 4.30pm, on the same day, a video of Andrew waving to Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, was filmed.
The Duke smiles and waves as Miss Keating, dressed in a long black coat with a large black bag over her arm, steps out of the 15ft-high oak doors.
As she goes to hail a taxi, Andrew peers furtively round the door before disappearing inside.
By this point, no fewer than six women and three security officers had been seen arriving or leaving Epstein’s house during Andrew’s stay. All potential witnesses for the FBI case.
The Duke of York has since admitted it was a mistake to visit the billionaire playboy’s home 17 months after Epstein’s release from jail for child sex offences.
Following his resignation from public duties this week, the Prince signalled he would speak to FBI detectives investigating Epstein as he readied himself for a subpoena from U.S. lawyers demanding he gives evidence under oath.
When asked if Prince Andrew was present at the lunch Ms Brazill-Post, left, asked to be called back and hung up. She did not respond to further messages seeking comment. She is married to Joel S Post, First Vice President of Wealth Management, for UBS
Our new pictures could help investigators identify potentially vital new witnesses and establish whether the American paedophile was committing offences following his release from prison.
They could also help the beleaguered royal clear his name of alleged wrongdoing. A former head of Scotland Yard’s royalty protection squad, retired Met Chief Supt Dai Davies, said agents must now take statements from protection officers who accompanied Prince Andrew during his numerous trips to see the disgraced American financier, who died in an apparent suicide in a New York City federal jail in August.
Our exclusive pictures also show what are believed to be three male American protection officers. A closer look shows badges worn by the U.S. diplomatic security detail; their role would most likely have been to protect the visiting royal.
An eyewitness account describes a total of five protection officers that kept a polite distance from Andrew and Epstein as they passed the sealions attraction at the Central Park Zoo.
All of them could provide important testimonies for the investigation.
Zakocela, pictured in May, is among a number of potential witnesses who were present at the time and who could help the ongoing FBI probe into the billionaire’s activities
Here, with the help of our gallery, including previously unpublished photographs, we set out in detail the comings and goings during the Prince’s visit nine years ago. We retraced the pair’s steps during their infamous Central Park walk, during which Andrew claims he ended their association.
Our picture dossier includes close-ups of their intense exchange and a new photograph of them on the glamorous designer shopping street, Madison Avenue.
There is a distinctly frosty atmosphere as the now eighth in line to the throne appears to tap anxiously at his phone while Epstein frowns at his side.
Prince Andrew and Epstein seen after leaving the late financier’s home in Manhattan at around 2.06pm on December 5, 2010
THE TIMELINE
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Prince spent at least five days at Epstein’s 21,000 sq ft mansion on this occasion.
It began with him being guest of honour at a dinner party organised by New York party planner Peggy Siegal. It was to celebrate Epstein’s release from an 18-month prison sentence for having sex with underage girls. No doubt it was an attempt to cleanse Epstein’s image and re-integrate him into Manhattan society.
The guest list included film director Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi, Katie Couric, then the highest-paid female TV anchor in America, George Stephanopoulos, a former White House communications director under President Bill Clinton, comedian Chelsea Handler and TV news host Charlie Rose.
Mr Allen and Mr Rose have both been accused of sexual misconduct, unrelated to the Epstein case.
Miss Handler told the New York Times recently that ‘it was just one of those strange nights’.
She said Miss Siegal had not really made clear who was hosting the event, adding: ‘The invitation was positioned as, ‘Do you want to have dinner with Prince Andrew?’
Until now, the royal’s five-day, New York sojourn in December 2010 — that proved key to his downfall this week — has largely been shrouded in secrecy. He is pictured with Epstein during the trip. The royal claimed he ‘never saw’ anything at Jeffrey Epstein’s £60 million mansion that aroused his suspicions
Sunday, December 5, 2010. 11.30am: Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn are seen leaving Epstein’s mansion
Another attendee was Eva Andersson-Dubin, the wife of financier Glenn Dubin, who has been accused of having sex with Epstein’s alleged victims — he has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Asked by Newsnight interviewer Emily Maitlis about the party, Andrew said: ‘No, I didn’t go. Oh, in 2010, there certainly wasn’t a party to celebrate his release in December because it was a small dinner party, there were only eight or ten of us I think at the dinner. If there was a party, then I’d know nothing about that’.
Miss Maitlis challenged Andrew: ‘You were invited to that dinner as a guest of honour.’
He replied: ‘Well I was there so there was a dinner, I don’t think it was quite as you might put it but yeah, OK I was there for… I was there at a dinner, yeah.’
Andrew continued his stay at Epstein’s house on Friday, December 3. In the Newsnight interview he downplayed his contact with Epstein: ‘Actually the truth of it is that I actually only saw him for about, what the dinner party, the walk in the park and probably passing in the passage.’
This is what our picture dossier reveals…
Sunday, December 5
11.30am: Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn are seen leaving the East 71st St property, the largest residential home in Manhattan.
11.42am: Susan Hamblin, a long-time confidante of Epstein, is seen leaving. She wears a blue puffer jacket and clutches her mobile phone to her chest, a black designer bag hooked on her arm.
12.07pm: A security guard — wearing sunglasses, grey trousers and a dark jacket — thought to be from the American Diplomatic Security Service, responsible for protecting visiting foreign dignitaries, arrives at the house.
Around 1.40pm: Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein leave the property and head west, entering Central Park on 72nd Street followed by five guards.
Sunday, December 5, 2010. 11.30am: Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn are seen leaving Epstein’s mansion
A witness told the Daily Mail that the protection officers assumed a star-shaped pattern at a distance to give Epstein and Andrew privacy to talk, instead of staying close as they normally do with dignitaries. Our pictures show Andrew making a claw-like motion with his hand as if trying to reason with Epstein, who is striding forwards ahead of him.
Their body language is striking, suggesting Epstein in dominance and Andrew with a more conciliatory stance.
The two men walk south past a children’s playground and through the Central Park Zoo, where they would have passed the viewing area for sealions, an unlikely venue for a confidential discussion.
They leave the park at 62nd St and head east to Madison Avenue, which they walk up back to 71st St. Our previously unpublished photograph shows them at 2.06pm passing designer fashion store Chloe with Andrew seemingly texting on his phone.
11.42am: Susan Hamblin, a long-term confidante, seen leaving. Later, a man wearing dark glasses arrives at Epstein’s home
11.42am: Susan Hamblin, a long-term confidante, seen leaving
12.07pm: Man wearing dark glasses arrives at Epstein’s home
Around 2.15pm: They arrive home, making their total walk nearly half an hour. By that time, according to Andrew, he had ended their friendship.
Addressing the conversation in the Newsnight interview, Andrew said: ‘We had an opportunity to go for a walk in the park and that was the conversation coincidentally that was photographed which was when I said to him, I said, ‘Look, because of what has happened, I don’t think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact’.
‘And by mutual agreement, during that walk in the park, we decided that we would part company and I left, I think it was the next day.
‘And to this day I never had any contact with him from that day forward.’
Asked by Miss Maitlis how Epstein took it, Andrew said that ‘he was what I would describe as understanding’.
He added: ‘He didn’t go into any great depth in the conversation about what I was . . . what he was doing, except to say that he’d accepted, whatever it was, a plea bargain, he’d served his time and he was carrying on with his life if you see what I mean.
‘And I said, ‘Yes, but I’m afraid to say that that’s as maybe but with all the attendant scrutiny on me then I don’t think it is a wise thing to do’.’
9.45pm: Epstein emerges from the front door with a dark-haired woman who appears to be in her 20s wearing a black jacket and an orange scarf. Epstein, wearing a white winter jacket with a fur trim, hugs and kisses her as they walk along.
Monday, December 6
12.39pm: The first picture of the day shows an older security agent with a dark moustache and slicked-back greying hair leaving.
2.06pm: An unidentified brunette woman leaves in dark glasses. She appears to be in her 20s and wears a black leather jacket, a grey beanie hat and carries a large black shoulder bag.
2.09pm: Another security guard, a younger man with dark hair, enters the home.
Monday, December 6, 12.39pm: Man believed to be security guard leaves the mansion; 2.06pm: A brunette woman carrying a large shoulder bag leaves
Monday, December 6, 12.39pm: Man believed to be security guard leaves the mansion
2.06pm: A brunette woman carrying a large shoulder bag leaves
3.11pm: A second unidentified woman with long dark hair, seemingly in her 20s, leaves. She wears a red woollen hat and a long grey puffer jacket. She also carries a large black shoulder bag.
3.35pm: Valerie Brazill-Post, a director with the Council on Foreign Relation, leaves. She wears a white shirt under a dark brown sheepskin coat with fur trim.
3.46pm: The arrival of Victoria’s Secret model Lana Zakocela.
At some point in the afternoon Epstein came out of the house in his white winter jacket. His confidante, Miss Hamblin, also came out and spoke to the driver of a waiting Bentley and appeared to ask him for something.
She returned to the front door, rang the bell and, as it opened, Sarah Kellen, a long-time Epstein associate who has been accused of recruiting young girls for him, left with a smile to Miss Hamblin.
2.09pm: A dark-haired man believed to be a security guard arrives at the house; 3.11pm: A woman in a red hat carrying a large shoulder bag leaves.
2.09pm: A dark-haired man believed to be a security guard arrives at the house
3.11pm: A woman in a red hat carrying a large shoulder bag leaves
4.30pm: This is when the now infamous video of Andrew cheerily waving to Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, was filmed.
The Duke smiles and waves as Miss Keating, dressed in a long black coat with a large black bag over her arm, steps out of the 15ft-high oak doors.
As she goes to hail a taxi, Andrew peers furtively round the door before disappearing inside.
By this point, no fewer than six women and three security officers had been seen arriving or leaving Epstein’s house during Andrew’s stay. All potential witnesses for the FBI case.
Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis challenged Andrew about whether he saw any suspicious activity.
‘During that time, those few days, witnesses say they saw many young girls coming and going.
‘There is video footage of Epstein accompanied by young girls and you were there staying in his house, catching up with friends.’
Andrew said: ‘I never… I mean if there were then I wasn’t a party to any of that. I never saw them.
‘I mean you have to understand that his house, I described it more as almost as a railway station if you know what I mean in the sense that there were people coming in and out of that house all the time.
‘What they were doing and why they were there I had nothing to do with. So I’m afraid I can’t make any comment on that because I really don’t know.’
4.30pm: Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian PM, departs
Tuesday, December 7
A further young female guest was seen leaving the house in the afternoon.
Her suitcases were loaded into a waiting car and the tag from her incoming flight could still be seen on them.
She apparently came from Russia as the tag said Aeroflot, the Russian national airline, and the date was November 19.
What was apparently intended to be a low-key visit by Prince Andrew to his long-time friend Epstein was blown apart weeks later when the now defunct News of the World printed a picture of them walking together through Central Park.
The circumstances in which the picture was taken, proving beyond any doubt the closeness of their friendship, still puzzles the Duke.
He was asked during the BBC interview about suggestions by his friends that Epstein wanted the photo to be taken and ‘perhaps he’d even set it up’.
Andrew replied: ‘Again, new information coming out since his suicide has made us reappraise that walk in the park.
‘We can’t find any evidence — or my staff and my people and I can’t find any evidence — to suggest that that was what he was doing.
‘I mean you can look at it in so many different ways.
‘The fact of the matter is that somebody very cleverly took that photograph. It wasn’t as far as I remember — nor do my security people remember — anybody being present or close because there were enough security around.’
And so the mysteries surrounding Andrew’s visit to his paedophile friend, and the questions over what he told Newsnight, continue to deepen.
EPSTEIN AND THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
@johnjcook
As a child, Celina had a very close relationship to Epstein. She called him “Uncle Jeff.” After his 2006 arrest for unlawful sex acts with a minor, Eva Andersson Dubin and Celina — then 12 — wrote letters of support for his legal team.
The letters were incorporated into a dossier — first reported in October by the Palm Beach Post — that Epstein’s lawyers provided to prosecutors.
@dearsarah
“Uncle Jeff” Epstein’s relationship with the 24yo daughter of billionaire hedge funder Glenn Dubin is more complex than was known https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-considered-marrying-24-year-old-daughter-of-glenn-dubin … A very tricky narrative; deeply & sensitively reported.
Between 1997-2005 Celina was on the epstein flight logs 18 times.
@kirbysommers
Jeffrey Epstein wanted to marry his god-child.
Who is she?
She’s none other than Celina, the daughter of Epstein’s former girlfriend Eva Dubin and hubby Glenn (both of whom have allegedly sexually abused Virginia)
Eva Andersson Dubin, Glenn Dubin, and Celina Dubin in 2017.
The convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein told associates that he considered marrying Celina Dubin, the 24-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend Eva Andersson Dubin and the hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, a source told Business Insider. According to financial records reviewed by Business Insider, Epstein named Celina Dubin as a beneficiary of a trust that he also used to pay lawyers, models, and other associates in his orbit. He told associates that marrying Celina would permit him to leave her his vast fortune, including his private island, without paying estate taxes, according to the source. There is no indication that the two had a romantic relationship. A different source familiar with Epstein’s finances told Business Insider he used trusts and other accounts to send money to alleged coconspirators and apparent victims of his sex-trafficking operation as recently as this year. The existence of the trust raises questions about whether the executors of Epstein’s will — who were named as beneficiaries — have conflicts of interest and what, if any, money is available to the 26 women suing his estate. Jeffrey Epstein died a bachelor, but the convicted pedophile told associates that he considered marrying the 24-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend, Business Insider has learned.
The woman, Celina Dubin, is the daughter of the physician and former Miss Sweden Eva Andersson Dubin and the billionaire hedge-fund manager Glenn Dubin. Eva Andersson Dubin dated Epstein for 11 years, beginning in the 1980s, before she married Glenn Dubin in 1994; Epstein told associates that he introduced the couple. As recently as 2014, according to one source close to Epstein, he told associates that if he ever married, it would be to Celina Dubin, who was 19 at the time and who once called him “Uncle Jeff.” There is no evidence that Epstein ever had a romantic relationship with Celina Dubin, and his intent appears to have been financial.
Epstein told associates that he wanted her to inherit his fortune, including his private island in the Caribbean, the source said, and that marrying her would be a way to avoid inheritance taxes. The source provided Business Insider with handwritten notes, taken after the fact, recounting the conversations. Around the same time, in 2014, Epstein named Celina Dubin as a beneficiary of a trust, according to financial documents provided by a different source and reviewed by Business Insider.
She was removed as a beneficiary in 2015, and the Dubins said they were not aware of the trust’s existence. It’s unclear how much money was in the trust while Celina was a beneficiary, but it totaled about $50 million in 2019, according to the source, who is familiar with Epstein’s finances.
The Dubins are prominent socialites and philanthropists in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. Eva Andersson Dubin was for many years the in-house physician for NBC, and she founded the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Health System. Glenn Dubin cofounded the hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management and now runs a quant fund called Engineers Gate. Celina Dubin is attending the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She graduated from Harvard University in 2017 and was named one of the “15 Hottest Freshmen” in her class by The Harvard Crimson in 2014. She has been photographed on the red carpet at numerous charity events and written for Departures magazine.
In August, Business Insider reported that the Dubin family has been tied financially, socially, and philanthropically to Epstein for decades. In 2009, after Epstein’s release from jail on charges of soliciting a child for prostitution, the Dubins wrote an email to his probation officer saying they were “100% comfortable” with Epstein spending time with Celina Dubin, who was 14 at the time, and their two other minor children. Since Epstein’s July arrest, however, the Dubins have sought to publicly distance themselves from the sex offender.
The existence of the trust and Epstein’s interest in leaving his vast wealth to Celina Dubin suggest that his relationship with the Dubin family was more complex than had been previously known. In a statement, the Dubin family spokesman Davidson Goldin told Business Insider: “Glenn saw him perhaps once a year in large group settings and had no business interactions with him whatsoever after 2007. Eva and Celina Dubin accepted less than a handful of invitations to gatherings that included the founder of Microsoft and a DNA pioneer. The Dubins are horrified by Jeffrey Epstein’s despicable conduct. Had they been aware of it, they would have cut off all ties instantly.” Epstein established the irrevocable trust in 2004 Epstein, who died by suicide in August, created the irrevocable trust — a common holding structure to reduce tax liabilities — in 2004. He transferred that trust from JPMorgan to Deutsche Bank, along with other entities, in 2013. The trust contained about $50 million as of 2019 — or close to 10% of the total value of Epstein’s declared wealth — according to the source familiar with Epstein’s finances. The trust, and others like it, appears to have been used in part to facilitate payments to women in Epstein’s orbit. It named six people as beneficiaries and two as trustees — people who administer the account on behalf of the beneficiaries — according to a 2014 document viewed by Business Insider. The trustees were Epstein’s New York-based accountant Harry Beller and Virgin Islands-based lawyer Erika Kellerhals, both of whom worked with Epstein on various organizations he set up. Neither responded to requests for comment.
Celina Dubin was removed from the trust in 2015 and never received any payments from it, according to the source familiar with Epstein’s finances. Three of Epstein’s longtime female associates were also beneficiaries in 2014. All three were listed in the trust document as residing in New York City at 301 E. 66th St., the Upper East Side building home for years to members of Epstein’s entourage — young models, girlfriends, pilots, lawyers, and, in the 1980s, Eva Andersson Dubin. Two of the women named as beneficiaries married each other in 2013 at Epstein’s direction so that one, who was from Eastern Europe, could gain legal residency, Business Insider previously reported. Both are adults and have since divorced. None of the three women have come forward publicly, and because they may be victims of sexual abuse or trafficking, Business Insider is not naming them.
Rounding out the list of the beneficiaries in 2014 were two longtime Epstein attorneys, Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke. They’re named on dozens of documents related to Epstein entities, including businesses and foundations, in various executive roles, including president, director, and treasurer. Neither Kahn nor Indyke responded to requests for comment….
In 2009, Epstein’s former house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, attempted to sell Epstein’s “little black book” for $50,000 to an attorney representing one of Epstein’s accusers. The lawyer alerted the FBI, and Rodriguez was arrested in a sting operation on charges of obstruction of justice. Agents seized both the address book and handwritten notes, which included email addresses and phone numbers for key figures, that Rodriguez had prepared for the attorney to aid him in his case. The notes included a phone number for the Dubins with the notation: “Eva Andersson (Dubin). (Former model and mother of naked pic).”
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vintage photo of the house that Leslie Wexner purchased for Jeffrey Epstein at 9 East 71 Street.
It is one of the underground floors.
more here:
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1218547425608110080
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“There’s something very interesting. She [‘Jane Doe’] says ’94. Where was Epstein living? He was leasing a building from the State Dept. Which would mean he committed a crime on federal property.”
The State Dept’s Office of Foreign Missions serves the *foreign diplomatic community residing in the United States*
So why were they leasing a residence to Jeffrey Epstein ??
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@mickeywc24
….What do you make of Epsteins Bell 206-L3 Helicopter having the same tail number as a Cessna owned by the US State Department?
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Glenn Dubin’s first wife was Elizabeth Saltzman, who is Vanity Fair fashion director and longtime friend of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Did she have a role in Graydon Carter scrubbing the Farmer sisters from @VickyPJWard’s article?
The real estate. Keep your eyes on the real estate.
Leslie Wexner and Lynn de Rothschild financed Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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
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.
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.
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.
https://nypost.com/2004/05/04/tragic-river-find-body-likely-missing-park-ave-wife/ …
https://therealdeal.com/2016/05/05/investor-frederick-rudd-buys-ghislaine-maxwells-ues-townhouse/
https://twitter.com/KirbySommers/status/1176441367653965824
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Published in 2001
Giuffre says that in 2001, when she was 17, Andrew had sex with her three times. She says she was paid by Epstein for these encounters. A photo that Giuffre said was taken in 2001 in a London apartment shows Prince Andrew’s arm around Giuffre, with Maxwell standing in the background, according to The New York Times.
REMEMBERING FOR THE FUTURE
STEERING COMMITTEE COORDINATORS
CHRISTINE MAXWELL MALINA
FINANCIAL SPONSORS:
GHISLAINE MAXWELL,
ISABELL MAXWELL
PATRONS:
LORD JANNER
SAMUEL PISAR
LORD WEIDENFELD
Elie Wiesel (in Epstein’s black book) , the Nobel-prize winning author whose book Night is held as one of the most important of Holocaust texts, is one of the major speakers at the Remembering for the Future conference.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2000/jul/16/foodanddrink.raceandreligion
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1162430685065469952.html
ALADDIN PROJECT
JANNER AND PISAR involved
https://www.projetaladin.org/en/en-1.html
becoming an adviser on foreign economic policy to John F. Kennedy, whom he met at Harvard, and a confidant to Presidents François Mitterrand and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France; pressing détente between the Soviet Union and the West through trade; and establishing himself as a lawyer to corporate executives and movie stars like Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.
He became a citizen of the United States by an act of Congress and had homes in New York and Paris. The French government made him a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and an Officer of Arts and Letters. Poland made him a Commander of the Order of Merit.
Since quitting as the UK’s trade envoy in 2011, the duke has built up Pitch@Palace, in which he helps to put would-be entrepreneurs in touch with investors and mentors.
A source close to Andrew told BBC News he would continue to be involved in the initiative, which does not provide any funding to start-up firms.
Prince Andrew met with Ghislaine Maxwell AFTER Jeffrey Epstein probe was reopened: Duke saw paedophile’s ‘madam’ in London as she took part in supercar rally to Monaco with Paris Hilton and Chloe Green
- Duke of York ‘arranged a meeting’ with alleged pimp Maxwell on or about June 5
- Disgraced socialite was in UK to take part in a charity motoring rally from London
- Alleged meet took place weeks after US revealed desire to reopen Epstein probe
- In Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview, he claimed they did not discuss Epstein
- Last night he was removed from royal duties amid deepening crisis over Epstein
21 Nov 2019
Prince Andrew met with alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell in London months after the US Department of Justice revealed plans to reopen its probe into Jeffrey Epstein.
The Duke of York arranged a meeting with Maxwell, who is accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein, while she was in Britain for a glamourous supercar rally with the wife of Pink Floyd’s drummer, it can be revealed.
On Saturday’s BBC interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew acknowledged meeting Maxwell but denied they discussed Epstein – despite the fact US prosecutors had in February reopened their probe into the paedophile and his plea deal.
US lawmakers were also calling for Epstein to face fresh criminal charges. He was arrested on July 6, a month after Maxwell and Andrew’s meeting in London.
Andrew and Maxwell met up on or about June 5, the day before she set off on the Cash & Rocket charity motoring rally from London.
Maxwell joined a host of celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Chloe Green for the glitzy all-woman supercar rally, which finished four days later in Monaco.
She was conspicuously absent from publicity photographs taken during the high-profile event, and all reference to her was deleted from the rally’s website today.
The 57-year-old British socialite shared car number 28 with Nettie Mason, the wife of Pink Floyd rock star Nick Mason, for the duration of the event.
Ghislaine Maxwell took part in the Cash & Rocket rally along with Nettie Mason, the wife of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. Pictured is their car profile from the event’s website, which was deleted from view earlier this month
Her involvement in the rally is thought to be the last time she visited the UK, before her disappearance from public view amid the FBI inquiry into her links with Epstein.
During Andrew’s ‘disastrous’ interview with the BBC on Saturday, presenter Emily Maitlis pressed the prince on the last time he met with his long-time friend Maxwell.
He replied: ‘It was earlier this year, funnily enough, in the summer, in the spring, summer. She was here doing some rally.’
When asked by Maitlis if their meeting had taken place after Epstein’s arrest in July, Andrew said: ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, no, this was… this was early spring.’
Maitlis then enquired whether or not the duke and Maxwell had discussed Epstein and the allegations against him during their meeting.
He added: ‘Funnily enough, no, not at all. There wasn’t anything to discuss about him because he wasn’t in the news, you know, it was just… we had moved on.’
While Epstein was not be arrested for another month, the US Department of Justice had revealed plans in February to review a plea deal given to the paedophile.
He had escaped sex trafficking charges in 2008 after a secret arrangement with prosecutors saw him admit to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
He was arrested once again in July after members of Congress called for the sex trafficking allegations to be reviewed. He was found hanging in his cell in August.
Andrew is now facing intense pressure to speak with prosecutors about his friendship with Epstein.
Last night the Queen effectively sacked Andrew from Royal duties, summoning the distraught Duke of York to Buckingham Palace to learn his fate.
He issued a statement confirming he was, with his mother’s permission, ‘stepping down’ from his public role.
Ghislaine Maxwell is granted more time by a federal court as she tries to stop hundreds of Epstein associates being named in defamation court papers
- Lawyers for Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts want the court papers unsealed
- A federal judge said in September there were hundreds of people mentioned
- Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys been granted until December 5 to argue their ca
21 Nov 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-lover Ghislaine Maxwell has been granted more time by a federal court as she tries to keep a trove of court papers under wraps which could reveal the names of hundreds of Epstein associates.
Lawyers for Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre have asked for the records from a 2015 court case to be unsealed.
Federal judge Loretta Preska revealed in September that there were ‘literally a thousand people’ mentioned in some of the documents.
Maxwell’s attorneys are trying to block the release and a judge has granted them until December 5 to make their arguments after they demanded an extension.
PITCH@PALACE GLOBAL LIMITED
Directors: Amanda Thirsk, Johan Eliasch…
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/10622221/PITCHPALACE-GLOBAL-LIMITED/companies-house-data
Director Johan Eliasch director at Pitch@Palace and listed in Epstein’s black book
PRINCE Andrew is photographed with a bevy of beautiful girls while staying at a villa in St-Tropez, Tony Blair is pictured playing with his state-of-the-art tennis racket in a charity event at Queen’s Club in west London. Two seemingly unconnected events. But there is one man who had a key role to play in both of them and it is unlikely you will have heard of him.
Johan Eliasch, a 39-year-old Swedish businessman, is not only a public relations genius – both events were featured the next day in every national newspaper – he is also that rare thing, a man who manages successfully to straddle the worlds of high finance and high society.
On another recent occasion, Eliasch invited Prince Andrew to holiday on his yacht off the Thai island of Phuket. Again, the snappers were ready for more bikini shots of the gregarious Royal’s female friends.
Johan Eliasch, a close friend of the prince who is the chairman of the Head sporting goods company and also a former special representative of the British prime minister, said: “Anybody who knows the Duke well knows that he is intensely loyal to his friends and sometimes that loyalty is not in his best interest, and that is what happened here.”
Johan Eliasch was a member of the Mayor of London’s (Boris Johnson) International Business Advisory Council 2008-2016.
a) IBAC members:
Martin Sorrell Chief Executive WPP (Chair) Boris Johnson Mayor of London Lionel Barber Editor The Financial Times Marc Bolland Chief Executive Marks and Spencers Victor Chu Chairman First Eastern Investment Group Tim Clark President Emirates Airline Richard Collier-Keywood UK Managing Partner & Global Head of Tax PricewaterhouseCoopers John Connolly Global Chairman Deloitte UK (when he was in post) Eric Daniels Group Chief Executive The Lloyds Banking Group plc (when he was in post) Vincent de Rivaz Chief Executive EDF Energy Phillip Dilley Chairman Arup Johan Eliasch Chairman Head NV Orit Gadiesh Chairman Bain & Company Mark Garvin Chairman JPMorgan Europe Limited Jim Goodnight CEO SAS Andreas Goss Chief Executive Siemens PLC & Cluster North West Europe Sanjay Guha President Coca-Cola Great Britain & Ireland Mark Harding Group General Counsel, Barclays Group Tony Hayward Executive Director BP (when he was in post) Terry Hill Chairman – Transport Market Arup Group Ian Hudson President – EMEA Dupont Yugo Ishida President and CEO Nomura International Alexander Izosimov CEO AO VimpelCom Wang Jianzhou Chairman and CEO China Mobile Limited Will Lewis General Manager News International (when he was in post) Wayne Leamon Chief Executive Macquarie Bank London Ian Livingston Chief Executive BT Group Graham Mackay Chief Executive SABMiller Trevor Mann Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Nissan International SA David Morley Senior Partner Allen & Overy John Neill Group Chief Executive Unipart Group Lubna Olayan CEO Olayan Financing Company Rajendra Pawar Chairman and Co-Founder NIIT Joerg Reinhardt CEO Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Brendon Riley General Manager, Northeast Europe IBM (when he was in post) Jon Robson President of Enterprise Thomson Reuters Paolo Scaroni CEO Eni SpA Jacob Wallenberg Chairman Investor AB Nicholas Walsh Executive Vice President, Foreign General Insurance of AIG Inc., AIG Patience Wheatcroft Editor Wall Street Journal Europe (when she was in post)
Prince Andrew appoints Swedish billionaire friend as director of his Palace project to help entrepreneurs
- Sports equipment tycoon Johan Eliasch will be able to add his considerable business expertise to position on the Prince’s initiative, Pitch@Palace
- Prince Andrew launched project in 2014 to provide a platform for young entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses to network and seek advice
- Mr Eliasch, 57, is an eco-campaigner and chairman and chief executive of Head, the international sporting goods group
- Prince was a guest of Mr Eliasch for holiday in 2000 on Thai island of Phuket
In 2012, Prince Andrew stood down as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment after a series of negative stories.
Mr Eliasch, who has dual Swedish and British citizenship, was one of 20 senior business figures who wrote a letter backing the Duke of York.
He said at the time: ‘The commentary in the media regarding the Duke of York has ignored the good work he does in the Middle East and other places around the world to promote British business and also to help the country respond to this difficult economic period through a trade-led recovery.’
Prince Andrew is a ‘t**s and bums man’ who is prone to making spectacularly inappropriate comments about women, a former acquaintance has claimed.
The source said Andrew often breached the bounds of social acceptance with his remarks – including one that left a pregnant woman ‘ashen-faced’ with shock.
‘He has always been a t**s and bums man,’ said the acquaintance.
The claims came as historic pictures of the Prince re-emerged, showing him surrounded by topless women in tiny bikinis enjoying an end-of-year holiday back in 2001.
The picture, it is understood, was taken while Andrew was on holiday in Phuket, Thailand, with his friend Jeffrey Epstein.
Johan Eliasch fined for illegal Amazon logging
A company belonging to a Swedish businessman has been fined $275 million for illegally cutting down Amazon rainforest.
A Swedish millionare Johan Eliash, who purchased 400 000 acres (1,600 km2) in the heart of the Amazon rainforest near the Madeira River, has been recently fined for illegal Amazon logging. He bought the property from a logging company for only 14 million U.S. dollars in 2005.
Interesting, in the moment of property transaction, Mr. Eliash claimed that this purchase is for the sole purpose of its preservation.
The Brazilian government’s environmental agency Ibama said it levied the 450 million reals (275 million dollars) in punishment on the Gethal company owned by Johan Eliasch for cutting down 230,000 trees and lacking certification for Amazon land it owns.
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/903477816/MR-JOHAN-ELIASCH/companies
Pro-Brexit Tory billionaire donor Johan Eliasch is connected to the same Isle of Man company (Greystone Trust Company) as Arron Banks ICS Risk Solutions Limited
Johan Eliasch insisted that Brussels has much more to lose from a hard Brexit than the UK, and revealed that Angela Merkel once told him she wanted a “sensible solution” to the divorce proceedings.
The Swedish born businessman, who was a government special representative under Gordon Brown and runs the sportswear firm Head, blamed Jean-Claude Juncker for the EU’s current intransigence towards Britain.
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Advisory Board
Accessed July 2012: [2]
- Sir Menzies Campbell – Advisory Board member
- Johan Eliasch – President, Global Strategy Forum
- Frank Field – Advisory Board Member
- Gerard Griffin – Advisory Board member
- Hüseyin Gün – Advisory Board member
- Chuck Hagel – Advisory Board Member
- Jacqueline Jinks – Director, Global Strategy Forum
- Lord Lamont of Lerwick – Advisory Board member
- Jonathan J. Lehrle – Advisor to the Forum
- Lord Lothian – Chairman – Global Strategy Forum Chairman, Global Strategy Fourm
- HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal – Advisory Board member
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind – Advisory Board member
- Jack Straw – Advisory Board Member
- Admiral The Right Honourable Baron West of Spithead – Advisory Board Member
Global Strategy Forum – SourceWatch
General Sir Richard Dannatt and Michael Ancram
The February 2010 Lecture II: ‘The Challenges for Defence in the Next Decade’
In 2009-2010, we have had the pleasure of hosting Johan Eliasch, President of GSF; the Rt Hon Lord
Chief of the General Staff from 2006 to 2009.
Relative Values: Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, and his son, Tom
Lord Dannatt, 64, and his son, Tom, 36, who runs a charity for children in Sierra Leone
Sarah Ferguson marks special day for charity close to her and Prince Andrew’s heart
The former couple are both huge supporters of the Children’s Air Ambulance
The organisation is supported by both Sarah and her ex-husband Prince Andrew, who went to an event at Lamberth Palace on behalf of her back in May when a last-minute diary clash meant that she was unable to attend. Andrew took Sarah’s place at short notice, and even gave the speech she had prepared, adding in his own voice and humour much to the delight of the guests. He also spent time chatting to the families who had been helped by the Children’s Air Ambulance.
Humanitas
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York – Patron & Life President of Humanitas
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York has been our patron since 2008, her commitment to our cause and the children we care for has been commendable.
“Having witnessed first hand the horrors of institutional care, I needed to find a solution to the problems these children’s face. Then I met the charity Humanitas, seeing the difference between their set up and others I had witnessed is so vast. Seeing the improvement in the children under their care is enough to bring hope and joy to anyone.I truly think that Humanitas is a model charity through which lives can be improved beyond measure’’
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York – Patron & Life President of Humanitas
Andy guest of honour for Maxwell girl
24 January 2013
Just two years ago Prince Andrew was forced to distance himself from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after a series of unsavoury allegations emerged about the wealthy financier and underage girls.
The Prince’s initial stubborn refusal to abandon their friendship and the subsequent damage to his reputation contributed to his decision to later stand down from his job as a trade envoy.
But Andrew has not cut all his links with the American — he remains good friends with Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
When Ghislaine, 51, youngest child of crooked former newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, celebrated her birthday in London last month, Andrew was guest of honour.
News of the celebration for New York-based Ghislaine, who was also a social fixer for Epstein, was kept under wraps to ensure Andrew’s presence did not attract criticism.
The party was held at China Tang, entrepreneur Sir David Tang’s stylish restaurant at the Dorchester Hotel, with around 30 guests sitting down to dinner.
Amanda Eliasch, 59, puts her £10,000 sex CHAIRS up for sale in 200-item auction
Socialite Amanda Eliasch is putting her four £10,000 sex chairs up for sale in a 200-piece auction at The Swan in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire.
The multimillionaire, 59, who received a chunk of her former husband Johan Eliasch‘s £400 million fortune following her 2007 divorce settlement, is clearing out her £8.3million five story Chelsea home in Cheyne Walk ahead of her 60th birthday next year.
The mother-of-two will begin with a 700-piece fashion auction next week, which will include 250 pairs of designer shoes and 300 black jackets, before moving on to a furniture sale in October.
The second auction will include four sex chairs worth £10,000-a-piece, which she bought back in her heyday to ‘feel like a dominatrix and scare off men’ – but she assures interested buyers that she hasn’t used them.
How Duke of York’s annual meetings with Epstein including after he was sent to jail caused Prince Andrew decades of trouble
Prince Andrew First Met Jeffrey Epstein Long Before 1999, Buckingham Palace Letter Claims
Nov 19 2019
Prince Andrew first met pedophile Jeffrey Epstein long before 1999, according to a letter from a Buckingham Palace aide.
The Duke of York has long been embroiled in a scandal over his ties to the disgraced financier. In a television interview with BBC’s Newsnight that aired on Saturday he discussed his friendship with Epstein for the first time as well as the allegations that he had sex with a teenage girl Epstein had groomed.
Andrew told interviewer Emily Maitlis that he met Epstein through Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who Andrew met at university, in 1999. But that contradicts an earlier claim from a former senior aide in 2011 that the pair actually met in the “early 1990s.”
Alastair Watson, who was Andrew’s private secretary at the time, wrote to The Times of London newspaper to counter reports about Andrew being friends with Saif Gaddafi, the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
At the end of the letter, published on March 5, 2011, Watson addressed Andrew’s connection to Epstein. “Finally, there has been widespread comment on the duke’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” he wrote.
“The duke has known Mr Epstein since being introduced to him in the early 1990s. The insinuations and innuendos that have been made in relation to the duke are without foundation.”
When asked about the letter contradicting Andrew’s claim that he met Epstein in 1990, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson told Newsweek: “The Duke’s words in his interview speak for themselves.”
The 2011 letter was published after The Times reported on the existence of a photo of Andrew with 17 year old Virginia Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, according to the BBC. It shows Andrew with her in Maxwell’s London home in 2001.
Giuffre later claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew on numerous occasions. Andrew has denied having any form of sexual contact with her.
In the Newsnight interview, Andrew said he had no memory of meeting her. “I can absolutely, categorically tell you it never happened,” he said. “I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”
Andrew expressed regret for staying at Epstein’s home in New York in 2010 after the 66 year old was released from prison for soliciting soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. But many have criticized him for the lack of remorse he showed for the friendship.
During the interview, Andrew twice said that his friendship had some “seriously beneficial outcomes,” including giving him the opportunity to meet influential people.
Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. A medical examiner ruled that he had taken his own life. His death at the age of 66 came just over a month after he was arrested and charged with trafficking dozens of underage girls as young as 14.
https://www.newsweek.com/prince-andrew-first-met-jeffrey-epstein-early-1990s-1473030
Prince Andrew sat for a disastrous interview in which he defended his friendship with Epstein and tried to deny any wrongdoing on his part.
He told the BBC’s Emily Maitlis, “Do I regret the fact that [Epstein] has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming? Yes.”
To this she responded, “Unbecoming? He was a sex offender.” The prince apologized, “Yeah, I’m sorry, I’m being polite. I mean, in the sense that he was a sex offender.”
He claimed that he had only stayed with Epstein in 2010, after Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, in order to end their friendship.
In response to photographs of him with Epstein the following year, he said, “That’s the bit that, as it were, I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the royal family. We try and uphold the highest standards and practices, and I let the side down, as simple as that.”
The prince didn’t say that he regretted his friendship with Epstein overall, noting that Epstein introduced him to interesting people and things.
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.
Gaddafi ‘bedded four women before holding trade talks with Prince Andrew’
- Aide who dyed dictator’s hair claims: ‘He would have his way with them like he had just blown his nose’
- Libyan leader was addicted to sex and Viagra pills
Muammar Gadaffi bedded at least four women just hours before meeting Prince Andrew for trade talks, it was claimed today.
The Libyan dictator had a voracious sexual appetite and was so addicted to anti-impotence Viagra pills a nurse told him to cut down his intake.
The sordid world of the despot who was killed last month in the country’s uprising, has been revealed by his manservant of seven years.
Faisal, a young chef, cooked Andrew a ‘traditional’ dinner of tabouli, hummus and couscous when the prince met the Arab leader at the villa of one of his female friends.
Later Andrew, who’s office has confirmed he dined with Gadaffi in November 2008, told Faisal it was the finest meal he had ever had and posed for a picture with him.
The aide, now 29, said the royal trade ambassador discussed relations between Libya and Britain and an oil contract.
What Andrew was unaware of was Gaddafi’s penchant for young women – many of whom were his bodyguards, according to Faisal.
He said: There were four or sometimes five women each day. They had just become a habit to Gadaffi.
‘They would go into his bedroom, he would have his way with them and then he would come out like he had just blown his nose.’
Faisal, on leave from prison for the Muslim holiday of Eid, became friends with the bodyguards who were known as the ‘Nuns of the Revolution’.
He told the Sunday Times: They all had sex with Gadaffi. The more canny of them became wealthy from his gifts of villas or large sums of cash.’
Faisal claimed that some of the women he bedded suffered so badly ‘they went immediately from his bedroom to the hospital’ to be treated for internal injuries.
His addiction to Viagra, said the aide, was so extensive that his Ukrainian nurse urged to him to reduce the number of pills he swallowed every day.
Gadaffi picked up victims at his former alma mater, Tripoli University, where he gave lectures and then led the young women to a nearby room whose only furniture was a double bed.
Faisal claimed that another aide was once sent to a sex district of Paris, to buy a machine that Gadaffi used to apparently lengthen his penis.
The despot was vain about his looks and demanded the aide dye his hair, cover up his baldness and use make-up and treatments with green tea to hide his wrinkles.
Faisal, who became a favourite of the dictator with his own house and car, sprayed a French-made lotion on the front of Gadaffi’s head so his receding hairline would not be obvious.
The aide was forced to be his servant after death threats were made against his family unless he obeyed. Faisal was captured by anti-Gadaffi forces but is unlike to be charged.
Why did Prince Andrew visit Gaddafi in Libya with ‘shady’ Tory?
Prince Andrew secretly flew to meet Colonel Gaddafi with ‘shady’ former Tory treasurer David ‘Spotty’ Rowland, it was disclosed last night.
Mr Rowland also accompanied the Duke of York on an official UK trade trip to the Egyptian resort of Sharm-el-Sheik where Andrew dined with the president of oil-rich Kazakhstan.
The president’s son-in-law bought Andrew’s home South York for £15million – £3million more than the asking price.
The latest disclosures of the Prince’s links with Mr Rowland, 65, the multi-millionaire son of a scrap metal dealer, follow last week’s revelations by The Mail on Sunday that Mr Rowland paid £40,000 to help clear the massive debts of the Duke’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
The payment was made after the Duke, 51, had launched a controversial bank bought by Mr Rowland from the ashes of the collapsed ¬Icelandic bank, Kaupthing.
During his talks with Gaddafi, Prince Andrew is believed to have discussed the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 amid reports that Britain had won a lucrative oil deal for BP from Gaddafi in return.
Gaddafi later said Andrew had pressed for Megrahi’s release.
Buckingham Palace went to extraordinary lengths this week to try to conceal the Libya trip by the Duke and Mr Rowland. Acting on a tip-off from a well-placed source that Andrew made several flights with Mr Rowland, most of which were organised and paid for by the businessman, The Mail on Sunday first approached Buckingham Palace on Friday.
The Palace did not respond until noon yesterday. It said the Prince had made one official visit to Libya in 2007, but did not meet Gaddafi, and ‘Mr Rowland was not on this trip’.
After several evasive replies, senior sources eventually admitted the Prince met Gaddafi in Libya in 2008 and privately on two other occasions. Challenged to confirm that Mr Rowland and the Duke flew to Libya together secretly when the Prince met Gaddafi, a spokeswoman effectively admitted that they did.
But she suggested that while they had gone to Libya together, Mr Rowland was not with the Duke when he met Gaddafi.
In a terse statement, the Palace said: ‘Mr Rowland did not attend any calls with the Duke of York on Colonel Gaddafi. We do not comment on private visits of members of the Royal Family. Members of the Royal Family occasionally take people with them on UK and overseas visits, and these people are recharged the cost of the flight.’
In May 2008, Mr Rowland accompanied the Duke when he jetted to Sharm-el-Sheik to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Duke was there as the UK Trade Investment (UKTI) special envoy.
While at the event, he dined with Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Savoy hotel and attended a Kazakh-themed evening. The two men have helped to forge many lucrative deals between British and Kazakh companies as a result of their joint efforts.
Asked about the trip to Sharm-el-Sheik by the Duke and Mr Rowland, a Palace spokesman said: ‘The Duke of York and David Rowland travelled to the WEF in May 2008, of which the Duke of York was co-chair. Mr Rowland covered his own costs.’
Asked if Mr Rowland paid for the flight, the spokesman said: ‘Mr ¬Rowland covered his own costs on the visit. The costs of the Royal Household were met by the Royal Travel Grant-in-Aid and UKTI.’
Prince Andrew’s dealings with wealthy Kazakhs are not restricted to his jaunts to their home country, either. The Prince is close friends with British-based Kazakh socialite Goga Ashkenazi.
In 2008 he dined with her hours after she gave birth to a son by her lover, Timur Kulibayev, who later bought South York. According to some reports, Ms Ashkenazi was the go-between in the deal.
The Mail on Sunday reported last week how Mr Rowland paid £40,000 to Sarah Ferguson’s former aide Kate Waddington to help clear Ms Ferguson’s £5million debts.
Mr Rowland paid the money after the Duke showered praise on him at the launch of his Havilland Bank in Luxembourg in 2009.
A year later Mr Rowland was appointed as Tory treasurer after the Conservatives were told Mr Rowland ‘had the backing of the Queen’, largely as a result of his support for Sarah Ferguson.
But Mr Rowland, once denounced as ‘shady’ in Parliament, was forced to quit as treasurer within weeks as a result of a Tory backlash over his business reputation.
These latest disclosures will add pressure on Prince Andrew to step down as special envoy to UKTI.
Sara Kensington’ – very regal new name for girl in Epstein sex case
A beautiful blonde who allegedly recruited schoolgirls for sexual encounters with a paedophile friend of Prince Andrew has been ‘rewarded’ with a lavish jet-set lifestyle, complete with a new identity.
According to legal documents, Sarah Kellen, 31, managed a harem of under-age ‘sex slaves’ at a Palm Beach mansion in Florida where the Duke of York was treated to massages by Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier who is under investigation by the FBI for alleged sex-trafficking.
As revealed by our photograph, however, Kellen is now moving in rather more elite circles… after dyeing her hair brown and adopting a false name.
As Sara Kensington, she has become a fixture on the US social scene, buying tickets to charity parties, dating a scion of a railroad dynasty and driving a vintage open-top sports car.
Using two other aliases – Sarah Lynnelle and Sara Bonk (her mother’s maiden name, rather than any admission of guilt) – to cover her tracks, she divides her time between Epstein’s Florida villa and New York.
She shares a luxury flat in the city with Epstein’s 29-year-old personal assistant, Story Cowles, whose mother is married to the heir to a railroad fortune. The flat is registered to an Epstein relative.
Kellen was named as Epstein’s co-conspirator in a 2005 police investigation into the 58-year-old tycoon’s ‘erotic massages’ by under-age girls. She was granted immunity from prosecution after he used his political connections to strike a controversial plea-bargain deal under which he served just 13 months in jail.
Kellen and Cowles visited him regularly, according to prison logs reviewed by The Mail on Sunday. Cowles described himself at the time as a ‘paralegal’.
After Epstein was released, Cowles, who has an arrest record himself for careless driving and possession of marijuana, described himself as Epstein’s ‘personal assistant’.
In an interview during subsequent civil proceedings, Kellen was asked if the Prince had sexual contact with girls whom Epstein employed as ‘masseuses’. She refused to answer, citing her constitutional right to remain silent.
Legal experts say she is potentially a key witness in the new FBI inquiry into Epstein. It was launched after one of his former employees, Virginia Roberts, told The Mail on Sunday newspaper that he required her to have sex with his friends and flew her to London for the first of what she says were three meetings with Andrew.
Evening Standard 1/22/01 Prince Andrew has upset the Queen and ex-wife Fergie with his lad-about-the-globe activities but he’s enjoying his social life with new best friend Ghislaine Maxwell. In the past year Andrew has been on 8 different breaks with her https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ANDREW_S-FIXER_SHE_S-THE-DAUGHTER-OF-ROBERT-MAXWELL-AND-1.pdf …
PRINCE ANDREW & FRIENDS:
Head is arrested at Bea’s scandal school.
THE SCOTS head of Princess Beatrice’s new school has been accused of child sex abuse.
Gordonstoun-educated Richard McDonald, a friend of Prince Andrew, is being held in a Swiss remand prison.
It is understood his ex-wife made allegations that he sexually assaulted two youngsters.
McDonald has now stood down from his post as head of exclusive pounds 17,500- a-year Aiglon College in Switzerland.
The school is due to welcome Princess Bea soon.
But fears had already been raised over its safety after it was revealed an attacker had assaulted three schoolgirls in their dorms in March.
Police are currently DNA-testing all the school- masters in connection with the brutal assaults.
But yesterday, Buckingham Palace insisted that Bea, 11, would go there in September.
Her younger sister, Eugenie, 10, is due to join her next year.
Prince Andrew’s personal spokesman said last night that Andrew and ex-wife Sarah remained committed to their plans to send their girls to Aiglon, despite the latest revelations.
He said: “There is no change in the schedule.
“The princesses will still attend Aiglon. Princess Beatrice is set to go there in September and the duke and duchess’s plans have not changed.”
A host of international celebrities – including Roger Moore, Sophia Loren and Jackie Stewart – have sent their children to Aiglon, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Last night, Lausanne investigating judge Valerie Barth confirmed Richard McDonald had been arrested and was being held.
She said: “We can confirm at this time that Mr Richard McDonald has been charged but has not yet appeared before a court.”
The judge added McDonald was arrested in mid-March and that detectives had already interviewed witnesses in connection with the case.
Legal sources in Switzerland claimed last night that the Scots academic could be in jail for at least a year while the notoriously slow Swiss judicial process follows its course.
An officer at the Lausanne remand prison claimed that McDonald was being treated well in prison.
He said: “There are a maximum of two detainees to a cell and conditions at our prison are exceptionally good.
“This is Switzerland after all. Staying here is better than a hotel. Our inmates have television, radios and some even have CD players.”
It was originally claimed that the three girls attacked in March had been sexually assaulted.
The school at the time confirmed the attacks but denied that there was a sexual element.
There is no link to the McDonald allegations.
The recently divorced head, who has a teenage son and daughter, was already in custody at the time of the attack on the girls.
Recently divorced McDonald, who has a teenage son and daughter, had taken a sabbatical in January and had not returned as planned in April because of “domestic circumstances” which made it impossible to continue at the school.
Last night, Aiglon College spokesman Frank Klein claimed he had no personal knowledge of his former headmaster’s arrest.
Dr Klein said: “I must stress that Mr McDonald’s circumstances are private and personal.
“We were not aware that Mr McDonald had been sent to prison, it is not a matter that concerns the school as he no longer works here.”
But he failed to explain why Richard McDonald had been systematically removed from Aiglon’s high-profile Website.
All traces, including pictures of him at school sports days and on field trips, have disappeared. His staff profile and CV, which were also posted on the site, now come up blank.
Dr Klein said: “We have removed Richard’s name from our latest web-site as he is no longer at the school. I am not aware that we removed him from our archive. I don’t know why this has happened.”
Dr Klein also added that the school had heard nothing from police and magistrates investigating the March attack.
He said all three girls who were attacked were now back at school, and the school was pulling together to get through a difficult time.
News of Oxford-educated McDonald’s departure has come as a major blow to the Yorks.
McDonald and Prince Andrew were contemporaries at Gordonstoun, a sister school of Aiglon, and McDonald’s energetic leadership and educational outlook were key factors in the royal couple’s decision to choose Aiglon.
Beatrice and Eugenie will be the first royal children this century to be educated abroad full time.
Aiglon currently has 300 pupils from some 50 countries, aged from nine to 18.
Sarah chose the school because she was keen for her daughters to have a rounded education, including languages.
Aiglon prides itself on its multicultural education and is a member of the Round Square Conference of schools, which espouse the `whole person’ philosophy of the late Kurt Hahn, founder of Gordonstoun.
Pupils follow an English curriculum, sitting a minimum of eight GCSEs before taking three or four A-levels in the sixth form, as well as subsidiary courses.
They are also offered up to 60 different activities under Aiglon’s `options’ programme after lessons, from singing in the school choir to snowboarding on local pistes.
In line with Aiglon’s belief in `character-building’ education, staff organise expeditions into the mountains and surrounding countryside at weekends.
Beatrice and Eugenie currently attend Coworth Park School in Chobham, Surrey.
It is understood that the pounds 35,000 a year cost of the princesses’ fees will be entirely borne by Prince Andrew. Under his divorce settlement, he undertook to meet the cost of his daughters’ education.
Beatrice is pulled out of scandal school.
PRINCE Andrew and Fergie yesterday finally decided not to send daughter Beatrice to a scandal-hit Swiss school.
Beatrice had been due to start at Aiglon College, one of the country’s top boarding schools, in September.
However, after agonising for weeks, Andrew and ex-wife Fergie have decided to “delay” sending her.
The school has been plagued by a string of scandals in recent weeks.
The headmaster, Richard McDonald, an old friend of Andrew, has been arrested after being accused of molesting two children.
Three pupils at the pounds 17,000-a-year college were also injured in March after being attacked with a man brandishing an anaesthetic spray.
And last December, teacher Robert Kenneth, 30, was fired over claims he had spanking sessions with gay lovers.
Yesterday, Prince Andrew said: “We have had to make this decision reluctantly.
“Our priority is a stable educational environment for our children.
“We are certain Aiglon will overcome their current issues and will emerge stronger and we remain committed to their educational experience.”
Buckingham Palace announced officially that Beatrice, 11, would not go to the college, which is in the Alps, near Villars, until the matter has been resolved.
She will now go to St George’s school, Ascot, which is much closer to her parents’ home in Berkshire.
It also looked likely Bea’s sister Eugenie, 10, would also be withdrawn. She was due to go there next year.
The move means Fergie will almost certainly cancel plans to live in Switzerland.
Both Andrew and Fergie were said to be deeply concerned when McDonald was arrested but had originally insisted Beatrice would take up her place.
McDonald has been suspended from his post.
How a Swiss college lost ultimate seal of approval
It was the Duke of York who was most keen to send his daughters to the British-run Alpine establishment where the fees range from £15,300 to £22,325 a year. He was particularly attracted by the school’s ethos which was based on the philosophy of Kurt Hahn, the founder of the Duke’s own alma mater, Gordonstoun.
There were security problems in sending the Princesses abroad and the Queen’s permission had to be sought. But Aiglon’s promise of a “family atmosphere” within a “structured and disciplined atmosphere” led to an announcement in February that Princess Beatrice would join Aiglon’s 300 pupils in September. Princess Eugenie would follow a year later.
Scandal, though, was already in the air. Two months earlier, a chemistry teacher left after his homosexual fantasies were published on the internet. Then came disclosures that three girls had been drugged and sexually assaulted in a dormitory. And royal concerns grew last month when it emerged that the headmaster, Richard McDonald, was not on a sabbatical but in prison on charges of sex offences against children. The allegations had nothing to do with the dormitory attack.
Media stories of debauchery and drinking among the pupils followed swiftly. Initially and officially, the Duke and Duchess remained loyal to their original choice but it was becoming clear that Aiglon was an increasingly dubious option.
They drew up a shortlist of alternatives which was narrowed down to a choice of two: boarding at St Mary’s, Wantage, and day education at St George’s, Ascot. After a final inspection last week, they chose the latter – while trying to spare some of Aiglon’s blushes by saying that the Swiss option had been “postponed”.
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Prince Andrew who raped Virginia Roberts in March ’01: Was set up by Mandelson Working at the NSPCC ‘brought them close’ Andrew & Mandelson formed friendship circle with Ghislaine’s pal Lynn Rothschild & husband Evelyn Andrew & Mandelson were the Rothschilds wedding Witnesses
Maxwell and Epstein, pictured at a party in 1995
“The Maxwells … as a family they have done a lot for the state of Israel.”
Telling how she became close to the Maxwell family, Laura said: “My parents are Holocaust survivors and Isabel does a great deal of work talking about the Holocaust.
“I was always active in the Jewish community scene so that’s how I got to know Isabel. I’ve travelled with her to Israel and people would literally stand up when she walked into a room, her family commands respect.
“I didn’t get to know Isabel’s twin sister Christine who live in Dallas but I knew of her because she is a Holocaust academic, too.
“I got to know Jeffrey through academic circles at first. He had links to universities I was also associated with.
RFTF
Remembering for the Future: 3 Volume Set: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide
edited by John K. Roth, Elizabeth Maxwell
REMEMBERING FOR THE FUTURE
STEERING COMMITTEE COORDINATORS
CHRISTINE MAXWELL MALINA
FINANCIAL SPONSORS:
GHISLAINE MAXWELL
ISABELL MAXWELL
PATRONS:
LORD JANNER
SAMUEL PISAR
LORD WEIDENFELD
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT EVENT
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler
Earle Irving Mack (born July 11, 1938) is an American businessman and former United States Ambassador to Finland.
Mack was a Senior Partner of The Mack Company, a real estate development, investment, and management firm, and was a founding board member of the merged Mack-Cali Realty Corporation in 1997. He is active in the arts, serving as Chairman and CEO of the New York State Council of the Arts for three years, and has produced a number of theatrical productions and films. Mack has been involved in Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing since 1963 as an owner and advocate. His political involvement includes a 2016 attempt to draft Paul Ryan as the GOP presidential candidate.
Mack served as United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Finland. He was chosen by President George W. Bush, and was sworn in May 2004. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Finland until November 2005.
President George W. Bush appointed him to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.[9]
@modernhomesla
Ghislaine Maxwell
10-12-1984 thru 10-18-2016
https://twitter.com/modernhomesla/status/1167496887710056449
Nothing to see here. Just a lot of aristocrats hanging with GhislaineMaxwell Mossad Epstein Blackmail Software Back Door sold to governments nuclear secrets Dimona materials. CIA Airplanes, Human Trafficking Drug Couriers. All trying to forget her.
@AnnLynch3
Despite this, US government eventually agreed to allow Epstein to plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl under Florida state law. In the end, he served just 13 months of an 18-month jail sentence.
Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein may have stopped trumpeting his million-dollar donations to charities in light of accusations he molested dozens of underage girls. But he continues to quietly distribute his wealth—including to the nonprofits of Deepak Chopra, Elton John and a doctor linked to President Trump—through a shadowy private foundation called “Gratitude America, Ltd.,”
Gratitude America, Ltd. was launched in 2012 to back “organizations around the world that seek to celebrate the United States of America and the American Ideals,” the group stated in its application for tax-exempt status. Those ideals, the nonprofit added, include “liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, unity, and diversity.” At the time, Epstein was three years out of jail, but disturbing allegations from his alleged victims, including one who claimed Epstein kept her as a “sex slave” for his famous friends, continued to hound him.
Not to be confused with GratitudeAmerica, Inc., a Florida nonprofit for veterans, Epstein’s latest private foundation doesn’t appear to have a website or online presence. The only traces of the group lie in tax returns, a fundraising site for multiple sclerosis, and a book of abstracts from a 2017 academic conference in California.
In 2016 and 2017, Gratitude America Ltd. funded an all-girls school in Manhattan, a youth tennis program, cancer charities, Harvard’s famous theater troupe, posh New York arts societies at Lincoln Center and the Met Orchestra Musicians, and a nonprofit linked to the wife of a former Harvard president who flew on Epstein’s private jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express” by the press.
Indeed, a review of tax returns reveals Epstein’s foundation donated at least $1.84 million to host of causes, including $15,000 to the Hewitt School, the elite private girls school on the Upper East Side; $30,000 to the O’Gorman Garden, a Harlem preschool; and $25,000 to the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland.
Gratitude America’s biggest donations included a $375,000 payout to the International Peace Institute Inc., a New York think tank staffed by former United Nations officials and run by Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen, and $225,000 to the Melanoma Research Alliance—both of which Epstein boasted of supporting financially in years past.
His former charity, the C.O.U.Q. Foundation, donated $25,000 to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charity, according to C.O.U.Q.’s 2006 tax return. The group is listed among past and present donors on the Clinton Foundation’s website.
Gratitude America Ltd. has also supported one of President Trump’s allies for two straight years, a review of tax returns shows.
The Bruce and Marsha Moskowitz Foundation received $100,000 in 2016 and $50,000 in 2017, Gratitude America Ltd.’s filings state. Bruce Moskowitz, a Palm Beach doctor, was revealed by ProPublica as one of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago cronies secretly influencing policies within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
But in its own 990 tax returns, Moskowitz’s nonprofit says it received money from Jeffrey Epstein, not Gratitude America.
Moskowitz—whose name was found in Epstein’s “little black book” alongside other doctors, under the category “medical”—listed two donations worth $50,000 in 2016 and 2017 from “Jeffrey Epstein/HBRK Assoc., Inc.”
It’s unclear why Gratitude America Ltd. registered a $100,000 donation in its tax filings for 2017, while Moskowitz recorded a donation for half that amount.
He donated more money in 2017, with $15,000 going to “Friends of Elton John,” which appears to be the the Elton John AIDS Foundation, a charity Epstein announced funding for years before.
Gratitude America listed a donation of $50,000 to the Chopra Foundation; $60,000 to a group labeled as “Association Mind Education” in Rome, Italy; and $50,000 to the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of New York.
Darren K. Indyke—a longtime Epstein lawyer—is vice president of Gratitude America, per the 2017 tax return. In the years prior, he was treasurer.
Indyke was active in all three of Epstein’s former foundations, as a trustee of Epstein Interests and vice president of both the C.O.U.Q. Foundation (also known as the Florida Science Foundation) and J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation (which went by Enhanced Education).
It was Indyke whom New York authorities contacted in March 2015 for information on why one of Epstein’s charities, the Virgin Islands-based Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, should be exempt from state law, Reuters reported. Months later, Indyke was present for the deposition of Dershowitz, and is currently representing Lana Pozhidaeva, the model whose nonprofit Epstein bankrolled in 2017, in a trademark application for her company.
Erika Kellerhals, a Virgin Islands tax attorney, is Gratitude America’s secretary and treasurer. She was also secretary, treasurer and trustee of the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, according to a 2015 registration statement filed with the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-has-a-secret-charity-heres-who-it-gave-money-to
@JamesRusbridger
‘ELEPHANT FAMILY’ Charity: • Evelyn Rothschild (GM’s friend) • Lord & Lady Bamford (GM’s friends) • Nicholas Coleridge (GM’s friend) • Fergie (partner of GM’s friend) • Geordie Greig (GM’s friend) • Joanna Lumley GM = Ghislaine Maxwell
https://elephant-family.org/who-we-are/patrons
The late Mark Shand (brother of Camilla) was the founding force behind the charity when it launched in 2002 under the patronage of the Rajmata of Jaipur and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.
2006 Prince Charles and Peter Ball at a memorial service for Camilla’s and Mark Shand’s father Major Bruce Shand at St Paul’s Church in Knightsbridge, London
Convicted paedophile friend of Prince Charles, Bishop Peter Ball spoke at the Duchess of Cornwall’s father Bruce Shand’s funeral in 2006 and lived on Duchy of Cornwall land from 1997 to 2011.
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THE PLAYBOY WHO MADE BILLIONS; the Amazing Huddersfield to Hollywood Life Story of James Hanson, Hedonist Turned Hard Man
At the London memorial service for his wife: Lord Hanson, 82, greeted the powerful congregation including Lady Thatcher and David Frost, relying for support on his two sons and his family friend of many years David Hope, the Archbishop of York.
https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-124014393.html
The Hansons’ friend, the Archbishop of York – David Hope:
Lord Hope of Thornes failed to follow policy and take advice after he was informed of complaints against Robert Waddington relating to boys in Manchester and Australia.
The report detailed a range of allegations against Waddington that were first made to the C of E in 1999 but dated back as far as the 1950s.
Those who made allegations described abuse in Manchester, York, London, Carlisle and in Queensland, Australia
Archbishop Hope
Rev.Robert M Waddington, Dean of Manchester
Mr Ward said he came from a poor background in Salford and joined the cathedral choir in Manchester at the age of seven.
Robert Wadiington
Four years later Dean Waddington, a former headmaster and then the most senior education official working for the Church’s parliament, the General Synod, arrived in the city.
He said the Dean showed him special favour, helping him with his homework, picking him up in his car to take him to choir practice, asking him out to tea and taking him for days out. He asked Mr Ward’s mother if the boy could stay with him overnight.
The room in which the boy slept had a large poster of a horrifying painting by 16th century artist Hieronymus Bosch, which gave him nightmares.
Cathedral: Waddington targeted a Manchester choirboy as well as a pupil at an Australian boarding school
Mr Ward said: ‘He turned round to me one day and said, “Would you rather stay in my room? Is that painting too scary for you?” and of course I said yes.’
Mr Ward began sleeping in the Dean’s bed.
Mr Ward said that he was told by the Dean that if questioned by the Press he should lie about what was going on.
After a senior cathedral official did begin to inquire about the relationship, the Dean told Mr Ward to quit the choir in 1989 and he did so.
Mr Waddington was ordained Deacon in 1953, and began his career as curate at St John’s in Bethnal Green from 1953 to 1956. Afterwards he was Chaplain at Slade School in Warwick, Queensland, Australia from 1956 to 1959.
After 18 months as curate of St Luke’s Chesterton, in the Ely Diocese, he returned to Australia to become headmaster of St. Barnabas School, Ravenshoe, where he remained until 1971.
On returning to England he became a Canon Residentiary at Carlisle Cathedral and Bishop’s Adviser for Education 1972 to 1977, then General Secretary of the Church of England’s General Synod Board of Education and General Secretary of the National Society from 1977 to 1984 until becoming Dean of Manchester Cathedral in 1984.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10602488.display/
Robert Waddington’s cycle of abuse stretches beyond 50 years
Inscription in a book given to Ray Munn
In an alleged church cover-up spanning almost 60 years, Waddington was suddenly and unexpectedly sent to a small school in regional Queensland in 1956 amid claims he was molesting the son of an English politician.
Last month the Church of England ordered an independent inquiry into the handling of allegations against Waddington, after a joint investigation by The Australian and The Times of London.
But it can now be revealed that Waddington – who died in 2007, facing allegations he abused students in Australia in the 1960s and English choirboys in the 80s and 90s – was molesting children as soon as he joined the church in 1953. The latest allegations have been made by Ray Munn, 70, who was recruited by Waddington, then a curate at St John’s church in Bethnal Green, East London, to sing in the choir in 1953.
He was almost immediately groomed by the Cambridge University-educated clergyman, who took him on holidays in the English countryside, before he began molesting the then 11-year-old.
Archbishop Hope honoured by Nashotah House in 1999 -Nashotah House child sex scandal in the 1990s
Scandal in 1990s
Nashotah House has had its challenges, including a 1990s sex-abuse scandal that led to criminal convictions for three seminarians
Hope was enthroned at York Minster on 8 December 1995. After Peter Tatchell alleged in the same year that Hope was gay as part of a much criticised OutRage! “outing” campaign,[9][10]
Hope said that his sexuality is “a grey area” and that he had “sought to lead a celibate life” and is “perfectly happy and content”.[citation needed]
On 26 October 1995 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO),[11] an honour in the personal gift of the Queen.
Convinced of the Bishop’s homosexuality – largely because Dr Hope had been head of a notoriously gay seminary – Tatchell delivered by hand what he still claims was intended to be a private letter. It urged the bishop to be true to what OutRage! believed to be his nature and, by admitting his sexuality, help to convince the church that it was an honourable estate.
The letter, he insists, contained no threat of exposure, but was just a plea for help and understanding. “But a journalist went to see Hope and told him that we were going to out him. So he called a press conference and talked about his sexuality being a grey area.” Dr Hope, now Archbishop of York, upstaged Tatchell and his would-be tormentor clearly resents it. “The letter was intended to be private and he gave it to the press without the courtesy of letting me know.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/12/gayrights.books
In April 2013, it was reported that in 1999 and 2003, Hope had been made aware of allegations of child sexual abuse against a former Dean of Manchester, Robert Waddington.
Hope removed Waddington’s right to officiate at services but did not refer Waddington to the authorities.[17]
Following the 2014 report of the Cahill Inquiry, Hope resigned his post as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Leeds on 27 October 2014.[18] He retired from the House of Lords on 30 April 2015.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hope,_Baron_Hope_of_Thornes
Lord James Hanson becoming a transatlantic commuter when the family decided to branch out into Canada – later he loved travelling on Concorde for his frequent trips across the Atlantic.
More significantly, the good times were facilitated by Gordon White, a fellow “playboy businessman” who had been a close friend of Bill Hanson during the war. White had a cavalier attitude to life: more interested in having fun than building a business, and possessing the panache which Hanson lacked, and setting himself up as a Hollywood impresario in the early 1950s. White became a surrogate brother to the bereaved James, and was eventually the brains of the Hanson takeover machine.
The pair first ventured into business together in the late 1950s, using their American connections to import greeting cards. But their entry into serious business, and the world of takeovers, came through White’s connection to Jim Slater, the accountant turned stock market whizz kid who introduced them to the potential in public company shares.
In 1960, Hanson left the family haulage business in his father’s hands, to concentrate on building his own empire. He occasionally had other interests, such as backing Yorkshire Television and was its non-executive chairman for a couple of years in the early 1970s. But he and White concentrated on emulating Slater’s takeover techniques, building up a public company through acquisitions and disposals.
Unlike Slater, they survived the British slump in the early 1970s, but the “quantum leap” which Hanson had promised shareholders did not come until 1979. That coincided with the beginning of the Thatcher era, which saw a return to unbridled capitalism and a new respect for businessmen such as Hanson and White, who were not afraid to take on trade unions and break up established companies in pursuit of profit.
From 1979 to 1986, Hanson Trust rampaged through stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic, acquiring a string of ever-larger companies, often in bitterly fought takeover battles masterminded by White but fronted by Hanson. In private, he had a fierce temper, but he could be immensely charming, and used that on City contacts as well as the senior financial journalists who could influence City opinion.
Guided by Mrs Thatcher’s favourite public relations guru, Sir Tim (now Lord) Bell*, he was a master of PR, using his growing notoriety in financial circles to provide material to favoured journalists, while rationing his own public appearances. There were defeats, but these were overshadowed by successes in the United States and Britain – such as the Ever Ready company Berec, the retail group UDS, and finally Imperial Group, a conglomerate whose businesses included hotels, the Courage brewery and Golden Wonder crisps.
The Imperial takeover was then the largest ever seen in Britain – almost £2bn – but it was also the most bitter. The battle was conducted in public, through full-page newspaper ads, but also behind the scenes using private investigators who, unsuccessfully, tried to prove allegations of criminal activities in Hanson’s US businesses.
Hanson narrowly won the battle, but was beginning to lose the war. Some of the mud flung by Imperial and other targets was beginning to stick. The Times newspaper awarded him the title Capitalist Of The Year for 1986, but focused on a controversial attempt to take £70m from the Courage pension fund. “This displayed the true lack of sentiment of the pure capitalist”, it said. Critics also attacked a quadrupling of his own salary to £1.3m in 1987, while the City was wondering how the takeover juggernaut could keep rolling, and was increasingly looking for a succession strategy as Hanson and White moved past normal retirement age.
The pair had no intention of standing down, but attempts to continue the proven formula were becoming more difficult. In November 1990 Thatcher was ousted as prime minister, seriously weakening Hanson’s political support. And in the following year that loss proved fatal in what was intended to be the ultimate takeover, but proved to be the beginning of the end.
This time the target was not an anonymous conglomerate, but ICI, the chemical group which had been a symbol of British industry for decades. Success would perhaps have created Imperial Hanson Industries and brought the respectability in the business establishment that Hanson never quite achieved. But the group was symbolic of Britain’s manufacturing and research base, while Hanson was symbolic of financial wheeler-dealing. More to the point, perhaps, ICI had plants and offices all over Britain, which made it a highly political issue for the many MPs whose constituents might be affected – including several in marginal Tory seats. ICI’s defence directly targeted Hanson and White and the way they ran their empire. It unearthed the astonishing facts that White was not on Hanson’s board, that the company owned three of White’s racehorses, and that the group had a string of companies in tax havens. Worse still, Hanson’s son Robert had been in charge of the battle, and had been shown to be naive. Hanson was forced to retreat without launching a formal takeover, with his reputation bruised and plans to hand over to his son shown to be wishful thinking.
He remained chairman of Hanson until 1997, when he finally retired from active business life. But those years saw the decline of the empire he had built, as the City turned against his style of wheeler-dealing and left no option but to break up what he and White had put together. Their legacy survives as Hanson Plc, a building products company that has grown from the group’s brick and aggregates business.
But the conglomerate approach finally came to be seen in the 1990s as primarily destructive, with the value coming from financial engineering rather than business acumen. Indeed, Hanson and White always remained aloof from the operating businesses. Hanson directed operations from his head office overlooking Hyde Park Corner in London, paying more attention to the state of his employees’ desks – he commanded that they be cleared every evening – their hair (he engaged a trichologist) and their cholesterol levels than to the state of his factories.
Hanson occasionally, very occasionally, re-entered the public arena in recent years: he gave his opinion on the Tory leadership race in 2001, and joined the anti-Euro campaign as a founder member of Business for Britain and a member of the Bruges Group.
Hanson’s wife died in February. He is survived by a stepdaughter and two sons.
· James Edward Hanson, Lord Hanson of Edgerton, businessman, born January 20 1922; died November 1 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/nov/03/guardianobituaries.obituaries
*On 19 November 1977 Hanson’s “guru” Tim Bell was fined £50 for indecency. He had exposed himself while masturbating at his Hampstead bathroom window on 21 October in full view of female passers-by.[4][5]
The British ad men – the surreal world of the controversial Saatchi brothers, by LORD BELL
HOW MARGARET THATCHER STOPPED CHARLES SAATCHI SHAFTING ME
When I finally left Saatchi & Saatchi, the brothers didn’t want me anywhere near the Conservative Party account. But everyone had reckoned without Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, who said that they’d become too ‘gimmicky’ and negative.
I brought in my new agency, Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell. We came up with a dozen or so examples of what the Government was doing well and added the line: ‘Life’s better with the Conservatives. Don’t let Labour ruin it.’ Margaret took one look and immediately said: ‘That’s it! At last.’
Charles Saatchi wanted revenge. So they mounted an all-out attack. Rumours started about my private life. Then they launched what’s known as a bear raid on the share price of my new agency — which caused £12 million to be wiped off our share price on one Wednesday alone. Shortly afterwards, Margaret rang me at home and said: ‘I understand that those brothers are trying to damage your company. Tell me what I can do to help.’
I replied: ‘Margaret, please don’t. You’ve got a f***ing country to run. I’m perfectly capable of looking after myself.’
She said: ‘I know. But all of us need our friends. I’ll speak to James Hanson.’
James Hanson: He helped Tim Bell at Mrs Thatcher’s asking
Hanson, then one of Britain’s leading industrialists, was a strong Conservative supporter who had Saatchi & Saatchi working on his brands. The next thing I knew, I’d been summoned to a meeting in his office, to which Maurice and Charles had also been invited.
Maurice then rambled on about how much they hated me, adding that I was a disgusting person. To which Hanson told him: ‘If you don’t stop your activity, I am going to mount a bear raid to destroy your share price. In the meantime, I’m going to invest a quarter of a million pounds in Lowes in order to return their share price to the correct level — and you will stop this nonsense.’
Thus my agency’s share price went back to where it had been before. Soon after, Margaret asked me round for a drink at Downing Street. ‘I believe James has sorted it out,’ she said.
I said: ‘Yes, it’s absolutely fine.’
She continued: ‘Those people (the Saatchis) are not the kind you can do business with.
‘I understand they want to buy the Midland Bank. Well, I’ve spoken to the Governor [of the Bank of England] and they won’t.’
And sure enough, the bid was killed.
James Edward Hanson Joins USC Board of Trustees
James Edward Hanson – retired chairman of global conglomerate Hanson PLC and a member of the British House of Lords – has been named an honorary trustee of the University of Southern California.
Hanson built his company, originally the Oswald Tillotson Ltd., into an international presence with interests in areas including gas, electricity and vehicle distribution, coal mining and building materials. He retired in 1997.
“We are pleased and honored to have Lord Hanson with us on our board of trustees,” said USC President Steven B. Sample. “He’s a remarkable man.”
Hanson joined the British Army in 1939 at the age of 17 and left in 1946, holding the rank of acting major. He went to work for the family’s logistics company and managed its Canadian interests in Ontario from 1949 to 1963.
Hanson built Hanson PLC into one of the largest British-owned conglomerates through a partnership with the late Lord Gordon White, who died in 1995.
In 1995, Hanson PLC consolidated 34 of its companies in the United States, and the new company was named U.S. Industries Inc. Together with its subsidiaries, the corporation manufactured and marketed bath and plumbing products in North America under brand names such as Jacuzzi, Sundance Spas and Rainbow.
In 1996, the Hanson conglomerate started to divide its operations and created four separate public companies focused on chemicals (Millennium Chemicals), tobacco (Imperial Tobacco), energy (Energy Group PLC) and building materials and equipment (Hanson PLC).
When Hanson retired the following year, he became a lecturer and frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.
He is a former director of Lloyds Bank and is currently a director of Hanson Capital Limited.
He was the founder of the London radio station Melody FM.
Breakfast presenter Bill Bingham (seated) with Melody Radio owner Lord Hanson on launch day. Later Melody FM presenters including David Hamilton – colleague and admirer of Sir Jimmy Savile:
Jimmy Savile: David Hamilton on his former Radio 1 colleague
Above everything else, Sir Jimmy Savile was a showman.
His death at home in Leeds at the age of 84 is a real loss because he had a massive impact on the music world.
We were colleagues together at Radio 1 when I joined in 1973. He had been at the station for five years by then and was enormously popular.
In late 1994 Hamilton presented the Breakfast show on Melody FM for four years
DJ David “Diddy” Hamilton attended Jimmy Savile’s funeral
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-david-hamilton-former-88798
He is also former chairman of Trident Television Limited
Trident Television Limited was a British holding company with broadcasting interests. Trident acquired Halas and Batchelor (well known for their cartoons), Scarborough Zoo, Windsor Safari Park, Trident Casinos, Playboy Club, Watts & Cory Scenery, Victoria Casino, The Clermont Club, as well as Trident Holdings (Australia Pty Ltd) and several other companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_Television
Hanson founded the Hanson Fellowship of Surgery at Oxford University and is a member of the Court of Patrons of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Through the Hanson White Foundation he founded with his former business partner, Hanson gave financial support to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1995 to support urology research programs and create the Hanson-White Chair in Medical Research.
Hanson’s various memberships cross a range of fields. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists; a fellow of the National Cancer Research Campaign; a freeman of the city of London; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Hanson holds honorary degrees from the University of Leeds and the University of Huddersfield.
https://news.usc.edu/2910/James-Edward-Hanson-Joins-USC-Board-of-Trustees/
Lord White
Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, businessman: born Hull 11 May 1923; chairman, Welbecson 1947-65; deputy chairman, Hanson Trust Ltd 1965-73, with special commission to open Hanson Trust’s opportunities overseas 1973-83; KBE 1979; chairman, Hanson Industries 1983-95; created 1991 Baron White of Hull; married 1958 Elisabeth Kalen (two daughters; marriage dissolved 1968), 1974 Virginia North (one son; marriage dissolved 1979), 1992 Victoria Tucker; died Los Angeles 23 August 1995.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-white-of-hull-1597826.html
Prior to being created a life peer with the title Baron White of Hull, of Hull in the County of Humberside on 25 January 1991,[6] White had been appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1979 Birthday Honours.[7]
Hanson Trust: Extract from ‘Written in Flames’
1987
- Derek Rosling his vice chair.
- Anthony Alexander now heading what’s left of Imperial
- Christopher Harding He’s also a director of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
- Gordon Booth a former diplomat and Consul-General
http://powerbase.info/index.php/Hanson_Trust:_Extract_from_’Written_in_Flames’
Guess it helps to have had a rich dad with useful business connections…..
After changing hands three times in fairly quick succession over the past decade, the UK’s PremiAir Aircraft Engineering appears to be settling down and renewing its commitment to business aviation. In fact, it was recently appointed by Raytheon Aircraft as an authorized service center for the Premier I.
In November the company was reformed under its new name, after being acquired by Sir Robert McAlpine–the long-established British construction, property and wind energy group. Before this, the firm, which is based at Blackbushe Airport 35 miles southwest of London, had been owned in succession by the Hanson group, Lynton and BBA (encompassing Signature Aircraft Engineering’s Blackbushe and Denham operations). Combined hangar space at Blackbushe and Denham totals 43,000 sq ft, and these facilities are now being upgraded.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-ne…support-market
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Blackbushe – they hold a massive Sunday market there. AIr Hanson had a hangar there, from memory, but re-branded to Premi-air a few years ago. Part of the film “Rush”, by Ron Howard was filmed there, a film about the 1976 F1 season. Incidentally, Blackbushe airport is also the home to British Car Auctions, who recently sold at least one of Jimmy Savile’s cars: http://www.british-car-auctions.co.u…che-convertib/ It was also home to a large pop festival in 1978, organised by Harvey Goldsmith. |
Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible
Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible
Colourful lot these Hansons. Eclectic lifestyles, porn, helicopters, beards……….
Air Hanson, a small charter aircraft company
A FATHER and son died when a helicopter crashed in dense woodland near Crowthorne, Berkshire, yesterday. 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. He and Capt Bates’s other son, Christopher, 9, were taken to Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley, Surrey, where both were said to be in a serious but stable condition after surgery.
James Coulter, 12, a friend of the Bates family, suffered serious head injuries and multiple injuries and was taken by the London Ambulance helicopter to the London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London. His condition was said to be very serious.
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
Another ‘random’ collation on Hanson – Hamilton – Guy – Blackbushe – helicopters – Blackburn? – Grant? – Elm- Trees – Wood – Barnes – Yewtree
… trying to decode the Mary Moss papers referenced the setting up of a brothel in HULL of all places.
Special Forces etc again.
Granted it was the late 80`s early 90`s but it would require at least one of the group of names to have a link to the Humberside region.
Baron White of HULL was HANSON’S lifelong business partner taking on the title AFTER the Elmhouse ring was stopped.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-white-of-hull-1597826.html
Prior to being created a life peer with the title Baron White of Hull, of Hull in the County of Humberside on 25 January 1991,[6] White had been appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1979 Birthday Honours.[7]
2013
Lord Mandelson and former Tory MP Virginia Bottomley were both appointed to ancient ceremonial posts at a special ceremony at Hull’s Guildhall
Lord Mandelson has been officially appointed to the newly resurrected post of High Steward of Hull.
He follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Labour foreign and home secretary Herbert Morrison, who was High Steward of Hull from 1956 to 1965.
In a ceremony at Hull’s Guildhall, Lord Mandelson vowed to serve the city to his “best judgement and ability”.
At the same ceremony, former Tory MP Virginia Bottomley was appointed to the rejuvenated role of Sheriff of Hull.
The Queen gave the city permission for the two ancient ceremonial posts to be reinstated after they were abolished in 1974.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-22625513
“A FATHER and son died when a helicopter crashed in dense woodland near Crowthorne, Berkshire, yesterday Another two children and a man were in hospital last night with serious injuries.
The Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopter, owned by Air Hanson, came down on Forestry Commission land a few miles from Blackbushe airport in Hampshire shortly after midday.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk…2-1540456.html
that contract operated up until at least 2008.
https://www.ft.com/content/b7c3a2b6-2c65-11d9-8339-00000e2511c8
Background to Strand Hanson
In May 2009, Strand Hanson announced its successful management buyout of the company from its founding shareholders. The company is 90% owned by staff and the remaining 10% (previously held by EPIC Investment Partners) has now been acquired by Robert Hanson. Operating out of its head office in Mayfair, London, with a further office in South Africa, the Strand Hanson team will continue to focus on providing market leading, independent investment banking advice and will maintain its strong presence across the oil and gas and natural resources sectors – areas in which Robert Hanson has extensive experience.
Background to The Hon Robert Hanson
Robert Hanson joined N M Rothschild & Sons in 1983 where he initially worked in London and later at its subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Chile and Spain. In 1990, he joined Hanson PLC, becoming a main board director in 1992 responsible for strategy, mergers, acquisitions and disposals. Robert Hanson resigned from Hanson PLC at the end of 1997, after the demerger, to chair Hanson Transport Group. In 1998 he founded Hanson Capital Limited to capitalise on his worldwide network of close relationships with private venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, financiers and high net worth individuals. He is non executive director of Nasdaq-listed Ivanhoe Mines Ltd and of South Gobi Energy Resources Ltd. He is also non-executive director of; SUNWING Energy Ltd, the China-based oil and gas development subsidiary of Ivanhoe Energy Inc; Sport & Artist Management Ltd (a boutique sports marketing company); and ECL (e-commerce Logistics Ltd), a Hong Kong based company which provides fulfilment and logistics facilities in Greater China.
Sir Hayden Phillips, an adviser to the Prince of Wales
Sir Hayden Phillips
interviewed by Malcolm McBain on 16 May 2011
PPS to Roy Jenkins
Good friends with Ted Heath defender, Robert Armstrong
I was very fortunate because Robert Armstrong became Permanent
Secretary to the Home Office whilst I was in Brussels and we had become friends. I talked to him about coming back and what I was going to do and when I came back Robert gave me, and I had no reason to expect this, possibly the best job I had ever had in my career, which was in charge of terrorism and riots. Fortunately, we had a great deal of both (laughs), and so I came back into an absolutely critical job, which also, particularly in relation to the te
rrorism angle, had wide international ramifications.
Over that issue, because it involved threats of terror and other things, I had to go and have meetings with Peter Carrington and Malcolm Rifkind, who was then the Minister of State at the
Foreign Office.
In 1992 I became Permanent Secretary for the first time at
what was then called the Department of National Heritage under John Major, whom I worked for in the Treasury when he was Chief Secretary. I did that for six years and then I went to look after the
Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg at what is now the
Ministry of Justice. So from 1992 to 1998 I was in Media, Culture, and Sport and then from 1998 to 2004 it was the Courts, the Law and Justice.
I remember Robin Butler who was then Cabinet Secretary, said to me, “you can’t stay at Culture and Sport forever, we must send you
somewhere else”. Various suggestions were made and I wasn’t sure I wanted to do any of them. Finally he said “I’ve got it!
We need someone to look after Lord Irvine of Lairg and so go to the Lord Chancellor’s Department” to which I replied “You can’t do that, you have to be a lawyer”, which was true, and I wasn’t a lawyer. He
said “That’s all right. We are going to change the law”. So I got the job. It’s a very unusual anecdote this, nothing to do with international diplomacy, but I think I am the only permanent secretary who got his job as a result of primary legislation. They had
to put through a Bill in the House of Commons and the House of Lords saying that the Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor’s Department could be an ordinary person. So that was me.
the BBC in connection with Culture, Media and Sport, I mean that largely fell within your remit didn’t it? That presumably would be the major part of the BBC, the home service …
MM: Is it your opinion that the BBC is a good organisation?
HP: Oh I think it’s an outstanding organisation
I admire Chris Patten very much
MM: Would you like to say anything about the Churchill Archives and their relationship with the Heritage Lottery Fund?
We set up the Heritage Lottery Fund out of the National Heritage Memorial Fund which was a tiny organisation. Jacob Rothschild became the chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund – the three people most involved in this were Lord Rothschild, myself and Robin Butler the Secretary of the Cabinet. The first issue we confronted
was about the Churchill archives. They were going to be sold, distributed to the far flung corners of what is no longer the empi
re, the United States and countries like that. And we took the view that if we received an application, as we indeed did, to purchase the archives, we should do so in the national interest. It was so evident to us that this was the right thing to do, but what we hadn’t grasped was that it wasn’t at all evident to a large section of the British press or the British public, who firstly thought that the state already owned the Churchill archives and secondly were very resentful
of the idea that the first big slug of lottery money should appear to go to a single member of the Churchill family.
So what we thought was going to be a decision that would be applauded by the British public as a whole, turned out to be absolutely ghastly. I have had one similar experience of whatever the truth may be, the truth can be well out of kilter with what the British public thinks it ought to be. This was when Windsor castle burned down while I was in charge of royal palaces. Peter Brooke was my Secretary of State and we explained to the press when they asked who would have to pay for the damage, that Windsor castle was not owned by the Queen, it was owned by the nation and that the nation at the end of the day would have to foot the bill. I’m telling you this story because it is rather like the Churchill archives story.
Has the time come for super-smooth ex-Whitehall mandarin, Sir Hayden Phillips CB, KCB, GCB, to finally secure the peerage that cruelly eludes him? This week the favoured protege of Lord Jenkins – the ultimate smoothie – pops up as chair of appointments at Ipso, Fleet Street’s outlaw response to the Leveson reforms. The job follows his doomed, decade-long efforts to square another impossible circle, the funding of political parties. That was preceded by a review of the honours system (also doomed). A man of many grand hats, he chaired the National Theatre until 2010. There is also Marlborough College, Princess Kate’s alma mater, which is holding up quite well under his stewardship, despite the occasional controversy on his watch. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, but has Fleet Street picked the right one?
The Phillips compromise has to be good for the Party, as well as the country
10 Downing Street is reportedly hoping the Conservatives will – through Sir Hayden Phillips’ review – accept capping constituency campaign expenditure in return for the unions voluntarily ceasing to give large donations to the Labour Party. This potential deal is a little one-sided.
There is of course a cap in place already but it only counts within four weeks of election day. Conservatives usually outspend the other parties in the period before this by having more active and affluent Constituency Associations, and by receiving funding from safe seats, and donors such as Lord Ashcroft who orchestrated a large private funding scheme for marginal seats at the last election.
Labour’s National Executive Committee published its review into party funding in June, specifically mentioning Ashcroft’s target seat support as something a local cap could curtail. The only justification being that it didn’t make sense to merely cap four weeks out of a four year electoral cycle. Downing Street is also hoping that spending caps will start as soon as candidates are selected, thereby reducing the impact of the Conservatives choosing some candidates very early. Bizarrely there is also mention of only applying such caps to the 100 most marginal seats.
The Labour Party’s position seems motivated purely by political expediency which in itself is hardly shocking, but at least the Conservative proposal to cap individual donations will be healthy for democracy. If there is to be a cap on such donations, then why limit how much a campaign can raise from diverse sources and popular support?
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/01/the_phillips_co.html
Sir (Gerald) Hayden Phillips
(born 9 February 1943)
GCB 2002 (KCB 1998, CB 1989).
Career Details
Home Office, Assistant Principal, 1967 –
Home Office, Economic Adviser, 1970–72
–
Home Office, Principal, 1972–74 – Assistant Secretary, and Principal Private Secretary to Home Secretary, 1974–76
Deputy Chef de Cabinet to President, European Commission, 1977–79
Assistant Secretary, Home Office, 1979–81,
Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1981–86
Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office (MPO, subsequently Office of the
Minister for the Civil Service), 1986–88
Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury, 1988–92
Permanent Secretary, Department for Na
tional Heritage, later
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1992–98
Permanent Secretary, Lord Chancellor’s Department, 1998–2003
Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2003–04
–
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1998–2004
https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Phillips_Hayden.pdf
Hearing no evil: the IPSO panel covers its ears – Brian Cathcart
Having refused to meet Hacked Off, Sir Hayden Phillips, the man in charge of appointments to the big press groups’ planned son-of-PCC, now wants to opt out of email correspondence with Hacked Off and victims of press abuses.
This is a further sign of what can be expected from ‘IPSO’, a body which is the result of consultation by press executives with other press executives – and nobody else.
The Murdoch papers, the Mail and the Telegraph group would like us all to believe that IPSO will deliver a higher level of press accountability than the ‘toothless poodle’ PCC, but even before it has been launched IPSO is proving that it is not accountable at all.
We have written to Sir Hayden Phillips several times since he and the other non-industry members of his panel, Dame Denise Platt and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, rejected our requests for face-to-face meetings. Now he has written back to say that ‘we are just going to have to agree to differ’.
This withdrawal from dialogue leaves unanswered several important questions we put to him, and through him Lord Brown and Dame Denise.
They are:
1. How do the panel members justify engaging with a process that is explicitly designed to defy the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, the wishes of all parties in Parliament, the views of all the leading victims of press abuses and the preference of the public at large?
2. Do the panel members accept the analysis of IPSO by the Media Standards Trust which shows that IPSO only satisfies 12 out of 38 Leveson recommendations on press self-regulation? (No one has published any response finding fault with this analysis.)
3. Do the panel members agree that PCC-IPSO cannot be independent of the press industry when (a) the two ‘industry representatives‘ among their number can effectively exercise a veto over their work (thanks to the requirement for consensus) and (b) an industry body called the ‘Regulatory Funding Company’ will dominate IPSO by retaining veto powers in several policy areas and by holding the purse-strings?
4. Do they acknowledge that they were themselves appointed to the panel under a process that breached written public undertakings of openness given when IPSO was unveiled last November? (In a behind-closed-doors administrative process, the rules were simply altered without public consultation or announcement to permit a behind-closed-doors appointments process.)
5. What grounds have they to believe that the people who oversaw the PCC during the worst years of press abuses, and who still oversee it, and who are now responsible for setting up PCC-IPSO, can now, suddenly, be trusted to put the public’s interests before those of their own newspapers?
The failure to answer these questions is, in our view, a failure to show accountability. Instead Sir Hayden and his panel appear to be prepared to answer only to their industry paymasters.
Sir Hayden, Dame Denise and Lord Brown have all had long careers in public service. It is sad that they have chosen to risk their reputations by participating in what Lord Justice Leveson would undoubtedly classify as another cosmetic reform of the PCC.
It would be far sadder, however, if their reputations and their involvement helped to encourage anyone to believe that PCC-IPSO could deliver effective, proportionate and fair remedies for press wrongdoing and proper press regulation. PCC-IPSO will not do that. It is designed to prevent it from happening.
New deputy lieutenant
16 Oct 2007
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/1762515.new_deputy_lieutenant/
Sir Hayden has had a professional career in public service comprising Home Office, Cabinet Office, Treasury and the European Commission. He was former Permanent Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport and the Ministry of Justice, former Chairman of the National Theatre and an adviser to HRH The Prince of Wales. He has held various private sector directorships, was Chairman of Marlborough College and is a Lay Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. He chairs the Fabric Advisory Committee and the Close & Environment Committee of Salisbury Cathedral, Vice-Chairman of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust and Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Exports of Works of Arts. Sir Hayden lives and farms with his wife in Homington , near Salisbury.
http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/deputy-lieutenant-2016-17-biogs.pdf
Kerzner’s son, Howard “Butch” Kerzner died on 11 October 2006 when the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near Sosua, in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic.[10][11] His daughter, Andrea, is the founder and CEO of Lalela, a charity dedicated to bringing the arts to at-risk youth in South Africa.[12]
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=9263
2009 One&Only Cape Town: Lunch To Benefit The Mandela Children’s Foundation
Sol Kerzner, Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel laugh during a lunch to Benefit the Mandela Children’s Foundation as part of the celebrations of the opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 3, 2009 in Cape Town
Hon Robert Hanson’s business partner David Newnham
Digital Sinema Pty Ltd & Jim Karakikes
Australian Industry Group Moves Against Alleged Pirates
7-7-2006
Established three years ago by the adult industry when video piracy was at its worst in Australia, AICO began making headway through the courts against suspected pirates. Although it didn’t win its cases at first, the group began making political inroads.
7-7-2006
Established three years ago by the adult industry when video piracy was at its worst in Australia, AICO began making headway through the courts against suspected pirates. Although it didn’t win its cases at first, the group began making political inroads.
Judges began to see that the adult industry was hurt by piracy, said David Newnham, AICO board member and general manager of Calvista Australia.
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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.
Digital Playground Announces Exclusive Distribution Deal with Calvista
02/08/2007
Digital Playground is pleased to announce the execution of an exclusive distribution deal with Calvista. The terms of the agreement allow Calvista full representation of Digital Playground products in Australia and New Zealand. Company President, Samantha Lewis is excited about the new relationship, “we wanted to be aligned with a company that knows the territory and can effectively saturate the market. Calvista is highly respected and they have achieved great visibility. Under their representation, I am looking forward to attending the 2007 Adult Ex in Cairns with Jesse Jane.” Hui Newnham, the General Manager of Calvista says, “we are delighted to establish a new partnership with Digital Playground, and represent this pioneering brand in Australia and New Zealand. Digital Playground is an iconic studio and sits well with the family of premier brands that Calvista has a long history of representing. We are thrilled with the opportunity to work with Samantha, Joone and the team, and finally give true local presence to one of America’s leading adult film producers.”
David Newnham
Employment History
General Manager – Calvista
Affiliations
AICO Studio List
Board Member
AICO Studio List
Board Member and General Manager
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Hui-Newnham/460269744
Io Group Inc., parent company of multi award-winning gay adult producer, Titan Media, announced the signing of an exclusive Australian distribution agreement with Calvista Australia Pty. Ltd.
According to Bruce Cam, CEO/President of Io Group, under the terms of the agreement, Calvista will be the exclusive distributor of the TitanMen and ManPlay brands of DVDs for Australia, and these brands will be the only gay U.S.-studio brands distributed by Calvista.
Cam and Keith Webb, Titan’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, recently visited Australia where they represented and launched the TitanMen and ManPlay brands at the Adultex 2005 show. Adultex is the largest adult trade show in Australia.
“I am very pleased that my new friend David “Hui” Newnham is committed to strengthening the partnership between our two companies by making us his exclusive gay distribution partner for Australia,” said Cam. “David and his team at Calvista have proven they are the leaders in the Australian marketplace with high-end partners such as Private, Wicked, and Jill Kelly Productions. When expanding into the gay market, it was a perfect fit that they would choose the very best gay brand in the world, Titan Media.”
Woodman Entertainment Inks Oz Distro Deal – XBIZ.com
http://www.xbiz.com/news/86874
… and New Zealand by Calvista Australia and … Woodman Entertainment Inks Oz Distro Deal. By … David “Hui” Newham, general manager of Calvista …
Lady Hanson Joins the Fight to Free Martin
By Dempster, Nigel | The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 16, 2001
FARMER Tony Martin, jailed for life for shooting dead a burglar, has received financial help from an unexpected source – Lord Hanson’s wife, Geraldine.
Unlike her husband, who built an empire worth billions, American-born Geraldine keeps a low profile.
But after my item that law-and-order campaigner Peter Cadbury was keen to increase his contribution to Martin’s fighting fund, Geraldine, 68, has also come foward to help.
Chocolate heir Cadbury, 83, former chairman of Westward TV, says: ‘She sent me a [pound]1,000 cheque which I’m passing to Martin’s solicitors and I’m sending a further [pound]1,000 myself.’ Martin was jailed for killing teenager Fred Barras – but Brendon Fearon, who led the raid at Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, was released last month after serving half of a three-year sentence for attempted burglary.
Geraldine, always perfectly groomed, became the ideal spouse and hostess, mistress of all her husband’s immaculately decorated homes on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hanson owned his own executive jet (which in 1967 was hijacked and taken to Algeria with the former Congolese Prime Minister Moise Tshombe on board).
In those summers when James and Geraldine entertained friends aboard their yacht, the Boule Dogue in the South of France, the cash flowed like the local wine.
Every day the boat would cruise the coastline and dock at the best shopping areas of the Mediterranean while Geraldine added to her already considerable wardrobe in every port.
While she would change into a fresh outfit for every meal, Hanson would play the generous host in all the local watering holes, such as Tetou and the Hotel du Cap.
At home he was also running around in his own helicopters and fittingly – for one who would be knighted by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in his resignation Honours List – buying the very one in which Wilson had flown around canvassing for the 1974 election.
Hanson was close to Wilson in those days sharing with him a love of Gilbert and Sullivan and entertaining him along with Gordy (by now on to his second marriage) at lavish dinners in London.
Hanson used his helicopters to ferry guests such as actor Kirk Douglas to his country pad near Newbury. Throughout the Eighties and Nineties, while Gordy moved on to a third, much younger wife, Hanson maintained a highly respectable profile on both sides of the Atlantic, venturing into arts sponsorship in Britain and even showing his ecological credentials by donating [pounds sterling]2 million to put otters back into the river Ure in Yorkshire.
After his retirement in 1997, he spent his time firing off advice in letters and articles about Labour inefficiency and Tory principles – but the high life continued.
If it was summer it had to be Ascot and Wimbledon with dinners and lunches in Mark Birley’s elegant Mayfair establishment Harry’s Bar.
There Hanson would entertain his Palm Springs neighbours, including former U.S. ambassador Walter Annenberg and the ageing Kirk Douglas.
He was still booking lunch dates and discussing the future of the Tory Party in his outspoken way right to the end.
https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-124014393/the-playboy-who-made-billions-the-amazing-huddersfield
A more complete list of those who attended James Hanson’s
Memorial service>>
<<LORD HANSON>>
Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, attended a service of thanksgiving for the life of Lord Hanson held yesterday at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge. The Rev Alan Gyle, Vicar of St Paul’s, officiated, and the Right Rev Lord Hope of Thornes led the prayers and pronounced the Blessing.
The Hon Lucas White and Sir David Frost read the lessons.
Mr William Creasy read from the works of Theodore Roosevelt.
Lord Palumbo gave an address.
The Band of the Corps of REME, directed by Major I. R. Peaple played during the service Last Post and Reveille were sounded by Lance Corporal Stephen Martin, Blues and Royals, by permission of Colonel H. P. D. Massey, Commander Household Cavalry.
The Leader of H M Opposition was represented by Lord Strathclyde. (Chairman of the Carlton Club)
Among others present were:
The Hon Robert Hanson and Mr Brook Hanson (sons), Mr and Mrs Cheever Hardwick III (son-in-law and daughter), Mr Charles Hardwick IV (grandson), Mr Christopher Collins (representing Hanson) and Mrs Collins, Mr and Mrs Donald Hayward, Mr Edward Collins.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Earl Alexander of Tunis, the Earl and
Countess of Dudley, the Earl of Halifax, the Earl of Liverpool, the
Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, the Earl of Westmorland, Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, Lord Baker of Dorking, CH, and Lady Baker, Lord Bell, Lord Brabazon of Tara, Lord Brougham and Vaux (Association of Conservative Peers).
Lord and Lady Chadlington, Lord Cope of Berkeley, Lord and Lady de
Mauley, Lady Fanshawe of Richmond, Lord Feldman, Lady Foley, Lord Glenarthur, Lord Henley, Lord and Lady Kalms, Lord Kimball, Lord King of Bridgwater, Lady Palumbo, Lord Patten, Lord Powell of Bayswater, Lord and Lady Plumb, Lord Rees-Mogg, Lord Rothschild, Lord Savile, Lady Elizabeth Anson, the Hon Jamie and Mrs Bruce, Hon Rupert and Mrs Fairfax, the Hon Rachel Marckus, the Hon Sir Peter Ramsbotham, the Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Hon Mrs Lucas White, Sir Tobias Clarke, Sir Tatton Sykes.
Sir Win and Lady Bischoff, Sir Gordon and Lady Booth, Sir Michael and Lady Caine, Sir Ralph and Lady Carr-Ellison, Sir David and Lady Davies, Sir Paul Fox, Sir Owen Green, Sir Angus Grossart, Sir Hayden Phillips, Sir Brian Pitman, Sir John Quinton, Sir Patrick and Lady Sargeant, Sir Nigel and Lady Southward, Sir Rodney Sweetnam and Sir Peter Morris (Royal College of Surgeons of England), Councillor Kevin Gardner and Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Mr Jonathan and the Hon Mrs Aitken, Mr and the Hon Mrs David Heimann, Mr and the Hon Mrs Charles Wilson.
Mr Peter Roe and Mr Russell Graham (Hanson Transport), Mr and Mrs David S Allsopp, Mr and Mrs Anthony Andrews, Mr Antony Ansell, Mr Robert Atwater, Mr and Mrs Jonathan Azis, Mrs Henie Backhouse, Mr and Mrs Nicholas Baldwin, Mr Alan Bennett, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Birdwood, Mr Peter P Bland, Mr and Mrs Peter Blond, Mr and Mrs Derek Bonham, Mrs Karen Bonham, Mr John M Bostock, Mr Robin Boudard.
Mr and Mrs Leslie Bricusse, Mr Derek Brierley, Dr J R Briggs, Mr and
Mrs Jack Brignall, Miss Isabelle Brotherton-Ratcliffe, Mr Iain R Bryce, Mr Julian Burney, Mr Charles Butter, Mr and Mrs Justin Cadbury, Mr Leander Cadbury, Mrs Humphrey Carmichael, Mr and Mrs Adam Carnegie-Brown, Mr and Mrs Timothy Chenevix-Trench, Dr H B J Chishick, Mr Peter Clarke, Mr and Mrs Algy Cluff, Mr Stephen Compson, Mr Geoffrey Cretin, Mrs Mark Cubitt, Mr Adolfo de Alvarado, Senora de Rafael Valls.
Mr and Mrs Paul Dimond, Mr and Mrs Denis Doble, Mr and Mrs Nigel Doughty, Mr Duncan Farrell, Mr and Mrs Nicholas Fawcett Mr Keith Fielding, Mrs Harry Fitzgibbons, Mr Jonathan Fountain, Mr William B Fraser, Dr Jeremy Gilkes, Mr and Mrs John Glen, Mr Mark Greaves, Mrs Valerie Greenwood, Mr and Mrs Stephen Hall, Miss Holly Hamill, Mr Aubrey Harding, Mr Jonathan Harris, Mr and Mrs Anthony Hawser, Mr Doug Hayward.
Mr Stanley Hodges, Mr Philip Hoffman, Mr James C Hopkins, Mr Derek Howe, Mr Greg Hutchings, Mr and Mrs David Jacobs, Mr Graham Jaffe, Mr Eric James, Mr Timothy Jefferies, Mr Paul Johnson, Mr Peter Johnson, Mr Rod Johnson, Mr David Keating, Mr James Kenward, Mr and Mrs Nicholas Kerman, Mr Philip Kingsley, Mr Peter Kirwan-Taylor, Mr and Mrs Alex Krasner, Mr William Lamarque.
Mr Charles Lewis, Mr and Mrs Euan Lloyd, Mr and Mrs Peter Lord, Mr Robert D Mackenzie, Mr and Mrs Jeremy Marshall, Mr Bill Martin, Mr Jamie Matheson, Mr David Mayhew, Mr N S Mayhew, Mr and Mrs Malcolm McAlpine, Mr and Mrs Peter Meinertzhagen, Mr John Menzies, Mr and Mrs David Metcalfe, Mr Cedric Middleton, Mr and Mrs Michael Minto.
Mrs George Morris, Mr Alan Murray, Mr Michael Nathanson, Mr Charles Neave-Hill, Mr Anthony Newbold, Mr Paul Nicholson, Mr Richard Northcott, Professor Anthony O’Hear, Mr Anthony Osmond-Evans, Mr Stuart T Painter, Mr Stephen Park, Mr John H Pattisson, Mrs N J Peyton-Jones, Mr and Mrs Colin Purves, Mr Peter Reynolds, Miss Isabel Riberio, Mr Peter Riley, Mr David A Roper.
Mr and Mrs Michael Rose, Mr and Mrs Derek Rosling, Mr Roddy Sale, Mrs Susan Sangster, Mr David Savage, Mr Jonathan Scott-Barrett, Dr Nigel Scott-Moncrieff, Mr and Mrs William Shand Kydd, Mrs Elizabeth Sharp, Mr Ned Sherrin, Mr and Mrs Henry Shires, Dr David Skeggs, Mr John D Smith, Mr Stephen Smith, Mr Timothy J Smyth, Mr and Mrs David Snowdon, Mr and Mrs Paul Spencer, Mr Tim Stewart.
Mr Robin Stormonth-Darling, Mr and Mrs Huw Thomas, Mr and Mrs Ward Thomas, Mr Nicholas Turner, Mr Peter J Turner, Mr Philip G Turner, Mr and Mrs William Turner, Mr Rafael Valls, Mr Claus von Bulow, Mr Nigel Walker, Mrs Philip Walker, Mr and Mrs Gerald Ward, Dr and Mrs Francis Warner, Mr David Webster.
Mr Richard K Westmacott, Mr Jamie White, Mr Richard Whiteley, Mr and Mrs Michael Wigan, Mr and Mrs John Wilford, Mr and Mrs Edward Willis, Mr and Mrs Anthony Wilson, Mr Michael Wilson, Mr Mark Worthington, Mr David Yelland, Mr Gordon Young with many other friends and former colleagues.
More of Annenberg’s friends
Dec 1993 Former US President Bill Clinton (L) applauds philanthropist Walter Annenberg
Leonore Annenberg, Melanne Verveer (Deputy Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton), Walter Annenberg, Hillary Clinton, Margaret Williams (Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton). January 1995.
Mrs. Annenberg and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the greenhouse at Sunnylands.
George Bush and Annenbergs
FactCheck.org –
A Project of The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Public Policy Center
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Other names in Epstein’s black book:
Prince Charles targeted by Madoff fund
The Prince of Wales was allegedly targeted as a potential investor by agents working for the alleged fraudster Bernard Madoff’s £34 billion Ponzi scheme.
The heir to the throne is named alongside European aristocracy in documents supplied to US prosecutors. He was allegedly approached by Prince Michael of Yugoslavia at a Polo tournament in 2002 which was also attended by Prince William and Prince Harry.
Prince Michael, a distant cousin of Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, was an investment executive of Access International Advisors, which was a Madoff feeder fund.
Among British investors named as “customers’‘ of the alleged fraudster are Lady Rothschild, former wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and a Conservative Party treasurer until 2006, and Lord Jacobs, former owner of BSM and a Tate Gallery donor.
Also in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book:
THE HON RUPERT ALEXANDER JAMES FAIRFAX
Hon. Rupert Alexander James Fairfax was born on 21 January 1961.1 He is the son of Thomas Brian McElvie Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and Sonia Helen Gunston.2 He married Vanessa C. Roberts, daughter of John Roberts, on 31 December 2003 at Phuket, Thailand.3
Kate Reardon, The Hon Rupert Fairfax and Catrina Skepper
Hubert Fairfax was additional assistant Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales between 1986 and 1988.1
From Freemason site – Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22
…meeting today with Rupert Fairfax and Hugh Fairfax, both brothers to Nicholas Fairfax, the current and 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Nicholas, Rupert and Hugh are all direct descendants of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord of Cameron for whom Fairfax County is named. The portrait pictured in the photograph is the only original painting of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord of Cameron, known to exist.
http://aw22.org/trestleboards/archive/2017.html
Clive Bannister
Swiss prosecutors investigate HSBC for money laundering over claims it helped hide millions for arms dealers and blood diamond traders
- Investigators have searched Geneva offices of HSBC’s Swiss private bank
- Probe stems from ‘recent published revelations’ it helped clients evade tax
- Stolen files claim bank helped dodge taxes on accounts containing $119bn
- Leaked memo revealed HSBC were willing to help a ‘blood diamond’ trader
- Aided smuggler despite knowing he was being investigated for tax evasion
The Geneva offices of HSBC were raided by Swiss prosecutors yesterday in an investigation into alleged money laundering.
Public prosecutors said they were searching for evidence of ‘aggravated money laundering’ after ‘the recent published revelations ’ about HSBC’s Swiss private bank.
It is the latest damaging twist for the banking giant embroiled in a scandal over claims staff helped rich clients dodge tax.
Although the Geneva prosecutor’s office said the probe was against the bank, it added that it could target individuals ‘suspected of committing or participating in acts of money laundering.’
Those found guilty could face a fine and up to five years in prison.
Authorities in France, Belgium, the US and Argentina have already launched criminal inquiries.
Former HSBC executive Clive Bannister – the son of four-minute-mile legend Sir Roger – could face questions from the Geneva public prosecutor.
The 55-year-old spent 17 years at the bank and was the boss of its global private banking business from 1998 to 2006.
Oxford-educated Mr Bannister, a father of three sons who is also a keen runner, was based in London. He was instrumental in turning the private bank into a global powerhouse with profits soaring to almost £1billion by 2007.
HSBC’s Swiss private bank was a key part of his empire. Although there is no suggestion Mr Bannister was aware of any wrongdoing, the alleged misconduct occurred from 2005-2007, overlapping part of his service. Prosecutors may also choose to summon former trade minister Lord Green, who joined David Cameron’s government in 2011.
He was the chief executive and then chairman of HSBC until stepping down in 2010 and sat on the board of the Swiss banking arm for a decade.
… the controversy has touched his current role as chief executive of insurance firm Phoenix Group as his chairman Sir Howard Davies has asked him to explain his role at HSBC.
How HSBC Got Rich Off Russian Corruption
02.10.15
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-hsbc-got-rich-off-russian-corruption
Countess Debonnaire von Bismarck, wife of Count Leopold “Bolle” von Bismarck, in her London showroom.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2015/11/countess-debonnaire-von-bismarck-luxury-gifts
The Von Bismarck family
Who is Kate Moss’s new lodger, Nikolai Von Bismarck?
20 October 2015
Pixie Geldof, Princess Beatrice, Nikolai von Bismarck and Dave Clark
He’s worked with Mario Testino and partied with Princess Bea — now Nikolai von Bismarck is living with Kate Moss. So who is the Count in her cellar
Andrea Dellal, Mario Testino, Naomi Campbell, Countess Debonaire von Bismarck and Suzy Menkes attend the Charlotte Olympia ‘Handbags for the Leading Lady’ launch dinner at Toto’s Restaurant on October 23, 2014 in London, England.
Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them
It looks like Kate Moss has a new lodger. And he is a Count. Nikolai von Bismarck, 28, is said to be living in the basement of Moss’s Highgate home. He is the son of Moss’s close friend and mentor Debonnaire (yes, really) and rent in London being what it is, she decided to invite him into the place she shares with her daughter Lila Grace, 13.
But is Moss, 41, more than just his landlady? Von Bismarck accompanied her to the opening of Richard Caring’s Sexy Fish restaurant in Berkeley Square last week; they nursed their hangovers over a pub lunch in the Cotswolds.
Moss never complains, never explains, and her camp has not confirmed that she has separated from her husband, musician Jamie Hince. But they haven’t been seen together in public since early summer, and whispers about break-ups are turning into assumed truths.
So is Moss playing by the mantra “The best way to get over someone is to get off with a mate’s 28-year-old son”? His mother aside, the pair have plenty of mutual friends, but since you probably don’t, here’s everything you need to know about Nik.
The NvB CV
Londoner Nikolai is the eldest of the four Bizzy boys. They often wear matching clothes and call him Nick Nock. He went to Harrow — the same school as actor Benedict Cumberbatch, where fees are £36,150 a year.
Paparazzi are waiting to catch a shot of him with Moss but NvB is more used to being behind the camera — he is rarely seen without one around his neck. He started taking photos at 13, visiting the Maasai in Kenya. Even then, he was resourceful — he heard the tribe believed photos stole their soul and took a Polaroid so that they could keep the snaps (probably worth a bit on eBay).
Being an aristo doesn’t preclude hard work — at 16, he had a holiday job assisting fashion photographer Mario Testino, shooting New York strippers. He played Leonard Cohen songs and refused to talk to his subjects to create moody pieces.
Debbie Von Bismarck with Bea and Eugenie
Another model is his friend Princess Beatrice. She chose him to photograph her official 18th birthday portrait and his art teacher gave him a shout-out for it in the Harrow newsletter. Nik and Bea hiked the Inca Trail together on his gap year, cue rumours about a royal romance. But there was no time to let that develop because he was off to hone his skills at Parsons art school in Paris and then help out Annie Leibovitz in New York. The Duchess of Cambridge did work experience with him.
One blot on his CV is social networking. Don’t bother looking for him on Facebook — he uses it under a pseudonym. Reportedly, he was once banned from the site after a fracas around a group whose name might have been considered racist.
His first solo exhibition, In Ethiopia, was at 12 Francis Street in Victoria two years ago. Fatima Bhutto, Ronnie Wood, Jerry Hall and family friends Pixie and Bob Geldof came to show support and a reviewer called his work “provoking and personal, featuring countless art-historical references”— so all that education paid off. The pictures were taken while he lived in Ethiopia and he has fond memories of that time:
“I drank cow’s blood for breakfast and slept in a tent that was guarded by kids with AK-47s. I painted with them, drank ouzo with them, fired guns with them — I became one of them.” It’s a long way from Chelsea.
Mummy von B
Nikolai’s mother, Countess Debonnaire von Bismarck, has “the best name in the history of toffdom”, squeals Tatler. The 56-year-old prefers to go by Debbie, though her appointment-only Knightsbridge shop bears the full complement of syllables. The boutique sells handcrafted accessories sourced abroad: slippers made in Lebanon, jewellery from Jaipur, kaftans from Ibiza. Prices are on application, obvs. Moss calls Mummy von B “a one-off” and has loyally supported her at fashion events since forever.
An editor who sat next to the aristocrat at a dinner to celebrate the launch of a Kate Moss collection for Topshop says she was charming, and spent the whole evening talking about “her boys”.
She moonlights as a stylist and choreographed Nikolai’s fashion debut, casting her son in a shoot for Tatler in 2006, entitled Like a Virgin. Nikolai, then 18, co-starred with three models wearing pure white, frothy confections — so he won’t be intimidated by sharing living quarters with a supermodel.
A source suggests that it is to Debbie that Kate goes when she’s in need of mentorship and direction. Moss, who is a contributor at Vogue, convinced her friend to open her £7 million Chelsea house for a shoot in the magazine’s December 2014 issue (Kate’s World). Moss called it London’s most glamorous party house. The model apparently has a portrait of Debbie in her own home and when Moss was commissioned to design the interior of luxury getaway The Barnhouse in the Cotswolds this year (prices starting at £2.5 million) she turned to Debbie for advice.
Von Bismarck is at the centre of the Venn that connects Moss’s Primrose Hill set with the international art and aristocratic groups that party in London.
Testino taught Debs to pose, which came in handy when she modelled for milliner Philip Treacy’s eponymous coffee table book, nearly naked with
a feathered headdress and a plump diamond ring
on her wedding finger. Treacy wrote: “Countess Debonnaire von Bismarck commissioned this hat for her rainforest-themed birthday party at home in London. Debbie has a celebratory approach to dressing. She thinks it’s rude not to make an effort.”
Nik’s network
A friend describes Nik as “sweet”. His circle is a mix of family friends and the art crowd. He celebrated his last birthday in Mustique with his brothers, Jamie Hince, and Mary and Robbie Furze. They wore feathered headdresses, danced on the beach and saw the sunrise. But he also likes catching up with culture, which EastEnders fan Moss will appreciate.
Kate and Nik have plenty of other mutual friends, such as model Annabelle Neilson and Sadie Frost, and then there is the royal connection. As well as long- term best friend Beatrice, art dealer Blaise Patrick is his wingman. He used to date Prince Harry’s ex, Chelsy Davy, but they are all friends now.
This gentleman prefers blondes. His last big romance was with golden-haired Theodora Richards, now 30, the daughter of Rolling Stone Keith. Back in the early Noughties they were regulars on the London social scene but now she lives in New York. He has since been linked to Moss’s colleague Cara Delevingne.
The von B family tree
While Moss is from Croydon, Nikolai’s roots are in Bavaria. His great-great grandfather was Otto von Bismarck, the statesman and chancellor credited with the (first) unification of Germany in the late 19th century.
More recently, the family has endured grief and scandal. In 2007 the partially decomposed body of Gottfried von Bismarck, Nikolai’s cousin, was found at his £5 million Chelsea home three days after his death; a pathologist told a hearing that the body contained the highest level of cocaine he had seen.
Gottfried read PPE at Christ Church College, Oxford. There he was a member of the Piers Gaveston dining society and the Bullingdon Club.
In 1986 his friend Olivia Channon — an heiress and the daughter of late former Tory minister Paul Channon — died of a heroin overdose in his rooms. He was fined and left Oxford immediately; he reportedly “wept like a child” at her funeral. A year before Gottfried died, a man called Anthony Casey fell from a balcony of his Chelsea home at a party. Casey reportedly had a “substantial” amount of cocaine in his body.
Coroner Dr Paul Knapman stated that there was a room in the flat containing items including sex toys, a butane gas canister and a box of syringes. He added, “in common parlance, in the early hours of the morning, there was a gay orgy going on,” and recorded a verdict of misadventure.
Today, the von Bismarcks are based in London. Nikolai’s father, Count Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen, 64, married Debbie in 1984; the two live in Belgravia. Don’t worry about remembering his full name, everyone calls him Bolly; Tatler explains that he looks “fetching in a fez”.
Nikolai is their eldest child, followed by Tassilo, 26, a client relations manager at investment firm North American Western Asia Holdings. He once interned for former Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Next, there’s Caspar, a 23-year-old New York University student. After-dinner entertainment at his 17th birthday party — held at his parents’ house — involved a semi-naked pole dancer and a mound of Krispy Kremes. Guest Princess Eugenie snapped the pictures on her phone. Other attendees included Rufus Taylor, son of Queen drummer Roger, along with Princess Beatrice’s boyfriend Dave Clark and Made in Chelsea’s Hugo Taylor.
Baby Bismarck is Alexander, 20, nicknamed Sascha, who has followed his big brother to NYU. He’s a Liverpool supporter and likes Family Guy.
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.
· This article was amended on Monday July 9 2007. Olivia Channon died in 1986, not 1989. This has been corrected.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/04/germany.world
Karma Police@capeannsky
This is a good thread on Epstein: history, charges and where things are now. Very interesting.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1010553470011822081.html
@kirbysommers
Steve Bing attended the “intimate secret” dinner Bill Clinton had with Ghislaine Maxwell. Bing committed “suicide” in June after jumping from the balcony of his 27th-floor apartment. Bing was a close friend of Epstein & Clinton.
Sources describe Bill Clinton’s intimate secret dinner with Ghislaine Maxwell, and an associate who since committed suicide
Former President Bill Clinton reportedly partook in a secret, private, “intimate” dinner in 2014 with now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, according to sources who spoke with The Daily Beast.
After a “star-studded gala” that February, the two reportedly met at Crossroads Kitchen, an upscale restaurant in Los Angles, for a dinner that also included Steve Bing, a Clinton associate who committed suicide this year and has been linked to Epstein.
Also present for the dinner was tech CEO Scott Borgerson.
How Did Trump and Clinton Pal Jeffrey Epstein Escape #MeToo?
06.22.18
Call him Weinstein 1.0: The billionaire with famous friends (Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen) was a secret pervert who used his power and influence to groom teens for abuse.
President Trump was among the deviant philanthropist’s admirers. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York in 2002. “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.”
Jeffery’s “social life,” according to police and a score of lawsuits, involved a pedophile ring of dozens of underage girls, whom he groomed and then loaned out to powerful friends.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trump-and-clinton-pal-jeffrey-epstein-escape-metoo
Steve Bannon shared a secret meeting with reviled billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at the financier’s notorious Upper East Side mansion.
Former White House chief strategist Bannon was spotted stepping out of his SUV and entering the registered sex offender’s sprawling 21,000-square-foot mansion at 9 E. 71st St. shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Epstein’s palatial pad is one of his homes where young girls were allegedly brought in to perform massages and used as “sex slaves.”
We assume Bannon wasn’t there for a massage.
Sources speculate that the disgraced Epstein wants to use his millions to work his way close to political power again.
One told us, “Bannon needs money to bankroll his political agenda. Epstein has plenty of money, and craves power and access.”
Bannon made an early-morning beeline to Epstein, even though Bannon may have burned bridges when he savaged Ivanka Trump over her criticism of Roy Moore, whom Bannon backed despite claims the candidate had sexually harassed teens. Citing an allegation in legal papers from a woman (who later dropped her lawsuit) that Donald Trump and Epstein had raped her when she was 13, Bannon said in response to Ivanka, “What about the allegations about her dad and that 13-year-old?”
Epstein has previously used his millions to cultivate the world’s most powerful — but has mostly given money to Democrats.
From 2001 to 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane, dubbed “The Lolita Express,” 26 times. Epstein is close to Prince Andrew and was a regular at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
Trump told New York magazine of Epstein in 2002, “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.”
Epstein, 65, pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a teen and served 13 months in jail.
Last year, he reportedly paid millions to settle three lawsuits filed against him by teens. Bannon’s rep didn’t comment. A lawyer for Epstein said, “Let me ask him,” but didn’t respond by deadline.
https://pagesix.com/2018/08/11/steve-bannon-trying-to-get-on-disgraced-jeffrey-epsteins-good-side/
Prince Andrew sex allegations: ‘Slave girl’ Virginia Roberts claims she had orgy with duke and EIGHT other girls
She claimed paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid her $400 for “servicing” the prince in New York and also says Andrew slept with her and other girls at Caribbean sex party
Prince Andrew’s “sex slave” vows to bring him to justice in a criminal court alleging he was involved in an underage orgy with his paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein and eight young girls.
In court papers filed yesterday, Virginia Roberts claims she was paid $400 to “service” Prince Andrew, who she referred to as “Andy”, while under the age of consent.
She repeats her claim of having sex with him in London then gives more details of times she says she met the Duke at Epstein’s home in New York and on his Caribbean island.
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In the papers lodged in Florida, she says: “The second time I had sex with Prince Andrew was in Epstein’s New York mansion in spring 2001.
“I was 17 at time. Epstein was there, along with Maxwell and Andy. Epstein and Maxwell were making lewd jokes about ‘Randy Andy’.
“I had the impression Andy had come there to have sex with me. There was no other apparent purpose for him to be there.
“I was told to go upstairs with Andy and to go to the room I thought of as the dungeon. I had sex with Andy there. I was only paid $400 from Epstein for servicing Andy.
The third time I had sex with Andy was in an orgy on Epstein’s private island.
“Epstein, Andy, approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together.”
The mum-of-three, who said she was “recruited” by Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, aged 15, said she wanted to bring all the “powerful people” who had abused her to justice.
She added: “I have directed my attorneys to pursue all reasonable and legitimate means to have criminal charges brought against these powerful people for crimes they have committed against me and other girls.
“I am telling the truth and will not let these attacks prevent me from exposing the truth that I was trafficked for sex to many powerful people.”
Lawyers for Miss Roberts claim they sent a letter to Andrew demanding he gives a statement under oath.
But they say it was sent back as having been refused by the recipient.
The Duke, 54, emphatically denies “any sexual contact or relationship” with Miss Roberts, 31, while Royal aides have insisted he knew nothing of Epstein’s offending.
Scotland Yard are also understood to be looking into whether to start a criminal probe.
The latest allegations came as claims were made that flight logs appeared to put Prince Andrew and Miss Roberts together in the locations at the time she claims the three sex sessions took place.
The records, said to match court circulars outlining Andrew’s whereabouts in 2001, are believed to show he was on Epstein’s Caribbean island at the time Miss Roberts claims the underage orgy took place – as well as in London and New York on the two other occasions.
The logs, posted online, recording Miss Roberts’ travels, put more pressure on Prince Andrew over her allegations.
She has claimed she was forced to have sex with him in the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell. The pair were pictured together there on that night.
She says she was paid £10,000 in total by Epstein for her time with the Duke.
Flights logs and official documents appear to show Andrew and Roberts were in London on March 2001, in New York in early April, and in the Caribbean on the US Virgin Islands later the same week. Roberts did not turn 18 until August of that year. Lawyers acting for billionaire Epstein had tried to silence Roberts on Tuesday, claiming she has no right to bring a case.
The billionaire’s legal team say she repeatedly refused to bring a complaint before the six-year statute of limitations expired.
Andrew would be spared further claims and court revelations if a judge agrees to throw out her suit against US prosecutors for agreeing a plea deal with Epstein, 62.
He had faced up to 20 years in jail after the FBI found more than 40 alleged victims – but instead pleaded guilty to a single charge of soliciting a minor. He got 18 months but served less than 13 months.
Also in the court papers were details of a sick offer by Epstein to give Miss Roberts a mansion and monthly allowance in return for letting him father a child with her.
She also claimed Epstein was sent three 12-year-old French girls to abuse for his birthday.
Miss Roberts also alleges in papers filed yesterday to have had sex with US lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who used to represent convicted Epstein – claims which he strongly denies.
The Harvard law professor has described her claims as “totally false and made up. I’ve never seen her, never met her. I don’t know who she is”.
Roberts also revealed how she had spoken to the FBI while living in Australia. She said: “In 2011, two FBI agents, called me in Australia and then came to meet me.
“They met me at the U.S. Consulate in Sydney. They seemed to be very professional and hard working. I thought, ‘Wow, these people will do the right thing against the bad guys and protect me’.
“I was aware that a false statement to these law enforcement officers was a crime and I told the truth – giving them information I could recall about individuals they inquired about.
“Epstein also trafficked me for sexual purposes to many other powerful men, including politicians and powerful business executives. Epstein required me to describe the sexual events that I had with these men presumably so that he could potentially blackmail them.
“I am still very fearful of these men today.”
Elsewhere in the document, Roberts spoke about being on board Epstein’s private jet with former President Bill Clinton but said she never had any sexual contact with him.
Lawyers for Roberts and three other victims also gave details about requests in December 2011 to determine whether or not Prince Andrew had lobbied on behalf on Epstein during his plea deal.
Yesterday’s papers state at the time “the Government denied that it had documents reflecting contacts by Prince Andrew”. In the original lawsuit filed by Roberts on December 28 her lawyers state she was under the age of consent when she claims she had sex with Andrew while on Epstein’s 78-acre Caribbean bolthole in the US Virgin Islands, where the legal age of consent is 18.
Buckingham Palace has emphatically denied Prince Andrew had sexual contact with Miss Roberts, saying claims were without foundation.
A spokesman for Ghislaine Maxwell said earlier this month: “The allegations made against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue.
“The original allegations are not new and have been fully responded to and shown to be untrue.
“The claims are obvious lies and should be treated as such.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-andrew-sex-allegations-slave-5020094#rlabs=3
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Jeffery Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’ also has Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert of Israel (currently in prison for corruption) and Tony Blair of the UK, and former US senator George Mitchell.
George Mitchell was a key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process in Ulster
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Eric Gertler currently serves as Executive Chairman of U.S.News & World Report, the nation’s leading news authority on rankings and expert guidance on life decisions; and CEO of Ulysses Ventures, a multi-strategy investment fund.
Eric formerly served as Co-Chairman / Co-Publisher of the New York Daily News, New York’s hometown newspaper. Under his leadership, the paper expanded its digital capabilities and reach as well as its marketing and content partnerships. During Eric’s tenure, The Daily News was honored with a Pulitzer Prize, for public service journalism in 2017.
Prior to these roles, Eric served as EVP of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and as Managing Director of the Center for Economic Transformation under both Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Mayor Bill de Blasio. In this role, he was responsible for spurring economic development by overseeing over 100 initiatives and directing hundreds of millions of dollars of city investments into the local economy.
Prior to his government service, Eric successfully led technology and media companies. In technology, Eric served as CEO of Altruik (product optimization), PrimeAxis Media (consumer rankings), and Privista (identity theft protection). In media, Eric served concurrently as the President of U.S.News & World Report, Fast Company, and The Atlantic, for which he managed day-to-day operations with a focus on expanding the respective brands into new areas, including online and conferences.
Eric is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Prying Eyes: Protect Your Privacy From People Who Sell To You, Snoop on You or Steal From You (Random House). He began his career as an attorney with Skadden Arps.
Eric was honored in 2017 as a Great Immigrant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which recognizes the extraordinary contributions of naturalized citizens. Eric was also named to City & State’s “The 2016 Responsible 100 List” honoring corporate social responsibility in New York City.
Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein’s bizarre world of scientists
The billionaire financier and convicted sex offender famously mixed with presidents, models and film stars. But he also indulged his unorthodox beliefs by cultivating top scientists
19 Aug 2019
Epstein was allegedly fascinated with and inspired by the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was founded in Escondido, California, in 1980 by Robert K Graham, an avowed eugenicist and tycoon who got rich developing shatterproof eyeglass lenses. Graham’s goal was the “strengthening of the human gene pool”and he would accomplish this with the Repository, a sperm bank where all the donors were Nobel laureates. At least that’s how it was supposed to work: according to a 2001 story in Slate, Graham only ever convinced three or five (the stories vary) to actually contribute, and the Repository shuttered in 1999.
But Epstein was apparently taken with the idea. In his version though, rather than a bunch of lettered academics, he’d be the one “strengthening the gene pool”. Starting in the early 2000s, he reportedly told multiple people that he wanted to impregnate as many women as he could to distribute his genes as widely as possible. Several acquaintances told the New York Times that Epstein mentioned using his sprawling New Mexico ranch as a base of operations, and at least one person said he planned to impregnate up to 20 women at a time.
Trump and Epstein
Qanon
Documentary evidence that Pizzagate + Qanon narratives were developed to shield Trump + Epstein from accusations of child trafficking & serial sexual assault of two 12 + 13yo girls in 1993. Those who need it for prosecution already have their copies.
The first mentions of Pizzagate started 11/4, within 8 hours of my first call to report I had identified an open missing person’s case matching the abduction of Trump’s 12 year old victim known as “Maria”
It exploded after I contacted LE.
Check the numbers. Check the timing.
It exploded after I contacted LE.
Check the numbers. Check the timing.
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a timeline of the duke’s relationship with Epstein.
– 1999
Andrew first meets Epstein, reportedly introduced through his friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.
Andrew welcomes Epstein to the Queen’s private Scottish retreat in Aberdeenshire. Andrew later says he sees Epstein ‘infrequently’, adding ‘probably no more than only once or twice a year’.
– 2000
Andrew and Ms Maxwell are seen on holiday with Epstein at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Epstein and Ms Maxwell attend a party at Windsor Castle hosted by the Queen to mark Andrew’s 40th birthday, the Princess Royal’s 50th, the Queen Mother’s 100th and Princess Margaret’s 70th.
– 2001
Virginia Roberts claims to have had sex with Andrew ‘three times, including one orgy’, with the first encounter allegedly taking place in Ms Maxwell’s London townhouse. Ms Roberts claims to have had sex with Andrew on two more occasions, at Epstein’s New York home and at an ‘orgy’ on his private island in the Caribbean.
– 2008
Epstein admits prostituting minors and is sentenced to 18 months in prison.
– 2010
Epstein is released from jail. Andrew is photographed with the disgraced Epstein in New York’s Central Park.
Footage emerges years later, reportedly shot on December 6 2010, showing him inside Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, from where he is seen looking out from a large door of the property waving a woman goodbye after Epstein leaves to get into a chauffeur-driven car.
– 2011
The duke quits his role as UK trade envoy after the fallout from the Central Park photos.
– 2015
Buckingham Palace denies Andrew has committed any impropriety after he is named in US court documents related to Epstein. A woman, later named in reports as Ms Roberts, alleges in papers filed in Florida that she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17, which is under the age of consent in the state.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Andrew, in his first public engagement since he was embroiled in the allegations, responds, saying: ‘Firstly I think I must, and want, for the record, to refer to the events that have taken place in the last few weeks.
‘I just wish to reiterate, and to reaffirm, the statements that have already been made on my behalf by Buckingham Palace.’
In April the claims against Andrew are struck from US civil court records following a federal judge’s ruling.
– 2019
Newly released legal documents show that Johanna Sjoberg, another alleged Epstein victim, claimed Andrew touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside the US billionaire’s Manhattan apartment in 2001.
Buckingham Palace said the allegations are ‘categorically untrue’.
Epstein is found dead in his jail cell on August 10, having killed himself after being charged with sex trafficking.
Later that month a pilot on Epstein’s private jet claims Andrew was a passenger on past flights with the financier and Ms Roberts.
The Sun newspaper reported that David Rodgers said in a testimony released in August that Epstein, Andrew and the-then 17-year-old travelled to the US Virgin Islands on April 11 2001.
Buckingham Palace describes the evidence statement as having ‘a number of inconsistencies’ and said that Andrew was on a different continent in some cases.
Following Epstein’s death, a statement from the palace says that Andrew is ‘appalled by the recent reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes’.
Breaking his silence on the issue for the first time since 2015, Andrew then releases a statement on August 24 saying: ‘At no stage during the limited time I spent with him (Epstein) did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction.’
Sarah Ferguson – Her mother, Susan Wright, was a 1958 debutante; her father, Ronald Ferguson, the second son of an aunt by marriage of Queen Elizabeth.
Sarah Ferguson’s father, Ronald Ferguson, was a regular attender of a dodgy massage establishment, the Wigmore Club, where he paid for the services of prostitues while there.
The Observer 7 May 1989
The Observer 24 Nov 1996
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Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons – supporters
Dr Michael Heath, pictured in 2002, was the first expert to examine Stuart’s body. He was later criticised by a government disciplinary panel for his involvement in a separate investigation
‘PERV’ DOSSIER 
DAMNING EVIDENCE AGAINST PROCTORI want to look at the elements of Mark’s statement one by one – Elements that the mainstream media have oddly chosen to ignore. Proctor is currently doing the rounds and talking to anyone that will listen, but not one single interviewer has asked about the following evidence:
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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 visit
2 RGJ Air Platoon. In the 60s infantry battalions in Borneo had an aviation platoon, with the helicopters piloted by officers from the battalion. Bramall is stood at the end of the table.
Scott Farrell
Daniel and Majella O’Donnell enjoy an evening with Cliff Richard in Portugal
Seán McEniff, Ray McSharry and Brian Ó Domhnaill canvassing in Donegal town in 2010.
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1972 David Steel at the International Students House
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (left) had first attempted to knight Jimmy Savile (right) in 1987 (pictured above Mrs Thatcher presented Savile with a cheque)
Cynthia Payne with Lord Longford
Michael and Hilary Brewer, who were convicted of indecent assault at Manchester music school Chethams
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Paul Santon, pictured outside Harrow Crown Court yesterday, was jailed for 20 months after he admitted two indecent assaults dating back to when he was a scout leader in the 1970s
This IGA newsletter lists Sandy Marks as a contact person for Fallen Angels
A picture of Sandy Marks in the IGA conference newsletter in April 1980
A 1964 letter (l) from the Home Office notifying the order that deputy head teacher Brother Maurice had admitted indecent assault. Other files (r) were embargoed until 2044
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Brian Tanner, left, and Dennis King, right, outside Chelmsford Crown Court in April 1990. Picture: Anglia Press Agency. A MAN convicted of abusing boys as part of a Shoebury ’sex ring’ in the late 1980s had several prior convictions, the Yellow Advertiser can reveal.
Chris Hickey A FORMER charity boss has spoken about how he learned a ‘paedophile ring’ was operating in Shoebury in the late 1980s.
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Brian Tanner, left, and Dennis King, right, outside Chelmsford Crown Court in April 1990. Picture: Anglia Press Agency. A MAN convicted of abusing boys as part of a Shoebury ’sex ring’ in the late 1980s had several prior convictions, the Yellow Advertiser can reveal.
Chris Hickey A FORMER charity boss has spoken about how he learned a ‘paedophile ring’ was operating in Shoebury in the late 1980s.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth. Lord Mountbatten’s great-nephew is Deputy Lieutenant of Devon 
Skelhorn was also the DPP when the ‘Playland’ scandal broke, which saw the Old Etonian Lloyds underwriter Charles Hornby jailed for the sexual exploitation of homeless boys near Piccadilly Circus. It’s widely believed Hornby was the establishment scapegoat and many other VIPs managed to escape justice. The judge admitted not all the perpetrators were in the dock and one of the defendants, David Archer, said he’d presented police with a dossier naming millionaires and titled and influential people involved in the Playland affair. There was “a tremendous cover up to protect these people,” he argued.
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, with Mario Testino
A photograph shows Harding wearing a Masonic apron, collar and medals during a ceremony a couple of years ago.The Mercurius Lodge declined to comment.
Labour Party Councillor & School teacher Ben Williams gets a tip off from Labour Mayor Joe Anderson & Deletes 207 files from his computer the day before the section 47 police raid a jury at Liverpool Court heard Ben Williams admit.
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