Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby drstrangelove » Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:23 am

Donald Trump, a Rockefeller Rothschild joint-stock Presidency

In light of Donald Trump appearing in the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein flight logs, it seems as good a time as any to take a look at how a populist like Trump is kept on a tight leash of controlled opposition through times when the centre of a political spectrum begins to collapse beneath the weight of its naked corruption, and those still willing to participate in the theatrics of democracy evacuate for the fringes.

Because, just as Bill Clinton got his beak wet in Arkansas with his eyes wide shut to CIA drug trafficking out of Mena airport; Trump got his through the acquisition of Resorts International (RI) at the tail of the savings & loans crises in the late 1980s. This isn't to say Trump was clean man beforehand, only that this particular acquisition to his portfolio forms somewhat of a critical mass of naturally acquired dirt.

The Mary Carter Paint company had once been a paint company, but it was acquired in the 1960s and underwent a metamorphosis into Resorts international, a Bahamas-based business venture incorporating a diversity of shady dealings beneath its umbrella, from money laundering through to CIA cutout private security firms 1 . Or as the New York Times puts it for the professional urban class in 1983, “a controversial developer of casinos and hotels in the Bahamas. Along the way the company etched a history that is checkered with stories about dealings with those who have had brushes with the law.” 2 .

The rabbit hole of Resorts International is a complex and expansive burrow beyond the purview of Trump, and better explored here. Though what is pertinent are the controlling interests behind it. At one point in the 1970s it would appear that a substantial portion of voting rights to its stock were being voted in proxy by the Castle Bank & Trust in the Bahamas, with the most substantial holder being from the Mellon family, a family which these days controls the largest custodian bank in the world, with over $45 trillion in assets under custody 3 .

"The bank was established by Paul Helliwell, a former OSS China hand with a background in drug-trade intelligence. After the war, Helliwell had run CIA front companies in Florida. Through his Bahamian bank, and a companion institution in Florida, millions of dollars were funneled for covert military operations staged off Andros Island in the Bahamas. Castle also facilitated tax evasion, and, in its trust-company capacity, voted the shares of certain nonresident owners of Resorts International, the top Lansky-era casino operation in Nassau. When one of their shareholder so strongly objected to the way Castle was voting his shares that he sued the bank, the scheme began to unravel. "The shareholder was William Mellon Hitchcock, the New York stockbroker who had been using the Paravicini bank of Berne, Switzerland, to circumvent the New York Fed's margin requirements...

– Hot Money, R.T. Naylor, pg. 315


The Mellons have always been on the. . .ahh, more eccentric side of financial oligarchy, and not unfamiliar with services provided by one Jeffrey Epstein either 4 . The Mellon's behave more like psychedelic aristocrats, with a particular interest in countercultural trends as opposed to the traditional tyrannies of financial oligarchs. A contemporary family scion, Christopher Mellon, has become a key figure within the UFO truther movement; managing to move seamlessly from deep state offices within the US government into casual podcast conversations with 'out there' thinking enthusiast Joe Rogan. More to the point however, William Mellon Hitchcock had been financing one of the world's largest LSD manufacturing operations back in the 1970s, right around the same time he had controlling rights of Resorts International 5 .

Anyhow, Donald Trump's property portfolio was acquired with cheap credit made available to commercial real estate tycoons during the 1980s. At the beginning of that decade the banking sector had been deregulated through such acts as Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 and Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. Since Trump came from money, many believe he wasn't a 'self-made' billionaire, and rather subsisted on the momentum of silver spoon wealth. But what Trump really was' was a 'bank-made' billionaire. All his major acquisitions during that period which made him a household name were extremely leveraged. Trump's dad didn't buy him a commercial real estate empire, his banks did. And ever since then they've been his step-father.

Estimates of Trump's wealth in 1980 ranges from $5 - $100 million depending on the agenda. Regardless, by 1990 Trump certainly was $3.3 billion in debt 6 .

Through this ten year period Trump either developed or acquired the following assets:

Grand Hyatt Hotel. Construction began '78, with the deal involving his father and was leveraged by Chase Manhattan credit. Project completed '80.
Trump Tower. Construction completed in '83 and was leveraged by Manufacturers Hanover Trust 7 .

Both these projects bgan back in the late 70s prior to the aforementioned deregulation of the banking sector and Trump's father was involved. However after these two Trump went out on his own, which is to say a credit binge.

Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. Construction costs $200 million and opened in 1984
Trump Castle. Acquired from the Hilton family in 1985 for $320 million.
Mar-a-Lago. Purchased in 1985 for $5 million.
Plaza Hotel Manhattan. Acquired in 1988 for $400 million.
Though the acquisition of interest was in '87, when Trump purchased a majority stake in Resorts International for $79 million 8 . Which would allow him to acquire the then under construction Taj Mahal Casino in '88. The remaining construction costs Trump financed through issuance of just over $600 million in junk bonds, or Trumpbonds I suppose. By 1990 Trump was in $2 billion debt issued predominantly by three banks: Chase Manhattan, Citibank, and the Manufacturers Hanover Trust. And on top of this he had managed to issue $1.3 billion in Trumpbonds to people who would not be winning any time soon.

There are many stories of how Trump managed to build up his expansive asset portfolio. That he ripped off contractors, litigated himself out of legal obligations, or the rather fantastical assertion that he pulled one over on the banks. In reality though, it was a couple of Rockefeller banking institutions handing him a golden ticket. And no doubt on his end Trump would've been obligated to ensure the casinos under his control served their purpose— money laundering. Which was possibly a contributing factor to why they never turned enough profit to pay off the debts.

James Crosby, chairman of Resorts International had died unexpectedly during a routine surgery in 1986, which had paved the way for Trump to become its majority shareholder. Aside from the Taj Trump acquired a motley assortment of assets including some airline holdings with Resorts Int. A 9% stake in Pan American World Airways Inc, which he bumped up to 17% through further stock purchases 9 , and Eastern Airlines shuttle which was rebranded, Trump shuttle 10 .

This accumulation of Pan Am stock in 1987 would've put Trump within the business orbit of Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time was working on a takeover bid of that very company at Tower Capital.

“One of Epstein’s first assignments for Hoffenberg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988.”

– 'THE TALENTED MR. EPSTEIN' , Vicky Ward, Vanity Fair


Then if we then take Trump at his word, and math, he stated he'd known Epstein for around 15 years in 2002, which lands perfectly on 1987.

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “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.”

– 'Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery' , Landon Thomas Jr. , New York Magazine


Eastern Airline 727s had been used in smuggling operation not long prior to its shuttle fleet being rebranded under the Trump name.

“But a more common method of smuggling the drug from South America is simply to secrete it aboard a commercial airplane, in the wheel wells or the luggage compartment or behind the fiberglass walls of the lavatories.Thursday, U.S. Customs officials announced that they were fining Eastern Airlines $1.37 million because cocaine was found earlier this month aboard two of its Boeing 727 jetliners arriving from Colombia More than 1,700 pounds of the drug were stuffed into soft-sided suitcases and then hidden in the air conditioning compartments of the forward cargo hold. The street value of the cocaine was placed at $430 million.”

– Carriers Plagued by Ingenious Smugglers : U.S. Fines Eastern Airlines $1.37 Million in Drug Case', Los Angeles Times.


It wasn't long after Trump acquired Resorts Int. that three of his top casino executives died in a helicopter crash. According to a witness the cockpit cabin had detached from the rotor and plummeted to the ground 11 . An investigation into the matter concluded there had been hidden cracks in the rotor 12 .

It is also right around this time, in 1988, the year of the deal! that we first have record of Trump floating a presidential image to the public.



The 80s was a decade in which Trump was pumped full of cheap credit by Rockefeller banking institutions, who had taken advantage of the same deregulating acts that planted the seeds for the savings and loans crisis which unfolded at the end of it. It was an era more or less summed up as giant commercial property scam. If you are interested in this history, this is an excellent accounting of what happened:



Then in 1990 Trump began to default, first on his Trumpbonds then to the banks. The amount of debt he had managed to acquire was so egregious that the congressional committee on banking, finance and urban affairs launched an investigation into the matter that very year. But the banks told congress to fuck off and the whole thing died on the vine 13 .

Now, ordinarily this would be the part where the banks seize all Trump's shit and his paper empire crumbles. Which is exactly what happened to other real estate moguls at the time. Real estate portfolios got exposed as cadavers once the credit strings puppeteering them had been pulled. Yet miraculously for Trump, instead of mortgage vultures appearing to tear away at the flesh of his estate, it was a guardian angle by the name of Wilbur Ross Jr, and sent to him by the financial gods at Rothschild Inc. Wilbur had been with the Rothschild firm for 15 years and was a senior managing director. He would later go out on his own in the late 90s just in time to gobble up bankrupted pieces of American enterprise in the wake of the looming dot com crash. His reputation in these matters made him somewhat of a legend on wall street, and in 2011 he was 'Grand Swipe' of the quasi-secretive wall street society, Kappa Beta Phi. A society which aims to "keep alive the spirit of the 'good old days of 1928–29.'" , and with a membership list to do just that 14 .

More recently Wilbur Ross is known for being Trump's Secretary of Commerce. A position he held within the administration for a full term, making him one of the few Trump appointees never fired. Another being William Barr. The reason for this is probably Trump simply wasn't allowed to fire them. As in, these two men are the swamp.

Back in 1990 though, Wilbur was appointed to represent Trumpbond holders of the Taj Mahal. And in a classic art of the deal move, Trump intially offered up Trumpbonds as repayment for the Trumpbonds he was defaulting on 15 .

While this offer was turned down, Wilbur did settled for a deal which allowed Trump to retain a majority stake in the Taj, even though Trumpbond holders had a first rate mortgage on it.

While that bank deal was touted at the time as a five-year arrangement, it later turned out that the negotiators focused almost exclusively on the money Mr. Trump and his enterprises owed to banks, while paying little attention to the money that was owed to bondholders. As a result, it was only a matter of weeks before Mr. Trump was again involved in debt talks, as the Taj Mahal casino was unable to make a $47.3 million interest payment on its bonds. Under the agreement reached yesterday, Mr. Trump will give up 50 percent of his ownership stake in the Taj Mahal. And depending on how much cash the casino is able to come up with to pay interest over the next 10 years, Mr. Trump could end up with 80 percent. Bondholders will get to keep 50 percent if Mr. Trump's organization avails itself of interest-rate concessions.

– 'A Bitter Pill for Trump and Maybe Another', New York Times, November 17 1990


The settlement gives the bondholders 50 percent of the equity in the Taj Mahal but leaves Mr. Trump with control of the board. Any transactions -- mergers, sales, recapitalizations -- that would substantially change the company are subject to approval by the bondholders' appointees, who will receive three of the seven board seats. In exchange, the interest rate that Mr. Trump pays on the bonds will be reduced to 12 percent, from 14 percent, and two percentage points of that can be paid in new bonds. The maturity on the bonds has been extended two years, to 2000. . . . He joined the conference call of nearly 100 bondholders, at Mr. Ross's request, and made it clear that he supported allowing Mr. Trump to retain 50 percent of the equity and control of the board. With the support of Mr. Icahn, Mr. Ross's group and the Japanese bondholders, who were now actively involved for the first time, it was clear to all those on the conference call that enough bondholders supported the deal to force it on the others. Some time after noon the conference call ended, and Mr. Ross and Mr. Icahn took the final offer to Mr. Trump, who agreed to it.

– 'Talking Deals; How Trump Got A Second Chance', New York Times, Nov. 22 1990


A few months prior to the Trumpbond dealings, the banks responsible for Trump's credit binge had made their own debt restructuring deal with him, which involved extending him even more lines of credit to service the ones we was defaulting on. They did put him on an allowance however, to affirm the relations of the step-father and son bond.

Yesterday morning, in the first part of a two-stage rescue for the 44-year-old developer, some of the nation's largest banks wired $20 million to a Trump bank account to help him meet a midnight deadline to make a $43 million payment to holders of some high-yield ''junk bonds'' backing one of his Atlantic City casinos. Mr. Trump provided the remaining $23 million in cash and bonds. The cost for Mr. Trump is that his bankers, who in the past had eagerly backed his grand visions, now have him on a short leash. His every move, including his personal expenditures, will be scrutinized. But he has maintained ownership of his empire, and in that small victory could lie the seeds of a comeback - if the real estate and casino markets cooperate. [Page D5.] If he had missed yesterday's payment, he would have defaulted on loans backed by Trump's Castle and probably would have lost that casino to creditors. Such a default would have set off a chain of defaults that could have forced him to seek bankruptcy protection. About 70 banks, with one German holdout, also approved a $65 million loan package for the developer yesterday that will defer much of his bank debt for up to five years.

– 'Banks Approve Loans for Trump, But Take Control of His Finances', New York Times, June 27 1990


The entire debt restructuring process was rather complex, often modified, and took place over a two year period, eventually finalised in 1992. Trump's debt obligations were handled two-fold. The Trumpbonds were outsourced to be restructured by Wilbur Ross of the Rothschild firm, while the banks, primarily Rockefeller institutions or creatures there of, handled their own affairs with him:

“On Mar. 13, he is expected to conclude the final segments of a massive debt restructuring, which will give lenders the Trump Shuttle airline and hand over 49% of the Plaza Hotel in exchange for a lower mortgage-interest rate. . .

“He has been able to hang on to a major portion of his assets -- far more than most people thought possible. These include the core of his real estate and casino properties. Although he gave up a dozen assets (table, pages 76-77), he retains four major holdings, including the Trump Tower luxury high-rise. Plus, he kept half-ownership of three others, notably Manhattan's Plaza Hotel and the Taj. . .

“In return for the assets Trump is ceding to them, the lenders are reducing his empire's overall debt burden by a third, to $2.5 billion. That should enable cash flow from his operations to cover his interest tab. The lenders also are lowering his personal debt -- the portion guaranteed only by his signature -- from $885 million to $115 million. . .

“Prudential Insurance Co., a sizable holder of Taj bonds, initially wanted Trump's name and equity removed from the Taj. The Pru and other Trump-haters relented after a plea from their financial adviser, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., a senior managing director of Rothschild Inc. "The Trump name added value to the casino," says Ross. . .

“On June 30, 1993, two mortgages come due: $140 million for Trump Tower and $200 million for the Penn Yards. Will the banking syndicates holding the loans, both led by Chase Manhattan Bank, roll them over?”

– 'The Donald's Trump Card He just got a better deal than expected. And if real estate revives' , Bloomberg, March 23 1992


It is during this period while Rothschild and Rockefeller institutions mercifully cushion the fallout of Trump's credit binge, in fact precisely in 1992; that the first documented interaction between him and Jeffrey Epstein is found in some rather odd footage of the two at a private party Trump had organised, reportedly just for the two of them. But also a camera crew, as the footage was found in the NBC archives.



Then in 1993 Trump starts to appear in the Epstein flight logs. These logs, the latest batch released through the discovery process from the Maxwell trial, first time discloses logs for the period between April 1991 and November 1995. Trump being listed six times during this period, while only once thereafter.


1993 March 23: Trump, Epstein, and Erin Nance fly from New Jersey to Palm Beach. Then three days later on the 26th Trump and Epstein fly back to New Jersey. Erin Nance was Miss Georgia 1993 and first runner-up Miss USA 1993. She would later marry Albert G. Hill, great grandson of Texan oil baron H. L. Hunt 16 .


1993 October 11th: Epstein, Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, Dawn Devito, and Sophie Biddle fly from Palm Beach to New Jersey.
1993 October 17th: Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, Rob Devito, and and 'RD' fly from Palm Beach to New Jersey.


1994 May 15th: Epstein, Trump, Marla Trump(wife), Tiffany Trump(daughter), and Mark Middleton (Clinton White House aid) fly from Palm Beach to Washington D.C. Then fly from D.C to New Jersey without Middleton.


1995 Aug 13th . Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, Eric Trump, Paula Epstein fly from Palm Beach to New Jersey.

A lawsuit filed anonymously under the moniker 'Katie Johnson' in 2016 also alleged that between the months of June and September 1994, the plaintiff, 13 years old at the time, had been subjected to “extreme sexual and physical abuse” at a series of “underage sex parties held at the New York residence of the Defendant Jeffrey E. Epstein and attended by the Defendant Donald J. Trump” 17 .

Prior flight logs released to the public had excluded the period of Apr '91 through Nov '95 where Trump is listed seven times. After '95 he appears only once in '97. Which perhaps indicates that Trump's peak activity with Epstein was during the early 90s; and while their relationship maintained itself, it waned thereafter.

Yes, the early 90s were seemingly a 'dark' period for Trump, but by 1995 it would also seem as if Trump was finally getting back on his feet. Wilbur Ross, still working for Rothschild Inc, was helping him gain back control of the Taj Mahal 18 . The Rockefeller banks no longer had him on an allowance and he was even allowed him to start acquiring new property with new lines of credit. In 1996 he purchased 40 Wall St and turned it into the Trump Building. Then in 1998 he went in on a deal to purchase the General Motors Building for $878 Million, $700 million of which was loaned from the kind folks at Lehman Brothers. All these dealings giving Trump back the business mojo which would propel him into a subsequent era of new found fame with the success of his early 00s reality show, The Apprentice, and eventually the Presidency of the United States, whose cabinet in which Wilbur Ross would come to serve in as Secretary of Commerce.

There still remains some confusion as to the nature of Jeffrey Epstein's activities. The official narrative purports his child sex trafficking and blackmail operation was isolated to himself and Ghislaine Maxwell in rogue aberration to the usual sausage making of politics. Then the official conspiratorial narrative purports he was an intelligence asset working for Mossad, or the CIA, or MI6, apparently all three.

Epstein may have worked alongside intelligence agencies at times, as many do in high finance, but this cannot be conflated with working for them, which would be to say, as an asset 'handled' by a someone on the government payroll.

The most plausible explanation is Epstein actually did work in 'high finance', and worked for the same people intelligence agencies do(to a certain extent), the international financial fraternity. In this case, the families which make-up the Anglo-American establishment of financial oligarchy.

Jeffrey Epstein operated in the world of high finance. He targeted three types of people with his hard candy blackmail operation: upper crust politicians, new money technology entrepreneurs, and hedge fund/private equity managers. The Epstein case isn't all that mysterious. He was a classic charlatan putting a smile to something tacitly sordid. His contact book leaked. His flight logs leaked. This isn't conjecture.

The whole intelligence asset angle is for the most part a red herring, ultimately attributing guilt to faceless agencies, and through a theory popularised primarily with the following bits of evidence:

There was that off the record report of a quote by Acosta saying something along the lines of 'I was told Epstein worked for intelligence'. Reported by Vicky Ward.
The photo-shopped picture of Ghislaine Maxwell circulated just after Epstein's death* staged to have her reading a book about spy agencies.
A connection to Robert Maxwell through his daughter Ghislaine, and a book called 'The Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy'
Les Wexner and the Megagroup. This is the most compelling evidence for intelligence agency involvement. And intelligence agencies were almost certainly involved to some extent as auxiliaries to help clean things up if need be, but certainly not 'handlers', or the people Epstein was handing tapes to.
All but the Les Wexner tie is tenuous at best. A hamfisted photoshop of Ghislaine after Epstein's death. A line from an untrustworthy journalist like Vicky Ward. A connection to Robert Maxwell, who was actually in business with Rothschild Inc at the time of his death more than he was Mossad 19 . The whole theory doesn't play. Which is why when an investigative journalist like Whitney Webb, who does do great work, covers the Epstein case from the intelligence angle, the bulk of her investigation ends up being things unrelated to Epstein, and tied to him almost exclusively through one or two degrees of Les Wexner.

On the other hand, Epstein's ties to high finance are self-apparent. His ties to the Rothschilds are direct through Lynn Forester de Rothschild, evidence for which is thoroughly provided here. But he had also been a member of the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission, and David Rockefeller Jr was listed as a contact in Epstein's blackbook. And according Leon Black, David Rockefeller Jr had personally appointed Epstein as a director of Rockefeller University.

“Black was further impressed when he learned that David Rockefeller had appointed Epstein as a director to the Board of Rockefeller University. This appointment was consistent with Black’s understanding that Epstein was extremely knowledgeable about science and technology, as well as a strong proponent of scientific research and development.”

– Investigation Of Epstein/Black Relationship And Any Relationship Between Epstein and Apollo Global Management, Inc.



Epstein Blackbook Unredacted

Leon Black was CEO of Apollo Management, a hedge fund in control of the Standard & Poor's debt rating agency, that is one half of a global debt ratings duopoly, the other half being Moody's, which allowed brokerage firms like merrill lynch to orcestrate the '08 residential mortagage scam. Black was also board chair for the Musuem of Modern Art, a Rockefeller institution with a menancing list of board names, making up a group dedicated to cultivating the hubris of metropolitcan intellectualism into a money laundering racket 20. Men like Leon Black were prime targets of Epstein given the importance of certain assets controlled by hedge funds to the overall process of wealth concentration within the top whatever % it is these days.

JP Morgan Chase, the resultant banking superstructure via the 2000 merger between Chase Manhattan and J.P Morgan banks is most likely very much still a Rockefeller institution. I cannot prove this, as banking secrecy jurisdictions, such as the State of Delaware and broader City of London network, makes such a task quite literally impossible. Everything these days is owned by funds like Blackrock or Vanguard, who in turn own each other. In regards to who controls these funds, the answer may exist somewhere on paper, though it's entirely possible controlling rights to the entire operation, in a legal sense, is ultimately these days recognised through implicit understanding and legally enforced, if need be, through anonymous bearer documents, which need to be presented physically in person by whoever is in possession of them. Given this modern system for obfuscation of controlling rights, it is reasonable to just run with the assumption that the people who set up this system to hide within, are still controlling things from the inside of it, even if this may no longer be true. It is at the very least, reasonable to believe 'anonymous' banking corporations like JPMorganChase are still controlled by Rockefeller interests, until some other evidence proves otherwise. The alternative to this assumption is to accept the explanation of control offered up by these 'anonymous' institutions themselves. Which is, they are controlled by the people who own them. And since the people who own them are predominantly mutual funds of working class pensions, this theory in a literal sense is communism. Worker ownership of the means for production. Not control. Ownership. Control is maintained by the funds themslves, and handed over to a group of custodians through global custody agreements, these custodians being the custodian banks. . .like JPMorganChase 21

Jeffrey Epstein's bank was JPMorganChase up until his 2008 conviction, after which his accounts were gradually transferred over to DeutscheBank, which would also become Donald Trump's primary bank after his dealing with Chase Manhattan and Citibank during 90s 22 . Jes Staley, who had worked at J.P Morgan throughout the 90s, picked up the Jeffrey Epstein account after his firms merger with Chase Manhattan in 2000. Which perhaps indicates Chase Manhattan had been handling Epstein accounts throughout the 90s.

“The American banker (Jes Staley) has said he developed a relationship with Epstein in 2000, when he was hired to lead JP Morgan’s private bank, which handles wealthy clients. However, Staley stayed in contact with Epstein for seven years after he was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, and visited Epstein in Florida while he was still serving his sentence and on work release in 2009.

– Jes Staley: why did the FCA investigate and are its findings public?, The Guardian, 2 Nov 2021


Another JPMorganChase banker of Epstein's, Paul Morris, actually migrated over to DeutscheBank with him in the aftermath of the 2008 conviction to handle his new accounts there.

“RELATIONSHIP MANAGER-1,” who brought Mr. Epstein into Deutsche Bank, is Paul Morris, who had previously helped manage the Epstein account at JPMorgan. Despite Mr. Epstein’s conviction in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a minor and widespread press coverage of his involvement with underage girls, Mr. Morris in 2013 introduced Mr. Epstein to his Deutsche Bank bosses as “a potential client who could generate millions of dollars of revenue as well as leads for other lucrative clients to the bank,” according to the consent order.

– These Are the Deutsche Bank Executives Responsible for Serving Jeffrey Epstein, New York Times, July 13, 2020


But is any of this relevant? What about Russia! Ok then. Let us ride that wave of corporate media conspiracy theory for a moment, which combers from way back in 2005 and a Paul Manafort connection to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

See, who also connects to Oleg Deripaska back in 2005 is Peter Mandelson and Nat Rothschild.

“Kremlin watchers suspect it was Pechenkin who organised a swift entry visa for Mandelson when he turned up in Moscow to visit Deripaska three years ago. It was reported this week that Mandelson arrived by executive jet with his friend Nat Rothschild, Deripaska's adviser, but did not have the correct stamp in his passport. Mandelson, then EU trade commissioner, was allowed through immigration only after Deripaska's intervention, it was said.”

– 'Veteran KGB spy revealed as Deripaska's right-hand man', The Evening Standard, 29.10.08


“Mandelson had known members of the Rothschild family for many years. Rothschild is said to have been present at the dinner in Moscow in January 2005 with Mandelson and Deripaska. The three met again last August on Corfu, where Rothschild has a villa and where Deripaska moored his £80m yacht.

– 'Mandelson met oligarch earlier than he admitted', The Guardian, Fri 24 Oct 2008


The connection's Epstein had to the Rothschild family and Peter Mandelson are covered extensively in this aforementioned article.. Now, this isn't of much interest to the topic at hand, but if Trump's connection to Russia is relevant, then Trump's Russian connection's connection to Peter Mandelson and the Rothschild's must be relevant also.

Though there remains two under-appreciated aspects to the Trump administration. His appointed Wilbur Ross as Sec of Commerce, by then in his eighties and well above the theatrics of political theatre. As Wilbur made no effort to pretend he wasn't above it all. He walked about in ceremonial slippers, while instead of telling the President to “hurry it up” during speeches like a Don Regon to Ronald Reagan



Wilbur took a more laidback and somnolent approach, leaving everyone else to suffer through them



Then notorious deep-state cleaner and bagman, William Barr, joined Wilbur within the Trump cabinet for a short stint beginning in Feb 2019, as Attorney General, taking charge of the Federal Bureau of Prisons just in time to preside over the 'a perfect storm of screw-ups, rather than any nefarious act’ leading to Epstein's death in custody 23. Hanlon's razor being the go to when occam's would posit the simplest explanation to be a conspiracy for murder, and so doesn't fly.

But behind all this, and in the background of the circus of events that were the Trump Presidency; a democratic congress, a republican senate, and his administration, all ganged up to deregulate the banking sector, in the modern tradition of the 'business cycle'. As such, there was during this time a brief moment in history perfectly capturing the nature of these managerial creatures the banking institutions throw scraps of wealth to off their dinner plates. A moment of mass celebration for wealth creation, though as always, in the name of something else. Remember, loose lips sink ships, and growing wealth disparity is offset by a growing diversity within those at the top. Think inflation and growth targets, but with a diversity of boots stomping on a masked human face to deafening applause.

- https://thehotstar.net/trumpbonds.html
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

Postby Belligerent Savant » Sun Jan 02, 2022 3:27 pm

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Other than the use of nicknames/attempts at wordplay, a few worthwhile insights here.

Trust the LIE-ence: The Hypostasis of the Epstein

Everyone is taking it easy and girding their loins for what is looking to be a volatile 2022, so let's just sit back and remind ourselves how rapacious, corrupt and fraudulent the scientific establishment has become, and exactly who made them that way.

let's also remind ourselves who was the absolute, supreme and unchallenged driver of the STEM establishment for the past thirty years: the priapic panderer, Jeffrey Edward Epstein. This is a man who had done more to dictate and determine the course of science and technology than any single figure has done in recent memory. You'd have to go back to Vannevar Bush to find someone more dominant in shaping the science rackets, maybe even back to Sir Issac Newton.

Of course, those men were actual scientists and not insane, perverted, overgrown 13 year-olds like Jizzy Fuckstain there.

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But that's where we are: the great forward march of science and technology hit the Big Brick Wall a long time ago, which we would have all acknowledged if we didn't have pernicious bullshit factories like Netflix brainwashing us all to believe that we were on an inevitable upward trajectory to the stars and Transhuman immortality.

We're not and we never will be. No one is going anywhere, ever. You're in Paradise and it's bigger and more mysterious than you can even imagine. There's nothing outside of it but death.

And believing in such absurd fairy tales like "space colonization" is actively destroying any hope we have left of a functioning and free society. Believing insane and stupid nonsense like you see on Star Trek or Star Wars inevitably leads to the fascist fantasy of humanity evolving into a super-race of spacefaring ubermenschen. A fantasy that has led tens of millions of gullible idiots - most of whom can't even change a tire or boil an egg by themselves - to nurse murderous hatred for everyone they see standing in the way of their astronautic apotheosis.

Obama and his Hollywood handlers were very effective at exploiting these delusions for political gain, as five minutes on Twitter will prove.

I realize none of this is news, and that many of you have heard this all before here. But we are just a tiny handful of Davids up against a battalion of Goliaths pumped to the gills on steroids, HGH and bath salts. The truth is our only weapon. Wield it often.

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Look at this photo: who's the Alpha here? Who's the leader of this pack of power players? It sure as hell ain't Ba'al Gates. I've been ranting like a lunatic for quite some time now that the Eggstain takedown was a lot bigger deal than even the Trust the Plan™ types believe it was, and that it's caused more behind the scenes unrest and consternation than most might think.

And I also think that Fuckstain's domination and control of the leading influencers in the STEM fields is a lot bigger story than we've heard even from most alt.media outlets. I think that it - and not his honeytrap ops - was the true source of his power. The Lolita Island stuff was surely a factor in that, but I think it was his inexplicably deep pockets that got these leading lights under his heel.

Don't get me wrong: I don't think oligarchs like Ba'al Gates or Davos-dickwads like Ba'al Clinton were just puppets on Fuckstain's strings. That's silly. We're talking people with their own connections, history and fraudulent fortunes. They were clearly in his game for the underage trim, but Fuckstain was a smooth salesman, and used the jailbait to ease open the wallets and rolodexes of his powerful marks.

But the scientists - who don't have the power or access that Eggstein's loftier louches enjoy - are a totally different story. And while corporate science's corruption and degeneracy was by no means brought about by the man and his silent partners - it's been a satanic sinkhole from its very origins with the Royal Society - Epstein was very much the spiritual figurehead of the New Scientism and its corollaries, Nu Atheism and Randiite Pseudo-Skepticism.

As I've said many, many, many times, the Fedora Jihad came to a thudding halt when Eggstein first got into serious legal trouble and clearly needed all that payola money for his defense attorneys. And all the comic-book science being served up like Jonestown Flavor-Aid on the pop science sites dried up almost immediately after Epstein took the midnight train to Hell. Coincidence is not causation, except it unmistakably is in this particular case.

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Marvin Minsky is a salient object lesson. I mean, calling someone an "AI pioneer" is like calling someone "a champion unicorn jockey." By that I mean it's total bullshit Fantasia, only with credentials. Though I'm sure Marvin was a whiz at sums.

That said, one of the more encouraging signs of the past couple years is the absolute and humiliating self-immolation of the Terminator and Matrix franchises. These are two of the most pernicious propaganda-pushers of anti-humanism the world has ever seen, pimping a fucktarded fantasy of omnipotent artificial intelligence and invincible robots that greedy corporations found useful in scaring their slaves from agitating for fair wages.

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In case you didn't realize it already, the make-believe the corporate media feeds you of job-killing androids and human-like AI is the only reason that stuff was so heavily pushed by Hollywood. As in "We'd love to pay you a living wage, but you know, those androids are just around the corner. They'll replace us all any day now"

Ironically, the hacks who slaughtered those cashcows - and the odious Westworld, from the looks of it - didn't do so by design, but only because Hollywood (and California in general) is so punch-drunk on Woke-A-Cola that abject failure was not only the most likely outcome, it was in fact the only possible outcome. It's just they're so lost in Wokeworld, they can no longer recognize the real world anymore.

Burn, Hollywoke, Burn.

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Though not recognized as such, Wokeness is a splinter movement of Epsteinianity, kind of like the Sethians or Cathars of Scientism. Woke assumes the basic ontological premises of Epsteinianity (kill all da Kulaks 'cuz we wuv da science!) and blends them with the postmodernist witches' brew that psychotic sex-pests like Michel Foucault and sassy CIA shills like Gloria Steinem began conjuring up in the late 60s. And like all Frankensteins, Woke (in the form of the Atheism+ insurrection) quickly turned on its makers.

The stated idea behind Nu Atheism and Epstein's pseudo-science fantasias was to destroy organized religion so that the comic-book reality they honestly all believed was inevitable could rise up from its ashes. Sadly, they failed to take into account the fact that half the shit they believed was "right around the corner" were all scurrilous lies concocted to filch boatloads of money for whores and blow from credulous investors.

And now Espteinians like Tricky Dick Dawkins and Sam the Sham Harris are wondering if maybe destroying organized religion wasn't the best idea ever, after all. Foresight not being their strong suit.

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That's part of the tragedy of it all: while we get beaten around the face and neck by the corporate media if we regard any scientist as anything less than an infallible priest-queen, the fact is that STEM on the whole has become so arcane and hyper-specialized that no one really knows anything about anything outside their little tiny corner of expertise, in anything more than theory.

And even that's questionable these days, as Woke has invaded STEM's citadels like Uruk-hai storming Helm's Deep. Now simple arithmetic is racist.

Nerds like to see themselves as the guardians of objectivity and reason, but having spent my entire life in various circles of fandom, I can tell you with unimpeachable authority that there is no phenotype on Earth more susceptible to fantasy and delusion than the typical Nerd.

I mean, snakehandlers are more rational than your average LARP/RPG nerdling. At least a lot of them can do shit with their hands, like carpentry or roofing or whatever. Meaning something other than fap and man a joystick. Note that cults like Heaven's Gate and Aum Shinrikyo are/were disproportionately nerdy as well.

As a recovering science fiction victim, I can tell you that 99% of SF is schizoid-making bullshit of a calibre unseen this side of Eckankar. Lord of the Rings is a hundred-trillion times more realistic than most "hard sci-fi." I mean, start with the insane delusion of interstellar space travel, and go from there to Easter Bunny-tier fantasies like moonbases and Mars colonies, sentient computers and androids and 90-lb waifs that can beat up 400 lb. mercenaries and bodyguards.

Mind-rotting trash, all of it. Take it from someone who knows.

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Worse, the insane delusions of science fiction sex-pests (pedos are over-represented in fandom communities to a degree that would floor most normies) have fed into evil deceptions like Transhumanism and the Singularity. The utter impossibility of those religious precepts have driven tens of thousands of desperate young nerds into the bloody hands of the neo-Galli self-mutilation cult (which itself has an overwhelming overlap with the kiddie-fiddling community) as seen with certain peddlers of sci-fi stupidity.

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Let me be absolutely clear about this: I think science and technology are absolute human necessities. I have nothing but the deepest respect for the scientific method and those who actually follow it, but there's a final frontier that cannot be crossed. Science may be our greatest tool but makes for a fucking shit religion, especially in its Epsteinian form.

I mean, I get Epstein, I really do. At heart, he was just a silly, sad little nerd who all the chicks in Brooklyn thought was an icky dork. That kind of socio-sexual trauma is precisely how you get your head stuck in adolescence forever, as his sexual appetites and moronic scientific fantasies prove. No different than half of Twitter and five-sixths of sci-fi fandom.

Jeff passed through that awkward adolescent stage into quasi-stud status and exuded the outer-borough swagger so fashionable in the wake of Saturday Night Fever. He was good enough at math to get a gig at a private school and smoothly amoral enough on the trading floor to cheat a bunch of filthy-rich rubes out of their pocket change. He was by all accounts quite the charmer, as sociopaths usually are. And he used his lust for jailbait and his talent for financial chicanery to get said rich rubes to pay his way.

And then the intelligence agencies came calling.

I'm not going to get on my high-horse about his pimping and predation. If you think he was even close to a rarity in those circles, you're reading the wrong blog. And by most accounts, he at least stuck to girls who were of age in most countries and many US states. I think it's weird and gross, but weird and gross is something the rich do best.

The thing that really burns my butter is the power, corruption and lies he was party to. How many fucked-up decisions have politicians made solely because Epstein took video of them screwing underage girls? Or judges, or CEOs or whatever? Or, for our purposes, scientists?

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And aside from the COVID shitshow - which is straight out of the Epstein orbit and would never have happened without the caustic influence of Epsteinianity - there is the fact that the overwhelming bulk of science being done today is provably deliberate deception and fraud.

Despite what psyop/social engineering cutouts like Netflix would have you believe, most scientists are not dispassionate Guardians of Truth. A lot of scientists are in fact lying scumbags who are wasting boatloads of money and filling everyone's heads with malicious and disempowering bullshit like "Transhumanism" and "Artificial Intelligence."

The ethical scientists and computer engineers know it's all lies, but their brave voices are drowned out by the High Priests of Epsteinianity.

And what are the fruits of the Epsteinian evangel? Record rates of suicide, Woke psychosis, depression and sexual self-mutilation for starters. Mass hypochondriacal apoplexy, for seconds. Mind you, Epsteinianity per se didn't originate many of the memetic cancers that are killing us, but like any successful religion it has appropriated and weaponized them.

And like I said, the real tragedy here is that these dumb Epsteinite fucks are higher on their own supplies than most. Epstein was so besotted with science fiction bullshit that he thought he could get his rubes to make him the immortal patriarch of a new race. It's all so weak, depressing and pathetic, and proves that underneath all the money, pussy and power, he was just another scared little nerd-boy reading his Green Lantern comic books and Isaac Asimov novels under the covers with a flashlight.

So if you want to help foster positive change, stop consuming the infantilizing fantasies of Hollywoke and Netflix. See them for what they are: rapacious corporate propaganda that wishes - and actively does - you real harm. Strive to relentlessly undermine the lies they spin, because their lies are the carrot the masses keep following to their oblivion.

The corporate media - including the streaming services - is almost exclusively peopled by delusional, pampered psychotics who hate you and literally want you dead. If you think I'm exaggerating even a little bit, go read their social media feeds.

They hate you because they hate themselves (justifiably), but also because they've been brainwashed into believing that you and your kind are standing in the way of their apotheosis. And a lot of their psychosis is fed by Epsteinianity, not to mention Muskianity and Bezoism and Wachowskism and all the rest of the postmodern clownery.

So when you hear people start going on about ridiculous bullshit like A.I. or moon-bases or Boston Dynamics, or puke out tired bromides like "I trust the science," consider getting up in their shit and telling them they're no different than an Appalachian snakehandler or Scientologist.


Actually, tell them they're actually a lot worse, because most snakehandlers or Scientologists at least have the courage of their convictions and walk their talk. They don't just lazily regurgitate NASA or Netflix nonsense like drones and act like that makes them educated.

Or maybe you shouldn't be too harsh. After all, they're victims of the most audacious and far-reaching mass hypnosis the world has ever seen.

We all are.




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Postby Wombaticus Rex » Mon Jan 03, 2022 11:17 am

I was absolutely gob-smacked to get to the end of that essay and realize it was Christopher Knowles. His writing has really degraded over the past few years; I hope he's doing okay.

Completely disagree with his read on the Epstein origin story, but then again, I would. I think our good doctor is far closer to the facts with his rundown on Trump's white house arc two posts above. That aside, I agree that Knowles is barely overstating the extent of Epstein's impact, though I do think he's grossly overstating his agency. That project was already in the capable hands of John Brockman back when Epstein was buying advertisements to solicit cute girls from Texas.

It's sad but also extremely funny how many researchers in parapoltics / high strangeness circles won't reconcile with names like Rockefeller and Rothschild solely because they're afraid of the connotations & associations. It's a very effective defense.

If I was looking to cover my trail and insulate my ops, I would hire a Miles Mathis / Wayne Madsen type to churn out lurid prose on an industrial scale. I often wonder how much the John Birch Society existed for that sole purpose, especially considering what their top men were doing -- and how they treated actual American patriots who had the misfortune to cross their paths, or worse still, trust the bastards.
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Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:29 pm

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Indeed. Astute observations.

And yes, we have the fortune, in this relatively obscure forum, of valuable contributions by the likes of drstrangelove, amid a sea of noise out there on the webs.
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Postby Harvey » Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:53 pm

My girlfriend noted that Maxwell, Epstein and Jimmy Savile were all in the royal orbit in July 1999. Savile at his highlands retreat with Prince Charles. Maxwell and Epstein with Prince Andrew at the Balmoral estate.
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Postby Harvey » Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:56 pm

The timing of Epstein's probable murder, nine or ten weeks before Event 201 still bothers me. I can't quite see the shape of this yet, but it's not nothing.

Not only was Epstein a Rockefeller fellow, so was his & Gates’s scientist Melanie Walker (prince Andrew mistress & now Microsoft exec’s wife)

https://nitter.net/JesseMatchey/status/ ... 75400449#m



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^ That list of science royalty who Epstein supported is also impressive.


https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/the-cover-up-continues-the-truth-about-bill-gates-microsoft-and-jeffrey-epstein/

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While the Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation intermingled, and the latter had ties to Epstein and Maxwell, it also appears that Epstein had significant influence over two of the most prominent science advisers to Bill Gates over the last fifteen years—Melanie Walker and Boris Nikolic.

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A screenshot from a 2019 presentation Melanie Walker gave for Rockefeller Foundation, where she is a fellow.
Source: YouTube

Melanie Walker, now a celebrated neurosurgeon, met Jeffrey Epstein in 1992 soon after she graduated from college, when he offered her a Victoria’s Secret modelling job. Such offers were often made by Epstein and his accomplices when recruiting women into his operation and it is unclear if Walker ever actually worked as a model for the Leslie Wexner-owned company. She then stayed at a New York apartment building associated with Epstein’s trafficking operations during visits to New York, but it is unclear how long she stayed there or at other Epstein-owned properties. After she graduated from medical school in 1998, she became Epstein’s science adviser for at least a year. By 1999, she had grown so close to Prince Andrew that she attended a Windsor Castle birthday celebration hosted by the Queen along with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. During this period, Melanie appears on Epstein’s flight logs under her birth name, Melanie Starnes, though it looks like “Starves” on the flight logs.



She was also an advisor to World Bank.


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Tim Evans of World Bank was also one of the players at Event 201.


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And of course she's also a WEF young global leader and advisor to WHO.


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Here is the photo of #Chomsky with Epstein's Paris Butler, uploaded on Dec 1, 2016.
When was it actually taken we don't know as Valdson won't respond to our messages.

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of course I'M TO LAZY TO find the maxwell thread, so this goes here, tonight....
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Postby drstrangelove » Sat Feb 19, 2022 10:15 am

Jean-Luc Brunel, held on suspicion of supplying girls to Epstein, found hanged

- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... und-hanged

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Postby alloneword » Sat Feb 19, 2022 10:56 am

^^ Another supposed strangle-wank tragedy?

The 74-year-old's apparent suicide happened in a part of a Paris prison where the security cameras were reportedly not working.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/15 ... conspiracy

That detail seems strangely familiar. :shrug:
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:32 pm

Had Brunel plead guilty?
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Postby Grizzly » Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:12 pm

Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband lists their historic mansion for nearly $7.3M
https://nypost.com/2022/02/18/ghislaine-maxwells-husband-selling-mansion-for-nearly-7-3m/

I went back a whole month and couldn't find the Maxewell Thread.
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Postby conniption » Sat Feb 26, 2022 2:41 am

Grizzly » Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:12 am wrote:Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband lists their historic mansion for nearly $7.3M
https://nypost.com/2022/02/18/ghislaine-maxwells-husband-selling-mansion-for-nearly-7-3m/

I went back a whole month and couldn't find the Maxewell Thread.


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Postby Harvey » Tue Mar 15, 2022 9:07 pm

:shrug:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-pal-jean-luc-brunel-linked-to-new-modeling-ventures-as-mc2-sells-off-assets

Epsteins Pal Jean-Luc Brunel Quietly Sells Off His Infamous Modeling Biz


Modeling mogul Jean-Luc Brunel is quietly selling off his MC2 agency in Miami, The Daily Beast has learnedwhile authorities in France search for him as part of their investigation into his friend, the millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The 74-year-old talent scout has long been accused of supplying underage girls to Epstein and of drugging and raping models himself. Brunel denied both of these charges.

Brunel reportedly vanished after Epsteins jailhouse suicide, and French prosecutors want to speak to him about Epstein’s abuse of minors abroad. Last week, cops searched his Parisian home and the offices of Karin Models, the agency Brunel led before launching MC2 Model Management. Brunel created the agency MC2 in 2005, reportedly with $1 million from Epstein, who regularly housed Brunel and MC2 models at his Manhattan apartments, according to the testimony of a former MC2 bookkeeper.

But while Brunel has dodged the press in recent years, hes allegedly already sold MC2s assets in New York and is currently in a deal to sell MC2 in Miami. The French agent also helped to create at least two new boutique modeling firms: The Identity Models in New York and 1 Mother Agency in Kyiv, Ukraine, former employees say.

The New York office of MC2, according to one MC2 lawyer, sold its assets to a new firm called The Identity Models in 2017.

And MC2s Miami location is allegedly in the process of transferring its assets to The Source Models, an agency run by MC2 executives Jeff Fuller and Petra Pedraza. A representative for The Source said MC2’s location in Miami will shut down.

Staff at MC2s third location in Tel Aviv did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Brunel has claimed MC2 lost business over his ties to Epstein. In 2015, he filed a lawsuit in Florida state court against the financier, claiming, MC2 was worth millions of dollars; now, due to the illegal actions of Epstein, MC2 is almost worthless.

The fashion industry veteran also denied any connection to Epstein’s sexual pyramid schemewhich involved enlisting underage girls for massages in his Palm Beach and New York mansions. Epstein would molest the girls or even rape them, and had some of his victims recruit even more minors for him to abuse.

But Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims Epstein kept her as his sex slave, identified Brunel as a purveyor of minor girls. In a 2015 affidavit, Giuffre said Epstein groomed her for sex with his powerful friends including Brunel and Prince Andrew (who also denies the allegations).

Brunel would offer the girls modeling jobs. A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money, Giuffre stated, adding that Brunel joined Epstein and gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell for orgies with children in locations including the U.S. Virgin Islands, New Mexico and Palm Beach.

Sigrid McCawley, a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner who represents Giuffre and other Epstein accusers, told The Daily Beast that Brunel should be on authorities radar as a key participant in Epsteins child sex-trafficking ring.

We have to carefully look at the people who are around him and who are providing him with these females, and Jean-Luc Brunel was doing exactly that, McCawley said. He was using the ruse of a modeling agency to bring Epstein young victims.

Soon after Giuffres claims made news, Brunel issued his only public comment on the matter: I strongly deny having participated, neither directly nor indirectly, in the actions Mr. Jeffrey Epstein is being accused of. I strongly deny having committed any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the course of my work as a scouter or model agencies manager.

Still, Brunels bad publicity over Epstein may have led him to shutter the MC2 offices. At the same time, sources say, he helped in the creation of two other modeling agenciesthough his name does not appear on publicly available corporation records for either.

Multiple former MC2 employees and models told The Daily Beast that Brunel was considered, at least at the beginning, as the man who helped create The Identity.

According to its website, the agency was founded in 2017 with the concept of a creative boutique to work on and develop different profiles while creating individual identities for those represented.

The Identity is run by Mathias Pardo, a French-born talent scout who is listed as vice president of the company in New York state corporation records. (The identities of the president or any other executives of the Delaware-incorporated firm aren’t publicly known.)
He was using the ruse of a modeling agency to bring Epstein young victims.
Sigrid McCawley, a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner

Pardo, who for years worked with Brunel as an MC2 agent, told The Daily Beast that he owns and founded The Identity in 2018. He denied Brunel played a role in founding the modeling firm. Mr. Brunel has absolutely nothing to do with The Identity, Pardo said in an email on Sept. 13. He did not return further messages.

Yet in 2017, one Identity model allegedly joined Pardo at New York’s Mercer Kitchen for a meet-and-greet that included only one other person: Jean-Luc Brunel. According to the model’s mother, Lea Assenmacher, the young woman showed both men her portfolio during the rendezvous at the chic Soho restaurant.

The model told her mother that Brunel was very polite and drank a lot of champagne, as they made small-talk about the fashion world. During their conversation, Assenmacher claimed, Brunel and Pardo indicated that MC2 would cease operations and The Identity would take its place. The girl signed a contract with The Identity soon after.

She felt Jean-Luc Brunel was the final arbiter" of whether she was signed, Assenmacher told The Daily Beast. Mathias was deferential to him.

Two former MC2 employees told The Daily Beast that initially, The Identity operated out of MC2s offices on West 14th Street. The only ones working for The Identity was Mathias and Jean-Luc Brunel, one ex-staffer said, and referring to Brunel, added that it seemed like, They just wanted to open another place without his name.

Serena, a second former employee who asked to withhold her last name, said, I was around for a lot of the logistical conversations about the conversion into The Identity. It must've turned over a month or two after I left, if even. But the goal of The Identity was the younger faces would represent it while MC2 stayed the same, but I dont know if that happened.

The Identity shares the same attorney as MC2 Ian Illych Martinez of Florida and houses its models at the same East Village apartment once used by MC2.

Martinez also represents The Source Models and 1 Mother Agency, which Brunel allegedly founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2014, former employees and models say.

The Identity and MC2 share models and at least one other talent agent in common: former MC2 hand Vinicius Freire.

And a review of The Identity's website shows that 20 of its 67 models are also currently signed with MC2 in Tel Aviv or Miami. At least 12 Identity models are also signed with 1 Mother Agency. (Some models have contracts with all three agencies.)

In an email, Martinez said Brunel is not an owner of The Identity. The Identity Models, Inc., entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with MC2 Model Management, LLC. in 2017, Martinez wrote. The Identity Model, Inc.s sole shareholder and one of two officers, is someone other than Mr. Brunel.

According to the October 16, 2017, Minutes of Organizational Meeting, two individualsneither of whom were Mr. Brunelwere elected officers, the attorney continued. Any ownership allegations regarding Mr. Brunel or any other entity with his involvement is expressly denied and refuted by the corporate documents.

Other than the aforementioned, there is no further comment regarding this matter.
The goal of The Identity was the younger faces would represent it while MC2 stayed the same.

Martinez did not answer followup questions on Brunels involvement with The Identity, The Source Models and 1 Mother.

Meanwhile, Marcia Gomez, a spokeswoman for The Source Models, said the agency is owned by Pedraza and Fuller, who was Brunels longtime business partner at MC2. Indeed, the contact email listed on The Sources Instagram page is an Mc2models.com address.

Mr. Brunel is not involved and has no connection whatsoever to this organization, Gomez said in an email. Additionally, MC2 Miami will be ceasing operations.

Gomez said MC2 Miamis assets will be sold to The Source Models. (Fuller and Pedraza did not return messages seeking comment.)

Asked why Fullers wife, Hilary Altman, is the registered agent for the Ukrainian agency 1 Mother in Florida corporation filings, Gomez said, Recently, as an inducement for 1st right of refusal in the Miami modeling market, Jeffs wife agreed to be the manager for the domestic company and be a liaison for this business.

“Mr. Brunels involvement with 1 Mother was limited to providing a loan at its inception, Gomez added. Once the loan was satisfied (several years ago), that completed his involvement with 1 Mother.

Reached by The Daily Beast, one model signed with 1 Mother said she believed Brunel was the owner of the agency and that she saw him at the Kyiv office last spring.

Another model who left 1 Mother told The Daily Beast that Brunel was the owner and that "he came a few times to Ukraine to visit all models.

But Katya Talanova, CEO of the 1 Mother Agency, told The Daily Beast that she owns the firmnot Brunel. We had been working with MC2 Miami for some time, Talanova said in an email. They had a first right of refusal because of loan that we had (that was covered long time ago).

Asked about Brunel, Talanova said, Mr. Brunel has nothing to do with 1 Mother Agency. He is out of business and doesnt have any connections with us.

She declined to answer follow-up questions on the loan she referenced.

Vladimir Yudashkin, who says he co-founded 1 Mother with Brunel in 2014, said the agency was the Frenchman’s brainchild. Jean-Luc approached me and we started to work together, Yudashkin told The Daily Beast.

He wanted models who worked for 1 Mother to think that they are booked to MC2 to represent them in New York because MC2 is the best choice for themnot because MC2 is financially related to 1 Mother and 1 Mother has no other choice to work with MC2, Yudashkin said.

When the time came to place the models in the U.S., Jean-Luc pushed to work exclusively with MC2,” Yudashkin added, and potentially with The Identity in the future.

Brunel, according to Yudashkin, wanted to open a new agency in America.

He had told me that hes not happy how MC2 is doing and saw that the image was a problem and he wanted to open a new agency, Yudashkin said. He wanted to name it The Identity and Mathias was supposed to be the person who runs it.

Yudashkin said MC2 was supposed to be the agency for more commercial modeling jobs, while The Identity’s goal was to become a high fashion agency.

In 2017, Yudashkin left 1 Mother Agency because he felt it was impossible to work with Brunel.

I was in the position to lie to models about MC2 and it was intolerable for me, he said.
When the time came to place the models in the U.S., Jean-Luc pushed to work exclusively with MC2, and potentially with The Identity in the future.
Vladimir Yudashkin, formerly of 1 Mother

In February, Ukranian model Natalia Kulakovskaya filed a lawsuit against 1 Mother and MC2, alleging that Mother breached its fiduciary duty by forcing her to work with MC2. The complaint, filed in Miami-Dade County, alleges Mother and MC2 share common control and/or ownership and that it was self-serving and profitable for Mother to work with Mothers affiliate.

Martinez filed a motion to bring the case to arbitration. Kulakovskayas lawyer, Nicolas Cuetara, said he will not comment on pending litigation.

The Ukrainian agency sued another model, Daria Khlystun, in November 2017, claiming that she breached her contract by failing to pay 1 Mother commission from her earnings with other agencies.

In her answer and counterclaim to 1 Mothers complaint, Khlystun denied violating her contract and instead claimed it wasnt valid because of duress/undue influence and fraud and/or misrepresentation by the agency, among other alleged transgressions.

Khlystun claims she suffered damages because 1 Mother Agency failed to provide financial support, visas for travel, and housingand didn’t allow her to select the agency, or model manager, of her choosing.

She alleged 1 Mother abused its influence to force her to work with agencies that werent in her best interest,“ according to one November 2018 court filing.

One of those agencies was MC2, which she claims is "affiliated” with 1 Mother.

Khlystuns lawyer, Cuetara, filed a notice of service of a proposed settlement in February.

Martinez did not return messages seeking comment on the 1 Mother lawsuits.

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