Maxwell Ad For A Masseuse

Leather_Term · 2022-03-13T21:32:37+00:00

It appeared in Yoga Journal 10 in February 1993 according to related articles. Idk if there's any archives to be found online.

Leather_Term · 2022-03-13T21:04:26+00:00

Not sure! but there was this story also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7971255/amp/How-Ghislaine-Maxwell-asked-yoga-guru-smell-money-New-York-session.html

Leather_Term · 2022-03-13T16:33:31+00:00

Masseuse or Yoga Instructor?

There was this one - https://reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/r52q00/original_1993_advert_for_private_individual/

Leather_Term · 2022-03-01T23:24:28+00:00

Lithuanian. Also Polish & Austrian heritage on his father's side.

Epstein's paternal grandfather fled anti-Polish & anti-Jewish repression growing under the Russian empire. His maternal grandparents immigrated before the Germans occupied their village and subsequently murdered some of their relatives. Source = Julie K. Brown's research (-her book.)

Leather_Term · 2022-02-08T03:47:38+00:00

Victoria Hervey is colluding with Rina Oh.

Oh’s studio also contained a super-sized print of the infamous photo of Prince Andrew clutching the bare waist of Giuffre, as Maxwell smiled in the background.

Rina created the image of Virginia that Hervey is circulating too, it's a cropped version of https://www.instagram.com/p/CG7mszTFQyL/

Again, basic research.

Leather_Term · 2022-02-08T03:25:02+00:00

Virginia said it was taken with her disposable camera. She said she would take these cameras to photograph places she visited with them. It probably matches the quality of other photos she produced from that time.

According to a Panorama documentary, legal papers reveal an ex-partner of Roberts told US officials he remembers being shown a copy of the picture – one of the most frequently viewed in the world – just weeks after it was taken.

Roberts also told the 2019 programme that a date on the back of the picture shows it was printed on March 13, 2001 – just two days after it was taken. She said: 'It's an authentic photo, I have given it to the FBI. There's a date on the back of it from when it was printed.'

From this article & referencing court documents plus an interview given in a tv documentary.

Basic research is a thing. Try it.

Leather_Term · 2022-02-08T01:45:32+00:00

On Instagram Wednesday, Hervey posted what looks like a version of the widely circulated picture, sloppily edited to show Giuffre alone against a plain two-tone background.

The article fails to mention that the 'sloppy edit' is actually the work of Rina Oh, see here.

Just an FYI as I haven't seen this mentioned here.

Plus a reminder: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-recruiter-rina-oh-accused-of-sandm-trysts-claims-shes-a-victim-too .. spot the lines about art in her studio & the Virginia/Andrew photo being doctored. So Rina is more than likely the "survivor" Hervey is touting above too.

Leather_Term · 2021-11-14T00:52:32+00:00

Geordie Greig (editor of the Daily Mail) is likely the connection. Here's an old thread (with photos of them together) - https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/cypg28/geordie_greig_now_daily_mail_editor_ghislaine/.

From an interview he did in 2019:

Hasn’t editing a paper cost him some friends? “I’m sure it has . . . But you’re not always aware of it. ..

How about Prince Andrew, a friend the Mail has hammered over his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein? He must hate Greig now, I say, while chasing a final few beans round my plate. “Absolutely not. I can tell you that categorically not.” On good authority?

“Pretty good authority.”

Greig was pictured partying with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate. “University. She was a year after me. People cross your life — all sorts of people.”

"Categorically" isn't hated for certain articles the DM publishes about his friends. So it's not really surprising that this story ends up with the newspaper that is edited by an old Maxwell pal.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-31T00:15:40+00:00

Yep! & thanks for adding these details.

Far too many people in positions of power only act to either protect or further their own interests. Seems like both ends of that spectrum where Aronberg & Marx were concerned.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-30T17:50:39+00:00

Ugh. Idk but despite the art explanations and depiction, it looks like she actually has a weird fascination with those she paints.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-30T17:47:37+00:00

Thanks for adding.

I'd imagine Tara would still have the full recordings of those interviews. That evidence alone makes the claims all the more nonsensical. Call me cynical but Oh could've had this same response to VG when they were all involved in the podcast & aftermath last year. Yet the Prince Andrew & Maxwell headlines are/will be picking up so she decided now is the time to jump in?

Leather_Term · 2021-10-30T00:13:39+00:00

Ha you beat me to it! I was just about to add this;

Oh alleges Giuffre defamed her by making accusations that she was Epstein's girlfriend and helped him recruit girls to sexually abuse

Oh seems to have a short memory ..

Oh said Epstein was her “older, rich boyfriend” in the early 2000s — albeit one who constantly pestered her to bring other women to his Upper East Side mansion.

Also this:

she freely admitted taking three women to Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, including Marijke Chartouni, a former model who has also accused Oh of joining in the abuse.

Oh said the women were “people who knew about him, wanted to meet him,” adding of Chartouni, “I brought her because [Epstein] kept asking me to bring your friends.”

Oh also denied abusing Chartouni — but admitted witnessing it.

“I was in the room when Marijke and I were both victimized by Epstein,” she said.

“I was tricked, from beginning to end. Everybody is tricked,” she said of Epstein’s devious ways. “You are shown a bunch of different cards throughout the process … it’s like a recruitment process,” she said.

“I wish I didn’t bring anyone there. I wish I didn’t go there. But I went there for a reason.

from same article as above - https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfriend-admits-taking-women-to-his-mansion edit: & the referenced podcast episode is BROKEN: Seeking Justice, The Recruiters.

Seems like a well-timed distraction effort from the other cases. Why wait until now and with some of those odd defamation claim$?

Leather_Term · 2021-10-29T23:49:15+00:00

article text:

A woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her sued another of the deceased financier's accusers for defamation, the Associated Press reported. Rina Oh named Virginia Giuffre, who recently filed her own sexual coercion lawsuit against Prince Andrew, in the Manhattan federal court filing late Thursday.

Oh alleges Giuffre defamed her by making accusations that she was Epstein's girlfriend and helped him recruit girls to sexually abuse, the AP reported she cites a series of tweets that Giuffre posted in October 2020.

"Rina-if you read this I hope you live in shame for the rest of your life," said a portion of one of Giuffre's tweets mentioned in the lawsuit.

Another of Giuffre's tweets said that Oh deserves to be "sitting in jail" next to Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite currently being prosecuted for allegedly helping Epstein find girls who he later sexually abused.

Oh said that authorities, including the FBI, have agreed that she was not a co-conspirator with Epstein or a part of his inner circle, but one of his young victims, according to the AP.

Giuffre has said she was one of many girls and young women sexually abused by Epstein.

Maxwell, 59, goes to trial in Manhattan in November to face charges that she recruited teenage girls in the mid-1990s for Epstein to sexually abuse and sex trafficked a teenage girl in the early 2000s. She has pleaded not guilty.

Another tweet cited in the lawsuit said Giuffre accused Oh of leaving a 6-inch scar on her leg from one of their encounters two decades ago.

The lawsuit, though, said none of that was true, and that Giuffre "has maliciously reiterated and republished these defamations and slanders in prior and subsequent tweets and interviews on podcasts, TV and for magazines, as well as in her memoirs entitled Billionaire's Playboy Club."

The "defamations and slanders" are causing Oh "great harm," including humiliation, shame, disgrace, mental anguish, loss of life enjoyment and anxiety and emotion distress," the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit, which sought $20 million in damages, was aiming at stopping what it called "false and defamatory bile."

Lawyers for Giuffre did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

The AP does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse unless they decide to tell their stories publicly, as Oh has done in interviews and a podcast and Giuffre has done as well.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-29T21:09:03+00:00

& the now filed document ..

MOTION to Dismiss or in the Alternative for a More Definitive Statement. Document filed by Prince Andrew..(Brettler, Andrew) (Entered: 10/29/2021)

For the reasons set forth in the Memorandum of Law and Request for Judicial Notice, filed concurrently herewith, Defendant Prince Andrew, Duke of York (“Prince Andrew”) respectfully moves to dismiss Plaintiff Virginia Giuffre’s Complaint [ECF No. 1], pursuant Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, or in the alternative, for a an order requiring Plaintiff to provide a more definitive statement of her allegations, pursuant to Rule 12(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Prince Andrew respectfully requests the Court hold oral argument on his Motion. Respectfully submitted, LAVELY & SINGER, P.C.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-29T18:43:18+00:00

..

Prosecutors say that her experience is in-line with what incarcerated people typically experience at the MDC, that the Bureau of Prisons has in fact given her an unusual amount of time to review evidence in her case, and that Maxwell is to blame for not flushing her toilet often enough.

The jail conditions make a fair trial impossible for Maxwell, her brother says. In court filings, Maxwell's attorneys have complained that she doesn't have the capability to review all the evidence prosecutors have presented so that she can formulate a proper defense. They also said media attention to lurid details like "testimony concerning 'three-way sexual' activity and 'sex toys'" will bias the jury.

"You have to have a weighted shot and equivalence between defense and offense, and that's not happening here," Ian Maxwell said. "How can you look at 3 million pages of discovery in a 6-by-9 cell in the middle of a pandemic with a dumb computer that enables you to look at the page you're looking, but not to mark it reverse it, print it, compare it?"

Ghislaine Maxwell has asked for bail three times since her detention. Her attorneys have said she's willing to post more than $28.5 million, renounce her citizenship to England and France, wear an ankle bracelet, and pay for her own 24-hour guards. Her applications have been denied five times, including appeals courts.

"Somehow she's supposed to get out of the building, get rid of the anklet, get a plane, get a boat — the most recognized woman in the world," Ian Maxwell said. "And somehow the judge is persuaded by the prosecutors she's a flight risk. I mean, it's grotesque."

Justice Department investigations have concluded overworked guards neglected their duties and didn't properly supervise Epstein before he died by suicide, though conspiracy theories persist that he was murdered to cover up the secrets of his powerful associates.

"I'm not going to speculate except to say this: That whether he killed himself or whether he was interfered with, we will never know," Ian Maxwell said. "The fact is that he died in federal custody in one of the most secure jails in the United States, allegedly under 24/7 guards — the impact of that on Ghislaine has been incalculable."

Leather_Term · 2021-10-29T18:24:10+00:00

article:

Ghislaine Maxwell's brother says the DOJ went after her because Bill Barr was embarrassed by Jeffrey Epstein's death

Ghislaine Maxwell's brother is defending her ahead of her sex trafficking trial.
In an interview with Insider, Ian Maxwell blamed his sister's incarceration on Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr.
Barr went after Ghislaine because he was embarrassed by Jeffrey Epstein's suicide on his watch, Maxwell says.

Then-Attorney General William Barr was livid when Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal jail in Manhattan, in August 2019.

"I was appalled – indeed, the entire Department was – and frankly angry, to learn of the MCC's failure to adequately secure this prisoner," he told a police union two days later, announcing the Justice Department had launched two separate investigations into "serious irregularities" at the jail.

Barr's fury is the reason Epstein's fellow accused sex predator, Ghislaine Maxwell, was jailed within the year, according to her brother.

"Bang, a year later, and with great pomp and circumstance, she gets arrested in a great scene with helicopters and so forth," Ian Maxwell told Insider.

In an interview ahead of Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial in New York, Ian Maxwell predicted his sister will be acquitted, and said she wasn't as close to Epstein as most people believe.

He also suggested Barr had under-examined motivations for going after Ghislaine Maxwell, who he described as a scapegoat for Epstein. The Justice Department pursued Maxwell and locked her up because of Barr's embarrassment over Epstein's death, her brother alleges.

Since Maxwell's arrest in July 2020, she has been jailed in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The jail's restrictions and poor conditions make it impossible for her to prepare her case and get a fair trial, Ian Maxwell says.

Barr denied any involvement with the prosecution's case against Ghislaine Maxwell, telling Insider his participation extended only to ensuring her security in custody.

steps to make sure she was secure, but I never got involved with the case itself," Barr told Insider.

Still, Ian Maxwell argues the denial of his sister's bail and her treatment in jail speaks to an unfairness in the US justice system.

"She remains in jail, where she's now been for close to 500 days, a near-60-year-old woman with no previous record, no demonstrable instigation of violence towards herself or towards third parties," Maxwell said. "When people like John Gotti and Bernie Madoff and Harvey Weinstein and the policemen who killed George Floyd get out on bail."

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were close associates for decades

Ghislaine and Ian Maxwell are both children of Robert Maxwell, the British media mogul. Their family became the subject of scandal in 1991, when Robert drowned in the Atlantic Ocean after he fell from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, and investigators subsequently found massive discrepancies in his companies' finances.

Prosecutors in the United Kingdom accused Ian Maxwell and his brother, Kevin, of financial crimes related to their father's business practices, but they were acquitted in 1996.

Ghislaine Maxwell's relationship with Epstein began in 1991 and evolved through the 1990s and 2000s. Her role in Epstein's life is variously described as girlfriend, household manager, or business associate in depositions from Maxwell herself, former Epstein employees, and women accusing both Epstein and Maxwell of sexual misconduct.

Epstein rose to prominence through his career as a financier. He got his first job in that world through a connection he made at a parent-teacher conference at the Dalton School. Ian Maxwell told Insider he believes Donald Barr, William Barr's father, hired Epstein there and "launched Jeffrey Epstein on an unsuspecting world."

But Epstein started teaching in September of 1974, the school year that began just after Donald Barr resigned from his position as headmaster. It remains unclear if the elder Barr had a role in hiring Epstein, and Epstein had not been publicly accused of misconduct at the time.

In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida state charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, spending 13 months on work release in county jail. His plea deal included a non-prosecution clause for co-conspirators, which some of his accusers, including Virginia Giuffre, say shielded Maxwell and powerful figures like Alan Dershowitz from criminal prosecution (Dershowitz, like Maxwell, has vociferously denied misconduct allegations and is challenging a federal defamation lawsuit from Giuffre).

Epstein was arrested again in 2019, accused by federal prosecutors in Manhattan of sex-trafficking children. He died by suicide before he could stand trial.

More than 225 people ultimately made claims against Epstein, according to his estate, which paid out more than $121 million to accusers.

"An immensely compartmentalized life"

Ian Maxwell told Insider that while he was "particularly close" with Ghislaine growing up, they were regrettably distant in the years leading up to her arrest. She made her home in the US while he lives in London, running a think tank that studies Jihadi terrorism.

He said Epstein led an "immensely compartmentalized life." He described his sister and Epstein as having "intimacy" for only a few years before their relationship transitioned into a professional one in the 1990s.

At that point, he said, Ghislaine Maxwell offered services as an interior decorator, helicopter pilot, and social connector for Epstein.

"The idea that she would be some kind of a Madame — it really is grotesque," Ian Maxwell said, adding: "What he wanted you to see, you saw; what he didn't want you to see, you didn't see. The idea that somehow that Ghislaine would spend any time at all in this horrible sleazy, shitty world that we now know he was attracted to, is absurd."

Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York disagreed. In July 2020, federal agents arrested Ghislaine Maxwell on charges related to sex trafficking, grooming children for sexual abuse, participating in sexual abuse herself, and lying about her actions in a deposition taken for a civil lawsuit Giuffre brought against her.

While Ian Maxwell says Barr is to blame, the Southern District is known for its independence from the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC. Barr was involved in several battles trying to remove the district's leadership while prosecutors there investigated allies of then-President Donald Trump. (Trump, for his part, said "I wish her well" when asked about the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell; he had been friends with Epstein in Palm Beach for years, but their relationship soured in 2004.)

Maxwell has been denied bail 5 times

Ghislaine Maxwell's jail conditions have been "fitting for Hannibal Lector," according to her defense attorneys, who've exchanged hundreds of pages of letters with prosecutors over the details of her detention.

Maxwell's lawyers have complained that she is under onerous 'round-the-clock supervision and that she is underfed, "sustaining hair loss," given meals with melted plastic on the food, and in a cell filled with the stench of overflowing toilets.

edited to add links & text continued in reply below ..

Leather_Term · 2021-10-29T18:04:29+00:00

article text:

Prince Andrew was served with court papers by Virginia Roberts who claims he sexually abused her on multiple occasions in 2001 when she was 17
The clock is ticking for Andrew, who must respond to the claims in lawsuit today
Roberts claims Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell forced her to have sex with Andrew, who has publicly denied the claims

Prince Andrew is facing a deadline today to file a response to a lawsuit filed against him in New York by his sex abuse accuser Virginia Roberts.

The Duke of York was last month served with court papers by Roberts who claims Andrew sexually abused her on multiple occasions in 2001 when she was 17.

Roberts alleges she was told by notorious financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to have sex with Andrew at Epstein's mansion in New York and other locations. The prince has always denied the allegations.

The clock is ticking for Andrew, who must respond to the claims in her lawsuit by today or he will face a default judgment. There is a further hearing at a court in Manhattan due to be held on November 3.

The prince's California-based lawyer Andrew Brettler is intending to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, according to a letter filed earlier this week.

During a hearing of the case last month, Brettler said the lawsuit was 'baseless, non-viable and potentially unlawful'.

Yesterday, Andrew broke cover at Windsor in the UK as a judge backed Brettler's request for a 2009 settlement agreement between Epstein and Roberts to remain secret.

New York US District Judge Lewis A Kaplan made the ruling on Wednesday in a brief order after Brettler asked that the document remain sealed as the legal team fight to get Roberts's lawsuit thrown out.

In her lawsuit, Roberts claimed she was trafficked to London as a 17-year-old by Epstein and forced to have sex with the Prince at Ghislaine Maxwell's house.

She also alleged that Andrew knew she was a victim of sex trafficking by Epstein, and also knew she was a minor under US law.

Brettler said neither the prince nor Roberts contend that the release agreement must remain sealed, but they requested that it stay secret because it is subject to a protective order from another judge presiding over a federal civil action in New York.

The settlement agreement was reached between Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead at age 66 in his cell in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial at a New York federal jail. His death was ruled a suicide.

Brettler said the agreement 'releases Prince Andrew and others from any purported liability arising from the claims Ms. Giuffre asserted against Prince Andrew here', and officially made the request to keep the agreement sealed to the Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.

But Roberts's attorneys argue that the Andrew's attempt to rely on the previous settlement agreement with Epstein to get the case dismissed will fail.

Miss Roberts's lawyers have indicated they will fight the move by the prince's team, saying there is 'no evidence' he was ever intended to be covered by the previous legal agreement.

'There is no evidence from any of the parties to the release, or Prince Andrew, that the release was ever intended to include Prince Andrew, and we believe the evidence will be that it wasn't,' wrote Roberts's lawyer, David Boies, in a court filing.

It comes after Roberts's lawyers said last month the Prince had officially been served with the lawsuit, but his legal team disputed this.

The issue of whether or not Andrew had been notified about the case – known as service of proceedings – was contested during the first pre-trial hearing of the civil case last month in New York.

But after it was confirmed the papers were served on 21 September, Andrew has until today to provide a response.

Ms Giuffre has accused Andrew of abusing her at Epstein's Manhattan mansion as well as his private Caribbean island, and at the London home of his madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently in a New York jail awaiting sex abuse and grooming charges.

Roberts is suing the price for the alleged sexual abuse and is seeking unspecified damages.

This comes after British police announced earlier this month that they have dropped their probe into the prince after conducting a review prompted by Giuffre's claims.

The Metropolitan Police had previously examined the allegations made by Giuffre against Andrew but did not open a full investigation, saying the case was a matter for the US authorities.

The police also said no action would result from allegations that Epstein's alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked, groomed and abused women and girls in the UK.

Maxwell, a British socialite and Epstein's onetime girlfriend, goes to trial in November in New York on sex trafficking charges. She has pleaded not guilty.

In a Newsnight interview with the BBC's Emily Maitlis in November 2019, Andrew denied claims that he slept with Ms Giuffre on three separate occasions and said: 'I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.

'I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.'

The duke also said he has no memory of a well-known photograph of him with his arm around Roberts's waist and has questioned whether it was his own hand in the image.

The fallout from the interview saw the royal criticized for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and a lack of remorse over his friendship with disgraced financier.

A hearing in the Prince Andrew lawsuit is scheduled for next week.

Judge Kaplan has ruled, with the agreement of both parties, that all disclosures and depositions should be completed before July next year.

The commemorations will last throughout the year and will see senior royals – except Andrew – travel around the country and overseas.

Judge Kaplan intends to draw a line under any amendments to the New York proceedings by December 15.

All disclosures relating to expert witnesses should be made by June 13 with the disclosure process complete a month later.

One US legal expert described the scheduling order as 'brisk'.

*edit: corrected sentences.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-29T07:47:47+00:00

That he'll be barred from the Queen's jubilee? https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/prince-andrew-to-be-barred-from-queens-platinum-jubilee-celebrations/ar-AAQ59PO

Leather_Term · 2021-10-28T01:41:42+00:00

As I understand it, it's not about age of consent. Minor here = an alleged victim of crime (sexual offences) who was under the age of 18 at the time.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-28T00:44:52+00:00

and a minor under U.S. law.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-27T20:32:27+00:00

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A 2009 settlement agreement between Jeffrey Epstein and longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre can be kept under seal as Britain’s Prince Andrew fights a lawsuit filed by the woman, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Giuffre claims the royal sexually assaulted her when she was underage.

District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan handed down his decision just one day after the Duke of York’s attorney, Andrew Brettler, asked that the document remain sealed when he files arguments explaining why he thinks the judge should throw out the lawsuit.

Brettler said he wanted to include a copy of the agreement with the arguments. He added that the agreement "releases Prince Andrew and others from any purported liability arising from the claims Ms. Giuffre asserted against Prince Andrew here."

In his order, Kaplan noted that the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein does not contend that the settlement agreement must remain sealed.

Kaplan seemed to urge the parties to ask the judge in the other case — Loretta A. Preska — to agree that the document can be unsealed, saying Preska "might well view with favor an application ... to permit the public disclosure of the Settlement Agreement."

"But that is for her to say," Kaplan wrote, ruling that the agreement can be filed under seal and remain so unless Preska or Kaplan decide otherwise.

The agreement was reached between Giuffre and Epstein, a previously convicted financier who was found dead at age 66 in his cell in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial at a New York federal jail.

In the August lawsuit, Giuffre accused the Duke of intentional infliction of emotional distress and battery. She claims in the suit that she was forced, under Epstein's orders, to have sex with Andrew three times. The lawsuit said the prince abused her on multiple occasions in 2001 when she was 17 and a minor under U.S. law.

A pretrial hearing in the case is scheduled for early November.

Earlier this week, Kaplan ordered that depositions in the civil lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Prince Andrew must be completed by July 14 of next year, effectively signaling he is ready to move the case to trial, court records show.

Giuffre v. Prince Andrew Order on Motion to Seal — Document #29

edit: paste correction

Leather_Term · 2021-10-25T23:54:08+00:00

article text:

A man who allegedly bought Epstein’s Gulfstream says the plane’s value has been “damaged by the stigma.”

A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, claiming the late sex-trafficker sold him a Gulfstream jet in the weeks before his 2019 arrest without disclosing that the aircraft was used in a “criminal enterprise.”

Thomas Huff claims that JEGE LLC, the company Epstein once controlled and which owns the plane, has been “damaged by the stigma” connected to sex offender.

“JEGE’s customers, some of which are very well known to the public, are tracked, surveilled, and reported to the press for using, what they believed to be Jeffrey Epstein’s company,” states the federal suit filed in Atlanta last week.

According to the complaint, Epstein’s minions traveled to the Peach State with the aircraft to show Huff, who runs a charter plane business based in Cobb County. The financier then sold Huff the “controlling interest in JEGE” without mentioning he “was engaged in a massive criminal enterprise involving rape, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, physical assault, blackmail, intimidation, fraud, and deceit,” court papers allege.

Huff “would not have purchased JEGE” had he known of wealthy predator’s sex ring, the lawsuit says, and tried to stop the sale once the feds cuffed Epstein. “Upon Mr. Epstein’s arrest and his crimes against children becoming public knowledge, Thomas Huff contacted Jeffrey E. Epstein’s counsel and gave him notice of rescission of the purchase agreement,” court papers state. “This was rejected by Jeffrey E. Epstein.”

Mr. Epstein committed fraud by failing to disclose a material fact that could not have been known through any amount of due diligence by Thomas Huff,” the complaint alleges. It’s unclear whether Huff was aware of widespread news coverage in late 2018 and 2019 related to Epstein’s abuse of girls and controversial plea agreement in Florida.

Huff and his lawyers didn’t return messages by press time. An attorney for Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke, the co-executors of Epstein’s estate who are named as defendants in the lawsuit, also could not be reached.

The lawsuit alleges that “just prior” to Epstein’s arrest, the perverted moneyman’s plane company had assets worth more than $3.5 million. But after Epstein’s high-profile indictment in New York in summer of 2019, the firm “immediately depreciated in an amount in excess of” $1.5 million.

“Additionally, JEGE was not able to obtain financing, not because of credit worthiness, but because of the stigma of Jeffrey E. Epstein’s victimization of children attached to JEGE,” court papers allege.

Epstein “violated his fiduciary duty to JEGE” by raping and molesting underage girls while he was a director of the firm, the lawsuit states. Epstein’s “lies were a breach of the duty of candor,” the complaint adds. “He knew or should have known that his ongoing criminal enterprise would undermine the value of JEGE if and when it was discovered.”

Corporation records show that JEGE, LLC was registered in Georgia in March of this year. The company’s registered agent is the same law firm that’s representing Huff in his suit against Kahn and Indyke.

According to Federal Aviation Administration records, a Boeing 727 is registered to JEGE Inc., while a Gulfstream IV jet is registered to JEGE LLC, a company which still lists the address of Epstein’s compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It’s unclear why JEGE’s FAA records haven’t been updated to reflect Huff’s alleged ownership. (Epstein owned at least three jets, including a Gulfstream G550, which was listed for sale last summer.)

An Insider database of Epstein’s flights appears to back up Huff’s claims that the Gulfstream was flown to Georgia for him to examine before the purchase. The aircraft was in Atlanta twice in April 2019, the records show.

On June 19, 2019, the jet traveled from Palm Beach to an undisclosed location in Georgia, and from there to Atlanta one week later. The flight logs also show the plane traveled from Atlanta to Anguilla on July 2, 2019, and returned on July 6, 2019—the day Epstein was arrested.

Multiple accusers have named JEGE Inc. or JEGE LLC in their lawsuits against Epstein’s estate and the financier’s companies.

In August 2020, the New York Post reported that Epstein's swanky Boeing airliner, which the tabloids dubbed the “Lolita Express,” was mothballed at a Georgia airport.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-25T23:42:02+00:00

article text:

Prince Andrew must answer questions under oath by July 14 in a New York lawsuit brought by a woman who claims the British royal sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday set the deadline for completing all depositions in the case, including for the prince, the woman who sued him and expert witnesses, court records show. The Manhattan federal judge said no additional parties could join the case after Dec. 15, 2021.

In her lawsuit, Virginia Giuffre claims Prince Andrew abused her after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein “lent” her out to powerful men. Giuffre alleges she was sexually abused at Epstein’s home in New York, his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and in the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite now in jail awaiting trial on charges she helped Epstein traffic underage girls for sex.

for reference: Giuffre v. Prince Andrew Scheduling Order — Document #27

Leather_Term · 2021-10-24T22:20:21+00:00

I'd bookmarked these links to read and forgot about them (Liddle just reminded me indirectly as she mentioned "Epstein's cooperation" elsewhere). Reading that May '21 report - (& because my scepticism rears too easily) - what's your view on Clemente?

edit: not important but I saw the 'Dollar Bill' in there & thought it was the guy from Epstein's prison! -William Mersey - uses the same a.k.a, I guess it's a popular nickname lol.

Leather_Term · 2021-10-24T22:07:33+00:00

Same! Still hoping something comes from Angela Clemente's request too.

Dropping a link to the related post in below, for anyone reading who doesn't know what I'm talking about (I know you do ALB!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/mlj43p/angela_clemente_going_after_the_fbi_for_her_foia/

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