The German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) said on Friday that it had taken down three major darknet forums that distributed child pornography. The sites had more than a million registered users combined, making them a major hub for highly illicit content.
So far, four suspects have been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation. Three of the suspects were detained across Germany, while the fourth was apprehended in Brazil.
One of the suspects, a 21-year-old man from the eastern German state of Saxony, is believed to be the main administrator of the now-defunct forums – ‘BoyVids 6.0’, ‘Forbidden Love’ and ‘Child Porn Market’. The sites effectively served as marketplaces for the exchange of illegal content, with ‘BoyVids 6.0’ having some 410,000 registered users at the time of its closure and the ‘Forbidden Love’ boasting nearly 850,000.
The last site was only launched back in October and did not manage to attract a sizable audience before the raid. Still, it was already offering some 120 highly graphic videos, the police said.
The bust has been hailed by German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser as “an important strike against the spread of horrific images of sexualized violence against children.”
The strike against the sites comes as a part of Berlin’s efforts to clamp down on the spread of forbidden content, which depicts sexualized abuse of children. Last year, German police shut down the ‘Boystown’ site, which was among the largest child porn platforms on the darknet, with some 400,000 users.
Carlson discussed how those at the highest levels of politics, finance, and entertainment are child predators who feast on innocence to fuel their globalist endeavors. He also talked about Jeffrey Epstein, who even after being arrested for having sexual relations with minors was still hobnobbing it up with the likes of Oprah.“How did he do that?” Carlson asked during the segment. “Why didn’t anybody say anything? Why did people keep eating with him?”
“The media have no interest in covering the sexualization of children,” Carlson says. “Their interest – and it’s a very intense interest, tellingly – is in destroying anyone who complains about the sexualization of children or who even notices it. Noticing it, they tell us, is an attack on the LGBT community.”
For years, it was regarded as a wild conspiracy theory dreamt up in the basement of some creepy D.C. pizza shop. Today, however, the “elite pedophilia problem” has become a mainstream news talking point, at least over at Fox where Tucker Carlson addressed it openly in a recent segment.
Carlson discussed how those at the highest levels of politics, finance, and entertainment are child predators who feast on innocence to fuel their globalist endeavors. He also talked about Jeffrey Epstein, who even after being arrested for having sexual relations with minors was still hobnobbing it up with the likes of Oprah.
“How did he do that?” Carlson asked during the segment. “Why didn’t anybody say anything? Why did people keep eating with him?”
“Well, at the very least, we can conclude, based on the evidence that there is a tolerance for pedophilia among some, among the most powerful in our society, a tolerance that you would not find in, say, your average middle-class American family.” (Related: Remember when Tucker Carlson called out the January 6 “insurrectionists” as FBI assets?)
Anyone who calls out pedophilia is attacking the LGBT community, say leftists
There is also a problem of companies that cater to the rich, Balenciaga being one of the most prominent, throwing in people’s faces that the so-called “elite” are kiddy-diddlers who revel in flaunting it to the public.
Balenciaga recently ran an advertising campaign depicting numerous examples of sex with children. In one of them, a very young girl was seen lying face down on a couch surrounded by candles, empty wine glasses, and a dog collar on the coffee table.
In another Balenciaga ad, the same girl, now shown clearly to be a toddler, is seen holding a teddy bear while dressed in sexual bondage gear, replete with a leather harness.
Displaying this kind of obscene wickedness is the new norm among the uber-wealthy, by the way, who obtained much of their wealth from taxpayers. America really is the sickest kind of system you can imagine, and all right in your face.
“That picture showed pages from a Supreme Court opinion that struck down a law designed to fight child pornography,” Carlson explained about how this Balenciaga ad series was deliberately designed to mock the public in this manner.
“Whoever staged the photo shoot made certain to include a portion of that opinion that use the word ‘sex’ or ‘sexual’ four times and of course, that was not an accident. Balenciaga wanted you to notice. This seemed like a big story to us as we told you last night. Here you have a major international retail brand promoting kiddie porn and sex with children and not promoting it subtly, but right out in the open.”
The corporate-controlled media on the Left, meanwhile, along with leftist politicians, insist that calling out this perversion and wickedness is wrong because it represents an attack on the “LGBT community.”
In other words, molesting, raping, and now mutilating children with transgenderism are all just different colors on the LGBT “rainbow” that should be respected as other people living “their truth.”
This is the position of Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is among the many seen wining and dining with Epstein following his arrest. Is Adams a pedophile, too? What about Oprah?
“The media have no interest in covering the sexualization of children,” Carlson says. “Their interest – and it’s a very intense interest, tellingly – is in destroying anyone who complains about the sexualization of children or who even notices it. Noticing it, they tell us, is an attack on the LGBT community.”
WARNING: Graphic footage: Fox News host Tucker Carlson rips the sexual exploitation of children and the media for ignoring Balenciaga child ‘bondage’ ad controversy on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
This Evil is Old
Testimony of Anneke Lucas, survivor of the Belgian pedophile network “Children were mainly used for sex, but there were a number of aristocrats who were part of this club who also enjoyed killing children” pic.twitter.com/lOQXXeykct
Florida police have busted a massive pedophile ring involving Disney workers, according to a statement released on Friday.
160 people were arrested in the seven-day undercover human trafficking operation named “Operation Fall Haul 2.”
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters that Disney workers were arrested in the sting:
During the press conference, Sheriff Judd cracked a smile when he reported that Disney also had two employees arrested during the sting. The Sheriff said:
“Where would we be with an undercover operation and no Disney employees? Oh yes, we always have Disney employees.”
160 people were arrested by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Vice Unit during a seven-day undercover human trafficking operation, “Fall Haul 2,” which began on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. PCSO was assisted in the effort by police departments from Winter Haven, Haines City, Lake Wales, Davenport, and Bartow, as well as the Office of the State Attorney 10th Judicial Circuit, State Attorney Brian Haas, members from the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), and social services organizations: One More Child, Heartland for Children, My Name My Voice, Selah Freedom, and the Children’s Home Society of Florida who provide on-site services to identified or potential trafficking victims.
Those who traveled to provide prostitution services were screened by detectives and social services organizations to determine if they were being trafficked or exploited by others.
Two trafficking victims, and another five possible victims, were identified. All prostitutes taken into custody were offered services by the social services organizations at the operation. Follow-up will be conducted with those who are suspected to be sex trafficked or exploited.
“The online prostitution industry enables traffickers and allows for the continued victimization of those who are being trafficked. Our goal is to identify victims, offer them help, and arrest those who are fueling the exploitation of human beings (Johns) and those profiting from the exploitation of human beings. Prostitution is not a victimless crime – it results in exploitation, disease, dysfunction, drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and broken families.” – Grady Judd, Sheriff
Some interesting notes from the operation: • 26 of those arrested told detectives that they are married. • Detectives charged those arrested with a total of 52 felonies and 216 misdemeanors. • Criminal histories of everyone arrested included 419 previous felonies and 619 previous misdemeanors. Some of the prior histories include charges for kidnapping, robbery, aggravated battery, and sex offenses. • 15 of the arrested were from other states and one was from Puerto Rico (Georgia, Michigan, New York, California, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Arizona). • 16 suspects live in Polk County. • 12 suspects told detectives they receive government assistance. • Detectives seized cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA (Ecstasy), and marijuana, from those arrested during the operation.
According to a Hollywood insider who appeared on “In The Trenches With Teddy Daniels,” Hollywood and the entertainment industry are controlled by pedophiles who prey on young children and use them as currency.
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According to a Hollywood insider who appeared on “In The Trenches With Teddy Daniels,” Hollywood and the entertainment industry are controlled by pedophiles who prey on young children and use them as currency.
According to the veteran screenwriter, who has 30 years experience working in Hollywood, he has the tapes to prove his claims and expose the elites and their crimes. Due to the dangerous nature of his revelations, the insider chose to conceal his identity during the interview, going only by the name of “Mike” and not showing his face.
Well-known reprobates like Hollywood director and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein are far from the only predators in Hollywood “with powerful political connections,” Mike said, stating that there are “a lot more cockroaches under those floorboards.”
These are the exact same people, Mike said, who gave Hollywood director Roman Polanski an Oscar and a standing ovation after he’d fled the US over charges of raping a 12-year-old child.
“There’s a lot of right-wing broadcasters who like to talk about these cloak and dagger clandestine meetings and back rooms, but it’s not actually like that. It’s in the open,” Mike said. “They already got away with it publicly and they’re all in on it,” he went on, telling viewers and listeners that Hollywood pedophilia is far from a mere conspiracy theory.
Mike, the Hollywood whistleblower, then went into further detail describing a situation on the set of “The Departed” movie.
During filming, Mike says, one of the film’s stars started throwing a temper tantrum or, as Mike described it, started “losing his mind.” As the star actor threw his fit, Mike says he began naming names, blasting out information pertaining to Hollywood pedophilia as the cameras still rolled.
Amidst the chaos, “finally, the guy storms off,” Mike said.
“The cinematographer goes to the camera, he turns off the camera, he takes out the SIM card, he gives me the SIM card and says ‘get rid of this.’”
“I’m telling you, Teddy, I have the tape. I have the footage!” Mike went on, telling Daniels that he’s been archiving that footage and more like it for the better part of a decade.
“It was that situation that made me go ‘there is something going on,’” said Mike.
According to his statements during his interview with Teddy Daniels, the footage captured on the set of “The Departed,” as well as other footage pointing to the perverted and woke underbelly of Hollywood, will be made available when Mike releases his upcoming documentary.
Titled “The Great Unawakening,” the film will offer further details surrounding Hollywood pedophilia and wokism, plus interviews with conservative actors blackballed by the entertainment industry. As revealed in Mike’s interview, the film will even feature a cameo appearance by Teddy Daniels himself.
“This is the real deal,” Daniels said of Mike and his upcoming documentary film, saying that the information Mike is set to reveal could put him in “real danger.”
“The guy’s got the goods on a lot of people,” says Daniels.
“So far, a total of 32 have been convicted, with the remaining cases pending,” is not a comment you want to hear when it comes to an entertainment company. But the fact remains that dozens of Disney employees have been arrested for child sex crimes in the past and this is alarming.
Disney’s lengthy history of hiring individuals jailed for a multitude of child sex offenses has fallen into criticism via the company’s resistance to Florida’s inaccurately labeled “Don’t Say Gay” policy, which tries to safeguard children from exposure to damaging gender ideology and activism.
Disney officials first remained neutral on the measure, which prohibits instructors from promoting alternative gender identities and LGBTQ activism to pupils in kindergarten through third grade, before being persuaded by their left-wing employees to condemn it.
“Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,” claimed the company in a public statement.
“Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that,” in a gesture presumably geared at calming its disgruntled staff, Disney added.
Workers at Disney, on the other hand, have been convicted for a range of sex crimes against children, such as attempting to have sex with kids and possessing child pornography.
In a 2014 CNN article, the company’s pedophilia issue was exposed, with at least 35 Disney World personnel jailed in the eight years since 2006 for alleged child sex crimes.
“So far, a total of 32 have been convicted, with the remaining cases pending,” explained CNN at the time of publication.
EVEN CNN COVERED DISNEY’S PEDO PROBLEM.
The following is a list with some of the most vile pedophiles and child sex offenders who all worked for Disney, with the majority of their roles providing them unparalleled proximity to children.
DISNEY CRUISE LINE SERVER: MOLESTATION OF A MINOR.
In an elevator aboard the Disney Dream cruise, Milton Braganza, a 33-year-old dining room server from Goa, India, allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl’s chest and forcefully kissed her.
Dawn Taplin, a former Disney Cruise Line security officer and 17-year police veteran, revealed the disturbing video from the incident.
“It’s not the first time I’ve cried on cases. But she’s literally trying to get away from him. You see her kicking her legs, trying to pull away from him.”
Taplin volunteered to contact state and federal law authorities after informing the ship’s second-in-command about the abuse.
“I was ordered not to make any phone calls, do anything at all. Nothing. Period,” said Taplin believing that if she defied the order, she would’ve been fired. “Just keep your mouth shut,” she claims she was told.
Braganza was interrogated by Bahamian officials after the ship departed with him on board, and he stated “I touched her on her right breast with my left hand,” according to a police report. The girl’s grandmother informed police that she did not want the case to be looked any further.
Despite the confession, Braganza was fired, and Disney covered the cost of his return flight to India.
DISNEY RESORT MANAGER: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
Cedric Cuthbert, a night shift custodial manager at Disney’s Port Orleans resort, was composing a sermon for his church when he accessed child porn into his work computer. Cuthbert was sentenced to six years in jail after pleading no contest to the charges.
DISNEY WORLD GIFT SHOP CLERK: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
According to the police report, Paul Fazio, a gift shop employee at Animal Kingdom Lodge, was convicted of downloading recordings showing “multiple scenes of nude prepubescent children engaging in sexual activity with adults and other children.”
DISNEY WORLD SECURITY OFFICER: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
William Marrero-Maldonado, a Disney security guard, was arrested in April after an inquiry by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office revealed that he had been collecting child porn videos. The charges against him were judged to be true.
DISNEY WORLD LIFEGUARD: ‘SEXTING’ WITH A MINOR.
Xavier Jackson, 27, worked for Walt Disney as a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort. According to authorities, he transmitted indecent images of himself and messages to an undercover officer who purported to be a 14-year-old girl.
Three counts of distributing harmful material to a juvenile and one count of unauthorized communication were filed against him.
DISNEY WORLD EMPLOYEE: SEX WITH A MINOR.
Patrick Holgerson, 32, was arrested as part of a child sex sting operation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Cyber Crime Unit, which resulted in 22 arrests.
Attempts to have sex with underage children were discovered.
DISNEY WORLD EMPLOYEE: SEX WITH A MINOR.
During a child sex sting operation conducted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Cyber Crime Unit, Joel Torres, 32, was one of 22 people arrested.
Torres carried condoms to a house where he thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old. He was charged with attempting lewd and lascivious battery, traveling to see a kid, and soliciting a youngster for sexual conduct.
DISNEY WORLD SERVICE MANAGER: SEX WITH A MINOR.
During a child sex sting operation conducted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Cyber Crime Unit, Robert Kingsolver, 49, was one of 22 people arrested.
Kingsolver, a service manager at the Magic Kingdom who handled ride maintenance, was convicted guilty of trying to have intercourse with a 14-year-old girl.
However, he was greeted by detectives when he arrived at the house.
DISNEY WORLD RIDE OPERATOR: POSSESSING CHILD PORN.
Justin Hazan, 32, guilty to downloading and possessing child pornography while working at Disney World’s Millennium Falcon attraction.
“During an initial preview of his computer equipment, detectives located files depicting child pornography with victims as young as 4-5 years old. They seized the equipment for further analysis,” detectives said in a news release.
Hazan was accused with 15 counts of child pornography possession.
DISNEY WORLD FOOD RUNNER: POSSESSING CHILD PORN.
Arlandres Sims, 36, worked as a food runner at the Animal Kingdom Resort and shared a room with another Disney World employee. He confessed to downloading and possessing child pornography and faces 25 counts of child pornography possession.
DISNEY CRUISE LINE CABIN STEWARD: MOLESTATION OF A MINOR.
Ahmed Sofyan was arrested in April 2014 on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old cruise passenger while the ship was docked in Port Canaveral, Florida. He was given a five-year jail sentence.
The Facts: Sonia Poulton, a British journalist, social commentator, and filmmaker, has been investigating the dark web of pedophilia for years. Some of her research has been compiled into a documentary called “Pedophiles In Parliament.”
Reflect On: Evidence has been emerging for decades with regards to this type of activity in ‘high profile places.’ Why, only now, is the entire planet starting to wake up to this fact? Reflect on how much power and control these people have.
”They use all forms of persuasion to prevent people from speaking out, to silence people. Threats, intimidation, blackmail, financial deprivation. And all types of harassment such as put under intensive surveillance, telephone tapping, all of this. They pull out the stops and they have unlimited funds because those funds are supplied by the tax payer” Andrea Davison, Former Intelligence Agent (source)
Whilst the global press is focusing on Prince Andrew’s alleged involvement with Jefferey Epstein’s child trafficking sex ring, this may, in fact, actually pale in comparison to other criminal activity involving children by the hands of the British Establishment.
Sonia Poulton, a British journalist, social commentator, and filmmaker, has been investigating the dark web of pedophilia for years that connects Margaret Thatcher, ‘Sir’ Edward Heath, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Jeremey Corbyn to the cover-up (and for some, the actual facilitation) of sex crimes against children. It is thought that this cover-up, may have been going on for at least 30 years.
Her documentary ‘Paedophiles in Parliament’ is a shocking expose which links many MPs to child abuse. Sonia exposes how the British Royal Family is also tied into this.
Prominent Royal members were openly well-known friends to the now-deceased and notoriously depraved pedophile Jimmy Saville. Curiously, it is said that he had access to the Palace whenever he liked. With MI5 and Scotland Yard having the job of ‘vetting’ everyone around the Royals, it would have been known to them, that Jimmy Saville at the very least, had a very bad reputation and really was not ‘royal’ material.
Yet, he had a very close relationship with Prince Charles, for decades.
As he throws Prince Andrew under the bus, Prince Charles, heir to the throne, is desperate to keep his fortune-building business out of the limelight. But a new book reveals all
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Buckingham Palace has been decontaminated. Prince Andrew’s office has been closed down. Any chair he sat in has been reupholstered, all doorknobs swabbed down. Let’s not even talk about the bathrooms.
I can’t remember a time when the royal family’s damage control was so swift and absolute. Priests are excommunicated with less haste and more mercy than Andrew in the wake of his disastrous BBC Epstein-related interview, and its ever-cascading fallout. But I detect the odor of scapegoating and hypocrisy in the decisive role that Prince Charles has played in this purge against his brother.
The urgency of Charles’s actions amounted to panic—the kind of panic that suggests that the future King is worried that the whole “firm” is in jeopardy. Nobody wants to lose the Queen but there are distinct signs that the prospect of King Charles IV is far from appealing to many of her subjects.
A recent poll by YouGov found that millennials are cooling toward the monarchy—among 18- to 24-year-olds, only 41 percent are in favor of keeping it.
And one of the things that more and more people are sniffing out about Charles is that he’s a phony—that behind his façade of concern for the future of the planet and talk about slimming down the monarchy, he is an outrageous hypocrite on both counts.
There is persuasive evidence for this in a new book, What the Royal Family Don’t Want You to Know…And What Do You Do? (Biteback Publishing, UK) by Norman Baker, a former government minister and long-time Member of Parliament who has become a zealous auditor of the royal firm’s accounts and travel habits.
Among the red flags that Baker raises are:
Charles has turned his vast personal fief, the Duchy of Cornwall, into a brand of high-end supermarket foods that makes an annual profit of more than £21 million ($27.1 million) on which he pays no corporate taxes.
Although he pays income tax (albeit “voluntarily”) he is allowed to make huge deductions for expenses including the costs of a personal staff of 28, including butlers, valets and gardeners—as well as those of the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla, including her jewels, clothes and stabling for horses.
He pays market price rent to the Duchy on Highgrove, his sprawling country estate, but all that money comes straight back to him in the Duchy’s profits without any deductions for tax—amounting, in fact, to self-dealing.
The Duchy audits its own accounts and gives no right of access to the government watchdog, the National Audit Office.
When Charles made a tour of Europe to promote awareness of climate change he flew to Rome, Berlin and Venice on a private jet, leaving a carbon footprint of 52.95 tonnes—using commercial flights would have reduced emissions by 95 percent.
The latest available annual travel costs (2018/19) for Charles and Camilla were £1.3 million ($1.68 million) and in that one year the carbon emissions generated by travel by the whole royal family doubled to 3,344 tonnes.
The Daily Beast reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment, and did not receive a response.
What makes Baker’s book particularly unusual is that he is currently a member of the Privy Council, the body of the “great and the wise” appointed as advisers to the Queen.
The title Duke of Cornwall is a lesser of Charles’s titles, Prince of Wales being the principal. But there is no loot with the Welsh title, nor much involvement with Wales except being invested with the title at an empty medieval pile, Caenarvon Castle, for which it is required to learn a few perfunctory lines of Welsh.
In contrast, the Duchy of Cornwall is loaded with wealth and land holdings that go back to 1337. Only 13 percent of the land is in Cornwall; there is four times as much in neighboring Devon, including 160 miles of coastline, and some hugely valuable sites in London.
The idea of using the Duchy name to brand a line of foods began in 1992 by using organic cereals from Duchy farms to make a line of biscuits named “Duchy Originals” – thereby seeming to be consistent with Charles’s well publicized devotion to the purity of organic products.
However, along with the world economy, the business crashed in 2008, making a loss of £3.3 million ($4.26 million). Charles was bailed out by the Waitrose supermarket chain, which saw an opportunity to punch the brand back into life by making it like a combination of Whole Foods and a royal franchise—all Duchy products carry the Duchy’s coat of arms as their logo.
The Met had to give an explanation for why it stopped investigating allegations of sex trafficking against Jeffrey Epstein after a woman who claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York accused the police of corruption.
Virginia Giuffre is pictured in a now-notorious photo of Prince Andrew with his hand around her bare waist, with Epstein and the Duke’s ‘friend’ Ghislaine Maxwell in the background. Then a teenager, she claims to have had sex with the royal at least three times back in 2001.
Some 14 years later, she brought her story to the Metropolitan Police Service, only to see the probe dropped rather quickly. “At first the Scotland Yard told me they were going to forensically examine [Ghislaine Maxwell’s] house in London – next thing I hear, just like the FBI, they were not allowed to pursue the investigation. Corruption in the highelevels (sic) of gov,” Giuffre wrote on Twitter this week.
The Met confirmed on Thursday that they had indeed launched a probe, interviewed Guiffe, got advice from the Crown Prosecution Service, and decided the case was out of their jurisdiction to proceed with a full criminal investigation.
We therefore concluded that the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) was not the appropriate authority to conduct enquiries in these circumstances.
“It was clear that any investigation into human trafficking would be largely focused on activities and relationships outside the UK,” Commander for Specialist Crime Alex Murray said, noting that Scotland Yard once again reviewed its position in 2019 and it remained unchanged.
Giuffre in the meantime doubled down on her accusations against Prince Andrew in the upcoming interview with the BBC, as the Duke of York faces a growing backlash following his own train-wreck interview with Newsnight about his friendship with the US financier.
He knows what happened, I know what happened, and there’s only one of us telling the truth.
Ghislaine Maxwell is at the center of the Epstein controversy, but she’s in hiding. The British socialite friend of Prince Andrew is accused of recruiting girls for the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking ring.
Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of crooked Jewish financier Robert Maxwell,
is accused of recruiting girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.
Prince Andrew’s recent interview about his relationship with the alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has sparked many questions but one stands out: what happened to Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite friend of the prince who is accused of procuring victims for the disgraced financier?
Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the Queen of England’s younger son, admitted ties to Maxwell and Epstein during the bombshell BBC Newsnight interview – while adamantly denying wrongdoing and expressing regret for continued association with Epstein.
Prince Andrew said he met Epstein through Maxwell, the daughter of late media baron Robert Maxwell. Ms Maxwell has vehemently denied allegations of wrongdoing but her current whereabouts are unknown, with media reports placing sightings of her in various cities in the US and Europe.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail in August, following his arrest on federal sex trafficking charges.
At the center of this controversy is Epstein’s accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims Maxwell recruited her to work as his masseuse when she was 15 years old. Giuffre has alleged that a sexual encounter took place with Andrew around 2001, when she was 17.
Giuffre claims Epstein flew her to London on his private jet. After dining with the prince and dancing with him at the Tramp nightclub, she claims, they had a sexual encounter in Maxwell’s Belgravia house.
Prince Andrew stands with Virginia Giuffre while Ghislaine Maxwell smiles in the background. Prince Andrew claims the photo is a fake and that he has no recollection of meeting Virginia.
Posing with his hand around the teen Giuffre was purportedly taken at Maxwell’s home – she is seen smiling in the background. Andrew said in the Newsnight interview he last had contact with Maxwell earlier this year, before Epstein’s arrest.
Multiple women in addition to Giuffre have alleged Maxwell enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, either recruiting them directly or planning visits to his homes.
Yet Maxwell’s fate remains an almost complete mystery. She has not been charged. And while she presently faces civil litigation, the likelihood of a court appearance is unknown. Her last public appearance seems to have been at a Los Angeles fast-food restaurant in August, though doubts have been raised about the veracity of that sighting.
Multiple attorneys listed for Maxwell did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Federal authorities have said the investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking is ongoing. But, officially, their comment is general and does not relate specifically to Maxwell or anyone else.
Legal opinions about whether Andrew could face legal trouble in the US are split and Maxwell’s potential role in any legal move against the prince is unclear – though she would probably be vital to such a ploy.
Mitchell Garabedian, the Boston lawyer who exposed Catholic clergy sex abuse, said in an email attorneys would want to locate Maxwell in the US, as courts here would have legal power to get her to testify.
“Certainly, given Ms Maxwell’s central role in the Epstein matter, what Ms Maxwell has to say as a witness about Prince Andrew’s involvement will greatly affect the opinions of countless others whether connected to law enforcement or otherwise,” Garabedian wrote.
Asked whether this meant Andrew was exposed to US legal liability, Garabedian said, “It depends on the facts.”
Paul Shechtman, a veteran criminal law attorney who teaches criminal procedure at Columbia University Law School, said that while pursuing a case against Maxwell probably appeals to the federal prosecutors who arrested Epstein, targeting Andrew might not.
“Everything points to the fact that she is a serious subject of the southern district [of New York]’s investigation and at the same time, and for a variety of reasons, I don’t think he is,” Shechtman said.
Authorities would have to prove Andrew knew someone was underage, Shechtman said, and “as a general matter, having sexual relations with someone who’s underage is a state crime and not a federal crime.
“I think his exposure for a federal prosecution is quite small indeed,” he said, adding. “I think he can continue to be a prince.”
Rebecca Roiphe, a professor of law at New York Law School and former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, said Andrew’s links to Maxwell meant he was caught up in the scandal, regardless of his links to Epstein. But that did not necessarily mean he would face charges.
“The mere fact that Prince Andrew was friends with Maxwell and she was allegedly involved in Epstein’s conduct does not itself prove Prince Andrew’s involvement,” she said in an email. “But it certainly raises questions that will affect publicity and in this particular case publicity is, on its own, quite powerful.”
Certainly Andrew’s Newsnight interview was a blow in the global courtroom of public opinion. But amid the fallout from such a catastrophic PR blunder, another uncomfortable fact emerged. With Epstein dead and Maxwell missing, Andrew has become the most public face of an ongoing investigation.
“Of course, if it’s proved that Andrew was involved with Maxwell and Epstein in the alleged criminal acts then he could face criminal liability,” Roiphe continued.
“Prosecutors are eager to hold someone responsible for Epstein’s alleged crimes. Maxwell is an obvious choice now that Epstein is dead but she is unavailable, which may mean that Prince Andrew is high on their list.”
Meanwhile, Epstein’s estate is facing numerous lawsuits from women who say he sexually abused them, many while they were underage. On Monday, a new lawsuit was filed by a woman identified as Jane Doe 15, who alleged that Epstein assaulted her at his New Mexico ranch when she was 15.
“Jane Doe was only 15 years old when Jeffrey Epstein preyed upon her, trafficked her and sexually abused her,” said the accuser’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, at a news conference. “She wants to speak her truth and encourage other underage victims of Jeffrey Epstein who have not yet asserted their legal rights.”
LD: Many big questions swirling round here. Firstly, is Prince Andrew guilty of all the sex charges laid against him?—that he had sex with numerous underage girls thanks to Epstein finding them for him—or is he as spotlessly innocent as he claims? Is a witch hunt being conducted against the prince, and, indirectly, at the Royal Family? Could some interested parties be plotting to bring the British monarchy to an end?
Secondly, did Epstein really commit suicide as claimed or was he strangled to death in his cell? Or is he alive and well in Israel? His death seems extremely suspicious as well as extremely convenient.
Thirdly, how come the Jewish procuress Ghislaine Maxwell has gone missing?—the one person who knows all the grisly secrets of the Epstein scandal and has an address book full of juicy names? Has she done a bunk to Israel? If not, where is she? and why is she in hiding? and is her life in danger?
Many other fascinating questions . . . we may never know the answers . . . interesting times. [LD]
(TMU) — Biographer for the Royal Family, Lady Colin Campbell, recently appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain where she defended Prince Andrew against claims of pedophilia.
In her defense of the disgraced prince, Campbell pointed to the “prostitution” charge that Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of in 2008, and attempted to downplay the fact that the girls were underage by suggesting that he was simply hiring sex workers.
“You all seem to have forgotten that Jeffrey Epstein, the offense for which he was charged and for which he was imprisoned, was for soliciting prostitution from minors. That is not the same thing as pedophilia,” Campbell told a shocked panel Monday morning.
Host Piers Morgan immediately challenged her claims, saying:
“If you solicited a 14-year-old for prostitution, you’re a pedophile.
You’re procuring an underage girl for sex. That’s what he was convicted of. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, with respect, that is nonsense.”
Campbell then immediately attempted to backpedal, claiming that a distinction must be made between a minor and a child.
“Was he? 14? Well, I’m not justifying Jeffrey Epstein. Pedophilia, I suspect there’s a difference between a minor and a child,” she said.
“A 14-year-old is a child. Legally, she’s a child,” Morgan replied.
Campbell then admitted that the prince may have “made many mistakes,” but insisted that his only mistake was being too clueless to realize that one of his closest friends was a predator.
“You can’t criticize someone because they aren’t as bright as you would like them to be,” she said.
The controversy surrounding Prince Andrew has grown since his Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis. In the interview, the prince gave a variety of bizarre excuses and defenses for the accusations against him, including a claim that he could not sweat due to a rare physical condition.
He also denied knowing about the trafficking victim, Virginia Giuffre—formerly known as Virginia Roberts—despite appearing in photos with her when she was under the age of 18. However, he has previously suggested that these photos are “doctored.” Photographic evidence has been uncovered showing that the prince does, in fact, sweat. He also claimed that even though he did not remember meeting the victim on the night that she said, he does vividly remember his alibi, saying he went to a Pizza Express in Woking before returning home that night.
“Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do. I’ve never been… I’ve only been to Woking a couple of times and I remember it weirdly distinctly,” he said.
The interview was so disastrous for the Royal Family that one of Prince Andrew’s PR advisors quit in response to the broadcast. And to make matters even worse, a video clip from 1984 recently resurfaced showing Johnny Carson, then-host of The Tonight Show, making a joke about Prince Andrew being a pedophile.
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