Matthew Steeples reports on the latest developments concerning the Ponzi scheming paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell and shares new news of which ‘famous face’ associates will likely be ‘sacrificed’
WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: This article contains photographs of the rotting body of the rotten deceased sex trafficking monster and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The rancid rathole that keeps on ‘giving’ in the most shocking of fashions that is the case of the sex trafficking ring run by the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the mendacious mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell has taken further turns in recent days.
Aside from Epstein’s former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione – who had bunked up with him at the time of his first ‘suicide’ attempt at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the summer of 2019 – having finally been convicted of quadruple murder, it seems the demand for the naming of names to whom he and Maxwell sex trafficked their victims to is finally starting to happen.
Whilst the likes of bankers such as disgraced ex-Barclays and ex-JPMorgan Chase CEO Jes Staley stand accused of, at the very list, ‘enabling’ Epstein through not doing enough due diligence about what the now croaked Ponzi schemer was using funds for, the Prime Minister of Israel between 1999 and 2001, Ehud Barak, is now again facing ‘the heat.’
On 4th May, Barak – whose cousin most curiously is an associate of Sarah, Duchess of York, Hillary Clinton and also Maxwell’s most willing PR peddler Daphne Barak – was named in an article in The Jerusalem Post after a calendar of his meetings with Epstein in 2016 came to light.
According to the report, first published in The Wall Street Journal, Ehud Barak:
Supposedly met with Jeffrey Epstein at least 36 times on a monthly basis from December 2015 onwards.
Epstein had been convicted for sex crimes in 2008 and had subsequently served jail time; it does seem curious that an Israeli ex-Prime Minister with a security detail would not have been aware of such.
Barak flew on Epstein’s private jet and visited his mansions in Florida and New York.
Epstein flew Barak from Palm Beach to Tampa on his ‘Lolita Express’ jet; Barak has claimed this was “for a US military installation” and claims he “flew only twice on his airplane, together with [his] wife and security detail.”
Epstein introduced Barak to Noam Chomsky, a “famed critic of Israel,” at his Lenox Hill mansion in January 2016. On that day “a large group of women were seen entering the home.”
Barak denies having had any relations with “girls or women” via Epstein.
Responding, the politician has stated:
“I never participated in any party or any other improper event around [Epstein], and never met him with girls or minors, or even adult women in improper context or behaviour.”
“In retrospect, [Epstein] seems to be a terrible version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but at the time seemed to be an intelligent person, socially well connected and of wide areas of interest, from science to geopolitics.”
Turning their attentions to other ‘famous faces’ associated with the deviant duo on Sunday, Edward Helmore for The Guardian featured further names. He observed:
“Like a Hollywood zombie, the scandal surrounding the late sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is resurfacing to infect the reputations of the living, as names once again emerge from legal documents amid fresh details of his daily itinerary of meetings with prominent government, financial and cultural figures.”
“The latest boldface names to emerge from a series of Wall Street Journal reports include the director of CIA, Williams Burns, and Kathryn Ruemmler, White House counsel under Barack Obama, alongside lesser figures including the leftwing professor and activist Noam Chomsky, billionaire venture capitalist Reid Hoffman and Lawrence Summers, former Harvard president and director of the National Economic Council under Obama.”
“And then there were the figures from arts and letters. Woody Allen was scheduled to visit the studio of Jeff Koons with Epstein. Another was Dr Helen Fisher, an anthropologist of human behavior. She was invited to speak to his staff.”
“Simultaneously, a lawsuit filed in US district court by an unnamed woman and the US Virgin Islands against Epstein banker JP Morgan is not only dragging financial fat cats, including JP Morgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, and former Barclays CEO Jes Staley, but also Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Hyatt Hotels chairperson Thomas Pritzker, American Canadian businessman Mortimer Zuckerman and former CAA talent agent Michael Ovitz toward giving depositions under oath.”
“Last week, The [Wall Street] Journal looked at just one day – 8 September 2014, six years after Epstein was registered as a sex offender in Florida – and found that he planned to meet with four billionaires: Gates, Zuckerman, Pritzker and Leon Black, a financier whose ties to Epstein are already known.”
“The outlet has not revealed where it obtained the documents, which it said include thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017.’ It said it could not verify that the scheduled meetings took place, but said some documents ‘provided new details about how often or where the people met with Epstein, and the kinds of favors Epstein did for them.’”
Elsewhere, the appearance of ‘The Grand Old Duke of Broke’ Prince Andrew at his brother’s coronation and coronation concert on Saturday and Sunday last has revived interest in his associations with the dastardly duo Epstein and Maxwell. Both the duke and his live-in ex-wife ‘Fergie’ still have a lot of questions to answer about what money and hospitality they took from the pair and last night’s final episode of Channel 4’s excellent documentary series Andrew: The Problem Prince appropriately concluded with Emily Maitlis asking: “Is there anything left that has been unsaid that you would like to address now?” The rotten royal arrogantly answered: “No, I don’t think so. You have probably dragged out most of what is required.”
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Pictured Top (left to right) – Jes Staley, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and Ehud Barak.
With latest developments concerning bankers and politicians being more publicly 'connected', will any of those powerful people Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficked their victims to be finally be brought to justice? #JeffreyEpstein#GhislaineMaxwell#abuse#power
This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “With latest developments concerning bankers and politicians being more publicly ‘connected’, will any of those powerful people Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficked their victims to be finally be brought to justice?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 9th May 2023, the majority of responses (82.9%) were: “No; nothing will develop.”The former Briarcliff Manor police officer Nick Tartaglione was arrested on 19th December 2016 and charged with a quadruple homicide. The case against him was most curiously delayed by everything from “from the decision to seek the death penalty to the COVID-19 pandemic, to an ongoing, months-long hearing on whether a conflict of interest exists that would keep any of the defense lawyers from continuing to represent [him].” Of the 23rd July 2019 supposed “suicide attempt” by Epstein whilst the pair were cellmates and when Prince Andrew’s ‘bestie’ was “found in a foetal position with marks around his neck,” Tartaglione’s lawyer Bruce Barket “told NBC News that the day before Epstein’s death, officials at the MCC informed him in an email that the internal investigation had concluded and his client would face no charges or internal discipline. ‘We’ve always maintained Nick did nothing wrong and that’s clearly been borne out here by the jail itself,’ Barket said.” Tartaglione was found guilty of the execution of the four men and burying them in a mass grave over a perceived debt last month; he now likely will receive a life sentence when sentenced.“I was her parents’ worst nightmare” – words said by James Staley his very self – will be ringing in the ears of swivel-eyed Debbie Nitzan Staley in the wake of her husband’s former company Barclays’s decision to not (yet) payout £22 million the couple were expecting. No doubt that’ll mean one less holiday for her and her two daughters on their 90-foot long gin palace ‘Bequia’ in the coming years. They face troubles further from the JP Morgan investigation into Staley’s 1,200 plus stash of emails to his one-time friend Jeffrey Epstein and no doubt countless other problems as well.Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak pictured arriving with his face covered up at Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘paedo palace’ at 9 East 71st Street, Lenox Hill, New York, NY 10021 in January 2016. Curiously, given Epstein had become a convicted sex offender in 2008, why on earth would such a powerful politician want to associate with this poisonous paedophile is a question that must be properly answered.Ehud Barak departing the mansion subsequently looking a little beyond sheepish.One-time Jeffrey Epstein associate Ehud Barak’s cousin, ‘journalist’ Daphne Barak, interviewing her friend of 30 plus years Ghislaine Maxwell alongside Kevin Maxwell in January 2023. The connections run deep in this circle of power and privilege.Daphne Barak pictured in December 2022 with “she who has never confirmed if she repaid the wonga she took from the Ponzi scheming paedophile Jeffrey Epstein” Sarah, Duchess of York and with Hillary Clinton – whom she references her as having “hosted” and “supported the presidential bid” of. Here is a ‘journalist’ whose close connections clearly muddy her mind when it comes to interviewing her subjects. When she conducted her January 2023 interview for ‘Jeremy Kyle’ alongside Kevin Maxwell, why didn’t this ‘journalist’ ask mucky madam Maxwell about ‘Killary’s’ husband taking at least 27 flights on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and his convicted sex trafficker co-collaborator attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding? Curious that; very curious indeed.The Duke of York may have settled – for a sum unknown that has been estimated as high as £12 million – with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre, but questions remain as to whether he and his live-in ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York ever repaid loans and other benefits taken from the one-time friend he invited to Balmoral, Sandringham and Windsor Castle. Whilst the prince will never be able to live down this chapter, until he shares the real truth (and not nonsense about being able to remember a visit to a Pizza Express many years ago), he will remain a disgraced laughing stock.Both President Donald Trump and President Bill Clinton still have yet to properly explain the truth of their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein. Both politicians met with the maniac on many occasions and both flew on his ‘Lolita Express’ private jet. Clinton certainly spent more time with the Ponzi scheming paedophile, but Trump went as far as to call the since croaked monster a “great guy.”The body of the late paedophile, sex trafficker and suspected espionage expert Jeffrey Epstein will forever remain the actual last known photographs of him. Though conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted him alive and well in New Mexico and elsewhere, this evil cretin will hopefully and most likely never ever be seen again.The cell of the perverted child abuser in the wake of his alleged “suicide.” Epstein did NOT share the cell will Tartaglione at the time of his second, successful ‘suicide’ attempt.The noose created from bedsheets that Prince Andrew’s close chum supposedly used to kill himself on 10th August 2019.Channel 4’s ‘Andrew: The Problem Prince’ is a two-part must watch for anyone interested in this sordid story.
As pugnacious pillock Phillip Schofield’s brother is found guilty and named and shamed as a paedophile, Matthew Steeples calls for this queue jumping utter plonker to be finally cancelled
Peddler of poisonous plonk Phillip Schofield is one of those people the nation quite rightly loathes. Aside from the fact that he queue jumped with his soppy sidekick Holly Willoughby as the rest of the nation respectfully mourned the late Queen Elizabeth II, this moronic menace has now incurred the wrath of the mums of Mumsnet after he allegedly failed to report his paedophile brother to the police.
With the conviction of Timothy Schofield for sexual offences involving a child yesterday came deserved outrage against the ITV1 This Morning host and comments that included: “I do hope he faces the consequences of failing to speak out. More kids could have been affected because of his silence.”
Going further, after the noxious nuisance took an unexpected “leave of absence” from the telly box, another added: “I would be appalled if they have him back. He’s admitted he knew his brother was abusing a boy and he took no action to intervene.”
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Pictured Top – Phillip Schofield in happier times with Holly Willoughby and his now supposedly former ‘chum’ Matt McGreevy (left) and a mugshot of his evil, criminal paedophile scumbag brother Timothy Schofield (right).
Phillip Schofield with his now convicted criminal 54-year-old paedophile brother Timothy Schofield in happier times. After yesterday’s verdict in a case where the television presenter’s civilian police officer sibling was convicted of three counts of causing a child to watch sexual activity and three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, Phillip Schofield remarked: “If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I would have acted immediately to protect the victim and their family. These are despicable crimes and I welcome the guilty verdicts. As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.” Timothy Schofield was also found guilty of three counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child at Exter Crown Court and had told the television presenter that he’d “had time together” (including watching porn and masturbating) with a child whilst the ‘This Morning’ host was doing the washing up in his very own kitchen.Instead of skipping queues and upsetting the nation, the all-round-angry man and ‘This Morning’ host and ex-sidekick of Gordon the Gopher should quit his ITV job and focus on improving his deservedly slammed boxed wines (right). He thought his red “perfect with olives” whilst the public decided it “better poured down the plughole.” Alternatively, he could put some effort into ‘making up’ with his missing from our screens for quite some time now former close friend, Matthew McGreevy.What a Plonker – The television presenter with his former ‘friend’ Matt McGreevy on another occasion.The ‘This Morning’ host is known for being a very angry and bitter man. Like Ferne McCann (pictured right), he is also known for being incapable of owning his own mistakes.ITV1’s ‘This Morning’ co-host Phillip Schofield cringed and looked as if he was about to snap when approached outside his West London home by GB News presenter Ben Leo in November 2022 about the ‘Queuegate’ scandal that utterly disgraced him. Here is a mouse-not-a-man who wrongly assumes that he’s some kind of national treasure worthy of not a jot of criticism.
Mumsnet reacts to Phillip Schofield’s paedophile brother’s conviction…
Matthew Steeples suggests the BBC’s ‘Murder in Mayfair’ provides the family of 2008 murder victim Martine Vik Magnussen with no concrete answers and certainly leaves them no closer to justice; cowardly cokehead Farouk Abdulhak should now be dragged to Britain kicking and screaming
In reality, whilst some will quite rightly argue that the programme’s presenter Nawal Al-Maghafi has brought something new to this tragic story by engaging with the on-the-run in Yemen only suspect in the case via Snapchat, I’d say that sadly she stopped engaging with Abdulhak at just the wrong moment and should have gone further.
In what was described to me afterwards as “teen drama stupidity presentation with all that Snapchatting” and a presentation that “cracked the nut open, but didn’t follow through and get a conclusion” by two beady eyed viewers with knowledge of the case, Al-Maghafi produced a documentary that The Sun’s Katy Docherty rightly pointed out “left more questions than answers.”
During the show, Abdulhak – the son of a deceased business tycoon named in the Panama Papers nicknamed ‘The King of Sugar’ and a rat himself prone to vulgarly using the moniker ‘DP’ because of his penchant for consuming vast amounts of Dom Perignon champagne – was shown to engage with Al-Maghafi and shared remarks that included:
“I don’t know what happened, it’s all a blur.”
“I have flashbacks every once in a while.”
“If I smell a certain female perfume, I feel uncomfortable.”
“I deeply regret the unfortunate accident that happened. I regret coming here [Yemen]. Should have stayed and paid the piper.”
“It was just an accident. Nothing nefarious.”
“Like told you, just a sex accident gone wrong.”
“No one knows because I could barely piece together what happened.”
He subsequently added that he blamed cocaine for what occurred and added: “Trust me I’m legally f**ked… Leaving the country and the body was moved.” Asked: “Why did you move the body?” by Al-Maghafi, Abdulhak cryptically answered in a very convenient “recollections may vary” style: “I don’t remember.”
Going further this spoilt brat former Regent’s Business School (RBS) pupil – who supposedly now spends his days playing on the Internet with just two bodyguards as ‘friends’ – arrogantly tried to justify his actions. He claimed he had not returned to Britain because:
“I don’t think justice will be served. I find that the criminal justice system there is heavily biased.”
“I think they will want to make an example of me, being the son of an Arab. Being a rich son.”
“I don’t know what answers they want to get. Nothing is going to bring their daughter back. There’s nothing that’s going to change what happened.”
Speaking to the presenter – who sadly missed an opportunity to delve deeper because she rather pathetically didn’t seem to feel comfortable doing such – subsequently, the victim’s father Odd Petter Magnussen shared that he had been offered £41 million ($50 million, €46 million or درهم184 million) to drop the case and “move on.” This courageous man remarked that he had rejected that and told Farouk Abdulhak: “You cannot hide forever.”
Today after airing of @BBCNawal's 'Murder in Mayfair' documentary on @BBCTwo last night about the 2008 slaying of Martine Vik Magnussen by alleged fugitive from justice Farouk Abdulhak, I ask: "Shouldn't the presenter have gone further in her questioning?" https://t.co/Uc99F4Xmgr
Today on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Today after airing of @BBCNawal’s ‘Murder in Mayfair’ documentary on @BBCTwo last night about the 2008 slaying of Martine Vik Magnussen by alleged fugitive from justice Farouk Abdulhak, I ask: “Shouldn’t the presenter have gone further in her questioning?” As of 13:30am on Wednesday 29th March 2023, the majority of answers favoured the answer: “She was muzzled by the BBC.”Nawal Al-Maghafi with Odd Petter Magnussen (left) and the latter speaking at a conference about his late, murdered daughter.Snapchat seems to be one of the ways that fugitive from justice Farouk Abdulhak keeps himself entertained whilst evading the British courts; the first in the series of messages between him and Nawal Al-Maghafi.Further missives reveal the arrogance of this son of a deceased billionaire.
Elsewhere, in a post on Facebook on 18th December 2022 on the ‘Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen’ group but something not examined in any real depth in Murder in Mayfair unfortunately, it was stated:
“On 7th December 2022, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that on 19th November Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt had a conversation with Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak in the Yemeni government-in-exile about Martine’s case.”
“Ahmed bin Mubarak confirmed that he had sent a letter to the Ministry of Interior for the authorities to do what they could to arrest Farouk Abdulhak. This also means that an arrest warrant has been circulated to the airports in the country. Following the meeting on 19 November, the Norwegian Foreign Service received a verbal note from Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirming that this has been done.”
“Foreign Minister Bin Mubarak also expressed great sympathy for Martine’s family.”
Going further, in January, lawyer Patrick Lundevall-Unger remarked in a post shared on the same Facebook group:
“The controversial state act by the then Sahle regime to harbouring an Egyptian fugitive wanted for rape and murder, should be corrected by the present authorities in Sanaa.”
“Most of all, however, we appeal to the suspect himself to voluntarily return from his residency in Sanaa to the UK.”
“Potential escape routes, such as going by speed boat from Yemen to Djibouti onwards to family in Ethiopia, will not work in the future.”
“Farouk, I therefore appeal to you to come to your senses and deliver on fundamental justice for Martine and beyond. Without justice in the world, we cannot have peace – the two are intertwined. The same applies to you Farouk! Farouk: you can contribute to justice thereby finding your own peace!”
Mr Lundevall-Unger is bang on the nail; it is time for Farouk Abdulhak to put away the Snapchat and the coke and it is time instead for him to man-up and face the fact that he’ll never be free of this saga until he returns to Britain and finally tells the truth about what happened that fateful night.
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Pictured Top – Coldblooded cokehead Farouk Abdulhak pictured in 2022 (left) and innocent victim Martine Vik Magnussen (right).
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A post-mortem examination gave Martine Vik Magnussen’s cause of death as compression to the neck. In November 2010, an inquest recorded a verdict of unlawful killing. On a website seeking justice, her friends paid tribute to her life in a video shared on YouTube that also included a contribution from a Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Martine Vik Magnussen (6th February 1985 – 14th March 2008) was last seen leaving the Maddox Club, 3 – 5 Mill Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 2AU with Farouk Abdulhak (born February 1987 and also known as Farooq) around 2am on 14th March 2008. Her body was found in the basement of a residential building at The Armitage Apartments, 222 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5QR – where he rented a serviced apartment – two days later at 10.30am on 16th March 2008. She had been raped, beaten, strangled and attempts had been made to conceal her body in rubbish and rubble.Both the suspected rapist-murderer and his innocent, tragic victim were students at Regent’s Business School – known also as ‘RBS’ and a place which frankly should have its lavatorial areas tested daily for cocaine as it’d likely be found to have more on the premises than the Houses of Parliament even.Martine Vik Magnussen was a bright, attractive 23-year-old lady whose life was so reprehensibly taken from her. The courage and tenacity of her family in campaigning to bring her rapist-killer to justice is to be saluted.Farouk Abdulhak (also known as Farooq Abdulhak) lived a playboy lifestyle in London and no doubt lives in luxury courtesy of his family’s wealth. His alleged victim’s life was cut short when she was just 23 and it is beyond disgraceful that this spoilt tyke has not yet been prepared to assist police as they seek to solve the rape-murder that at occurred in the property where he lived in 2008.The arrogance of this scion of a billionaire is clear. Here is someone who lived off his father and was clearly never taught anything about developing a moral compass or the concepts of right, wrong and taking responsibilities for your own actions.Items missing from the victim’s body that were with her when she left the Maddox Club but not with her body when it was discovered, according to Scotland Yard, included: Christian Dior earrings, snakeskin shoes, a Marc Jacobs handbag, a Guess watch, a silver costume diamond ring and her jeans (described as blue and of a ‘skinny’ fit).Shaher Abdulhak (1938 – 2020) was a prominent Yemeni businessman and the founder of Shaher Trading. Nicknamed the ‘King of Sugar,’ this “media shy” individual “held a great deal of political influence” and “never granted interviews.” He died in Germany from cancer and is buried in Cairo, Egypt and in the wake of his son being accused of rape and murder in London, quite rightly amongst others Daimler AG ended their relationships with a man who harboured and protected a fugitive alleged killer.In 2016, it was reported that the victim’s father had “received an offer of the arrangement of Abdulhak being handed over to Interpol on the eighth anniversary of her death in exchange for Norway hosting peace talks when the Yemeni civil war was at its height.” Though this was unsuccessful, Mr Magnussen later remarked: “I found this encouraging. This was a strong message to the suspect that he can no longer rely on the total support of his own people. I hope he is not sleeping so well these days.”The funeral of Martine Vik Magnussen – a young lady whose life should not have been cut short at 23 and whose rapist-killer must be brought to justice.
Matthew Steeples asks if rumours are true that Prince Andrew might be penning his memoirs to pay for a £1 million façade paintjob for his ritzy Royal Lodge residence
Impudence and effrontery are ‘qualities’ that the non-sweaty Duke of York are known for and now, illustrating he’s got more front than Pamela Anderson, Brighton, Harrods and Barbara Windsor combined, this rotten ratbag royal is supposedly asking for the astounding sum of £1 million ($1.2 million, €1.1 million or درهم4.5 million) to paint the front façade of Royal Lodge, Windsor. Goodness only knows what a Dulux job for the rest of said building would cost in addition.
Whilst rumours abound that the prince and his grifting ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York might still yet be forced to leave the £30 million ($36.7 million, €34.1 million or درهم134.7 million) mansion and could end up in Frogmore Cottage instead after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex having conducted ‘#FROGXIT,’ it appears that Jeffrey Epstein’s former ‘bestie’ still doesn’t want to move yet.
If he were to pen a memoir, will Prince Andrew touch on his friendship and what benefits he got from associating with the since croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?As always “unnamed sources” are claiming that the Duke of York has been inspired in his idiotic idea for a memoir by the financial success that has resulted from his nephew, the Duke of Sussex, writing ‘Spare.’ He might do better to consider the negative kickback from not only the public that resulted, but also the rifts that have followed with other members of the royal family.Is the “toady twaddler” Daphne Barak an appropriate person to write a book on behalf of the brother of King Charles III? Given she has been involved with the convicted nonce sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell for over 30 years and given she has been involved with the Clintons for a long time also, is this associate of the foolish and feckless Sarah, Duchess of York to be trusted with the secrets of the royal household?Grade II listed Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2JD has been home to Prince Andrew since he took a 75-year lease on it from the Crown Estate in August 2003. He paid around £1 million for it and had to agree to spend £7.5 million at September 2002 prices excluding VAT on the building’s renovation. In January 2022, the building was valued as being worth a sum of £30 million on the open market.Frogmore Cottage received a £2.4 million ‘MeGain makeover.’ At the time, a predictably unnamed “royal source” told the ‘Daily Mail’ of the two orangeries added: “Natural light is important for the Sussexes as Meghan misses the LA sunshine.” A new kitchen at the property was said to have cost in excess of £100,000 whilst the predictably ‘woke’ wench formerly known as Meghan Markle also demanded all paints used must be from the vegan and chemical free £74 a tin Auro range. Somehow, however, one could not imagine Prince Andrew and his live-in grifter ex-wife feeling suitable for their occupation considering how pretentious the pair of them are.
Instead of accepting that he really doesn’t need a Jeffry Wyatt designed, 30-room mansion in 98 acres at the age of 63 when his two children have long since quit the crib, Catherine Meyer-Funnell for the Express recently reported that “Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson [are] lobbying [the] King for more money through leaks.” She added that the Express royal correspondent Richard Palmer had stated: “There are ‘deals that can be done’ to make sure Andrew gets the support he needs.”
Turning to how the alleged ex-lover of Ghislaine Maxwell might be able to fund a continued residence at Royal Lodge, both The Sun on Sunday and Mail on Sunday covered allegations that the prince is “in talks with US authors to write a tell-all autobiography” this morning.
Citing the “success” of Prince Harry’s tittle-tattling tome Spare, the papers both termed Prince Andrew’s book to be Spare 2.0 in the making. They also referenced the likely ‘author’ to be Daphne Barak – a pugnacious PR peddler who recently conducted interviews for them with her chum of 30 years Ghislaine Maxwell and a woman who has also had a long association with Hillary Clinton.
Speaking to The Sun, “a source” – as usual unnamed – claimed:
“Andrew was the original spare and there’s plenty of material. Compared to Harry, he has a far greater depth of history to draw from.”
“Writing a book would give him the opportunity to fully explain his association with Jeffrey Epstein and the resulting fall-out. But it would also be a fascinating insight into the inner workings of the royals and their relationships. But mainly he wants to set the record straight. If he doesn’t change the narrative, no one else will.”
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This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “If he does pen a non-sweaty “tell-all” memoir, do you think the grifter Prince Andrew will also compare his book to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as his live-in ex-wife has said of hers?” As of 11:30am on Sunday 26th March 2023, the clear majority of respondents favoured the option: “Yes; he’s arrogant enough.”Yesterday’s poll, which asked: “In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, has grifter Sarah, Duchess of York shown herself to be beyond bonkers?” produced the result that 55.9% believed her to be “offer her merry rocker” whilst 40% argued her to “just £££ grabber.” Only 4.2% in total felt to the contrary.
In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, Matthew Steeples suggests Sarah, Duchess of York to be beyond bonkers; elsewhere another billionaire chum of hers has been accused of financing a sex trafficking ring
Earlier this month we joined those highlighting the latest grifting activities of Sarah, Duchess of York. ‘Freeloader Fergie’ has now added fuel to the fire and ludicrously, in reference to her bag of bilge bonkbuster ‘writing’ for Mills & Boon, compared her ‘literary works’ to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beyond brilliant Sherlock Holmes in terms of style.
Whilst Sir Arthur initially struggled to find a publisher, he was eventually accepted for publication of his first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, A Study in Scarlet, aged 27 in November 1886. He went on to have a career that deservedly brought him fame and fortune and remains loved by millions.
Sarah, Duchess of York, meanwhile, has lived off her royal name, associated with crooks, taken loans from paedophiles including Jeffrey Epstein (and presumably not repaid them) and now thinks herself a top-drawer author. Here, indeed, is a woman clearly having a laugh (and being deservedly laughed at) and that she declared her books to be a cross between “Sherlock Holmes and Peaky Blinders” is just further evidence of how delusional she truly is.
Elsewhere late last week, came further revelations that on top of her having taken loans and other benefits from the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, one of the dimwitted dunce formerly known as Sarah Ferguson’s “billionaire associates” has been accused of “bankrolling a sex trafficking ring” in a lawsuit in California.
Featured in the Daily Mail on 19th March, Daniel Bates revealed:
“Trammell Crow, 72, who Sarah Ferguson has reportedly struck up a friendship with, is alleged to have financed the enterprise which led to two women being abused.”
“The Texan property tycoon and environmental philanthropist, who is worth £6 billion ($7.3 billion, €6.8 billion or درهم27 billion), is accused of a string of lurid claims in the court papers filed in California.”
“The lawsuit was filed by two women, Julia Hubbard and Kayla Goedinghaus against Crow and his associates in a court in November. They claimed that the ring was run by a man called Richard Hubbard with the ‘with the essential financial assistance and influence’ of Crow.”
“Fergie and Crow are said to have bonded over their shared interest in environmental issues. Their friendship was first reported at the beginning of the month.”
“The lawsuit claims that Crow used ‘force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion to compel Hubbard and Goedinghaus to engage in commercial sex acts.’ The case was filed under laws governing racketeering and it claims that the defendants ‘conspired together’ to commit offences including human trafficking. The women claim that Crow forced the alleged victims to take drugs like Xanax ‘in order to force them to participate in sex acts.’”
“It is alleged that Crow was ‘key to the venture’s existence and long running success’ as he invested in it.”
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This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, has grifter Sarah, Duchess of York shown herself to be beyond bonkers?” By 11:30am on Saturday 25th March 2023, the majority of respondents had taken the view: “Yes; off her merry rocker.”Responding to the poll, Garney Nicholls was very direct in his views about Sarah, Duchess of York. He didn’t share his thoughts on her comparing herself to Sherlock Holmes, but he did state: “She was a tart when she was a teenager, mummy ran off with a polo player and daddy had it way in a plane I once read. Just ‘cos they got money, don’t mean they bad cop, bad lot.”The latest drivel from Sarah, Duchess of York (written ‘with’ someone named Marguerite Kay) is due out on 30th March 2023. It is titled ‘A Most Intriguing Lady’ and is published by Mills & Boon. The grifter’s ‘novel’ is priced at £14.99 and she has been out doing the rounds comparing it to Sherlock Holmes and ‘Peaky Blinders.’ The loon is clearly having a laugh (or just, as most would actually rightly assume, off her merry-rocker).Sleazy looking billionaire Trammell Crow has brought further shame on ‘Feckless Fergie’ and her non-sweating hubby Prince Andrew after being accused of being involved in sex trafficking. One is left asking: “What was it about this creepy looking creature that first attracted the former Sarah Ferguson to him?”
The Weird Words of “Greedy” and “Needy” Freeloader Wannabe Sherlock Holmes Sarah, Duchess of York… They Get Weirder By The Week…
Given the live-in ex-wife at Royal Lodge, Windsor of supposedly skint ‘Randy Andy’ – a non-sweating nuisance who got his long-suffering relatives to pay a supposed sum of circa £12 million to Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a woman he has previously claimed to have met – is in on a world tour to prattle on to anyone who pays to listen, perhaps she should be reminded of her own weird and even weirder warblings. They number:
Of sex, her and goats: “One of the worst headlines said 82% [of the population] would rather sleep with a goat than Fergie. It’s never left me.”
Of her writing novels and her style: “Sherlock Holmes meets Peaky Blinders.”
Of the royal family: “They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.”
Of her own family: “I do believe in family unity. I think forgiveness is key.”
Of the Duke of York: “A good man… In 1986, I married a very good man. Zip.”
Of whether she might remarry Prince Andrew: “Oh bless your heart, no. I think we’re great as we are.”
Of supporting her disgraced ex-husband financially: “I will always be there [for Prince Andrew].”
“When Andrew went through a hard time, I used to be able to throw it to ‘The Boss.’”
“Since he stepped back [from royal duties] he doesn’t actually take taxpayers’ money and I’m in a position where I can support him and the rest of the family through my work. And I’m really pleased and proud to do that.”
“All I will say is that for many years now – it started with Budgie the Little Helicopter – I’ve really pushed to look after my girls and to contribute to the York family life.”
Of where she and the Duke of York will end up living in the future: “Honestly, I operate from living in the present. You never get complacent and it makes for a better day because you never get disappointed, then. You look at life and you go, we can adapt, we can be flexible.”
Of whether she might remarry someone else: “I think I’ve got too much baggage. I look at today and if suddenly I find love again, well, that’s another bonus, isn’t it?”
Of her daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie: “Exceptional… I love my girlies, I’m so proud of them. They are exceptional children… If mum’s OK, they’re OK.”
“My daughters come first in my life, they always have. Because I lost my mum so early, I’m subconsciously very present with them. When I brought them up, I always left my problems at the door. Your problem is not their problem – it’s not their fault. We laugh together a lot. We are just very close.”
Of her grandchildren: “I’m ‘Super Gran’… When my grandchildren see me, they immediately laugh because they know I’m going to be up to something, up to no good somewhere.”
“Every time I think about about co-parenting and co-grandparenting and about divorce, marriage and all these different things, I still come back to the principle that the sun will come up tomorrow, and be grateful, just get on with it.”
Of the late Queen Elizabeth II: “For me, she was more a mother than my own mother. Aren’t I the luckiest person alive to have had that great honour? When I was with her, I used to say: ‘I can’t believe it. People wait and put on their best dress to have an audience with you, and I’m wandering around the garden in wellies!’”
“For the whole nation, for the world. Steadfast, consistent, iconic. [She had an] extraordinary ability to put someone at ease. I still now think it was such an honour [to have known her].”
“During the last three years, her poor son [was] going through such a tumultuous time… And I think HM was very relieved I could help her with him, so we became even closer, then.”
“I’m so lucky. All my life, I was lucky enough to know ‘The Boss,’ HM. Like the nation and the world, she was always there. It was like having a hand at your back. It just made you always strive for being better and trying to be better, learning from her, whenever you were with her just taking everything she said as a memory. She was such an incredible legend for us all.”
Of the late Queen’s corgis: “They’re very good boys, they’re very gentle. I think they knew that they weren’t to jump up and be naughty. They used to sit and watch the racing with her. And when you give them a biscuit, they don’t snatch. They’re very special, they’re national treasures.”
“They really make me laugh and the follow me around. Sometimes I break a little ‘biccie’ – a digestive biscuit – in the same way the Queen broke it into little pieces, and give it to them and tell them to remember their boss.”
Of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex: “I have been judged all my life, and I have no judgment on the Sussexes.”
“It must be hard for Meghan and can I relate to her. I believe she is modern and fabulous. She was famous before. She is great. Why can’t Meghan be great? Why can’t she be celebrated? I have been in Meghan’s shoes, and I still am. There’s always a twist of negativity and it just gets so sad and tiring… I abhor bullying and I feel desperately sorry for the pain they must be going through.”
“I believe very strongly that I have absolutely no judgment on any other person’s life, and I look at how much she [Meghan] loves him [Harry] and loves the children and gives him a love that he’s never had before. That’s how I look at it… The most important thing is, Diana would be so very proud of Archie and Lili. She would have adored every moment of it.”
Of King Charles III: “It’s incredible what he’s done for the environment. He was a trailblazer and many years ago, everybody said: ‘What’s he talking about?’ But he’s right. I’m a great believer and supporter of him, as I am of the Queen Consort.”
Of herself and her life: “I have been in the gutter.”
“I’m a brilliant mother. The best mother.”
“I don’t believe that any single person has the right to judge another person. I’m not in a position myself to make any judgments.”
“I’m very steadfast and stoic… I won’t let anyone down. I’m very loyal.”
Being rather wishy-washy: “The most important thing is that the sun will come up tomorrow and the day will move on.”
Of food, family and dining: “As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, it’s fine with me.”
“With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!”
“We all sit round the table and eat together. Andrew and I believe in total parent unity. We’re best friends.”
On the coronation of King Charles III: “Well I’ve decided the best thing about British around a coronation – although I’ve never been to one – I think we should, I should set up a tea room at the bottom of the drive with bunting and cakes.”
“Never presume, never assume. I don’t know. But I’ll be there at the end of the drive with a cup of tea if I’m not there.”
Of wanting to be a television star: “I would quite like to go on Dancing With The Stars. I would like somebody to teach me to tango. I do know the show and my children would be so proud of me.”
On Americans: “I divorced, went to America, wrote a book, went on Oprah and did 12 years as the longest running spokesperson of Weight Watchers. I looked to America to support me and to help me and I really can’t thank the American people enough for what they gave me and what they did for me.”
Of when she decided she wanted to bag a royal: “I met [Prince Andrew] when I was 12, and I said: ‘I’m going to marry him.’”
Of marriage, divorce and work: “I left my marriage knowing I’d have to work. I have.”
“I didn’t want a divorce, but had to because of circumstance.”
“I wish we’d never got divorced. He and I both wish we’d never divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can’t.”
Of her many, many mistakes: “I felt that I ostracised myself by my behaviour, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake. Why have I made so many mistakes?”
“You look at the devil in the face, which you do. Then you forgive, and you say: ‘OK, I’ve made almost a mistake that will never be forgotten,’ and forgive.”
“I think the obstacles are the way, as opposed to in the way. I feel very strongly that I completely and utterly own my very naïve self and made endless different wrong decisions, whatever they may be, but in the end, it’s got me to today as an author. I’m a person in my own right, I’m Sarah.”
“I was so out of control with desperation… I was looking for quick fixes in the places I wouldn’t normally look… I’ve been a huge overtrusting, idiotic, stupid woman that went to look for the perfect situation, and that’s all I can say really.”
“I’ve done the work to get to myself. I’ve done masses of mental therapy. I probably reached to the wrong places and the wrong people and made, as you call it, mistakes. I don’t call them mistakes. I call them enormous learning curves.”
Desperate, as ever, for attention, there appears to be no opportunity that Sarah, Duchess of York will miss in her quest for constant publicity. Even the late Queen’s dogs have to be dragged out for a bit of personal profiteering courtesy of ‘Hello!’ magazine.The decidedly dodgy duchess appeared in another article recently that was shared on social media. It was titled: “Duchess dishes the dirt!” and is indeed representative of how tawdry and tacky and tastleless this tittle-tattler truly is. Shame on Sarah, Duchess of York.In January, Omid Scobie, the pugnacious pillock PR peddler for the Duchess of Sussex revealed that the ‘Duchess of Deviancy’ had moved into the world of NFTs and would be selling digital works “by established and emerging artists.” Is there any medium that will escape “the new world” of this tedious toerag?On Thursday 20th August 1992, the ‘Daily Mirror’ shared what they called “the pictures they didn’t want you to see.” In them, a topless Duchess of York was shown having her toes sucked in the South of France by a Texan millionaire named John Bryan. Of the incident, the ‘Mirror’ later reported: “Royal writer Richard Kay claimed in the ‘Daily Mail’ that he received a message via pager from Princess Diana the night before the photos hit the newspaper stands. Diana’s message was simple: ‘The redhead’s in trouble.’”
As noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell’s batshit bonkers brother Ian Maxwell bizarrely bangs on about the ‘murder’ of Jeffrey Epstein on an obscure San Francisco news channel, Matthew Steeples suggests this desperado would do better to learn the art of silence
As she rots in the clink, further evidence comes that Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother is getting increasingly desperate. This week, illustrating he isn’t being taken seriously elsewhere, Ian Maxwell turned to an obscure San Francisco news channel named KRON4 to tell yet more yarns about his mucky madam sex fiend sister.
In comments, subsequently shared only by the now little read website MSN, Mr Maxwell supposedly told KRON4’s Vicki Livakis:
“She wishes she had never met Jeff Epstein, and because the havoc that relationship has caused, not just Ghislaine, but really everybody that came in touch with him.”
“Basically, it was a stitch up from after Jeffrey Epstein died in US government custody when Bill Barr was Attorney General.”
“The only person to actually take the fall is Jeff Epstein, and he’s dead of course.”
“We don’t really know, the extent of what happened [on the night of 10th August 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York]. There, his own family thinks he was murdered. My sister thinks he was murdered.”
“If there are other people that have not yet come into the prosecution’s orbit, and who may be powerful people and don’t wish to be involved in this, somehow that they would find it. An ability to murder my sister or cause her to have an accident that looks like an accident but isn’t.”
“We are her family. We love her, we miss her, and we will support and defend her.”
Bizarrely also, Brian Basham, we can today reveal that the PR peddler the deviant daughter of the pension pot plunderer became so reliant on to push out piffle on her behalf prior to her conviction, has gone remarkably quiet in recent months. He appears to have given up on the paramour of his pen and left the donkey work to Ian and Kevin Maxwell instead.
In spite of threatening to confront me at the 2022 edition of CrimeCon in London (and then being a Cowary Custard no-show), Mr Basham seems to have given up on Twitter. Though not exactly popular there – a tittle-tattling spinner during the era of the British Airways ‘Dirty Tricks’ campaign against the equally rambunctious Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic – has not tweeted since 2nd July 2022 and not replied to a tweet since 14th September that year also.
Of this development, I today ask:
Is Brian Basham still ‘working’ and is he in the pay of Ghislaine Maxwell?
Has Basham been fired by the Maxwell family or did he quit before he was pushed?
Does Basham still believe in the innocence of the convicted criminal sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell?
Has Basham had an epiphany and realised that the wicked woman he so enthusiastically supported is actually just a monstrous sex trafficker and a boob groping audacious abuser?
Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.
Brian Basham (left) is a man who previously had no qualms about defending the sex fiend Ghislaine Maxwell – a batshit bonkers bisexual woman whose nefarious activities with the croaked Ponzi scheming paedophile Jeffrey Epstein resulted in the ruination of the lives of countless young girls and boys even. Mr Basham has been remarkably quiet in recent months. One is left wondering: “Why?”Mr Basham isn’t exactly popular on social media. On Twitter, he has just 240 followers in spite of following 57 accounts also and having previously shared rather a lot there.After the deservedly respected journalist and author John Sweeney shared a “current list of people who don’t like me” in 2020, Brian Basham attempted to belittle him by suggesting him to be an alcoholic before adding he “despised” rather than “disliked” him. He added: “I despise you for coating your investigation with the slime of click bait untrue sensationalism.”
The Truth & The Lies About Visitors To Little Saint James (AKA ‘Paedo Island,’ ‘Island of Sin’ and ‘Orgy Island’)
Jeffrey Epstein liked to call his island home ‘Little Saint Jeff’ rather than Little Saint James. He also owned the adjoining island of Great Saint James. Both remain for sale and though the price was £94.5 million ($125 million, €113.8 million or درهم459.1 million) in March 2022, it has now been revised to “price upon request.”
Rumours abound as to what went on the ‘Islands of Sin’ and false lists of names continue to do the rounds on social media. An analysis of such follows below:
Who has most definitely visited the ‘Paedo Islands’…
The following are confirmed to have been on the islands. This does NOT mean that they participated in anything nefarious, though, of course, several amongst their number have been convicted of exactly such:
Miles and Cathy Alexander – who ran the islands’ management for the since croaked paedophile between 1999 and 2007 and who later claimed: “Our job was about discretion.”
Prince Andrew.
Ehud Barak.
Per Bloomberg.
Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased).
Naomi Campbell.
David Copperfield.
Alan Dershowitz.
Clementine Hambro.
Stephen Hawking.
Victim Virginia Roberts-Giuffre.
Lawrence Knauss.
Adam Perry Lang – who, for a time, was Epstein’s chef and who is now known as a “celebrity chef” in California.
Lord Mandelson and his partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva.
Ghislaine Maxwell.
Victim Sarah Ransome.
Claudia Schiffer.
IT contractor Stephen Scully – who has identified various famous names he supposedly spotted whilst working there.
Kevin Spacey.
Jes Staley and his wife Debbie.
Leslie Wexner.
Who may or may not have visited the ‘Paedo Islands’…
The following are often listed amongst those “rumoured” to have visited. Some names suggested are more far-fetched than others. These people may or may not have actually visited, but these people have neither confirmed nor denied either way:
Enemim.
John Glenn.
George Mitchell.
President Obama.
Itzhak Perlman.
Roger Stone.
Chrissy Teigen.
Chris Tucker.
Oprah Winfrey.
Who has been accused of visiting but publicly denied having been to the ‘Paedo Islands’…
These individuals have been very clear in their comments about accusations they visited Little Saint James:
President Bill Clinton – who Virginia Roberts Giuffre recalls seeing there, but who has denied ever visiting.
Rosie O’Donnell – who went as far as to say “f**k no” when asked.
Kathy Griffin – who responded to suggestions by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers that she’d been there with comments that included: “YOU GUYSSSSS? Ok, I guess I just gotta #laugh #Ridiculous… STILL WITH THESE NUT JOBS…I know. I know. I guess I just gotta laugh.”
Chelsea Handler – who has, however, admitted to having had dinner with Epstein at his New York ‘Paedo Palace.’
Who has been falsely accused of visiting the ‘Paedo Islands’…
These peoples’ names regularly do the rounds as having visited, but though they have not publicly responded, evidence suggests they did not actually visit:
President Donald Trump – who did, however, fly on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and who spent time with him in Palm Beach on multiple occasions most definitely.
As the Epstein-Maxwell saga continues to unravel, Matthew Steeples looks at the forthcoming fallout for ‘The Monsters’ linked including Prince Andrew, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Jes Staley
The rotten rabbit hole that is the Epstein-Maxwell saga seems to never end. Barely a day goes by without new developments or old ones being revisited and in the last week, the prospects of further fallout for linked parties has only grown.
Aside from Prince Andrew whingeing and whining via third parties that he has been left “bewildered” and “in despair” after King Charles III cut him off from access to the £650 million ($782 million, €735 million or درهم2.9 billion) estate left by Queen Elizabeth II, the non-sweating ‘bestie’ of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is allegedly also ludicrously proposing a new television interview “telling his side” of the story. An unnamed source last week went as far as to claim now “feels there is little else to lose” and that “nothing is off the table… Andrew has been made to give up his job and now potentially his home.”
Turning to Maxwell and her appeal prospects, on Thursday The Guardian’s New York based ‘reporter of courts’ Victoria Bekiempis analysed the mucky madam’s prospects. Bekiempis argued Maxwell “faces [a] hard road in bid to overturn sex-trafficking conviction” with the help of her new lawyer, a representative also of Harvey Weinstein named Arthur L. Aidala.
Going further, Bekiempis added:
“[Aidala has] said Maxwell was a ‘proxy’ for Epstein who was prosecuted ‘to satisfy public outrage over an unpopular non-prosecution agreement and the death of the person responsible for the crimes’ … [His] comments might have been aimed more at generating sympathetic media coverage than being a predictor of the appeal’s likely success. Maxwell cannot mount an appeal based on her own claims that she was a hapless surrogate for Epstein, or too tired at trial.”
“Her legal team will have to argue instead that there were legal errors in proceedings against her that necessitate a verdict reversal, and that is where her bid to have her conviction overturned will succeed or – according to many legal experts – more likely fail.”
“‘The likelihood of the second circuit reversing her trial verdict is close to zero,’ said Ron Kuby, a longtime criminal defense attorney with a focus on civil rights. ‘The second circuit tends to uphold almost all criminal convictions as a general matter.’”
“In the rare cases the second circuit does reverse a trial court outcome, leading to a new trial, it is typically because prosecutors have over-stretched a legal theory – or because the US supreme court has made a decision that affects proceedings in lower courts, Kuby said.”
“‘But Maxwell’s trial was none of that – the Maxwell trial was all very well-plowed legal territory,’ Kuby said. The proceedings against Maxwell – which stemmed from serving as Epstein’s procurer of victims – were not complicated by racketeering counts, nor convoluted bribery charges.”
“‘It’s like very, very, very fancy trappings, but fundamentally, it’s the prosecution of a pimp, which is not that complicated,” Kuby said.”
“Rachel Fiset, co-founder of Los Angeles firm Zweiback, Fiset & Zalduendo, said she thought a successful appeal was ‘unlikely.’”
“While Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, will probably fail in her appeal, there is still a reason for her to try.”
“‘She’s looking at a very long sentence, and they are looking at ways to have it overturned, and there are not any options beyond an appeal,’ Fiset said. ‘She doesn’t have very much to lose other than the cost of the appeal.’”
“‘It’s not uncommon for people with a lot of means to appeal their conviction in the hopes that it’s overturned. Maxwell has remained very steadfast that she has not committed these crimes and that it’s not her fault, so the appeal is not surprising.’”
Elsewhere, interest in Epstein and Maxwell’s involvement with Donald Trump was revived yesterday in Business Insider. In an article titled: “Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump ‘when he realised Trump was a crook,’ according to his brother,” writer Jacob Shamsian quoted the croaked paedophile’s sibling Mark Epstein.
Referencing a still to be released video interview between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s disgraced White House advisor Steve Bannon, Shamsian shared:
“Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump’s former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.”
“At the time, Bannon was conducting filmed interviews with the now-dead pedophile financier. Bannon sent Jeffrey Epstein a Dropbox link to a clip, which he forwarded to his brother. The link is no longer active, according to Mark.”
“‘Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realised Trump was a crook.’”
“Insider has not been able to independently view the video. Bannon could not be reached for comment.”
“For the documentary project, Bannon recorded more than 16 hours of footage, Mark Epstein said. In November of 2018, the Miami Herald ran a series detailing how Jeffrey Epstein secured a secret, lenient plea deal with federal prosecutors in Florida in 2007, even after law enforcement concluded at the time that he had sexually abused more than 30 girls.”
“‘Steve Bannon was working with Jeffrey to try to help Jeffrey rehabilitate his reputation,’ Mark Epstein told Insider.”
“Bannon and Epstein had become close in 2017, after Bannon left the White House, according to the journalist Michael Wolff. Bannon lived lavishly off Epstein’s vast wealth, using his Paris apartment and butler in 2018.”
“Bannon released a trailer in 2021 for his apparent documentary about Epstein, titled The Monsters [subtitled: ‘Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’]. The entire documentary has not yet been released.”
“Both Bannon and Trump now have their own legal issues. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has pending criminal charges against Bannon, alleging he participated in a scam nonprofit organization that raised funds to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Trump pardoned Bannon on federal charges for the same scheme before he left office. Bannon’s lawyers in the federal case are suing him for allegedly not paying his bills. Bannon was also found guilty last year of contempt of Congress for defying a House January 6 committee hearing subpoena.”
“Trump, for his part, is facing a potential indictment from the Manhattan district attorney’s office for a hush-money scheme ahead of the 2016 election, a rape case headed to trial in April, and a litany of other legal woes.”
Turning to the Department of Justice investigation into Epstein’s death, in a separate and rather lengthy article for Business Insider last Thursday, Shamsian observed:
“Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a federal jail was seen as a shocking Justice Department failure. Over three years later, the DOJ inspector general hasn’t released the results of its investigation. Epstein’s accusers – and his brother – still want answers.”
“The officials said Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide. Pressed for more detail, they just repeated themselves.”
“‘They didn’t give me any information other than ‘After a thorough investigation, we determined it was a suicide,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘It was like I was talking to a f**king robot.’”
“The meeting [on 28th October 2019, two months after his brother’s death] was the only time Mark got any answers from the DOJ about his brother’s death. Three years later, he still doesn’t know exactly how Epstein died and why it’s taken the government that long to share its answer to that question.”
“Mark Epstein told Insider that even though he’s Jeffrey’s next of kin, he hasn’t been able to obtain certain medical records, including the care reports filled out by EMTs who evaluated his brother’s corpse.”
“‘For many people, the death was suspicious, to say the least,’ said Gloria Allred, an attorney who represents 20 of Epstein’s victims. ‘Others have their own conclusions about what happened to Mr Epstein. But the speculation needs to be replaced by facts and evidence.’”
“Mark Epstein remains puzzled by the holdup. He’s convinced his brother didn’t kill himself and stands by the conclusions of Baden, who personally observed the four-hour autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein’s body.”
“‘We all took it by surprise,’ Mark Epstein told Insider. ‘Nobody thought he was gonna kill himself. Nobody.’”
“After losing all [his lavish life on his arrest in 2019], it was possible he found the prospect of life behind bars unappealing, Mark Epstein said. ‘When I first heard that my brother was dead, and found dead from suicide, I just figured, ‘OK, he decided to take himself out,’ he told Insider.”
“An Insider poll taken later that fall found nearly half of Americans believed Epstein was murdered.”
“When Mark Epstein saw Barr dismiss the possibility of a murder based on his review of security footage outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell tier, he wasn’t remotely satisfied.
“What I thought was, this is either a cover-up, or he’s the dumbest f**k on the planet,’ Mark Epstein said.”
“To Mark, [Attroney General Bill] Barr’s version of events suggests he came to the conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and then backfilled evidence from there.”
“Barr seemed to consider only the possibility that a murderer would have been someone who snuck into the jail. Mark told Insider he was gobsmacked that Barr didn’t seem to consider the possibility that someone else in Jeffrey Epstein’s block of cells killed him.”
“Mark Epstein told Insider that he spoke to his brother about once a month in the years before his death. The two caught up over the phone while Jeffrey Epstein was in Paris, the night before he flew to New Jersey and was arrested after his private jet landed.”
“Jeffrey Epstein had reasons to stay alive, Mark said. He didn’t leave a suicide note – or at least none that has been reported – and reportedly deposited money into other inmates’ commissary accounts in return for protection. People who spoke with him in the weeks leading up to his death believed he was optimistic about getting the charges dismissed.”
“Mark Epstein told Insider he built his wealth independently from his brother, founding a silk-screening business before pivoting to real estate with Ossa Properties, which at one point reportedly owned hundreds of apartments in New York City.
“At least one of Mark Epstein’s Upper East Side buildings, however, includes multiple links to his brother. Mark has said he purchased it from the business magnate Leslie Wexner, his brother’s longtime patron. Jeffrey Epstein owned about a dozen apartments in the building, which he used to house at least one of his sex-trafficking victims as well as his private pilots while they were staying in New York, according to testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. Right before Epstein died, his lawyers were preparing to appeal a judge’s decision to deny him bail. They had prepared a bond package valued at $100 million.”
“Mark Epstein agreed to guarantee the whole thing, he told Insider, meaning he’d lose that amount of money if his brother tried to flee authorities.”
“‘If you get bail, you’re gonna be home for a year – under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet, armed guards, video cameras, whatever the conditions were – but he’ll be in his house,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘So why kill yourself then?’”
Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.
Pictured Top – Steve Bannon’s likely shelved film ‘The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’ would (or will) undoubtedly feature not only the croaked paedophile, but also his lover and co-collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell, his “heartfelt” friend and banker Jes Staley and the ‘bestie’ that came to “end their friendship in December 2010,” Prince Andrew.
This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Who is going to “suffer” most next in fallout from Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking saga given Jes Staley court case, Trump & Clinton revelations & Prince Andrew’s latest tantrums?” He added the hashtags: #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #JesStaley #PrinceAndrew #BillClinton #DonaldTrump #SteveBannon and of the four options listed, by 11:30am on Sunday 12th March, the clear majority of respondents favoured the option that it’ll be worst for the “other famous faces linked” than anyone else.
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The trailer for the as-of-yet still unreleased Steve Bannon film ‘The Monsters –Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’ lasts 2:02-minutes. Of the 16 hours of footage, many are still asking: “Where exactly is the film?” in which Bannon allegedly accused Jeffrey Epstein of being a spy even.Jeffrey Epstein looked at ease whilst being interviewed for a programme subsequently titled ‘The Monsters’ by Steve Bannon. Only a trailer for it has been released thus far (in 2021) and in it in October 2021, the ‘New York Post’ reported that late pedophile stunningly claimed “that he was a “’irm believer and supporter’ of the anti-sexual harassment Time’s Up movement.” Calling him out as a “pervert,” the paper added that he observed: “I made my living from old thinking. But the future is for the way women think. I’ve always believed that women will be, in fact, be able to take over.”That Steve Bannon supposedly spent around 16 hours recording convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of an attempt to allegedly help “rehabilitate” him at his Lenox Hill ‘Paedo Palace’ – sold subsequently for £36 million in March 2021 – sometime in 2018 speaks volumes as the lack of quality of his moral compass. Steve Bannon released his trailer for ‘The Monsters’ under the banner of Victory Films. In August 2020, ‘The Wrap’ shared details of “all 19 movies and shows [that he] wrote, directed or produced.” Amongst them were ‘The Indian Runner’ (1991) with Sean Penn, ‘Seinfeld’ (1992), ‘Titus’ with Anthony Hopkins (1999), ‘Reagan: In the Face of Evil’ (2004), ‘Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration’ (2006), ‘Tradition Never Graduates: A Season Inside Notre Dame Football’ (2007), ‘The Chaos Experiment’ with Val Kilmer (2009), ‘Generation Zero’ (2010), ‘Battle for America’ (2010), ‘Fire from the Heartland’ (2010), ‘Sarah Palin: The Undefeated’ (2010), ‘The Hope & the Change’ (2012), ‘District of Corruption’ (2012), ‘Occupy Unmasked’ (2012), ‘Sweetwater’ with January Jones and Ed Harris (2013), ‘Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power’ (2014), ‘Clinton Cash’ (2016), ‘Torchbearer’ (2016) and ‘Trump @ War’ (2018). Other companies and organisations the Norfolk, Virginia born naval officer and investment banker turned media tycoon and political strategist wannabe has been involved in have numbered Bannon & Co. (sold to Société Générale in 1998), ‘Breitbart News,’ IGE, the Government Accountability Institute, The Movement and Cambridge Analytica.The noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell (pictured with her avaricious late mother Betty in 1991) appears incapable of accepting her sentence. Set to attempt to pile yet more misery on her multiple victims, this convicted sex trafficker should be made aware that in 2015 court administration data “indicated that less than 9% of federal appeals in reversals of lower courts,” according to ‘The Guardian’s’ Victoria Bekiempis.Meanwhile Jeffrey Epstein’s very, very rich brother Mark has again been spreading his thoughts about the demise of the Ponzi scheming paedophile. Mark Epstein is clearly very motivated and in suggesting his late brother believed Donald Trump (pictured with his wife Melania Knauss and Ghislaine Maxwell also) to be a “crook,” he is clearly trying to change the narrative in his own favour.President Bill Clinton (pictured at the White House with the co-conspirator sex traffickers Epstein and Maxwell on 29th September 1993) faces further woes from the fallout also. Allegations that Clinton and Maxwell had sexual liaisons that became a full-blown affair have abounded, but remain unconfirmed by either party. Equally, Epstein and Clinton travelled together on multiple occasions and clearly shared a mutual liking for young girls also. The former POTUS was most certainly advised about the derelict and deviant actions of the nefarious former taxi driver turned financier, yet conveniently chose to ignore such and to instead accept the dirty devil’s dollar.One of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest pals, ‘Snow White’ communicator James Edward Staley (AKA ‘Jes Staley’), faces his own woes with a summons on a third-party complaint from JPMorganChase Bank, N.A. and ‘Jane Doe 1’ in regard to his “activities” with and on behalf of his deceased chum. The late CEO of J. P. Morgan and Barclays – who resides at 930 Park Avenue, Unit GN/6S, New York, NY 10028 with his wife Debbie – is set to go down in history as a total disgrace.Meanwhile, the Pizza Express loving mate of the facing-a-trial-for-a-£400-million fraud Bernie Ecclestone that is the Duke of York must be called out as utterly nuts if he decides to give another interview. His last, with Emily Maitlis for the BBC, was an utter car crash of total epic proportions. No doubt encouraged by his money grabbing live-in ex-wife, ‘Feckless Fergie’ (AKA ‘Sarah, Duchess of York), and his dimwitted daughters, here is a needy and greedy berk who King Charles III should most definitely just “cancel.”
As dimwitted dunce Sarah, Duchess of York again leaps to the defence of ropey ratbag Prince Andrew, we again ask ‘Feckless Fergie’ if she ever repaid loans taken from the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein; it is time for some answers
Sarah, Duchess of York would most likely rather a photograph taken of her on 13th February 2010 to forever disappear. It was taken at the now infamous Lenox Hill, New York ‘Paedo Palace’ where Jeffrey Epstein conducted so much of his abuse and it features the royal ratbag grinning like ‘The Cheshire Cat’ alongside the since croaked paedophile’s also since deceased maid, Jun-Lyn Fontanilla.
Epstein, at that stage, was a convicted sex offender who had been released from jail on 22nd July 2009 and one would have thought someone would have advised the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II that hanging around in places of perversion might not be a good idea.
Just as was the case with her non-sweating, mate of Putin loving Bernie Ecclestone ex-husband – who himself spent a few days, where he claimed he was “ending the friendship,” at the “house of horror” at 9 East 71st Street, Lenox Hill subsequently on or about 6th December 2010 – it is clear that here is a woman lacking in the good sense to see that hanging around with a paedophile and his staff was never going to be wise.
Now the proud ‘owner’ – though she can’t sell it without the permission of her daughters whom created a clause effective to such on it – of a £5 million pad in ritzy Belgravia, London, ‘Feckless Fergie’ is currently on yet another tour of America flogging her tawdry tat.
This time in New York promoting a bonkbuster “romance novel” titled A Most Intriguing Lady, the 63-year-old raced to the defence of the ex-husband she weirdly still lives with. She made no comment as to whether they’d be moving from Royal Lodge to Frogmore Cottage, but claimed: “I feel that he [Prince Andrew is] a very good man. Zip.”
Still showing no sign of realising how loathed the Duke of York is, the redheaded rotter added:
“He’s had a few difficult years… [He’s] been going through such a tumultuous time… Since he stepped back [from royal duties] he doesn’t actually take taxpayers’ money. And I’m in a position where I can support him and the rest of the family through my work. And I’m really pleased and proud to do that.”
On Twitter this morning, Matthew Steeples took a very different view. He asked of the former Sarah Ferguson:
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Pictured Top – Sarah, Duchess of York with Jeffrey Epstein’s maid Jun-Lyn Fontanilla (left) and promoting an aptly titled book named ‘Odd’ (right).
As grasping grifter Sarah, Duchess of York defends Prince Andrew whilst answering chosen questions on latest moneymaking tour in NYC, should she answer as to whether she ever repaid loans taken from Jeffrey Epstein? #Fergie#JeffreyEpstein#PrinceAndrewhttps://t.co/F45XUUqitD
This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “As grasping grifter Sarah, Duchess of York defends Prince Andrew whilst answering chosen questions on latest moneymaking tour in NYC, should she answer as to whether she ever repaid loans taken from Jeffrey Epstein?” As of 11:30-am on Tuesday 7th March, 42.9% of respondents agreed with the sentiment “yes; outraged she hasn’t.”A second photograph shows Prince Andrew’s ex-wife with Jeffrey Epstein’s maid and her husband Jojo Fontanilla also. Here was a woman who clearly liked spending time at ‘Paedo Palace’ and here was someone very comfortable to associate not only with her host, but also with his staff as well.In her defence, ‘Fergie’ was not the only famous person to pose with Jun-Lyn Fontanilla in Epstein’s New York mansion. President Bill Clinton (shown here with the maid and her husband Jojo, who also worked for Epstein) was another to get snapped with her whilst others included the actress Hilary Swank, the actor Chris Tucker and the politician John Kerry.‘Paedo Palace’ loan taking – The former Sarah Ferguson was snapped at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion on 13th February 2010 with a maid named Jun-Lyn Fontanilla. She was clearly there to see this woman’s boss about her messy financial predicament or to accept his hospitality at the very least. It has been suggested that she took around £15,000 ($18,000, €16,900 or درهم66,100-) as a direct transfer from Epstein around this date and that she also got other “assistance” with her “problems” from him also. 9 East 71st Street (also known as ‘The Herbert N. Strauss Mansion’), Lenox Hill, New York, NY 10021, USA was sold for £36 million ($50 million, €42 million or درهم184 million) in March 2021, a sum 192% lower than the £69 million ($88 million, €74 million or درهم351 million) originally sought in September 2020.The “toe sucking twerp” that is ‘Fergie’ is someone whom many have excused over the years as “a bit simple” and “harmless.” She may well have taken everyone she met as “nice” and “kind,” but that she has repeatedly spent time hanging around wealthy sex fiends such as Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Peter Nygård shows she’s simply prepared to put money above all else.Drunk in a car, playing char lady and mopping the floors at Royal Lodge or making a fool of herself whilst also drunk; the ‘public looks’ that Sarah, Duchess of York are illustrative of a woman beyond badly advised. It is time that this pointless prattler finally realised the error of her ways; of course, actually, she never will.
Given the live-in ex-wife at Royal Lodge, Windsor of supposedly skint ‘Randy Andy’ – a non-sweating man who got his long-suffering relatives to pay a supposed sum of circa £12 million to Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a woman he has previously claimed to have met – is in America to prattle on to anyone who pays to listen, perhaps she should be reminded of her own weird and even weirder warblings. They number:
Of sex, her and goats: “One of the worst headlines said 82% [of the population] would rather sleep with a goat than Fergie. It’s never left me.”
Of the royal family: “They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.”
Of her own family: “I do believe in family unity. I think forgiveness is key.”
Of the Duke of York: “A good man… In 1986, I married a very good man. Zip.”
Of supporting her disgraced ex-husband financially: “I will always be there [for Prince Andrew].”
“When Andrew went through a hard time, I used to be able to throw it to ‘The Boss.’”
“Since he stepped back [from royal duties] he doesn’t actually take taxpayers’ money and I’m in a position where I can support him and the rest of the family through my work. And I’m really pleased and proud to do that.”
“All I will say is that for many years now – it started with Budgie the Little Helicopter – I’ve really pushed to look after my girls and to contribute to the York family life.”
Of her daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie: “Exceptional… I love my girlies, I’m so proud of them. They are exceptional children… If mum’s OK, they’re OK.”
Of the late Queen Elizabeth II: “More my mother than my mother… The Queen was like a hand of support behind your back without being there.”
“For the whole nation, for the world. Steadfast, consistent, iconic. [She had an] extraordinary ability to put someone at ease. I still now think it was such an honour [to have known her].”
“During the last three years, her poor son [was] going through such a tumultuous time… And I think HM was very relieved I could help her with him, so we became even closer, then.”
Of the late Queen’s corgis: “They’re very good boys, they’re very gentle. I think they knew that they weren’t to jump up and be naughty. They used to sit and watch the racing with her. And when you give them a biscuit, they don’t snatch. They’re very special, they’re national treasures.”
Of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex: “I have been judged all my life, and I have no judgment on the Sussexes.”
“It must be hard for Meghan and can I relate to her. I believe she is modern and fabulous. She was famous before. She is great. Why can’t Meghan be great? Why can’t she be celebrated? I have been in Meghan’s shoes, and I still am. There’s always a twist of negativity and it just gets so sad and tiring… I abhor bullying and I feel desperately sorry for the pain they must be going through.”
Of herself and her life: “I have been in the gutter.”
“I’m a brilliant mother. The best mother.”
“I don’t believe that any single person has the right to judge another person. I’m not in a position myself to make any judgments.”
Of food, family and dining: “As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, it’s fine with me.”
“With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!”
“We all sit round the table and eat together. Andrew and I believe in total parent unity. We’re best friends.”
On the coronation of King Charles III: “Well I’ve decided the best thing about British around a coronation – although I’ve never been to one – I think we should, I should set up a tea room at the bottom of the drive with bunting and cakes.”
Of wanting to be a television star: “I would quite like to go on Dancing With The Stars. I would like somebody to teach me to tango. I do know the show and my children would be so proud of me.”
Of when she decided she wanted to bag a royal: “I met [Prince Andrew] when I was 12, and I said: ‘I’m going to marry him.’”
Of marriage, divorce and work: “I left my marriage knowing I’d have to work. I have.”
“I didn’t want a divorce, but had to because of circumstance.”
“I wish we’d never got divorced. He and I both wish we’d never divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can’t.”
Of her many, many mistakes: “I felt that I ostracised myself by my behaviour, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake. Why have I made so many mistakes?”
“You look at the devil in the face, which you do. Then you forgive, and you say: ‘OK, I’ve made almost a mistake that will never be forgotten,’ and forgive.”
“I was so out of control with desperation… I was looking for quick fixes in the places I wouldn’t normally look… I’ve been a huge overtrusting, idiotic, stupid woman that went to look for the perfect situation, and that’s all I can say really.”
On Thursday 20th August 1992, the ‘Daily Mirror’ shared what they called “the pictures they didn’t want you to see.” In them, a topless Duchess of York was shown having her toes sucked in the South of France by a Texan millionaire named John Bryan. Of the incident, the ‘Mirror’ later reported: “Royal writer Richard Kay claimed in the ‘Daily Mail’ that he received a message via pager from Princess Diana the night before the photos hit the newspaper stands. Diana’s message was simple: ‘The redhead’s in trouble.’”Questionable Friendships – In February 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s chum (and his wife Sarah, Duchess of York’s financial sponsor) Prince Andrew having Bernie Ecclestone over to Royal Lodge, Windsor to celebrate his birthday. Whether this man “with qualities that would make Leona Helmsley look generous” brought Sloppy Giuseppes from Pizza Express (Woking branch) for the bash remains still unknown. Just as was the case for him and his ex-wife over Epstein, the Duke of York’s decision to keep Mr Ecclestone as a friend is something that he deserves to be questioned about given the ex-Formula 1 head honcho is due to go on trial in connection with a £400 million fraud by false representation case brought against him by His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on 15th November 2023.
Sarah, Duchess of York’s support for the Duchess of Sussex is another example of her backing the wrong horse. In 2019, the feckless live-in ex-wife of ‘Randy Andy’ remarked: “It must be hard for Meghan and can I relate to her. I believe she is modern and fabulous. She was famous before. She is great. Why can’t Meghan be great? Why can’t she be celebrated? I have been in Meghan’s shoes, and I still am. There’s always a twist of negativity and it just gets so sad and tiring… I abhor bullying and I feel desperately sorry for the pain they must be going through.”
In 2018, the mother of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie had a temper tantrum on ’60 Minutes Australia’ when questioned about seeking out cash from what she clearly must have known to be illegitimate sources.
As shameless sex fiend Stephen Bear is deservedly jailed, it is shameful that his grubby girlfriend Jessica Smith continues to pile misery on his victim; here is a pair of gruesome grifters far worse than even the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Homophobic horror Stephen Bear might find himself having a fair few problems in the prison showers. A man prone to exposing his privates and talking about his ‘todger’ in a similar way to Prince Harry, this filthy piece of toerag, however, won’t have the luxury of the aid of Elizabeth Arden cream anytime soon.
Jailed quite deservedly for 21 months on Friday for voyeurism, disclosing private, sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress, and harassment without violence, the Walthamstow born 33-year-old showed utterly no remorse as he arrived at Chelmsford Crown Court for sentencing for what he did to his ex-girlfriend and fellow reality television ‘personality’ Georgia Harrison on 2nd August 2020.
On arrival, Bear – who has also been required to sign the sex offender register and given a restraining order not to contact his victim for five years and also required to keep police updated with his address and whereabouts for ten years – filmed a segment subsequently shared on Twitter by his current squeeze, the self-declared “I’m Jess, your new favourite horny blonde” Jessica Smith.
In a 1:43-minute clip filmed by dimwitted dolly bird Smith and shared with her 117,600 followers, brain dead berk Bear delusionally declared:
“You see in this country, I think the saying is: ‘Innocent until proven guilty’ and unfortunately, through this whole turn of events, through the adverse media which has been printed and written about me, all they see me as this monster. So, how can you possibly give a fair trial just to adverse media?”
Adding a completely currently unproven as either true or false allegation, Bear continued:
“Secondly, at the very beginning, before the jury was picked, they were asked a series of questions and one person should be accountable for contempt of court. Hopefully, I can speak to the police about this and give them all the evidence.”
“You see, if you’ve got one bad apple, the whole jury should be slung out in my opinion.”
Attempting to very predictably play the Prince Harry “mental health issues” excuse, the convicted sex offender blubbed:
“And, do you know what, the only good thing that’s come from this whole situation is that I got a psychiatric report written about me and they’ve told me that I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, depression and anxiety. So, hopefully I can get some treatment and some help, maybe some talking therapy. I just need some help really because going through mental health, I live through this every single day.”
Ending in a Spare-esque whinge, Bear concluded:
“I just hope I can speak to the news or something about what’s happened… I just hope I can give, just my side of the story. An honest, just my side of the story and hopefully it just comes out and it gives just a different opinion on me and hopefully we can spin the narrative… I can see everyone has already made their minds up about the narrative.”
Approached then by members of the press, in videos filmed by others including news presenter Dan Walker, Bear was seen to tell Smith “just keep recording babe” as he was asked by a journalist: “Do you wish to apologise to Georgia Harrison?”
Ignoring questions from her and others, the noxious nitwit continued:
“There’s no point me even answering any questions. As you can see everyone, this is it. Fingers crossed it goes well today and maybe I get some sort of justice from this whole situation. Thank you so much.”
Outrageously, then, after noticing a clearly very young female ‘fan’ standing amongst the press pack, Bear summoned her over by asking: “Do you want a picture? Do you want a selfie? Come then, come over. I’m a man of the people” just as another journalist stated: “You’ve been called a self-obsessed show-off. You’ll do anything to be front page. Do you have any response to that?”
He then gave the V-sign and proceeded to ask another female journalist dressed in a red coat: “What made you dress in red today?” before bizarrely singing: “Lady in red is talking to me, cheek to cheek, I wanna know why she’s by my side, my lady in red, lady in red, she’s talking to me, cheek to cheek. I wanna know why she’s by my side.”
“I love you [Stephen Bear]. I’ll always be by your side, stay strong babe. The truth will come out… You never had a fair trial.”
“Through thick and thin my love. I’ll see you soon.”
In a weepy whine of Meghan Markle-esque qualities, she then concluded last night:
“What event the point anymore? I’ve lost half of my heart. I feel empty.”
Here is an example of a most contemptible pair of grifters, a pair of grifters far worse even than ‘MeGain’ and her drip. Here is a couple incapable of realising the error of their ways. Shame on Stephen Bear and shame on Jessica Smith; long may this cretinous convicted criminal rot.
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Pictured Top – Profiteering from personal appearances and sick sex tapes will have to pause for Stephen Bear for 21 months now he’s hit the clink; he even mocked such by dressing up in an orange jump suit.
On Twitter this afternoon, Matthew Steeples asked: “Which of these grubby money grabbing grifters is the worst of the lot?” He gave the options of Stephen Bear, Jessica Smith, Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex and accompanied this with the hashtags: #StephenBear #JessicaSmith #DumbPrince #DukeOfSussex #MeghanMarkle #DuchessOfSussex #Meghan #greed #realitytv #TV #television #BigBrother #Netflix #Spare #scum #vile #grifter #grifters.Victim Georgia Harrison, speaking outside the court, stated: “I am happy and relieved that this matter is finally over. Today’s sentence is a vindication of what I’ve been put through and sends a clear message that the police and the courts take this matter very seriously. I want to let all other victims of this crime know that I stand in solidarity with them and I have absolutely no regrets on waiving my anonymity. I hope that this puts anyone off committing this sort of crime and I hope for anyone else who has been a victim of it [that] it gives them some sort of justice.” Hannah von Dadelszen, the deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS East of England, added: “I want to commend Georgia Harrison for the bravery and determination she has shown throughout this case. By contrast, Stephen Bear showed a complete lack of remorse by never accepting responsibility for his abusive behaviour, even going so far as to place the blame on Ms Harrison. Although she lives a public life, Georgia Harrison has the right to privacy. But that was taken away by Bear to make money in the most egregious way.”In the past, Bear has been called out as a conman after running fake competitions. He’s also been accused of animal abuse and after he was sent down on Friday, he turned and waved from the dock and dimwittedly declared: “Have a good evening. Enjoy the weekend everyone.”
When you consider how Stephen Bear is acting outside court and the crime he committed… it is hard to get your head around the person who is delighted to get a selfie with him #TheCultOfCelebrity 🤢pic.twitter.com/2Cm4sCbYdK
On Friday, television presenter Dan Walker shared a tweet with his 792,200 followers on Twitter. It read: “When you consider how Stephen Bear is acting outside court and the crime he committed… It is hard to get your head around the person who is delighted to get a selfie with him.”
Wastrel wazzock Stephen Bear’s NOT so ‘finest’ quotes…
On why he thought he shouldn’t have had to pay attention to lockdown rules:
“I am God. Rules do not apply to me. I have super human powers and I am part of the Illuminati.”
“Everyone else should stay at home and not go M&S and buy some food. They should sit at home and starve.”
About those he “claimed” owed him money:
“Yeah, so this one’s called the Monday rant. I’m owed a lot of money from three different people. First one is Rustlers, where’s my £3,000 you owe me? It’s been five months.”
“Second one, Good For Nothing, you owe me 16 grand, my contract isn’t finished until April, you owe me £16,000. Where is it?”
“And the third one is for you Charlotte, listen, reply back to the emails. I haven’t received 1p from the business which I started with my money. Okay?”
“Tell your dad to reply to the f**king emails, do you understand? Make sure he gets back to him because what’s going on at the minute is b******s and it’s embarrassing.
“Do you understand? Because I’ve had enough now. That’s the Monday rant over, I want all my f**king money from all three of you, do you understand?”
“I’m here to find someone new… Are all your minges shaved? I’m just saying, clean nails, clean minges.”
On being arrested for “on suspicion of disclosing private sexual photographs or films without consent with intent to cause distress, harassment, and obstructing a police officer”:
“Where do I f**king start? I’m back from Dubai and I’ve actually got a criminal case of my head.”
“While I was in the police cell they have gone into my house, smashed open the door. I’ve had to get everything fixed – they’ve busted my front gate too.”
“Obstructing a police officer. What do you reckon I did? Do you reckon I got in his way? I think voyeurism because I’ve been to Dubai and I’ve gone on a voyage.”
In January 2021, ‘The Steeple Times’ made “tattooed twerp” Stephen Bear its ‘Moron of the Moment’ after we decided the “shameless scumbag sex pest and dog abuser” had shown himself as “the finest example of all that is wrong in once Great Britain.” With his jailing last week, he has now sunk to an even lower level.Naked audacity – Mr Bear – who used to be a roofer and probably should have just stuck to playing with tiles – is clearly beyond vain and self-obsessed. His naked photos and videos of both himself and with others, however, illustrate him as nothing other than a revolting scumbag and total waste of space.The days of Rolls-Royces (borrowed, not actually his, please note) for this grifter are now over; the equally vacuous Jessica Smith might do best to simply now walk away. Being as pathetic and pointless as her “lost half of her heart,” that does, however, seem unlikely. Shame on her in the same way that the feckless fool Ferne McCann (also from Essex and also involved in ‘reality television’) continued to pile misery on the victims of her acid chucking baby dada Arthur Collins.
As it is suggested royal rotter Prince Andrew will be turfed out of £30 million Royal Lodge, we suggest he move into ‘Feckless Fergie’s’ £4 million Belgravia mews house
This morning, in predictable form given her chummy associations with both Ghislaine Maxwell and Sarah, Duchess of York, Daphne Barak penned piffle in The Mail on Sunday in which she suggested it unfair that Prince Andrew might be evicted from Royal Lodge, Windsor in September as part of a cost cutting exercise by King Charles III.
Quoting an unnamed source “close to the Duke of York” – whom one must assume to be her friend ‘Feckless Fergie’ – Barak shared:
“The Queen had barely been laid to rest when it began. Message after message, delivered through the anonymous Buckingham Palace machine, warning that life was about to change for Prince Andrew… and not for the better.”
“’They didn’t even wait ten days from the end of mourning the Queen,’ I was told by a source close to the Duke of York. ‘That’s when courtiers started to send them the bad news.’”
“And it was recently made clear to Andrew, still grieving, that the annual allowance he has received from the monarch since he left the Navy in 2001 was about to be severely reduced, possibly even axed, as soon as April.”
“His mother paid him the yearly subsidy, last reported to be £249,000, out of her own private fortune, enabling him to fund his family home at Windsor’s Royal Lodge.”
“Now the Prince – who I have been told is ‘distraught’ – may have no choice but to give up his home of 19 years as soon as September.”
“Even people appalled by his association with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein would surely ask: ‘What’s the rush?’”
How terribly predictable of Barak to “rush” to the defence of a non-sweating, Pizza Express loving mouse-not-a-man who paid a sum estimated as high as £10 million to a woman he supposedly never met. Who will she be supporting next? Gary Glitter?
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This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Should Prince Andrew be turfed out of Royal Lodge given he’s no longer a working royal and clearly is lacking of the means to fund maintaining the £30m pad?” Out of the four options offered, the immediate reaction was a majority being in favour of the rotten royal ratbag moving into his live-in ex-wife’s new home in Belgravia whilst one follower answered: “Him and Gary Glitter could share a flat.”Grade II listed Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2JD has been home to Prince Andrew since he took a 75-year lease on it from the Crown Estate in August 2003. He paid around £1 million for it and had to agree to spend £7.5 million at September 2002 prices excluding VAT on the building’s renovation. In January 2022, the building was valued as being worth a sum of £30 million on the open market.The Queen Mother was the previous occupant of the building on a grace and favour basis and died there in March 2002. She and her late husband had taken up residence there in 1931.
With friends like these… The Duke of York really does know how to choose them…
With friends like these… The guffawing goon that is the Duke of York was happy to take the “benefits” of his friendship with someone who bunged him cash and girls, Jeffrey Epstein, when it suited him. He was happy to take the “benefits” of his friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell, someone he allegedly even had a relationship with, when it suited him. He must now face the music and possibly also prepare to be dragged before the authorities if he ever dares to darken the doors of the United States of America ever again. Shame on him.With friends like these… Prince Andrew is plainly a man who’ll hang out with anyone – as long as they are rich and/or powerful. He had no qualms in staying with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he got out of jail.With friends like these… In February 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s chum (and his wife Sarah, Duchess of York’s financial sponsor) Prince Andrew having Bernie Ecclestone over to Royal Lodge, Windsor to celebrate his birthday. Whether this man “with qualities that would make Leona Helmsley look generous” brought Sloppy Giuseppes from Pizza Express (Woking branch) for the bash remains still unknown.With friends like these… Another chum of ‘Air Miles Andy’ is the billionaire despot leader of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. This authoritarian dictator is known for a regime that presides over elections that are not free and fair, where political power is concentrated in the hands of his family, where corruption is rampant and human rights violations are beyond severe. The Aliyev’s have over £400 million of property in the United Kingdom alone and the Duke of York has most definitely been beyond helpful to them.With friends like these… The Duke of York and his then wife even spent time holidaying at the expense of the currently incarcerated awaiting trial alleged paedophile Peter Nygård – an evil cretin whose own son has disowned him and changed his name.With friends like these… The Duke and Duchess of York have also associated with the convicted paedophile Stuart Hall. One is left enquiring: “Is there any paedo pest they’d actually turn away?”With friends like these… Sarah, Duchess of York, equally, has a lot to fear from Ghislaine Maxwell. She happily took wonga from Ponzi schemer Jeffrey Epstein in loans and gifts and has never declared whether or not she ever repaid such prior to the paedophile’s death in 2019. Shame on her.
