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CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
1. Won't bother to mention the portrait of the man wearing the blue dress
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 05:51 AM
Aug 2019

>>Epstein's "pride and joy" was a large "human chessboard" at the bottom of the main staircase which had customised figurines modelled on his female "staff members wearing suggestive clothing".

There was the life-size statue of a naked African warrior. Not to mention the "leather room".

When the FBI raided the house last month, it reportedly found thousands of indecent images of under-age women on computer hard drives locked in his office safe.





RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
2. "This video is restricted from playing in your current geographic region"
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 08:20 AM
Aug 2019

I get this. Is this just my area or are others getting it?

4 minutes to read

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FM123

(10,053 posts)
3. This was a publicly known convicted pedophile and yet he CHOSE to remain in his inner circle?
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 08:50 AM
Aug 2019
Prince Andrew staying at the New York home of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 - two years after the finaicier was convicted of child sex crimes.

Kid Berwyn

(14,897 posts)
7. Jimmy Savile wasn't mentioned much by America's MSM
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 10:11 AM
Aug 2019
Jimmy Savile admitted getting knighthood was 'a relief because it got me off the hook'

In light of the new Louis Theroux documentary on the disgraced broadcaster, this compelling and disquieting interview by the celebrated journalist Lynn Barber takes on new meaning. It was first published in 1990 in The Independent on Sunday

LYNN BARBER
Sunday 2 October 2016

Snip...

Still, I was nervous when I told him: “What people say is that you like little girls.” He reacted with a flurry of funny-voice Jimmy Savile patter, which is what he does when he’s getting his bearings: “Ah now. Sure. Now then. Now then. First of all, I happen to be in the pop business, which is teenagers – that’s No 1. So when I go anywhere it’s the young ones that come round me.

“Now what the tabloids don’t realise is that the young girls in question don’t gather round me because of me – it’s because I know the people they love, the stars, because they know I saw Bros last week or Wet Wet Wet. Now you, watching from afar, might say ‘Look at those young girls throwing themselves at him’, whereas in actual fact it’s exactly the opposite. I am of no interest to them, except in a purely platonic way.

“A lot of disc jockeys make the mistake of thinking that they’re sex symbols and then they get a rude awakening. But I always realised that I was a service industry. Like, because I knew Cliff [Richard] before he’d even made a record, all the Cliff fans would bust a gut to meet me, so that I could tell them stories about their idol. But if I’d said, ‘Come round, so that I can tell you stories about me’ or ‘Come round, so that you can fall into my arms’ they’d have said: ‘What! On yer bike!’ But because reporters don’t understand the nuances of all that, they say, ‘A-ha.’”

Continues...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/it-was-a-relief-when-i-got-the-knighthood-because-it-got-me-off-the-hook-an-exclusive-interview-with-9571057.html

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
10. It was known years ago Andrew socialised with him after his release
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 11:42 AM
Aug 2019
But it is undeniable that Prince Andrew remained connected with Epstein even after he’d pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex in 2008: The two buddies were photographed strolling through Central Park in December 2010, and the Post reported later that winter that Andrew had flown to New York to celebrate Epstein’s release from jail at the East 71st Street mansion.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-allegations-royals-response.html




And that was part of why the government stopped him being a "business ambassador":

Buckingham Palace is expected to make a statement amid speculation that the Duke of York is to step down from his role as the UK's roving business ambassador.

Sky News reported that Prince Andrew would give up the post, but said he would continue to work in a less formal role to promote UK trade. Earlier this year the prince faced intense scrutiny over his links to controversial figures including a convicted paedophile.

The prince has been dogged by accusations of a lack of judgment about his links with the American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jul/21/prince-andrew-quit-trade-ambassador
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