Emma Watson named in Panama Papers

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16. I don't know what to believe

But this statement sent up a huge red flag.

The British conservative weekly The Spectator used the database and found that "Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson" is a beneficiary in an offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands. The magazine used the discovery to suggest that Watson's continued political activism could lead to more questions about her use of this offshore company.

In other words, even the most anodyne form of liberal activism (and surely her modest suggestion that men ought to treat women with more respect barely even qualifies in that regard) is enough to get the right-wing press going through your financial records with a fine-tooth comb, looking for dirt.