THE TRUMP AND EPSTEIN CONNECTION - PART 3
The Casino / Entertainment / Modeling World
In PART 2, we went over the Epstein connections that were intertwined within Trump’s Presidential Cabinet. In this part we will discuss the casino, entertainment and modeling connections.
Within casino gaming establishments, the sex trafficking aspect of human trafficking is the most common form of this crime. Casino crowds and co-located lodging facilities—coupled with the transient nature of sex trafficking—provide convenience and cover for sex traffickers - Source
Human traffickers often seek to set-up shop in casino hotels to facilitate prostitution activity. Normal casino hotel activity—with hundreds of patrons arriving and leaving the facility on a 24/7 basis and transiting from the adjacent hotel to the casino floor and back again—conceals the trafficker’s activity, and the environment provides a potential customer base for the illegal business.
The Nevada Prostitution Industry is one of the things that makes the Silver State so unusual with respect to the commercial sex industry and the trends toward pornoculture. Nevada is the only state in the country to legalize prostitution. Yet many people fail to recognize that prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas and Reno . The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s catchy and controversial marketing campaign, “What Happens Here, Stays Here,” slyly reinforces this misconception as it sends the message to the rest of the world that there’s sin to be savored in Southern Nevada - Source
And illegal prostitution does indeed flourish in Nevada. Commercial sex is offered by juveniles and adults. It is true that Las Vegas is the symbolic center of the sex industry, which thrives on the bodies of women. The Las Vegas tourist corridor exudes sexuality, from ads and signs for strip clubs and escort services everywhere, to tourists dancing in sexy clothes and ordering libations from scantily clad cocktail waitresses.
When Jeffrey Epstein was flying in his private jet, the Lolita Express, in 2002, he decided to make a pit stop at Donald Trump’s casino in Atlantic City. On his plane were two of Epstein’s victims, Johhana Sjoberg and Virginia Giuffre, who went inside Trump’s casino - PDF of Deposition.
Donald Trump’s inner circle also seems to be made up of billionaires who own the largest Casino’s in the world, the owners of the Entertainment companies associated with Casino’s and modeling agencies.
The Casino Owners
Sheldon Adelson
Donald Trump’s and Republican Party’s Largest Donor - Net Worth $29.8 Billion. Founder, Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands
He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Trump's largest donors, providing the largest donation to Trump's 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign.
His corportation owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022.
He owned the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, the Israeli weekly newspaper Makor Rishon, and the American daily newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was also a major backer of Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On January 11, 2021, Adelson died at his home in Malibu, California, at the age of 87, after long-term illnesses. On January 14, 2021, Adelson's body arrived in Israel.His coffin was draped in U.S. and Israeli flags and was on display at Ben Gurion Airport, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to pay his respects.Adelson was buried the next day, in a small private ceremony on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
Steve Wynn
Vice-Chairman of Trump’s Inauguration Committee and Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee - Net Worth $2.4 Billion
He oversaw the construction and operation of several notable Las Vegas and Atlantic City hotels, including the Golden Nugget, the Golden Nugget Atlantic City, The Mirage, Treasure Island, the Bellagio, and Beau Rivage in Mississippi, and he played a pivotal role in the resurgence and expansion of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1990s
In October 2017 The Wall Street Journal reported that Wynn, who has financial interests in China, lobbied President Trump on behalf of the Chinese government to return a Chinese dissident, Guo Wengui, to China.
Under the direction of Steve Wynn, Wynn Resorts acquired Jeff Koons's Tulips at auction in November 2012 for approximately $33.6 million.
In May 2014, Wynn acquired Popeye from Jeff Koon for over $2 million, putting the work on display at Wynn Las Vegas.
On February 6, 2018, Wynn stepped down as CEO of Wynn Resorts amid accusations of sexual misconduct including harassment, assault, and coercion. Wynn has denied the allegations.
Phil Ruffin
Contributed $1.5 Million to Trump’s 2020 Presidential Campaign - Net Worth $3.1 Billion
Ruffin owns the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino and Circus Circus Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, in addition to a number of other enterprises including hotels, casinos, greyhound racing tracks, oil production, convenience stores, real estate, and the world's largest manufacturer of hand trucks.
Ruffin is a longtime friend and business partner of Former President Donald Trump, who was the best man at Ruffin's third wedding in 2008. "Few know Trump as well, or in as many capacities, as Ruffin," reported the Associated Press in March 2017.
They met at Trump Tower "in the early 2000s" when Ruffin was considering adding a Trump hotel to his Treasure Island casino. That idea did not pan out, but sometime later, in Las Vegas, "Ruffin took Trump to a Nordstrom parking lot to show him a parcel of undeveloped land." Ruffin said, "This is where you ought to be," and Trump "instantly made a decision" to build there. Their wives are also good friends.
Ruffin has described a Trump handshake as "better than any contract." In June 2018, Trump gave the Ruffins a tour of Air Force One during a stop in Las Vegas.
Ruffin is also a business partner of former United States President Donald Trump, with whom he co-owns the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.
Trump’s deep connections to the major players of Las Vegas is very interesting but so are his ties to two organizations who have always been tied Casinos, Las Vegas and the Entertainment industry: WWE and the UFC.
The Entertainment Owners
Vince McMahon
Founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) - Net Worth $3.6 Billion
When Trump owned the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, he hosted many events, such as the WWE WrestleMania IV and WrestleMania V events in 1988 and 1989 and 19 professional boxing events.
Casino’s hosting WWE and fighting events, such as the UFC, is common place, especially in Las Vegas. The UFC’s headquarters are in Las Vegas and the majority of the fights are hosted by major Casinos, such as the MGM Grand and the Palms Casino Resort.
Trump appointed Vince’s wife, Linda McMahon, to lead the Small Business Administration, when Trump became US President in 2017. After her role in the Trump Administration, Linda McMahon became the Chairman of the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action, which helped raise $83 Million for Trump’s reelection campaign in 2020.
In June 2022, Vince McMahon stepped down as CEO and Chairman of the WWE, following claims of hush-money agreements paid over affairs with former WWE employees.
In April 2023, a merger was announced between WWE and Endeavor Group Holdings, owner of the UFC. The newly merged group is called TKO Group Holdings where Vince McMahon served as Executive Chairman.
On 1/25/24, a former employee of the WWE, Janel Grant filed a complaint against WWE and Vince McMahon, which forced Mcmahon to step down from TKO. The allegations included sex trafficking and sexual assault of the former employee - PDF of court case
Ari Emanuel
CEO of Endeavor, the holding company of WWE, UFC, and Hollywood Talent Agency, William Morris Endeavor
Ari Emanuel was Donald Trump’s talent agent when he worked for the William Morris Talent Agency (WMA). Emanuel would end up creating his own talent agency Endeavor, which merged with WMA eventually. Other clients included:
Quentin Tarantino
Mel Gibson
Tim Ballard
Larry and Andy Wachowski
Maria Baritiromo
Eminem
Britney Spears
Kanye West
Ricky Gervais
James Franco
Mark Wahlberg
Kathy Griffin
Kim Kardashian
..... and many more - Link
In 2001, Lorenzo Fertitta, along with his brother, Frank Fertitta III, established Zuffa, LLC to acquire the assets of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) for $2 million.
Lorenzo Fertitta assumed positions as chairman and CEO of UFC, while appointing childhood friend Dana White as President of the organization. Zuffa, LLC operated the UFC until its sale to Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor for $4 Billion in August 2016.
The Feritta Family used the money from their sales to open many casinos throughout Las Vegas in 2016: Red Rock Resorts, Palms, Palace Station and Green Valley Ranch, among others - Source
Father of Ari, Benjamin M. Emanuel was a pediatrician who was active in the Irgun, a Zionist terrorist organization, that operated in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s.
His brother, Rahm Emanuel, was Bill Clinton’s Senior Advisor during his Presidency and was 23rd White House Chief of Staff during Obama’s Presidency.
In 2000, Rahm was named to the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac by President Clinton. During Emanuel's time on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities.
Trump gave $50,000 to Democrat Rahm Emanuel's mayoral campaign in 2010. - Source
His other brother, Zeke Emanuel, served as Special Advisor for Health Policy to Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration. Joe Biden named Emanuel to be one of the 16 members of his COVID-19 Advisory Board.
In September 2015, WME-IMG acquired the Miss Universe Organization from Trump. Ari Emanuel told The Hollywood Reporter that the deal came about when:
"a problem" emerged. "He was running [for president]. He wanted to sell it," Emanuel explained. "[WME-IMG] said, 'Great, we want to buy it.'" - Source
In 2016, Ari Emanuel donated $2,700, the maximum for a primary campaign donation, to Hillary Clinton - Source
Elon Musk was a board member at Endeavor from 2021 - 2022 and left before he bought Twitter. Egon Durban is a board member at Twitter and Endeavor - Source
The Emanuel family has a history of working with Elon Musk. Ari Emanuel was an early proponent of Tesla, putting down a reservation for the company’s first production vehicle, the original Roadster. His sibling, Rahm Emanuel’s, Chicago Mayor Administration gave a big contract to Musk’s The Boring Company in 2018.
Elon Musk has also been a popular guest on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” appearing as recently as February. Rogan is a UFC announcer and is also represented by Endeavor.
The Casino, Entertainment, Talent, Modeling and Hotel industries are all very closely linked to the Sex Industry. Just look at Las Vegas or Les Wexner’s and Luc Brunel’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The men attached to Epstein weren’t just some dirty criminals…. they were Billionaires and CEO’s.
The Model Parties
Epstein & Trump
George Houraney, a businessman whose American Dream Calendar Girls beauty contest had been running in Las Vegas casinos since 1978, recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in January 1993. Houraney says that Trump asked him to organise a party that month with some of his pageant’s finalists, promising to invite heads of modelling agencies and prospective sponsors for his competition:
“He had me fly in all these girls, and gave me a $30,000 budget for airfares and limos to pick them up at the airport,” he says. “The girls were all decked out, expecting to meet all these VIPs.” But after an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein. “I was like, ‘Donald, where are the guys? What’s going on here?’ And he said, ‘Well, this is it.’”
A month earlier, in December 1992, Trump had met with Houraney and Jill Harth, who ran the pageant together. They were looking for a new sponsor for their contest, which each year saw models aged 16 to 22 compete to appear in wall calendars wearing bikinis and swimsuits while posing with classic cars. At dinner in the Plaza’s Oak Room, Harth, Houraney and Trump discussed moving the American Dream competition from Las Vegas to one of Trump’s casinos:
“He wanted to build this into the biggest, the best thing that he could do. He was talking about television and pulling out all the contacts,” Harth later said.
Eventually, the pageant was held at Trump Castle in Atlantic City in November 1993, but for one year only. The partnership soured and ended in two lawsuits, but for Trump it was a prelude to a series of more lucrative ventures in the beauty business.
The Spirit of New York
The party aboard the Spirit of New York was one of several events that Donald Trump, then 45, attended with a group of 58 aspiring young models that September. They had travelled from around the world to compete in Elite’s Look of the Year competition, an annual event that had been running since 1983 and was already credited with launching the careers of Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Stephanie Seymour. At stake was a life-changing prize: a $150,000 contract with the world’s then leading modelling agency, Elite Model Management, run by John Casablancas - Source
Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump signed with Casablancas Elite Model Management in 1997 when she was 16 years old. Donald Trump was very close to John Casablancas.
Trump was closely involved in Casablancas’s competition. In 1991, he was a headline sponsor, throwing open the Plaza, his lavish, chateau-style hotel overlooking Central Park, transforming it into the main venue and accommodating the young models. He was also one of its 10 judges.
A large private yacht cruised towards the Statue of Liberty. It was a clear, breezy evening, and from the upper deck of the Spirit of New York, a golden sunset could be seen glinting off the Manhattan skyline. Downstairs, a party was in flow. Scores of teenage girls in evening dresses and miniskirts, some as young as 14, danced under disco lights. It could have been a high school prom, were it not for the crowd of older men surrounding them.
In 1991, there were 10 judges in total, eight of them men, including Trump, Casablancas, the celebrity magician David Copperfield, and the president of Elite’s European division, Gérald Marie. For the swimwear round, judges including Trump and Casablancas sat at a table in one of the Plaza’s palatial rooms, rating the teenage models:
“I felt so uncomfortable, standing there in my bathing suit,” recalls Wilkes. She says that at one stage of the contest the judges said she should lose weight: “It felt like they were ganging up on me.”
David Copperfield was mentioned in Johhana Sjoberg’s Deposition during the Ghislaine Maxwell trial - PDF of Deposition.
The finale of the 1991 competition was a glittering black-tie gala at Trump’s Plaza Hotel in the Plaza’s ballroom. Casablancas and supermodel Naomi Campbell presented, as 10 finalists went through a series of costume changes, walking across a stage decorated with columns of sunflowers. Trump sat on the front row alongside a roster of celebrities, his nine-year-old daughter Ivanka perched on his knee.
In 1992, Trump hosted the competition again. On a similarly golden evening in early September that year, another group of contestants boarded the Spirit of New York, chartered for another Elite cruise.
In 1996, Trump secured what the New York Daily News described as “his most beautiful deal yet”. After months of negotiations, Trump acquired the Miss Universe Organization in a reported $10m deal that handed him control of three large, well-established pageants: Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA. Three years later, he founded Trump Model Management, poaching many staff from Elite Management Company.
For Wolfgang Schwarz, a veteran model agent in Austria who worked closely with Casablancas, and met Trump at the Plaza in the early 90s, Trump’s decision to establish his own agency was about him wanting his own private source for models:
“If you have your own agency and you’re the owner, you can tell your bookers to make a party,” Schwarz says. “It’s easier than calling 15 agencies in New York.” Trump’s representatives say he entered the modelling industry because it was a “very profitable” business opportunity.
The Modeling Agencies
Miss Universe
In 1996, Donald Trump bought the pageant from ITT Corp. During this time, in 1998, Miss Universe, Inc. changed its name to the Miss Universe Organization, and moved its headquarters from Los Angeles to New York City.
As part of the legal settlement, in September 2015, Trump bought out NBC's 50% stake in the Miss Universe Organization, making him the company's sole owner. Three days later, he sold the whole company to Ari Emanuel and Endeavor.
The Miss Universe Pageant has historically proven popular in regions like the Americas, Africa and Asia, especially in countries like United States, Philippines, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Thailand and Indonesia.
Since 2012, when Trump owned the organization, openly transgender women have been allowed to compete as long as they won their national pageants.
Between 1996 and 2015, the winner of Miss Universe is given the use of a Trump Place apartment in New York City during her reign, which she shares with the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA titleholders.
The winner then signs a contract with the Miss Universe Organization that can last at least seven months to more than a full year as per demands of the Miss Universe Organization. The new Miss Universe takes office immediately after the coronation and takes on a public cause in which she becomes the ambassador for a year to spread messages about the control of diseases, peace, and public awareness of AIDS.
The winner also receives a cash allowance for her entire reign, a New York Film Academy scholarship, a modeling portfolio, beauty products, clothes, shoes, as well as styling, healthcare, and fitness services by different sponsors of the pageant. She also gains exclusive access to events such as fashion shows and opening galas, as well as access to casting calls and modeling opportunities throughout New York City.
Trump Model Management
After Donald Trump became US President, the model agency closed down in April 2017. Donald Trump founded T Models in 1999 which included many models:
Agbani Darego - After Miss Universe she was invited by Naomi Campbell to participate in Frock 'n' Roll, a charity fashion show in Barcelona, and soon negotiated a modeling deal with Trump Model Management in America.
Trump and Naomi Campbell Jerry Hall - She was the 4th wife of Rupert Murdoch and was also the wife of Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.
Tricia Helfer - She was featured as the cover model for the February 2007 issue of Playboy. She is best known for her role in Battlestar Gallactica, Number Six.
Danielle Herrington - She used to work for Les Wexner’s Victoria Secret Secret.
Paris Hilton - The Hilton’s family social circle included Lionel Richie, Donald Trump and Micheal Jackson. Through her family connections she joined Trump’s models at age 19 in the year 2000. This was before she rose to international stardom through her tv show The Simple Life and her 2003 leaked sex tape.
Melania Trump - She was a model with Trump Model Management before her marriage to Donald Trump. In 1995 she met Metropolitan Models co-owner Paolo Zampolli, a friend of her future husband Donald Trump, who was on a scouting trip in Europe. Zampolli urged her to travel to the U.S., where he said he would like to represent her. She posed nude in 1996 issue of Max and in 2000 Uk edition of GQ magazine when she was together with Trump - Source
On 1/22/2005 Melania married Donald Trump and the event was attended by celebrities such as Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, Heidi Klum, Star Jones, P. Diddy, Shaquille O'Neal, Barbara Walters, Conrad Black, Regis Philbin, Simon Cowell, Kelly Ripa, Senator Hillary Clinton, and former president Bill Clinton.
Kara Young - In the late 1990s, Young was noticed by Donald Trump at a party in the Hamptons. He pursued her, and they began dating for approximately two years beginning around 1997. In 2005, she married a Billionarie Peter Georgiopoulos, the founder of the General Maritime shipping Tycoon company. Young lives in New York City with Georgiopoulos and their two children. She is a member of the board of directors for Action Against Hunger.
Victoria’s Secret
Les Wexner acquired the lingerie business Victoria's Secret in 1982.
Wexner hired Jeffrey Epstein as his financial manager beginning sometime in the 1980s and continuing until 2007. He was the primary billionaire client of Epstein, a financier who claimed to only work with clients with a net worth of one billion USD or greater. Epstein became Wexner's financial manager in 1987.
Wexner purchased the New York property, the Herbert N. Straus House, in 1989 and later sold it to Epstein in the mid-1990s following his marriage to Abigail.
In July 1991, Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney and also instated him as a trustee on the board of the Wexner Foundation.
The first Victoria Secret fashion show was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in August 1995. Just 5 months previous, Trumps sold the Plaza Hotel to Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
Many of Trump’s models and Miss Universe contestants became mainstream models in the industry and worked for Les Wexner’s Victoria’s Secret.
Teenage Models and Sexual Assault
In the early 90s, Look of the Year contestants who secured modeling contracts with John Casablancas’s Elite Model Management were introduced to a fledgling financial advisory firm, Star Capital Management. It was run by David Weil who was an official sponsor of Look of the Year and advertised its services in the 1991 competition program with a photograph of a small girl dressed in adult clothing and jewelery, alongside the marketing line: “Just like you, we’re not just another pretty face.”
By the following year, Star Capital Management was handling millions of dollars earned by Elite’s models. The business soon caught the attention of federal authorities, who later accused Weil and his business partner of stealing at least $1.2m from their clients.
In 1998, Weil pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. He also pleaded guilty to the statutory rape of a 15-year-old model he had met at Look of the Year in 1992.
Four years after Weil’s conviction, in 2002, Casablancas faced his own set of accusations in the civil courts. A former Look of the Year contestant, known only as Jane Doe 44, filed a lawsuit accusing him of repeatedly sexually abusing her, beginning when she was 15.
The abuse began, according to the lawsuit, at Look of the Year 1988 in Japan, where Casablancas told Doe he was “falling in love” with her. At the end of the competition, the lawsuit states, “contestants drank and partied late into the evening” and Casablancas told the teenager to come to his hotel room. There, Casablancas sexually abused the girl “several times over the evening”. The abuse allegedly continued the following year; when the girl became pregnant, Casablancas told her “she would be having an abortion”. The abortion was allegedly “arranged and paid for” by Elite. Casablancas was 46 at the time - Source
The lawsuit also alleged that Casablancas “engaged in a pattern of seducing, sexually exploiting and/or abusing minor girls, including girls as young as 14 or 15 years old”. But in 2003, the Los Angeles superior court dismissed the claims against him because he did not live in California, where it had been filed. At the time, a lawyer for Casablancas said the allegations were without merit.
But Casablancas’ sexual interest in teenage girls predated this period. His marriage to his second wife, Danish model Jeanette Christiansen, ended in 1983 when it emerged that he was having an affair with a 15-year-old model, Stephanie Seymour. Casablancas, who was in his early 40s at the time, later described Seymour as a “woman-child”. He met his third wife, Brazilian model Aline Wermelinger, in 1992, when she was a Look of the Year contestant staying at Trump’s Plaza. They married the following year; Casablancas was 51 and she was 17.
Jeffrey Epstein had a Casablancas connection during the 1990s. According to a lawsuit filed in the US three months ago, in 1990 Casablancas sent a teenage model for her first “casting call” at a residential address on New York’s Upper East Side, to meet a “photographer” who, it turned out, was Epstein. The lawsuit states that Epstein ordered the 15-year-old girl to undress before taking photographs of her, pushing her against a wall and sexually assaulting her.
Gérald Marie, one of the judges on Trump’s cruise, is a French former model agency boss, who headed Elite Model Management, in Paris. For over three decades he was among the most powerful figures in the fashion industry - Source
Gerald Marie was accused by several women of committing rape and sexual assault during the 1980s and 1990s:
Model Carre Sutton says that when she was 17 she was sexually assaulted dozens of times in 1986 by Gerald Marie. Sutton is one of at least 11 women who have reportedly filed testimonies to a Paris prosecutor claiming they were sexually assaulted by Marie, the former European head of Elite modelling agency. -
Jill Dodd, another model, says she was also raped by Marie after a night out in Paris in 1980 when she was a 20-year-old model. She went on to have a relationship with Adnan Khashoggi, the late Saudi arms dealer who was once said to be the richest man in the world. The same Saudi arms dealer who sole yachts to Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell. She says she later discovered Khashoggi had paid Marie's modelling agency, Paris Planning, up to $50,000 to be introduced to her.
Marianne Shine says she was raped by Jean-Luc Brunel, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, while working as a model in Paris in the 1980s and tells Sky News that learning of his death was
"infuriating"."Here we actually had a perpetrator in the palm of our hands," she says."There were so many times I was ready to go to Paris to testify and then they put it off and put it off."
In 2019, it was revealed that Brunel was among those named in court documents from a civil suit by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell. The documents were unsealed on August 9, 2019, a day before Epstein's death. Giuffre alleges that she was sexually trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to several high-profile individuals, including Brunel, while she was underage in the early 2000s.
A damning 60 Minutes report in the late 1980s highlighted the stories of several young models who alleged they had been drugged and raped by Jean-Luc Brunel and the head of Prestige, Claude Haddad:
In a 1995 interview with journalist Michael Gross, who was writing a book on the modelling industry, Brunel claimed there were other French agents whose behaviour was worse than his, including Haddad and Gérald Marie – at the time the European boss of the leading modeling agency Elite – who was previously married to supermodel Linda Evangelista.
Marie was one of Brunel’s rivals, but the pair reportedly “exchanged” models between their businesses and frequented the same parties and clubs in Paris. Brunel told Gross on a tape that will be heard for the first time in the new documentary:
“[There are] a lot of other ones that you don’t see, that you don’t hear … Gérald is 100 times worse than I am.”
Marie has categorically denied all accusations against him.
The alleged behaviour of Brunel, Haddad and Marie (who wasn’t referenced in the CBS programme) was an “open secret” three decades ago. He believes it was able to continue because the industry chose to look the other way - Source
“These were normal girls from all over America and no one cared,” he says. “We’re talking about a conveyor belt, not a casting couch. What I want to know is, who else was involved who helped move this along?”
Conclusion
So what does all of this mean?
Well to get a better idea lets travel back in time to the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800’s in Canada. This was the location where Frederich Trump and Elizabeth Christ decided to open up a restaurant / bar known as the ‘Arctic Restaurant’. It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper.
The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family’s wealth:
“I would advise respectable women traveling alone, or with an escort, to be careful in their selection of hotels at Bennett”
- according to a letter penned by “The Pirate” in the Yukon Sun on April 17, 1900.
For single men, the Arctic offered excellent accommodations but women should avoid it:
“as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex.”
So does this mean the Trump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel?
Frederich Trump was a rich man when he left Whitehorse in 1901 to return to his native Kallstadt, Germany, where he later deposited savings of 80,000 marks in the village treasury, Blair recounts. Unable to regain German citizenship, he returned to New York with his riches. That amount—equivalent in purchasing power to about half a million euros in 2014—ended up funding the Trump family’s first residential real estate investments in the New York area, later carried on by his son Fred and grandson Donald.
Very good dig fren.
When I was reading this and looking at the photo of Naomi Campbell it reminds me of the early scene in the Sound of Freedom. In that film a man takes his young daughter who wants to sing, and her little brother to an office that was meant to audition them. It is a trap to traffic them. Talent scout/modeling "agencies" are clearly nefarious. Society should stop promoting it all together. It is interesting how you linked Trump family fortune to this industry. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. But hey, it has been in our face with him all along. Americans don't seem to care as long as he says all the things they want to hear.