The Russian-Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova, who committed suicide at the age of 20 in 2008 by falling from the ninth floor of her apartment in Manhattan , had two years earlier been on Jeffrey Epstein's infamous "Lolita Express" jet for a trip to his Caribbean island of Little St. James, scene of orgies and sexual encounters between VIPs and minors.
This is one of the details that emerged from the release of the court documents in the Epstein case after their declassification. Korshunova had worked in advertising for Marc Jacobs, Dkny, Vera Wang, and Nina Ricci.
The series of judicial documents linked to the Epstein case and declassified in installments five years after his suicide in prison while awaiting trial for trafficking of minors seems like a Pandora's box.
The second tranche of documents, 19 after over 40 on Wednesday, with thousands of pages of depositions, reveals new names but also embarrassing details linked to figures already known in Epstein's orbit, even if not criminally relevant. Like Bill Clinton, who allegedly entered the offices of Vanity Fair and "threatened" the staff not to publish articles on the sex trafficking of his good friend Jeffrey.
Virginia Giuffre, Epstein's great accuser, recounted the episode in an email to a Daily Mail journalist. In the documents the former president is described as someone who "had traveled with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (his girlfriend, ed.) and who could have had information on the conduct" of the financier and his accomplice.
The veil is then lifted on those who were the targets of the trafficking of teenagers orchestrated by the financier and his partner: Epstein offered a girl, identified in a 2014 document with the pseudonym "Jane Doe 3", to "numerous prominent American politicians , powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister and other world leaders,” with the aim of “ingratiating themselves” with them for his financial activity but also “to obtain potential blackmail information” by having the teenager tell them the details of sexual encounters. However, the document does not name the VIPs.
The young woman was first contacted by Maxwell in 1999, when she was just 15 years old. Like her, dozens of other minors. Among the new names of the "customers", those of Leslie Wexner, the retail titan behind Victoria's Secret, The Limited and other store chains, appear. Or the billionaire Glenn Dubin, the former US ambassador and governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, by former senator George Mitchell. Everyone denies it. The names that continue to attract attention are those of Bill Clinton, Donald Trump. And Prince Andrew, about whom an anti-monarchist political group, Republic, has asked to open new investigations.But Scotland Yard has already closed the door, after previous investigations concluded with a non-prosecution and the prince's multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with his accuser Virginia Giuffre.
(Unioneonline/D)
