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40. “Libya’s Cyrenaica Hires Canada-Based Lobbyist to Help Sell Oil,” Reuters, January 7, 2014.
41. Katherine Clarke, “Former Reported IDF Arms Dealer Lists Fifth Avenue Pad for Nearly $10M,” Real Deal, April 4, 2012.
42. Craig Unger, “The Trouble with Ari,” Village Voice, July 7, 1992.
43. Author’s interview with Martin Dillon.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SEX, SPIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
1. Author’s interview with Jesse Kornbluth.
2. Ward, “The Talented Mr. Epstein.”
3. Emine Saner, “‘She Was So Dangerous’: Where in the World Is the Notorious Ghislaine Maxwell?,” The Guardian, December 12, 2019.
4. Tom Bower, Maxwell: The Final Verdict (HarperCollins, 1995), 40.
5. Tom Bower, Maxwell: The Outsider (Viking Penguin, 1991).
6. Bower, The Final Verdict.
7. “Epstein Investigation Turns to Identifying Alleged Associates, Clients,” NPR Morning Edition, August 13, 2019.
8. Bower, The Final Verdict.
9. “Deadline Arrives for NY Post Bidders,” Associated Press, January 23, 1988.
10. Nick Davies, Death of a Tycoon (St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
11. Gordon Thomas, Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Pan Books, 2000).
12. Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul (Carroll & Graf, 2003), 84.
13. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy.
14. Eliza Relman, “The 25 Women Who Have Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct,” Business Insider, May 1, 2020.
15. Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin (Dutton, 2018).
16. Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman, “Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not a Fan,’” New York Times, July 9, 2019.
17. Nicolas Kristof, “Donald Trump, Groper in Chief,” New York Times, October 7, 2016.
18. Nanette Holland, “Reigning Miss Russia Finds New Friends, Fun in Florida,” Tampa Tribune, April 8, 1995.
19. “Anna Alexandrovna Malova—Biography, Information, Personal Life,” Stuki-Druki (Google Translate).
20. Holland, “Reigning Miss Russia Finds New Friends.”
21. “Anna Alexandrovna Malova,” Stuki-Druki.
22. Unger, House of Trump.
23. Tim Ryan, “Trinidadian Sings for Her Title,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May 13, 1998.
24. Deborah Mitchell and Beth Landman, “The Race to Be Number Two,” New York, June 15, 1998.
25. George Rush and Joanna Malloy, “Vow Wow! Book to Say JFK Was Wed Twice?,” Daily News, October 31, 1997.
26. Mark Singer, “Trump Solo,” New Yorker, May 19, 1997.
27. James Beal and Jenny Awford, “‘I Was Corrupted,’” The Sun, August 27, 2019.
28. Ben Widdicombe, “Christina Oxenberg Is Related to Royalty and Hollywood Stars—and She Is Ready to Tell All Her Stories,” Town & Country, December 19, 2019.
29. Widdicombe, “Christina Oxenberg Is Related to Royalty.”
30. Christina Oxenberg, “Sunday Story: Epstein’s Libido,” Patreon, May 23, 2020.
31. Author’s interview with Christina Oxenberg.
32. Author’s interview with Christina Oxenberg.
33. Oxenberg, “Sunday Story: Epstein’s Libido.”
34. Sarah Blaskey, The Grifter’s Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency (PublicAffairs, 2020), Kindle location 18.
35. Sebastian Shakespeare, “Socialite Christina Oxenberg Tells All About Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to the FBI as She Says She Is ‘Disgusted’ by the ‘Creepy’ Pair and Calls a Hotline to Help,” Daily Mail, February 20, 2020.
36. Saner, “‘She Was So Dangerous.’”
37. Sharon Churcher, “Epstein’s Girl Friday ‘Fixer’: Dead Tycoon’s Daughter Ghislaine Maxwell and the Girls She Hired for Paedophile’s Stable,” Daily Mail, March 7, 2011.
38. Sharon Churcher and Polly Dunbar, “Teenage Girl Recruited by Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein Reveals How She Twice Met Bill Clinton,” Daily Mail, March 5, 2011.
39. Jesse Kornbluth, “I Was a Friend of Jeffrey Epstein; Here’s What I Know,” Salon, July 9, 2019.
40. Karni and Haberman, “Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy.’”
41. Julie K. Brown, “Even from Jail, Sex Abuser Manipulated the System. His Victims Were Kept in the Dark,” Miami Herald, November 29, 2018.
42. Dateline, NBC, September 29, 2019.
43. Marc Fisher, “Jeffrey Epstein, Accused of Sexually Abusing Teenage Girls, Surrounded Himself with Influential Network of Defenders,” Washington Post, July 9, 2019.
44. Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, “Prince Andrew Sex Allegations: Jeffrey Epstein’s Butler Alfredo Rodriguez, Who Stole Tell-All ‘Black Book,’ Dies Age 60,” Independent, January 7, 2015.
45. Deposition of Christina J. Pryor, Florida Southern District Docket, Alfredo Rodriguez case, December 9, 2009.
46. Jon Swaine, “Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Women with New Identities Run Firms from Epstein-Linked Property,” The Guardian, January 7, 2015.
47. Michael Gross, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (Dey Street Books, May 1995).
48. Conchita Sarnoff, “Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Billionaire and His Sex Den,” Daily Beast, July 22, 2010.
49. Gross, Model, 468.
50. Gross, Model, 467.
51. Lucy Osborne, Harry Davies, and Stephanie Kirschgaessner, “Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year,” The Guardian, March 14, 2020.
52. Emily Shugerman, “Models Say Jeffrey Epstein’s Closest Pal Drugged, Raped Them,” Daily Beast, September 16, 2019.
53. Kim Bhasin, Jordyn Holman, and Bloomberg, “Major Retailers Had ‘Tremendous’ Concerns About Fashion Model Scout’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein,” Fortune, August 19, 2019.
54. Ben Graham, “Mystery over Jeffrey Epstein’s Missing Mate Jean-Luc Brunel,” Australia’s News, December 14, 2019.
55. Jeffrey Epstein v. Bradley J. Edwards et al., “Exhibits to Statements of Undisputed Facts.”
56. Jeffrey Epstein v. Bradley J. Edwards et al., “Exhibits to Statements of Undisputed Facts.”
57. James West, “Former Models for Donald Trump’s Agency Say They Violated Immigration Rules and Worked Illegally,” Mother Jones, August 30, 2016.
58. Michael Gross, “Inside Donald Trump’s One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models,” Daily Beast, June 25, 2020.
59. “Andy’s Hush-Hush Visit,” New York Post, April 21, 1999.
60. Thom Smith, “Society Snapshots,” Palm Beach Post, February 20, 2000.
61. Karni and Haberman, “Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy.’”
62. Wolff, Siege, 14.
63. Beth Reinhard, Rosalind S. Helderman, and Marc Fisher, “Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Partied Together. Then an Oceanfront Palm Beach Mansion Came Between Them,” Washington Post, July 31, 2019.
64. Wolff, Siege, 14.
65. Sarnaff, “Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Billionaire.”
66. Shugarman, “Models Say Jeffrey Epstein’s Closest Pal.”
67. Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Public Affairs, November 2014).
68. Richard Johnson, “Jeffrey Epstein’s East Side Mansion Houses Russian Playmates,” New York Post, March 8, 2016.
69. Anna Nemtsova, “The Russian Sleazeball Peddling Girls to Billionaires,” Daily Beast, July 29, 2019.
70. Alena Antonova, “Eva Hercegova Said Hello to Russian Businessmen,” Kommersant, March 17, 2003.
71. Nemtsova, “The Russian Sleazeball.”
72. “Interview Li
sterman: ‘Profession—Introducing People.’ Shaggy Gold Merchant,” Moscsp, June 25, 2019.
73. Nemtsova, “The Russian Sleazeball.”
74. Vladimir Kozlovsky, “Colorful Listerman,” Kstati, September 25, 2019.
75. “The Fall of the Oligarchs,” Russian Press Digest, September 16, 1998.
76. “The Fall of the Oligarchs,” Russian Press Digest.
77. Maria Sharapova, “Kenes Rakishev Is Completely Hooked by the FSB of the Russian Federation: They Have a Video of the Oligarch’s Sexual Orgies—Source,” FBI Media, 2019.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WHO’S GOT THE KOMPROMAT?
1. Leland Nally, “Jeffrey Epstein, My Very, Very Sick Pal,” Mother Jones, August 23, 2019.
2. Jon Swaine, “Jeffrey Epstein Accuser: Video Exists of Underage Sex with Powerful Men,” The Guardian, February 7, 2015.
3. Greg Farrell, “If You Flew the Lolita Express, the Feds Want to Talk to You,” Bloomberg News, July 8, 2019.
4. Author’s interview with John Mark Dougan.
5. Cnaan Liphshiz, “Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled Ehud Barak’s High-Tech Investment, Report Claims,” Jerusalem Post, July 12, 2019.
6. Richard Johnson, “Jeffrey Epstein’s East Side Mansion Houses Russian Playmates,” New York Post, March 8, 2016.
7. James S. Bikales, “FAS Places Prof. Nowak on Leave After Report Finds Epstein Used His Program to Rehabilitate Image,” Harvard Crimson, May 2, 2020.
8. Emily Flitter and James B. Stewart, “Bill Gates Met with Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past,” New York Times, October 12, 2019.
9. Jeffrey Epstein, “Philanthropy Is on the Rise,” Marketwire, October 31, 2012.
10. Russell Brandom, “AI Pioneer Accused of Having Sex with Trafficking Victim on Jeffrey Epstein’s Island,” The Verge, August 9, 2019.
11. Gabriel Sherman, “‘It’s Going to Be Staggering, the Amount of Names’: As the Jeffrey Epstein Case Grows More Grotesque, Manhattan and DC Brace for Impact,” Vanity Fair, July 2019.
12. Becky Peterson and John Cook, “Jeffrey Epstein Set Elon Musk’s Brother Up with a Girlfriend in Effort to Get Close to the Tesla Founder, Sources Say,” Business Insider, January 13, 2020.
13. James B. Stewart, “The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People,” New York Times, August 12, 2019.
14. Nally, “Jeffrey Epstein.”
15. Nally, “Jeffrey Epstein.”
16. “‘Whoever Leads in AI Will Rule the World’: Putin to Russian Children on Knowledge Day,” RT, September 1, 2017.
17. “Kremlin’s Intelligence Services Focus on Artificial Intelligence,” Intelligence Online, October 16, 2019.
18. Alina Polyakova, “Weapons of the Weak: Russia and AI-Driven Asymmetric Warfare,” Brookings, November 15, 2018.
19. Caroline Graham, Will Stewart, and Ian Gallagher, “Was Russian Model Linked to ‘Sex Trafficker’ Jeffrey Epstein in his New York Lair at the Same Time as Prince Andrew? Questions over Glamorous Woman Seen Leaving Manhattan Home,” Daily Mail, August 31, 2019.
20. “Lana Pozhidaeva: The Social Commitment of a Model,” Maxim Italia, June 22, 2018.
21. Kate Briquelet and Lachlan Cartwright, “Notorious Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Funded This ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Advocate,” Daily Beast, March 12, 2019.
22. Jeffrey Mervis, “What Kind of Researcher Did Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Like to Fund? He Told Science Before He Died,” Science, September 19, 2019.
23. Yuliya Chernova and Olga Razumovskaya, “The Story of Masha Drokova, a Putin Acolyte Turned Silicon Valley Investor,” Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2017.
24. Christopher Miller, “‘Girl Who Kissed Putin’ Warns About Rise of Russian Nationalism,” Mashable, January 6, 2016.
25. Chernova and Razumovskaya, “The Story of Masha Drokova.”
26. Miller, “‘Girl Who Kissed Putin.’”
27. Ayurella Horn-Muller, “From Pro-Putin Activist to Venture Capitalist: The 30 Under 30 Elevating Founder/Investor Relations,” Forbes, December 23, 2018.
28. Francesca Vuillemin, “Empowering Women Through Curated Networking,” Reserved.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: TWO NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK
1. Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Emily Steel, Jacob Bernstein, and David Enrich, “Jeffrey Epstein, Blackmail and a Lucrative ‘Hot List,’” New York Times, November 11, 2019.
2. Author’s interview with John Mark Dougan.
3. Kevin Poulsen, “The Saga of ‘BadVolf’: A Fugitive American Cop, His Russian Allies, and a DNC Hoax,” Daily Beast, July 12, 2018.
4. Poulsen, “Saga of ‘BadVolf.’”
5. Author’s interview with John Mark Dougan.
6. Breaking Bad Wolf, directed by Mikhail Barynin, RT Documentary Channel.
7. “About Mark Dougan,” BadVolf.
8. Julie K. Brown and David Smiley, “New Victims Come Forward as Epstein Asks to Be Released from Jail to His Manhattan Mansion,” Miami Herald, July 11, 2019.
9. Poulsen, “Saga of ‘BadVolf.’”
10. Andrew Meier, “Russian Held in New York Was Putin’s Mentor,” Time, January 18, 2001.
11. Michael Wines, “The Kremlin’s Keeper, the World at His Fingertips, Is Under a Cloud,” New York Times, September 16, 1999.
12. Meier, “Putin’s Mentor.”
13. Angus Roxburgh, “Putin Inauguration: World View of a Russian Feeling Dissed,” Christian Science Monitor, May 6, 2012.
14. “Russia May Link Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein Violence,” ZI, September 24, 2019.
15. Memo from Neil Barnett to the author.
16. John Mark Dougan, BadVolf: The True Story of an American Cop’s Retaliation Against a Corrupt System of Justice and Politics, Forcing Him to Seek Political Asylum in Russia (BadVolf, 2018).
17. Memo from Neil Barnett to the author.
18. Paul Thompson, “Ex-Cop Who MI6 Fears Has Leaked Files on Prince Andrew’s Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein to Russia Breaks Silence to Say He’s Got Hours of Footage Taken from Inside Paedophile’s Florida Mansion,” Daily Mail, September 24, 2019.
19. Dougan, BadVolf.
20. Dougan, BadVolf.
21. Dougan, BadVolf.
22. Dougan, BadVolf, 193.
23. Dougan, BadVolf.
24. Dougan, BadVolf.
25. Dougan, BadVolf.
26. Dougan, BadVolf.
27. “The Price of Truth,” Sputnik.
28. Dougan, BadVolf.
29. Dougan, BadVolf.
30. Dougan, BadVolf.
31. Dougan, BadVolf.
32. Dougan, BadVolf.
33. Thompson, “Ex-Cop Who MI6 Fears Has Leaked Files.”
34. Thompson, “Ex-Cop Who MI6 Fears Has Leaked Files.”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE LAWYERS
1. Rob Wile and Aaron Brezel, “Jeffrey Epstein Doled Out Millions to Harvard and Others. Is That Cash Tainted?,” Miami Herald, July 22, 2019.
2. Alana Goodman, A Convenient Death (Sentinel, 2020), Kindle location 91.
3. Julie K. Brown, “Cops Worked to Put Serial Sex Abuser in Prison. Prosecutors Worked to Cut Him a Break,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018.
4. Rob Frehse and Brian Vitagliano, “Attorney Alan Dershowitz Countersues Virginia Giuffre for Defamation and Intentionally Inflicting Emotional Distress,” CNN, November 8, 2019.
5. Eliza Relman, “The 26 Women Who Have Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct,” Business Insider, September 17, 2020.
6. Connie Bruck, “Alan Dershowitz, Devil’s Advocate,” New Yorker, June 29, 2019.
7. M. L. Nestel, “Conservative Scold Ken Starr Got a Billionaire Pedophile Off,” Daily Beast, August 19, 2019.
8. Brown, “Cops Worked,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018.
9. Brown, “Cops
Worked.”
10. Jane Musgrave, John Pacenti, and Lulu Ramadan, “Jeffrey Epstein: To the First Prosecutors, Teen Victims Were Prostitutes,” Palm Beach Post, November 17, 2019.
11. Brad Reagan, “Baylor Regents Found Alleged Sexual Assaults by Football Players ‘Horrifying,’” Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2016.
12. David Thomas, “Kirkland’s Reign Continues as Firm Hits $4 Billion in Revenue,” Law.com, March 18, 2020.
13. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial Sex Abuser the Deal of a Lifetime,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018.
14. Joe Patrice, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Arrest Forces Us to Ask: Which Dirtbag Lawyers in This Case Will Face Their Own Music?,” Above the Law, July 8, 2019.
15. Brown, “How a Future Trump.”
16. Skyler Swisher and Marc Freeman, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Special Treatment in Jail Was Far More Lenient Than Anyone Knew,” Sun Sentinel, August 1, 2019.
17. Brown, “How a Future Trump.”
18. Katie Rogers, Maggie Haberman, and Peter Baker, “Acosta Defends His Role in Brokering Jeffrey Epstein Plea Deal,” New York Times, July 10, 2019.
19. Vicky Ward, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight,” Daily Beast, July 9, 2019.
20. Edward Jay Epstein, “Did Jeffrey Epstein Get Rich on the Back of Robert Maxwell’s Pension Pot Millions?,” Daily Mail, July 18, 2020.
21. Stephen Rex Brown, “Jeffrey Epstein Had Phony Passport, Piles of Cash and Diamonds in Safe: Prosecutors,” Daily News, July 15, 2019.
22. Craig Unger, Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power (Scribner, September 2012), 106.
23. Zachary Evans, “White House Lawyer to Defy Impeachment Subpoena,” National Review, November 4, 2019.
24. Ryan Goodman, “The Gravity of Michael Ellis’ Promotion to Senior Director for Intelligence at the White House,” Just Security, March 4, 2020.