Virginia Giuffre’s brother criticizes King Charles III for not meeting survivors of Epstein abuse
Sky Roberts said survivors ‘still fighting to be heard’ after king, whose brother Andrew was accused of assault by Giuffre, did not meet with them
The King must meet the enthusiastic tarts of a grubby New York financier?
Really?
X Factor finalist accused of driving car into influencer rival
Social media creator on attempted murder charge after three people mown down by vehicle in Soho
Well, OK, it’s still missing the Ghost of Diana and Elvis flipping a cheeseburger but no doubt we’ll get there.
The 21 year old lass who wanted to sell some of her paintings to Eppie and ended up taking a concubine’s posting (free flat in NY, pay in sex) from him:
Survivors of Epstein’s abuse accuse Melania Trump of ‘shifting burden’ on to victims
It’s very difficult for me to think of that lass – who is suing the Giuffre estate for some reason – as a victim. Unwise quite possibly but that’s not the same thing.
More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have accused Melania Trump of “shifting the burden” on to them after she called on Congress to hold public hearings with victims of Epstein’s abuse.
“Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony,” said a group of 13 people and the brother and sister of the late Virginia Giuffre, who was one of the most vocal Epstein accusers, in a statement. “Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility not justice.”
And that is just pathetic.
A federal judge has thrown out the majority of Blake Lively’s claims against Justin Baldoni.
In a court ruling on Thursday, Judge Lewis Liman dismissed 10 of the 13 claims in Lively’s lawsuit against her co-star and director of the domestic violence film It Ends With Us.
Among the 10 claims that Liman threw out were Lively’s claims of sexual harassment, conspiracy and defamation. Just three of the actor’s claims will now be heard at trial: breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting in retaliation.
Retaliation is a crime now?
This decision leaves Lively’s case with a narrower purview, with its focus limited to the actor’s claims that Baldoni was behind a retaliatory campaign which shared and boosted negative stories about her online.
Apparently so tho’ isn’t that just free speech?
Who in Hillary Clinton’s team thought it would be a good idea to capitalise on the Jeffrey Epstein case?
Arwa Mahdawi
The you read on to what it is that’s being talked about. Sure, sure, Bill palled around etc, it’s not a good look. But the actual complaint is that Hills, at a hearing about Epstein, said something which has gone a little viral and her campaign are selling t-shirts with the phrase upon it.
You know, not, really, capitalising upon Epstein at all. ““If you guys are doing that, I am done,” she said. “You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home.” She has since slapped that line on cow-themed hats and shirts.”
One of those complaints that tell us much more about the complainant than anyone else.
You know, wimmins journo desperate for a story to use sort of telling us about someone.
The Duchess of Sussex is set to headline a women’s-only weekend retreat in Sydney during her visit to Australia, with tickets starting at A$2,699 (£1,400) per person.
The three-day event from April 17–19, touted as a “girls’ weekend like no other”, will be hosted by Her Best Life podcast at the InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach, a five-star hotel on the waterfront in the city’s eastern suburbs.
Not that I would have gone anyway, but the thought of sharing even a country with anyone who coughed up for this toss would be too much.
The Duchess of Sussex has cut ties with Netflix and will take “complete control” of her domestic brand selling jams, wine and flower sprinkles.
The correct reading of this is that Netflix has dumped her. Obviously.
For as read it’s saying that she allowed Netflix to spend all the investment money but now it’s running she’s going to cut them out of the profits. And obviously someone as glowingly wondrous as The Mekon would never do something like that.
Prince Edward’s love letters have inspired a new memoir that promises to reveal “the bittersweet joy of first love”.
The Prince dated Ruthie Henshall, the West End star, on and off for several years before meeting the then Sophie Rhys-Jones, who became his wife.
Henshall has said her book, The Showgirl and the Prince, will document their romance from its secretive beginnings to visits to Buckingham Palace and tea at Windsor with Queen Elizabeth II.
Actresses are all very well for stepping out with but….
Bits and pieces of it turn up on YouTube and, well, it’s a well trodden path. Yes, Tourette’s is horrible and so on. But so the story is sufferer, meets a few folk who are able to overcome it and his embarrassment, gets asked to talk to other suffers, swelling strings and redemption in aiding overcoming society’s indifference to etc.
OK, so no I’m not being dismissive of the story. It’s just that it’s a well trodden path more generally. And the reason it keeps getting told is becuase it’s a damn good story. Gets those story listening juices of the audience going.
Excellent. But as ever in such stories who is going to be the near saint who first is able to dismiss the problem to see the real person underneath? What exact form is the redemption going to take? How many near misses will there be on the path?
Except Tourette’s. This gives an obvious interest and excitement. What, actually, are they going to have the bloke – involuntarily – say? As I understand it those involuntary utterances are not random. It’s not wee doggie one time and sperm smeared the next. There’s a definite selection to the words uttered – for all the involuntary nature of it all. That selection – as far as I understand – being statements that cause maximal embarrasment at the time they’re said. It’s *not* shouting out randomly. It’s involuntarily shouting out the most embarrassing.
OK, well that’s Dr Worstall, MD, there and no doubt wrong in detail but I am sure there’s a truth in it all the same.
So, this gives huge opportunity to the scriptwriters. You get to get the character to say the most wondrous jokes, if that’s what you want to do. And maybe they do that – I’ve only seen the occasional clip.
But I do have a feeling that they’ve not used the best joke about this of all. That the bloke himself goes to an awards ceremony about the film and as an award is being given to some diversity or other he shouts out “Nigger!”. Which is, of course, hugely embarrassing for all concerned. Which is one of the points of the affliction itself. The beauty of the joke coming from what then happens, as the varied strata of diversity privilege make themselves apparent. Is he someone ill – disabled – that allowances must be made? Is the use of that word the modern ineradicable sin? Plus those being mischievous get to ponder why it’s OK in rap songs presented awards at award shows but not OK at an award show.
Ah, so much good comedy is aboutthe subersion of the established order, eh?
Nothing uncovered in the files has indicated any criminal activity by Ferguson, who appeared to stop using the duchess title when her ex-husband was stripped of his title,
Tho’ you can hear the Guardian’s unspoken “yet” there, clear as a bell.
Myself I think it extraordinarily unlikely. Who would give Sarah anything she could act illegally with in the first place?
“Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed.
“I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.
“For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family. The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.
“Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths that they’ll go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.”
The boy really is dim, no? So dim he thinks the PR circus is the real part of life.
Seriously, of no discernible talent the laddie is married to the pretty* daughter of a billionaire. Fallen into the rose petal strewn part of the shithole that life casn be. And he’s whingeing about PR?
Get a grip.
*Come on, maybe not front page of Vogue pretty but she’s easy enough on the eye.
On Wednesday, Meghan, 44, who has not seen Thomas Markle for many years, “reached out” to the 81-year-old with a letter hand-delivered to him in a hospital in the Philippines, where he now lives.
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It is understood Meghan’s letter set out her feelings regarding her father’s decision to give several interviews to the media about their relationship.
Way to support in time of need, eh? Who knew that it would end up being about her?
The Duke of Sussex’s conservation charity has been removed from its role managing protected parks in Chad after the government accused it of arrogance, serious financial misconduct and failing to protect wildlife.
In a statement announcing the end of the 15-year partnership “with immediate effect”, Hassan Bakhit Djamous, Chad’s environment minister, said the charity, African Parks, had displayed a “recurring, indelicate and disrespectful attitude towards the government”.
Over four pages, the ministry alleged grave breaches of contract and financial irregularities, accusing the charity of keeping unaudited accounts and not being transparent over how funds were raised, managed and spent.
It alleged that the charity illegally collected tourism revenues, used tax-haven bank accounts in the Isle of Man and transferred capital and foreign exchange abroad “to the detriment of Chad and in flagrant violation of national banking and tax regulations”.
One way – a possible way shall we say – is that they’re pissed the money is abroad because that means it’s not locally where they can steal it.
Jodie Whittaker: ‘If Doctor Who asked me back, I wouldn’t hesitate’
Kiddies TV isn’t usually seen as a step up careerwise.
It is more proof, is it not, of what the Princess Royal does for her country. Here she is doing her bit for a Caerphilly underwear factory by posing next to, let’s not beat about the bush, a pair of BDSM-style fetish knickers. Two, actually. One to her left and one above her head. The type of knickers that Madame Whip-crack might wear in her Spanking Palace, ie the spare bedroom of a 1950s semi just off the North Circular Road.
If I was her PR aide I would have rugby tackled her to the floor screaming, “Step away from the spank pants, Your Royal Highness. Think of the laughs Have I Got News for You could wring out of that photo.” But she clearly couldn’t care less and good for her. She knows she’s one of the few older royals who has never been within a sniff of a scandal. Imagine Prince Andrew posing for that same picture. All newspaper columnists’ Christmases would have come at once.
Note also the chafey-looking suspender belts and bras, a collection that evoke an Ann Summers sale rail and are the type of lingerie I can’t imagine Anne wearing in a million years.
The horsey set – something to do with sitting on half a tonne of rampant stallion etc – do things rather differently.
Anne, when of the age to be doing so, had quite a reputation as game and up for it. Whisper it gently perhaps, good at the game too. Note that I do not, at all, mean Katie Price levels of going for it. Rather aware of and partaking in one of life’s great pleasures skilfully and selectively shall we say. Back in the day when boyfriend and courting were changing their meaning from shall we to shall we continue doing so?
The Duke of Sussex has revealed his focus in the coming year will be on his father, the King.
The Duke, who turns 41 on Monday, met the King for the first time in 19 months during his trip to the UK earlier this week.
Speaking to The Guardian during an unannounced trip to Kyiv, the Duke said he thought the visit with his father had gone well and that over the coming year “the focus really has to be on my dad”.
The pair met for 54 minutes at Clarence House on Wednesday, when the King returned to London from Balmoral for his weekly cancer treatment and a handful of state duties.
Could be an upcoming will to be influenced, see?
Well, actually, it’s a very fine review of something not good:
I watched Meghan’s twaddle — it’s like being waterboarded with treacle
“These outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions included that Mrs Macron was born a man, stole another person’s identity, and transitioned to become Brigitte; Mrs Macron and President Macron are blood relatives committing incest; President Macron was chosen to be the President of France as part of the CIA-operated MKUltra program or a similar mind-control program; and Mrs Macron and President Macron are committing forgery, fraud, and abuses of power to conceal these secrets.
“Because Ms Owens systematically reaffirmed these falsehoods in response to each of our attorneys’ repeated requests for a retraction, we ultimately concluded that referring the matter to a court of law was the only remaining avenue,” the Macrons said in a statement. “Ms Owens’ campaign of defamation was plainly designed to harass and cause pain to us and our families and to garner attention and notoriety. We gave her every opportunity to back away from these claims, but she refused. It is our earnest hope that this lawsuit will set the record straight and end this campaign of defamation once and for all.”
All very fun in a rather gossipy way but not, in fact, true. Untrue enough that the lady’s husband, George, might want to take her in for a checkup, no?
Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show has failed to break into the streaming giant’s top 300 programmes for the first half of the year, as the Sussexes’ dreams of creating a media empire continues to struggle.
Testing the limits of mere celebrity to gain an audience. Or even mere likeability. Another way of putting the same thing she was a C list actress – supporting part on a cable show. Now she’s famous and also the skill level of a C list actress.
We can also run this the other way around. Sure, someone can be famous for being famous. But that’s not one of those things that lasts. There has to be a reason for the famosity in the first place for it to continue.