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King orders aides ‘to leave no trace of Andrew at Royal Lodge’ as staff burn unwanted belongings

King orders aides ‘to leave no trace of Andrew at Royal Lodge’ as staff burn unwanted belongings

Published by Sam Flores

The King has given orders to remove any trace of the disgraced ex-Prince Andrew from his former home on the Windsor estate, it is reported. Skips have been spotted around the 30-room Royal Lodge in Berkshire, with one staffer seen burning old furniture as the stately home was emptied. It is known on February 2, King Charles ordered Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to finally leave the home, where he had lived for over 20 years paying peppercorn rent, under cover of darkness. The move came amid continuing revelations about the extent of Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah’s friendship with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The former Duke of York was also arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office following allegations he shared sensitive information with Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy. Andrew, 66, who has taken up residence at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, denies any wrongdoing. This week, royal aides were spotted removing the last possessions from Royal Lodge, including the apartments where the ex-Duke of York’s personal staff used to reside. …

Sarah Ferguson bombshell as UK council removes ex-duchesses’s remaining title | Royal | News

Sarah Ferguson bombshell as UK council removes ex-duchesses’s remaining title | Royal | News

Published by Sam Flores

Councillors in York have unanimously agreed to strip Sarah Ferguson of her Freedom of the City of York due to her association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. City of York Council stripped her of the title during a meeting at the Guildhall in York on Thursday evening. During the meeting, the council considered a single motion: “The council resolves that, pursuant to Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972, the City of York Council withdraws the Honorary Freeman of the City status from Sarah Ferguson, which was conferred upon her in 1987.” The vote comes after proposals to strip 66-year-old Ms Ferguson of the honorary status were first mooted in October. This came following an email between her and the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein came to the surface. The email from 2011 described him as a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to her and her family. It was sent after the disgraced financier was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and after Ms Ferguson said her involvement with him was …

A Detailed Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

A Detailed Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

Published by Sam Flores

But now members of the House of Representatives’ main investigative body, the Oversight Committee, hope Noel can provide clarity around what exactly happened during those fateful hours. Ahead of her interview, here’s everything we currently know about the night Epstein died, piecing together news reports, documents released by the DOJ, court records, and video footage from the few working cameras in the SHU. July 6, 2019 — Jeffrey Epstein is arrested on federal sex trafficking charges at Teterboro Airport and brought to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. July 7 — Epstein is assigned to the prison’s Special Housing Unit (SHU) due to the intense media interest in the case and his notoriety within the prison. July 8 —Epstein pleads not guilty to sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. July 18 — A federal judge denies Epstein bail. On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges and brought to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images. July 23 — …

Greek TV Auctioneer Arrested for Trafficked Artworks

Greek TV Auctioneer Arrested for Trafficked Artworks

Published by Jenni Sidey

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CRIME SHOW. The well-known Greek dealer Giorgos Tsagarakis, who hosted televised art auctions, was arrested in Athens on Friday on felony charges for trafficking forged and stolen artwork and antiquities, according to The Greek Reporter. Greece’s Organized Crime Division made the arrest and dismantled the dealer’s alleged counterfeit art network following a “smoking gun” social media post featuring illicit items. Investigators then made a series of raids throughout Athens, which led to the seizure of 321 paintings, a majority of which experts said were forgeries, artifacts, and large amounts of cash. Indeed, local authorities had grown suspicious of Tsagarakis, as collectors began recognizing their own stolen objects being offered for sale on the dealer’s TV show. The dealer claims he is innocent. MIA. Paul Klee’s iconic watercolor, Angelus Novus (1920), is missing from New York’s Jewish Museum exhibition about the artist, because it is stuck in Israel as the country navigates the ongoing regional conflict, reports Hyperallergic. For now, the historic artwork is …

Collector and ‘Galerie’ Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Epstein

Collector and ‘Galerie’ Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Epstein

Published by José Betancourt

Documents in the Justice Department’s release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein appear to show ties between the financier and convicted sex offender and a New York art collector and magazine publisher, and her developer-investor husband. Lisa Fayne Cohen and her husband, Jimmy Cohen—founder, CEO, and chairman of the real estate and development firm Hudson Capital Properties—were in close contact with Epstein in 2015 and early 2016, long after his crimes were a matter of public knowledge, according to emails released in the so-called Epstein Files, which began to be released in December. There is no indication in the files of any wrongdoing on either’s part. Related Articles In one email exchange, Lisa Cohen was laying the groundwork for the launch of Galerie magazine. Not long after, Epstein’s Paris apartment appeared anonymously on the cover of the magazine’s second issue, in fall 2016, and in an extensive spread inside. The Cohens began collecting art in 2009 with a work by French modernist Fernand Léger, according to a 2023 Artnet News profile, which noted that they …

Jeffrey Epstein’s Lasting Grip on the Gates Foundation

Jeffrey Epstein’s Lasting Grip on the Gates Foundation

Published by Sam Flores

“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Bill Gates told his staff at a Gates Foundation town hall late last month—an attempt at sunshine, or at least damage control, as the long shadow of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has stretched out over the most powerful private philanthropy in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed a recording of Gates’s remarks, he confirmed for the first time publicly that he had affairs with two Russian women, seeming to address what Epstein described in one of the 3.5 million files as Gates’s “illicit trysts.” Gates generally apologized for his relationship with Epstein, acknowledging that he continued to meet with the disgraced financier through 2014 and flew on his jet, while insisting that he “never stayed overnight” or visited Epstein’s island. But Epstein’s relationship with the Gates Foundation is another question. Other than a statement on the foundation’s website saying, in part, that “we will continue to review materials released in connection with [Epstein’s communication with Gates Foundation staff],” the convicted sex offender’s …

He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life

He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life

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The Epstein Library on the Justice Department’s website is a model of disorganization. In early December, Keller was clicking through the tens of thousands of pages of documents in the library and feeling “frustrated disbelief” at the chaos—files that could be hundreds of pages long, text that was sometimes blurry or sideways, a wire transfer with no context, an email chain with half the names blacked out, a flight log with only initials. “It’s disorienting,” he says. “You’re reading fragments of something enormous and trying to figure out which fragments matter and how they connect.” One night, he spent about four hours trying to trace a single person’s name across some 30 documents in the archive. “I just stopped and thought, I am doing by hand what a database could do in milliseconds,” he says. As a builder of database infrastructure at a midsize company, he knew exactly what to do next. “I opened a code editor and started building. By 3 am I had a basic search prototype working against a few hundred documents,” …

AG Pam Bondi to sit for House deposition April 14

AG Pam Bondi to sit for House deposition April 14

Published by Sam Flores

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice,” in Rayburn building Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday said it has subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi to sit for an April 14 deposition on the Department of Justice’s handling of matters related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Committee chairman James Comer, R-Ky., identified the deposition date in a new letter to Bondi sent nearly two weeks after the panel voted to issue the subpoena to the AG. The panel wants to question Bondi about the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed with overwhelming support in Congress and was signed by President Donald Trump in mid-November. Lawmakers also have questions about the department’s handling of its investigation into Epstein, who died in a jailhouse suicide in 2019 while facing federal sex-trafficking charges, and his associates, Comer’s letter said. Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in …

Mandelson ‘received £1.5m from selling shares in collapsed firm’

Mandelson ‘received £1.5m from selling shares in collapsed firm’

Published by Sam Flores

Lord Mandelson made more than £1.5m from selling his shares in his lobbying firm before it collapsed over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, it has been reported. The peer is said to have received £250,000 for his remaining stake in Global Counsel just days before the company shut down last month. Meanwhile, his former colleagues’ shares ended up worthless, three sources told the Financial Times. The newspaper reported that the former business secretary had made between £1.3m and £1.4m in an earlier sale of shares to friends and associates in 2024. One source said the peer had received money “from a business that he destroyed”, adding: “If he had any decency he would donate the money to the victims of his friend Jeffrey Epstein.” Lord Mandelson tries on a belt on a 2005 shopping trip with Jeffrey Epstein in the Caribbean in a photo released from the Epstein files – US House Oversight Committee Global Counsel collapsed into administration on Feb 19 after losing a succession of high-profile clients including Barclays, Tesco, the Premier League, …

Epstein Donations to New York Academy of Art Will Be Given to Charity

Epstein Donations to New York Academy of Art Will Be Given to Charity

Published by José Betancourt

The New York Academy of Art said Friday that it will give away money donated by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after newly released Justice Department files shed new light on his ties to the institution. According to the New York Times, the school said it plans to donate $65,900 linked to Epstein to a nonprofit that supports victims of human trafficking. It had previously redirected another $30,000 he had given to the academy. In an email sent to students and alumni, the academy’s board acknowledged what it described as “serious failures in judgment and governance” in maintaining connections with Epstein after his criminal conduct had become known. The school also said it would review its policies around philanthropy and donor engagement. Related Articles The New York Academy of Art was just one of Epstein’s myriad connections to the art world. He served on the academy’s board in the early 1990s and remained involved with the institution for years afterward. According to recently released federal documents, he attended fundraising events such as the Tribeca Ball and the school’s “Take …