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Nancy Guthrie; Ghislaine Maxwell; Super Bowl 60 : NPR

Nancy Guthrie; Ghislaine Maxwell; Super Bowl 60 : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The authorities’ search for Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, has entered its second week. The people who took Nancy from her Arizona home sent a message to the Guthries. One TV station, KGUN, said it received a ransom note demanding $6 million by this evening. Here’s what we know so far about the case. This image provided by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department on Feb. 2, 2026, shows a missing person alert for Nancy Guthrie. AP/Pima County Sheriff’s Department hide caption toggle caption AP/Pima County Sheriff’s Department 🎧 Police have not publicly confirmed the details of the ransom note in concrete terms, NPR’s Bill Chappell tells Up First. The FBI says it could be complicated to receive proof of life from the kidnappers because artificial intelligence could be used to create a convincing video of Nancy. The Pima County …

UBS Banked Ghislaine Maxwell for Years, Moving Her Money After Epstein’s Arrest

UBS Banked Ghislaine Maxwell for Years, Moving Her Money After Epstein’s Arrest

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON/TORONTO/FRANKFURT, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Swiss wealth giant UBS opened accounts for Ghislaine Maxwell in 2014 just months after JPMorgan Chase ‌decided ​to end its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and helped her ‌manage as much as $19 million in the years leading to her sex-trafficking conviction, documents show. The documents, part of a cache released by the U.S. ​Justice Department last month, provide fresh insights into the extent of UBS’ banking relationship with Maxwell, who was arrested in 2020 and found guilty in 2021 for her role in helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. She is ‍currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. The documents, which include ​emails and bank statements, show the Swiss lender opened personal and business accounts for Maxwell holding cash, shares and investments in hedge funds. UBS assigned her two relationship managers, who then helped Maxwell move millions of dollars ​and accorded her other ⁠benefits the bank reserves for its wealthy clients. In 2014, after JPMorgan closed Epstein’s accounts, UBS provided him with a credit card, an email shows. Epstein had been jailed …

News diary 9-15 February: Jimmy Lai sentencing, Ghislaine Maxwell deposition, Olympics highlights

News diary 9-15 February: Jimmy Lai sentencing, Ghislaine Maxwell deposition, Olympics highlights

Published by Sam Flores

25 November 2024: Jeffrey Epstein files news headlines on National Enquirer. Picture: Copyright Lawrey/Shutterstock. On Monday, developments in coverage of the Epstein Files continues as Ghislaine Maxwell is scheduled to be deposed by the US House Oversight Committee – part of its congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and related matters, though her lawyers say she plans to invoke her right against self-incrimination On Wednesday, Keir Starmer faces another crunch week as the controversy over Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein continues to derail the prime minister’s efforts to get on with his day job. Last week’s big speech on communities was overshadowed by the Mandelson fallout, and while Starmer’s public-facing events over the coming days may currently be limited to Wednesday’s PMQs, he’s unlikely to relish facing Kemi Badenoch with an increasingly mutinous parliamentary Labour party and growing demand for the removal of chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. Elsewhere the week is filled with Winter Olympic competition each day, with sports including alpine skiing, snowboarding, figure skating and ice hockey being broadcast. Leading the week …

Ghislaine Maxwell email appears to confirm infamous Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photograph is real

Ghislaine Maxwell email appears to confirm infamous Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photograph is real

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Ghislaine Maxwell appeared to confirm the infamous photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his accuser Virginia Giuffre is real, in newly released documents. Ms Giuffre, writing in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, said she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take the picture of her with the disgraced former prince at Maxwell’s house on the same night she alleged Andrew had sex with her for the first time, while she was aged 17. Andrew has always denied the claim. In 2019, in an interview with BBC Newsnight, he denied meeting Ms Giuffre and questioned the photograph’s authenticity. In the document released as part of the latest tranche of Epstein files, a “G Maxwell” sends an email to Epstein titled “draft statement” in 2015. It reads: “In 2001 I was in London when [redacted] met a number of friends of mine including Prince Andrew. A photograph was taken as …

Ghislaine Maxwell says photo of Andrew and Virginia Giuffre is ‘real’ | Royal | News

Ghislaine Maxwell says photo of Andrew and Virginia Giuffre is ‘real’ | Royal | News

Published by Sam Flores

The photo of Andrew and Ms Giuffre (Image: X) The photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Virginia Giuffre is “real”, Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed. The infamous photo, said to be taken inside the Mayfair home of disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, shows Prince Andrew with his arms around 17-year-old Giuffre. For years Andrew has denied any wrongdoing, during his 2019 BBC NewsNight interview he claimed that his hand around Ms Giuffre’s waist could have been forged and alleged he did not remember meeting her. During the disastrous interview he told Emily Maitlis: “I can tell you categorically I don’t remember meeting her at all. I do not remember a photograph being taken.” He also doubted the legitimacy of the picture and used the location and his outfit to cast further doubt. Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed the infamous photo is in fact real (Image: Getty) Andrew told Maitlis: “You can’t prove whether or not that photograph is fake because it’s a photograph of a photograph of a photograph. It’s very difficult to be able to prove it, …

LA Olympic chief ‘deeply regrets’ flirty Maxwell emails in Epstein files

LA Olympic chief ‘deeply regrets’ flirty Maxwell emails in Epstein files

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LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Olympics chief Casey Wasserman apologised on Saturday (Jan 31) after decades-old flirty emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein’s jailed former girlfriend appeared in a fresh cache of files related to the investigation into the late convicted sex offender. Wasserman, the chairman of the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, said his 2003 email exchanges with Ghislaine Maxwell – who is serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking underage girls for Epstein – took place before her crimes were known. “I deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light,” Wasserman, 51, said in a statement obtained by AFP. Wasserman’s emails to Maxwell were among millions of new pages released from the Epstein files by the US Justice Department on Friday, adding fresh fuel to the politically explosive case that has dogged President Donald Trump. In his statement on Saturday, Wasserman emphasized that he had “never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein”. “As is well …

Maxwell Frost: ‘It’s a Really Scary Time’

Maxwell Frost: ‘It’s a Really Scary Time’

Published by Daniella Wilson

On Friday night at a bar in Park City, Utah, a man approached Representative Maxwell Frost and said to him, “We are going to deport you and your kind.” The 28-year-old man then yelled a racial slur and punched Frost in the face before running away, according to court documents reported by KUTV and a social-media post by Frost. Just a few days into the second year of Trump’s second term as president, his incendiary comments and actions, and the fact that they come from the president of the United States, seem to be inspiring some Americans to act in line with their worst intentions and their darkest passions, Frost told me. “Trump has brought out the worst in everybody,” Frost said when I reached him by phone on Saturday evening. “People are just really emboldened and it’s a really scary time.” Frost’s alleged assailant was arrested soon after the incident, with the help of security at the venue, and booked on suspicion of aggravated burglary, assaulting an elected official, and assault. The attack took …

Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell petitions to vacate sex crime conviction

Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell petitions to vacate sex crime conviction

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Ghislaine Maxwell on Sept. 20, 2013 in New York City. Laura Cavanaugh | Getty Images Ghislaine Maxwell, who was found guilty of crimes related to procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein, filed a petition on Wednesday seeking to vacate her conviction, claiming “substantial new evidence has emerged” that undermines the case against her. Maxwell’s long-shot habeas petition in U.S. District Court in Manhattan could, if approved, see the former British socialite released from the federal prison in Texas where she is serving a 20-year sentence. However, such petitions are routinely denied. The Supreme Court earlier this year declined to hear Maxwell’s appeal of her conviction. Habeas petitions are, as a rule, the last option for an imprisoned person to void their convictions. Maxwell filed her petition “pro se,” or on her own, without a lawyer representing her in that effort. The petition comes two days before a congressionally mandated deadline for the Department of Justice to release its investigative files about Epstein and Maxwell. Maxwell says in her court filing that …