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After She Threatens $1B Suit, First Lady Is Sued in Return

Author Michael Wolff takes legal action

(Newser) - After Melania Trump threatened to sue Michael Wolff for $1 billion, the author of four books about the president has responded with a suit of his own against her, reports NBC News . The legal fight between the first lady and Wolff (who is a co-founder of Newser) revolves around Jeffrey...

Report: Prince Andrew Asked Cop to Find Dirt on Giuffre

Met Police investigating claims he targeted his accuser with his police protection detail

(Newser) - Prince Andrew could become the first member of the British royal family to be investigated by police in more than two decades, the Telegraph reports, noting Metropolitan Police are reviewing allegations that the prince tried to gather personal information about his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, using his police protection detail. The...

Book Excerpt: How Maxwell Lured Me Into Epstein's Web

Virginia Giuffre's account to be published after her death

(Newser) - Virginia Giuffre finished writing her memoir one year ago and told collaborator Amy Wallace that she wanted to be sure Nobody's Girl was released even if she wasn't alive to see it. Giuffre took her own life in April , and her book is due out next Tuesday . In...

Prince Andrew's 2011 Email to Epstein Raises New Questions

'Keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon,' prince wrote

(Newser) - Prince Andrew is facing renewed scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after newly published emails show he was still in contact with the disgraced financier well after claiming otherwise. In a 2011 message sent the day after a photo surfaced showing Andrew with a teenage Virginia Giuffre, Andrew...

Supreme Court Delivers Bad News to Ghislaine Maxwell

Justices decline to take up her appeal

(Newser) - Ghislaine Maxwell has struck out at the Supreme Court. On their first day of a new term , justices declined to consider an appeal from the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, reports USA Today . As is customary, the judges did not explain their decision, per the AP . Maxwell is currently...

Statue of Trump, Epstein Pulled From National Mall
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Trump-Epstein Statue Returns to National Mall

New permit has been acquired for statue, yanked previously for allegedly violating another permit

(Newser) - A statue depicting President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking while holding hands, entitled "Best Friends Forever," was yanked from the National Mall on Sept. 24, but the bronze structure is now back, reports NBC News . Per the Washington Post , the 10-foot-tall statue had been removed by the National...

Epstein Records Turn Spotlight on Musk, Bannon, Thiel

Oversight Dems release documents that also name Bill Gates, point to massages for 'Andrew'

(Newser) - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a set of documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate that reference several high-profile individuals, including Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Prince Andrew, and Bill Gates. The six pages, part of a much larger batch of 8,544 records, include pieces...

Charities Drop Sarah Ferguson Over Epstein Email

UK's Duchess of York wrote that sex offender was a 'steadfast, generous' friend

(Newser) - Sarah Ferguson has been dropped by six major charities after an email surfaced revealing she apologized to Jeffrey Epstein for publicly distancing herself from him. The revelations ended the decades-long patronage of Britain's Duchess of York with organizations including the British Heart Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust, and Prevent...

Trump, Epstein Images on Windsor Castle Spur Arrests

Alleged Trump letter, Epstein case details were also projected

(Newser) - There will no doubt be plenty of grand displays during President Trump's second state visit to Britain, but one such demonstration ended up in arrests. Reuters reports four people were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of malicious communications after images of Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were...

Patel Taking Heat Over Kirk Investigation

Critics blame FBI director for confusion amid 'an unfolding crisis'

(Newser) - FBI Director Kash Patel, criticized as inexperienced and out for retribution early on, appears to be facing the biggest test of his leadership yet. Ten sources across the federal government tell Fox News that his leadership is "under fire" amid the investigation into the Charlie Kirk assassination. One source...

House Vote on Epstein File Release Appears Inevitable

Just one more signature is needed, and it should come within weeks

(Newser) - Congress looks poised to reveal long-hidden Jeffrey Epstein documents as GOP Rep. Thomas Massie's discharge petition edges within a single signature of forcing a House vote. With 217 signatures as of late Wednesday—thanks to newly elected Virginia Democrat James Walkinshaw—the discharge petition is now one member...

UK Ambassador Canned After 'Additional' Epstein Info Arises

PM Starmer removes UK envoy to US after more apparent notes to Jeffrey Epstein are published

(Newser) - British PM Keir Starmer had gone to bat for Peter Mandelson, his ambassador to the US who wrote a note that was included in sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's so-called birthday book—but it wasn't enough to save the latter's job. Bloomberg reports that Starmer has fired Mandelson,...

He Sent Epstein a Birthday Letter, Shares His Regrets

UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson called Epstein 'his best pal'

(Newser) - The UK's ambassador to the US called Jeffrey Epstein his "best pal" in a handwritten note that appeared in Epstein's so-called "birthday book," and he has now warned more "very embarrassing" details of his ties to Epstein could be forthcoming. Speaking publicly for...

Trump: Epstein Card a 'Dead Issue'
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Trump: Epstein Card a 'Dead Issue'

President denies being the author, says he's done talking about it

(Newser) - President Trump has denied writing a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein and says he's done discussing the matter. "I don't comment on something that's a dead issue," he told NBC News . "I gave all comments to the staff. It's a dead issue."...

House Dems Release Epstein Birthday Letter

White House says it's not Trump signature

(Newser) - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a purported letter from President Trump that appeared in a book put together for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday. The letter is written in the hand-drawn outline of a naked woman, with Trump's name signed where there would be pubic hair,...

JPMorgan Ignored Years of Warnings About Epstein

New York Times does a deep dive into the sex offender's relationship with the bank

(Newser) - The New York Times is out with an in-depth investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's ties to JPMorgan Chase, and the takeaway is not one that will please the bank. Its headline of "How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein" conveys the gist. The story found that the bank...

Memoir of Late Epstein Accuser Is Getting a New Edit

Publisher Knopf agrees to tweak draft of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous book at family's request

(Newser) - The publisher of a posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre says it has agreed on a final draft with family members after they publicly raised questions about the book's release. Surviving relatives of Giuffre had worried that Nobody's Girl presented an outdated, unduly positive portrait of...

'Missing Minute' in Epstein's Jail Video Revealed

It shows only routine staff activity

(Newser) - The long-speculated "missing minute" in the Jeffrey Epstein jail video has finally been released, and it turns out to be anticlimactic. The gap in footage, which had fueled online suspicion and conspiracy theories since the FBI first released jail footage earlier this year, was originally attributed by Attorney...

Epstein Victims Are Making Their Own List

Greene volunteers to 'name names' in Congress

(Newser) - Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse urged the government to release all its files on the sex trafficker Wednesday—and they said they were compiling their own list of his associates. "Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names who were regularly in the Epstein world," Lisa...

House Panel Releases 33K Pages of Epstein Files

Top Democrat says only 3% of information is new

(Newser) - The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. The folders contained hundreds of image files of years-old court filings related to Epstein and Maxwell, the AP reports....

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