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The House Judiciary Democrats’ 53 Page Trump/Epstein Report (Part 2) (10/26/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to dive right
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  Speaker 1: back in to the report by the Democrats about Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Trump. As revealed by the staff report, documents in
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files show that then Deputy Attorney General Todd
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  Speaker 1: Blanch likely knew about certain survivor claims against the president
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  Speaker 1: when he traveled to Tallahassee, Florida to interview Epstein co-conspirator
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell in federal prison. The transcript of that meeting shows
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  Speaker 1: that on at least three separate occasions, Blanche directed Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: not to discuss one individual, Jane, whose report to FBI
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  Speaker 1: implicated Donald Trump and Epstein's sex trafficking ring, but whose
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  Speaker 1: claims were not yet known to the public. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Blanche may have engaged in criminal obstruction of
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  Speaker 1: justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump. This
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  Speaker 1: pattern of obstruction is, of course, not limited to the
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell interview and her subsequent favorable treatment in a minimum
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  Speaker 1: security camp. The public has rightfully questioned why DOJ has
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  Speaker 1: engaged in such a puzzling mix of denials, dubious assertions,
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  Speaker 1: and secrecy with respect to the Epstein files, particularly after
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  Speaker 1: so many administration officials promised to release the files during
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  Speaker 1: the campaign. The explosive Trump-Epstein connection helps provide an answer
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  Speaker 1: to these perplexing questions. Why, after publicly demanding for years
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  Speaker 1: release of the Epstein files and then promising to release them,
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  Speaker 1: would Donald Trump and his handpicked lawyers refuse to release
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  Speaker 1: them and actively work to thwart their disclosure? Why were
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  Speaker 1: senior prosecutors working on the Epstein case in the Southern
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  Speaker 1: District of New York ordered to send their investigative files
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  Speaker 1: to DOJ headquarters in D.C. in January 2025? Why did
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  Speaker 1: DOJ and FBI abruptly close the case in July of 2025?
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  Speaker 1: and declare without offering any explanation or supporting details that
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  Speaker 1: DOJ and FBI did not uncover evidence that could predicate
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  Speaker 1: an investigation against any uncharged third parties despite having the
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  Speaker 1: names of over 20 alleged co-conspirators from nearly 50 survivors.
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  Speaker 1: If the investigation was closed, why did then Deputy Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General and former Trump personal attorney Blanche suddenly fly to
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  Speaker 1: Florida to interview Maxwell in prison? immediately after she was
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  Speaker 1: called to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and
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  Speaker 1: Government Reform. What information was he seeking to find or
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  Speaker 1: suppress that would spur him to make such an abrupt, extraordinary,
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  Speaker 1: and unprecedented trip? Why was Maxwell transferred to a minimum
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  Speaker 1: security camp after the interview and showered with deluxe treatment,
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  Speaker 1: all an apparent violation of BOP policy preventing sex offenders
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  Speaker 1: from being sent to that institution? Why did the DOJ's
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  Speaker 1: obstruction continue even after Congress passed the Epstein-Files Transparency Act?
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  Speaker 1: Why were Trump and his lawyers so determined to cover
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  Speaker 1: up the contents in their possession that they refused to
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  Speaker 1: release a huge portion of the documents and heavily redacted
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  Speaker 1: the ones that were released even after Congress had passed
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  Speaker 1: the FTA? Why do journalists, survivors, and members of the
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  Speaker 1: public keep identifying additional records that DOJ, under Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Blanch's direction, has unlawfully redacted, or withheld? These questions have
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  Speaker 1: straightforward answer. The Trump administration took these actions because Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is personally implicated in Epstein's sex trafficking operation. And
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  Speaker 1: these questions lead inescapably to this one. Are Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Blanche and DOJ deliberately covering up further evidence that directly
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  Speaker 1: implicates Trump in Epstein's crimes of sex trafficking and abuse
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  Speaker 1: on female minors? It appears they are. Instead of pursuing
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  Speaker 1: justice for Epstein survivors, former Attorney General Pam Bondi and
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Blanche have been running the DOJ, like a
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  Speaker 1: private legal defense firm, for their former client. Determined to
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  Speaker 1: protect President Trump at any cost, DOJ itself now leads
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  Speaker 1: the cover-up of Epstein's sex trafficking operation. Todd Blanche has
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  Speaker 1: gone from being Donald Trump's personal attorney to his personal
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  Speaker 1: attorney general. A cover-up for one has now become a
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  Speaker 1: cover-up for all. By shutting down the Epstein investigation and
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  Speaker 1: insisting there is no evidence to predicate any further investigation,
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  Speaker 1: DOJ has given a pass to likely co-conspirators like Paolo Zampalli,
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  Speaker 1: Leon Black, Jess Staley, Les Wexner, Leon Botstein, Leslie Groff,
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  Speaker 1: and Larry Wysoski, among others. Because investigating these men would
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  Speaker 1: be to acknowledge that other participants may still be at
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  Speaker 1: large and subject to arrest, prosecution, and punishment for their crimes.
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  Speaker 1: DOJ will support the survivors only insofar as they do
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  Speaker 1: not produce a single inconvenient truth about the men and
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  Speaker 1: women who actually abused them. This refusal to investigate even
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  Speaker 1: the most damning facts in the Epstein files has been
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  Speaker 1: a critical component of DOJ's lawless mission to protect the president.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, the collateral damage is catastrophic. House Judiciary
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  Speaker 1: Committee Democrats stand on the side of the rule of
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  Speaker 1: law and for the transparency necessary for criminal accountability to occur.
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  Speaker 1: The stakes of the Epstein-Maxwell conspiracy are monumental. Human trafficking,
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  Speaker 1: child abuse, and rape are among the most serious offenses
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  Speaker 1: that our law recognizes. Government complicity in a cover-up to
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  Speaker 1: protect traffickers and rapists is criminal obstruction of justice and
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  Speaker 1: an intolerable offense against a free society. Moreover, a president
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  Speaker 1: implicated in sex trafficking operation is a president exposed constantly
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable to blackmail by foreign governments and domestic criminals. The
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  Speaker 1: full extent of the President of the United States' involvement
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  Speaker 1: with criminal sex trafficking ring is, inescapably, of the utmost
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  Speaker 1: concern to Congress and the American people. The backdrop. Sexual
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  Speaker 1: exploitation in the Gotham City of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: and Paulo Zampolli. Before turning to the specific accounts of
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  Speaker 1: women and survivors in Linking Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: it's important to understand both men's relationship with New York
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  Speaker 1: of the 90s, where powerful men like Trump and Epstein recruited, manipulated,
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  Speaker 1: and abused young women in the fashion and modeling industries.
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  Speaker 1: By and large, the Epstein survivor accounts center on the
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  Speaker 1: time period between 92 and 97 in New York City
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  Speaker 1: and to a more limited extent, Palm Beach. A close
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  Speaker 1: review of this time period also directly implicates other men
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  Speaker 1: in the sex trafficking conspiracy, foremost among them Paolo Zampoli,
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  Speaker 1: until recently a senior Trump administration official and diplomat. It's
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  Speaker 1: well known today that Jeffrey Epstein used the fashion and
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  Speaker 1: modeling industries as a pipeline to recruit, traffic, and exploit
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  Speaker 1: young women and girls. One foreign model recruited by Epstein
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  Speaker 1: from overseas told reporters, he said he'd make my dream
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  Speaker 1: come true. but he turned it into a fucking nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: A series of interlocking relationships among prominent men who own
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  Speaker 1: modeling agencies including Donald Trump, John Casablancas, Jean-Luc Brunel, and
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  Speaker 1: Trump fixture Apollo Zampoli bolstered and cemented Epstein's sinister criminal design,
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  Speaker 1: becoming a fucking nightmare for all the girls entrapped in it.
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  Speaker 1: In the late 80s and early 90s, certain unregulated talent
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  Speaker 1: agencies empowered by the absence of any labor protections and
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  Speaker 1: driven by extreme power imbalances based on gender, wealth, age,
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  Speaker 1: and class, turned the New York modeling industry into a
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  Speaker 1: system of organized sexual assault, exploitation, and human trafficking. Hundreds
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps thousands of girls, some as young as 14,
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  Speaker 1: were caught up in the tentacles of the criminal network.
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  Speaker 1: As Carrie Goldberg, a Brooklyn lawyer who represents victims of
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  Speaker 1: child sex abuse observed, the problem for young models during
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  Speaker 1: this time was they weren't seen as children, but legally
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  Speaker 1: they are, and they were. This predatory culture, like other
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  Speaker 1: institutionalized systems of sexual assault in churches, schools, and universities,
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  Speaker 1: depended on silence. As one former model stated, there are
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  Speaker 1: repercussions for speaking out. I look back at my career,
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  Speaker 1: it's so sad. But I was a child who said, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't rape me anymore. And because of that, I didn't work,
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  Speaker 1: I was taken out of the game. Another model who
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  Speaker 1: spoke out referenced the hopelessness of fighting back. In reality,
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  Speaker 1: I had no chance against these powerful men that were
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  Speaker 1: 20 years older than me plotting against me. Both of
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  Speaker 1: the models quoted above worked for elite model management, a
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  Speaker 1: company owned by John Casablancas, Epstein's close associate and longtime
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  Speaker 1: business partner and friend to Donald Trump. Tragically, their allegations
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  Speaker 1: were not isolated. Over a dozen elite models have accused
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  Speaker 1: Casablancas and his former business partner, elite president, Gerald Murray,
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  Speaker 1: of raping them, and two men were known to compete
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  Speaker 1: over having sex with young models. Casablancas also directly provided
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  Speaker 1: the models to Epstein. According to one lawsuit in 1990,
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  Speaker 1: Casablancas set a teenage model for her first casting call
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  Speaker 1: at a residential address on New York's Upper East Side.
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  Speaker 1: The address was Epstein's, and he sexually assaulted her. The
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  Speaker 1: next year in 1991, real estate mogul and businessman Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump began hosting elite's look of the year competition for
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  Speaker 1: young models between the ages of 14 and 19. Trump's
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  Speaker 1: involvement in the look of the year pageant has long
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  Speaker 1: provoked skeptical questions. As the Guardian put it, why would
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  Speaker 1: a man in his 40s, whose main business was real
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  Speaker 1: estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's business partner, John Casablancas, who was in his
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  Speaker 1: 50s at the time, was quite open about his own reasons.
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  Speaker 1: He expressed a personal preference for girls, if not only
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  Speaker 1: just legal age, child women. Casablancas had an affair with
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  Speaker 1: with a 15-year-old model in the late 80s and met
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  Speaker 1: his third wife, Brazilian model Aline Wormalinger, at the 1992
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  Speaker 1: Look of the Year contest hosted by Donald Trump, when
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  Speaker 1: Aline was just 16. The Look of the Year pageants
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  Speaker 1: were plagued by accusations of sexual exploitation. Contestants as young
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  Speaker 1: as 14 were called being forced to dance for Trump, Casablancas,
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  Speaker 1: and other men on a yacht. One model recalled that
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  Speaker 1: every time we changed, it was like Trump would find
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  Speaker 1: a reason to come backstage. Another model recalled Trump entering
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  Speaker 1: the dressing room. He'd come by and say, hey girls,
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  Speaker 1: are we ready? The look of the year contest led
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  Speaker 1: to multiple accusations of sexual assault and rape against Casablancas
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  Speaker 1: and other pageant judges, including the magician David Copperfield. All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up right here. And in the
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  Speaker 1: next episode, we're going to pick up where we left off.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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