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Leon Black Claims His Accuser Is A Russian Spy · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: One and welcome back to the Epstein chronicles. So Leon
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  Black is saying that the woman who is accusing him
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  of rape is actually a Russian spy. So he's getting
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  on the bus, the Russian spy bus, and saying that
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  this lady and her whole entire plan here is nothing
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  more than a plot by the Russians. Now, I know
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  that that's like the popular thing to say and do,
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  but he's gonna have to provide some evidence of that.
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  So let's get to the article from the Daily Beast
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  and let's see what Leon Black has cooking. Headline Epstein
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  pal Leon Black alleges rape accuser is a Russian spy.
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  This article was authored by Matt Young, Jeffrey Epstein's billionaire
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  pal Apollo Global Management co founder. Leon Black has filed
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  another lawsuit against the former Russian model who alleges he
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  raped her, claiming she may be a Russian spy and
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  that she and her lawyers attempted to harm and humiliate him,
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  despite the fact that she already allegedly collected millions in
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  a confidentiality agreement. Look, just because somebody signs a confidentiality
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  agreement doesn't give you the right to abuse them. And
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  all of these people who thinks that it does. I
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  don't know what to tell these guys, because that ship
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  is sailed already and people are no longer accepting that nonsense.
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  The suit filed in New York State Supreme Court on
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  Monday had been seen by The Daily Beast. Alleges to
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  Guzelle Ganieva made false allegations that Black assaulted and abused her,
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  which he claims was in direct violation of a confidentiality
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  agreement under which plaintiff had been paid millions. Now, remember
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  Virginia signed one of these as well. Did that end
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  up protecting Jeffrey Epstein? Of course it didn't, and it
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  shouldn't hear either. Now, I'm not saying that what Guzello
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  Ganieva is saying is really what happened. I don't know.
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  But to try and keep it out of the court
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  and try and keep her from telling her a story,
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  it's a typical move by people like Leon Black and
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  now to try and throw this red letter on her. Oh, well,
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  you're a Russian spy, I mean, talk about grasping. The
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  assault allegations include a July twenty fourteen incident in which
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  she alleges he barged into her apartment when she was
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  unwell and raped her. He denies those allegations. The latest
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  suit also alleges Ganieva's attorneys, wigdor LLP, used its public
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  relations acumen and contacts to ensure that her violative and
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  malicious disclosure of information she and Black contracted to keep
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  confidential was broadly disseminated. Look, anyone who has anything to
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  say about Leon Black or Jeffrey Epstein, they don't need
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  the media at this point. They can go to social
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  media and do it all themselves. The media is almost
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  becoming a non factor in stories like this, and they've
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  done that to themselves. Unfortunately, you have all of these
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  blue check marks out here freaking out that they might
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  have to pay twenty bucks a month for their blue
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  check mark when they should be more focused on actually
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  breaking stories that matter. Also named in the suit is
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  Apollo co founder Josh Harris. Among other things, their collective
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  misconduct has cost plaintiff the chairmanship of the company he founded,
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  took public and ran for some thirty years. Black suit says,
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  has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. We're just going
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  to forget about that. They're going to try and keep
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  Epstein out of this conversation the same way Masterson's lawyers
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  are trying to keep scientology out of the conversation. An
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  Old boys trial, Black, a former client of wealthy sex
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  offender pedophile Hey, Daily Beast, how about you call him
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  what he is? A pedophile, alleges the confidentially confidentiality agreement,
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  which was signed by Gannievi and provided in the court documents,
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  prohibited disclosing her relationship with plaintiff and also releases all
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  claims against him. Now, why would you have to have
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  that sort of wording inside of this contract if you
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  didn't do anything against her that she could call sexual assault.
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  Oh but I paid her, so it's all good, and
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  that's always their excuse. Oh, I paid them, so they're
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  a prostitute. Everything's on the up and up. Well, prostitution
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  is not legal. And guess what, it's not prostitution If
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  somebody doesn't consent, even if you stuff their pockets full
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  of money, that's called assault. That's called rape. Black claims
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  the pair engaged in a consensual affair, but Ganieva says differently,
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  alleging he sexually abused her for years and coerced her
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  into signing a non disclosure agreement to keep her silent
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  about the assaults. The suit says that over the course
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  of six years, Khanieva accepted monthly payments that together totaled
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  more than nine million dollars while she was enrolled in
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  law school and while she represented and advised by counsel.
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  Black alleges Ganieva, with the assistance and at the direct
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  urging of Wigdor breached these provisions. So the whole Russian
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  spyhangle of this, why because she's Russian. Now, look, I'm
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  not saying she isn't the Russian spy. I don't know her.
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  I've never met her. Missus Ganieva and I have never
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  you know, sat down and broke bread. But it seems
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  like a convenient excuse to throw into the conversation right now,
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  considering the sentiment towards Russia. Also, under the agreement, Black
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  allegedly agreed to forgive outstanding loans he had made to Ganiheva,
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  provided her with additional support for a renewed round of
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  immigration applications in the United Kingdom, and pay her an
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  additional consideration in the form of one hundred thousand dollars
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  per month. For fifteen years now. If this dude, gross
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  ass Leon Black would have just stayed home with his wife,
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  wouldn't he be in this position. But this guy, like
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  so many others out there, think it's a good idea
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  to be out here creeping around on your wife, getting
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  involved with other women. What do you think the result's
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  going to be. You think that you're this great casanova
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  and you're just out here on the creep. You're not
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  that smooth, bro. Take a look in the mirror, Okay,
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  take a look at yourself and realize if you didn't
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  have all those zeros in your bank account, none of
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  these people would even want anything to do with you.
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  So this dude's out here cheating on his wife, who's
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  sick by the way at the time, and then he
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  has the audacity to have this woman sign a non
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  disclosure agreement. It's just so absurd that these people think
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  they can get away with this and that none of
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  this will ever come to light. In exchange, Kanieva agreed
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  to one fully release any purported claim she had or
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  might in the future against Black, and two keep a
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  relationship with him strictly comft. So Black knew that he
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  was in the wrong here, and the wording of this
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  agreement tells you all you need to know. Now, I'm
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  not saying that all the accusations that are being laid
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  against him are true or correct. I've said it from
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  the beginning. We'll have to wait and see what's going
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  on here. We don't have all the documentation like in
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  the Epstein case, right and for me, that's the benchmark.
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  When I have all of those court documents, I can
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  dive into and dig into, so the substance is there.
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  But here we just have allegations flying back and forth
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  from the two parties, so we'll have to continue to
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  follow it and try and figure out what's going on.
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  The court filing also alleges Ghanieva could be a Russian spy,
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  which could appear to shed some light upon Ganijeva's conduct
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  toward Black. The filing sites of March twenty eighth, twenty
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  two report from the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of
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  Defense of Ukraine, which published a list titled employees of
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  the FSB Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation participating
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  in crimes and activities of the aggressor country on the
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  territory of Europe. Yo Leon Black has no shame. This
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  dude has no shame whatsoever. He's gonna manipulate people's anger
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  and people's feelings towards what's going on in Russia and
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  drag that into a sexual assault case. You better have
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  some receipts Homy number one thirty nine on that list.
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  The filing says it's a version of Ganiyeva's name Maria
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  Kana d'yevna Gatcha Pesheva. The filing sites two internet based publications,
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  including the Estonian Free Press, which makes such mention. Look,
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  what have I told you folks about the fog of war?
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  And I'm not gonna be gas lit one way or
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  the other when it comes to Ukraine. I'm not gonna
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  just sit here and blindly cheer on what's going on
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  over there in Ukraine, especially with everything I know about Zelensky.
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  And while I believe that the Ukrainians have one hundred
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  percent right to defend their sovereignty, I also believe that
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  we have to look at what's going on in a
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  sober manner. So is miss Ganiheva a spy? I don't know,
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  But these sources like the Estonian Free Press and some
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  of these other sources out here. I'm very very cautious
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  to just buy into what they have to say. And
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  I've been like that the whole entire time with this
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  whole entire war. Because the fog of war is heavy
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  right now, and there's just so much gaslighting that's coming
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  out of that region. It's very hard to discern what's
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  real and what's not. So I'm just very very cautious
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  what sources I sucked down. When seen by the Daily Beast,
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  the name reads Hutcha Pesheva. Maria Hannah Diavenna Kanieva's alleged
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  entry has her name slightly misspelled, and her date of
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  birth is different. The filing quotes former chief reporter of
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  The Daily Express and investigations editor of The Mail on
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  Sunday journalist Dennis Rice from his Sitetional Security News. The
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  Ukrainian Intelligence Service is, however, adamant she and the spy
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  on the list are the same person. According to the Independent,
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  the list has not been independently verified, and the Kremlin
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  did not respond to her request for comment. Look, if
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  it does turn out that she is a spy, that's
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  going to be real difficult for her. She's going to
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  have a real tough time slamming this case home. If
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  she is a spy, especially with this sentiment, and if
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  she is a spy, we have to reevaluate what we think. Right, Look,
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  I go where the evidence leads us here, folks, and
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  wherever this evidence goes is exactly the rabbit hole that
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  we're going to jump down at Smith's. We want our
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  the court fights between the pair began in March last year,
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  when Ghanieva took to Twitter alleging she was sexually harassed
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  and abused by Black for years. Black denied the allegations,
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  confirming he foolishly engaged in a consensual affair with the
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  former model that had ended more than seven years prior.
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  In the days after the Twitter posts, however, Black made
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  a surprise early exit from his private equity firm. Yeah,
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  it was time he should have left because of the
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  Epstein stuff, and that's really what was pressing him. But
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  this added on to that. Certainly not a good look.
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  Then last June, she sued the unbattled billionaire for defamation,
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  alleging he lied to the media about their relationship and
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  falsely accused her of extortion. In January, Black unveiled shocking
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  accusations against Apollo co founder Josh Harris in a new
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  court filing, describing him as an arc rival who backed
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  Ganieva's litigation behind the scenes after losing a multi billion
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  dollar succession fight to replace Black as Apollo CEO in
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  twenty twenty one. Now that whole entire thing was set
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  up from Jump Street, Rowan and Black worked to oust
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  Josh Smith. And Smith another billionaire who is really just
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  not going to sit back. I mean Harris, who was
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  another billionaire who is not just gonna sit back and
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  take this. He fought back. Now did he help Ganieva?
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  We don't know yet. Do I put it against him
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  above somebody like him? I do not. These guys fight
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  dirty folks. We're talking about some of the most powerful
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  people in the financial sector. This is Apollo Global we're
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  talking about here. In the firing line was also New
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  York public relations executive Stephen Rubinstein, who the embattled mogul
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  claimed at the time was enlisted by Harris to plant
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  negative stories about him in the press. The case was
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  dismissed by US District Judge Paul Engelmeyer in June, though
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  and Black is appealed. Now, Look, do you really think
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  that they need all these pr people to put stories out. Bro,
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  you're running around given Epstein one hundred and fifty eight million.
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  As soon as you're done with this questioning about Gazelle Ganieva,
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  we got some more questions for you. In the new
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  court filing, Black alleges that, following Ganieva's public statements and
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  in light of the organized campaign against him, Black had
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  no choice but to resign to protect Apollo, losing the
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  considerable financial and other benefits he was entitled to as
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  chairman and CEO. These guys haven't missed a beat. By
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  the way, they're here in Vegas now. They're owners of
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  the sands. I mean, I haven't stepped foot in the
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  Venetian or any of their properties since these clowns bought it.
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  The suit noted a former August twenty twenty one amended
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  complaint by Ganieva that Black trafficked and kidnapped her against
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  her will to Epstein's house during in October two thousand
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  and eight flight to Florida. In the new filing, Black said,
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  can temporaneous flight records confirm that never happened, and defiantly
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  stated Black will demonstrate that these allegations are false. Okay, hey, look,
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  I'm willing to see the evidence. If you have it,
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  let's see it. One thing is definitely indisputable. At this point,
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  y Epstein and Leon Black were tight. Jeffrey Epstein gave
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  Leon Black a king's fortune, So go ahead and explain that.
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  Black met Guselle Ganieva at a party in two thousand
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  and eight. From two thousand and eight until twenty fourteen,
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  the pair engaged in a sporadic consensual affair. Black's lawsuit claims.
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  Ghanieva refutes this, accusing Black of defamation, intentional infliction of
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  emotional distress, and gender motivated violence throughout their relationship, which
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  ended in twenty fifteen when she was allegedly forced to
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  sign the NDA and take hush money. Previously, in our past,
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  here in this country, this is how it worked. If
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  you were assaulted by somebody with dough, they'd pay you
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  and that would be the end of it. Seems like
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  the worms turning a little bit now and people are
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  demanding a little bit more as they should. Gnieva's communications
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  with Black between two thousand and eight and twenty and
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  fourteen were mar by consistent expressions of love and affection
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  on her part the suit claims Black paid for Ganieva's
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  apartment but never had the key. He also paid for
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  her acting lessons, financed expensive vacations, paid for a forty
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  thousand dollars portrait of her, and purchased the Steinway and
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  Son's piano for her son. He made a series of
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  loans to her and attempted to assist her in finding
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  employment in the finance industry. Yeah, because this is all
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  out of the kindness of his heart. Mister Black is
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  just such a kind man that he goes out and
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  does this thing on a regular basis and you just
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  don't hear about it because he's that kind of fella.
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  Please miss me. With all of this, Black is seeking
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  judgment in his favor, including compensation for damages and for
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  any and all other monetary and or non monetary losses
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  suffered by him. He is also seeking an award for
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  damages for defendants gross wanton, malicious and outrageous misconduct, and
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  award for attorney's fees. Speaking to The Daily Beast in June,
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  Jean M. Christiansen, one of Ganiaevia's lawyers, said, in a statement,
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  this cause is the epitome of why the me too.
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  Movement exists in textbook fashion. Men with wealth, power and
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  an army of elite lawyers continue to escape accountability for
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  their heinous acts by twisting the legal system to penalize
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  the victims for speaking up. Definitely the tactic that they've
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  used forever, and definitely the tactic that Leon Black is
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  employing here. Now, there's still a lot for us to
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  find out. We don't know all of the all here,
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  but when we're talking about anyone who was associated with
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  Jeffrey Epstein, and not just on the outer rung, but
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  somebody who was financing them, somebody that was very close
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  to him, I sit up and I pay attention the
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  second there's allegations thrown that person's way, because as far
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  as I'm concerned, Leon Black should have already been caught
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  up in a RICO investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, just like
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  Apollo Global and everybody else whoever sent this dude or
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  received one single cent from them. But this situation here,
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  it's gonna continue to make its way through the court,
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  and we're dealing with some high profile, high powered attorneys.
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  So my guess is it's going to drag. But the
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  good news we're gonna be here for the whole entire thing.
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  We're gonna add it to the catalog when it happens,
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  So until then, folks, that's gonna be it for this one.
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  If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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  at Bobby Kopuuchi at ProtonMail dot com. That's b O
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