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Mega Edition: One Of Leon Black's Accusers Fires Her Whole Legal Team (5/3/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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So Leon Black is saying that the woman who is
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accusing him of rape is actually a Russian spy. So
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he's getting on the bus, the Russian spy bus, and
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saying that this lady and her whole entire plan here
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is nothing more than a plot by the Russians. Now,
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I know that that's like the popular thing to say
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and do, but he's gonna have to provide some evidence
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of that. So let's get to the article from the
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Daily Beast and let's see what Leon Black has cooking.
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Headline Epstein pal Leon Black alleges rape accuser is a
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Russian spy. This article was authored by Matt Young, Jeffrey
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Epstein's billionaire pal Apollo Global Management co founder. Leon Black
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has filed another lawsuit against the former Russian model who
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alleges he raped her, claiming she may be a Russian
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spy and that she and her lawyers attempted to harm
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and humiliate him, despite the fact that she already allegedly
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collected millions in a confidentiality agreement. Look, just because somebody
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signs a confidentiality agreement doesn't give you the right to
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abuse them and all of these people who thinks that
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it does. I don't know what to tell these guys,
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because that ship is sailed already and people are no
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longer accepting that nonsense. The suit filed in New York
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State Supreme Court on Monday had been seen by The
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Daily Beast. Alleges to Guzello Ganieva made false allegations that
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Black assaulted and abused her, which he claims was in
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direct violation of a confidentiality agreement under which plaintiff had
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been paid millions. Now remember Virginia signed one of these
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as well. Did that end up protecting Jeffrey Epstein? Of
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course it didn't, and it shouldn't hear either. Now, I'm
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not saying that what Guzelle Ganieva is saying is really
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see what happened, I don't know, but to try and
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keep it out of the court and try and keep
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her from telling her a story. It's a typical move
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by people like Leon Black and now to try and
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throw this red letter on her. Oh, well, you're a
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Russian spy, I mean, talk about grasping. The assault allegations
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include a July twenty fourteen incident in which she alleges
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he barged into her apartment when she was unwell and
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raped her. He denies those allegations. The latest suit also
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alleges Ganieva's attorneys, wigdor LLP, used its public relations acumen
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and contacts to ensure that her violative and malicious disclosure
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of information she and Black contracted to keep confidential was
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broadly disseminated. Look, anyone who has anything to say about
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Leon Black or Jeffrey Epstein, they don't need the media
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at this point. They can go to social media and
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do it all themselves. The media has almost been becoming
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a non factor in stories like this, and they've done
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that to themselves. Unfortunately, you have all of these blue
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check marks out here freaking out that they might have
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to pay twenty bucks a month for their blue check
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mark when they should be more focused on actually breaking
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stories that matter. Also named in the suit is Apollo
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co founder Josh Harris. Among other things, their collective misconduct
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has cost plaintiff the chairmanship of the company he founded,
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took public and ran for some thirty years. Black suit
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says has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. We're just
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going to forget about that. They're going to try and
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keep Epstein out of this conversation the same way Masterson's
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lawyers are trying to keep scientology out of the conversation.
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An Old Boys trial, Black, a former client of wealthy
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sex offender pedophile Hey, daily beast, how about you call
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him what he is? A pedophile, alleges the confidentially confidentiality agreement,
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which was signed by Ganieva 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, Kanieva accepted monthly payments that together totaled
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more than nine million dollars while she he was enrolled
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in 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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sat down and broke bread. But it seems like a
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convenient excuse to throw into the conversation right now, considering
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the sentiment towards Russia. Also, under the agreement, Black allegedly
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agreed to forgive outstanding loans he had made to Ganieva,
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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 confidential. So Black news 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 Ganieva'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 Ganieva's name Maria
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Kana d'yevna Gotcha 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 gaslit one way or the
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other when it comes to Ukraine. I'm not gonna just
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sit here and blindly cheer on what's going on over
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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 Kanieva 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 site National Security News.
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The Ukrainian Intelligence Service is, however, adamant she and the
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spy on the list are the same person. According to
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the Independent, the list has not been independently verified, and
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the Kremlin did not respond to her request for comment. Look,
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if it does turn out that she is a spy,
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that's going to be real difficult for her. She's going
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to have a real tough time slamming this case home.
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If she is a spy, especially with this sentiment, and
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if she is a spy, we have to reevaluate what
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we think. Right, Look, I go where the evidence leads
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us here, folks, and wherever this evidence goes is exactly
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the rabbit hole that we're going to jump down. The
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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 going to sit back
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and 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 end,
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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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And I love the Venetian. The Palazzo is one of
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my favorite places. But forget it. I'm not going here man.
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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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Jeffrey 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. Gannieva's ca
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communications with Black between two thousand and eight and twenty
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fourteen were marked 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, an outrageous misconduct, end
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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 Ganieva'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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And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. We have ourselves
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a relatively short article that we're about to dive into
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today that deals with Leon Black and Missus Gonieva facing
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off in court for the first time today. Now, this
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story is still evolving, right. We've had a lot of
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finger pointing here. We've had Leon Black asserting that it
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was Josh Harris who set this all up. We have
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racketeering charges, all sorts of crazy things going on in
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this battle between Missus Gonieva and Leon Black. But this
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is the first time that their legal teams are going
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to face each other down in court, and it's going
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to be interesting what comes of all of this. Now
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we know that Leon Black has already admitted to a
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consensual affair with missus Gonieva. He asserts, however, that she
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is attempting to extort him and use that as a
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anchor over his head, considering he was married, to get
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more money out of him. If he didn't do that,
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she was going to tell the world about their relationship. Well,
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we all know that happened anyway, and we all know
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that Leon Black was engaged in what he says was
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a consensual relationship, and she agrees that for the most part,
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or at least a portion of it, it was consensual.
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And at the same time, mind you, leon Black had
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a sick wife, So it shows you the kind of
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sick bastard we're talking about here. Who is out here
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creeping around on their sick wife with some model lady.
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Is what is wrong with you? So anyway, all of
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this stuff comes to a head, it all comes out,
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the public gets an eyefull, and now we're seeing the
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fallout from all of this as Leon Black scrambles to
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try and defend his name and what he says is
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basically a palace coup. So let's jump into this article
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from Bloomberg and let's see what they have to say.
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The author is Bob van Vories and Heather Perlberg. Headline
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Apollo Leon Black faces off against former model in court
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for the first time. Lawyers for Leon Black and a
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former model he says is trying to destroy his reputation
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will face off for the first time in a New
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York court Thursday, admit a dispute over messages the billionaire
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claims show a conspiracy against him. You notice, whenever something
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goes south for these people, these these rich people like
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Leon Black, all of a sudden, it's a huge conspiracy
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against me. Ah conspiracy. It's always the same story, isn't it.
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And I don't know about you, folks, but I'm not
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buying it anymore now. I wasn't there. I don't know
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what happened with him and miss Ganieva. I don't know,
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you know, if her allegations are true. But what I
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will say is this, I certainly take them very seriously.
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One because anytime somebody has these sorts of allegations and
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they're willing to go all the way to court and
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put themselves out there I think that they should be
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listened to. Number two, somebody who's hanging out with Jeffrey
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Epstein and associating with Epstein, spending as much time with
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Epstein as Leon Black did. Yeah, I don't put it
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past them, especially considering missus Ganieva's claims that Leon Black
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brought her for Jeffrey Epstein at one point to do
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as he wished with her. So it doesn't come off
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as like a charge against somebody where I'd be like, well,
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hold on, We've never even heard anything like that about
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this person. We're going to need a lot more information,
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Whereas we have seen a lot about the character possessed
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by Leon Black, and I have to tell you, folks,
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it's lacking. Black, the co founder of Apollo Global Management,
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sued Guzelle Ganieva and her lawyers Wigdor LLP last year
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after she sued him for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress,
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gender motivated violence, and retaliation. Now remember the article that
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we read last night about the oligarchs, right and how
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it mentioned Leon Black another reason? Why is a scumbag?
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Do you really think that this guy built this empire
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on the up and up, that he wasn't cutting corners,
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making financial moves that are not correct or not legal.
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You really think he did? Everything was on the up
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and up. That's how he built Apollo Global. Yeah. Right,
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He's in the pocket of all of these oligarchs. All
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of these dudes are up to the same shit. Whether
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they be an oligarch in Russia or an oligarch in America,
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they're all the same kind of person. They look at
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you as less then they look at people as missus
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Ganieva as just a plaything, and when I'm done with you,
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I'll discard you as I wish. One thing they're learning, though,
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is that their old tricks, their old moves, aren't going
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to hold weight anymore as far as the public's concerned.
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You're not just gonna get up there and say, oh,
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I'm being extorted. This lady was trying to rob me. No,
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that's not gonna work anymore, especially when you have the
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character of some like Leon Black. His lawyer, Susan Estrich,
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filed a letter with a federal court judge overseeing Black's
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case Wednesday, claiming her team had received WhatsApp messages between
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Ganieva and a New York Times reporter showing she was
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working with her lawyer Douglas Wigdor, months before Ganieva officially
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retained him. Guess what, maybe she unofficially retained him. Maybe
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it was a handshake agreement. This is what happens. What
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we're seeing Leon Black's lawyers do are is the same
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exact thing that we saw Prince Andrew's lawyers do. They're
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going to attempt to try and destroy her credibility. They're
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gonna attempt to try and make Miss Ganieva out to
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be a raving lunatic, when in reality, it's their client
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who is the sick bastard. It's their client who is
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the lunatic. Geene Christensen, a Whigdor partner, rejected that argument.
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Absolutely nothing in text messages between Miss Ganieva and a
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reporter from The New York Times does anything to support
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Black's fake conspiracy underlying his baseless civil rico claims. It's
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so crazy to me that Leon Black is out here
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slapping other people with a civil racketeering charges when he
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should be caught up in a real rico case himself,
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according to his business dealings with Epstein. It's so annoying,
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it's so frustrating to see it over and over and
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over again, and you know that Leon Black's gonna find
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a way to wiggle his ass off of this too.
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There'll be some kind of payout and he'll tell his
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story walk in. That's how it always ends up for
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these people. When you're a man of always and you
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have your foot on the throat of the children of
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never for always, this is the end result. You don't
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pay any prices, there's no repercussions, and you're able to
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just call people crazy and lunatics and say they're after
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you for your money, and you just get to go
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on with your life while the other person has their
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lives absolutely destroyed. That's the way it's always been when
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it comes to people like this. I really hope that
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this time around it's different, because it's the irony is
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not lost on me that this guy's out here talking
25:11
about this one should be hit with a Cicco case,
25:13
or that one should be hit with a Cicco case,
25:15
when it's really his bitch ass that should be hit
25:18
with a Rico and the Cicco case, the tech speak
25:22
for themselves, and the fact that Black believes that they
25:25
are evidence of anything shows how unhinged Black's belief is
25:29
that numerous individuals, including many who do not even know
25:33
one another, were allegedly plotting to ruin him. It's always
25:36
nice to come up with this huge, large conspiracy that's
25:39
trying to ruin you. Isn't it very hard for people
25:42
to lock that in, very hard for people to track
25:44
that down. You start adding names, this one and that
25:47
one becomes a shit show. But the reality is this,
25:50
there's no conspiracy in my opinion here to take down
25:53
Leon Black. Leon Black was an absolute scumbag. Leon Black
25:57
shouldn't have been out catting around on his wife. And
26:00
now when it's time to pay up, pay up, pay up,
26:03
it's a big problem. Oh I didn't do that. She's
26:06
a lawyar. Oh oh she's extorting me. No, we don't
26:09
believe you, Leon Black. I'm sorry, my friend. I don't
26:11
think anybody believes you. In fact, Black and Ganieva are
26:15
locked in an escalating series of back and forth legal claims.
26:19
Black has stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer
26:22
at Apollo and receded from roles including chairman of New
26:26
York's Museum of Modern Art, and look, that has a
26:30
lot to do with his Epstein ties as well. Let's
26:33
not forget this dude was living in shame. Well, anybody
26:36
knew about his ties to Epstein anyway for quite some time.
26:39
What happened here was the Gnieva situation has really forced
26:43
the spotlight on to Leon Black. Ganieva's initial allegations of
26:50
sexual assault, first revealed in tweets in mid March of
26:53
last year, followed reports of blacks larger than expected payments
26:57
for tax advice and financial services to disgrace sex offender
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Jeffrey Epstein. Totally one hundred and fifty eight million dollars Again,
27:06
why are you paying anyone one hundred and fifty eight
27:08
million dollars for advice? Are you kidding me? Right now?
27:12
Stop it? You're not paying anyone a buck fifty eight
27:15
for advice? One hundred and fifty eight million? Really? Yeah? Sure.
27:20
Black has accused Ganieva of extortion and denied the allegations
27:24
that he sexually assaulted her. He instead characterized their relationship
27:28
as a consensual affair, which started in two thousand and
27:32
eight and ended around twenty fourteen. Well, look, just because
27:35
you're in a consensual affair with somebody doesn't mean you
27:38
can't hurt them, or abuse them or rape them. I
27:41
don't care if you're married to somebody for one hundred
27:43
and fifty thousand years. If they don't want to be
27:46
physical or have contact with you, then that's it. But
27:50
guys like Leon Black, you ever try and tell somebody
27:53
like this no. I know I have in my capacity
27:57
as managing a sportsbook, I've had to break some bad
27:59
news to rich people before, and they are not happy
28:03
about it. Right, So can you imagine in a private
28:06
setting when a girl or a woman who they think
28:09
that they have ownership over tells them no or denies
28:12
their commons. As part of his lawsuit, Black has also
28:18
accused Apollo co founder Josh Harris of organizing a coup
28:22
to overthrow him. Black said that Harris worked with Ganieva
28:26
to assassinate his character and extort even more from him.
28:29
Black rode in a filing earlier this year, I mean,
28:32
it's crazy to me to think that he believes Josh Harris,
28:35
who has quite the workload, has the time to sit
28:38
around in a bunker and come up with this strategy
28:41
to try and you know, kneecap Leon Black breaking news,
28:45
my friend, you don't need anyone to do that. You
28:47
fell and broke your ankle on your own. You know
28:49
the meme when the kid's riding the bike and he
28:51
shoves the stick and the spokes and goes flying over.
28:54
That's Leon Black. He has nobody to blame but himself.
28:58
Dude had the whole world at his finger tips again,
29:01
just like Prince Andrew. Instead he chose to covort and
29:05
hang out with people like Epstein. He chose to hang
29:08
out with Russian oligarchs and lord knows what else this
29:11
son of a bitch is up to. Harris has denied
29:20
the allegation, and his attorneys have said that Black's legal
29:23
actions against his former colleague reflect a badly misguided effort
29:28
to blame Josh Harris for problems that are of Black's
29:31
own making. And again, it always got to be a scapegoat, right, Oh,
29:34
it can't be me. I've fuck I'm Leon Black. I'd
29:37
never do anything like this. You could never hold me accountable.
29:40
But the reality of the matter is Leon Black has
29:44
no one to blame but himself. He's the one that
29:46
had this relationship with miss Ganieva, consensual or not. He's
29:50
the one that decided to give Jeffrey Epstein one hundred
29:53
and fifty eight million dollars for god knows what. So
29:56
I don't want to hear this bullshit that everybody's out
29:58
to get you. You know, it's a big, gigantic conspiracy
30:02
involving the whole world. Stop, just stop, because the fact
30:07
is this. You're in the position you're in because you're
30:11
a stupid asshole. For as smart as you think you are,
30:14
for all that energy when you walk in the room
30:16
like you're the biggest swinging you know what, the in
30:20
the room, the reality is you're just a small man,
30:23
another man that gets off on abusing others or you know,
30:28
making financial moves that make life hard on others. Just
30:31
a typical predator. The lawyers will meet Thursday morning with
30:37
US District Judge paul A. Engelmeyer in Manhattan to begin
30:41
planning the course of litigation. So that's what we have
30:45
so far with the Leon Black situation where we're at.
30:47
They're gonna meet in court, they're gonna try and hammer
30:49
something out, and it is my estimate, my guess, that
30:54
they're gonna try and work towards a settlement here because
30:57
just like Prince Andrew, leon Black certainly does not want
30:59
to be post. Can you imagine the Epstein questions that
31:02
are going to come from Wigdor It'll be a barrage.
31:06
So my guess is this clown is going to settle
31:09
for a high amount of money and we won't ever
31:14
get to a trial portion of this. But who knows,
31:17
maybe we do. Maybe Leon Black decides, hey, you know what,
31:21
we're going all in, but for some reason, I highly
31:25
doubt it. All right, folks, it's gonna do it for
31:27
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31:30
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until later on, enjoy your day. What's up everyone, and
31:58
welcome back to the Epsteinles. So Leon Black's accuser, guziel
32:04
Ganieva has decided to fire her lawyers and instead she's
32:09
going to represent herself. Now, she is a graduate of
32:12
law school, But I don't know if this is the
32:14
right way to go about it. When you're dealing with
32:17
somebody like Leon Black, my guess would be you need
32:20
a whole team behind you of high profile lawyers to
32:23
go after a guy like this. This is a very
32:25
powerful man here, folks. We're talking about the man who
32:28
created basically Apollo Global. And if you think that he
32:32
still doesn't have friends all over the place, you're highly mistaken.
32:37
So this is a very very bold move by missus Ganieva.
32:41
Today's article is from the Daily Beast headline Leon Black's
32:45
accuser kicks her attorneys to the curb. This article was
32:50
authored by Kate Bricklett. The former model who accused billionaire
32:56
Leon Black of sexual assault and suit him for defamation
32:59
is parting ways with their high profile attorneys, court record show.
33:04
In twenty twenty one, Gusel Ganieva filed a lawsuit against
33:08
the private equity mogul and one time pal of sex
33:12
trafficker pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that he raped her and
33:16
abused her during their six year relationship and coerced her
33:19
into signing the NDA. Black seventy one, denied Ganieva's claims
33:25
and accused her of extortion. The truth is that I
33:28
have been extorted by miss Ganieva for many years, and
33:31
I made a substantial monetary payment to her based on
33:35
her threats to go public concerning our relationship, in an
33:38
attempt to spare my family from public embarrassment. Black said
33:42
in a prior statement, Well, here's an idea. You genius
33:45
of geniuses, don't cheat on your wife in the first place,
33:48
and you don't have to worry about embarrassing anybody. But
33:51
these dudes don't care. They're out here doing whatever they want.
33:54
And if you got enough money, hell, the sky is
33:56
the limit. Have you seen what goes on in Dubai.
34:00
Jean Christiansen, an attorney for Ghanieva and partner at Whigdoor LLP,
34:05
filed a court affirmation on Wednesday saying her firm was
34:08
withdrawing from the case. To date, discovery is incomplete and
34:13
no depositions have taken place. Christiansen said as such, a
34:18
trial date is likely more than a year away. Miss
34:21
Ganievo will have ample time to continue in discovery and
34:24
proceed with this litigation if Wigdor LLP is permitted to
34:28
withdraw as counsel now. Christiansen added that on Tuesday, Khanieva
34:34
inform Wigdoor LLP of her decision to terminate our representation
34:39
and that she intends to proceed pro see Ghanieva. She
34:43
noted graduated from law school but isn't admitted to practice
34:47
in any state and usually doesn't turn out so good
34:50
for people who want to defend themselves in a court
34:53
of law, especially when you're going up against savages like
34:57
Leon Black's team. The lawyer said Wigdor had other professional
35:01
reasons for withdrawing from representation, as there has been an
35:05
irrevocable breakdown of the attorney client relationship. Such circumstances are
35:11
sufficient to warrant withdrawl. So there's something going on behind
35:15
the scenes, much more than we know, and for me,
35:18
it's a bit concerning that Wigdor would be leaving this case.
35:22
You would think that if this is gonna be the
35:24
big slam dunk and they're going to be able to
35:27
get a Leon Black kind of scalp on their mantle,
35:30
that they'd want to go through with it all the way.
35:33
But that statement right there is a big concerning about
35:37
what's going on behind the scenes. If you're asking me,
35:40
we cannot elucidate those reasons without violating confidentiality. Christiansen said,
35:46
adding that they could further discuss the matter in a
35:48
private hearing with the judge. The filing states that Whigdor
35:52
LLP has a lean on Gonieva's case, so the firm
35:56
would recover a portion of any awards or settlements she
36:00
received as a result of the litigation. Christiansen declined to comment. Look,
36:06
I don't know if she's going to get anything at
36:07
this point, unfortunately for her, because when you drop your
36:12
lawyers like this in the middle of the proceedings and
36:14
then you say you're going to represent yourself, I don't
36:18
really know what to think or say about that, especially
36:21
considering she might have, you know, graduated from law school,
36:24
but she's not past the bar anywhere to be a lawyer, right,
36:29
So I don't understand why you would want to give
36:31
yourself less of a chance to win here. Maybe these
36:34
lawyers weren't right for you, Okay, great, get a different lawyer,
36:38
But representing yourself against people like Leon Black, that is
36:42
a tall task. Indeed. Susan Estrich, An, attorney for Black, said,
36:46
as we have said all along, missus Ganieva's allegations against
36:50
mister Black are demonstrably false, and this lawsuit should have
36:54
never been brought. We have no comment on Wigdor's decision
36:58
to withdraw. Still, once with knowledge of the situation told
37:02
The Daily Beast that Whigdor LLP's lean will make it
37:05
difficult for Ganieva to find other attorneys willing to take
37:09
on her case. That should tell you a lot about
37:12
this and suggest it is not an amicable end. The
37:15
person said, she is now representing herself, So there's something
37:19
that happened behind the scenes, and I'm guessing we're not
37:22
going to be privy to that. But there's no way
37:24
to deny that this is a huge win, at least
37:27
at this point for Leon Black. Christiansen and Whigdor LLP
37:32
also represent Sherry Pearson, who claims in a lawsuit that
37:36
Black raped her at Epstein's New York mansion. Pearson's accusations
37:40
were previously mentioned in Ganieva's filings, but under a pseudonym.
37:45
Her complaint, which is pending, also names Epstein's estate as
37:49
a defendant. The saga involving Ganieva and Black, who stepped
37:54
down from his private equity firm, Apollo Global Management after
37:58
it probed his one hundred five fifty eight million dollars
38:01
in payments to Epstein has included two other court battles.
38:05
Judy was In October twenty twenty one, Black filed a
38:08
federal lawsuit accusing Ganieva and Whigdor of defamation and racketeering,
38:13
and claimed that they worked to line their own pockets
38:16
by falsely tying him to Epstein. He's also accused his
38:19
Apollo co founder Josh Harris of conspiring with Ganieva to
38:24
plant negative stories about him in the press, an allegation
38:28
Harris denied, in which his spokesperson called desperate and absurd.
38:32
So the whole entire thing at Apollo Global absolutely crashed
38:36
behind the scenes, and the second Harris was passed over
38:39
for Rowan, that was it. It was a bare knuckle brawl
38:43
from that point on. Last June, US District Judge Paul
38:48
Engelmeyer dismissed black suit as glaringly deficient, and an appeals
38:52
court upheld the decision this month. Well, it was bs
38:56
Leon Black was trying to utilize his great power and
38:59
influence to make sure that this stuff doesn't go any
39:02
further than just allegations, and unfortunately for him, he's not
39:06
going to be able to do that. This time. Meanwhile,
39:10
in October twenty twenty two, Black filed another complaint against
39:14
ganieva ender firm in Manhattan Supreme Court that accused the
39:17
ex model of a breach of contract over the nine
39:20
point two million dollars he paid her via their hush agreement.
39:24
It also accused Wigdor of tortious interference with Gonieva's NDA,
39:30
saying the firm induced and encouraged their client to repeatedly
39:34
breach her contract with Black. That case is ongoing. Black
39:38
argued that Gonieva's amended complaint in the defamation case contained
39:43
even more fabrications against him, including claims that he kidnapped
39:47
her in two thousand and eight and flewid upon Beach,
39:50
Florida to meet Jeffrey Epstein. The complaint alleges that Ganieva
39:54
then met Epstein employees and alleged co conspirator Sarah Kellen,
39:58
who told her Epstein and Black were sex addicts and warned,
40:02
you have to let them do whatever they want with you,
40:05
and you have to let them be with you with
40:07
multiple partners if that's what they want. Well, when Sarah Kellen,
40:10
Vicker is gonna be brought in so she can be
40:12
deposed and asked these questions. It's nice that the Manhattan's
40:17
DA office is so gung ho on doing what they're
40:19
doing right now, But how about these co conspirators. Are
40:23
we just gonna forget about them? Are none of them
40:25
ever going to be charged for what they did? We
40:28
all know the answer, right, The party's over. The buck
40:31
stopped with Giley and Maxwell. They gave us the ounce
40:34
of red flesh, and that's where the buck stops. Meanwhile,
40:38
all of these scumbags that were running around with Ebstein,
40:41
all of these scumbags that were getting rich with Ebstein,
40:44
they're just gonna get off. Black's latest suit said Ganieva's
40:48
claims about Kellen identified no documentation, recordings, or other memorialization
40:55
of the alleged conversation between Ganieva and Kellen some thirteen
40:59
years ago, and just like the block quotes wrongly attributed
41:03
to Black on information and belief, the alleged quotations from
41:07
Kellen are fabrications. In a motion to dismiss, attorneys for
41:11
Whigdor LLP said that Black had already failed in his
41:15
attempt to bring a frivolous rico action against them in
41:19
federal court and was filing his latest suit to satisfy
41:22
his insatiable urge for revenge against his own victim, Ganieva
41:27
and their council wigdor So. Look, whenever you're going to
41:31
get into a battle with a guy like Leon Black,
41:33
you gotta be ready. This is a man with incredible resources,
41:37
incredible reach, and he's going to do whatever he has
41:41
to do to make sure that he comes out on top.
41:44
And we're certainly seeing that in this case. And as
41:46
far as missus Ganieva, as I've said from the beginning,
41:49
I have no idea for allegations are true. But whenever
41:53
somebody is talking about Jeffrey Epstein saying they were abused
41:56
by him and saying that his pals were around, you
41:59
better beliek if I'm listening. So that's why the process
42:02
has to occur, right, And that's what's going on. It's
42:05
going through a court process where it's going to be
42:07
looked at and a judge will decide one way or
42:10
the other what's what. But there's no doubt that Leon
42:13
Black and Jeffrey Epstein were very, very close, and there's
42:17
no doubt that one hundred and fifty eight million dollars
42:20
was sent from Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein. As far
42:23
as what's gonna happen here with miss Kanieva, it's not
42:27
looking good at this point in my opinion, considering she
42:30
doesn't have a lawyer anymore. But I guess we'll have
42:32
to see what she does have as far as evidence
42:35
moving forward. All Right, folks, that's gonna do it for
42:38
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