Epstein Secrets

gan his campaign for president he had almost no friends in politics. The only two actual politicians with whom Trump was close were Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, and both men were in their own way peculiar and isolated. And to say that he knew nothing— nothing at all—about the basic intellectual foundations o

The day after the election, Trump’s close advisers—suddenly eager to be part of a process that almost everybody had ignored—immediately began blaming Christie for a lack of transition preparations. Hurriedly, the bare-bones transition team moved from downtown Washington to Trump Tower. This was certainly s

political experience. Christie, like most Trump allies, fell in and out of favor. In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump contemptuously measured Christie’s increasing distance from his losing enterprise, and then, with victory, his eagerness to get back in. Trump and Christie went back to Trump’s days t

law, carefully displacing as little air as possible: the massive and domineering older man, the reedy and pliant younger one. In the revised death-of-Chris-Christie story, it is not the deferential Jared who strikes back, but—in some sense even more satisfying for the revenge fantasy—Charlie Kushner himself who h

global world and as representatives of a new eco-philanthropic-art sensibility. For Ivanka, this included her friendship with Wendi Murdoch and with Dasha Zhukova, the then wife of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, a fixture in the international art world, and, just a few months before the election, attend

arst in Citizen Kane: a rich man with non-existent morals but exquisite taste. Like Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers' last CEO: earlier this month, it took Christie's days to sell off the bank's art collection. Here there is no so such owner: this collection has been curated by two artists, Victoria Golembiovskaya

n houses now tie their activities to it more than ever. Off-site auctions saw Phillips de Pury selling David Hockney's Autumn Pool for $2 million and Christie's flogging Andreas Gursky's photograph of the New York Stock Exchange for $700,000, almost three times its estimate. Harry Blain and Graham Southern,

o the vernissage as "Billionaires Day," and indeed, attendees included Claudia Schiffer, Charles Saatchi, Steve Cohen (a first timer to the fair) and Dasha Zhukova. So powerful has Frieze become that commercial galleries, public spaces and auction houses now tie their activities to it more than ever. Off-site au

ed very hard to help us. Larry Gagosian's party last night was tops. Creme de la creme of jet set were there. Actually it was refreshing not to see Christine and Stephen I Imast-Schwamman flaunting themselves....this was strictly a hipper crowd, Len Blavatnik and Harvey Weinstein were the least of the chi

on Kushner, Selma Nyack, Lome Michaels, Nat Rothchild, Bob Colacello, Julian Schnabel, Stephanie Seymour. Peter Brant, Martha Stewart, Jean Pigozzi, Dasha Zhukova, Roman Abramovich, Brian Grazer (Ron Howard's producer), Lawrence Bender (Quentin Tarantino's producer), Cy Twomly (artist)...Samantha Boardman and

Austr=lian crew made the boat keel over with all of us sitting on the high side =or ballast. Had/have lunch every day either with Larry Gagosian and Chrissie, or Samant=a and Aby Rosen, or Brooke and Dan Neidich or Sarah and Izak Senbahar on F=amand Beach.. Everyone on the beach has been super inclusive a

r to his friend Oscar de la Renta...and now widow Annette. OK...I am having a terrific time here and went to Larry Gagosian (with Chri=sie Erpf) and Dasha Zhukova ( as you know, married to Russian billionaire=Roman Abramovich, with a 500 foot yacht "Eclipse", in the harbor) New Yea='s Eve party for 200 fabulo

s Sunset Tower Hotel still exhausted from last weekend's oh-so-grand birthday extravaganza thrown by fun loving billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s wife Christine for HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019865 --- PAGE BREAK --- his 70" Birthday in Palm Beach—and headed straight to Charles Finch's photo exhibition, "The Art of

block to Mr. Chow. Elton John and David Furnish, Jonah Hill, Dakota Johnson, Sharon Stone, NBCUniversal's Ron Meyer, Gus Van Sant, Emily Ratajkowski, Dasha Zhukova, artists Alex Israel, Harmony Korine and Dan Colen, rocker Robbie Robertson and Page Six’s lan Mohr dig HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019866 --- PAGE BREAK ---