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

himself was mostly looking at the clock. Rupert Murdoch, heretofore doubtlessly certain Trump was a charlatan and a fool, said he and his new wife, Jerry Hall, would pay a call on the president-elect. But Murdoch was late—quite late. Trump kept assuring his guests that Rupert was on his way, coming soon. Wh

and Tel Aviv. • Having discovered faces such as Christie Turlington, and molded the careers of celebrities

Christie Turlington, and molded the careers of celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Rebecca Romijn, Estella Warren, Milla Jovovich, Monica Belucci and Jerry Hall, Jean Luc started the high profile MC2 Model Management to represent high fashion models in a boutique agency setting. MC2 Model's faces have been

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,

y's photomontage of the New York Stock Exchange, last seen hanging in the boardroom at Lehman Brothers (estimate: £100,000 - {150,000). Sotheby's has Jerry Hall's extraordinary collection up for sale - including work by Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol. And Phillips de Pury will hope to break the f1

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

nst him. | never asked about best picture. I'm still in thrall to the conventional wisdom: It's a "La La" landslide. Rupert Murdoch brings his bride Jerry Hall who kisses and chats with Mick Jagger as the lawn people try to eavesdrop. Spotted: DvF's kids Alexander and Tatiana, Sir Howard Stringer, Oliver Sto