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In reply to the discussion: Trump hosted party for 'young women' where Epstein was the only guest: New York Times [View all]IcyPeas
(23,953 posts)4. this long article from The Guardian in 2020 is worth reading. It's all there...
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
The Guardian article was written in March 2020. All this shit was public knowledge. The links to the article below. It's a pretty long article. Talks about trump, John Casablancas, epstein: that guy Marie was a doozy, and Casablancas too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
https://archive.ph/2025.07.19-001832/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
The Guardian article was written in March 2020. All this shit was public knowledge. The links to the article below. It's a pretty long article. Talks about trump, John Casablancas, epstein: that guy Marie was a doozy, and Casablancas too.
In 1991, there were 10 judges in total, eight of them men, including Trump, Casablancas, the celebrity magician David Copperfield, and the president of Elites European division, Gérald Marie.
George Houraney, a businessman whose American Dream Calendar Girls beauty contest had been running in Las Vegas casinos since 1978, recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in January 1993. Houraney says that Trump asked him to organise a party that month with some of his pageants finalists, promising to invite heads of modelling agencies and prospective sponsors for his competition. He had me fly in all these girls, and gave me a $30,000 budget for airfares and limos to pick them up at the airport, he says. The girls were all decked out, expecting to meet all these VIPs. But after an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein. I was like, Donald, where are the guys? Whats going on here? And he said, Well, this is it. Houraney says he realised this is a Jeff Epstein party, basically.
While suspicious of Epstein, Houraney was keen to have Trump as a business partner. A month earlier, in December 1992, Trump had met with Houraney and Jill Harth, who ran the pageant together. They were looking for a new sponsor for their contest, which each year saw models aged 16 to 22 compete to appear in wall calendars wearing bikinis and swimsuits while posing with classic cars. At dinner in the Plazas Oak Room, Harth, Houraney and Trump discussed moving the American Dream competition from Las Vegas to one of Trumps casinos. He wanted to build this into the biggest, the best thing that he could do. He was talking about television and pulling out all the contacts, Harth later said. Eventually, the pageant was held at Trump Castle in Atlantic City in November 1993, but for one year only.
The partnership soured and ended in two lawsuits, but for Trump it was a prelude to a series of more lucrative ventures in the beauty business. In 1996, he secured what the New York Daily News described as his most beautiful deal yet. After months of negotiations, Trump acquired the Miss Universe Organization in a reported $10m deal that handed him control of three large, well-established pageants: Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA. Three years later, he founded Trump Model Management, poaching many staff from Elite.
While suspicious of Epstein, Houraney was keen to have Trump as a business partner. A month earlier, in December 1992, Trump had met with Houraney and Jill Harth, who ran the pageant together. They were looking for a new sponsor for their contest, which each year saw models aged 16 to 22 compete to appear in wall calendars wearing bikinis and swimsuits while posing with classic cars. At dinner in the Plazas Oak Room, Harth, Houraney and Trump discussed moving the American Dream competition from Las Vegas to one of Trumps casinos. He wanted to build this into the biggest, the best thing that he could do. He was talking about television and pulling out all the contacts, Harth later said. Eventually, the pageant was held at Trump Castle in Atlantic City in November 1993, but for one year only.
The partnership soured and ended in two lawsuits, but for Trump it was a prelude to a series of more lucrative ventures in the beauty business. In 1996, he secured what the New York Daily News described as his most beautiful deal yet. After months of negotiations, Trump acquired the Miss Universe Organization in a reported $10m deal that handed him control of three large, well-established pageants: Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA. Three years later, he founded Trump Model Management, poaching many staff from Elite.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
https://archive.ph/2025.07.19-001832/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
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Trump hosted party for 'young women' where Epstein was the only guest: New York Times [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Jul 20
OP
No doubt. I wouldn't be surprised the MSM owners want the unpredictable trump out, and vance in because
lostincalifornia
Jul 20
#10
This. But as usual, they fail to take into account that Vance already has an owner.
YodaMom2
Jul 20
#42
It was intentional. They MSM had to be aware of this for years, yet they choose to remain relatively quiet
lostincalifornia
Jul 20
#9
It's a tipping point phenomenon, not anything like "a switch" or the media "decides". Also, fickleness of public is a fa
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 20
#18
Ah yes, time to invoke the convenient PTB, the mysterious "they" who control all everything. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 20
#30
Obviously elites meet. Your conjecture what happened is just a dubious conjecture; not proved simply by elites meeting.n
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 20
#66
Oh yeah, I keep forgetting. "Conspiracy" isn't a real word, and there is no real meaning to the word in the dictionary
BComplex
Jul 20
#41
I also found a BBC article that had a good summary of the whole "Pizzagate" CT insanity
BumRushDaShow
Jul 20
#7
exactly--- so much awful stuff was know about Dump and Epstein well before now and the MSM
LymphocyteLover
Jul 20
#15
Any abuse to children is wrong. So sad. Protect ;your children and others if needed.
twodogsbarking
Jul 20
#22
Trump's behavior towards women, his drug use, his ties to organized crime, and his money from foreign...
Botany
Jul 20
#20
And yet, we refuse to do anything about those influences and how they keep people away from justice.
OldBaldy1701E
Jul 21
#71
Where I grew up it was referred to as "jail bait". Guess that no longer applies.
twodogsbarking
Jul 20
#23
I think the NYT did not publish information as to the 1990s Epstein-only audience event until just now.
John1956PA
Jul 20
#36
Could be. In any event it's good to see that they are resurrecting some of this info,
Ocelot II
Jul 20
#37
I often wonder if it were young boys if the general MAGA population would get on board with the vile
flying_wahini
Jul 20
#31
Whether boys or girls, the children were recruited from families with no financial access
FakeNoose
Jul 20
#49
I understand your point. However, maybe the NYT did not have unassailable confirmation of the story until now.
John1956PA
Jul 20
#46
This particular allegation about the 1990s "Calendar Girl" event is new to ambit of Trump-Epstein known facts.
John1956PA
Jul 20
#60
and yett the neocon rs keep pointing at us gays for being pervs and they get a way with it..
AllaN01Bear
Jul 20
#50
Watch Donny file another billion-dollar lawsuit then send a "woe is me. I'm such a victim letter" to his MAGA supporters
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jul 20
#62