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IcyPeas

(23,932 posts)
4. this long article from The Guardian in 2020 is worth reading. It's all there...
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 06:36 AM
Sunday
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.

In 1991, there were 10 judges in total, eight of them men, including Trump, Casablancas, the celebrity magician David Copperfield, and the president of Elite’s 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 pageant’s 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? What’s 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 Plaza’s Oak Room, Harth, Houraney and Trump discussed moving the American Dream competition from Las Vegas to one of Trump’s 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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PERVERTS Skittles Sunday #1
Chump had a lot of "friends" in those days FakeNoose Sunday #32
Birds of a feather.... Sogo Sunday #48
I think ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Monday #73
Better yet, I think the MAGAs will recognize these names FakeNoose Monday #74
Trump, Epstein, young girls, cocaine, high end booze. Irish_Dem Sunday #2
It is all so weird, Hornedfrog2000 Sunday #3
I am watching them do the same "strategy" BumRushDaShow Sunday #5
This! FailureToCommunicate Sunday #8
No doubt. I wouldn't be surprised the MSM owners want the unpredictable trump out, and vance in because lostincalifornia Sunday #10
This. But as usual, they fail to take into account that Vance already has an owner. YodaMom2 Sunday #42
Come on ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Monday #72
It was intentional. They MSM had to be aware of this for years, yet they choose to remain relatively quiet lostincalifornia Sunday #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 Sunday #18
Post removed Post removed Sunday #25
Ah yes, time to invoke the convenient PTB, the mysterious "they" who control all everything. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #30
Here are some examples of how this happens IbogaProject Sunday #38
Obviously elites meet. Your conjecture what happened is just a dubious conjecture; not proved simply by elites meeting.n Bernardo de La Paz Sunday #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 Sunday #41
this long article from The Guardian in 2020 is worth reading. It's all there... IcyPeas Sunday #4
I also found a BBC article that had a good summary of the whole "Pizzagate" CT insanity BumRushDaShow Sunday #7
exactly--- so much awful stuff was know about Dump and Epstein well before now and the MSM LymphocyteLover Sunday #15
Typical sleazebaggery (R) BoRaGard Sunday #6
A special reservation in Hades for him. Marcuse Sunday #11
Any abuse to children is wrong. So sad. Protect ;your children and others if needed. twodogsbarking Sunday #22
Beautiful secret party. mzmolly Sunday #12
not surprising at all... but this info was known by the NYT in 2019??? LymphocyteLover Sunday #13
There is stuff (posted upthread) BumRushDaShow Sunday #16
I think TSF FalloutShelter Sunday #14
People voted for a pedophile to be their president. Emile Sunday #17
A great many of them would vote for him again tomorrow Orrex Sunday #19
Agree! Because lot of them do so just because they STILL believe bluestarone Sunday #24
Trump's behavior towards women, his drug use, his ties to organized crime, and his money from foreign... Botany Sunday #20
David Pecker (National Inquieror) knew it too. underpants Sunday #54
He is a rapist Botany Sunday #59
And yet, we refuse to do anything about those influences and how they keep people away from justice. OldBaldy1701E Monday #71
Something needs to take that crooked predator down IronLionZion Sunday #21
Where I grew up it was referred to as "jail bait". Guess that no longer applies. twodogsbarking Sunday #23
Trump crawled into her bed Bluetus Sunday #26
Link to NYT article from the OP link FakeNoose Sunday #27
NYT published the article in 2019. Ocelot II Sunday #29
Yes and the new article was printed yesterday FakeNoose Sunday #34
I hope the renewed attention on the late, unlamented Mr. Epstein Ocelot II Sunday #35
This cites a NYT article from 2019. All this stuff was known years ago. Ocelot II Sunday #28
I think the NYT did not publish information as to the 1990s Epstein-only audience event until just now. John1956PA Sunday #36
Could be. In any event it's good to see that they are resurrecting some of this info, Ocelot II Sunday #37
NYT had a big feature article yesterday BumRushDaShow Sunday #51
Most of this is information that was previously known, but Ocelot II Sunday #52
They are taking advantage of the news cycle BumRushDaShow Sunday #56
I hope the cycle keeps spinning. Ocelot II Sunday #57
I often wonder if it were young boys if the general MAGA population would get on board with the vile flying_wahini Sunday #31
Whether boys or girls, the children were recruited from families with no financial access FakeNoose Sunday #49
Why was none of this published BEFORE the election? NickB79 Sunday #33
One of the NYT articles was published in 2019. Ocelot II Sunday #40
Shouldn't the quotes be around "for" like this BootinUp Sunday #39
Not surprised sakabatou Sunday #43
Epstein was "was the only other guest," ... surrealAmerican Sunday #44
more like Epstein was the CLIENT Skittles Sunday #68
Now they report it again, years later Mz Pip Sunday #45
I understand your point. However, maybe the NYT did not have unassailable confirmation of the story until now. John1956PA Sunday #46
I'd never heard about this Mz Pip Sunday #53
This particular allegation about the 1990s "Calendar Girl" event is new to ambit of Trump-Epstein known facts. John1956PA Sunday #60
That would make Trump a trafficker, now wouldn't it? Sogo Sunday #47
and yett the neocon rs keep pointing at us gays for being pervs and they get a way with it.. AllaN01Bear Sunday #50
MAGA looks to him as their role model bucolic_frolic Sunday #55
Speechless here Peacetrain Sunday #58
I want this to keep going, the slow drip Javaman Sunday #61
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 Sunday #62
Sick fucking fuck. Blue Owl Sunday #63
Surprises me to say, but I don't think Trump will survive this Deminpenn Sunday #64
The MAGA cult - the ones that aren't brain-dead - many are super-religious Jesus freaks FakeNoose Sunday #67
Long knives are out for Trump. Crazy nt PufPuf23 Sunday #65
BumRushDaShow......... Upthevibe Sunday #69
Otherwise known as a Daycare center. mercuryblues Sunday #70
Kick ck4829 Yesterday #75
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