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IcyPeas

(23,953 posts)
4. this long article from The Guardian in 2020 is worth reading. It's all there...
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 06:36 AM
Jul 20
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 Jul 20 #1
Chump had a lot of "friends" in those days FakeNoose Jul 20 #32
Birds of a feather.... Sogo Jul 20 #48
I think ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Jul 21 #73
Better yet, I think the MAGAs will recognize these names FakeNoose Jul 21 #74
Trump, Epstein, young girls, cocaine, high end booze. Irish_Dem Jul 20 #2
It is all so weird, Hornedfrog2000 Jul 20 #3
I am watching them do the same "strategy" BumRushDaShow Jul 20 #5
This! FailureToCommunicate Jul 20 #8
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
Come on ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Jul 21 #72
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
Post removed Post removed Jul 20 #25
Ah yes, time to invoke the convenient PTB, the mysterious "they" who control all everything. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 20 #30
Here are some examples of how this happens IbogaProject Jul 20 #38
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
this long article from The Guardian in 2020 is worth reading. It's all there... IcyPeas Jul 20 #4
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
Typical sleazebaggery (R) BoRaGard Jul 20 #6
A special reservation in Hades for him. Marcuse Jul 20 #11
Any abuse to children is wrong. So sad. Protect ;your children and others if needed. twodogsbarking Jul 20 #22
Beautiful secret party. mzmolly Jul 20 #12
not surprising at all... but this info was known by the NYT in 2019??? LymphocyteLover Jul 20 #13
There is stuff (posted upthread) BumRushDaShow Jul 20 #16
I think TSF FalloutShelter Jul 20 #14
People voted for a pedophile to be their president. Emile Jul 20 #17
A great many of them would vote for him again tomorrow Orrex Jul 20 #19
Agree! Because lot of them do so just because they STILL believe bluestarone Jul 20 #24
Trump's behavior towards women, his drug use, his ties to organized crime, and his money from foreign... Botany Jul 20 #20
David Pecker (National Inquieror) knew it too. underpants Jul 20 #54
He is a rapist Botany Jul 20 #59
And yet, we refuse to do anything about those influences and how they keep people away from justice. OldBaldy1701E Jul 21 #71
Something needs to take that crooked predator down IronLionZion Jul 20 #21
Where I grew up it was referred to as "jail bait". Guess that no longer applies. twodogsbarking Jul 20 #23
Trump crawled into her bed Bluetus Jul 20 #26
Link to NYT article from the OP link FakeNoose Jul 20 #27
NYT published the article in 2019. Ocelot II Jul 20 #29
Yes and the new article was printed yesterday FakeNoose Jul 20 #34
I hope the renewed attention on the late, unlamented Mr. Epstein Ocelot II Jul 20 #35
This cites a NYT article from 2019. All this stuff was known years ago. Ocelot II Jul 20 #28
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
NYT had a big feature article yesterday BumRushDaShow Jul 20 #51
Most of this is information that was previously known, but Ocelot II Jul 20 #52
They are taking advantage of the news cycle BumRushDaShow Jul 20 #56
I hope the cycle keeps spinning. Ocelot II Jul 20 #57
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
Why was none of this published BEFORE the election? NickB79 Jul 20 #33
One of the NYT articles was published in 2019. Ocelot II Jul 20 #40
Shouldn't the quotes be around "for" like this BootinUp Jul 20 #39
Not surprised sakabatou Jul 20 #43
Epstein was "was the only other guest," ... surrealAmerican Jul 20 #44
more like Epstein was the CLIENT Skittles Jul 20 #68
Now they report it again, years later Mz Pip Jul 20 #45
I understand your point. However, maybe the NYT did not have unassailable confirmation of the story until now. John1956PA Jul 20 #46
I'd never heard about this Mz Pip Jul 20 #53
This particular allegation about the 1990s "Calendar Girl" event is new to ambit of Trump-Epstein known facts. John1956PA Jul 20 #60
That would make Trump a trafficker, now wouldn't it? Sogo Jul 20 #47
and yett the neocon rs keep pointing at us gays for being pervs and they get a way with it.. AllaN01Bear Jul 20 #50
MAGA looks to him as their role model bucolic_frolic Jul 20 #55
Speechless here Peacetrain Jul 20 #58
I want this to keep going, the slow drip Javaman Jul 20 #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 Jul 20 #62
Sick fucking fuck. Blue Owl Jul 20 #63
Surprises me to say, but I don't think Trump will survive this Deminpenn Jul 20 #64
The MAGA cult - the ones that aren't brain-dead - many are super-religious Jesus freaks FakeNoose Jul 20 #67
Long knives are out for Trump. Crazy nt PufPuf23 Jul 20 #65
BumRushDaShow......... Upthevibe Jul 20 #69
Otherwise known as a Daycare center. mercuryblues Jul 20 #70
Kick ck4829 Friday #75
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