In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Now that I've taken as good a look as can be had at the four Epstein assistants listed in the 2008 non prosecution agreement, Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff, the one thing that strikes me is that they had little in common. One was a pilot, one came from an affluent hedge fund background, while two were groomed to be Epstein confidantes from their teens. About the only thing they all did was, at least now and then, schedule nymphets for massages with Epstein. However, not all seem to have participated in those massages. Here's my biggest question: how many $200,000 a year personal assistants does it take to schedule Jennifer for 11:00 if Heather can't make it? How many massages can a 55 year old guy handle in a day? Even at Epstein's most priapic, a dozen might be the upper limit, but hey, let's say it's 20. And it wasn't just these four who did the scheduling. Maxwell herself is alleged to have done it, and there were a...

The odd thing about the four women named in Epstein's 2008 non prosecution agreement is how unproductive it is to try to figure out what, if anything, they actually did all day. Adriana Ross is the best example. Just as the Maxwell trial began, the UK Mirror hyped , A former model accused of organising under-age girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse has left the US as the FBI is poised to make arrests. Adriana Ross, 36, who was once questioned about Prince Andrew under oath, was tracked down by the Mirror as she left her home in Miami, Florida. As she packed a case into a car she refused to answer questions about Andrew or her alleged role with Epstein. And when she later arrived at the city’s cruise terminal with her husband, she insisted: “I have nothing to say.” . . . On Friday night sources told the Mirror that papers were being prepared ahead of “several arrests”. But Ms Ross is now on a cruise of all things, where the FBI could pull her off the ship at will, an...

Lesley Groff is a more shadowy figure among the Epsein assistants named in the 2008 non prosecution agreement. Every indication is that, with an affluent and apparenty influential husband, she has been able to lawyer up and take advantage of the legal protections built around the Epstein enterprise followindg his arrests. She began working for him as an adult and does not appear to have been groomed or brought into his circle as a sex slave. Unlike many other Epstein associates, there's no indication she ever had a romantic relationiship with him. According to the Daily Beast, Lesley Groff was another Epstein assistant who allegedly coordinated travel for young girls, often calling to schedule “massages.” Though not directly named in Monday’s [2019 Epstein] indictment, the 51-year-old has been previously named as one of Epstein’s three female assistants. According to a 2005 Chicago Tribune story about executive-assistant pay, Epstein divulged his assistants made about $200,0...

According to Wikipedia , Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nada Marcinkova (Slovak: Naďa Marcinková) (born 1986), is a Slovakian-born pilot, flight instructor, and the CEO of Aviloop, an aviation website. She is known for her association with financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell. . . . Over the years, several news outlets have reported that Marcinko, previously known under the name of Nada Marcinkova, worked as a long-term assistant to Jeffrey Epstein and was a regular pilot of Epstein's so-called Lolita Express. It was reported that she was one of four of Epstein's accomplices (including Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, and Lesley Groff) that were given immunity from prosecution in Epstein's controversial non-prosecution agreement from 2008. The Guardian reported that Marcinkova was questioned in 2010 concerning Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution . . . According to the Miami H...

Intrigued by the list of Epstein's co-conspirators on page 5 of his 2008 non prosecution agreement , I decided to look them up. The most prominent, whose name came up Thursday in the Maxwell trial, is Sarah Kellen. It appears that there's no good single source on her. The Cut says she is sometimes known as Sarah Kensington . Kellen kept all of the names and numbers of girls who gave Epstein erotic massages and would call around to see who was available to “work” when Epstein was at his Palm Beach mansion. Some of these girls later told Palm Beach detectives that it was Kellen who would show them upstairs when they arrived at the house and set up the massage table for them. One of Epstein’s victims, Sarah Ransome, said that Maxwell and Kellen coached her on how to pleasure him. “It was Ghislaine and Sarah Kellen that showed me how to please Jeffrey,” Ransome said. According to the New York Post , Kellen was Epstein’s personal assistant for at least 10 years and h...

So much is happening, but there's so little news. That applies to the Ghislaine Maxwell trial as much as anything else. In a surprise move yesterday, the prosecution rested its case after less than two weeks, when at the start, the trial was predicted to last as long as six weeks. From the very limited informed commentary I've seen, the consensus appears to be that this is a show trial that's meant to punish Jeffrey Epstein post mortem without, however, touching in any way the very prominent figures from Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Prince Andrew on down who may also have beeen implicated in Epstein's activites. A mention by one of the YouTube commentators on the trial , Robert Gruler, of an episode in Thursday's abbreviated session brings this out. The prosecution called a witness, Tracy Chapell of FedEx, to testify about packages Epstein sent to victims during 2002. During cross-examination, Maxwell's counsel asked the witness to note the signature on the...

The recent history of moral panics shows that they sooner or later work themselves out through the legal system. The McMartin preschool case, the most visible episode of the 1980s Satanic day care panic, lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions, and all charges were dropped in 1990. The putative 2019 MAGA attack on Jussie Smollett took place before the 2020 COVID-BLM panic, but it was nevertheless a background issue throughout 2020 as public and law enforcement outcry over the case's being dropped eventualy resulted in appointment of a special prosecutor. In addition, the most vocal opjection to the anticipated outcome of Smollett's trial came from Black Lives Matter , one of the chief entrepreneurs of the 2020 panic: In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett, a Black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom. . . ....