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TRASH: BINMEN SUSPENDED AFTER TOSSING RUBBISH BAGS INTO RIVERBED ON SPAIN’S COSTA DEL SOL

The 90-second clip, which has since gone viral on social media, was filmed on Calle BronzeBy Laurence Dollimore (News Editor) -27 Aug, 2019 @ 11:210Share

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Binmen tossing rubbish into the riverbed

TWO bin men are being investigated after footage emerged of them tossing rubbish bags into a river while on the job. 

The unnamed municipal workers have been suspended without pay after they were filmed picking up several bags left next to a full bin and throwing them into a nearby stream in Marbella. 

The 90-second clip, which has since gone viral on social media, was filmed on Calle Bronze. 

Both workers believed no one was watching as they worked in the black of night, tossing at least six bags into the riverbed. 

A local was hiding across the street, filming them the whole time. 

Marbella town hall has described their act as illegal and a ‘very serious’ offence. 

Mayor Angeles Munoz said she was ‘tremendously ashamed of the behaviour’ of the workers.

The local who filmed the binmen claimed it was not the first time they had thrown rubbish into the stream. 

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WOMAN, 69, DROWNS AT BENALMADENA BEACH ON SPAIN’S COSTA DEL SOL

This incident is the second drowning to occur on Las Gaviotas beach this summer.By Tim McNulty -27 Aug, 2019 @ 18:250Share

A WOMAN has drowned off a beach in Benalmadena on Spain’s Costa del Sol.

Emergency services were alerted just after midday today that a 69-year-old swimmer had been recovered from the water at Las Gaviotas beach.

Despite efforts to revive her, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

This incident is the second drowning to occur on Las Gaviotas beach this summer.

On July 1, a 33 year-old man died after getting in trouble whilst swimming at the beach.

Relay Run for Refugees

لماذا غزة؟ Why Gaza?

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the U.N. agency created shortly after Palestine was divided in 1948. UNRWA’s mandate was to specifically address the needs of the Palestinians uprooted from their homes, businesses and communities. Some were forcibly removed by the Jewish Zionists, some were threatened and fled, and some were butchered when they didn’t flee soon enough (Deir Yassin massacre).

When UNRWA began operations in 1950, it was responding to the needs of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Today, some 5 – 7 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA services.  The common denominator among all of the refugees is that they are waiting to return to their communities. To this day, many Palestinian refugees still have the keys to their homes located in present-day Israel.

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It’s often claimed that the refugees left voluntarily but the factual record doesn’t support that contention. The American Friends…

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“What are Trump and Netanyahu afraid of?” — New York Times editorial board asks

لماذا غزة؟ Why Gaza?

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The New York Times Editorial Board, so often an apologist for Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinians, opined (August 15, 2019) that Trump’s and Netanyahu’s actions denying two U.S.  Congresswomen the opportunity to visit Israel-Palestine was a sign of weakness.

There are not many traditions of decorum that President Trump has not trampled on since entering the White House. But to put at risk, so cynically, America’s special relationship with Israel solely to titillate the bigots in his base, to lean so crassly on a foreign leader to punish his own political adversaries, to demonstrate so foul a lack of respect for the most elemental democratic principles, is new territory even for him.

America’s special relationship with Israel” translates to $3+ Billion every year from US taxpayers to Israel; an unquestioning veto at the UN Security Council to prevent any measure critical of Israel’s…

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JEFFREY EPSTEIN HAD 301 BRITS IN HIS LITTLE BLACK BOOK INCLUDING MICK JAGGER,TONY BLAIR, , RCHARD BRANSON AND MORE , FBI FILES REVEAL

Jeffrey Epstein had 301 Britons in his ‘little black book’ including Mick Jagger, Tony Blair and Richard Branson, FBI files reveal

By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter for MailOnline 

Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘little black book’ contained the names of 301 of Britain’s richest and most powerful people including Sir Mick Jagger, Tony Blair, Sir Richard Branson, Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson, it was claimed today.

The American paedophile cultivated an extraordinary cache of more than 1,000 phone numbers and email addresses for hundreds of famous names across the Atlantic.

Epstein is said to have written down 16 phone numbers for his friend Prince Andrew including a mobile number and landlines for Sandringham and Balmoral, where the prince once invited him for a visit. 

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Richard Branson, whose island is next door to Epstein's, is said to be in his contacts

Mick Jagger, Tony Blair, Richard Branson and other famous names were also listed among Epstein’s contacts book now in the hands of the FBI

There are also 18 numbers for Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who once had a £15,000 dept paid off by Epstein, according to the Mirror. 

Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair is recorded once, while his former cabinet minister Lord Mandelson has ten numbers recorded, including one marked ‘direct line’ one marked ‘home’ and one marked ‘country home’.   

Other names and numbers in his book are also said to include Sir Mick Jagger, Sir David Frost, Richard Branson, Naomi Campbell, and a number of members of the House of Lords.

Other royal connections in the list include ‘Charles Althorp’, meaning Charles, Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, and Rosa Monckton, the late princess’s best friend. 

The ‘book’ is also said to contain contacts of Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, including her extended family, friends and brief acquaintances. 

The book is now in the hands of the FBI – but there is no suggestion that the people named knew of Epstein’s crimes and many will never have met him.

A spokesman for Richard Branson said previously: ‘Jeffrey Epstein has the island next door to Necker but Richard has literally only met him once for about five minutes. That’s the extent of it.’ 

Epstein also kept another diary with the names of over 100 ‘recruits’ from areas where he had residences, including New York and Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Paris.

Prosecutors believe he orchestrated a network of students who were lined up by other young women and then forced to satisfy the hedge fund billionaire’s wishes.

Epstein’s private island was raided by the FBI last night.

More than a dozen agents arrived on speedboats at the luxury Caribbean property – dubbed ‘Paedophile Island’.

It came only hours after high-flying friends of the disgraced late financier were warned that they ‘should not rest easy’.

US Attorney General William Barr vowed the probe would continue despite Epstein’s suicide at the weekend.

A tourist filmed law enforcement officers wearing the yellow ‘FBI’ logo on their backs arriving at Little St James, the 72-acre US Virgin Island retreat Epstein bought 20 years ago.

The onlooker, who asked to remain anonymous, said: ‘We were enjoying lunch when we saw over a dozen people getting off their speedboats and landing on the island.

‘When we looked harder, we could see the FBI logo on the backs of their shirts.

‘It didn’t take long for us to realise they must be conducting a raid on Epstein’s house.’

Allegations have been made that underage girls were used as sex slaves and repeatedly abused inside a temple on the island

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Claims have been made that underage girls were used as sex slaves and repeatedly abused inside a temple on the island.

Meanwhile, Mr Barr vowed to continue probing the alleged sex trafficking of underage girls, despite the tycoon killing himself in jail. His comments will heap further pressure on Epstein’s close associates, including Prince Andrew, who has been accused of having sex with one of the ‘sex slaves’.

Mr Barr’s intervention comes as Ghislaine Maxwell, a former friend of Andrew’s and Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, hinted that she planned to ‘totally disappear. 

Some reports suggested the socialite daughter of the disgraced late tycoon Robert Maxwell had started to co-operate with the FBI and her alleged recruitment of girls for Epstein. Her current whereabouts are unknown.

‘She said that she planned to totally disappear and not say anything,’ a source close to Miss Maxwell said. Miss Maxwell has never been charged and has vehemently denied the allegations. Prince Andrew also denies the claims against him, which were struck from the record at an earlier hearing.

Mr Barr’s broadside came at a police event in New Orleans. He said: ‘Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy. The victims deserve justice.’ Mr Barr said there would also be a full investigation into the catalogue of failures which allowed Epstein to hang himself on Saturday at the high-security prison where he was being held.

He said he was ‘appalled and angry’ at the failure to check on the 66-year-old every 30 minutes at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. Epstein was found at 6.30am by a guard at the prison, where a series of errors allowed him to become the first suicide there in 21 years.

The day before, New York’s federal court had released 2,000 pages of damning documents. Officials said Epstein was placed on suicide watch after he tried to kill himself on July 23. But on July 29 he was taken off suicide watch and returned to the 9 South special housing unit, which has less stringent security. Last night it emerged that Epstein was not checked on for ‘several hours’ and one of his guards was not even a trained prison officer. Serene Gregg, of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the prison is operating with inadequate staffing. She said: ‘It was only a matter of time for it to happen. It was inevitable, because of the conditions at that institution.’

PEDOPHILE JEFFREY EPSTEIN WORKED FOR MOSSAD

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Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad..By Philip M. GiraldiJuly 12, 2019 “Information Clearing House” -The extent of Israeli spying directed against the United States is a huge story that isonly rarely addressedin the mainstream media. The Jewish state regularly tops the list for ostensibly friendly countries that aggressively conduct espionage against the U.S. and Jewish American Jonathan Pollard, who was imprisoned in 1987 for spying for Israel, is now regarded as the most damaging spy in the history of the United States.Last weekI wroteabout how Israeli spies operating more-or-less freely in the U.S. are rarely interfered with, much less arrested and prosecuted, because there is an unwillingness on the part of upper echelons of government to do so. I cited the case…

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DONALD TRUMP ACCUSED OF SEXUALY ASSUALTING A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Donald Trump ACCUSED of Raping a 13-Year-Old Girl with Bill Clinton’s Billionaire Sex Buddy

ByDAN MCLAUGHLIN

June 21, 2016 5:03 PM

As if Donald Trump didn’t have enough legal problems and bad juju, now he has another headache to deal with: a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in New York accusing him (along with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein) of raping a 13 year old girl in 1994 at a party at Epstein’s place. The allegations are quite lurid, and reek of similar underage-sex-slavery charges made against Epstein. The lawsuit itself is not that likely to go very far; it appears to be a rehash of a suit previously dismissed in California. The statute of limitations has long since run out, requiring the “Jane Doe” plaintiff to offer creative arguments for why she should be able to bring this up now.

That said, there’s no statute of limitations in politics. Is there anything to this? We know, on the one hand, that nasty truths come out about political figures every campaign season. As a thrice-married admitted adulterer, Trump’s history doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in this area, from bragging about bedding married women to his comments to Howard Stern about watching Paris Hilton’s sex tape to his weird habit of commenting on the sex appeal of his own daughter to embracing convicted rapist Mike Tyson to defending Bill Clinton himself in his sex scandals in the 1990s, just to pick a few examples. We know, on the other hand, that bogus sex scandals follow just about everyone who makes it to the national level in politics. Offhand, I believe Mitt Romney may have been the only major party nominee the past 25 years who never had anybody in the press try to shop a sex scandal story (real or bogus) about him. Voters mostly gave the benefit of the doubt to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio when flimsy sex stories were run against them in the primaries. Trump’s great wealth and messy public personal life make him a big target for this sort of thing. Sometimes, we have to just look at the facts we have and use our judgment.

Trump’s statement at the time about the original lawsuit was a blanket denial, which extended as far as questioning whether the plaintiff even existed: “The allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, perhaps, are simply politically motivated. There is absolutely no merit to these allegations. Period.” In the absence of credible evidence to the contrary, we should believe him. The passage of a long period of time, the emergence of the suit only when Trump is engaged in a high-profile political campaign, and the apparent lack of corroboration beyond the accuser’s word, all cut against believing the charge. 

But it’s not at all improbable to think Epstein may have had sex with a 13 year old at one of his parties, maybe forcibly – his record in this regard is long and tawdry, and has been justly cited for a long time by Republicans as a reason why Bill Clinton should have known to steer clear of Epstein’s “Lolita Express,” which he reportedly flew on some 26 times. The media shouldn’t grill Trump on this sort of thing unless they’re prepared to do the same to Bill Clinton​. But Trump’s ties to Epstein are deep and nasty enough to (at a minimum) disable this line of attack on the Clintons – including Epstein pleading the Fifth Amendment to the question, “Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?” Trump himself once told New York Magazine:

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”COMMENTS

In other words, without any sort of supporting evidence, we should not put much stock in the sensational and belated claim of Trump himself participating in the rape of a young teenager. But it’s not so easy to dismiss the same charge as it applies to Jeffrey Epstein – or the significant possibility that Trump, like Clinton, may have been closer to Epstein’s now-infamous sexual abuses than he lets on.

Putting Faith into Action

لماذا غزة؟ Why Gaza?

The Catholics and Jews came together in my world on Sunday, August 11, 2019 in Baltimore.  I attended the 10:30 am service at St. Ignatius Church with a friend, and then attended the Tisha B’Av#ICEOutHoCo protest in Howard County with other friends in the afternoon.  The messages from both events resonated deeply.

Jesus ChristThe priest said, “Today, young people are the principal protagonists of an anthropological transformation that is coming to be through the digital culture of our time, opening humanity to a new historical epoch. We are living through a period of change from which will emerge a new humanity and a new way of structuring human life in its personal and social dimensions. To accompany young people demands of us authenticity of life, spiritual depth, and openness to sharing the life-mission that gives meaning to who we are and what we do. Accompanying young people puts us on…

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EPSTEIN DEATH:PROSECUTORS TURN FOCUS ONTO GHISLAINE MAXWELL,HIS MADAM WHO SUPPLIED HIM WITH THREE GIRLS A DAY

Marc FisherThe Independent12 August 2019

Ghislaine Maxwell was, according to her accusers, Jeffrey Epstein‘s protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam. She was, by all accounts, a soul mate and a mirror image.

He grew up in Brooklyn with no money to speak of and never finished college. She is Paris-born, Oxford-educated, a jet-setter who partied with princes and billionaires.

Together, Epstein and Ms Maxwell allegedly built what prosecutors, police and a growing number of women described as a sex-trafficking operation that crisscrossed the nation to provide Epstein with three young girls a day.

The death of Epstein, the convicted sex offender who authorities said hanged himself in a federal detention centre cell in New York on Saturday, leaves those who seek to hold someone responsible for the alleged abuse of dozens of girls with one prime target: Ghislaine Maxwell.

The US attorney in New York, Geoff Berman, assured the “brave young women who have already come forward and … the many others who have yet to do so” that “our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment – which included a conspiracy count – remains ongoing.”

According to many of the women who have spoken about what Epstein allegedly did to them, Ms Maxwell was the financier’s chief co-conspirator.

Ms Maxwell, 57, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing. According to people familiar with the investigation, authorities have had trouble locating Ms Maxwell, who is believed to be living abroad.

Her five-story Manhattan townhouse was sold in 2016 for $15 million by a company that used the address of Epstein’s New York office.

Her lawyers told a judge in 2017 that she was in London, but had no fixed address. Lawyers representing Epstein’s alleged victims said they wouldn’t expect Ms Maxwell to return to the United States anytime soon for fear of being arrested.

Martina Vandenberg, founder and president of the nonprofit Human Trafficking Legal Center, said she was “thrilled” to hear the prosecutors’ announcement that the investigation would continue, saying it would encourage more alleged victims to come forward.

For someone who stood by Epstein through the most sordid allegations, Ms Maxwell was also a factor in his downfall: It was through a 2015 defamation lawsuit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, that thousands of pages of documents containing detailed accounts of Epstein’s alleged abuses became public last week.

But Ms Maxwell herself had long since slipped away. Although associates of Epstein said Ms Maxwell never completely broke off relations with Epstein, she became far less of a presence at his various properties in recent years.

Alleged victims claim Ghislaine Maxwell was at the centre of Epstein's sex trafficking ring (Getty Images)
Alleged victims claim Ghislaine Maxwell was at the centre of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring (Getty Images)

Ms Maxwell was a focus of the Epstein investigation from the start, according to the Palm Beach police officials who began the probe. The girls they interviewed repeatedly described Ms Maxwell as the coordinator of Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. But detectives were never able to interview Ms Maxwell.

Attorneys for Ms Maxwell did not return calls seeking comment. Throughout the years since Epstein was first accused of sexual abuse, Ms Maxwell has insisted that she did nothing wrong and knew of no illegal acts.

In a deposition she gave in Ms Giuffre’s defamation suit in 2016, Ms Maxwell said that “Virginia is an absolute liar and everything she has said is a lie.

Therefore, based on those lies I cannot speculate on what anybody else did or didn’t do … everything she said is false.” The suit was settled out of court in 2017.

But a growing number of women have said that Ms Maxwell was the prime organiser of Epstein’s three-times daily “massages,” and that she acted as recruiter and paymaster for the girls who came to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.

Ms Giuffre said Ms Maxwell recruited her in 2000, when she was 16 or 17 and working at President Trump’s Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago.

As Ms Giuffre recalled it in her lawsuit, Ms Maxwell told her, “I know somebody. We can train you. We can get you educated. You know, we can help you along the way if you pass the interview. If the guy likes you, then, you know, it will work out for you. You’ll travel. You’ll make good money.”

But at her first meeting with Epstein, Ms Giuffre said in a deposition, Ms Maxwell “instructed me to take off my clothes and to give oral sex to Jeffrey Epstein.”

In an interview with the Miami Herald last year, Ms Giuffre said, “The training started immediately. It was everything down to how to give a blow job, how to be quiet, be subservient, give Jeffrey what he wants.

“A lot of this training came from Ghislaine herself, and being a woman, it kind of surprises you that a woman could actually let stuff like that happen. But not only let it happen but to groom you into doing it.”

Jeffrey Epstein was facing charges alleging that he sexually abused dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s (REUTERS)
Jeffrey Epstein was facing charges alleging that he sexually abused dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s (REUTERS)

Ms Giuffre also said that Ms Maxwell ordered her to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew, New Mexico’s former Democratic governor Bill Richardson and former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell, D-Maine.

“My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy,” Ms Giuffre said in the deposition. “Their whole entire lives revolved around sex.”

Spokesmen for Mr Richardson and Mr Mitchell vigorously denied Ms Giuffre’s allegations and said they never had any contact with her. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said, “Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”

Asked in a deposition about Ms Maxwell’s role in procuring girls for him, Epstein said only, “Fifth,” referring to his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

Johanna Sjoberg, a student at Palm Beach Atlantic University when she said Ms Maxwell hired her as an assistant, said in a 2015 deposition that was released Friday that it was Ms Maxwell’s job to ensure that three girls a day were made available to Epstein for his sexual pleasure.

“He needed to have three orgasms a day,” Ms Sjoberg said. “It was biological, like eating.”

In another document released Friday, Rinaldo Rizzo, the houseman for one of Epstein’s closest friends testified that a 15-year-old Swedish girl tearfully told him that Ms Maxwell and Epstein had threatened her with physical harm and confiscated her passport to assure that she stayed on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy. Their whole entire lives revolved around sex.

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Yet another woman has claimed that Ms Maxwell not only recruited girls for Epstein, but took part in the sexual abuse of girls. Maria Farmer said in an affidavit earlier this year that she met Ms Maxwell and Epstein at an art show when she was a graduate student in Manhattan in 1995.

The next summer, Ms Farmer said, both Ms Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted her at the Ohio estate of Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of The Limited stores and Epstein’s only publicly known financial client.

Farmer also said that Ms Maxwell took part in the sexual abuse of her 15-year-old sister on a massage table at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

Through her years with Epstein, Ms Maxwell maintained a very public life at the pinnacle of society. She was a friend of John Kennedy Jr. in New York in the 1990s and a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010. She had a long relationship with an Italian count.

She attended fashion shows and top-dollar benefit balls in New York and London and went to the Vanity Fair party at the Oscars, where she was photographed in 2014 with Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur.

In 2000, she obtained her townhouse on Manhattan’s East 65th Street; it was purchased for her for $5 million by an anonymous corporation located at the same address as Epstein’s finance office.

Ms Maxwell served on boards of charities and founded a nonprofit organisation that sought to conserve the world’s oceans. The organisation announced last month that it was ceasing operations.

Describing herself as “unemployed,” Ms Maxwell donated the maximum permissible, $2,300, to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2007.

In a profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair in 2003, he said that Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee but rather his “best friend.”

But after Epstein’s conviction on sexual abuse charges in 2008, Ms Maxwell appeared to distance herself from her friend.

Ms Maxwell grew up in a 53-room mansion on 14 acres near Oxford. Her father was Robert Maxwell, a British member of Parliament and book and newspaper publisher who was regularly on the front pages until he died mysteriously in 1991 aboard the Lady Ghislaine, a yacht he had named for his youngest daughter.

The official ruling was that his death was an accident, but some British press coverage speculated that Mr Maxwell, under pressure because of his enormous debts, killed himself. Ghislaine never believed that and subscribed to the notion that her father was murdered.

In life, the father – born Jan Hoch, a Czech Jewish refugee before he transformed himself into a London publisher – carried himself like a man of extreme wealth. When he died, he was found to owe money to more than 40 banks, to the tune of more than $4 billion.

Soon after her father’s death, Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York. She had a trust fund from her father, which provided her with about $100,000 a year, according to British news reports. But there was no fortune to rely on; she worked in Manhattan selling real estate.

Then, less than a year after her father died, she met Epstein. Ms Maxwell was Epstein’s guide to a heady world of celebrity, wealth, power and royalty.

She introduced him to Bill Clinton and to Prince Andrew, who became a frequent visitor to Epstein’s properties. Ms Maxwell and Epstein flew around the world on his private jet and invited top scientists and business leaders to dinners.

Friends said that although their romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with or for him long afterward.

In court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach described Ms Maxwell as the house manager, the person who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social coordinator, often doing the glad-handing while the more reserved Epstein stayed in the background at parties and dinners.

In 1993, an ad in Yoga Journal offered a “full time position” for an “Iyengar Yoga Instructor” to “teach a private individual.” “The job includes fantastic perks such as extensive travel,” the ad said, and it advised interested parties to call “Miss Maxwell” at a phone number that was Epstein’s office number.

In a deposition in 2016, Ms Maxwell agreed that her work at the Epstein houses “included hiring many people, … all sorts of people.”

She said that “a very small part of my job was from time to time to find adult professional massage therapists for Jeffrey. As far as I’m concerned, everyone who came to his house was an adult professional person.”

KEY DATES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCE ANDREW DUKE OF YORK AND SEX SLAVE TRAFFICKEROF UNDER AGE GIRLS JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide will renew scrutiny of his relationship with the Duke of York.

Here is a timeline of the controversy that has surrounded the pair:

– 1990s: The Duke of York is reportedly introduced to American financier Jeffrey Epstein through his friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.

– 2000: Andrew and Ms Maxwell are seen on holiday with Epstein at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. In return, the Duke reportedly invited Epstein to stay at Sandringham, Balmoral and Windsor Castle.

– 2001: Virginia Roberts claims to have had sex with Andrew “three times, including one orgy”, with the first encounter allegedly taking place in Ms Maxwell’s London townhouse. Ms Roberts claims to have had sex with Andrew on two more occasions – at Epstein’s New York home and at an “orgy” on his private island in the Caribbean.

– 2008: Epstein is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after agreeing a plea bargain over child prostitution charges.

– 2011: Following Epstein’s release from prison, Andrew is photographed with him in New York. The Duke quits his role as UK trade envoy as a result.

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The Duke of York has been embroiled in controversy over Jeffrey Epstein (Michel Euler/PA)

– January 2 2015: Buckingham Palace denies the Duke has committed any impropriety after he is named in US court documents related to Epstein. The woman, later named in reports as Ms Roberts, alleges in papers filed in Florida that she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17, which is under the age of consent in the state.

– January 3: Buckingham Palace issues a second denial that the Duke had sexual contact with a woman who claims she was forced to have under-age sex with him, branding the allegations “false and without any foundation”.

– January 4: Andrew flies back to the UK from a ski resort in Verbier, Switzerland, following widespread reports of the under-age sex allegations facing him.

– January 13: The Duke of York’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson defends him against “shockingly accusatory allegations” that he had sex with an under-age teenager, telling US TV show Today the family stood by the denial issued by Buckingham Palace.

– January 21: Lawyers for Ms Roberts formally request that he respond to her allegations under oath.

– January 22: The Duke publicly denies allegations he had sex with an under-age teenager in an address to guests at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

– July 7 2019: Epstein is arrested in New York on sex trafficking charges. Officials say the charges involve allegations that date to the early 2000s.

– July 12 2019: President Donald Trump’s Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta resigns following criticism of his handling of the 2008 plea deal with Epstein. Mr Acosta was the US attorney in Miami when he oversaw the non-prosecution agreement.

– August 9 2019: A US judge unseals legal documents which reveal Andrew was accused of touching the breast of “young college student” Johanna Sjoberg at Epstein’s home in 2001. The files relate to the defamation case that Virginia Roberts – now known as Virginia Giuffre – brought against Ms Maxwell in 2015. Buckingham Palace says the allegations are “categorically untrue”.

– August 10 2019: Epstein is reported to have been found dead from an apparent suicide at the Manhattan Correctional Center in New York. He was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.