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A woman groomed/trafficked/pimped by Epstein to NFL owner Steve Tisch has spoken out.
I have cited ProFootballTalk, not my favorite source usually, citing The Athletic quoting from Radio France One to avoid linking to The Athletic/NYT:
Some have dismissed the emails exchanged by Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and Jeffrey Epstein as evidence of nothing more than the normal behavior of consenting adults. That grossly oversimplifies the situation.
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The woman said Epstein had introduced her to an “American producer” in 2013. The woman and the producer met at his “New York residence on the top floor of a building with a sprawling view of the city.”
Per The Athletic, public records reveal that, in 2013, Tisch was renting a "$60,000-a-month, 13-room penthouse in the Trump Park Avenue building.”
Here’s what the woman told Radio France One, via The Athletic: "[The producer] asked what I hoped to make of my life. I told him about my plans. . . . I could see he was watching me talk, but he was not truly listening. . . . We sat down on a leather couch, a screen came down, and he showed me a [bike] race. I didn’t really understand what I had to do with that story. Then he starts to put his hand on the inside of my thighs. I threw out my hand and I said no. . . . He said to me: ‘You are a very smart girl.’ . . . I ran. I rushed into the elevator. I don’t even know how I got myself home.”
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The woman said Epstein had introduced her to an “American producer” in 2013. The woman and the producer met at his “New York residence on the top floor of a building with a sprawling view of the city.”
Per The Athletic, public records reveal that, in 2013, Tisch was renting a "$60,000-a-month, 13-room penthouse in the Trump Park Avenue building.”
Here’s what the woman told Radio France One, via The Athletic: "[The producer] asked what I hoped to make of my life. I told him about my plans. . . . I could see he was watching me talk, but he was not truly listening. . . . We sat down on a leather couch, a screen came down, and he showed me a [bike] race. I didn’t really understand what I had to do with that story. Then he starts to put his hand on the inside of my thighs. I threw out my hand and I said no. . . . He said to me: ‘You are a very smart girl.’ . . . I ran. I rushed into the elevator. I don’t even know how I got myself home.”
The article goes on to say that Epstein called her the next day to berate (my word, not hers) her for what she did/didn't do, also includes some contextualizing about power and how it is abused by creeps even with non-minors. The whole PFT article is fairly short, can be found in full here:
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/steve-tischs-jeffrey-epstein-emails-cant-be-dismissed-as-behavior-by-consenting-adults
And, of course, the incident occurred in a Trump building.
The fig leaf factory in the league office is likely kicking into high gear once again, if past behavior is any guide.
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