All of these people credit Karen as a pioneer … They would describe her are looking like the winner of a baking contest. Too Young to Die s4e1: Karen Carpenter, biographer, Sky Arts 2022
Karen Carpenter was born in New Haven Connecticut in 1950, three years after her brother Richard. ibid.
1970: The Carpenters had made it right to the top. ibid.
It’s lonely at the top: Karen struggled with her eating disorder and Richard had problems too: he went into rehab for his prescription drug addiction. ibid.
Karen had therapy sessions five days a week for months on end. ibid.
Grace Kelly: Oscar winner and one of the world’s best loved movie stars. Her films watched by millions. Her Hollywood movies have stood the test of time but her screen career lasted just five years. Tabloid rumours pursued Grace Kelly throughout her life. At the height of her fame she surprised everybody, swapping her Hollywood royalty for real royalty. But was Princess Grace the one role she didn’t enjoy playing? Grace of Monaco: Hollywood Princess, Channel 5 2020
It was one of the first truly global media events. An estimated 30 million people tuned in. ibid.
Grace was a bit of a rebel but took her craft seriously. ibid.
Dial M for Murder … The Country Girl … One of the youngest Oscar winners when she lifted the trophy … She was the toast of Hollywood … To Catch a Thief … High Society … ibid.
He allegedly wanted a large dowry. ibid.
Princess Grace’s wedding dress seems to have inspired bridal fashions for six decades. ibid.
Rumours circulated of tensions in the marriage. ibid.
She also had a minor car crash … Grace had vowed not to drive again after her previous crash but she took the wheel and followed the route that one of her movie characters had driven more than 25 years earlier. ibid.
Interviewer: Have you ever been convicted of a crime?
Jeffrey Epstein: Yes. Two counts: one, associating with prostitution, and procuring a minor for prostitution … I’ll invoke my fifth attention rights. Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich s1e1: Hunting Grounds, deposition, Netflix 2020
New York City: Gatsby-like figure … He claimed to be the money manager for the uber-rich … he hung out with a lot of famous people: Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, a lot of famous academics: the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and then he was surrounded by very beautiful often very young women. ibid. Vicky Ward, investigative journalist
Ghislaine Maxwell: His then supposed girlfriend. She was Oxford-educated, very witty, very funny, she was a great connector for Jeffrey. ibid.
You’re so lucky you get to do this – this massage. ibid. victim
‘He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.’ ibid. Trump
Before Epstein … I was something else. ibid. victim
Most of the victims did not want to prosecute for fear of Jeffrey Epstein … We decided to talk to some of his employees. ibid. rozzer
Ghislaine Maxwell denies all allegations against her. ibid. caption
Seven month into the case, detectives executed a search warrant at Mr Epstein’s residence. Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich: Follow the Money s1e2
To his ornate and bizarre world: pictures of young kids half naked, nudes everywhere. One of the police officers that saw it said was just really weird. Detectives also discovered a very bizarre steam room, a massage room set up. They actually found some computers and equipment remaining in the house but police suspected most of Epstein’s computers’ hard-drive and surveillance videos had been taken out of the house. ibid. rozzer
How could Epstein get a teaching job at Dalton without a college degree? ibid.
We had about 40 some victims who were in their teens or in their early teens in some cases … This will be an easy case. ibid.
We found private investigators going through the trash at the police station … We were never really able to convince the prosecutors. ibid.
In July of 2006, Epstein is charged with a single felony count of solicitation of prostitution. He is arrested and posted bond a few hours earlier. ibid. caption
The FBI takes over the case in July of 2006. ibid.
Separate from the criminal investigation, several victims file civil suits seeking monetary compensation from Epstein. ibid.
A molestation pyramid scheme. We had to prove that this pyramid of underage girls in Palm Beach was true. It didn’t start from just a random underage girl walking into the house. ibid. victims’ lawyer
A spider web five times as big as this chart. ibid.
She’s an extrovert … Her father Robert Maxwell had been an incredibly big figure in England. He was a big newspaper publisher. In fact he’s been something of a fraudster con man but he’d lived a huge life. ibid. Vicky Ward
We were running a Ponzi scheme … [Epstein] manipulated them totally with his charisma … Jeffrey Epstein became my partner in crime … ibid. Hoffenberg
Steven Hoffenberg’s $460 million Ponzi scheme used false financial statements to exaggerate the value of his company and lure new investors. ibid. caption
Between 1991 and 2006 Epstein oversaw the sale of more than 1.3 billion dollars of stock from Wexner’s company The Limited. ibid.
So sick, so cunning, so depraved. ibid. Wexner
It was like nothing ever happened. ibid. Palm Beach victim
I think I must have found 46 other girls. Some of the victims were very reluctant to talk to me. ibid. rozzer
The FBI agents were very shook up, very upset … Nobody knows why US Attorney Acosta shut this case down. ibid. Florida rozzer
He was a Narcissist. He had no ability to feel empathy. Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich s1e3: The Island, prosecutor
A plea-deal that not only granted immunity to the target of an investigation but handed out get out of jail free cards to everyone of that person’s co-conspirators named and unnamed. ibid.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t feel like he’d made a good deal. ibid. Dershowitz
I was shocked when I read they’d been a plea deal. I didn’t know you could make a deal with the government and get a lesser sentence just based on how much power and money you have. ibid. victim
‘I was sexually abused by Prince Andrew.’ Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich s1e4: Finding Their Voice, Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Ghislaine Maxwell denies all allegations and maintains that she ‘had no involvement in or knowledge of Epstein’s alleged misconduct’. ibid. caption
On November 28, 2018, the Miami Herald publishes a report that examines Epstein’s 2008 plea deal. It brings renewed attention to the case. ibid.
Feds broke law in Epstein case, judge rules. ibid. Miami Herald article Julie K Brown
US v Jeffrey Epstein: Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested for alleged sex trafficking of under-aged girls. ibid. FBI press conference bulletin board
Within hours of Epstein’s arrest, federal agents raid his New York mansion. ibid.
Jeffrey Epstein Is Indicted on Sex Charges as Discovery of Nude Photos Is Disclosed: Lurid pictures found in the financier’s home could prompt a reckoning for the Justice Department, which has been accused of mishandling the case a decade ago. ibid. The New York Times online article Ali Watkins 8 July 2019
During the bail hearing, Judge Richard Berman gives survivors the opportunity to address Epstein. ibid.
He’s had an escape plan for ever. ibid. rozzer
You don’t want to get fat, do you? The Karen Carpenter Story 1989 starring Cynthia Gibb & Mitchell Anderson & Peter Michael Goetz & Louise Fletcher & Michael McGuire & Lise Hilboldt & Kip Gilman & Scott Burkholder et al, director Joseph Sargent, Richard to Karen
You look too thin, if you ask me. ibid. mother to daughter
Remember that one article – they called me chubby. ibid. Karen
You are not fat! ibid. mother to daughter
It’s called Anorexic Nervosa. ibid. Shrink
Karen Carpenter’s struggle over the years with anorexia nervosa caused damage to her heart. As a result, she suffered heart failure in her parents’ home on February 4 1983 and later died. She was thirty-two years old. ibid. caption