Getty had changed his will no fewer than twenty-one times toward the end of his life. ibid.
July 10th 1973: He’s been kidnapped, Paul. Little Paul your grandson in Rome. All the Money in the World 2017 starring Michelle Williams & Christopher Plummer & Mark Wahlberg & Romain Duris & Timothy Hutton & Charlie Plummer & Charlie Shotwell & Andrew Buchan & Marco Leonardi & Nicolas Vaporidis, director Ridley Scott, Nancy
To be a Getty is an extraordinary thing. I know that because my grandpa told me so. You see my grandpa wasn’t just the richest man in the world, he was the richest man in the history of the world. ibid. Paul’s commentary
But if you can count your money, you’re not a billionaire. ibid. Getty senior
You are a Getty, Paul. You have a destiny. ibid.
Getting rich is easy. I mean any fool can get rich. And any number of fools do. But being rich – that’s something else. ibid.
There wasn’t a toy I couldn’t buy. There wasn’t a boat I couldn’t buy. There wasn’t a plane I couldn’t buy. There was nothing I couldn’t buy. I loved money. Come to me. Generation Wealth, rich bloke, 2018
No matter how much people had, they still wanted more. ibid. commentary
We thought the entire world revolved around us. ibid. rich bloke
We’re going to tax them at 91% like we used to … [and] destroy the military machine in this country which is the greatest enemy of democracy. Chris Hedges, lecture Seattle University 2018, ‘Corporate Totalitarianism: The End Game’ *****
Rich people are so fucked. Fuck off! Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park USA VII: Los Angeles I, Ricky, Netflix 2017
He’s one of the richest men in the world. He’s given away a staggering thirty-two billion dollars but is the billionaire philanthropist George Soros at the heart of a global conspiracy? This World: Conspiracy Files: The Billionaire Global Mastermind? BBC 2019
‘He is a true James Bond villain.’ ibid. Alex Jones
‘Soros [is] in many ways the biggest danger to the entire Western world.’ ibid. Nigel Farage
Some of the world’s most powerful politicians warn of his influence. Allegations are multiplying of secret Soros plots: flooding countries with migrants, orchestrating violence on the streets of America, and masterminding a hoax bomb plot to bring down the president. ibid.
Donald Trump’s message that the global elite are destroying America. ibid.
So how did George Soros become the arch-villain … In Britain he’s known as the man who broke the Bank of England in 1992 and made a billion dollars. ibid.
‘Who’s the Puppet Master? George Soros.’ ibid. Glenn Beck
There’s one issue above all that’s enraged the Right: they claim George Soros wants open borders and has a secret plan to flood the country with migrants. ibid.
Rich old Crow: People like Johnny have worked their guts out.
Stacey: But he was privileged from the start.
Rich old Crow glares angrily: What’s wrong with that? Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over s1e6: Landed Gentry, W 2019
It was an idyllic life, wealth beyond anyone’s wildest dreams: homes across the world, a chateau in the south of France. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, an aristocratic English rose, living a fairy-tale. The man of her dreams: billionaire Sergei Pugachev, an oligarch, one of Russia’s richest men. But it is all about to come crashing down. The Countess and the Russian Billionaire, BBC 2020
‘I’ve experienced a couple of assassination attempts. An attempt to murder me. It’s clear this is a war.’ ibid. Pugachev
Sergei cemented his power by becoming a senator in the upper house of the Russian parliament. Before long he had become one of Putin’s trusted advisers. But then he fell in love. ibid.
Putin had turned against his former oligarch allies. ibid.
In 2007 Sergei’s bank hit problems, and the Russian state bailed it out with a billion-dollar loan. Two years later, the bank still went under with no sign of what happened to the loan. ibid.
With Sergei now permanently in hiding, the threat from Russia hangs over the couple. ibid.
Over the next two years the death toll rises for enemies of the Russian state. ibid.
Now permanently separated from Alexandra, Sergei is consumed by his multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against the Russian state, whatever the dangers. 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 girlfried: 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 it 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-drives 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