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Today — 5 June 2025Main stream

Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions

5 June 2025 at 00:35
Mr. Epstein, the late financier and sex offender, started by putting $40 million into Valar Ventures, a firm backed by Mr. Thiel. Today that investment is worth about $170 million.

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Peter Thiel co-founded Valar Ventures, which specializes in providing start-up capital to financial services tech companies.
Yesterday — 4 June 2025Main stream

Woman Says Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Held Her Over a Balcony: Latest Trial Takeaways

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of the mogul’s former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, said she was traumatized by the incident. His lawyers pressed her on details of the account.

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Sean Combs in 2023.

Sean Combs, Defendant: Gestures to His Family, Sticky Notes to His Lawyers

With no cameras in the courtroom, few have glimpsed the music mogul as he helps direct his defense, facing charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.

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Sean Combs in 2020. In court at his federal trial, he has dressed in a muted wardrobe of five sweaters and five button-down shirts.

The Perks of Being Harvey Weinstein’s Publicist

4 June 2025 at 00:03
Juda Engelmayer took a job that leading crisis communications pros didn’t want. Now he’s the pied piper of pariahs.

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Juda Engelmayer has been working for Harvey Weinstein since 2018.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Weinstein’s 2nd Sex Crimes Trial in New York Shifts to Closing Arguments

3 June 2025 at 15:00
Facing new charges after an earlier conviction was overturned, the former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is charged with attacking three women in Manhattan.

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Harvey Weinstein’s earlier convictions on sex crimes were overturned on appeal last year.

Why Women Are Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears

3 June 2025 at 07:00
“John Proctor is the Villain” turns the idea that MeToo was a witch hunt inside out.

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Sadie Sink in a scene from “John Proctor Is the Villain.”

‘Mia’ Returns to the Stand as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Trial Nears Midpoint

Sean Combs’s onetime assistant, testifying under a pseudonym, said she hadn’t come forward with accusations of abuse because she was ashamed and afraid.

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The trial of Sean Combs continued on Monday with more testimony by a former assistant to the music mogul, who took the stand under the pseudonym “Mia.”
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