Pimp INC

From sexual abuse in the American film industry (Harvey Weinstein) to elite social circles (Jeffrey Epstein) procuring and sex trafficking women and children to politicians, business men and royalty.

Other than the horrific life I've been subjected to; I have no personal axe to grind with the Royal family. As a nationalist I prefer a Monarchy than a Republic.

• Jeffrey Epstein
• Ghislaine Maxwell
• Upper East Side Townhouse
• Little St. James Island
• Lolita Express
• Little Black Book
• The list
• Virginia Giuffre
• Prince Andrew
• Harvey Weinstein
• Dirty Tricks
• Accusers / Victims
• Black Cube
• Sex Dwarf
• Jimmy Savile
• Haut de la Garenne
• Prince Charles
• Margret Thatcher
• Judaism / Israel
• Saint Andrews
• Funeral
• Louis Mountbatten

Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein was a well-connected sex criminal who died (aged 66) by suicide in federal custody. Epstein was facing up to 45 years in prison on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. Prosecutors say he preyed on girls as young as 14 and paid some of them to become recruiters who provided him with a steady supply of victims in the early 2000s. In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter.

Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He served almost 13 months in custody, but with extensive work release. He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a controversial plea deal; federal officials had identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused.

In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018). The startup was connected with Israel's defense industry. It was headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy said on the record, unequivocally, that Jeffrey Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence operations, the Mossad, and running a classic honey trap operation: that is, lure people inside, record their activities, and use it to blackmail them.

A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and [Brunel] lured them in with a promise of making good money, Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim.

Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. The medical examiner ruled that his death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers have disputed the ruling. Since Epstein's death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against him, a judge dismissed all criminal charges on August 29, 2019.

"Epstein didn't kill himself" is a phrase referring to multiple theories surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein that dispute the official but contentious ruling of suicide by hanging. The phrase became a now very famous and widely accepted colloquialism as well as an internet meme, gaining traction in November 2019 as more of the circumstances around his death became public. ederal prosecutors have tried to discourage the spread of the theory, but the Associated Press reported, "[t]he phrase 'Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself' has taken on a life of its own sometimes more as a pop culture catchphrase than an actual belief.".

Up to 130 people say they could be a child of Jeffrey Epstein, according to website created by a DNA company tasked with finding possible heirs to the deceased paedophile's estate. If any are found to be the former financier's children, they could lay claim to a piece his US$635 million ($1.04 billion) estate, which includes his Manhattan mansion and a luxury 30 hectare estate. Some 386 people contacted Epsteinheirs.com - with 30 per cent saying they might be his offspring.

Ghislaine Maxwell

Jeffrey Epstein had a decades-long association with the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, leading to her 2021 conviction on U.S. federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy for helping him procure girls, including a 14-year-old, for child sexual abuse and prostitution. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences; in June 2022, she was sentenced in a New York court to twenty years' imprisonment.

According to Epstein's former business partner, Steven Hoffenberg, Robert Maxwell introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s. The nature of their relationship remains unclear. In a 2009 deposition, several of Epstein's household employees testified that Epstein referred to her as his "main girlfriend" who also hired, fired, and supervised his staff, starting around 1992. She has also been referred to as the "Lady of the House" by Epstein's staff and as his "aggressive assistant".

Born in France and raised in Oxford, Maxwell is the daughter of British media proprietor Robert Maxwell (from a Jewish family) and French-born researcher of the holocaust, Elisabeth Maxwell. Maxwell had a close relationship with her father and was reportedly his favourite. Robert Maxwell was a former Mossad agent, and according to Ari Ben-Menashe, the business that Robert Maxwell had was turned over to Jeffrey Epstein almost in a switch before Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances in 1991.

Upper East Side Townhouse

Records show that the title for this Beaux Arts mansion was transferred to Epstein from his sometime mentor and client: Victoria’s Secret [designers of raunchy lingerie] owner Les Wexner in 1996 for $0. The exact reasoning behind this generous gift is a mystery but various reports throughout the years have painted a picture of what the home was like on the inside. The house named the Herbert N. Straus House, was raided back in 2008, which led to Epstein's indictment on prostitution charges.

Among the weird details of this 40-room house: a massive mural of himself in a prison yard, a massage table with sex toys and lubricant, a life-size female doll hanging from a chandelier, a sculpture of a naked African warrior, a room covered in leather, and a stuffed black poodle perched on a grand piano; a painting of Bill Clinton in a dress; along with nude photographs that the FBI apparently turned up in a safe he had turned it into ground zero for his criminal activity.

Little St. James Island

Epstein purchased Little St. James Island in 1998 for $7.95 million; during Epstein's ownership, the island acquired local nicknames such as "Island of Sin" and "Pedophile Island.". The island was Epstein's primary residence, and he called the island "Little St. Jeff". The main house on the island was renovated by Edward Tuttle, a designer of the Aman Resorts. In 2008, Epstein's estate on Little Saint James had 70 staff who wore black or white polo shirts. According to a former staffer, Epstein insisted on discretion and confidentiality from his employees. They were forbidden to enter either of Epstein’s two offices in the main manor, one of which housed a closely guarded steel safe.

Cathy Alexander remembers Prince Andrew as one of the more gracious visitors, describing him as “great fun and very undemanding”. One day he returned from the beach in “great mirth”: one of his companions had stepped on a sea urchin and he had urinated on her foot to salve it. Ms Alexander recalls him slipping her a $350 tip, which was “unexpected, because other guests didn’t.

Victoria's Secret models were among the guests a former employee saw there, and Les Wexner visited the island at least once. Prince Andrew, Duke of York paid at least one visit aboard Epstein's private jet to the island, although former staff claimed he visited Little St. James several times. Bill Clinton reportedly used Epstein's private jet to visit Little St. James on multiple occasions between 2002 and 2005. Jes Staley, the former head of Barclays, visited the island in 2015. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel laureate Lawrence Krauss, comedian Chris Tucker, and actor Kevin Spacey also visited.

Epstein was fond of treating the guests, reportedly paying for a submarine to be modified to give a sea bed tour to Professor Hawking, who had never been underwater before. One former employee described it as “like a five star hotel where nobody paid.

A criminal complaint from the attorney general of the US Virgin Islands described it as “the perfect hideaway and haven for trafficking young women and underage girls for sexual servitude, child abuse and sexual assault”. On this island, the complaint says: “Epstein and his associates could avoid detection of their illegal activity from Virgin Islands and federal law enforcement, and prevent these young women and underage girls from leaving freely and escaping the abuse.

Epstein based his private jets on St Thomas, one of the US Virgin Islands' three main isles, with Little St James just a short helicopter trip away. Prosecutors say his 2016 purchase of Great St James for $22.5 million was designed to shield Little St James from surveillance.”.

According to attorneys for Epstein's alleged victims, Little St. James is where many of the crimes against minors were committed by Epstein and friends who traveled there with him. Court documents allege that then 17-year-old Virginia Roberts was forced by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew on several occasions, including as part of an orgy on Little St. James. A lawyer for Epstein described allegations of orgies by Roberts as "old and discredited". According to locals, Epstein continued to bring underage girls to the island in 2019, after he was registered as a sex offender.

It was in the Virgins that Epstein registered as a sex offender in 2010, following his first conviction for child prostitution in 2008.

Sometime between 2009 and 2013, a “temple” appeared on the island: a large, boxy, blue-and-white-striped structure with a golden dome, surrounded by palm trees. The building was supposed to be a music pavilion with a strikingly different design, according to permit records. Documents show an octagonal 3,500-square-foot pavilion housing a grand piano. After weeks of speculation, the first eyewitness account revealed that what the “temple” contained wasn’t a necromantic shrine but revealed as a gym, decorated with a framed photograph of a topless woman.

Remember, he owns a whole island, So it wasn’t a situation where a child or a young woman would be able to just break away and run down the street to the nearest police station.

In the days before his 2008 conviction, Epstein would visit Little St James two or three times a month, staying several days at a time. One former employee described it as “a Zen-like retreat” where the financier would stroll around in flip-flops, with “meditative music” playing from speakers and the women often sunbathing topless. There were always women, of course: frequently attractive, sometimes suspiciously young, on the arms of Epstein or one of his many guests or, sometimes, ferried over in groups aboard a 38-foot boat called the Lady Ghislaine, reportedly after Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Authorities made several attempts to investigate Little St James. As a sex offender, Epstein was required to re-register every year and officials did try to visit the island in 2018 to verify his address. But according to the attorney general's complaint, Epstein refused the officers entry at the dock, claiming it was his “front door” and insisted on meeting them in his office on St Thomas. In addition, both Little St James and Great St James are protected areas due to their coral reefs and wildlife.

One alleged victim told CBS News that she had been raped in Epstein’s office in St Thomas and that he had a gun strapped to the bedpost in his bedroom on Little St James. The complaint says Epstein kept a computerised list of underage girls in or near the Virgin Islands who could be brought to the island.

According to a lawsuit filed by Prince Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Little St James was the centre of a worldwide grooming scheme in which recruiters working for Epstein targeted young women who were open to abuse and manipulation, played on their hopes and fears, dazzled them with “displays of vast weath and power” and then force them to have sex with clients while keeping them in line with threats and blackmail. Ms Giuffre says that Prince Andrew sexually abused her on Little St James when she was 17, which the prince ”unequivocally denies”. Andrew and Ms Giuffre settled her lawsuit against him on 15 February, bringing an end to the protracted legal case in New York court.

Lolita Express

Epstein's plane, a Boeing 727 and a Gulfstream II aircraft, were derisively called the "Lolita Express" by certain media outlets following allegations that it was used to fly underage girls to some of the late financier's properties. For nearly 30 years, Larry Visoski (Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr.) piloted the Boeing 727 that reportedly hosted a spate of famous names which include Britain's Prince Andrew (at least 3 times according to the flight logs) and numerous U.S. senators. Visoski testified that he never saw evidence of sexual activity on planes as he flew Epstein and his high-profile passengers aboard the two jets he piloted for roughly 1,000 trips between 1991 and 2019.

Visoski remembered violinist Itzhak Perlman and named tech mogul Bill Gates, and politician and former astronaut John Glenn. Former Senate majority leader, George Mitchell, was also named by Visoski. During cross-examination, Visoski also gave details about flying to Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St. James. "It was a regular destination," Visoski told the court. A journalist has told: “These are the flight logs that show that Prince Andrew was on board at least three times. “If you for example, look at page 62, it shows here, February 9, 1999. “You go across, you can see, ‘JE’, Jeffrey Epstein, ‘GM’, Ghislaine Maxwell, and in full words, Prince Andrew, plus his personal protection officer.

Between 2001 and 2019 the Epstein Enterprise transported underage girls and young women to the Virgin Islands, who were then taken via helicopter or private vessel to Little St James where they were deceptively subjected to sexual servitude, forced to engage in sexual acts and coerced into commercial sexual activity and forced labour. To accomplish his illegal ends, Epstein formed an association with multiple defendants and others (both companies and individuals, who were willing to participate in, facilitate, and conceal Epstein’s criminal activity in exchange for Epstein’s bestowal of financial and other benefits, including sexual services and forced labour from victims.

Airport staff on St Thomas could see who Epstein was bringing with him on the Express. An employee told “On multiple occasions I saw Epstein exit his helicopter, stand on the tarmac in full view of my tower, and board his private jet with children - female children,” witnessed a former air traffic controller. Another airstrip employee said: “There’d be girls that look like they could be in high school. They looked very young. They were always wearing college sweatshirts. It seemed like camouflage, that’s the best way to put it. I could see him with my own eyes. I compared it to seeing a serial killer in broad daylight.

I called it the face of evil... It was like he was flaunting it.” Sometimes the girls would be carrying shopping bags from designer brands such as Gucci and Dior.

Little Black Book

In the same year, Gawker published Epstein’s “little black book,” which had surfaced in court proceedings after a former employee took it from Epstein’s home around 2005 and later tried to sell it. He said that the book had been created by people who worked for Epstein and that it contained the names and phone numbers of more than 100 victims, plus hundreds of social contacts. Along with the logs of Epstein’s private plane, released in 2015, the book paints a picture of a man deeply enmeshed in the highest social circles.

There are 1,510 people in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book, more than 300 British associates listing more than 1,000 numbers and dozens of email addresses between them. There is no allegation of wrongdoing against those detailed in the directory, with the FBI seeing them as potential witnesses “unless the evidence leads them elsewhere” with prosecutors vowing to pursue all those involved in her “pyramid scheme of abuse”. Among names found in this book are:

Royalty

Prince Andrew - Duke of York (16 numbers including a mobile number, one marked “Palace ex-directory”, one for Balmoral, the Queen’s Scottish residence, where the Prince invited Epstein, and one marked “Sand”, for Sandringham.), Sarah Ferguson - former wife of Prince Andrew (18 numbers, she accepted £15,000 from the paedophile to help pay debts), Pierre d’Arenberg - royal prince, Jacques de Crussol - 17th Duke of Uzès, Hassanal Bolkiah - Sultan of Brunei, Debonnaire von Bismarck, (listed as Debbie) - Countess and Leopold von Bismarck - Count, Charles Althorp - Princess Diana’s brother, Nicky Caledon - 7th Earl of Caledon.

Media

Conrad Black - media mogul and Bilderberger. Rupert Murdoch - media mogul, Hamish Bowles - European editor-at-large for Vogue. Mike Wallace - 60 Minutes journalist, Barbara Walters - Broadcast journalist and TV personality, Nina and Jim Zagat - Publishers, Mort Zuckerman - Media mogul and newspaper publisher. Julie Taymor - Director.

Politicians

Tony Blair - former British prime minister. Peter Mandelson (has 10 entries including one marked “direct line” one for “home” and another for “country home”) - minister without portfolio, Bill Clinton - American President from 1993 to 2001, Henry Kissinger - secretary of state and national-security adviser, Donald Trump - American President from 2017 to 2021, Steve Bannon - Former White House chief strategist, Tom Barrack - Trump adviser and private-equity manager, Sandy Berger - National-security adviser for Bill Clinton, Larry Summers - Former Treasury secretary.

Celebrities

Mick Jagger - English singer and songwriter, Simon Le Bon - English singer, Phil Collins - English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor, the late Sir David Frost - British television host, journalist, comedian and writer, Bill Cosby - Comedian and convicted rapist, Richard Branson - Founder of Virgin Group, Naomi Campbell, Tamara Beckwith, Jonathan Dimbleby - British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian; and Lloyd Grossman - American-British author, broadcaster and cultural campaigner, Woody Allen - American filmmaker, actor, and comedian, Alec Baldwin - American actor, comedian, and producer, David Blaine and Courtney Love.

Business

Nicolas Berggruen - Billionaire investor, Bill Berkman - New York businessman, Leon Black - Private-equity tycoon, Michael Bloomberg - Billionaire, private-jet enthusiast, former mayor, Andrea Bonomi- Italian businessman, Flavio Briatore - Italian millionaire businessman. Ron Burkle - Supermarket magnate, Arpad Busson - French financier. Jason Calacanis - Businessman.

Download Epstein’s Little Black Book in PDF format.

The list

Forty court documents containing information on associates of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – including former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton – have now been made public. The court filings are contained in a defamation lawsuit brought against Ghislaine Maxwell by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre in 2015 after she branded her a liar over her claims that she was sexually abused as a minor. In December 23, US judge Loretta Preska ordered that the documents must finally be unsealed and the people known only as “John and Jane Does” named. Judge Preska found that there is no legal justification to keep the names in the documents redacted, paving the way for several famous figures to find themselves tied to the notorious disgraced financier.

In total, more than 150 associates of the disgraced paedophile are expected to be unmasked as the trove of documents are released over the coming days. Prince Andrew is named 67 times with his Royal title, though he also appears multiple times as simply “Andrew” including in an email sent by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015. Testimony concerning the former Duke of York’s alleged conduct is detailed in the documents, much of which he has previously denied. Evidence from Epstein victim Johanna Sjoberg, claimed the duke touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside the US billionaire’s Manhattan apartment in 2001.

Virginia Giuffre

Virginia Louise Giuffre is an alleged victim of the sex trafficking ring of Jeffrey Epstein. She has given a detailed account to many American and British reporters about her experiences of being trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Prince Andrew

In 2014, the American-Australian campaigner Virginia Giuffre alleged that, as a 17-year-old, she was sex-trafficked to Andrew by the American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Following criticism for his association with Epstein, Andrew resigned from public roles in May 2020, and his honorary military affiliations and royal charitable patronages were removed by the Queen in January 2022.

In a December 2014 Florida court filing, intended for inclusion in the 2008 Crime Victims' Rights Act lawsuit, Giuffre described being trafficked to Prince Andrew, Duke of York, at least three times when she was 17 in 2001 for rape. She claims that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell took her to Tramp nightclub in London, where she met and danced with Andrew and that later that night, while en route to Maxwell's Belgravia residence, Maxwell instructed Giuffre to "do for (Prince Andrew) what you do for Epstein". She alleged Epstein paid her $15,000 after she had sex with the Duke in London.

The second sexual encounter allegedly happened in Epstein's New York mansion. In court documents, Giuffre claimed that the third encounter with Prince Andrew was an orgy on Little Saint James that involved her, several underage girls from Eastern Europe, the Prince, and Jeffrey Epstein himself. In August 2021, Giuffre started a New York lawsuit against Prince Andrew, accusing him of "sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress". Giuffre’s lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, was brought before the New York federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

In 2000 Epstein was a guest at Windsor Castle and at Sandringham, he was brought right into the heart of the Royal Family at your invitation.

An image of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell arm-in-arm at the Queen’s Balmoral estate has been released in the socialite’s sex-trafficking trial. The image, believed to have been taken in 1999, shows Epstein and Ms Maxwell lounging on a bench on the deck of a log cabin on the grounds of the sprawling royal home in the Scottish Highlands. The image was one of 19 photos shown to the jury during Ms Maxwell’s trial on charges of sex-trafficking minors between 1994 and 2004. The photos were found on CDs taken from a 2019 FBI raid on Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse.

The Daily Mail reported in 2019 that Prince Andrew had hosted Epstein at Balmoral in mid-1999 along with an entourage which included young women. One of the group told The Mail they had stayed in the 52-room castle before being entertained on the grounds of the 50,000 acre estate. Epstein and Ms Maxwell also attended a Royal party in June 2000 at Windsor Castle as special guests to celebrate Prince Andrew’s "Royal Family's Dance of the Decades" 40th birthday, June 21st 2000. The party was also celebrating the 100th birthday of the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret's 70th and the 50th of Princess Anne.

A person on the guest list with a link to Epstein was Dr. Melanie Walker (Neurosurgeon, academic and senior adviser to the president of the World Bank)- a mutual friend of Andrew and the financier, who worked for a time as Epstein's 'science advisor'. She later worked as a senior program officer at the Bill Gates Foundation with the New York Times reporting she became an intermediary between Gates and Epstein, who's interactions have come under scrutiny.

The next day Andrew was also pictured at Ascot, just seven miles from Windsor Castle, with Epstein and Maxwell. Later in 2000 Andrew hosted Epstein and Maxwell at Sandringham for what he has described as a 'straightforward shooting weekend' and in March the following year Epstein's alleged 'sex slave' Virginia Guiffre claims she was forced to sleep with Andrew for the first time, when she was 17, in Maxwell's London townhouse, an allegation the Duke has categorically denied.

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York struck a deal with the disgraced financier, which came to light in 2011 after he had already spent time behind bars for soliciting a 14-year-old girl for prostituted sex. At the time, Sarah was some £5million in debt and owed her ex-PA £78,000 in wages and bills, but was able to restructure her debts after he agreed to take the £15,000. The duchess, who shares two adult daughters - Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie - with ex-husband Prince Andrew, told the Evening Standard when the scandal broke: "I deeply regret Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me.

But after her 2011 statement, Epstein hired a team of lawyers to sue the duchess and was said to be incensed by her suggestion he was a paedophile - despite having already been convicted of sexual offences against an underage girl. He engaged the services of a crisis management team in 2011, and the firm's meticulously detailed files showed a reference on March 15 2011 to "work on statement for Fergie". That statement, a source close to the duchess said, was one drafted on Epstein's orders that he wanted her to release.

Meanwhile, Fergie left the country ahead of Andrew's car-crash TV interview with Emily Maitlis, during which he denied having sex with the then-17-year-old Virginia Roberts because he had a medical condition that meant he couldn't sweat. During the nail-bitingly awful 60-minute interview, the third of the Queen's four children failed to condemn his friendship with Epstein and said he had to visit the disgraced man's New York home to break up their relationship in person.

Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, formed the film production company Miramax and led the company from 1979 to 2005. That company was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in June 1993, though the Weinsteins continued to run the company until September 2005, when they left the company to run The Weinstein Company (TWC), which they had founded in March. Rumors of Harvey Weinstein's "casting couch" practices circulated in Hollywood for years, and entertainment figures at times alluded to them.

In October 2017, Harvey's brother Bob Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment by Amanda Segel, who had worked as a showrunner on the Weinstein Company-produced Spike TV miniseries The Mist. Segel alleged that Weinstein had made several unwanted sexual overtures to her beginning in June 2016 and continuing for three months. Weinstein's attorney Bert Fields issued a statement denying the allegations. Harvey and Bob's Ashkenazi Jewish father aided the Haganah (the precursor to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) before Israel was a state).

In October 2017, Harvey Weinstein, founder of Miramax and the Weinstein Company, was accused of sexually abusing more than 80 women in the film industry over a period of at least 30 years. The accusations ranged from sexual harassment to rape, with Weinstein denying any wrongdoing. According to the women's reports, Weinstein invited young actresses or models to a hotel room or office on the pretext of discussing their careers, and then demanded massages or sexual intercourse.

Harvey did something unique—no less odious, but different. Harvey performed. As we now are hearing (whether we want to or not), he allegedly made a woman watch as he masturbated into a potted plant. And if you want to understand this bizarre behavior, don’t look to Roger Ailes, or David Vitter, or Paul Crouch—look to Philip Roth. Better than perhaps any other author, Roth captured the particular anxiety of the Jewish American man in the twentieth century, finally coming into power but, having not grown up with it, unsure of what he’s supposed to do now. All those years craving unattainable Gentiles, but never before the means to entice them.

The incidents alleged in the list date from 1980 to 2015 and include 18 complaints of rape. In them, it is alleged that Weinstein granted important roles in films in exchange for sexual favors.

Dirty Tricks

In “Weinstein’s Complicity Machine,” the New York Times tackled a vast network of “enablers, silencers, and spies” who helped Weinstein shield his sexual predation from the world, allowing it to continue for three decades.

• Weinstein forced assistants to procure and bring him his penile injections for erectile dysfunction. Two former assistants, Michelle Franklin and Sandeep Rehal, said they were responsible not only for fetching the drug alprostadil (a chore for which Rehal says she was paid a $500 bonus) but also asked to store them at their desks and deliver the medications in brown paper bags to hotels before “meetings” with women.
• Assistants were also pressured to facilitate his sexual predation.
• Ashley Matthau, a dancer in a Weinstein film, says it was an assistant who, in 2004, “ushered her into a car, told her that the meeting with the producer was for business purposes, and then waited outside a hotel room. There, she said, Mr. Weinstein pushed her on a bed and masturbated on her.” But when Matthau walked out crying, she says the assistant “wouldn’t even acknowledge me; It just seemed like a well-oiled machine.”. Franklin—the aforementioned assistant asked to obtain Weinstein’s ED meds-said she was fired after she protested Weinstein’s request to help orchestrate his sexcapades. “It’s not my job, and I don’t want to do it,” she recalls telling him.
• Some executives at Miramax and The Weinstein Company knew about the allegations against Weinstein for decades and did nothing. In fact, the company shielded Weinstein’s predation. According to the Times, Weinstein’s brother and partner Bob Weinstein participated in at least three settlements with Harvey’s accusers, dating back to 1990, when a 23-year-old assistant said Weinstein sexually assaulted her at his home.
• Weinstein bragged about his political connections as a means of threatening people. “I know the president of the United States. Who do you know?” Mr. Weinstein would reportedly say during the Obama administration, as he was a generous donor and fund-raiser to the former president and, later, to Hillary Clinton. “I’m Harvey Weinstein,” he was also prone to declaring. “You know what I can do.”.
• Weinstein worked with members of the press to try to undermine his accusers. When Rose McGowan began making veiled references to Weinstein’s sexual misconduct in 2015, Weinstein reportedly tipped off Dylan Howard, editor of the National Enquirer —where Weinstein crony David J. Pecker is chief executive of the parent company—and Howard then assigned a reporter to “collect hostile commentary about Ms. McGowan”. This is killer. Especially if my fingerprints r not on this,” Weinstein reportedly later wrote in an email.

Accusers / Victims

Women who said they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Weinstein include:

1. Amber Anderson, actress - claimed Harvey Weinstein proposed a “personal relationship” in return for him furthering her career, that she was just 20 when the disgraced movie mogul “behaved inappropriately” during a meeting in a hotel room. Anderson said that the mood “immediately changed” when they were alone and Weisntein became suggestive.
2. Lysette Anthony, actress - divulged in gross detail how Harvey Weinstein allegedly raped her in her London flat in the ’80s and the lasting effects of the alleged assault in an interview: “I still have nightmares. I have nightmares of mounds of white revolting flesh and skin with pours like bloody black volcanoes stuffed with crusty pus,” Anthony told Channel 4 News.
3. Asia Argento, actress and director - said Harvey Weinstein raped her after he invited her to a party and she arrived to find him alone in a hotel room in just a bathrobe. She said Weinstein made her give him a massage with lotion then forcibly performed oral sex on her. She added: “He was so big. It wouldn’t stop. It was a nightmare. I was not willing. “I said, ‘No, no, no!’ It’s twisted. A scary fairytale.”
4. Rosanna Arquette, actress - her alleged incident occurred too long ago to be tried separately, but was used by prosecutors to support accusations of a pattern of behaviour by Weinstein. Arquette said: “This is a man that is a real predator. He’s destroyed many women’s lives ... We need to keep the focus on this crime, and this case with Harvey Weinstein is huge because so many people are looking at it.”
5. Jessica Barth, actress - met with Weinstein in his hotel suite for a presumed business meeting where he "alternated between offering to cast her in a film and demanding a naked massage in bed.". MacFarlane, who directed Barth in both Ted movies, stated his support for her allegations in a statement on Twitter.
6. Kate Beckinsale, actress - alleges she was left in tears after Weinstein objected to an outfit she wore to a premiere, which he said made her "look like a lesbian". The actress said she was "screaming" and livid" after the exchange, which made her "burst into tears".
7. Juls Bindi, massage therapist - says Weinstein arranged for an appointment with her. As she began the massage, she said Weinstein stopped her and asked her about his genitals. Stunned, Bindi stepped back and ran into the bathroom, but Weinstein allegedly followed her and proceeded to masturbate in front of her. When she tried to get by him, Bindi said “he grabbed me, starting groping on my chest, and he kept going.” She pushed him away and left the room.
8. Cate Blanchett, actress - asked if the producer sexually harassed or behaved inappropriately towards her, Blanchett replied “With me, yes.”. “I got a bad feeling from him,” Blanchett added. “He would often say to me, ‘We’re not friends.’” When asked why Weinstein didn’t consider her a friend, Blanchett replied, “I wouldn’t do what he was asking me to do.”
9. Helena Bonham Carter, actress - claimed the disgraced Hollywood producer tried to give her an unsolicited neck massage, which she felt was a predatory attempt to make a pass at her. She said she escaped the inappropriate touching by fleeing across the room. "He literally laid a hand on me, that's all, he was trying to give me a massage of my neck and I knew this wasn't going well so I ran and said no, or got to the other side of the room," she said.
10. Zoë Brock, model - alleges she was “Harveyed” at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. When she was left alone in a hotel room with Weinstein, Brock said he disrobed and asked her to give him a massage while he was naked. Brock said she ran into the bathroom and locked the door. “Harvey chased me, dick, balls and all, and banged on the door with his fists, pleading with me to come out,” she wrote.
11. Cynthia Burr, actress - had background roles in Scarface and Lethal Weapon 2, claimed Weinstein raped her, threatened her, and sexually abused her numerous times over the course of five years. “Harvey Weinstein created an environment in which there was no choice but to do his bidding or suffer dire consequences both physically and to plaintiff’s career,” Canosa’s attorneys wrote, per Variety.
12. Liza Campbell - script writer for Miramax 20 years ago, said Weinstein once asked her to “jump in the bath” with him as she heard him disrobe after summoning her to his hotel room in the Savoy for what she believed was a business meeting. Campbell says she heard Weinstein ask, “Come on, it’ll be fun. We can drink champagne. You can soap me — whaddaya say?”. She responded to his overtures by saying, loudly: “If you come back into this room with no clothes on I’m going to fucking lose my temper.”.
13. Alexandra Canosa, producer - alleged she was raped, sexually abused, intimidated and harassed from 2010 until September 2017, during what Harvey Weinstein maintained were business meetings. The attacks, she said, occurred in New York, Los Angeles, Malaysia and Budapest, Hungary. Canosa claims Weinstein threatened that she would lose her job at his company and he would blackball her if she denied his advances.
14. Rowena Chiu, Weinstein employee - came forward with allegations against Weinstein after the #MeToo movement. She worked as an assistant at Miramax in the ’90s and had only met Weinstein two times before she claims he attempted to rape her on a business trip in 1998 at the Venice Film Festival. Chiu stayed silent for more than 20 years, fearing the safety of her family. In 2019, she broke her silence in an op-ed for the New York Times.
15. Marisa Coughlan, actress and writer - claimed that she was sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein in 1999 after filming 'Teaching Mrs. Tingle' for Miramax. 'He wanted to barter sex for movie roles,' said Coughlan, who claims she turned down the mogul's advances three times before he gave up. Even after she turned Weinstein, 65, down he worked tirelessly to get her into his hotel room she claims, and promised her romantic outings in NYC.
16. Hope Exiner d'Amore, Weinstein employee - said Harvey Weinstein raped her in a hotel room in the 1970s, when he was a young concert promoter in Buffalo.
17. Florence Darel, actress - the French star says the movie mogul relentlessly pursued her in the mid ’90s and then propositioned her in a hotel room while his wife at the time, Eve Chilton, was in the room next door. “I was astonished. When you have someone so physically disgusting in front of you, continuing and continuing as though this was all perfectly normal… What happened to me may not be illegal but it was inappropriate. Very inappropriate.”.
18. Wedil David, actress - claimed Weinstein raped her in late 2015 at the Beverly Hills hotel. David claims to have met Weinstein at a 2011 party, where he offered assistance on her career. She further claimed he used the promise of a role in the TV series Marco Polo to get her to the hotel.
19. Emma de Caunes, actress - claims she was sexually harassed by Weinstein in a room at the Paris Ritz hotel in 2010. According to the actress she had arranged to meet the producer at the hotel to discuss a film role he had lined up for her. The actress said that during the meeting Weinstein went to the bathroom before returning naked with an erection. He then allegedly asked the actress to lay down on the bed. "I was petrified, but I didn't want to show him because I felt the more I flipped out the more that would excite him," she said.
20. Paz de la Huerta, actress - alleged Weinstein raped her twice in New York in December 2010, taunting her with phone calls between the two assaults. The following month Weinstein exposed himself to the actor in a Beverly Hills hotel when she went to confront him. About a year after the incidents, De la Huerta was fired from the HBO show Boardwalk Empire. A photograph that appeared in the New York Times of Weinstein talking to Martin Scorsese, a director and executive producer on the show, a few weeks before her departure.
21. Juliana De Paula, model - told the Times that Weinstein groped her and forced her to kiss other models at his New York loft 10 years ago. She added that when she tried to leave, he chased her around naked, and she had to fight him off with broken glass. “He looked at me and he started to laugh,” said De Paula. “I was shocked. I was completely in disbelief.”.
22. Cara Delevingne, actress and model - revealed that she was told by Harvey Weinstein to “get a beard” to cover up her sexuality in order to succeed in the film industry. In 2017, Delevingne alleged that Weinstein sexually harassed her at a meeting, asking her to kiss another woman, and then trying to kiss her himself when she wanted to leave. She said that Weinstein said that “if I was gay or decided to be with a woman especially in public that I’d never get the role of a straight woman or make it as an actress in Hollywood”.
23. Sophie Dix, actress - claimed the Hollywood mogul performed an unwelcome sexual act in her presence after she was invited up his room at the Savoy hotel “to watch some rushes” – a film production term for unprocessed footage from a day’s filming. Once in the hotel room, “all the alarm bells starting ringing” and “within a heartbeat” she found herself pushed on the bed with him “tugging at her clothes”. She managed to bolt to the bathroom and after some time in hiding opted to make an escape. She opened the door and found him facing her “standing there masturbating”.
24. Jane Doe, model and aspiring actress - “I want my life back. I’m Evgeniya, I’ve been raped. This is my story,” the former actor and model Evgeniya Chernyshova told The Hollywood Reporter. Chernyshova’s testimony proved critical to the prosecution, addressing the judge during sentencing, she said: “Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman. I valued myself and the relationship I had with God. I was excited about my future. Everything changed after the defendant brutally assaulted me. There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage.”
25. Lacey Dorn, actress and filmmaker - attended a Halloween party at the Gramercy Park Hotel and ran into Mr. Weinstein, who asked for her email. He wanted to talk about her career over lunch, she said. On her way out of the party, Ms. Dorn said goodbye to Mr. Weinstein. As she turned her back to him, he grabbed between her legs, touching her buttocks and crotch through her clothes.
26. Kaitlin Doubleday, actress - described how her encounter with Weinstein mirrored that of many of his accusers — being invited to his hotel room, trying to avoid his advances, denying his request for a massage. Doubleday said "I went up to that hotel room because I've been groomed to by the world, by the industry and by people's expectations that an aspiring young woman can achieve success only with the help of a powerful man,".
27. Caitlin Dulany, actress - first met Weinstein when she was in her early 30s working as an actress. She said he assaulted her during the Cannes Film Festival in 1996, but she only began to share her experience over the past few years. “You’re confronting things that happened a long time ago, but what you’re also trying to express is how it affected your whole life, your career, your relationships,” she said.
28. Dawn Dunning, actress - testified that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in 2004 and a few weeks later asked her to have a threesome in exchange for a movie part. In 2004, Dunning said she met Weinstein and his then-assistant at a boutique hotel in Soho. During the meeting, Dunning said Weinstein put his hand under her skirt, inside her underwear, and inserted his fingers inside her.
29. Lina Esco, actress and director - recounted meeting Weinstein around 2010 through a mutual friend and later dining with him at a hotel. She claimed he came on to her, saying "I think we should see a movie in the theater, like back in the day, and we should kiss.". Though she brushed Weinstein off, Esco claimed he continued to press the subject — telling her, "It's just a kiss." The message came with the insinuation that "everything would be easier for [Esco] if [she] went along," she claimed.
30. Alice Evans, actress - suggested that her refusal to respond to the producer's advances influenced his decision not to give her film roles. “I laugh, make a joke. Keep rambling. But he continues: 'Just go. I'm right behind you. I want to touch your tits. Kiss you a little.' “He moves right up close to me and looks me up and down. I can feel his breath. And it's not your average tipsy come-on. It's sinister. The sort of thing that makes you want to run away fast. “But as I extricate myself (by moving backwards and murmuring various excuses) Harvey utters a phrase that has stayed with me forever. 'Let's hope it all works out for your boyfriend,' he says.”.
31. Lucia Evans, formerly Lucia Stoller, actress - alleges that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him during a midday meeting at his Tribeca office in 2004. Evans worked with the detectives for months and testified before the grand jury, which indicted Weinstein on six counts.
32. Angie Everhart, model and actress - recounted how he pleasured himself in front of her during a trip to the Venice Film Festival. “All of a sudden he takes his pants down, and starts doing his stuff. And he’s blocking the door, I can’t get out … I don’t know how to say this on the radio, but [he] finishes on the carpet on the floor,” Everhart said.
33. Claire Forlani, actress - shared her experience of meeting with Harvey Weinstein, and said that she “escaped five times: "I had two Peninsula Hotel meetings in the evening with Harvey and all I remember was I ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there.".
34. Romola Garai, actress - Weinstein auditioned 18-year-old Romola Garai while wearing only a dressing gown in an encounter at the Savoy Hotel that the British actor described as humiliating and “an abuse of power”.
35. Louisette Geiss, screenwriter and actress - said in a press conference with high-profile attorney Gloria Allred that Weinstein tried to force her to watch him masturbate while she was pitching a movie at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.
36. Louise Godbold, nonprofit organization director - Godbold was a young commercial producer looking for an internship at Miramax when she said Weinstein, an acquaintance she’d met years earlier, gave her a tour of his offices in Tribeca in the early 1990s. It was then, she said, the mogul cornered her in a conference room. “Out of nowhere he grabs my hand and puts it on his crotch,” Godbold said, “which was incredibly shocking because I’d known this man for many years and had never had any inkling that he would behave in such a way.”
37. Judith Godrèche, actress - invited Judith Godrèche to breakfast at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996, she had no idea who he was. At 24, she was already a star in France, and a new film she was in, "Ridicule," was opening the festival. “I was so naive and unprepared,” she said. Upstairs, he asked to give her a massage, Godrèche said. She said no. He argued that casual massages were an American custom – he gave them to his secretary all the time, Godrèche recalled him saying. “The next thing I know, he’s pressing against me and pulling off my sweater,” she said.
38. Trish Goff, former model, actress, and real estate broker - met Weinstein at a cocktail party at Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s house in 2003 when she was 25. Weinstein allegedly implied that he had asked her because “you were looking at me” — as if she was interested — and inquired about her love life. “Then he started putting his hands on my legs, and I said, ‘Can you stop doing that? When we finally stood up to go, he really started groping me, grabbing my breasts, grabbing my face and trying to kiss me,”; allegedly repeatedly told Weinstein, “Please stop, please stop,” but he allegedly did not until they were back in a public space.
39. Larissa Gomes, actress - alledged the producer asked her to bare her chest and tried to kiss her on the lips while name-dropping famous actresses and dangling career opportunities. “I had literally just began acting … and here I was meeting the most powerful producer of the time,” she wrote. “It was intoxicating, it was validating.”.
40. Heather Graham, actress - “There was a pile of scripts sitting on his desk,” she writes. “‘I want to put you in one of my movies,’ he said and offered to let me choose which one I liked best. Later in the conversation, he mentioned that he had an agreement with his wife. He could sleep with whomever he wanted when he was out of town…There was no explicit mention that to star in one of those films I had to sleep with him, but the subtext was there.”.
41. Eva Green, actress - statement reads: “I wish to address comments made by my mother in a recent interview regarding Harvey Weinstein. I met him for a business meeting in Paris where he behaved inappropriately and I had to push him off. I got away without it going further, but the experience left me shocked and disgusted. I have not discussed this before because I wanted to maintain my privacy, but I understand it is important to do so as I hear about other women’s experiences. Women are often condemned when they speak out and their personal reputations tarnished by association”.
42. Ambra Gutierrez, formerly Ambra Battilana, model - In 2015, Gutierrez wore a recording device at the direction of the police and caught Weinstein apparently admitting to groping her. Even though there was an apparent recorded admission in a police-organized sting operation, Manhattan’s chief prosecutor at the time, Cyrus Vance Jr., decided not to pursue a case.
43. Mimi Haleyi, former production assistant - describe how the Hollywood producer violently sexually assaulted her and explain why she returned to him within a month and endured a second unwanted sexual encounter. "it turned into him asking me if I did massages, and if I could give him a massage," Haleyi testified. She offered to call down to the front desk for a masseuse. He offered to give her a massage, and, she said, "I basically left, shortly after, and I didn't think anything would come out of that meeting.".
44. Daryl Hannah, actress - she first met Harvey he asked for her number to set up a meeting, and thought nothing of it – until he began calling her in her hotel room and eventually knocking on the door after she had ignored his calls. Hannah escaped what she described as his ‘incessant’ knocking by leaving the room through another door and spending the night in her make-up artist’s room, but Weinstein began knocking on the door again the next day as they were packing to leave.
45. Salma Hayek, actress and producer - described how he sexually harassed her during filming of Frida, pressured her into doing a gratuitous sex scene, and threatened to kill her. He was, in her words, a “monster.”. “No to me taking a shower with him. No to letting him watch me take a shower. No to letting him give me a massage".
46. Lena Headey, actress - Of the first encounter, “At one point Harvey asked me to take a walk down to the water, I walked down with him and he stopped and made some suggestive comment, a gesture. I just laughed it off, I was genuinely shocked,”. Of the second encounter, “We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, my whole body went into high alert, the lift was going up and I said to Harvey, ‘I’m not interested in anything other than work, please don’t think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen,’”
47. Anne Heche, actress - “First of all, you were threatened the second you walk out the door. I did not suck Harvey’s dick, though he showed it to me, and I got out of the room before there was any physical contact. The fact is that I was fired from a job that I had been hired for at Miramax. The repercussions of standing up for yourself were as deep and targeted as some of the scars of the women who actually got more physically, unfortunately, involved.”.
48. Lauren Holly, actress - “Everything was absolutely normal, professional from the get-go,” said the actress, then the two sat down and drank a glass of champagne before Weinstein asked to be excused. “He came back to the room and he was dressed in the hotel bathrobe. No doubt it was odd,” Holly recalled. “He said, ‘Okay, let’s get to it. This is what we’ve got going on at my company.’ [Then] he gestured for me to follow him.” The actress said Weinstein asked her to follow him to the bedroom area of the hotel room, where he continued to discuss business ventures and what projects his company had in the works that might be right for her. “He dropped his robe, went into the bathroom in front of me, and began to use the toilet. All the time talking,” she said. “At this point, my head is exploding.”. “When he came toward me, everything changed,” she recounted. “I wanted to flee, I was scared. He told me I looked stressed. He said that he thought maybe I could use a massage, maybe I could give him a massage.”.
49. Dominique Huett, actress - Huett said Weinstein lured her to his room at the Peninsula Hotel in 2010 with the promise of a business discussion. It was there, she said, that the movie mogul gave her champagne, quickly changed into a bathrobe and demanded a massage. She said she refused at first, but Weinstein was persistent. After giving him what she described as a “half-hearted” massage, Weinstein took off her pants and forcibly performed oral sex on her while she froze.
50. Jessica Hynes, actress, director and writer - British actress Jessica Hynes came forward with her own account about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged inappropriate behavior. “I was offered a film role at 19,” she wrote on Twitter. “Harvey Weinstein came on board and wanted me to screen-test in a bikini. I refused & lost the job.” “Holy s—t,” replied British writer Jack Howard, “I knew the story but didn’t know who it was about.” “I’m sure there are many more…” Hynes replied.
51. Amy Israel, Miramax executive and former cohead of acquisitions, said Harvey and Bob Weinstein used “fear, intimidation, psychological and emotional abuse” to silence executives and colleagues, including Harvey threatening to dig up embarrassing stories about a board member who was too outspoken.
52. Angelina Jolie, actress and director
53. Ashley Judd, actress and political activist
54. Minka Kelly, actress
55. Katherine Kendall, actress
56. Heather Kerr, actress
57. Mia Kirshner, actress
58. Myleene Klass, singer and model
59. Nannette Klatt, actress
60. Liz Kouri, actress
61. Olga Kurylenko, model and actress
62. Jasmine Lobe, actress
63. Emma Loman (alias), German actress
64. Ivana Lowell, author and daughter of Lady Caroline Blackwood
65. Laura Madden, Hunting slingshotWeinstein employee
66. Madonna, singer-songwriter and actress
67. Natassia Malthe, actress
68. Jessica Mann, former aspiring actress
69. Julianna Margulies, actress
70. Brit Marling, actress
71. Sarah Ann Masse, actress, comedian, and writer
72. Ashley Matthau, actress
73. Rose McGowan, actress
74. Natalie Mendoza, actress
75. Sophie Morris, administrative assistant
76. Katya Mtsitouridze, TV hostess and head of Russian film body Roskino
77. Emily Nestor, Weinstein employee
78. Jennifer Siebel Newsom, documentary filmmaker and actress
79. Connie Nielsen, actress
80. Kadian Noble, actress
81. Lupita Nyong'o, actress
82. Lauren O'Connor, Weinstein employee
83. Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
84. Samantha Panagrosso, former model
85. Zelda Perkins, Weinstein employee
86. Vu Thu Phuong, actress and businesswoman
87. Sarah Polley, actress, writer, and director
88. Emanuela Postacchini, actress
89. Monica Potter, actress
90. Aishwarya Rai, actress
91. Tomi-Ann Roberts, professor of psychology and former aspiring actress
92. Lisa Rose, Miramax employee
93. Erika Rosenbaum, actress
94. Melissa Sagemiller, actress
95. Annabella Sciorra, actress
96. Léa Seydoux, actress
97. Lauren Sivan, journalist
98. Chelsea Skidmore, actress and comedian
99. Mira Sorvino, actress
100. Kaja Sokola, model
101. Tara Subkoff, actress
102. Melissa Thompson
103. Uma Thurman, actress
104. Paula Wachowiak, Weinstein employee
105. Wende Walsh, model and aspiring actress
106. Paula Williams, actress
107. Sean Young, actress

Criminal investigations into complaints from at least six women took place in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. In May 2018, Weinstein was arrested in New York and charged with rape and other offenses. In February 2020, he was found guilty of rape in the third degree and a criminal sexual act. In March 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment.

We better stand up and kick these guys in the ass, We’re gonna have to get as organized as the mafia, We just can’t take it anymore [from] these crazy bastards.

The scandal triggered many similar allegations against powerful men around the world, and led to the ousting of many of them from their positions that came to be called the Weinstein effect.

Black Cube

Harvey Weinstein hired private investigators to meet with journalists and track down his accusers to thwart media reports of his alleged sex offences. The 67-year-old Hollywood producer hired Black Cube - a firm founded by former intelligence analysts from the Israel Defence Forces - in 2017, as reporters from The New Yorker and The New York Times were looking into his behaviour with women, the court heard.

the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies.

Details of the Black Cube deal were given in court by Dev Sen, a corporate lawyer at Boies Schiller Flexner, who said the firm signed a contract with the private investigators on behalf of Weinstein. Asked about Black Cube as he left Thursday's proceedings, Weinstein defended his use of the private investigators, telling reporters outside he did it "for days like this".

Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units, 'according to its literature'.

Black Cube was retained by Weinstein via his law firm, Boies Schiller. According to reporting by the New Yorker and others, agency investigators reportedly adopted false identities in order to obtain information about Weinstein’s accusers, among them Rose McGowan and Annabella Sciorra. Dev Sen, a corporate attorney from Boies Schiller, gave brief testimony on Thursday, confirming that the firm had hired Black Cube at Weinstein’s behest.

Black Cube was founded in 2010 by former Israeli intelligence officers Dan Zorella and Avi Yanus. Its clients include primarily very high net worth individuals, oligarchs and corporations around the world. Black Cube's tactics have resulted in a number of international controversies. In Romania, two of its employees were convicted of criminal charges involving harassment and hacking.

The contracts also show some of the techniques that Black Cube employs. The agency promised “a dedicated team of expert intelligence officers that will operate in the USA and any other necessary country,” including a project manager, intelligence analysts, linguists, and “Avatar Operators” specifically hired to create fake identities on social media, as well as “operations experts with extensive experience in social engineering.”.

Black Cube's International Advisory Board includes Meir Dagan, a former chief of Mossad—Israel's national intelligence agency—from 2002 to 2011, and Black Cube's president. Their IAB includes Efraim Halevy, who was also a head of Mossad for 30 years. Other IAB members include Yohanan Danino, Giora Eiland, Adrian Leppard, Robert Amaee, Asher Tishler, Paul Reyniers, Golan Malka, and Itiel Maayan.

The agency also said that it would provide “a full time agent by the name of ‘Anna’ (hereinafter ‘the Agent’), who will be based in New York and Los Angeles as per the Client’s instructions and who will be available full time to assist the Client and his attorneys for the next four months.” Four sources with knowledge of Weinstein’s work with Black Cube confirmed that this was the same woman who met with McGowan and Wallace.

Sex Dwarf

Harvey Weinstein suffered from an acute infection that contributed to his deformed penis, according to a report on the convicted rapist. The disgraced movie mogul’s deformed genitalia is the result of a life-threatening bacterial infection known as Fournier’s gangrene, according to reports in Graydon Carter’s Digital News Weekly Airmail. The infection can strike middle-aged men and diabetics (Weinstein, is both) when bacteria enters through a cut or scratch in the genitals and spreads through the bloodstream. Some patients require skin grafts, but more extreme cases, such as Weinstein’s, require an operation to remove the testicles.

Among the side-effects of the illness is erectile dysfunction. Eaton described how Weinstein’s “hapless” assistants were often dispatched to secure Caverject, a drug that is directly injected into the penis before intercourse can cause an erection.

The deformity was first revealed in court when actress Jessica Mann, one of Weinstein’s accusers, said she felt “compassion” for Weinstein after she saw his deformed genitalia, which appeared to have scarring “as if from burns in his nether region,” according to writer Phoebe Eaton, whose three-part series on Weinstein is featured in the current issue of Airmail. Mann said that her first impression was that Weinstein might be “intersex” when she saw the deformity. Jurors at Weinstein’s New York rape trial earlier this year were shown nude pictures of the disgraced movie mogul, including a full-frontal shot showing his deformed penis.

Jimmy Savile

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE [he was made OBE in 1972] KCSG was an English DJ and television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. Jim'll Fix It was a British television series broadcast by the BBC between May 1975 and July 1994. The show encouraged children to write a letter to Savile with a "wish" that would come true at the end of each episode, upon which the child would be granted a medal. Famous people who appeared on the show included Muhammad Ali, Rolf Harris, and Margaret Thatcher [then Leader of the Opposition].

The shows theme song was sung by voice-over artist Lynda Hayes, a singer, actress, voice-over artist and radio presenter born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In the 1980s she became a successful session musician in London. Jim'll Fix It was briefly revived in 2007 as Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again and a television special aired in 2011 following Savile's death. The producer throughout the show's run was Roger Ordish, who later recalled that he had advised Cotton to choose a different presenter from Savile, saying:

"That was nothing to do with Jimmy Savile's moral behaviour, it had to do with his ability to communicate with young people. He did openly say: 'I hate children.'"

After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse made against him were investigated, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory sex offender and possibly one of Britain's most prolific. Scotland Yard launched a criminal investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by Savile spanning six decades, and later stated that they were pursuing more than 400 lines of inquiry based on the testimony of 300 potential victims via 14 police forces across the UK.

The true story is his victims, and how the BBC, Department of Health, Conservative party, Catholic church, police forces, local councils and libel law let them down. ... a monster for whom the British establishment – political, royal, broadcasting, ecclesiastical, medical, charitable – provided a dazzling shield.

Savile often came into contact with his victims through his creative projects for the BBC and his charitable work for the NHS. A significant part of his career and public life involved working with children and young people, including visiting schools and hospital wards. In June 2014, investigations into Savile's activities at 28 NHS hospitals, including Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, concluded that he had sexually assaulted staff and patients aged between 5 and 75 over several decades. Savile is alledged to have attacked 60 NHS patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital alone, where he was given his own private bedroom and 24 hour access to all wards.

The numbers are likely to be a significant underestimate of the true picture. Patients were very strongly discouraged from reporting at the time. The surprise is so many did find the courage to come forward. Taking all that into account there seems to me no doubt that Savile was an opportunistic sexual predator throughout the time he was associated with Broadmoor.

It is also likely that he had sex with bodies in a mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary for up to 50 years and is believed to have stolen glass eyes from the dead and made them into medallions and rings. Investigators looked into 11 allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile at the high-security psychiatric hospital in Upper Broadmoor Road, Crowthorne. At some point during his time at Broadmoor, from 1968 to 2004, Savile was given keys which allowed him unrestricted access to ward areas, day rooms and patient rooms. Alternative entrances to some wards allowed him to reach areas unsupervised and without the knowledge of those in charge.

In 1988, health minister Edwina Currie appointed Savile to head a task force to address tensions between Broadmoor's management and unions. A confidential Department of Health memo obtained by Panorama suggests that his appointment was being pushed by a senior civil servant. The documents suggest civil servants were impressed by the entertainer, they refer to him as "doctor" Savile and say he wanted to "ease out" staff at the hospital. They say he went through each of the main departments at the hospital like a "dose of salts".

Rolf Harris was linked to Jimmy Savile as it emerged he joined the paedophile on a sick visit to the psychiatric hospital where the DJ habitually abused patients. One of Savile’s victims said Harris ogled vulnerable women as they undressed at Broadmoor in 1973, where the former Top of the Pops star attacked scores of people. Alison Pink, an ex-inmate at Broadmoor Hospital, remembered the pair suddenly turning up on a women’s ward just as patients were preparing to strip in the corridor and said they were 'birds of a feather'. It came as a video emerged today showing Harris and Savile laughing about how 'we go back a long time' in 1992.

Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven more between the years of 1975 and 1980 earning him the nickname the Yorkshire Ripper. At one stage, police considered that Savile could have been involved in the disappearance and murder of women in Yorkshire before Sutcliffe was found and convicted. A dentist even made a cast of Savile’s teeth in order to check against bite marks found on the victims of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims. The cast was made in 1980, a year before Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women. Two of the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims were found near Savile’s home in Leeds - and Sutcliffe even named the Top of the Pops star during questioning by police in connection to the murders.

The Broadmoor ex-patient, now called Steven George after a sex change, said: ‘Harris turned up one evening out of the blue. ‘He was being shown around by Savile in an understated way. Normally stars only came if they were there for an official performance but Harris didn’t do one. ‘It was also unusual because visitors would come at visiting hours, between 10am and 4pm, but they came in as we were getting ready for bed.’. Savile was a frequent volunteer and was given his own keys and living quarters at the hospital. Savile took Harris to Lancaster ward, where women who were being punished had to strip in the corridor in front of warders.

Harris was very famous at the time and had his weekend show. He walked down the passageway of York ward with Savile opening the doors along with a nursing officer. Some of the girls came out and there was an unprompted performance of Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport. He then went through to the punishment ward. At that time of the evening all the girls on that ward would have been undressed ready for bed. We all had to get completely undressed in the hallway in front of the staff, male and female, to show nothing was being taken into our rooms. I thought it was odd that he was walking through the female wards and not doing a show. It was strange that he arrived at the same time the women were undressing for bed.

In March 2013, Harris was one of twelve people arrested in England during Operation Yewtree, for questioning regarding historical allegations of sexual offences. In August 2013, Harris was again arrested by Operation Yewtree officers and charged with nine counts of indecent assault dating to the 1980s, involving two girls between 14 and 16 years old, and four counts alleging production of indecent child images in 2012. After several delays in the trial, in which the judge's summing-up took three days, the jury retired to consider its verdict on 19 June 2014. On 30 June, Harris was found guilty of all 12 counts of indecent assault. Mr Justice Sweeney sentenced Harris to a total of five years and nine months in prison. Rolf Harris was awarded an MBE, OBE and later CBE.

Haut de la Garenne

In March 2008, BBC television personality Jimmy Savile started legal proceedings against The Sun newspaper which had, wrongly he claimed, linked him in several articles to the child abuse scandal at Haut de la Garenne. Savile initially denied visiting Haut de la Garenne, but later admitted that he had done so, following the publication of a photograph showing him at the home surrounded by children.

There definitely wasn't enough even to question him at the time, but in light of all the evidence that has come out then I'm not surprised because it fits perfectly the profile of what was going on..

The States of Jersey Police said that in 2008 an allegation of an indecent assault by Savile at the home in the 1970s had been investigated, but there had been insufficient evidence to proceed. After his death, hundreds of people from all over the UK came forward to accuse him of past abuse. Several people from Haut de la Garenne also came forward at this time. Lenny Harper, former child abuse investigator said he now has "no reason to doubt" that Savile was involved in indecent assault at the notorious Jersey children's home, despite there being insufficient evidence to question the Jim'll Fix It star when he was alive.

One of those who stood most to lose was Sir Edward Heath, the former prime minister from 1970-74, who was known to visit the Jersey care home the Haute Garrene among others to take young boys on boating weekends on his yacht called ‘Morning Cloud’, or as his bodyguards referred to it, ‘Morning Sickness’.

A lawyer representing Jersey abuse victims has said it was widely believed that Edward Heath was “implicated” in child sex abuse on the island – but that making a solid case against him was “like pinning down a jellyfish”. A source spoke to one of his victims and he said about others who were present, and more important, who was supplying the children to him. The person bringing children for him to abuse is Sir Jimmy Saville. He was seen by the witness, victim, taking young boys onboard Heaths yacht the morning cloud when they were at party conference. Allegedly Saville is known for supplying a number of high profile MP’s with children for them to sexually abuse.

Jimmy Savile often stayed in the same hotel as Ted Heath.

Heath fixed it for Jimmy Savile to receive a top royal honour and attended more than half a dozen meetings of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE); this twisted campaign group, which existed openly for more than 10 years, was formed to persuade politicians to lower the age of sexual consent to just 10. Police said that if Heath were still alive they would have interviewed him under caution in relation to seven out of the 42 allegations.

'Jekyll and Hyde' Harris had used his fame to 'mesmerise' underage fans before abusing them with impunity and believed his celebrity status made him believe 'he was above the law', Scotland Yard said.

Another famous person linked with Jersey and Savile was Wilfred Bramble (pic below) best known for his role in the British television series Steptoe and Son. One of two boys whom he abused in a back room at the Jersey Opera House in the Seventies was from Haut de la Garenne. In 1962 he was arrested in a toilet in Shepherd’s Bush for persistently importuning and given a conditional discharge.

Prince Charles

Notes from the the Prince of Wales to Savile uncovered by the producers show that over the course of about 20 years Savile became an unofficial adviser to Charles. They shed light on the extent to which the disgraced former television presenter was able to influence the highest offices of the British state before his death in 2011. The makers of the Netflix documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story have revealed that Savile produced a PR handbook for royals and their staff. Some of that advice was then incorporated in a note prepared for the Queen, the Times reported.

According to the royal’s letters, written over the course of twenty years, Savile – one of Britain’s worst child abusers – even drew up a media relations handbook for Charles, who later incorporated it into an action plan shared with the Queen.

The producers believe that followed an incident in which Prince Andrew made insensitive comments about the Lockerbie bombing during a visit to the disaster site in 1988. The director Rowan Deacon told the Times that the event “reignited a discussion about how the royal family should respond to disasters”. She said: “Jimmy Savile wrote this dossier, quite an in-depth document of advice, on how the Queen should behave and how members of the royal family should not be in competition with each other.”.

Dear Jimmy, I can’t tell you how grateful I am for the most useful assistance you have provided for my speech in the Guildhall the other day. It was really good of you to take the trouble to put together those splendid notes and provide me with considerable food for thought. Whether you think the final result is in any way worthwhile is another matter. With renewed and heartfelt thanks, Charles.

In a handwritten note to Savile, Charles later wrote: “I attach a copy of my memo on disasters, which incorporates your points and which I showed to my father. He showed it to [the Queen].” Speaking to the Times, Deacon claimed Buckingham Palace’s response was “quite lukewarm, and Charles [was] frustrated by that. We know that from the exchange.” In a letter soliciting suggestions on how to “get to parts of the country that others don’t get to reach”, Charles referred to Savile as the “bloke who knows what’s going on”.

Between 1986 and 2006, Savile was asked to guide the future king – all while he was using his fame to abuse whoever he wanted.

In another note in 1989, he wrote: “I wonder if you would ever be prepared to meet my sister-in-law – the Duchess of York? Can’t help feeling that it would be extremely useful to her if you could. I feel she could do with some of your straightforward common sense!” In a letter written the following year, Charles told Savile he was “so good at understanding what makes people operate and you’re wonderfully sceptical and practical”. Savile could "wander at will" around St. James' Palace and access parties at Buckingham Palace, according to ITV's doccumentary: "Savile: Portrait Of A Predator".

On Savile's 80th birthday, Charles marked the occasion with presents and "an extraordinary letter." Charles reportedly wrote: "Nobody will ever know what you have done for this country, Jimmy. This is to go some way in thanking you for that.".

According to Richard Kay, former Royal Correspondent, Savile - who was even knighted in 1990 - would "walk in and drift around Diana's apartment", while also going into the office to kiss the hands of the secretaries, sometimes "rubbing his lips" up their arms. This is something he even carried out on Princess Diana," added Kay. "He licked Princess Diana's hand and she recoiled from that. "As she told me, it was something very creepy.".

214 crimes against Savile were recorded by 28 different police forces following his death. The NSPCC puts the number of reports of sexual abuse relating to Savile at 500. Nearly three-quarters of Saviles victims were under 18 and were as young as two years old.

He was in and out of Buckingham Palace,’ recalls a footman. ‘He would often ask if there was any gossip about the royals, and when you look back, maybe he was building up information which would be useful to him if he ever needed leverage. Lots of people were taken in by his fame, which he used to get people to open up to him. I never heard tales of any sexual abuse, but it was perfectly normal to see him with an arm round the young housemaids and other female servants. Savile, whose offending was only exposed following his death in 2011, aged 84, could "wander at will" around St. James' Palace and access parties at Buckingham Palace, according to a documentary titled Savile: Portrait Of A Predator. Richard Kay, former Royal Correspondent, said:

He inserted himself into their marriage in the way that he was someone who made himself available. And Charles liked having him around. He would turn up uninvited, Diana told me, at Kensington Palace, where she lived, and persuade the police on the gate, who never let anyone in without an invitation, to let him in. He would say (to Diana), 'Well, I'm just here just to check up on you'. And she said that Charles used to quip that if there was a problem that needed sorting out, they'll get Jim to do it because 'Jim'll fix it'.

According to Kay, Savile - who was even knighted in 1990 - would "walk in and drift around Diana's apartment", while also going into the office to kiss the hands of the secretaries, sometimes "rubbing his lips" up their arms. Kay said Savile worked painstakingly on cultivating a relationship with Charles.

If you're a friend of the Royal Family, a chief constable is going to think twice about putting a team on an investigation of you.

In 1999, Prince Charles went to visit Savile's cottage in Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands and they were photographed laughing and joking together. The Allt-na-Reigh property, in Glencoe, was the residence of the disgraced DJ from 1998 until 2011. The depraved paedohile is believed to have abused up to 20 people inside his remote lair nestled in the Highlands. The cottage sits beside the A82 Fort William to Glasgow road but has been repeatedly vandalised with slogans over the years since Savile's death.

But Savile did not confine himself to one royal. Prince Andrew was called on to help in an episode of Jim’ll Fix It when an eight-year-old girl asked to visit a warship. The Naval officer Prince was her host on his minehunter, HMS Cottesmore. Princess Anne was similarly obliging on another episode of the Saturday night programme, while Prince Philip was leant on to help a fundraising drive for the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire.

Savile was a guest at Charles’s 40th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1988, and at his 50th. When Charles received a gift of a box of Cohiba cigars from Fidel Castro, he passed them on to Savile. Later still, on Savile’s 80th birthday, Charles despatched another box of cigars, together with a pair of gold cufflinks and a note that bizarrely read: ‘Nobody will ever know what you have done for this country Jimmy. This is to go some way in thanking you for that.’.

Savile was so close to Charles that not only did he advise on the appointment of a senior aide, but also sacked another figure because, I was told, the Prince didn’t have the stomach to do it himself. Astriking indication of Savile’s reach — and the Prince’s questionable judgment — came in 1990 when Charles asked him for advice before choosing Major-General Sir Christopher Airy to be his private secretary. Savile and Charles then met Airy before he was offered the post.

He would turn up unannounced at Kensington Palace, he would bamboozle the police on the gate and just breeze in. He would tell Diana he was on a mission “from the boss”, in other words her husband, but he just wanted to check up on her.

Around that time, Savile took it upon himself to deliver the coup de grace to another prominent aide who had fallen under royal disapproval. Princess Diana insisted to me that Savile did the firing because ‘my husband couldn’t bear to’. Unlike Charles, Diana was suspicious of Savile, the only man the Prince permitted to smoke in his home. ‘She was wary because she worked out that he was using the royals for his own publicity,’ the Princess’s former bodyguard Ken Wharfe stated.

Margret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher made repeated attempts to win a knighthood for Jimmy Savile despite warnings about his 'manner of life'. The former prime minister made at least five requests for Savile to be considered for the top honour, but senior civil servants voiced fears about his 'strange and complex' private life.

How many more times must Jimmy Savile be overlooked for a knighthood?.

The Tory leader believed he should be given the highest honour for his charity work. She and her husband Dennis were friends with him, once inviting him to Chequers over Christmas. Mrs Thatcher eventually succeeded in her quest and the DJ and Jim'll Fix It presenter was made Sir Jimmy Savile in 1990, a month after she left Downing Street.

The Top Of The Pops presenter sent an adoring letter to the then prime minister in 1980, singing her praises and declaring his love for her. She responded by inviting the now-disgraced DJ to lunch at Chequers, spending 11 consecutive New Year’s Eves with him and overseeing his knighthood.

“I was 14 and my sisters were appearing on Top of the Pops and I was too young at that stage so he asked could I stand with him on the podium to introduce them. Once they’d done their bit he said to me, ‘Where do you live now?’ and I said, ‘I still live in Blackpool.’ He said, ‘Well, I’m there next week and I’ve got a suite at the hotel you should come and visit me. And my sisters were like, ‘Oh, did he now?’ But nothing happened and I didn’t and I just thought he was a creep.”.

Savile was knighted at the behest of Margaret Thatcher in the 1990 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Savile also had an OBE and Pope John Paul II, visiting York in 1982, met Jimmy Savile. Later on, Savile was made a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KCSG) (one of the highest awards the Papacy can bestow) by Pope John Paul II.

The Catholic Church of England wrote to the Holy See last week, asking it to consider whether it could posthumously remove the honor awarded to Savile because of the many recent child sex abuse allegations against him. The church said its leader, Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, made the request because the "deep distress" of his alleged victims and in light of public concerns about his name remaining on the papal honors lists. But the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's spokesman, told The Associated Press it couldn't rescind the knighthood awarded to Savile because there simply is no permanent register from which to strike it. The names of people who receive the knighthood don't appear in the Holy See's yearbook and that the honor dies with the individual, Lombardi said.

After the death of Jimmy Savile, it emerged that Margaret Thatcher had repeatedly asked for him to be given a knighthood, from as early as 1983, but this first attempt was vetoed by Sir Robert Armstrong, the top civil servant. This was due to his boasting in the media about having sex with women he met while running marathons. Thatcher attempted to get him a knighthood months later, but this was turned down again for the same reasons. Sir Robert was eventually succeeded by Sir Robin Butler, who again refused the honour in 1987 saying Savile would "not benefit the honours system".

I once attended a medieval banquet at Worsley, Lancashire, along with Jimmy Savile. When I joined in the community singing, Jimmy blurted out: 'You've got a nice voice there, Cyril, you must come on my programme!' That's how I ended up singing 'She's a Lassie from Lancashire' on Clunk Click.

Cyril Smith	Jimmy Savile
Abused kids in care homes.	Abused kids in care homes.
"National treasure" knighted in 1988.	"National treasure" knighted in 1990.
Bachelor who worshipped mum.	Bachelor who worshipped mum.
Died aged 82.	Died aged 84.
Never charged.	Never charged.

There was a bizarre plan that Sir Jimmy Savile could be awarded a posthumous knighthood – so he can then be stripped of it. This was considered by the Honours Forfeiture Committee because knighthoods cannot be removed from people who have died. Those given a knighthood are awarded lifetime membership to a ‘living order’ and the title no longer exists when the holder dies. A report published this week by Scotland Yard and NSPCC said he DJ spent ‘every waking minute’ thinking about abusing children and used his celebrity status to that end.

Judaism / Israel

Jimmy Savile took a ten-day visit to Israel in 1975, where he met President Ephraim Katzir and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, the trip was organised by John Levy of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust.

He was a gorgeous, impish, creative character. Of course, he was an egomaniac, but he was incredibly generous. He wanted to film us walking from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, so there are these scenes trudging the Judean Hills. He had many close Jewish friends, he was a real philosemite. When we returned, I asked him to be a 'Friend' of the Trust and he insisted that I listed him as 'Special Friend'.

The trip was filmed for the BBC's Jim'll Fix It after nine-year-old Gary Merrie from Liverpool asked "to see the land where Jesus was born.". Savile once described himself as "the most Jewish Catholic you will ever meet," was a strong supporter of Israel and through fun runs, marathons and personal appearances, raised funds for many charities including WIZO, Ravenswood, and the British Friends of the Laniado Hospital in Netanya.

One of his eight homes was a small flat in the heart of the Leeds Jewish community in Roundhay. He spent much of his time socialising at the Flying Pizza restaurant on Street Lane, a popular local haunt. He was a regular at fundraising dinners at synagogues in Leeds and Manchester, particularly for the British Friends of Laniado, donating large sums to the organisation.

Saint Andrews

Britain's most senior Catholic cleric - Cardinal Keith O'Brien - stands alongside his long-standing friend, Jimmy Savile. Pictured giving a thumbs-up, he is seen grinning alongside the paedophile at a fund-raising event in Edinburgh fifteen years ago in 2007. The former leader of Scotland’s Catholics stepped down in 2013 amid accuations of 'inappropriate acts' towards fellow priests. Cardinal Keith O’Brien was among many high-powered supporters of Savile. He met the former DJ and charity fundraiser in the 1970s when O’Brien was a priest in Kilsyth, north Lanarkshire, and worked with a friend of Savile’s mother.

It was Jimmy’s fond mother who attributed the healing of Jimmy when an infant to her prayers to the Venerable Margaret Sinclair, a young Scottish nun.

The pictures emerged as Britain's most senior Roman Catholic yesterday apologised for his failures after being ordered to quit by the Pope as a further sex scandal swept the church. Cardinal O’Brien said sorry as it was revealed that he must resign now rather than wait until his 75th birthday, which falls next month. The Vatican instruction follows allegations made by three un-named priests and one former priest who say that they were subjected to ‘inappropriate’ approaches by the cardinal 30 years ago. A Vatican adviser in Scotland said the O’Brien resignation was ‘shocking and sad’ but ‘unsurprising’.

Funeral

The three-day quasi-state funeral featured on all front pages, on all news bulletins, to which David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, as well as Prince Charles, sent tributes. Hundreds of fans gathered in Leeds city centre to pay their respects as the former DJ and presenter made his final journey through the city.

The cortege travelled through Leeds before the service, passing Sir Jimmy's childhood home and Leeds General Infirmary where he had often worked. Fellow DJ Mike Read said:

Today should be a celebration. He'd have loved it, a showman to the end.

As the hearse approached the cathedral, calls of "Jimmy" rang out through the crowds lining the street. Addressing the congregation, the Right Rev Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds, said:

Today Jimmy lies at the front of the cathedral where in former years he has remained discreetly hidden at the back in order not to disturb people's prayers or distract their attention from what was taking place at the altar.

Hundreds of people had earlier gathered at the Queen's Hotel, where his gold-coloured coffin has been on public display. Relatives and friends entitled to access a private room to view his body had been given special Jim'll Fix It badges to get in. Around 5,000 people paid their respects to the star when his coffin was displayed in the Queens Hotel, in Leeds.

Savile was be buried in Scarborough with his Royal Marines green beret and medal, rosary beads and Help For Heroes wristband, presented to him by the Royal Marines in the 1970s, after a speed march 30 miles across Dartmoor. Maj Blair Illingworth, officer commanding the Leeds detachment of the Royal Marine Reserve which provided the pallbearers, said he would be treated as "one of our own".

Savile's was laid to rest in Woodlands Cemetery with an elaborate headstone (had taken the stonemasons eight months to complete) that reportedly cost £4,000 and featured the predator smiling and giving a double thumbs up. The 6ft wide and 4ft high headstone also listed Savile’s achievements and remembered him as a ‘philanthropist, TV Presenter, DJ, Marathon runner, Cyclist, Wrestler, and Chieftan of Lochaber Highland Games.’.

The only person unaffected by it is him, he got away with it. He got to die on his bed at home, which is what he wanted to do, and he got to have his big funeral. I think he would have seen that as the ultimate win.

The graves epitaph carved across the bottom read:

It was good while it lasted.

In the early hours of 10th of October 2012, just 20 days after it had been unveiled, Savile’s headstone was removed by Scarborough borough council on the request of the family. The cemetery was under police guard as workmen spent two hours digging out and removing the granite headstone.

Royal honours system is repugnant, a knife into the heart of our nation pushed by a royal hand..

The stone was then dismantled and ground up, removing the inscriptions, and dumped in a skip to be used as landfill. A campaign to have Savile’s grave exhumed and his remains cremated, but the plan fell through over the estimated £20,000 cost.