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"content": "\u003cp>You’ve heard Prince Andrew’s name. You know he was pals with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. And you know he’s been named in sexual assault allegations related to hanging out with those two toads. But until his legal troubles landed on these shores recently, it’s fairly likely that most Americans had never even heard of Prince Andrew. (He’s barely even in \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> for crying out loud!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allow me, then, to explain who Prince Andrew (a.k.a. the Duke of York) is, why he’s about to stand trial in an American court, and why this is all such a huge deal in England. (So huge, in fact, that Harry’s big bro William reportedly views Andrew as “a threat” to the royal family. Yikes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The basics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Who is Prince Andrew, anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Andrew is the third child of Queen Elizabeth II, little brother to Prince Charles, and uncle to Princes Harry and William. He is ninth in line to the throne, landing after Charles, William, William’s three kids, Harry, and Harry and Meghan’s two children. In that order.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The peak of Andrew’s celebrity came in the late 1980s after he married Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson (who \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> fans might remember from Season 4’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9aoeeGwJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London episode\u003c/a>). The couple were tabloid staples throughout the ’80s and early ’90s, and had two daughters—Princess Beatrice in 1988 and Princess Eugenie in 1990. (You might recognize the sisters from \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a22629594/princess-eugenie-princess-beatrice-cried-royal-wedding-hats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the crazy crap they wore on their heads to William’s wedding\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew first became friends with Ghislaine Maxwell in the mid-1980s when she was studying at Oxford University. The English upper classes have a tendency to stick together, and Maxwell was both wealthy and well-connected thanks to her father, Robert, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a controversial media tycoon.\u003c/a> The Maxwells’ press links would have undoubtedly been alluring for Andrew. (Remember what Harry said in his Oprah interview about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/prince-harry-says-the-royal-family-is-scared-of-the-uk-tabloids-turning-on-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the invisible contract between the [royals] and the U.K. tabloids\u003c/a>“? Robert Maxwell owned one of the biggest papers in the country.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ghislaine Maxwell was the person who first introduced Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein, though exactly when remains unclear. The prince says they were introduced in 1999; his own private secretary claims it happened in the early ’90s.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The legal background\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s spiraling legal concerns have been slowly creeping up on Andrew for over a decade. Here’s what happened and when:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2008:\u003c/strong> Epstein pleads guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. His 18-month sentence—later reduced to 13 months—amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist; he’s still allowed to leave jail and go to work for 12 hours a day, six days a week. The only upside of this farce? Epstein has to make payments to some of his victims, and officially becomes a registered sex offender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2009:\u003c/strong> Epstein reaches a private settlement with Virginia Giuffre over charges that he sexually abused her with Ghislaine Maxwell’s “assistance and participation” between 1999 and 2002. The civil case also references abuse by Epstein’s “adult male peers, including royalty, politicians, academicians [and] businessmen.” Giuffre receives $500,000 from Epstein and agrees to release “any other person or entity who could have been included as a potential defendant” from further legal actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13901947,arts_13866072,arts_13893693']\u003cstrong>2011:\u003c/strong> During a conversation with Giuffre—who began speaking out about her history with Epstein and Maxwell in 2010—journalist Michael Thomas stumbles across the now-infamous photo of Andrew with his arm around Giuffre. Eight years later, Thomas will step up and defend its authenticity on British television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 2015:\u003c/strong> Giuffre files a defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell after Maxwell tells the press that Giuffre’s claims about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation are “obvious lies.” In documents relating to the case, Giuffre says she was forced to have sex with Andrew at the behest of Maxwell and Epstein in 2001, when the prince was 41 and she was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 2015:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace releases a statement defending Andrew: “It is emphatically denied that H.R.H. The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. [Roberts is Giuffre’s maiden name.] The allegations made are false and without any foundation.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/04/prince-andrew-denies-underage-sex-claims-buckingham-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palace aides say Andrew will continue to work as usual\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May. 2017:\u003c/strong> The defamation case between Giuffre and Maxwell is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/billionaires-alleged-sex-slave-settles-libel-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled for an undisclosed amount of money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2019: \u003c/strong>Epstein is arrested on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. He pleads not guilty, is denied bail and, according to prison officials, subsequently makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 9, 2019:\u003c/strong> Court documents from Maxwell and Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit are unsealed, revealing more details about Giuffre’s allegations against Andrew. Giuffre’s testimony says she endured three separate assaults by Andrew. One at Epstein’s home in New York, one at Maxwell’s home in London, and one at Epstein’s private island, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saint_James,_U.S._Virgin_Islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Saint James\u003c/a>. She adds that: “Epstein instructed her ‘to give the prince whatever he demanded, and required [her] to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 10, 2019:\u003c/strong> Epstein’s dead body is found in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correction Center. Authorities claim it was a suicide. The internet does not believe them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just one of the many ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’ memes that emerged after his death.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 16, 2019\u003c/strong>: Andrew makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBS8COhhhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a disastrous appearance on respected BBC TV show, \u003c/a>\u003cem>Newsnight. \u003c/em>During his interview with Emily Maitlis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Andrew suggests the famous photo of him with his arm around Guiffre may be “doctored” because he is “not one to, as it were, hug. And public displays of affection are not something that I do.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew also states: “I don’t believe it’s a picture of me in London because … when I go out in London, I wear a suit and a tie.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew responds to an assertion by Giuffre that he sweat profusely during a trip to a London nightclub, with a claim that it’s “almost impossible for [him] to sweat” after “an overdose of adrenalin” that occurred during the Falklands War.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew says on the night the photo is said to have been taken, he was taking his daughter Beatrice to a pizza chain restaurant just outside London.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew admits to staying with Epstein, even after the financier’s 2008 conviction, because Epstein’s home was “a convenient place to stay.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Andrew is widely mocked both online and in Britain’s newspapers. One website, \u003ca href=\"https://royalcentral.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Royal Central\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, described his performance as: “plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion level bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 20, 2019:\u003c/strong> Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties “for the forseeable future.” Multiple companies and charities take steps to cut ties with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/royalfamily/status/1197213153852977153?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 24, 2019:\u003c/strong> Queen Elizabeth cancels Andrew’s 60th birthday party. Because: consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2019:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace responds to press inquiries about Andrew’s situation by re-issuing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/uk/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-panorama-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> put out in his defense in Jan. 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2020:\u003c/strong> Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested in a small New Hampshire town, after many months spent evading authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 29, 2021: \u003c/strong>Maxwell is convicted of sex trafficking a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and three conspiracy-related felonies. Giuffre is mentioned during the trial on several occasions. One witness—an abuse survivor—testifies that Giuffre had previously shared that she’d had sex with Prince Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Current Lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-800x472.png\" alt=\"A close-up of Prince Andrew's face, tilted to one side and looking browbeaten.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-800x472.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1020x602.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-160x94.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-768x453.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1536x907.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-2048x1209.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1920x1134.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Andrew, digging his own grave on ‘Newsnight’, in Nov. 2019. \u003ccite>('Newsnight'/ BBC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021:\u003c/strong> Prince Andrew is served with a civil suit, after weeks of failed attempts by Giuffre’s team. The prince is instructed to respond to the case by Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2021:\u003c/strong> London police announce they have no plans to pursue a case against Prince Andrew after “reviewing” Giuffre’s evidence over the summer. The British public collectively rolls its eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021 – Jan. 4, 2022:\u003c/strong> Andrew’s lawyers argue repeatedly that Giuffre’s 2009 settlement with Epstein means she no longer has grounds to go after Andrew in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12, 2022:\u003c/strong> Judge Lewis Kaplan disagrees and rules that Giuffre’s lawsuit against Andrew can, in fact, go ahead, because Andrew was “not a party” to the 2009 settlement reached by Giuffre and Epstein. Andrew’s trial is set for some time at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 13, 2022:\u003c/strong> The Queen strips Andrew of “military affiliations and royal patronages,” officially removes him from public duties, and announces to the world that—well—he’s basically on his own now. Which is a huge deal, especially since Andrew has long been considered her favorite son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1020x631.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-768x475.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1536x951.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-2048x1268.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1920x1188.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official royal message in which Queen Elizabeth II essentially cuts off Prince Andrew from the rest of the royal family. \u003ccite>(Twitter/ @theroyalfamily)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This also means that Andrew may no longer be addressed as “His Royal Highness” (“H.R.H.”)—a huge blow for any member of the royal family. (When Diana lost her H.R.H. title after her split from Charles, it was widely considered by the public to be a vindictive move by the royal family.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A big ol’ mess, that’s what. Nothing like this has ever happened to a member of the royal family before and there is literally no way for Andrew to come out of things unscathed. His options are as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Attempting to delay the trial and hoping for a miracle.\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrNKylaohc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some pundits\u003c/a> even think Andrew might try and use the fact that Giuffre is based in Australia to get the case thrown out on a technicality.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reaching an out of court settlement with Giuffre.\u003c/strong> Only problem is, Giuffre would have to agree to it—and she does not seem terribly interested in letting this man off the hook right now.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rolling with the trial and hoping for the best.\u003c/strong> That would involve Andrew giving evidence or a deposition under oath. Which given how \u003cem>Newsnight\u003c/em> went, doesn’t seem like a smart choice.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Simply not showing up.\u003c/strong> Which sounds totally bananas, but the royal family \u003cem>is \u003c/em>totally bananas. A no-show could lead to a default judgment, however—which, in his absence, would undoubtedly not fall in Andrew’s favor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing’s for sure, we’ve got months to go until this is finally resolved. Watch this space.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2011:\u003c/strong> During a conversation with Giuffre—who began speaking out about her history with Epstein and Maxwell in 2010—journalist Michael Thomas stumbles across the now-infamous photo of Andrew with his arm around Giuffre. Eight years later, Thomas will step up and defend its authenticity on British television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 2015:\u003c/strong> Giuffre files a defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell after Maxwell tells the press that Giuffre’s claims about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation are “obvious lies.” In documents relating to the case, Giuffre says she was forced to have sex with Andrew at the behest of Maxwell and Epstein in 2001, when the prince was 41 and she was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 2015:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace releases a statement defending Andrew: “It is emphatically denied that H.R.H. The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. [Roberts is Giuffre’s maiden name.] The allegations made are false and without any foundation.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/04/prince-andrew-denies-underage-sex-claims-buckingham-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palace aides say Andrew will continue to work as usual\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May. 2017:\u003c/strong> The defamation case between Giuffre and Maxwell is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/billionaires-alleged-sex-slave-settles-libel-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settled for an undisclosed amount of money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2019: \u003c/strong>Epstein is arrested on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. He pleads not guilty, is denied bail and, according to prison officials, subsequently makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 9, 2019:\u003c/strong> Court documents from Maxwell and Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit are unsealed, revealing more details about Giuffre’s allegations against Andrew. Giuffre’s testimony says she endured three separate assaults by Andrew. One at Epstein’s home in New York, one at Maxwell’s home in London, and one at Epstein’s private island, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saint_James,_U.S._Virgin_Islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Saint James\u003c/a>. She adds that: “Epstein instructed her ‘to give the prince whatever he demanded, and required [her] to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 10, 2019:\u003c/strong> Epstein’s dead body is found in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correction Center. Authorities claim it was a suicide. The internet does not believe them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/eps-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just one of the many ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’ memes that emerged after his death.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 16, 2019\u003c/strong>: Andrew makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBS8COhhhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a disastrous appearance on respected BBC TV show, \u003c/a>\u003cem>Newsnight. \u003c/em>During his interview with Emily Maitlis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Andrew suggests the famous photo of him with his arm around Guiffre may be “doctored” because he is “not one to, as it were, hug. And public displays of affection are not something that I do.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew also states: “I don’t believe it’s a picture of me in London because … when I go out in London, I wear a suit and a tie.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew responds to an assertion by Giuffre that he sweat profusely during a trip to a London nightclub, with a claim that it’s “almost impossible for [him] to sweat” after “an overdose of adrenalin” that occurred during the Falklands War.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew says on the night the photo is said to have been taken, he was taking his daughter Beatrice to a pizza chain restaurant just outside London.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Andrew admits to staying with Epstein, even after the financier’s 2008 conviction, because Epstein’s home was “a convenient place to stay.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Andrew is widely mocked both online and in Britain’s newspapers. One website, \u003ca href=\"https://royalcentral.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Royal Central\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, described his performance as: “plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion level bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 20, 2019:\u003c/strong> Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties “for the forseeable future.” Multiple companies and charities take steps to cut ties with him.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 24, 2019:\u003c/strong> Queen Elizabeth cancels Andrew’s 60th birthday party. Because: consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2019:\u003c/strong> Buckingham Palace responds to press inquiries about Andrew’s situation by re-issuing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/uk/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-panorama-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> put out in his defense in Jan. 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jul. 2020:\u003c/strong> Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested in a small New Hampshire town, after many months spent evading authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 29, 2021: \u003c/strong>Maxwell is convicted of sex trafficking a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and three conspiracy-related felonies. Giuffre is mentioned during the trial on several occasions. One witness—an abuse survivor—testifies that Giuffre had previously shared that she’d had sex with Prince Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Current Lawsuit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-800x472.png\" alt=\"A close-up of Prince Andrew's face, tilted to one side and looking browbeaten.\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-800x472.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1020x602.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-160x94.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-768x453.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1536x907.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-2048x1209.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/andrew-newsnight-1920x1134.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Andrew, digging his own grave on ‘Newsnight’, in Nov. 2019. \u003ccite>('Newsnight'/ BBC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021:\u003c/strong> Prince Andrew is served with a civil suit, after weeks of failed attempts by Giuffre’s team. The prince is instructed to respond to the case by Oct. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 11, 2021:\u003c/strong> London police announce they have no plans to pursue a case against Prince Andrew after “reviewing” Giuffre’s evidence over the summer. The British public collectively rolls its eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 2021 – Jan. 4, 2022:\u003c/strong> Andrew’s lawyers argue repeatedly that Giuffre’s 2009 settlement with Epstein means she no longer has grounds to go after Andrew in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 12, 2022:\u003c/strong> Judge Lewis Kaplan disagrees and rules that Giuffre’s lawsuit against Andrew can, in fact, go ahead, because Andrew was “not a party” to the 2009 settlement reached by Giuffre and Epstein. Andrew’s trial is set for some time at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 13, 2022:\u003c/strong> The Queen strips Andrew of “military affiliations and royal patronages,” officially removes him from public duties, and announces to the world that—well—he’s basically on his own now. Which is a huge deal, especially since Andrew has long been considered her favorite son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-800x495.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1020x631.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-768x475.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1536x951.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-2048x1268.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-13-at-10.41.31-AM-1920x1188.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official royal message in which Queen Elizabeth II essentially cuts off Prince Andrew from the rest of the royal family. \u003ccite>(Twitter/ @theroyalfamily)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This also means that Andrew may no longer be addressed as “His Royal Highness” (“H.R.H.”)—a huge blow for any member of the royal family. (When Diana lost her H.R.H. title after her split from Charles, it was widely considered by the public to be a vindictive move by the royal family.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A big ol’ mess, that’s what. Nothing like this has ever happened to a member of the royal family before and there is literally no way for Andrew to come out of things unscathed. His options are as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Attempting to delay the trial and hoping for a miracle.\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrNKylaohc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some pundits\u003c/a> even think Andrew might try and use the fact that Giuffre is based in Australia to get the case thrown out on a technicality.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reaching an out of court settlement with Giuffre.\u003c/strong> Only problem is, Giuffre would have to agree to it—and she does not seem terribly interested in letting this man off the hook right now.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rolling with the trial and hoping for the best.\u003c/strong> That would involve Andrew giving evidence or a deposition under oath. Which given how \u003cem>Newsnight\u003c/em> went, doesn’t seem like a smart choice.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Simply not showing up.\u003c/strong> Which sounds totally bananas, but the royal family \u003cem>is \u003c/em>totally bananas. A no-show could lead to a default judgment, however—which, in his absence, would undoubtedly not fall in Andrew’s favor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When I moved from the U.K. to San Francisco in 2002, I quickly grew accustomed to answering random questions about the royal family from curious Americans. Most of them were either about the family tree (“Who’s Harry and William’s dad again?”), the power structure (“Can the queen make laws?”) and the culture (“Do British people actually like them?”). But since \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> premiered in 2016 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103656/i-stayed-up-all-night-to-watch-the-royal-wedding-so-you-didnt-have-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry and Meghan tied the knot\u003c/a> in 2018, I’ve noticed the American appetite for royal gossip has increased to a degree that feels—to me at least—rather unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No royal spouse has ever so swiftly or smoothly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893693/after-oprah-interview-harry-and-meghan-slammed-by-british-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called the royal family out on their BS\u003c/a> the way Markle recently did. And no TV show (or book for that matter) has ever highlighted the deep dysfunctions within the British royal family quite so effectively or succinctly as \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em>. Crucially, what both have done so successfully in tandem, is to expose the rot that lies beneath what was previously perceived by many Americans to be a dignified institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While aspects of the show are fictionalized, \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> alone has, in short shrift, made Americans aware of scandals long known to the British people. Storylines include \u003ca href=\"https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/television/fact-checking-the-crown-season-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Edward VIII and Prince Philip’s ties to Nazi Germany\u003c/a>; Prince Charles’ appalling treatment of Princess Diana; Princess Diana’s prolonged attempts at self-destruction; \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-06-mn-239-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Elizabeth’s secret cousins\u003c/a>, hidden away because they were developmentally disabled; \u003ca href=\"https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a14382214/antony-armstrong-jones-illegitimate-child-polly-fry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Princess Margaret’s husband’s secret child\u003c/a> with another woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13882981']Running in tandem with all of this retroactive tea-spilling is a real-time horror story involving the queen’s middle son, Prince Andrew. He is currently being sued in a federal court by Virginia Roberts Giuffre over sexual assault allegations. Giuffre says that when she was 17, she met Andrew (41 at the time) through Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is currently awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in the same Brooklyn prison where Epstein died in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giuffre—who is only four years older than Andrew’s eldest daughter—has spent the last decade publicly asserting that she was abused and trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. She says this led to her being sexually assaulted by the prince on three separate occasions in 2001. Prince Andrew has denied any and all knowledge of Giuffre, despite photographic evidence proving that the two at least met in Maxwell’s London apartment that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901985\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-12.45.39-PM-800x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre in 2001, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London apartment, when Giuffre was 17.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between those allegations, \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em>’s exposés, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893693/after-oprah-interview-harry-and-meghan-slammed-by-british-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview\u003c/a> in March, the questions I get asked about the royal family have recently taken quite the turn. Now, they’re less about the family structure and the royal duties, and more about whether or not the family is a racist institution that gets away with whatever the hell it likes. Indeed, the family is now seen as messy enough over here to garner comparisons by my American friends to the Kardashians. I keep having to dejectedly point out that the analogy only works if all of the Kardashians’ homes, vehicles, bank balances and bodyguards were funded by American taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new American understanding of just how much drama the royal family produces means an increasing amount of American interest in content about the Windsors. Season 2 of \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> directly inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTeLsRxbSAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Margaret: The Rebel Princess\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a PBS series about the queen’s sister, which is also available on Amazon Prime. Netflix offered up \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNILDb-wXW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Royal House of Windsor\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a documentary series that rehashes storylines from \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> through a purely factual lens. In 2017, to mark the 20th anniversary of her death, National Geographic released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9EKvOJ_d8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Diana: In Her Own Words\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—a documentary about William and Harry’s mother that also lived on Netflix for a while. That same year, the brothers presented their own film about her—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hkdZSOGK58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, on HBO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HBO’s most recent royal offering, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGxOken3-lc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Prince\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—an animated series that presents Prince George as a tyrant, a la Stewie from \u003cem>Family Guy—\u003c/em>demonstrates that the cracks in the royals’ overseas image are beginning to show. The cartoon drew ire for its satirical focus on the real-life prince—George is 8 years old, the oldest son of Prince William and Kate, and third in line to the throne. But the entire family is presented as over-privileged, insular and grossly out of touch with the real world—arguments that have been made about them for decades in the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_103656']Still, pop culture has more royal content coming to feed the appetites of American audiences. On Sept. 6, Lifetime is releasing its third (third!) \u003cem>Harry and Meghan\u003c/em> drama—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCWVDn2Xku8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Escaping the Palace\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. On Nov. 5, we’ll get \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYTtrABWy_o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spencer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—a dramatization of the week in 1992 that Princess Diana decided to leave Prince Charles, starring Kristen Stewart. Social media blew up last week after the first trailer was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season 5 of \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> doesn’t even drop until late-2022, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2021/08/20/first-photos-of-new-princess-diana-prince-charles-the-queen-in-netflixs-the-crown-season-5/?sh=fae09ba43e83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos of the new cast\u003c/a> also trended on Twitter in August, after Netflix released them with some fanfare. The new season will probably be the juiciest yet, given the fact that the conduct of the queen’s children—and their spouses—throughout the ’90s was mortifying for all concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> will have its work cut out choosing from potential storylines from that decade. After all, that was the period in which three out of four of the queen’s children broke up with their spouses, even though divorce was a royal taboo. To make matters worse, a cringeworthy, \u003ca href=\"https://honey.nine.com.au/royals/royal-scandal-camilla-parker-bowles-charles-tampon-conversation/fa0fa78d-8494-4595-a2f5-4f808fa0dfd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually explicit phone conversation\u003c/a> between Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles—recorded when he was still married to Diana—leaked to the public in 1993. Around that same time, Princess Diana’s 1986 affair with Major James Hewitt was exposed. Then Prince Andrew’s wife, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/toe-sucking-photo-drove-sarah-22405395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson was photographed\u003c/a> poolside, having her feet kissed by a new boyfriend. And, of course, there was the national outcry that Queen Elizabeth faced when she and the royal household took five days to publicly respond to the death of Princess Diana. That miserable week in 1997 was well dramatized in 2006’s \u003cem>The Queen\u003c/em>, for which Helen Mirren won the Best Actress Oscar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqL42sjb96I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I assumed for many years that Americans asked me about the royal family because they thought the institution was glamorous. That idea certainly seemed to be at the forefront of conversations when Markle joined their ranks. Now, I wonder if the American fascination with the Windsors has quickly turned into something else—relief to be from a country founded on democratic principles instead of regal bloodlines. Just as Markle was rudely awoken to the inner workings, protocols and messes of the royal family, so too was America. And, as Prince Andrew’s legal troubles unfurl, stateside perceptions of the royal family are bound to get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13866072']A \u003ca href=\"https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-reports/2021/02/17/british-royals-popular-america-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouGov survey\u003c/a> this year about which royals are most popular with Americans is revealing. Prince Charles (the next king) and Prince Andrew are already regarded as the least popular, with, respectively, 47% and 43% of respondents viewing them as “very/somewhat unfavorable.” Their lesser-known siblings, Princess Anne and Prince Edward, scored only 12% and 19% in the same category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the queen remains a popular figure on both sides of the Atlantic (68% of surveyed Americans viewed her as “very/somewhat favorable”), it would be foolish to assume that such reverence extends to the rest of her family. America is merely in the middle of getting a crash course in what the royal family is all about. And what will soon become evident is what has been obvious on British soil for much longer—when it comes to the royal family, the more you know about them, the less likable they become.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When I moved from the U.K. to San Francisco in 2002, I quickly grew accustomed to answering random questions about the royal family from curious Americans. Most of them were either about the family tree (“Who’s Harry and William’s dad again?”), the power structure (“Can the queen make laws?”) and the culture (“Do British people actually like them?”). But since \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> premiered in 2016 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103656/i-stayed-up-all-night-to-watch-the-royal-wedding-so-you-didnt-have-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry and Meghan tied the knot\u003c/a> in 2018, I’ve noticed the American appetite for royal gossip has increased to a degree that feels—to me at least—rather unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No royal spouse has ever so swiftly or smoothly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893693/after-oprah-interview-harry-and-meghan-slammed-by-british-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called the royal family out on their BS\u003c/a> the way Markle recently did. And no TV show (or book for that matter) has ever highlighted the deep dysfunctions within the British royal family quite so effectively or succinctly as \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em>. Crucially, what both have done so successfully in tandem, is to expose the rot that lies beneath what was previously perceived by many Americans to be a dignified institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While aspects of the show are fictionalized, \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> alone has, in short shrift, made Americans aware of scandals long known to the British people. Storylines include \u003ca href=\"https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/television/fact-checking-the-crown-season-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Edward VIII and Prince Philip’s ties to Nazi Germany\u003c/a>; Prince Charles’ appalling treatment of Princess Diana; Princess Diana’s prolonged attempts at self-destruction; \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-06-mn-239-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Elizabeth’s secret cousins\u003c/a>, hidden away because they were developmentally disabled; \u003ca href=\"https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a14382214/antony-armstrong-jones-illegitimate-child-polly-fry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Princess Margaret’s husband’s secret child\u003c/a> with another woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Running in tandem with all of this retroactive tea-spilling is a real-time horror story involving the queen’s middle son, Prince Andrew. He is currently being sued in a federal court by Virginia Roberts Giuffre over sexual assault allegations. Giuffre says that when she was 17, she met Andrew (41 at the time) through Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is currently awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in the same Brooklyn prison where Epstein died in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giuffre—who is only four years older than Andrew’s eldest daughter—has spent the last decade publicly asserting that she was abused and trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. She says this led to her being sexually assaulted by the prince on three separate occasions in 2001. Prince Andrew has denied any and all knowledge of Giuffre, despite photographic evidence proving that the two at least met in Maxwell’s London apartment that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901985\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-12.45.39-PM-800x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre in 2001, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London apartment, when Giuffre was 17.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between those allegations, \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em>’s exposés, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893693/after-oprah-interview-harry-and-meghan-slammed-by-british-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview\u003c/a> in March, the questions I get asked about the royal family have recently taken quite the turn. Now, they’re less about the family structure and the royal duties, and more about whether or not the family is a racist institution that gets away with whatever the hell it likes. Indeed, the family is now seen as messy enough over here to garner comparisons by my American friends to the Kardashians. I keep having to dejectedly point out that the analogy only works if all of the Kardashians’ homes, vehicles, bank balances and bodyguards were funded by American taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, pop culture has more royal content coming to feed the appetites of American audiences. On Sept. 6, Lifetime is releasing its third (third!) \u003cem>Harry and Meghan\u003c/em> drama—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCWVDn2Xku8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Escaping the Palace\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. On Nov. 5, we’ll get \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYTtrABWy_o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spencer\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—a dramatization of the week in 1992 that Princess Diana decided to leave Prince Charles, starring Kristen Stewart. Social media blew up last week after the first trailer was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season 5 of \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> doesn’t even drop until late-2022, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2021/08/20/first-photos-of-new-princess-diana-prince-charles-the-queen-in-netflixs-the-crown-season-5/?sh=fae09ba43e83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos of the new cast\u003c/a> also trended on Twitter in August, after Netflix released them with some fanfare. The new season will probably be the juiciest yet, given the fact that the conduct of the queen’s children—and their spouses—throughout the ’90s was mortifying for all concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> will have its work cut out choosing from potential storylines from that decade. After all, that was the period in which three out of four of the queen’s children broke up with their spouses, even though divorce was a royal taboo. To make matters worse, a cringeworthy, \u003ca href=\"https://honey.nine.com.au/royals/royal-scandal-camilla-parker-bowles-charles-tampon-conversation/fa0fa78d-8494-4595-a2f5-4f808fa0dfd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually explicit phone conversation\u003c/a> between Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles—recorded when he was still married to Diana—leaked to the public in 1993. Around that same time, Princess Diana’s 1986 affair with Major James Hewitt was exposed. Then Prince Andrew’s wife, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/toe-sucking-photo-drove-sarah-22405395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson was photographed\u003c/a> poolside, having her feet kissed by a new boyfriend. And, of course, there was the national outcry that Queen Elizabeth faced when she and the royal household took five days to publicly respond to the death of Princess Diana. That miserable week in 1997 was well dramatized in 2006’s \u003cem>The Queen\u003c/em>, for which Helen Mirren won the Best Actress Oscar.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mqL42sjb96I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mqL42sjb96I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>I assumed for many years that Americans asked me about the royal family because they thought the institution was glamorous. That idea certainly seemed to be at the forefront of conversations when Markle joined their ranks. Now, I wonder if the American fascination with the Windsors has quickly turned into something else—relief to be from a country founded on democratic principles instead of regal bloodlines. Just as Markle was rudely awoken to the inner workings, protocols and messes of the royal family, so too was America. And, as Prince Andrew’s legal troubles unfurl, stateside perceptions of the royal family are bound to get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sept. 21, a former president of Elite Model Management was formally accused by four women of sexual assault. Gérald Marie ran the European arm of Elite for 25 years. Now three models—Carré Otis, Jill Dodd and Ebba Karlsson—along with journalist Lisa Brinkworth, have filed \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/former-elite-models-boss-accused-of-raping-models/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legal papers\u003c/a> against Marie in Paris. Marie has “categorically” denied the accusations but, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby before him, rumors across his industry have painted him as a predator for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd wrote about being raped by Marie in her 2017 memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Currency-of-Love/Jill-Dodd/9781501150388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Currency of Love\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Otis made similar allegations in her 2011 autobiography, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/beauty-disrupted-carre-otishugo-schwyzer?variant=32205798277154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beauty Disrupted\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, about events she said took place when she was 17. The detail she offered was harrowing. More recently, Otis told Lisa Brinkworth in \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/models-reveal-serial-sexual-abuse-behind-gloss-of-fashion-world-m50hdhxlz?wgu=270525_54264_16014038901379_56b51023a3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that, “The abuse was part of what was expected on the set from agents, photographers, stylists. If you don’t comply, you don’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, looking at incidents reported by models and in the press as far back as the ’80s, an unhappy truth emerges: Marie is not an outlier in the industry. He is just one of several modeling executives to routinely appear connected to stories that involve inappropriate objectification at best, and sexual harassment and assault at worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An echo of Otis’ sentiment was expressed in 1988 during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8NAaPUvlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode of \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, titled “American Girls in Paris.” In it, multiple models described exploitative and dangerous working conditions. One casually stated: “You’re there for the purpose of someone wanting to take you home to bed. [If you say no], you don’t work.” In the show, French agents including Claude Haddad from the Ford Agency and Jean-Luc Brunel of Karin Models were accused of sexual harassment and assault. [aside postid='arts_13882981']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, Brunel was pursued by American authorities as part of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. Epstein had financed the opening of Brunel’s Miami modeling agency, MC2, in 2005. Of the professional partnership, former model Courtney Powell Soerensen told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article238351108.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Miami Herald\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019: “Brunel had access to a network of young women and it was already his proclivity to behave that way. When he connected with Epstein, they realized they could do it together. He is just as guilty if not more so than Epstein.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, one model who said she was drugged and assaulted by Brunel in 1987 gave a sworn statement to French authorities about the incident. No charges were filed because the statute of limitations had run out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Epstein survivor, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Roberts_Giuffre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia Roberts Giuffre\u003c/a>, claimed the financier once bragged to her that he had “slept with over a thousand of Brunel’s girls.” Brunel went into hiding after Epstein’s death last year and is now so infamous in his home country he’s earned the nickname “\u003ca href=\"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article238351108.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">le fantôme\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gérald Marie has been similarly slippery when it comes to being held accountable for the accusations leveled against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, a BBC investigative journalist named Donal MacIntyre went undercover and attempted to expose Marie in a television documentary. Despite revelations regarding Marie’s targeting of underage models, and an initial “unconditional apology” from Elite founder John Casablancas, Elite sued the BBC for defamation. The case was later settled out of court, with the BBC publicly stating that MacIntyre’s exposé had misrepresented Elite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lawsuit effectively shut down potential legal actions against Elite, and put Casablancas back on the offensive. “People aren’t allowed to be silly at 3am in the nightclub,” he said dismissively, “or in the privacy of their own home.” Regardless, the fallout from the BBC investigation prompted both Marie and another Elite executive, Xavier Moreau, to step down from their positions. [aside postid='pop_112955']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it is Marie who has caused the most controversy at Elite over the years, a \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/columns/citypolitic/1866/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2000 article for \u003cem>New York\u003c/em>\u003c/a> magazine quoted a rival fashion agent as saying: “John [Casablancas] was as bad as Gérald [Marie], but he had a more elegant manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Casablancas—who died in 2013—considered Marie a professional rival and was open about their fractious personal relationship, he also actively turned a blind eye to Marie’s behavior for the sake of his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Marie Anderson, who was vice president of Elite Chicago for seven years during the ’80s, told the French outlet \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.20minutes.fr/justice/2624635-20191011-jean-luc-brunel-insaisissable-ami-jeffrey-epstein-accuse-deux-cotes-atlantique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 Minutes\u003c/a>\u003c/em>: “It was the culture of the time, everyone knew. We thought that the only thing to do was to warn the girls.” Anderson went on to relay an incident in which one 18-year-old model called her in tears from Paris because of the coercive harassment she said she received from Marie. The model later admitted to Anderson that she had eventually given in to his sexual demands in order to get work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final straw for Anderson came after she witnessed Marie and Casablancas yelling at two of Elite’s top female executives. When Lisa Herzog and Trudi Tapscott asked Marie and Casablancas to “stop sleeping with underage models,” Casablancas is said to have told the women to “relax,” while Marie reportedly yelled: “Go screw yourselves!” Casablancas later \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/columns/citypolitic/1866/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismissed the women’s complaints\u003c/a> as an example of American puritanism. Anderson resigned. [aside postid='arts_13884214']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is all to say, women in the fashion industry have been trying to sound the alarm for decades. And yet flattering myths around these agency bosses—in particular, John Casablancas—have persisted. A 2016 Netflix documentary titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80137087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women\u003c/em>\u003c/a> works hard to hail the Elite founder as a maverick, hero and “starmaker.” This despite some jaw-dropping revelations in the film that are repeatedly glossed over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the documentary, the models in Casablancas and Marie’s midst are presented as beautiful objects to desire, use and discard. Models are seen wearing “Property of John Casablancas” T-shirts. Casablancas laughs at the memory of his father viewing his modeling agency as “a glorified brothel,” and he proudly explains that the original Elite logo “was a phallus and testicles … I loved it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More disturbing are his sexual relationships with teenagers. When Casablancas ends his marriage by beginning an affair with supermodel Stephanie Seymour, the fact that she’s 16 and he’s 42 garners only a brief mention. That “she broke [his] heart” is far more of a focus. That their break-up was prompted at least partially by an intervention from Seymour’s parents speaks volumes about the model’s immaturity at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when Casablancas talks about meeting Aline Wermelinger, a model he would marry when he was 49 and she was 17, his description of the moment is outstandingly creepy. He talks of her “baby face, green eyes and spectacular body … standing in front of us, innocent and pure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of Casablancas being asked about his relationship with Wermelinger during a talk show appearance in the ’90s reveals him to be characteristically dismissive. “She comes from a country and I do too where there isn’t this fixation with age. People [in America] are obsessed with age … It’s my personal business, not yours.” [aside postid='arts_13883723']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are signs that small but significant shifts are afoot in fashion’s tolerance for such behavior. Emily Ratajkowski’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essay for \u003cem>The Cut\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which detailed her abuse and exploitation within the industry, garnered a refreshingly loud outcry. (If nothing else, it sent out a clear warning to any model who might consider working with photographer Jonathan Leder.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mariepanderson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marie Anderson\u003c/a> used her experience at Elite (as well as a number of other prominent agencies) to set up a coaching firm called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mariepanderson.com/boss-babe-models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boss Babes\u003c/a>. The company’s goal is to help young models navigate the industry, “while maintaining [their] purpose and dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gérald Marie is 70, the chairman of the Oui Management model agency and is on the defensive once again. But the Paris prosecutor’s office has confirmed it is investigating him. And the lawyer representing his accusers is also representing some of the women going after Brunel. These legal proceedings are beginning to look like a full-blown strategy, which—as the cases of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein taught us—is essential if justice is ever to be served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the buried voices of models can emerge from across the decades and shout loud enough about Marie and Brunel together, fashion might just finally get its #MeToo reckoning. Lord knows it’s long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sept. 21, a former president of Elite Model Management was formally accused by four women of sexual assault. Gérald Marie ran the European arm of Elite for 25 years. Now three models—Carré Otis, Jill Dodd and Ebba Karlsson—along with journalist Lisa Brinkworth, have filed \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/former-elite-models-boss-accused-of-raping-models/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legal papers\u003c/a> against Marie in Paris. Marie has “categorically” denied the accusations but, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby before him, rumors across his industry have painted him as a predator for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd wrote about being raped by Marie in her 2017 memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Currency-of-Love/Jill-Dodd/9781501150388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Currency of Love\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Otis made similar allegations in her 2011 autobiography, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/beauty-disrupted-carre-otishugo-schwyzer?variant=32205798277154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beauty Disrupted\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, about events she said took place when she was 17. The detail she offered was harrowing. More recently, Otis told Lisa Brinkworth in \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/models-reveal-serial-sexual-abuse-behind-gloss-of-fashion-world-m50hdhxlz?wgu=270525_54264_16014038901379_56b51023a3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that, “The abuse was part of what was expected on the set from agents, photographers, stylists. If you don’t comply, you don’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, looking at incidents reported by models and in the press as far back as the ’80s, an unhappy truth emerges: Marie is not an outlier in the industry. He is just one of several modeling executives to routinely appear connected to stories that involve inappropriate objectification at best, and sexual harassment and assault at worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An echo of Otis’ sentiment was expressed in 1988 during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8NAaPUvlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode of \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, titled “American Girls in Paris.” In it, multiple models described exploitative and dangerous working conditions. One casually stated: “You’re there for the purpose of someone wanting to take you home to bed. [If you say no], you don’t work.” In the show, French agents including Claude Haddad from the Ford Agency and Jean-Luc Brunel of Karin Models were accused of sexual harassment and assault. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]urger Records \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883674/burger-boogaloo-festival-cuts-ties-with-record-label-after-sex-abuse-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">folded\u003c/a> this week, under the weight of multiple allegations of sexual assault, harassment and coercion by members of bands signed to the label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">Days before the decision was made to shut down, and in light of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/Lured_By_Burger_Records/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survivor stories\u003c/a> that had emerged, Oakland quartet SWMRS (who have released albums and EPs through a variety of labels, including Burger) stepped forward to share their stance on the issues at hand. The band’s four-part \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CC1PEcrAElM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram statement\u003c/a> was, on the surface, a thoughtful acknowledgement of the cultural and systemic problems that can enable men to victimize young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music industry is deeply rooted in abusive patriarchal values,” the band wrote. “It’s impossible to overstate how deeply this permeates our culture … Subverting patriarchy is a lifelong commitment to unlearning this abuse that we are conditioned to accept and regurgitate.”[aside postid='arts_13883674']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day however, Lydia Night, singer and guitarist of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theregrettes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Regrettes\u003c/a>, put out her own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CC4EzRqsU7U/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed statement\u003c/a>, accusing SWMRS drummer Joey Armstrong (son of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong) of pressuring her into a sexually coercive and emotionally abusive relationship when he was 22 and already in a popular band, and she was 16 and just starting out. She also said that Armstrong first made contact with her via Instagram, under the guise of working together in a touring capacity. She said their relationship began in secret while on one of those tours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had multiple conversations where [Armstrong] would say something along the lines of ‘I want to move at your pace,’” Night wrote, “but then would act in a completely contradicting way, pressuring me into sexual situations … He was essentially my boss … shaming me for saying I wasn’t comfortable, gaslighting me or ignoring me when I didn’t give my consent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gulf between SWMRS’ statement of feminist allyship and Night’s account of her experience is symbolic of a wider problem that stretches beyond the confines of the music industry. And it’s this: Just because someone knows sexist abuse is bad doesn’t necessarily mean they recognize it in their own behavior—or the behavior of those closest to them.[aside postid='pop_61190']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missing both of these cues is fairly commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own life, I think about the ex who considered himself a feminist but would sulk and badger me if I said no to sex. (I stayed with him for a long time because I was young and thought this was normal.) I think of the guy who disavowed sexual harassment on Facebook, but repeatedly forced my hand down his pants in the middle of a party until I had to leave to get away from him. (I stayed on friendly terms with him because we had so many mutual friends, it was awkward not to. When I brought it up, everyone kept telling me what a Nice Guy he was.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Night’s story also reminds me of the affable, liberal man I was friends with for far too long because I failed to recognize that he was abusive to the women he dated. Shamefully, my eyes only opened when one of them broke down on my shoulder, told me what he did behind closed doors and asked if it “counted” as abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These things always seem very complicated when you’re in the middle of them and pretty clear cut once you’re out. I’m sure everyone who knew about Night and Armstrong’s relationship had their reasons for staying quiet at the time. Maybe they dismissed Night’s age because she was in a band and already touring. Maybe they justified it because Night and Armstrong weren’t just a casual hookup. (According to Night, their involvement went on for “about a year.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who knows where Night’s bandmates were in all of this. She says she kept the relationship secret from her parents, her best friend and her therapist at Armstrong’s behest. But it’s unclear what her band knew or whether they recognized the gravity of the situation Night was in.[aside postid='arts_13882981']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the lines are drawn, of course, shouldn’t be this complicated. But women’s ability to talk openly about sexual abuse at the hands of friends, colleagues and partners—\u003cem>and\u003c/em> to be believed en masse—is fairly new as a practice. Remember how many survivors it took to bring down serial predators like Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Cosby? Too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tireless work done by those survivors is the reason most people in America now understand the impact power structures have on people’s abilities to truly consent. (One needs only to examine how Monica Lewinsky was treated in 1998 to understand how recent a development this is.) That new understanding has paved the way for Lydia Night to be able to tell her story now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even just a few years ago, despite her age, Night’s abuse allegations may have been dismissed outright. Night herself has acknowledged that it has taken her “years” to recognize her own trauma. But she also understands inherently why her story needs to be heard now. In her statement, she explained:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I know how hard it is to feel valid in something that’s so nuanced and exists in a space that’s not black and white … You can have feelings for someone and be in a technically consensual relationship and still be a victim of abuse and coercion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Night’s statement—especially when read alongside some of the testimonies of the Burger Records survivors—doesn’t just force SWMRS (she directed her statement at the entire band, not just Armstrong) to acknowledge they’re not the “good guys” they thought they were. It also acts as a prompt for the hundreds of thousands of people who liked it (192,000 and counting) to examine their own behavior and ask themselves some hard questions. [aside postid='pop_98503']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something similar occurred in 2018 after a Brooklyn photographer went on a now-infamous date with comedian Aziz Ansari. Her Babe.net story about the disastrous evening opened up valuable avenues to talk about sexual etiquette and vocalizing consent. Still many—including a CNN anchor—dismissed her story as merely “a bad date.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few days, Night’s Instagram post has filled up with comments of sympathy and support. By contrast, SWMRS’ account is flooded with accusations of “performative wokeness,” and questions around why Armstrong’s brief attempt at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CC6mefugfNX/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an apology\u003c/a> did not acknowledge Night’s underage status at the time of their involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelmingly supportive response to Night’s statement leaves the impression that we as a culture have come a long way since #MeToo exploded into the mainstream in 2017. But Night’s account, and the stories of all the other women caught up in Burger Records’ toxic culture, remains a stark demonstration that we’ve still got a long way to go.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast week, 20 police officers and FBI agents raided a lavish home in Bedford, New Hampshire and emerged with Ghislaine Maxwell in handcuffs. Maxwell, a close associate, confidante and—many say—co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, now faces six counts related to the sex trafficking of minors, very similar to the ones that Epstein didn’t live long enough to face in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epstein’s accusers have long claimed that Maxwell recruited, groomed and exploited them; that he couldn’t have done what he did without her assistance. Federal prosecutors charge that Maxwell even took part in some of the sexual abuse directly. But the 58-year-old Brit has been evading authorities so flagrantly and for so long that, last year, the \u003cem>Sun\u003c/em> newspaper resorted to offering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-sun.com/news/74018/the-sun-is-offering-a-10000-reward-for-information-on-jeffrey-epstein-pal-ghislaine-maxwell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">£10,000 reward\u003c/a> for information leading to her location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following 2017’s #MeToo reckoning, the world became all too familiar with the ways that enablers can assist and protect prominent sexual predators. But of all of the enablers that have emerged in the last few years, Maxwell is arguably the most notorious. That’s partly because she’s a woman alleged to have facilitated the abuse of others. And it’s partly because of the degree and depth of her involvement with Epstein (“She had served him for years, maintaining his homes, ranch, and private island,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/07/inside-ghislaine-maxwells-life-on-the-lam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> reports \u003c/a>\u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also partly because the allegations against her represent a new, monstrous degree of enabling we’ve not quite seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hat we’re accustomed to hearing about enablers is that their work is done incrementally; little by little; one blind eye at a time. And it usually takes a whole team of them. Bill Cosby had attorneys—\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kateaurthur/bill-cosby-is-in-disgrace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Singer\u003c/a> brokered deals to get accusations scrubbed from the press. He had agents—\u003ca href=\"https://www.vocativ.com/208960/bill-cosbys-circle/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Illus\u003c/a> distributed money to multiple women, without ever asking what it was for. He had writers—Mark Whitaker’s in-depth biography, \u003cem>Cosby: His Life and Times\u003c/em>, failed to mention any accusations against the actor, despite them being well-known at the time. He had a PR team that attempted to suppress \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUPK34aiXE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>that\u003c/em> viral comedy routine\u003c/a> by Hannibal Buress. And he definitely had doctors, as evidenced by his seven prescriptions for quaaludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Weinstein had a similar deputized army of defense. In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/25/harvey-weinstein-trial-helpers-enablers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> listed\u003c/a> as Weinstein enablers everyone from “lowly limousine drivers,” on up through the lawyers who drew up NDAs to silence accusers, and all the way to New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance—who opted not to prosecute Weinstein despite strong evidence against him. Weinstein’s brother and business partner, Bob, is widely presumed to have been complicit in the abusive behavior. Then there’s David Boies, the lawyer who tried to stop the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> from exposing Weinstein in the first place. (In a strange twist, Boies is now representing several women in the process of suing Ghislaine Maxwell.)[aside postid='pop_112955']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-former-employees-reckon-with-what-they-knew-and-what-they-didnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many of Weistein’s assistants\u003c/a>, enablers often claim they simply didn’t realize the seriousness of what was happening at the time. Some are swept up in friendship—Louis CK’s predilection for masturbating in front of unsuspecting women is said to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/louis-cks-powerful-army-of-celebrity-enablers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an open secret\u003c/a> in comedy circles for years. And for many of his pals, including \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/sarah-silverman-louis-ck-masturbated-1202988208/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Silverman\u003c/a>, it just didn’t seem like that big a deal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some enablers may assume that in celebrity circles, predatory behavior is simply the norm. Photographer Terry Richardson is said to have had \u003ca href=\"https://www.marieclaire.com.au/terry-richardson-every-sexual-harassment-and-assault-allegation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assistants\u003c/a> that laughed along and took photos while he was behaving inappropriately during shoots. Some, it’s been alleged, even provided towels to clean up after on-set sex acts had taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When entities enable, it’s usually related to how profitable the offender is to them. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly_(political_commentator)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News assisted Bill O’Reilly\u003c/a> in quietly settling five sexual harassment lawsuits totaling $13 million. Not only did NBC know about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/05/11/just-how-did-matt-lauers-famous-desk-button-work/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">button under Matt Lauer’s desk\u003c/a>, those door closing mechanisms were “a commonly available feature in executive offices in multiple NBCUniversal facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or Ghislaine Maxwell, her motivations appear to be comprised of all three. She was emotionally invested in Epstein as a sometime-girlfriend. Her ability to live luxuriously was greatly facilitated by helping him. And she had grown up doting on her father, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/09/robert-maxwells-sons-say-tycoon-was-to-meet-boe-the-day-he-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Maxwell\u003c/a>—one of the most morally bankrupt tycoons in modern British history. It’s possible that she thought all wealthy people just did whatever the hell they wanted. [aside postid='arts_13876352']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the stranger aspects of Maxwell and Epstein’s relationship is in the power dynamic. Many prominent predators get people around them to toe the line by reminding everyone how powerful they are, how much there is to lose by holding them accountable, and how much there is to gain from turning a blind eye. But Ghislaine Maxwell, a worldly socialite, was in many ways the reason Epstein was able to make so many prestigious contacts in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the “Lady Ghislaine” episode of the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/broken-jeffrey-epstein/id1478460758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Broken: Jeffrey Epstein\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast, host Ariel Levy notes that Maxwell “was the one who connected this college dropout from Brooklyn to what would otherwise have been the impenetrable echelon of American presidents, British royalty and world-famous scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epstein had the money, but Maxwell had the connections. For a while, at least, they benefited from each other. Maxwell not only facilitated Epstein’s rise, but she helped to keep him there, by any means necessary. 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"content": "\u003cp>This week’s streaming highlights note the arrival of summer with the choice of dipping a toe (into a big pool) or going for full immersion (in a mucky swamp). The former will leave you refreshed, by and large, while the latter—well, one shower may not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>We Are One: A Global Film Festival\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/weareone\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFor all its strange delights, the chunk of the canceled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879450/now-playing-sample-a-free-sxsw-combo-platter-on-amazon-prime\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">South by Southwest hoedown\u003c/a> that Amazon Prime streamed earlier this month demonstrated the limits of virtual film festivals. Without the shared experience of a live audience, a film loses a huge component of what makes it effective, and special. This goes for any movie, of course—I’m mulling a story on the purpose and practice of public spaces like theaters in the eventual post-COVID-19 world—but it’s especially true for a one-off festival screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With festivals grappling with and grasping for ways to be connected and relevant to their constituencies during shelter in place, they are pretty much limited to online viewing. On the plus side, with programming delivered directly to your domicile, physical proximity to a venue or festival isn’t an issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you missed or skipped the SXSW online edition, take a flyer on \u003ca href=\"http://www.weareoneglobalfestival.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">We Are One\u003c/a> (May 29–June 7). Some 20 festivals worldwide contributed programs, from heavy hitters like Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Toronto to respected regional events like Tokyo, Locarno and Mumbai. The lineup includes 31 feature films (including eight documentaries), 72 shorts (including 15 docs) and 15 archived talks (including a master class with Tantoo Cardinal). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/CrazyWorld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881127\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/CrazyWorld.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/CrazyWorld-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/CrazyWorld-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/CrazyWorld-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/CrazyWorld-1020x510.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Crazy World.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nabwana I.G.G.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The films on offer include \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.weareoneglobalfestival.com/events/crazy-world-2020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy World\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a highlight of the Midnight Madness sidebar at last fall’s Toronto fest. Ugandan DIY maniac/maestro Nabwana I.G.G.’s latest jaw-dropping, no-budget action extravaganza is, um, something. (Check out his previous movies, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Black-Alan-Ssali-Hofmanis/dp/B07XJLY5TT\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Black\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Killed-Captain-Alex-Kakule-William/dp/B07Y2HP7KX/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Who Killed Captain Alex?\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, on Amazon Prime.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some distance on the culture spectrum lies the invigorating and beguiling dance film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/JEiusObynrQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Love Chapter 2\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Israeli dancer-cum-choreographer Sharon Eyal’s modern ballet, backed with an intense score, is one of the Jerusalem Film Festival’s contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no cost to watch anything on We Are One, though donations to \u003ca href=\"https://covid19responsefund.org/en/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund\u003c/a> and local relief agencies are encouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881082\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.’ \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80224905\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWe’re inundated with a plethora of multi-episode nonfiction (i.e. limited series) on every cable network and streaming platform. As befits the infotainment age, most of them lean more toward sensationalism (and exploitation) than investigative journalism. Lisa Bryant’s deeply disturbing four-episode dive into Jeffrey Epstein’s long-running molestation pyramid scheme (as one journalist dubs it) is neither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it is, in purpose and execution, is a forum to give voice to approximately a dozen of the literally hundreds of women who were lured, abused and raped as vulnerable adolescents and teenagers by the now-deceased New York/Palm Beach predator Jeffrey Epstein. I suppose I should toss “alleged” into that sentence somewhere, since Epstein escaped this mortal coil before he could be tried and convicted in court. In the court of public opinion, however, which is where \u003cem>Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich\u003c/em> rests its case, only a minority will give much weight to “alleged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those, no doubt, is the reptilian lawyer and Epstein pal Alan Dershowitz, who is the only figure on the perpetrator’s side of the aisle to offer a rebuttal to Bryant’s camera. It isn’t the filmmaker’s fault that she was unable to obtain interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell or the other women who (allegedly) charmingly procured underage girls for Epstein over a period of at least 20 years. But the documentary can’t accurately be described as an investigation in the absence of that testimony, or any other new information. (Nor is it sullied by the stuff of exploitation—hokey reenactments, cheap-shot filler and a thumping soundtrack.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRichStill_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRichStill_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRichStill_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRichStill_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRichStill_1200-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRichStill_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Farmer in ‘Filthy Rich.’ \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is, on one level, a necessary and welcome piece of historical journalism that collects in one place, via interviews with a chief of police, journalists and survivors’ attorneys, the chain of events that led to Epstein’s long-running evasion of justice. Florida law enforcement and newspaper reporters did ace work, only to be sabotaged by a U.S. attorney whose presumed corruption still needs to be plumbed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frankly, this is all beside the point. The raison d’être of this documentary are the numerous wounded and brave accounts by young women. Their detailed descriptions of the horrific manipulation and exploitation they suffered, at the hands of a demented individual and his various assistants and abettors, comprise a catalog of evidence that is too monumental to discount, let alone disbelieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its core, \u003cem>Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich\u003c/em> is a handsomely illustrated talking-head documentary. It isn’t drama, and it certainly isn’t art. In this case, that’s just right.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Israeli dancer-cum-choreographer Sharon Eyal’s modern ballet, backed with an intense score, is one of the Jerusalem Film Festival’s contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no cost to watch anything on We Are One, though donations to \u003ca href=\"https://covid19responsefund.org/en/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund\u003c/a> and local relief agencies are encouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881082\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/FilthyRich_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.’ \u003ccite>(Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80224905\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWe’re inundated with a plethora of multi-episode nonfiction (i.e. limited series) on every cable network and streaming platform. 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