Addendum to the Trump Show
I won’t be sending this one out by Email, as I don’t want to ruin anyones breakfast.
Supplementing the following post
https://pete843.substack.com/p/the-trump-show
With excerpts taken from this older post
https://pete843.substack.com/p/brunel-epstein-and-ukraine?
Casablanca
Excerpts from the link below
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
In 1991-On the Spirit of New York, a large private yacht , a party was in flow. Scores of teenage girls in evening dresses and miniskirts, some as young as 14, danced under disco lights surrounded by a crowd of older men surrounding them.
Trump with his nine-year-old daughter Ivanka at the 1991 Look of the Year final.
This was one of several events that Donald Trump, then 45, attended with a group of 58 aspiring young models that September. They had travelled from around the world to compete in Elite’s Look of the Year competition, an annual event that had been running since 1983 and was already credited with launching the careers of Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Stephanie Seymour.
At stake was a life-changing prize: a $150,000 contract with the world’s then leading modelling agency, Elite Model Management, run by John Casablancas.
Casablancas was sued by a former Look of the Year contestant. According to the lawsuit, when she was 15 and Casablancas was 46, at Look of the Year 1988 in Japan, Casablancas said he was “falling in love” with her. At the end of the competition, the lawsuit states, “contestants drank and partied late into the evening” and Casablancas told the teenager to come to his hotel room.
There, Casablancas sexually abused the girl “several times over the evening”. The abuse allegedly continued the following year; when the girl became pregnant, Casablancas told her “she would be having an abortion”. The abortion was allegedly “arranged and paid for” by Elite.
Trump was closely involved in Casablancas’s competition. In 1991, he was a headline sponsor, throwing open the Plaza, his lavish, chateau-style hotel overlooking Central Park, transforming it into the main venue and accommodating the young models. He was also one of its 10 judges.
One of the judges in 1991, Gèrald Marie, raped one of the contestants when she was 13
In 1992, Trump hosted the competition again. One of the girls on the boat was Shawna Lee, then a 14-year-old from a small town outside Toronto. She recalls how the contestants were encouraged to parade downstairs, one by one, and dance for Trump, Casablancas and others.
Another contestant, who was 15 at the time, also remembers being asked to walk for Trump, Casablancas and other men on the boat in September 1992. She says an organiser told her that if she refused, she would be excluded from the competition.
“I knew in my gut it wasn’t right,” she recalls. “This wasn’t being judged or part of the competition – it was for their entertainment.”
While Elite’s official brochure stated that contestants were aged between 14 and 24, all of those the Guardian has spoken to, competing in both years, were aged between 14 and 19.
Over the last six months, the Guardian has spoken to several dozen former Look of the Year contestants, as well as industry insiders, and obtained 12 hours of previously unseen, behind-the-scenes footage. The stories we have heard suggest that Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models.
No such allegations have been levelled against Trump, who at the time was dating Marla Maples, the woman who in 1993 became his second wife.
Trump married a former Look of the Year contestant: the current first lady, Melania Trump, allegedly had narrowly missed out on a trip to New York in 1992, after coming second in the Slovenian heat.
The Slovenian model’s life landed in New York in 1998 (allegedly at age 28 ) and would meet Donald and begin dating in 2000
Trump, Epstein and Casablancas all knew each other.
By his own account, Donald Trump got to know financier Jeffrey Epstein in the late 1980s. “He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump famously told New York magazine in 2002. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
It also appears that Epstein had a Casablancas connection during the 1990s. According to a lawsuit filed in the US three months ago, in 1990 Casablancas sent a teenage model for her first “casting call” at a residential address on New York’s Upper East Side, to meet a “photographer” who, it turned out, was Epstein. The lawsuit states that Epstein ordered the 15-year-old girl to undress before taking photographs of her, pushing her against a wall and sexually assaulting her.
Trump and Casablancas were often seen together starting in the late 80s.
Beauty Pageants
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/a-timeline-of-donald-trumps-creepiness-while-he-owned-miss-universe-191860/
1996-Trump bought three beauty pageants—Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA—from ITT. As is often the case with Trump, the exact amount of the transaction is unclear. In The Art of the Comeback, he wrote that his winning bid was $10 million. But later, he couldn’t resist changing the narrative to make reporters think he had gotten a steal and paid only $2 million.
1997-Ivanka cohosts her Dads Miss Teen USA Contest
Four women who competed in the Trump-owned Miss Teen USA contest in 1997 came forward in 2016 alleging Donald Trump entered their dressing room while they were in various states of undress. Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, remembers Trump saying something to the effect of, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
Billado says she told 15-year-old daughter Ivanka Trump, a co-host of the event, about her father, then 51, walking in. She says Ivanka replied, "Yeah, he does that."
The reigning Miss Universe, Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee, recalls Trump asking her about the looks of his daughter Ivanka, who was co-hosting the pageant. “‘Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?'” Mahealani Lee recalls Trump saying.
DONALD TRUMP WAS forced to sell the Miss Universe Organization – which also includes sister scholarship programs Miss USA and Miss Teen USA – in 2015 after his incendiary comments about Mexicans drove away broadcasters NBC and Univision. But Trump owned the pageant for nearly two decades, during which time he would have had the opportunity to come into contact with nearly 4,000 beauty queens.
Trump Modeling Agency
https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-six/meetoo
1999-Trump teamed up with Tommaso Buti, to open Trump Modelling Agency, Buti was one of the Italian entrepreneur brothers behind the Fashion Cafe, a restaurant based in New York City featuring celebrity models, initially fronted by super models Naomi Campbell, Elle Macpherson, Claudia Schiffer, and Christy Turlington.
The Butis would later be charged with conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering and the New York Post reported that Tommaso fled for Italy shortly before his indictment, leaving his then-wife model Daniela Pestova behind.
Italian businessman Tommaso Buti is one of the 73 individuals granted a pardon by Donald Trump during his final hours in office.
Trump went on with opening the New York-based agency without Buti. Trump had previously been married to professional model Ivana Trump, and he was dating then model Melania Knauss, whom he would marry, but this was Trump's first step into the business side of the industry.
Trump Models would go on to represent more than 100 women, which, along with its main line of talent, includes a "development" line, which focuses on new talent, and a "legacy" line, which represents more experienced models. Trump Models' website says that the agency "is the brainstorm and vision of owner, Donald Trump."
2017-Trump Model Management abruptly closed down after Trump’s inauguration as president.
Conclusion- its all rather creepy IMO. I guess you can excuse Trumps associations with US Mafia and Former Soviet Union Oligarchs due to the nature of his business in construction and real estate. But his choices to enter into the Casino business, beauty pageants and modeling agencies , associations and /or friendships with the like of Epstein, Buti and Casablancas , not to mention the multitude of accusations regarding his behavior simply cant be overlooked.
I am not accusing Trump of messing with underage girls or doing anything illegal. I do question his choice of associations. You can only rub elbows with Evil for so long before it rubs off on you.