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☆ Married to an Art Monster
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE EXHIBITIONIST, by Charlotte Mendelson“I prefer stories about squalor,” J.D. Esmé would have gone nuts for “The Exhibitionist,” the fifth novel by the English writer Charlotte Mendelson, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2022. Set in sophisticated if not exactly moneyed quarters of London, with excursions to Edinburgh, it’s a model of tightly controlled domestic chaos. Google the word “exhibitionist” and you will surface some unsavory porn sites. There’s a big party planned, with a “full Mediterrfusion tasting menu” and early foreboding that it will not go well.

Persons: Charlotte Mendelson “, ”, Salinger’s Esmé, Esmé, Charlotte Mendelson, it’s, Ray Hanrahan, Ray, Al Locations: London, Edinburgh

☆ Fact Check-Altered image of Jeffrey Epstein with Elon Musk, Ashton Kutcher and Spike Lee
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The face of late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was digitally added to a photograph of billionaire Elon Musk, actor Ashton Kutcher and filmmaker Spike Lee, who are in the original image and pictured with talent manager, Guy Oseary. Examples of the altered photo circulating online can be seen (bit.ly/3re6zVP) and (here). The original image was captured on March 10, 2018 by photographer Joe Scarnici, and can be viewed via Getty Images (here). The original photograph shows the group pictured with Guy Oseary, not Jeffrey Epstein. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, Ashton Kutcher, Spike Lee, Guy Oseary, Joe Scarnici, Scarnici, Epstein, “, Guy Oseary’s, Read Organizations: Getty, Reuters, Business

☆ Alan Arkin, Comic Actor With a Serious Side, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Robert Berkvist | Peter Keepnews | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His son Matthew Arkin said that Mr. Arkin, who had heart ailments, died at home. Mr. Arkin was not quite a show-business neophyte when he was cast in the 1963 Broadway comedy “Enter Laughing,” Joseph Stein’s adaptation of Carl Reiner’s semi-autobiographical novel about a stage-struck boy from the Bronx. He had toured and recorded with the Tarriers, a folk music group, and he had appeared on Broadway with the Second City, the celebrated improvisational comedy troupe. In a cast that included established professionals like Sylvia Sidney and Vivian Blaine, Mr. Arkin stole the show and won the hearts of the critics. “‘Enter Laughing’ is marvelously funny, and so is Alan Arkin in the principal role,” Howard Taubman wrote in The New York Times.

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☆ The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Katrina Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Wednesday evening, an international consortium of research collaborations revealed compelling evidence for the existence of a low-pitch hum of gravitational waves reverberating across the universe. “I like to think of it as a choir, or an orchestra,” said Xavier Siemens, a physicist at Oregon State University who is part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, or NANOGrav, collaboration, which led the effort. Scientists said that, so far, the results were consistent with Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes how matter and energy warp space-time to create what we call gravity. “The gravitational-wave background was always going to be the loudest, most obvious thing to find,” said Chiara Mingarelli, an astrophysicist at Yale University and a member of NANOGrav. “This is really just the beginning of a whole new way to observe the universe.”

Persons: ”, Xavier Siemens, Siemens, NANOGrav, Albert Einstein’s, Chiara Mingarelli Organizations: Oregon State University, American Nanohertz, Big Bang, Yale University

☆ Jeffrey Epstein’s Suicide Underscores Negligence in Federal Prisons, Watchdog Finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ DOJ issues scathing rebuke of Bureau of Prisons detailing multiple failures that led to Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The report indicated the Bureau of Prisons’ failings were troubling not only because they did not safeguard Epstein but also because they “led to numerous questions about the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death” and denied Epstein’s victims justice. Two guards on duty the night of Epstein’s death later admitted to falsifying records at the time. According to the initial indictment against the two guards, on the night of Epstein’s suicide, both individuals repeatedly failed to complete the required prisoners check during their watch. On the day before he was found dead in his prison cell, Epstein was also allowed by prison staff to make an unmonitored phone call, despite prison policy requiring all phone calls to be monitored. In August 2021, two years after Epstein’s death, the BOP announced it would close Metropolitan Correctional Center, citing the need to improve conditions in the facility.

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☆ Report on Epstein’s Death Finds Errors and Mismanagement at Manhattan Jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Glenn Thrush | Benjamin Weiser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What they did find was a remarkable, and largely unexplained, succession of circumstances that made it easy for Mr. Epstein to kill himself. For reasons that remain unclear, the jail’s staff members allowed Mr. Epstein to hoard extra blankets, linens, bedding and clothing, despite the fact that he had tried to hang himself earlier. The inspector general’s report comes nearly four years after Mr. Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell with a bedsheet tied around his neck. Mr. Epstein had been awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges, and if convicted, would have faced up to 45 years in prison. Two days after Mr. Epstein’s death, Attorney General William P. Barr said that there had been “serious irregularities” at the jail.

Persons: Epstein, —, Epstein’s, William P, Barr, ” Organizations: of Prisons, Wall Street titans

☆ Parties seek court approval of JPMorgan Chase $290 million settlement over Epstein ties
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Attorneys filed a preliminary plan to facilitate a $290 million settlement fund for JPMorgan Chase to compensate victims of Jeffrey Epstein. “JPMC is entering into this Stipulation solely to eliminate the burden, expense, and uncertainty of further protracted litigation. Attorneys for the parties have suggested Simone Lelchuk oversee the JPMC settlement process as she has already been appointed claims administrator for the Deutsche Bank settlement. Claimants can see the award money from both bank settlements, though the JPMorgan settlement language notes that any award amount received through the Deutsche Bank settlement will be considered when processing their claim with JPMC. JPMorgan Chase remains tied up in litigation over its longtime relationship with Epstein in a pending lawsuit brought by the government of the US Virgin Islands.

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☆ JPMorgan’s Epstein Deal Sets No Cap or Minimum on Victims’ Claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The decision to leave the size of each payout up to an administrator will give that person significant power over the settlement fund, which covers a period of abusive activity by Mr. Epstein from 1998 to 2019. More than 200 women may be eligible to apply to the settlement fund, judging from the number of claims that had been filed with a separate victims restitution fund established by Mr. Epstein’s estate. The estate created the restitution fund shortly after Mr. Epstein killed himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial in a Manhattan jail on sex trafficking charges. The proposed settlement with JPMorgan did not prohibit any woman who received a payout from the estate’s restitution fund from getting an additional recovery under the deal with JPMorgan, according to the court filing. The bank had served as Mr. Epstein’s primary financial institution for roughly 15 years before finally ending the relationship in 2013.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein Organizations: JPMorgan, Mr Locations: Manhattan

☆ Jeffrey Epstein Acted Like an Adviser to JPMorgan Executive
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

A number of times, Mr. Staley told Mr. Epstein he missed him, talked about mutual friends and about helping his daughter get into graduate school. In one email, Mr. Staley bragged to Mr. Epstein about his New Year’s Eve 2011 plans: “I’m here in Brazil with three beautiful women. Have a happy new year.”In another email exchange, according to the document, Mr. Staley wrote to Mr. Epstein in 2010: “Maybe they’re tracking u?? In some emails, Mr. Epstein mentioned all the rich and famous people he was meeting or talking to, including Prince Andrew. Mr. Black was another close associate of Mr. Epstein’s for many years and paid him $158 million for tax and financial advice.

Persons: James E, Staley, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein’s, Epstein, Mr, “, ”, Prince Andrew, Leon Black, Black Organizations: JPMorgan Chase, Mr, The New York Times, ”, JPMorgan, Middle, Wall Locations: Brazil

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on Friday denied "in its entirety" the U.S. Virgin Islands' request to again have Dimon and another JPMorgan employee testify under oath. The territory, where Epstein owned two neighboring islands, is seeking damages from JPMorgan for allegedly ignoring Epstein's sexual abuses and letting him set up a sex trafficking operation there. Epstein was a JPMorgan client from 1998 until the bank terminated him in 2013. Dimon said he did not recall discussing Epstein's accounts at the time, and had barely heard of Epstein until his July 2019 arrest. The case is U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

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☆ JPMorgan fails Jeffrey Epstein stress test
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Jeffrey Goldfarb | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

At least, that’s the impression left by Jamie Dimon’s answers to recent questioning in relation to Jeffrey Epstein, the dead sex-trafficker who was a JPMorgan (JPM.N) client for 15 years. Taken altogether, the case is a sign that the bank is simply too big for one person to manage. Epstein was a JPMorgan client from 1998 until 2013. Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Litigation related to Epstein is still pending between the U.S. Virgin Islands and JPMorgan, as are claims by JPMorgan against its former head of investment banking, Jes Staley.

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☆ German metal band Rammstein’s lead singer Till Lindemann under investigation on allegations of sexual offenses and distribution of narcotics
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Inke Kappeler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Till Lindemann, the lead singer of German industrial metal band Rammstein is under investigation on allegations relating to sexual offenses and the distribution of narcotics on the basis of “several criminal complaints,” according to a spokeswoman for the Berlin’s Public Prosecutor’s office. Neither the band nor Lindemann have commented publicly since the investigation was launched on Wednesday, or responded to CNN’s request for comment. Concertgoers have accused Lindemann of coercion and systematic abuse of young women on social media in recent weeks. After Lynn went public with her account, German Youtuber Kayla Shyx, 21, released a video revealing details about her experience at a Rammstein concert in Berlin the previous year. The band is scheduled to perform in Berlin on July, 15, 16 and 18, with all concerts sold out.

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☆ JPMorgan reaches settlement with Epstein victims
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —JPMorgan Chase has settled a class action suit from Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse victims. The victims had accused the bank of enabling sex trafficking by the deceased financier when he was a client. The bank and the victims’ lawyers said the settlement is in the best interests of all parties, “especially the survivors who were the victims of Epstein’s terrible abuse,” they said in the statement. Terms of the settlement agreement were not disclosed. Victims of Epstein had previously reached a $75 million settlement with Deutsche Bank.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Jeffrey Epstein’s, ”, Jes Staley, Epstein Organizations: New, New York CNN, JPMorgan, US, US Virgin Islands, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Locations: New York, US Virgin

A potential end to a high-profile fightJPMorgan Chase on Monday reached a tentative settlement with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, weeks after enduring embarrassing disclosures about its longstanding ties to the convicted sex offender. If approved, the deal would ease some of the pressure on JPMorgan as it defends itself against accusations that it ignored repeated warnings about Mr. Epstein’s crimes. The victims’ lawsuit accused JPMorgan of overlooking red flags about Mr. Epstein, because it valued him as a wealthy client who could help connect the bank with even more deep-pocketed people. The deal was reached about two weeks after Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s C.E.O., testified about the matter. In a daylong deposition in the case, filed last November in Manhattan federal court, Mr. Dimon said he had barely heard of Mr. Epstein before the financier’s 2019 arrest.

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☆ JPMorgan Reaches Settlement With Epstein’s Victims
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

JPMorgan Chase on Monday reached a tentative settlement with sexual abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier, after weeks of embarrassing disclosures about the bank’s longstanding relationship with him, said the bank and lawyers for the victims. The proposed deal would settle a lawsuit filed last November in Manhattan federal court by an unidentified woman on behalf of victims who were sexually abused by Mr. Epstein over a roughly 15-year period when they were teenage girls and young women, the suit said. The number of victims could potentially rise to more than 100. In the statement, the bank and the lawyers for the victims said they had reached “an agreement in principle to settle” the lawsuit on behalf of the victims and the “settlement is in the best interests of all parties, especially the survivors who were the victims of Epstein’s terrible abuse.” The statement did not disclose a settlement amount. The settlement agreement was reached roughly two weeks after Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive and one of Wall Street’s best-known bankers, sat for a daylong deposition in which he said he had barely heard of Mr. Epstein before the financier’s July 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges.

Persons: JPMorgan, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein, Jamie Dimon, Mr Organizations: JPMorgan Chase, Monday Locations: Manhattan

☆ Lawyers for Epstein victim suing JP Morgan ask to recall Jamie Dimon and others for depositions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The plaintiff’s filing accuses JPMorgan of intentionally slow-walking its document production to avoid questioning on certain topics during depositions that occurred over the last few months. The plaintiff attorneys want to ask Dimon about an extensive JPMC internal review related to Epstein conducted in the fall of 2019. The financial institution produced “key documents” related to that review days after Dimon’s deposition, according to the motion. “These documents demonstrate that JPMC was fully capable of learning the full extent of Epstein and Staley’s personal relationship,” the filing says. “We do not believe there is any basis to reopen any of these depositions,” a spokesperson for JPMC told CNN on Friday afternoon.

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☆ Joan Didion, RFK’s Assassination and Why “The White Album” Still Feels So Relevant Today. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Timothy Denevi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But many of the specific stories she alludes to in the essay have remained maddeningly opaque. Precisely what prompted her physical breakdown, as well as her terse reference to Kennedy’s funeral, have long been the subject of speculation for Didionologists. “What was she doing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel during Robert Kennedy’s funeral?” Tracy Daugherty wrote in “The Last Love Song,” his 2015 biography of Ms. Didion. What is the point of teasing us with the hotel if not to deliberately disorient the reader?”Now we finally know the answer. (A transcript, processed in 2019, can also be found in the New York City Public Library’s collection of Ms. Stein’s papers.)

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☆ A Writer Recognizes Herself in Another Writer’s Story
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Jean Hanff Korelitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE MYTHMAKERS, by Keziah WeirWhat navel-gazers we writers of fiction are! It’s an attribute few of us would deny, but while it most often evokes autobiography, even those of us who tend not to mine our “lived experience” are still drawn back ceaselessly into the great and fascinating murk that is … writing about writing fiction. Some of us — myself included (see: “The Plot”) — have an insatiable appetite for stories that grapple with these issues. I am happy to report that Keziah Weir’s assured first novel, “The Mythmakers,” is a laudable addition to a reading list that already includes such standouts as Meg Wolitzer’s “The Wife,” Karen Dukess’s “The Last Book Party,” Andrew Lipstein’s “Last Resort” and R.F. Kuang’s new novel, “Yellowface.” In “The Mythmakers,” most of the relevant offenses surround a recently deceased novelist named Martin Keller as a young journalist sets out to investigate a simple act of appropriation and finds something far more complex and — for any writer — infinitely more shameful.

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☆ Webb telescope detects organic molecules in distant galaxy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Astronomers have detected the most distant known organic molecules in the universe using the James Webb Space Telescope. It’s the first time Webb has detected complex molecules in the distant universe. The complex molecules were found in a galaxy known as SPT0418-47, located more than 12 billion light-years away. The galaxy observed by the Webb telescope shows an Einstein ring caused by a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, which occurs when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned from our perspective on Earth. Investigating the early universeAstronomers spotted the signature of the organic molecules during a careful analysis of Webb’s data.

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☆ Fighting Disinformation as Einstein on Twitter - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Benyamin Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Long before the word “tweet” was associated with anything other than birds, Einstein’s career was nearly derailed by an early form of the disinformation now ubiquitous on social media. In 1920, skeptical scientists who deemed Einstein a crackpot, and his theory of relativity nonsense, joined forces. Like other prominent Jews, Einstein was targeted as an enemy of the state, and a bounty was rumored to have been placed on his head. Einstein received a welcome reception whenever he arrived on the shores of New York City. For the final two decades of his life, he was one of the most widely respected public figures in the world.

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☆ Jamie Dimon denies knowledge of JPMorgan concerns over Epstein in lawsuit deposition
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Dimon made the remarks in a deposition for lawsuits against the bank related to its alleged role in Epstein’s sex trafficking crimes. Dimon testified that he had never personally met or spoken over the phone with Epstein. Dimon testified that the bank’s general counsel would have had the final say to cut ties with a client like Epstein. According to Dimon, Staley and Erdoes could not have overridden the general counsel. “What has become clear is that Epstein could not have run his sex trafficking operation without the valuable assistance of JPMorgan, Chase.

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☆ Jamie Dimon Says He Never Discussed Jeffrey Epstein’s Accounts at JPMorgan; Jes Staley Says Dimon Did
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Khadeeja Safdar | David Benoit | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ JPMorgan Tries to Deflect Blame for Long Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Staley was Mr. Epstein’s advocate in the bank and was the senior relationship manager for Mr. Epstein,” Ms. Erdoes said. The lawsuits contend that JPMorgan chose to keep Mr. Epstein as a client after he became a registered sex offender because he was bringing business to the bank. A blame game is also going on at JPMorgan, with some suggesting that Mr. Staley should have known about Mr. Epstein’s sex trafficking at the time, and that he had the duty to let others know. The bank has named Mr. Staley as a third-party defendant in the lawsuits in a bid to hold him liable for any damages JPMorgan may have to pay. Mr. Staley, who is scheduled to be deposed as soon as next week, has argued in court papers that he did nothing wrong or inappropriate.

Persons: Mr, Staley, Epstein’s, Epstein, ” Ms, Erdoes, ” Organizations: JPMorgan, U.S . Virgin Locations: U.S, New York , Florida, Virgin

☆ JPMorgan’s Dimon Denied Having Any Contact With Jeffrey Epstein
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When it comes to JPMorgan Chase’s nearly 15-year business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Jamie Dimon, the bank’s longtime chief executive, claims to have little firsthand knowledge about the disgraced financier. During a deposition taken on Friday, Mr. Dimon repeatedly denied meeting Mr. Epstein, or communicating with him, and also said he had no recollection of being briefed by his top lieutenants at the nation’s largest bank on one of its most notorious customers. Mr. Dimon said he had barely heard of Mr. Epstein before his July 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges and death by suicide in a New York jail cell a month later. “I don’t recall knowing anything about Jeffrey Epstein until the stories broke sometime in 2019, and I was surprised that I didn’t even — had never even heard of the guy, pretty much. And how involved he was with so many people,” Mr. Dimon said during an all-day deposition taken at JPMorgan’s headquarters in Manhattan.

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