After New Yorkwhere he had permanent residence, Barcelona It became one of the favorite cities of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The Catalan capital was its center of operations, with a multitude of young people, especially models, ending up there thanks to the money from the trafficking network that was run. behind the scenes of the business from modeling agencies. “I’m in Dubai and I can still hear the gasps of Barcelona. Tomorrow I will be in Paris“, he wrote in a e-mail in 2011 to Boris Nikolic, consultant of the Bill Gates Foundation.
Epstein normally stayed at the luxury W hotel, facing the sea, where some of the captured young women also stayed, and he frequented trendy restaurants, such as the seafood restaurant. Bocanegraand he became so enthusiastic about the city that he enrolled, in 2013, in an online dating portal of the Catalan capital with headquarters in the Great Street of Grace, IQ Elite. The website, aimed at people with high intellectual capacity, is already deactivated.
Of the thousands of new ‘Epstein case’ documents that have recently been made public the US Department of Justice It is clear that the pedophile did not, however, have any affection for Madrida city that comes to be described as having a “machista attitude”, nor to Pariswhere he lived for long periods, but that he considered “a town”.
Barcelona, oasis of anonymity
Epstein, who in 2019 was arrested in the US accused of sexual exploitationincluding some minors, and committed suicide months later in prison without being tried, found in Barcelona a oasis of anonymity. “It is a great pleasure to be here (…) Spain is safer than Paris, especially Barcelona. It is full of tourists from everywhere,” Daniel Siad, the French-Algerian businessman who worked as a recruiter of young people for the network, wrote in an email, helping them with flights, money and visa procedures so that they would fall in the network and were then sexually exploited.
In Barcelona, Siad, who paid six months’ rent with the money Epstein gave him, did housekeeping work. scouting for his perverse interests in two agencies: “I’m starting to explore two agencies that are good for View Management; the booker He’s an old friend of mine who used to work with Next Paris, his name is Jorgen. He is one of the best in Europe, he is German, so he knows the French and German markets very well. The second agency is Uno Models; The owner, Michel, is also an old friend from my time in Paris.” EL PERIÓDICO has contacted Uno Models, based in Barcelona’s Born, but they declined to comment.
View of the W hotel, Jeffrey Epstein’s favorite in Barcelona. / JORDI OTIX
Barcelona also served as air bridge between Ibiza and New York, many times the final destination of young women who wanted to advance in the world of modeling. Because Siad and the other Epstein getter, Jean-Luc Brunela French modeling agent, found on the island of Pitiusa a unique place to attract young people, especially Russian women, as confirmed by the e-mails public facts.
“Do you have something nice for me in Ibiza?” the American tycoon once asked Siad. “I am with my friend Tigrane in a very big house in Ibiza and we are with eight top girls. He has the most beautiful models and I have told him not to make any deal with anyone until he meets you […] He has stopped working with IMG and Trump, please call me”the facilitator, who used to send photos of the young women to his boss, responded in another email. “The stewardess lives in Barcelona, knows many models”Siad writes to him on another occasion after carrying out his recruitment work.
Payment for a treatment to remove acne
With this method of favors, the network managed to attract numerous Central European models, some misses in their countries of origin. One of them writes to Epstein in 2018 to tell him that she is processing a visa to work in Barcelona and that she is looking for accommodation “next to the hotel” where the pedophile magnate was staying. “I have three options that I want to talk to you about”he tells him, later commenting that 500 euros a month would be enough to support himself. Another young woman who was going to move to Barcelona even managed to arrange payment for treatment to get rid of her acne. “The doctor laughed at me because he said that with my stiff jaw I can’t do oral sex.”“the model tells him.
Spain was a favorable territory for the network’s misdeeds, hence Epstein tested the possibility, never executed, of buy a mansion. Thus, he tested properties in Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza, and even a palace of Nasrid influence in Marrakech which resembled the Alhambra of Granada, a construct that the sexual predator had been obsessed with since he visited her in the early 2000s.
Although he was interested in properties on the Balearic island with more nightlife, in several emails to friends the pedophile made it clear that He was not very enthusiastic about the gap in Ibiza. “Wrinkles around the mouth and dark circles at 20 years old. Possibly drugs. I was in Ibiza,” he responds to one of the emails that Siad sends him. with the image of a possible ‘victim’.
What emerges from the new leaked documents is that Epstein must have been a big fan of the Spanish clothing brand. The Goosesince Karina Shulyak, his last girlfriend, the Belarusian dentist who has inherited a large part of her fortunehe placed an order in 2015 online from shoes to the store located in Boadilla del Monte for an amount of 2,179 euros. The size was 45-46 and they had to be delivered to his residence in New York.
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