It’s not just. It is not just his daughter Ana. We now know that the Spanish economist and writer Astrid Gil-Casares, ex-wife of the president of Ferrovial, Rafael del Pino, also maintained fluid communication over the years, between 2017 and 2019, with the pedophile, when he went to prison for the second time for trafficking in minors.
This is shown by the events made public on January 30 by the United States Department of Justice, which the North American press is gradually revealing.
Gil-Casares, who after her time in finance became a screenwriter and author, sent Epstein an email message in December 2017 in which she asked for advice on a first draft of a work, “it is a very, very incipient draft, but I would love for you to read it.”
The communication between the Spanish woman and the deceased pedophile in which they exchanged comments about novels (such as War and Peace and, above all, Lolita, a work that has been found repeatedly in the properties of the financier), articles or comments about the protagonists of a work she writes (“What would you change about Felipe?” she tells him) continues through other media, such as WhatsApp.
In an email dated January 2018, he thanks him for his observations: “I have incorporated all your comments” and explains that he has tried to “make the story less cliché”, specifying the objective of the project: “I want a commercial comedy, not a Cannes film,” it reads. But he doesn’t trust it, and later asks him: “Would you read it one more time, please?”
In another exchange, he even explains more about his literary creations: “My main ‘romantic’ character is still based on you… A kind of modern-day Rhett Butler,” he tells the child molester, .
“How are you, missing friend?” the writer asks him in July 2019 in this way. “Paris,” Esptein answers, before Gil-Casares asks him about his plans for the summer and suggests that they meet in one of the cities they were going to visit on vacation. “If you pass, write to me,” she tells him. In one more message, it reads: “Will you be in Paris between May 1 and 5?” before adding, in a conspiratorial tone: “Wow! Really? I would fly on the 2nd and stay until the 5th. Do we have a deal?”
Gil-Casares, who wrote the script for a film titled ‘What’s in it for you?’, confesses, “I would love to hear from you,” and he does so on July 5, 2019, the day before the deceased criminal was detained at the New Jersey airport the next day.
Why don’t you stop in Madrid one night? For some strange reason I feel like I need you.”
Until that moment, and throughout the previous years, the documents made public reveal an intimate relationship between the two in which confessions occur: “It has been a hard week emotionally,” she admits. “Are you coming to Europe next week? Why don’t you stop in Madrid for one night? For some strange reason I feel like I need you.”
Given the impulsive nature of the message, it is necessary to qualify it. “When I say ‘I feel like I need you’ it’s as a friend (so don’t feel pressured). It’s just that I feel, I sense a strong connection with you,” and adds: “Maybe it’s just a figment of my imagination, based on nonsense that we women feel special about.”
There are other explicit invitations to Madrid: “I don’t have the girls from Wednesday to Sunday. Spain is beautiful. You’re going to love it,” for example.
In the last exchanges, Epstein responds to her with brief messages and in one of the exchanges he calls her “basic” to which she responds: “I am basic and bourgeois.”
The documents made public last week have revealed the relationship of many well-known citizens with the pedophile who died in prison in August 2019, such as the crown princess of Norway, the owner of X Elon Musk or the former US president Bill Clinton, who must appear in the United States Senate to explain this connection.
A photo of financier Jeffrey Epstein and young Teala Davies circulates during a press conference about the case at the Lotte New York Palace, on November 21, 2019.
His biography
The author and economist was born in Madrid in 1973, daughter of the naval engineer Santiago Gil-Casares Armada and the French aristocrat Catherine Marlier. He grew up in the wealthy Puerta de Hierro neighborhood of the Spanish capital and spent his summers in Sotogrande. He studied at the religious school of Saint Chaumond and at the French Lyceum and Economics and Marketing at ESADE. He speaks six languages.
He worked in investment banking, first in Paris at the Rothschild bank; and later in London at CSB, HSBC and JP Morgan. Already in 2004, he created his own consulting company, called Gil-Casares Consultant Limited.
It was in the United Kingdom that she met Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo and they began dating in 2004. On June 10, 2006, they married and she moved to Madrid. They had three children. They divorced, however, in 2016.
While married, she began writing a script that she abandoned, resumed when she divorced, and finished in 2019. It was the script for the film What’s at stake?directed by Inés de León. His novels are usually inspired by his experiences as a Spanish upper class.
