Throwbacks - Epstein, Diana, Khashoggi, Bezos

June 6, 2017 - Adnan Khashoggi, wealthy arms dealer and Iran-Contra dealer, dies at 81

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-adnan-khashoggi-20170606-story.html

"Khashoggi was a man of connections. His nephew Dodi Fayed was Princess Diana’s paramour and died with her in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Khashoggi also briefly owned the Beverly Hills home that was built for Charlie Chaplin in 1922."

Sept 19, 2019 - Why did Jeffrey Epstein's private Jet fly to Riyadh on the eve of 2016 Election?

https://www.insider.com/epstein-riyadh-saudi-arabia-private-jet-2019-9

"Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with whom Epstein has claimed to be close friends, was in Riyadh at the same time, holding meetings with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos."

July 22, 2019 - Who Was Jeffrey Epstein?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html

"Khashoggi, Adnan: Saudi Arabian man of mystery.

To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, SDNY prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epstein’s primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the “personal protection” of “an affluent member of the Jewish faith” traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources."

"According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he “worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators” and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to “help them hide their stolen money.” A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epstein’s clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump."