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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9549363/James-Packers-stunning-ties-Benjamin-Netanyahu-Israels-elite-revealed.html

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>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9549363/James-Packers-stunning-ties-Benjamin-Netanyahu-Israels-elite-revealed.html

Australian billionaire James Packer's stunning ties to Israel's elite revealed: Casino mogul 'kissed the feet of former president' and bought house next to prime minister Netanyahu, court witnesses reveal

Billionaire Australian casino mogul James Packer is at the centre of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial after the pair forged an unlikely friendship.

The embattled 53-year-old bought a seaside mansion next to Mr Netanyahu, kissed the feet of former Israeli President Shimon Peres and was nicknamed 'James Bond' by a man who would later go on to take the reins of the spy agency, Mossad.

Stunning court documents also shed light on the fragile mental state of the former Crown Casino boss who flirted with the idea of converting to Judaism.

'There was tremendous chemistry forged between us. He decided that I'm the most impressive person he met,' Mr Netanyahu said in evidence, reported local magazine Haaretz.

'He brought his first girlfriend here (model Miranda Kerr) and afterwards his second girlfriend (singer Mariah Carey). A deep bond formed between us. He told me I was the person dearest to him.'

Mr Packer first travelled to Israel in 2013, where he was enticed by President Netanyahu - or Bibi as he's often called by close friends - to buy a neighbouring property halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Witness statements outline that Mr Netanyahu seduced Packer into buying the mega-home so he could use it himself when he wasn't there.

Mr Netanyahu had his own key and even stored grates of expensive champagne there for his wife Sara.

It is suggested that the controversial Israeli leader wanted to 'benefit from the friendship', according to his former bureau chief, and tried to convince him to buy an Israel newspaper that was critical of the leader.

Those alleged dealings, along with many other gifts from Packer, are now a major part of Mr Netanyahu's bribery and fraud trial which could see him ousted from office after over 15 years in power.

Mr Netanyahu has given evidence denying all the allegations against him.

Those close to the matter say the alleged plot to buyout the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper didn't go to plan.

After reporting the bad news to the Netanyahu's, Mr Packer went back to his hotel room and burst into tears sobbing to his personal assistant Hadas Klein that: 'Sara Netanyahu shouted at me'.

'He took it really hard,' Klein told investigators.

'He very much admired them and loved them, and he's a sensitive guy. A good soul with a huge heart, who needs warmth and love.

'In the morning we took him to the airport and he threw up violently from the pressure.'

Ari Harow, a former bureau chief of Mr Netanyahu, told the inquiry: 'It was clear that the relationship from his Netanyahu's point of view was in order to benefit from this friendship'.

A housekeeper for Mr Packer's Israel mansion told the bribery and fraud hearing the two high-profile men would lounge on the veranda together and smoke lavish cigars.

Mr Packer also entertained the likes of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the former Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop and Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort at the luxurious home.

During his repeated visits to the promised land, Mr Packer became close to many of Israel's elites.

Documents reveal that when the former Israeli President Shimon Peres visited Mr Packer's home, he dropped to his knees and kissed his feet as a show of respect.

The colourful businessman also grew so tight with the country's National Security Chief Yossi Cohen, he nicknamed Mr Packer 'James Bond' and 'No 1 Spy.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9552613/Melinda-Gates-warned-Bill-association-Jeffrey-Epstein.html

Melinda Gates 'warned Bill about Jeffrey Epstein after they met at the sex predator's Manhattan mansion in 2013' - prompting the Microsoft founder to end their 'uncomfortably close' business relationship

Melinda Gates warned her husband Bill against any further contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the couple had an uncomfortable meeting with the convicted sex offender, according to a new report.

Melinda was 'furious' at Bill's relationship with Epstein after the couple visited the predator's Upper East Side townhouse in September 2013, people familiar with the matter told the Daily Beast.

The meeting proved a turning point in Bill's relationship with Epstein, after Melinda expressed how uncomfortable she was with the sex offender and said she wanted nothing to do with him, the sources said.

It comes after Bill and Melinda announced their intention to divorce this week, offering no other explanation for the split aside from saying 'we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.'

Bill and Melinda's meeting with Epstein, previously undisclosed, took place on September 20, 2013, the same day that the couple had a public appearance in New York to accept the the Lasker Bloomberg Public Service Award at the Pierre Hotel.

At the time, Epstein had already been convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida. It was several years later that he was federally charged with sex trafficking, and died behind bars in 2019.

Sources told the Daily Beast that Gates' friendship with Epstein, who cultivated wealthy and powerful friends, still haunts Melinda to this day.

It's unclear whether Melinda had concerns about Epstein's prior conviction, or merely disliked him.

'He just was an obnoxious guy. He almost made a point of having bad manners, not paying attention at dinner,' one person told the outlet. 'I could see how anybody, even without suspicions, would not want to be around him.'

The New York Times reported in 2019 that Gates befriended Epstein in 2011, visiting Epstein at least three times at Epstein's New York City townhouse.

Gates has said that he initially hoped the wealthy financier would help him raise money for his global health initiatives.

In 2011, Gates wrote in an email to colleagues: '[Epstein's] lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.'

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The rapport between Gates and Epstein seems to have fizzled in the fall of 2014, sometime after Gates donated $2 million to MIT’s Media Lab. The lab’s former director Joi Ito, in an internal email unearthed by the New Yorker, claimed Epstein facilitated that donation. As the Times investigation noted: “Mr. Epstein complained to an acquaintance at the end of 2014 that Mr. Gates had stopped talking to him, according to a person familiar with the discussion.”

Gates wasn’t Epstein’s only link to Microsoft. Walker, a neurosurgeon who worked for the Gates’ foundation from late 2005 to 2013, had known Epstein since 1992. She told the Times that she’d just graduated from college and Epstein had offered to land her a modeling job at Victoria’s Secret because he was an adviser to Les Wexner, the founder of the lingerie chain’s parent company, L Brands.

Walker once stayed in an Epstein-owned apartment in Manhattan while traveling to New York, and in 1998, she became the financier's science adviser. Within a few years, she moved to Seattle to be with her now husband, then-Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, and was hired by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There she met Nikolic, the Times report adds, and introduced him to Epstein.

For his part, Nikolic told Bloomberg News he was “shocked” to be named as a “successor executor” in Epstein’s will, a position he quickly turned down. “I was not consulted in these matters and I have no intent to fulfill these duties, whatsoever,” he said in a statement released by his spokeswoman in August 2019.

Nikolic is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, where at least one faculty member received funding that was facilitated by Epstein. According to Bloomberg, Nikolic “waxed enthusiastic about Epstein’s financial advice in discussions with private bankers” in 2014, ahead of a public offering for a genome editing firm Nikolic had funded.

Little is known about Nikolic and Epstein’s relationship, though Bloomberg reported the biotech venture capitalist insisted they had no financial ties.

Meanwhile, Linda Stone, an ex-Microsoft VP, appears to have longer-standing ties to Epstein and vouched for him at MIT. “Ito was introduced to Epstein in February 2013 by Linda Stone, a former member of the Media Lab’s Advisory Council, at a TED Conference in Long Beach, California,” said one 2020 MIT report into Epstein’s largesse reviewed by The Daily Beast.

“He has a tainted past, but Linda assures me that he’s awesome,” Ito said in an email to three MIT staffers, according to the document. But, in June 2013, when a lab assistant raised questions about Epstein’s checkered past, Ito asked Stone for help in avoiding a potential backlash over Epstein’s donations to the MIT Media Lab. In an email cited in the MIT report, Stone advised Ito that Epstein had “given a tremendous amount of money to Harvard” and “other scientists” and it would be “good to show that list.”

“Focus on his funding of Harvard, scientists, over many years,” added Stone, whose tenure at Microsoft lasted from 1993 to 2002. She then mentioned Epstein “aggressively funds science & tech & interesting people.”

The report notes that Stone apparently believed Epstein when he “insisted to her that he was ‘wrongfully convicted,’ pointing both to his light sentence and his assertion that he had been cleared by a lie detector test as evidence that he was truly innocent of the charges.”

Epstein’s address book contained multiple phone numbers for Stone and listed Kelly Bovino—a former model who sources tell The Daily Beast was once part of Epstein’s inner circle—as Stone’s “emergency contact.” As The Daily Beast reported, Giuffre has publicly accused Bovino of aiding Epstein’s trafficking scheme.

The tech insider who spoke to The Daily Beast noted Stone thrived on connecting people but that she “has a lot of friends who are infinitely richer than Epstein.” They added: “I can’t see anything Linda got out of it.”

Epstein’s rolodex also had a variety of phone numbers for Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s former chief technology officer. In July 2019, Vanity Fair reported the men were longtime friends, and that Epstein allegedly visited Myhrvold’s investment firm, Intellectual Ventures, with “young girls” who were possibly “Russian models” in tow.

In 2003, Vanity Fair named Myhrvold as one of the many businessmen to dine with Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse, and the 2019 article cites a source who claimed Myhrvold openly discussed visiting Epstein’s homes in Florida and New York.

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A flight records database shows Myhrvold traveled on Epstein’s plane, in December 1996 and January 1997. Other passengers included Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and “GM,” believed to be Epstein’s alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

When Giuffre sued Dershowitz for defamation in April 2019, her complaint alleged the famed lawyer attempted to throw Myhrvold under the bus. The document refers to Giuffre by her maiden name, Roberts. “In May 2015 Dershowitz requested confidential settlement negotiations with Ms. Roberts’ lawyers in which Dershowitz sought to convince Ms. Roberts lawyer that Ms. Roberts was mistaken, and that the person to whom Epstein had lent Ms. Roberts was Nathan Myhrvold, not Dershowitz.”

The lawsuit added that Giuffre “was, and is, clear that it was Dershowitz, not Myhrvold, with whom she had sex.”

Myhrvold’s spokesperson told Vanity Fair: “Nathan has no knowledge of or any involvement in the various crimes that Mr. Epstein is accused of committing.”

“He was never a client of his money management business, and he’s never done business with him of any sort,” the spokesperson added. “Back in the day Epstein was a regular at TED conferences and he was a large donor to basic scientific research, so while Nathan knew him and has socialized with him, that’s exactly where their association ends.”

Myhrvold did, however, take a trip to Russia with tech journalist and conference host Esther Dyson sometime in the 1990s, and spent time with Epstein there.

When reached by The Daily Beast, Dyson said that Epstein joined her and Myhrvold for a couple of days when their itineraries intersected in Sarov. The Microsoft executive had planned the meetup with the financier, she said.

One photo Dyson posted on social media of herself and Epstein is timestamped 1998. Another image of Myhrvold includes the caption: “at Microsoft Russia in Moscow, April 98. This was the beginning of a three-week trip during which Nathan and a variety of hangers-on (including a bodyguard) explored the state of post-Soviet science.”

Years later Dyson saw Epstein at Edge dinners and other events but says she didn’t have much interaction with him.

“I wasn’t his category so to speak,” Dyson told The Daily Beast. “He liked rich people and scientists and there were a lot of them at [Edge] dinners.”

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>During his repeated visits to the promised land, Mr Packer became close to many of Israel's elites.

>Documents reveal that when the former Israeli President Shimon Peres visited Mr Packer's home, he dropped to his knees and kissed his feet as a show of respect.

>The colourful businessman also grew so tight with the country's National Security Chief Yossi Cohen, he nicknamed Mr Packer 'James Bond' and 'No 1 Spy.'

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