Billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has settled yet another lawsuit — this time with a woman who claimed she was recruited by the renowned pedophile as a sex slave more than a decade ago.

The woman, Sarah Ransome, sued Epstein and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell in Manhattan federal court last year for forcing her into sex acts in 2006 and 2007, when she was in her 20s.

She more recently claimed they directed her to have sex with Epstein’s powerful friends, including notable lawyer and Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, the Miami Herald reported.

Ransome, who now lives in Barcelona, withdrew the lawsuit on Thursday due to the settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed.

“We are pleased with the settlement. It provides as much compensation as money can provide for the horrific damage done by sex trafficking,” said her lawyer, David Boies.

Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, is a registered sex offender tied to his 2008 conviction for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. Before his conviction and since, he has been accused of sexually abusing dozens of mostly underage girls at his mansion in Palm Beach.

Dershowitz represented Epstein in the 2008 plea deal with Florida federal prosecutors that resulted in 13 months in jail.

On Thursday, he denied Ransome’s allegations.

“Of course she didn’t have sex with me. I never had sex with anyone except my wife,” Dershowitz told The Post. “I’ve never met this woman, I don’t know her, I never heard of her. She just made it up completely.”

Ransome’s lawsuit said Epstein and Maxwell promised her paid tuition to the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan in exchange for her “continued sexual cooperation with Epstein,” the complaint said.

More here;

https://nypost.com/2018/12/20/billionaire-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-settles-another-lawsuit/

She ain’t heavy, she’s my lover.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer used to smuggle his Russian-escort mistress into the luxury Upper East Side home he shared with his wife — by stuffing her inside a piece of luggage, she told The Post.

“He used to sneak me into his Fifth Avenue apartment in a black suitcase . . . when his wife was away,’’ Svetlana Travis Zakharova told The Post in an exclusive interview.

“My knees would be up by my face. When the doorman would ask if he could help, Eliot would say, ‘No, thanks.’ ”

Zakharova revealed the sleazeball sneak tactic — which she said the pair pulled off about 15 times at Eliot and Silda Spitzer’s home — as her lawyer prepared a new push to put the disgraced former pol behind bars.

The Russian sexpot first hit the headlines in early 2016 when she accused Spitzer of choking her during a sex-session-gone-awry at The Plaza hotel in Midtown.

Now, Zakharova’s Queens lawyer, Joseph Murray, is asking Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman to investigate Spitzer for alleged “improprieties” in his efforts to evade prosecution.

Zakharova recently told The Post that when she met the then-married multimillionaire in 2010, he was as cocky as ever — but still a bum underneath it all.

“When I first met him, he bragged how rich he was. But I didn’t believe him because he had holes in his underwear,’’ she said.

Zakharova, now 28, said Spitzer would whine about another girlfriend and his wife when they met up for their anything-goes romps.

“He told me about problems with his wife. She complained about his drinking. She bought a dog without telling him,” Zakharova said.

But Spitzer, 59, got back at his spouse by not only going outside their marriage for sex, but by breaking Silda’s cardinal rule for their upstate estate: No one but family allowed, the ex-lover said.

“He used to take me upstate to the farm,’’ Zakharova said. “He cooked for me, omelets, and he would put a potato in the microwave.

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https://nypost.com/2018/12/20/eliot-spitzer-snuck-me-into-his-apartment-in-a-suitcase-ex-mistress/

There's no denying it, the QAnon conspiracy has spread to Canada.

We know this because last weekend the Canadian QAnon conspiracy theorists came out to play at a rally inspired by the yellow vest protests in France. Across Canada people—donned in yellow vests of their own—railed against Justin Trudeau. They’re mad for a myriad of reasons, such as what they view as lax immigration policy or Trudeau’s treatment of the oil sands, and some are calling for Trudeau to be tried (and in some cases executed) for treason.

At the rallies in Quebec, Ottawa, and Western Canada, some supporters among the hundreds who made up the Canadian version of the yellow vests hauled QAnon signs, emblazoned the letter on their clothing, or showed off the slogan #WWG1WGA (where we go one we go all). If you go to the Canadian Yellow Vest pages—and really any other far-right Canadian Facebook page—you’ll find a hefty portion regarding QAnon and the fantastical nonsense that surrounds it.

more:

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvq5pq/the-qanon-conspiracy-has-spread-to-canada

http://lawflog.com/?p=2064

Rybicki transcript:

http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/18-CV-01568-1386556-000-Documents-Part-2.pdf

Anderson transcript:

http://lawflog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/18-CV-01568-1386556-000-Documents-Part-1.pdf

https://twitter.com/Larry_Beech/status/1075962476372639744