Trumpstein Part 2a: The Exploitation Machines

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This is a story about men who amass fortunes, collect girls, and treat age as just a number. Men who build power through deception and hold it through blackmail. Who generate chaos for profit, exploit everyone around them, and never stop taking.
They are still on top. Or dead. There is nowhere in between.
Trumpstein Part 2a: The Exploitation Machines : r/Epstein
Trumpstein Part 2b: The Exploitation Machines : r/Epstein

The Yacht: Miss America Contestants

September 4, 1988: One man. Twenty-two women. Private yacht, the \"Trump Princess\"

The Beauty Pageant Empire

1996: Trump buys the Miss Universe pagent. Alicia Machado ate little more than broccoli, fruit \"and about 100 pills a day\" before the contest.

1997: Trump calls her an \"eating machine\"after she gains back weight. He puts her on a diet and exercise regimen.

Alicia reflects on her experience.

Machado: "After that episode, I was sick, anorexia and bulimia for five years."

2000: Trump with Miss USA Delegates

2006: Trump with Miss Universe contestants.

2007: Katie Blair, Miss Teen USA 06, , Hilary Cruz; Miss Teen USA 07, Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 07; and Rachel Smith, Miss USA 07, promo for \"Pageant Place\" reality TV

2013: Miss Universe in Moscow. (Trump) \"I was with the top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top-of-the-government people,\"

The Inspector

April 11, 2005: (Trump) \"I'm inspecting… they're standing there with no clothes… so I sort of get away with things like that.\"

Tasha Dixon reflects on her experience as an 18yo in the Miss USA pageant

The Agency

1999: Trump founds Trump Model Management. Melania Knauss is one of the first models hired.

July 2004: Trump Model Management website

2004: Rachel Blais appeared in this Elle fashion spread while working for Trump’s agency without a proper visa

2004: Blais on The Apprentice

“Honestly, they are the most crooked agency I’ve ever worked for, and I’ve worked for quite a few,” said Rachel Blais.

Foreign models were brought to the U.S. on tourist visas. Told to lie to customs.

A narrow flight of stairs led down to the basement, where the models lived in two small bedrooms that were crammed with bunk beds—two in one room, three in the other. An additional mattress was located in a common area near the stairs. At times, the apartment could be occupied by 11 or more people.

“We’re herded into these small spaces,” Kate said. “The apartment was like a sweatshop.”

Models were charged $1,200-$1,600/month for a bunk bed.

January 2011: Former Trump model Alexia Palmer poses for Teen Vogue. She secures a work visa in October 2011.

The agency shut down in April 2017.

The Pipeline

1980s:
Epstein and Maxwell pose as Victoria's Secret recruiters.
Ghislaine Maxwell meet Brunel, and she introduces him to Jeffrey Epstein.
Brunel runs Karin Mossberg's modeling agency in Paris.
Epstein repeatedly visits Paris.
Brunel drugs and abuses women, a 1988 investigation by 60 minutes reveals details.

1985: Brunel assaults Marianne Shine. (Marianne) \"Before Paris I was this playful, creative girl, but that part of me vanished.\"

1988: Brunel sexually assaults Courtney Soerensen, repeatedly.

(Sorenson) The last straw was the so-called “casting call” with Epstein… for a role in a Hollywood movie. “Jeffy” was looking for someone “young, fresh and raw”,

May 3, 1988: Epstein… was joined by a videographer… “I’ll come up and start kissing you from behind, and then we’ll make out on the floor.” …he put his hands on her breasts and up her skirt… tried to hug her and began touching himself.

“That’s when I just had to get out of there,” she says. “I remember shaking … the shame and the fury… was horrified that they had video of him touching me in that way.”…she hid for a few days in another apartment… flew home to Stoneboro.

1990s:
Brunel and Epstein's relationship strengthen.
Brunel founds Karin Models of America in 1995, located in New York.

1998 to 2005: Brunel flies on Epstein's private plane for 25 trips.

2001: Epstein rents a Paris apartment on the second floor of 22 Avenue Foch. He purchases it from a Saudi businessman for €3.5 million.

2003: Karin Models opens another office in South Beach.

2005: MC2 Model Management. Founded by Jean-Luc Brunel with at least $1 million from Jeffrey Epstein.

Jean-Luc Brunel trafficked more than 1,000 women for Epstein

301 East 66th St. apartments owned by Mark Epstein housed the models

(Maritza Vazquez) “There were.. two or three apartments… four girls per apartment”
Brunel charged the girls $1,000 each.
Epstein paid for their work visas.
(Maritza Vazquez) "I gave… from Jeffrey Epstein… instruction to Jean-Luc saying that he wanted to have the same contracts as… Donald Trump**"**
(Maritza Vazquez) Epstein was "motivated by access to the models — not commercial interest"

2015: Brunel and MC2 sue Epstein, claiming that the “bad publicity generated by criminal charges.”

2019: Brunel in Uruguay before Epstein's arrest.

The Parallel

TRUMP'S MACHINE	EPSTEIN'S MACHINE
Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA	MC2 Model Management
Trump Model Management	Karin Models → MC2
Foreign models on tourist visas	Foreign models on H-1B visas
Bunk beds in the East Village	Apartments at 301 E. 66th St.
"I'm inspecting"	"Access to the models"