NEW PHOTOS OF MBS AND EPSTEIN SURFACE ALONG WITH DETAILS OF EPSTEIN'S MOSQUE ON LITTLE ST. JAMES

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The episode discusses new photographs of Jeffrey Epstein with Mohammed bin Salman and details about Epstein's mosque on Little St. James.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.org Two new photographs of Jeffrey Epstein joking with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman landed in Ellie Leonard’s signal threads this morning, hours before The New York Times published a long account of the same network. Both pictures show the two men close, intimate, at ease. The Times piece tracks the rest of it — tapestries from the Kaaba in Mecca shipped to Epstein’s island, tiles from Uzbek mosques, a golden dome modeled on ancient Syrian temples, and a 2014 photo of Epstein with the Emirati executive Sultan Bin Sulayem, who was later fired from his job at DP World over his Epstein ties. The point, Leonard noted on the show, is that Epstein “didn’t really know how to design a mosque” — he bought what cost the most because the price was the relationship. The mosque on St. James Island is not a mosque. It is a meeting room with a Mecca tapestry on the wall, built to impress the Saudis who came to dinner. The Saudi connection runs back to the eighties. Adnan Khashoggi, the uncle of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, trained Epstein in what I called “the finer arts of criminal money…

People in this episode

Host: Zev Shalev

Guest: Ellie Leonard

Topics covered

• Jeffrey Epstein
• Mohammed bin Salman
• Saudi Arabia
• true crime
• money laundering
• Little St. James
• Khashoggi

Keywords

• Epstein
• MBS
• mosque
• Little St. James
• Khashoggi
• money laundering
• Saudi Arabia
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New York Times, DP World

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