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Ghislaine Maxwell, une femme amoureuse - Affaire Epstein : la liaison dangereuse

Auteure: Laurence Haïm

Nombre de pages: 212

Numéro 02879509 : Ghislaine Maxwell n'est plus qu'un matricule dans une prison de Brooklyn. Fille adorée du magnat britannique de la presse Robert Maxwell, elle aura toujours aimé les hommes puissants – et les aura beaucoup pleurés. Ghislaine Maxwell a chéri son père, mystérieusement noyé, puis le milliardaire Jeffrey Epstein, retrouvé mort dans sa cellule. À lui, elle a donné son coeur, son corps, et son formidable carnet d'adresses. Pour le garder à ses côtés, elle était prête à tout. Après les révélations et la mort d'Epstein en 2019, Ghislaine Maxwell incarne l'associée du diable. Dans la nouvelle Amérique Me Too, les plaignantes exigent des dommages et intérêts. Elle est arrêtée à l'été 2020 et ne cesse de clamer son innocence. Laurence Haïm a suivi le procès de l'intérieur, et raconte dans cette enquête inédite les différents visages de l'affaire Maxwell. Elle met en regard cette Amérique riche, où le monde du 1% avait toute impunité, et celle des moins favorisés, en quête d'un coupable et d'un jugement exemplaire. Elle interroge enfin le parcours d'une femme : victime amoureuse ou compagne machiavélique ? On en jugera.

L'île de tous les vices

Auteure: Jean-gabriel Fredet

Nombre de pages: 194

Comment un milliardaire reçu par toute l’élite américaine s’est-il retrouvé, après des années de folie, plongé dans une vertigineuse descente aux enfers ? Jeffrey Epstein est incontestablement riche. Il n’a pourtant laissé aucune trace dans le monde de la finance. Sa principale activité ? Assouvir ses pulsions en bande organisée ! Pendant plus de 20 ans, des centaines de girls, dont beaucoup étaient mineures, feront le voyage vers son île dans l’archipel des Antilles, à bord du « Lolita Express », un de ses avions privés. Qui a aidé Jeffrey Epstein ? Qui a participé à ses trafics sexuels ? Qui, parmi les rich and famous inscrits dans son petit carnet noir, l’accompagnait dans l’île de tous les vices ? Clinton, Trump, Kevin Spacey, le prince Andrew... et d’autres ? Procureurs sous influences, avocats sans scrupules, nouveaux riches et vieilles fortunes... l’affaire Epstein éclaire d’un jour cru les failles d’une société indifférente aux crimes de ceux qui vivent selon leurs propres règles et qui ne connaissent qu’une loi : celle de l’impunité.

Elizabeth - 50 ans auprès du couple royal, confidences exclusives

Auteure: Gyles Brandreth

Nombre de pages: 382

50 ans auprès du couple royal - Confidences exclusives Ami intime et biographe du couple royal, l'écrivain Gyles Brandreth a recueilli ses confidences durant plus de cinquante ans. À partir des notes de ses conversations privées avec Elizabeth, il livre un ouvrage très personnel et inédit sur le plus ancien monarque de l'Histoire. De son enfance dans les années 1920 à l'ère de Harry et Meghan, de ses années de guerre au château de Windsor à sa mort à Balmoral, ce livre est à la fois le récit d'un siècle tumultueux de l'histoire royale et le portrait d'une femme remarquable. Avec un humour rafraîchissant so british, une honnêteté et une justesse sans faille, Elizabeth s'impose comme LA biographie incontournable d'une souveraine qui, sa vie durant, a été l'emblème de la force et de la résilience dans le monde entier.

Fin de règne

Auteure: Omid Scobie

Nombre de pages: 339

les derniers secrets et tourments de la monarchie britannique racontés de l’intérieur par l’un de ses meilleurs spécialistes. Le 8 septembre 2022, à l’annonce du décès de la reine Élisabeth II, le monde s’est arrêté. Sa mort, qui a ému des millions de personnes, a aussi rompu les remparts qui protégeaient la famille la plus connue de la planète. Son fonctionnement obsolète, son train de vie faramineux, ses guerres intestines, ses manoeuvres pour étouffer ses scandales, et le racisme de certains de ses membres se retrouvent désormais exposés au grand jour. Omid Scobie bénéficie d’une position privilégiée puisqu’il est un des rares journalistes britanniques à travailler pour des médias américains. Au cours des douze ans passés à couvrir la famille royale, il a su tisser des liens tout à fait uniques avec leur premier cercle. Fin de règne est le résultat d’une décennie de reportages inédits, de conversations intimes avec des initiés, des membres de la famille royale, des confrères journalistes et des employés du palais. Et personne n’est épargné.

La Nuit des chasseurs

Auteure: Baptiste Manzinali

Nombre de pages: 147

Une plongée dans l'" âge d'or " du mannequinat, qui a tout d'un voyage au bout de l'enfer. Ils s'appellent Jean-Luc Brunel, Gérald Marie, Claude Haddad ou John Casablancas. Pendant des années, la nuit leur a appartenu, et les plus beaux mannequins de la planète – Linda Evangelista, Karen Mulder, Stephanie Seymour ou une certaine Melania K., future Trump – rejoignaient leurs agences prestigieuses. Ils ont incarné l'âge d'or de la mode et se sont crus intouchables. L'ère MeToo et le scandale Jeffrey Epstein ont précipité l'inéluctable chute de ces chasseurs de " chair fraîche ", qui affichaient avec outrance leur réussite. Les accusations de viols et d'agressions sexuelles sont désormais leur quotidien et la justice n'est pas près de les lâcher, qu'ils soient en liberté, morts ou emprisonnés. Notre époque ne pouvait plus être la leur. La Nuit des chasseurs est le récit de leur irrésistible ascension et de leur violente déchéance. Une immersion au royaume du vice, dont personne ne sort indemne.

Hunting Ghislaine

Auteure: John Sweeney

Nombre de pages: 319

'A cracking read ... Ghislaine Maxwell's story has had endless column inches, but John gives such a great overview, and has mined so many sources that it still feels fresh and compelling.' Mail on Sunday Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who suffered a tragedy, the death of her father, a war hero, a philanthropist, a good man, in suspicious circumstances. She fled to New York where she made a new life with a brilliant mathematician. Her name is Ghislaine Maxwell and her lover was Jeffrey Epstein. Through Jeffrey, and her family name, Ghislaine became friends with some of the most powerful people on earth, ex-President Bill Clinton and President-to-be Donald Trump and the second son of the Queen of England, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. But this is no fairy tale. HUNTING GHISLAINE sets out the other side of the story, and it's one of the darkest you will ever read. Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell, was a sadist, a war criminal, a monster. His cruelty deformed Ghislaine Maxwell long before she met Jeffrey Epstein. Her one-time lover was convicted for being a paedophile. So Ghislaine's life has been spent serving not one monster but two. In HUNTING GHISLAINE,...

Meurtres haute couture

Auteure: Maud Gabrielson , Astrid Faguer

Nombre de pages: 206

La beauté, le raffinement, l'élégance, la créativité... Les mondes du luxe et de la mode font bien souvent figure de machines à rêves. Mais chaque paradis a son envers et ces univers fascinants, outranciers, déroutants, possèdent leur face sombre. C'est ce revers de la médaille qu'explorent et racontent Astrid Faguer et Maud Gabrielson dans Meurtres haute couture. De la mort mystérieuse du mannequin star Katoucha à la séquestration de la famille Guerlain, en passant par le kidnapping de la fille de Calvin Klein, sans oublier la fin tragique d'Ossie Clark et l'assassinat de Maurizio Gucci, elles rouvrent plusieurs dossiers phares ou moins connus. À travers ces affaires criminelles, c'est toute l'histoire de la mode qui défile, en brassant les époques et les styles. Une fascinante galerie de portraits qui conjugue la précision de l'enquête journalistique au rythme du polar.

L'affaire Epstein

Auteure: Dylan Howard

Nombre de pages: 283

Pour la première fois, voici la vie détraquée du milliardaire Jeffrey Epstein, confident de Bill Clinton, qui a piégé, pendant 20 ans, pour le compte des services israéliens, des milliers de députés, sénateurs, hommes d'affaires, journalistes, stars de cinéma, scientifiques de renom, recteurs et doyens d'universités, premiers ministres, princes et princesses (dont le prince Andrew), et même des présidents avec son réseau de prostitution de jeunes filles. De son ascension en tant que professeur de mathématiques en passant par une carrière ratée à Wall Street, on le suit jusqu'à sa gloire et sa déchéance, en passant par sa rencontre capitale avec Ghilaine Maxwell, la fille d'un autre très grand espion du Mossad, Robert Maxwell qui avait acheté les médias britanniques pour le compte d Israël. Alors qu'il se prétendait millionnaire grâce à Wall Street, en réalité Epstein s'était transformé en proxénète spécialisé pour les seuls ultra-riches et tout-puissants qui n'exigent qu'une seule chose: la discrétion la plus totale. Il invitait tout ce qui était célèbre dans ses différentes luxueuses propriétés, îles privées ou encore à Paris, où...

Palace papers

Auteure: Tina Brown

Nombre de pages: 826

Qui a dit que Buckingham Palace était un havre de paix ? L’amour illicite de Camilla et Charles, les excentricités de la reine-mère, la guerre fratricide entre Harry et William, l’ambition de Kate Middleton, peut-être plus féroce que Meghan Markle... Depuis la mort de Diana, en 1997, les turpitudes s’enchaînent. Pour cette exceptionnelle plongée en coulisses, Tina Brown a interviewé plus de cent vingt proches de la monarchie britannique. Jamais le Palais n’avait tant ressemblé à une arène. Avec un enjeu de taille, que la dynastie royale ne pourra esquiver : comment perdurer ? Radiographie d’une Couronne en péril, mais aussi des médias, caprices et rancœurs : scandaleusement savoureux. Ancienne rédactrice en chef de Tatler, de Vanity Fair et du New Yorker, Tina Brown est aussi l’auteure de Diana, chronique intime paru aux éditions JC Lattès en 2007. « Les révélations de Tina Brown n’épargnent personne. » The Washington Post « Le livre royal le plus explosif de l’année. » The Sun Traduit de l’anglais par Laurence Kiefé

TrafficKing

Auteure: Conchita Sarnoff

Nombre de pages: 278

Advocate and abolitionist Conchita Sarnoff risked her life to tell the truth about a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager who is now a level-3 registered sex offender. TrafficKing uncovers a child sex trafficking case of epic proportions and the longest-running human trafficking case in U.S. legal history—more poignant than the Lewinsky case, Watergate scandal, and Profumo affair combined. Eleven years after the registered level-3 sex offender was arrested, four cases associated with his 2005 criminal investigation remain open. The pedophile was not prosecuted under The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), a law enacted in Florida in 2000. In this gripping exposé, Sarnoff finds out why. TrafficKing is a true story exposing the dark side of the human condition: avarice, lust, power, and influence peddling at the highest levels of government.

Guilt by Accusation

Auteure: Alan Dershowitz

Nombre de pages: 182

A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society. “Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it’s what happened to everyone else.”—Politico Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for applying those same principles, and his famed “shoe‑on‑the‑other‑foot test,” to those accused of sexual misconduct. In Guilt by Accusation, Dershowitz provides an in‑depth analysis of the false accusations against him, alongside a full presentation of the exculpatory evidence that proves his account, including emails from his accuser and an admission of his innocence from her lawyer, David...

Sins of the Filthy Rich

Auteure: Peter Coleman

Nombre de pages: 273

Envy, gluttony, sloth, lust, pride, wrath and greed are not good, particularly when the 'sinners' have huge bank accounts and zero accountability. From Emperor Commodus to Rupert Murdoch, Count Dracula to Kim Kardashian, Genghis Khan to Gina Rinehart, Sins of the Filthy Rich explores how the mega wealthy have exploited, indulged and misbehaved appallingly throughout history. Accompanied by shocking facts showing how wicked wealth is ruining the world, Sins of the Filthy Rich is a deep dive into the damage done by the insanely affluent. Get ready to seethe with injustice but also feel better about not being one of the 1% - because those people are awful!

American Muckraker

Auteure: James O’keefe

Nombre de pages: 327

ON POWER They do have tremendous power. But in part it is because we give it to them. We are nothing, but we are not alone. Awe cannot live in fear. The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you, is the moment you become truly free. ON INSIDERS The USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corps combat veteran said, “I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans, honest to God,” than be interrogated by federal agent Russell Strasser—who coerced him by saying, “I am trying to twist you a little bit because your mind will kick in…. I am not scaring you, but I am scaring you.” ON PRIVACY The right to record is closely tied to the right to speak or even to take contemporaneous notes about what one sees and hears. As 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt quipped, “People committing malfeasance don’t have any right to privacy…. What are we saying—that Upton Sinclair shouldn’t have smuggled his pencil in?” ON MEANS & ENDS Whereas the novelist Ernest Hemingway said, “What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after,” Thomas B. Morgan of the 1960s New Journalism contends, “Morally defensible ...

Scandals of the Royal Palaces

Auteure: Tom Quinn

Nombre de pages: 260

George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might have added that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the sexual and political scandals that take place behind the gilded doors of Britain's royal palaces. From Edward II's intimate relationship with Piers Gaveston to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's dramatic exit from the royal family, the royal residences have seen it all. This glorious romp of a book contains new information on well-known and not-so-well-known scandals, including those that have only recently been revealed through the release of previously secret official papers. Exploring surviving palaces such as Kensington as well as long‐vanished residences including Whitehall, Scandals of the Royal Palaces is the first in-depth look at the bad behaviour of not just the royals themselves but also palace officials, courtiers, household servants and hangers‐on. Delving into the bitter hatreds that generations of King Georges nursed for their eldest sons, Queen Victoria's opium‐fuelled rages and Edward VII's near-miss perjury conviction, royal expert Tom Quinn reveals that scandal...

Dead Men Don't Talk: The Epstein Files

Auteure: Campaign Justice

Nombre de pages: 211

JULY 2025 EDITION “The Epstein client list doesn’t exist.” — FBI “It’s sitting on my desk.” — U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi So who’s telling the truth? Dead Men Don’t Talk – The Epstein Files is the ultimate deep dive into one of the most explosive and suspicious criminal cases of the 21st century. This isn’t a retelling — it’s the raw data: unsealed FBI documents, actual autopsy photos, jail cell images and videos, flight logs, and testimonies the public was never supposed to read. Go beyond the headlines and into the evidence. See the rare, unredacted “Little Black Book” in full. Track who flew on Epstein’s private jets. Read survivor testimonies and the FBI’s internal memos on his death. Compare those to an autopsy report showing broken neck bones, petechial hemorrhaging, and other red flags that some have called, "inconsistent with suicide." If you’ve ever wondered why every article seems to say the same thing — like “there is no client list” — it’s no accident. The Trusted News Initiative, formed by major media outlets, ensures all member organizations coordinate their messaging. That’s why headlines across networks are...

Lethal Injustice

Auteure: Juan B. Botero

Nombre de pages: 418

A decade before Candidate Donald Trump announced his newly acquired obsession with building a wall on the US-Mexico border, investigative journalist Juan B. Botero denounced Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo to the House Ethics Committee because of his bizarre obsession with building a wall “paid for by the Mexican government.” In the summer of 2006, he warned members of Congress and Colorado voters that if Tancredo’s localization of World War II German-Italian fascism into American politics wasn’t derailed, it would trigger a national crisis in a decade. In spite of severe childhood traumas involving Mexicans, the self-appointed Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus refused to recuse himself from shaping US immigration policy and the Ethics Committee did nothing. In June of 2015, Donald Trump announced his Presidential ambitions channeling Tancredo’s anger issues by denigrating Sephardic Jews (Hispanics / Latinos) as “murderers” and “rapists” in hardline, offensive tones. Tancredo’s poisonous mix of vendetta against Mexicans eventually spread from Congress to the Executive Branch through Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller as the moral blueprint for the Trump...

A Convenient Death

Auteure: Alana Goodman

Nombre de pages: 257

Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? Two journalists look for answers. A must-read for fans of the Netflix docuseries Filthy Rich. In A Convenient Death, investigative reporters Alana Goodman and Daniel Halper search for the truth of what really happened to Jeffrey Epstein. With access to Epstein's victims and lawyers, to doctors, Wall Street insiders and law enforcement officers, they reveal the dirty secrets and sinister ties that may have driven someone in Epstein’s circle to take matters into their own hands. On the morning of August 10, 2019, Epstein, friend and financier to the rich and powerful, was found unresponsive in his prison cell in lower Manhattan, where he awaited his second trial for sexual predation and other crimes. He was rushed to a local hospital and one hour later pronounced dead by suicide. Across the world, a sinister web of powerful billionaires, celebrities, and politicians, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, had reason to sigh with relief at news of Epstein’s death. Having flown on his private planes and visited his many homes—the sites of so many illicit activities—they had much to lose if their transgressions were ever exposed. And now, Epstein was...

American Kompromat

Auteure: Craig Unger

Nombre de pages: 370

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Kompromat n.—Russian for "compromising information" This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB, thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine. Among them, the book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? The answer, American Kompromat says, is yes, and it supports that conclusion backs with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first “spotted” Trump as a potential asset, how they cultivated him as an asset, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points that were published in three of America’s most prestigious newspapers. Among its many revelations, American Kompromat reports for the first time...

Everybody Knows

Auteure: Sarah Chayes

Nombre de pages: 434

America is corrupted, and everybody knows it. Vested interests have bent government powers to serve themselves, not the citizens, with dizzying results - egregious Supreme Court rulings, revolving doors and cozy deals between the state and the private sector, and forty years of financial meltdowns. In this blistering book, Sarah Chayes shows that today's corruption - even the venality of the Trump administration - is part of global history, going back to the invention of money itself. We're not dealing with 'bad apples' lining individual pockets, but the widespread standard practice of sophisticated networks spanning political and national boundaries. But we can change this, individually, collectively and politically. Searching and unflinching, Everybody Knows exposes a rigged system that strangles democracy, calling on readers everywhere to challenge it.

Legal Gladiator

Auteure: Solomon Schmidt

Nombre de pages: 528

The only biography of America’s most controversial lawyer. Legal Gladiator is the story of perhaps the greatest lawyer in American history. It is the story of a poor, failing high schooler from Brooklyn who became the youngest professor in the history of Harvard Law School, where Ted Cruz, Natalie Portman, Mike Pompeo, Jamie Raskin, and others sat under his tutelage. It is the story of a passionate Zionist who advocated for Israel on the world stage and became a confidant of Israeli prime ministers, including Benjamin Netanyahu. And it is the story of a zealous young liberal who, as an old man, stood in front of the Senate to declare that they would be violating the Constitution by removing a Republican president he himself opposed. As a lawyer, Alan Dershowitz has had a major impact on the most notorious legal cases in modern U.S. history. From Claus von Bulow to Mike Tyson to O.J. Simpson to Jeffrey Epstein to Donald Trump, he has devoted his life to championing the bedrock principle of the American justice system: that every person—no matter how despised—has the right to a rigorous legal defense. Legal Gladiator explores Dershowitz’s rise to prominence, gives the inside ...

Prince Andrew

Auteure: Nigel Cawthorne

Nombre de pages: 244

The arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sparked a Prince Andrew world-media frenzy. But few know the palace intrigue behind their long-standing triangular relationship. Going behind the headlines, documentaries and mini-series, PRINCE ANDREW exposes for the first time the unknown details of the Epstein scandal behind secretive palace gates. Rife with machinations and plots, it paints a rare and riveting, insider portrait of vice and rarified daily life at Buckingham Palace. It is the unbelievable story how a boy from Coney Island befriended the world's foremost royal family. PRINCE ANDREW casts a truly eye-watering light on one of the dirtiest stories of our time, giving the reader much-needed forensic insight into all the facts, allegations and counter-allegations.

The Palace Papers

Auteure: Tina Brown

Nombre de pages: 537

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles of Keats.”—The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Elle, Town & Country “Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specif­ically, there could never be “another Diana”—a mem­ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the Brit­ish monarchy. Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the trau­matic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen’s stoic...

Elizabeth

Auteure: Gyles Brandreth

Nombre de pages: 445

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL ABOUT CHARLES III's CORONATION WITH ADDED PHOTOGRAPHS A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best 'Compelling . . . Fascinating' DAILY MAIL 'The writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals' THE TIMES 'The book overflows with nuggets of insider knowledge' TELEGRAPH Paints a unique picture of the remarkable woman who reigned for seven decades. Fascinating insights' HELLO! __________ Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Through his friendship with the Duke of Edinburgh, he was given privileged access to Elizabeth II. He kept a record of all those encounters, and his conversations with the Queen over the years, his meetings with her family and friends, and his observations of her at close quarters are what make this very personal account of her extraordinary life uniquely fascinating. From her childhood in the 1920s to the era of Harry and Meghan in the 2020s, from her war years at Windsor...

Vous mentez !

Auteure: Marwan Mery

Nombre de pages: 241

Les hommes se grattent le nez lorsqu’ils mentent, les femmes évitent le contact oculaire quand elles bluffent, nos enfants sont de piètres menteurs... Ces affirmations sont fausses, comme beaucoup d’autres d’ailleurs ! Détecter le mensonge est difficil

Tartarie - jeux illuminati

Auteure: David Ewing Jr

Nombre de pages: 193

Qui sont les gens au pouvoir aujourd'hui? Est-ce que beaucoup de ces personnes sont des acteurs? Millionnaires et milliardaires Qui diable sont-ils? Pour qui travaillent-ils? Les preuves mathématiques montrent que les personnes au pouvoir jouent à des jeux Y a-t-il de nombreux événements organisés dans le monde? De nombreux événements dans le monde sont-ils faux? Les médias racontent-ils des mensonges au monde?

The Spider

Auteure: Barry Levine

Nombre de pages: 401

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump has called the ongoing interest in the details about Epstein’s web of clients and enablers a “hoax.” But in this book, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist delivers the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life and death, revealing a criminal enterprise that stretched over decades. “An exhaustively detailed look at the life, death, and alleged crimes of Epstein, along with his years-long friendship with Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s—and how Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency ultimately helped expose Epstein.”—Forbes An ID Book Club Selection • Featured in the Peacock original documentary series Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell By now, the basic contours of Jeffrey Epstein’s horrendous crimes—his decades-long serial abuse of young women and underage girls—are familiar. But for all that has been written about Epstein since his shocking death in a lower Manhattan jail cell, an astonishing amount remains unknown. A shy Brooklyn kid turned renegade financier, Jeffrey Epstein never wanted to play by the rules of polite society. He was elusive in life and he has remained just as elusive...

Selling Sexy

Auteure: Lauren Sherman , Chantal Fernandez

Nombre de pages: 233

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty standard for generations of American women—before the brand’s tight grip on the industry finally slipped Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential and polarizing brands to ever infiltrate the psyche of the American consumer. Almost right at its start in the late 1970s, the company developed a cult following for its glamorous catalogs. Back then, shoppers had few alternatives to the stodgy department stores that sold most of the nation’s intimate apparel. By 1982, the founders of Victoria’s Secret avoided bankruptcy by selling to Les Wexner, the fast-fashion pioneer behind the Limited, whose empire of mall brands would go on to dominate American retail for forty years. Wexner turned Victoria’s Secret into a multibillion-dollar business, and the brand’s cultural influence soared thanks to its airbrushed advertisements and annual televised fashion show, which drew millions of viewers each year. Its supermodel spokeswomen, the sweet but sultry Angels, personified a new ...

Ghislaine Maxwell

Auteure: Nigel Cawthorne

Nombre de pages: 199

Ghislaine Maxwell’s life of privilege was unimaginable. Her jetset world was not only made up of Presidents, top billionaires, Hollywood stars, Kennedys and Rockefellers, but also of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, all as regular friends — including university friend Prince Andrew, the favorite son of the Queen of England. Yet she still wanted more. Ghislaine met shadowy billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and amassed a fortune of almost $30 million over the course of their friendship. After her arrest by the FBI in July 2020 on sex-trafficking charges — almost a year to the day of Epstein’s second arrest — Maxwell decided to fight the charges even when $30 million bail was refused on several occasions by the judge. GHISLAINE MAXWELL leaves no stone unturned and is the first investigation based on all new sources available. An explosive true story, GHISLAINE MAXWELL is a riveting tale of wealth, power and the almost impervious Teflon power surrounding America’s richest circles. Find out the breath-taking real story behind the headlines, programs and documentaries, allegations and counter-allegations.

Les tourments d'une reine

Auteure: Robert Hardman

Nombre de pages: 372

Elizabeth Windsor n’était pas née pour être reine. Pourtant, depuis son accession au trône en 1952 à l’âge de 25 ans, elle s’est révélée une figure astucieuse, déterminée, menant sa famille et son peuple à travers plus de sept décennies de changements sociaux sans précédent. Le journaliste, auteur et cinéaste Richard Hardman a commenté pour la BBC tous les événements majeurs de la monarchie des dernières générations. S’appuyant en outre sur de multiples documents inédits tirés des archives royales, il nous fait découvrir la survie et le renouveau dynastiques, et couvre l’abdication, la romance, le danger et la tragédie. La biographie qu’il propose ici deviendra, sans l’ombre d’un doute, la référence en la matière. Cet ouvrage nous ramène en 1926 et retrace l’enfance de la future souveraine, l’implication de son entourage dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale ainsi que le règne d’Elizabeth II jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle, se fermant sur la période dite noire de la famille royale qui l’a vue multiplier les déboires et scandales. Signe de l’évolution des mentalités, c’est la pérennité même de la couronne britannique qui...

Faute de preuves

Auteure: Marine Turchi

Nombre de pages: 371

Depuis la vague #MeToo, les dossiers de violences sexuelles se multiplient. Dans les commissariats, à la barre, les victimes tentent de faire entendre leur parole. Mais la réponse policière et judiciaire n’est pas toujours à la hauteur. Les institutions sont mises en cause : de l’accueil défaillant au moment de la déclaration aux non-lieux trop souvent prononcés, on leur reproche leur inadaptation, voire leur indifférence. « La justice nous ignore, on ignore la justice », avait lancé Adèle Haenel au nom de toutes celles et ceux qui ne portent pas plainte de peur de s’engager dans un parcours du combattant. C’est cette formule qui a guidé Marine Turchi dans une enquête saisissante sur les raisons de la défiance. Forte du témoignage de près de quatre-vingts interlocuteurs, des magistrat·e·s, des avocat·e·s, des policier·e·s, mais aussi des femmes et des hommes de tous les milieux sociaux, protagonistes d’affaires médiatisées (Gérald Darmanin, Luc Besson, Roman Polanski…) ou pas, l’autrice pointe les obstacles que rencontrent ces dossiers et mesure, sur le terrain, l’impact des politiques affichées. Chemin faisant, elle contrecarre les...

ANNO 2022 LA SOCIETA' QUINTA PARTE

Auteure: Antonio Giangrande

Nombre de pages: 521

Antonio Giangrande, orgoglioso di essere diverso. ODIO OSTENTAZIONE, IMPOSIZIONE E MENZOGNA. Si nasce senza volerlo. Si muore senza volerlo. Si vive una vita di prese per il culo. Tu esisti se la tv ti considera. La Tv esiste se tu la guardi. I Fatti son fatti oggettivi naturali e rimangono tali. Le Opinioni sono atti soggettivi cangianti. Le opinioni se sono oggetto di discussione ed approfondimento, diventano testimonianze. Ergo: Fatti. Con me le Opinioni cangianti e contrapposte diventano fatti. Con me la Cronaca diventa Storia. Noi siamo quello che altri hanno voluto che diventassimo. Facciamo in modo che diventiamo quello che noi avremmo (rafforzativo di saremmo) voluto diventare. Rappresentare con verità storica, anche scomoda ai potenti di turno, la realtà contemporanea, rapportandola al passato e proiettandola al futuro. Per non reiterare vecchi errori. Perché la massa dimentica o non conosce. Denuncio i difetti e caldeggio i pregi italici. Perché non abbiamo orgoglio e dignità per migliorarci e perché non sappiamo apprezzare, tutelare e promuovere quello che abbiamo ereditato dai nostri avi. Insomma, siamo bravi a farci del male e qualcuno deve pur essere diverso!

ANNO 2019 LA SOCIETA'

Auteure: Antonio Giangrande

Nombre de pages: 1102

Noi siamo quello che altri hanno voluto che diventassimo. Facciamo in modo che diventiamo quello che noi avremmo (rafforzativo di saremmo) voluto diventare.

ELISABETTA E LA CORTE DEGLI SCANDALI

Auteure: Antonio Giangrande

Nombre de pages: 276

Rappresentare con verità storica, anche scomoda ai potenti di turno, la realtà contemporanea, rapportandola al passato e proiettandola al futuro. Per non reiterare vecchi errori. Perché la massa dimentica o non conosce. Denuncio i difetti e caldeggio i pregi italici. Perché non abbiamo orgoglio e dignità per migliorarci e perché non sappiamo apprezzare, tutelare e promuovere quello che abbiamo ereditato dai nostri avi. Insomma, siamo bravi a farci del male e qualcuno deve pur essere diverso!

Andrew – Skandalprinsen

Auteure: Rakkerpak Productions

Nombre de pages: 47

Andrew föds som det tredje av drottning Elizabeth II:s fyra barn. Ryktet säger att Elizabeth och Andrew har ett mycket speciellt band. Allt går också som på räls för Andrew och han gör karriär inom den kungliga flottan. Men en särskild bekantskap med den numera avlidne rikemannen Jeffrey Epstein gör att Andrew dras in i en mängd skandaler. År 2021 stäms han av Virginia Giuffre på grund av sexuella övergrepp. ANDREW – SKANDALPRINSEN berättar historien om en prins uppgång och fall. Lyssna också på de andra avsnitten i serien om bland annat prinsessan Diana, prins Andrew och prins Harry och Meghan Markle. Serien DEN ENGELSKA KUNGAFAMILJEN är full av skandaler, hemligheter, rikedom, plikter och olycklig kärlek. Alla ord och begrepp som vi kanske förknippar med det engelska kungahuset. I den här serien gör vi en resa genom de senaste hundra åren och umgås med hela den berömda och beryktade kungafamiljen. Serien är baserad på verkliga händelser från huset Windsors historia och har omvandlats till filmiska scener. Serien är skriven och producerad direkt för ljud av RAKKERPAK PRODUCTIONS för Word Audio Publishing International.

Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy

Auteure: Kenneth J. Panton

Nombre de pages: 705

The foundations of the British monarchy date from the era, more than a millennium ago, when Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Viking peoples competed for dominance. Early sovereigns exercised near-absolute power but over time that authority dwindled as the changing role of women, the democratization of society, dynastic intermarriage, financial demands, religious convictions, struggles for economic and political control, and territorial aggrandizement combined to promote change. The strengths and weaknesses of rulers such as William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth also contributed to the evolution of the monarchy and are documented here. Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries that cover significant events, places, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, economics, politics, and society. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the British monarchy.

Die Wahrheit über Jeffrey Epstein

Auteure: Julia Schmidt

Nombre de pages: 108

Wer war Jeffrey Epstein wirklich? Diese illustrierte Biografie wirft einen schonungslosen Blick auf das Leben eines Mannes, der wie kaum ein anderer die Schlagzeilen der Weltpresse beherrschte. Von seinen Anfängen als ehrgeiziger Finanzjongleur in New York bis zu seinem spektakulären Aufstieg in die Kreise der Superreichen – und seinem tiefen Fall, der internationale Ermittlungen und Debatten auslöste. Mit spannenden Texten und eindrucksvollen Fotos zeichnet dieses Buch Epsteins Weg nach: seine Verbindungen zu Politik, Wirtschaft und Showbusiness, seine Rolle als Strippenzieher im Hintergrund und die dunklen Geheimnisse, die sein Leben überschatteten. Die illustrierte Biografie beleuchtet nicht nur die schillernden Facetten seines öffentlichen Auftretens, sondern auch die Abgründe, die hinter der Fassade lauerten. Ein faszinierendes Porträt eines Mannes, der die Welt erschütterte. „Die Wahrheit über Jeffrey Epstein“ ist ein außergewöhnliches Geschenk für alle, die sich für die Geschichten hinter den Schlagzeilen interessieren – und für jene, die verstehen wollen, wie Macht, Geld und Skandale untrennbar miteinander verwoben sind.

ANNO 2022 LA SOCIETA' PRIMA PARTE

Auteure: Antonio Giangrande

Nombre de pages: 361

Antonio Giangrande, orgoglioso di essere diverso. ODIO OSTENTAZIONE ED IMPOSIZIONE. Si nasce senza volerlo. Si muore senza volerlo. Si vive una vita di prese per il culo. Tu esisti se la tv ti considera. La Tv esiste se tu la guardi. I Fatti son fatti oggettivi naturali e rimangono tali. Le Opinioni sono atti soggettivi cangianti. Le opinioni se sono oggetto di discussione ed approfondimento, diventano testimonianze. Ergo: Fatti. Con me le Opinioni cangianti e contrapposte diventano fatti. Con me la Cronaca diventa Storia. Noi siamo quello che altri hanno voluto che diventassimo. Facciamo in modo che diventiamo quello che noi avremmo (rafforzativo di saremmo) voluto diventare. Rappresentare con verità storica, anche scomoda ai potenti di turno, la realtà contemporanea, rapportandola al passato e proiettandola al futuro. Per non reiterare vecchi errori. Perché la massa dimentica o non conosce. Denuncio i difetti e caldeggio i pregi italici. Perché non abbiamo orgoglio e dignità per migliorarci e perché non sappiamo apprezzare, tutelare e promuovere quello che abbiamo ereditato dai nostri avi. Insomma, siamo bravi a farci del male e qualcuno deve pur essere diverso!

The King

Auteure: Christopher Andersen

Nombre de pages: 387

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet sympathetic portrait of one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of our time: Charles, who has taken his place on the throne after being the oldest and longest-serving heir in British history. Since the day Charles Philip Arthur George was born, he has been groomed to be King. After more than seventy years of waiting, he finally ascends the throne. The King examines the private life of this historically important and controversial figure, set against the grand, thousand-year sweep of the British monarchy. This richly detailed biography covers it all, from his military training to his marriage to Lady Diana, through their separation and her tragic death to his marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles. In the process, it provides a balanced but fully honest look into the life of the new monarch. This book will tell you what the King—a man who has remained something of an enigma, shrouded in speculation and intrigue—is really like. The King is the first biography of Charles since he has become monarch and serves as an authoritative chronicle of his life.

The New Royals

Auteure: Katie Nicholl

Nombre de pages: 294

Vanity FairRoyals correspondent and bestselling author ofWilliam and HarryandKateexplores the remarkable life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, with new chapters to include the last few months of her reign, and the rise of King Charles III. For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her uncle’s abdication, in the uncertainty of the Blitz, and in the tentative exposure of her family and private life to the public via the press, Elizabeth became synonymous with the crown. ​ But times change. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor, and even as England celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, there were calls for a changing of the guard. In The New Royals, journalist Katie Nicholl provides a nuanced look at Elizabeth’s remarkable and unrivalled reign, with new stories from Palace courtiers and aides, documentarians, and family members. She examines King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s decades in waiting and beyond—where “The Firm” is...