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Jeffrey Epstein and Celebrity Hairstylist Frederic Fekkai
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Frederic Fekkai, the celebrity hairstylist and luxury brand mogul, was named in court documents by Virginia Roberts Giuffre as one of the individuals to whom Jeffrey Epstein allegedly trafficked her for sex. Giuffre’s sworn testimony placed Fekkai...
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This article was originally authored on October 6th of 2019. In the years after he registered as a sex offender, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein launched a veritable crusade to rehabilitate his image. No doubt about that. The dude was literally on a crusade to fix his image. We've talked about the money at the universities, we know about the people in the business world that were helping him refurbish, refurbish his image. We know about the politicians, we know about the royals. So yeah, that's exactly what was occurring. There's no doubt. And, and all of the people that made that a reality, all of them should be held accountable for helping this man refurbish his image. The convicted felon donated to prominent charities, convinced friends to invite him to a list events, and took to wearing a Harvard sweatshirt whenever there was a camera around. But among the most important stops on Epstein's comeback tour were his regular appointments at hairdresser Frederick Fakai's high profile salons. So Frederick Fakai is like a, you know, suppose top notch hair guy, hairdresser. You know, a lot of the stars go to him. Big shot in New York. And this was a place where Jeffrey Epstein had it set up that he could send the girls down there as Core 4 whenever he wanted to get their hair done, to get them all spiffed up, you know, the whole nine. So it wasn't like it was just a loose business relationship between the two. They obviously were very tight And Jeffrey Epstein would send his girls there for a reason, Right? Multiple former Faki employees told the Daily Beast that Epstein regularly brought groups of young women into the New York salon and after his conviction, where he paid for their services and had them sit on his lap and stroke his hair. What a weirdo, dude. This guy would bring in these girls, right? Just think about it for a minute. He'd bring in these girls from disadvantaged backgrounds, girls that he had been grooming, girls that he had been setting up for the trafficking ring or whatever. And then he'd bring them down to this salon like he's, you know, the Grand Poobah or something. And he'd have them down there sitting on his lap, playing with his hair. It's just ultra creepy to think about this dumbass faced MF sitting there, having these young girls playing with his hair and all of this jazz and nobody saying anything about it. Nobody, you know, tapping the guy next to him and saying, hey, what the up with this dude? What is going on over here? But you see, folks, for us, it would be weird for. For us, we would ask questions, but not them. In their world, the way that they conduct themselves, this shit is commonplace. Obviously, When he was in Florida, former employees said Epstein would have Fakai stylists make house calls to his Palm beach estate. It doesn't sound like people that just had a business relationship, right? We're talking pretty close friends. We're talking. I am so close to you that even when I'm in Palm beach that I'm going to have you send down stylists to take care of the needs of my. My. The girls that I have here that I'm, you know, trafficking or abusing or, you know, grooming for that purpose. I'm going to have your people come down to take care of them. Does that sound like somebody who isn't close with somebody? You know, you give your business to the people you're close to, right? Unbeknownst to them, Fakai's brand had received an influx of cash years earlier from a company backed by L Brands, the same retailer owned by Epstein's only known client, Les Wexner. Not anymore. And again, it's all coincidence, right? That's what they would have you believe. And if we didn't go through all of these articles the way that we do, their narrative would. Would. Would be the narrative, right? That it would be it. But when you go through all of these articles and you start putting them against each other, running the articles against each other, you get. You start to See the big picture here, you start to understand very quickly that this isn't just all coincidence, that all of this stuff ties in together either in a very close manner or at the very least, loosely. And all of these people are connected. What do you think? It just, it just so happened that the L Brands gave an influx of cash to Fakai and then Epstein. That's. That's the place where Epstein goes to bring the girls to get their hair and, and stuff done. There's no coincidences here, folks. All right? All of this stuff adds up. A spokesperson for Frederick Fakai Brands said the company had been sold by the time of Epstein's conviction in 2008 and that Faki was not involved in the salons at the time. Neither he nor the current management team had any knowledge of the incident's described. And in Mr. Fakai's limited acquaintance with Mr. Epstein, he never witnessed any of the deplorable conduct that led to Mr. Epstein's conviction. The spokesperson said all of these people with the same story. Oh, we had no idea what was going on. I. I had no clue. There were no signs. Jeff's just a really good looking guy, you know, Brad Pitt esque. And the girls are all over him. A regular old Casanova. Yeah, maybe if you're blind. Two decades ago, Epstein would have been indistinguishable from the dozens of celebrity clients who flocked to Faki's Upper Eastside salon. Fakai, a charismatic kofer known for his boyish good looks, opened his first salon in 1988 and rose quickly from unknown French hairdresser to stylist to the stars. Another Frenchman, huh? I'm wondering, does he know Jean Luc Brunel? I wonder how close they are. He styled celebrities like Demi Moore, Jodie Foster and Meryl Streep for the red carpet and was credited with giving Hillary Clinton her signature short layer. Do a. Oh, another tie, huh? Just another coincidence that Hillary Clinton used to go there as well. Right? Just all these stars went there, Bobby. Alright, what are you talking about? Okay, just a coincidence. A 2005 New York Times article listed cuts at Faki's salon, which could run up to $750 a piece, as one of the many upsides for Epstein's personal assistance. Yeah, so you know, there was no relationship there. He just sent them down to Fakai's because why not? Such bs. Obviously, Epstein and Fakai were a lot closer than is being stated. Obviously they had a friendship. Obviously they were boys, just like with Leon Black and Jess Staley and The rest of these people who act like they weren't friendly with Jeffrey Epstein, well, it comes to a point in time when they can no longer deny that, so they move into another form of denial, right? Oh, well, I might have known him, but I had no idea what he was doing. How many times are we going to hear that same broken record from different people? In addition to the rich payday, he also ladles on the perks. The article said of the financier pedophile. He maintains a charge account at Frederick Fakai, the society hairdresser, for their unlimited use and pays for all food eaten during his lengthy business hours, including takeout from Le cirque. Oh, fancy Mr. Fancy Pants over here. So again, he is close enough to the Fakai brand that he has a charge account with them. That's not for normal people. That's for big shots. Right? And when you're a big shot, you better believe the owner of the product that you're purchasing certainly knows your name, certainly knows who you are, and certainly comes out from the back room to greet you when you show up at the shop. Furthermore, you can't get away from the fact that Faki was sending his hairdressers down to Palm beach for Epstein. But Fakai and Epstein appeared to be closer than just stylist and client. The pedophile had 16 numbers for Fakai in his black book of contacts, including the hairdresser's home number, his French cell phone, and a number for his assistant. Flight logs show Fakai flew on Epstein's private plane at least twice in 2000 and 2002, along with Epstein's alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, and his shady model scout pal, Jean Luc Brunel. Both are in jail. They're both in jail, by the way. Okay? For human trafficking. Alright, Epstein's dead, charged with human trafficking, but Fakai knows nothing. He's around all of these people. He's flying on the plane with these people, but he knows nothing. And it was just a business relationship, according to him. Yeah. Why you on that plane there, chief? What are you doing flying around on Jeffrey Epstein's plane if you guys are not homies craving something specific? From global flavors to viral snacks, TikTok has it all. If you can dream it, you can make it right at home. Find your next favorite dish on TikTok.
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Simone Banos, a longtime friend of Fakai, told the Daily Beast that Epstein and Faki ran in similar New York social circles, but said she couldn't imagine the hairdresser staying friends with Epstein after he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution and accused by dozens more of sexual assault. You know, people always say that, right? And I, you know, I'd want to think that about my friends, too. Nah, that. No way. No way Jason did that. But we don't know what people do when those doors are closed. Everybody has two faces, right? The face they present to the public and then their true face. So you, you never know. And for people to come out and say, oh, well, there's no way that I just, I find that ridiculous, honestly. Unless you spent every waking moment with the person, you know, there's a lot of allegations here. A spokesperson for Faki said the hairdresser had a very limited acquaintance with Epstein, who was known to aggressively cultivate celebrities. He was not Epstein's friend or his stylist? No, not at all. No. Not. No. And another thing he was known to cultivate then. What does that say about celebrities and stylists and politicians? Bunch of jack wagons who all they see in their eyes are dollar signs and they don't care where they come from? Do we have to establish that any more solidly? Frederick is disgusted and sickened by Epstein's activities, which no one was aware of in 2000 and 2002 when Frederick accepted a ride on his jet. Except that girls were being abused at that point. What other girls were on those planes while you were on those planes, Frederick? How many of those girls were being abused at the time you were on those planes, Frederick? Maybe not right then, at that moment. Frederick. But how many of those girls who were being transported across state lines to be abused were you hanging out with? Had he been aware, he would have never boarded that plane, let alone with his five year old son, his son's nanny, and his girlfriend at the time. Another one who brings his family up, huh? Here's an idea. Stop it. But four former Fakai employees said Epstein remained a regular at the salon. And Even after his 2008 conviction, three of these employees recalled Epstein bringing a Rotating cast of tall, beautiful and suspiciously young looking women with him for monthly appointments. So you notice how it's like the normal folks that work in these establishments who say, yeah, those girls look young, man. Shit did not sit well with me. Those are the normal people, you know, like us. We look at this shit and we're like, yeah, this is. Something's a little off here. But again, these people, it's commonplace for them. That's how they live their lives. They all think that they're like 10th century dukes and everybody's living in their duchy and they can do whatever the hell they want. The fourth employee remembered Epstein bringing women in with him, but could not recall details of their interactions. The financier paid for the women's haircuts and dye jobs from his house account, the employees said, and either he or a female associate dictated exactly how their hair was styled. In between services, the women sat on Epstein's lap or stroked his hair in full view of hundreds of guests of Fakai's 9,000 square foot hair emporium. It was very out there in the open. One former employee said. Everyone knew. No shit, everyone knew. Thanks for being honest, at least in saying everyone knew. Um, so a female associate dictated exactly how their hair was styled. I wonder who that female associate was. Sarah Kellen Vickers is my guess. Or Ghislaine Maxwell, one of the two. He didn't give an F. Another former employee said he was coming in like he was running the show. He didn't care. And this is after his first conviction. Remember, Epstein came in there brazenly with these young girls and did whatever he wanted. Boarded the planes with these young girls even after his arrest, and according to Denise George, he was still abusing these young girls after his arrest. So, Mr. Fakai, you got a lot to answer for, you smarmy son of a bitch. Several of the former employees told the Daily Beast they asked not to work with Epstein or the women he brought in after his conviction. But they also said they did not want to complain too much because it was clear Epstein was friendly with Faki and because they could not tell if something illegal was going on. So do you blame them? I mean, if I owned a hairdressing shop, a hairstylist, Jeffrey Epstein, walked in and one of my employees said, hey, look, Bobby, I'm not comfortable working with this guy. They wouldn't work with him. Pretty simple. I mean, obviously, as an owner, I would never let Epstein in my establishment. I'm just saying, of any client, right? If you're an employer and Your employee comes to you with that sort of issue, you have to take note. And not only take note, you have to take action. If you're a good manager or a good owner. I know me in a management position. I would do everything in my power to protect my employees from a shitty situation. The thing is, we could never tell how old the girls were. One former employee said they came in heels, makeup. They were all way too young for him. But legal, you didn't always know. And that's definitely a problem too, right? We don't. How do you know? I live in Las Vegas. Home of the young lady that looks like she's 30. You can't tell who's 16 or 30 these days, especially if they're getting all dolled up by Jeffrey Epstein's stylists. One thing is certain. Epstein was running around with a bunch of young girls that he should not have been running around with. Point blank, period. But he was a pig, no matter what the employee added. Fair. Very fair. It's a good way to explain Jeffrey Epstein straight into the point, huh? It was a pig. In Palm beach, the ritzy vacation town where Epstein was first charged, Fakai employees said stylists made regular house calls to the financier pedophile in the same two and a half million dollar estate where he spent his year long house arrest. So again, they were coming down to Florida, folks. This wasn't just like, oh, I got a stylist in New York, I got me one in Florida, my preferred stylist, blah, blah, blah. No, wasn't that. One stylist said he was first introduced to Epstein by Faki himself at the New York salon and started cutting Epstein's hair at his Palm beach home. In 2012, three current and former co workers confirmed that they had heard the stylist talk about these trips. So for the Fakai folks to come out and act like they weren't close with Epstein is just bupkis. Absolute bs. And if you're lying about that, what else are you lying about? Paging the FBI. Paging the department of Just Us. Paging Maureen Comey. Is anybody gonna take a look at this shit or no? No big deal. We don't wanna. You know, is it a point where we, we've, we've went far enough. Is that how the prosecution feels? And we're no longer gonna push the envelope. We'll give them a little red meat and that's where it'll stop. Well, I don't know about you folks, but that's just an appetizer for me. I'm hungry. I want a five course meal. The stylist said he often spoke with Sarah Kellen and Leslie Groff, two of Epstein's assistants who have been accused of recruiting girls for his sexual massages, but never saw anything that aroused his suspicions. An attorney for Grof said she never engaged in any misconduct during her employment with Epstein. Oh, yeah, you know, that's believable. How about this? Ms. Groff under oath. Let's hear the same statements. Let's see the same vim and vigor. Any girls that I saw that were there, I always found them very educated, very smart, very articulate. He told the Daily Beast. When I was there for the hour, hour and a half, he was a gentleman. Look again, face for the world, and then a face in private. And some of those faces in private are the faces of legit demons. And that's what Jeffrey Epstein certainly was, folks. As close to an evil entity as you possibly can get. A Fakai brand spokesperson said the company completed an exhaustive review of its records and found no receipts for house calls to Epstein's residences. Oh, that's likely. So all these employees are lying. For what? What do they have to gain to be lying about this? Flip that around. What does Fakai have to gain about lying? A whole bunch, doesn't he? If a stylist did make a house call to one of his homes, he. He or she did not do so as an employee of the company. The spokesperson said. Plausible deniability. This case is riddled with it, and all of these people think they're gonna get away with it with their little canned statements and their cute words. That ship has sailed, folks. Nobody wants to hear that shit. We want something of substance. You're gonna have to really make a comment with some substance. Really, what you need to do is speak to the FBI. What the stylist did not know was the extent of their company's financial relationship with Les Wexner, Epstein's only known client. And there is another rub, right? What do you think Epstein was paying for these haircuts? Yeah, right. Once good old crypt keeper Les Wexner pumped some cash in, that means Epstein also has his hooks in. So the freebies start rolling in for Epstein. He's definitely. He was definitely one of those guys, right? Money bursting out of his pockets, but never wanting to put his fingers in his pocket to pull a dollar bill out. Dude had short arms but deep pockets. Wexner is. Was the CEO of L Brands, which owns brands like Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works and had an agreement to run upmarket stores under the C.O. bigelow name. He first hired Epstein as his personal financial advisor, but eventually handed over an uncommon amount of money and power to the relatively unknown money man. And sounds familiar, right? Who else did that? Mr. Leon Black. So why would two of the most powerful people in the world, financially speaking, Les Wexner and Leon Black, hand the keys to the castle to Jeffrey Epstein with Leon Black? Well, I suspect it had to do with Leon Black's own sexual problems with Les Wexner. Well, that story is still untold. Among other things, Wexner gave Epstein full power of attorney and reportedly donated more than $10 million to Epstein's charity through his personal foundation. That money needs to be looked at. That money went through those offshore companies. And there is so much more to uncover in the financial realm of this story. I really wish some of these outlets would go hard. Where's the Wall Street Journal when you need them? Several of Epstein's accusers have claimed the financier posed as a Victoria's Secret talent scout in order to lure them into hotel rooms and assault them. Wechner claims he had no personal knowledge of Epstein's impropriety and cut ties with him in 2007 when the allegations against him emerged. Such BS. Such absolute BS. Unless Wexner has nowhere near answered these questions in a manner that is fitting the charges, and he's been. They just let him get away with it. Nobody's putting him up against the ropes. Nobody's going hard. There's no reporters camped out in front of his house looking for answers. It's almost like they don't care. Almost like they want to ignore the Les Wexner aspect of this story. That makes me wonder why Faki first entered Wexner's orbit in 2004 when Bath and Body Works and Co Bigalow began selling his line of home hair care products, which had until then been sold only in high end retailers like Neiman Marcus. One former Fakai executive told the Daily Beast that she advised against the deal, thinking it would diminish the brand's status. But that Faki was set on wouldn't have happened if Frederick wasn't behind it. And of that I'm certain the executive said. So I'm guessing that Epstein facilitated this. Folks, I don't have any evidence of that, but Occam's razor and all, right? My guess is Epstein set up this arrangement, facilitated it, middlemanned it, and ended up with a pretty penny out of it. The following year, private equity company Catterton Partners issued a celebratory press release announcing it had taken a majority stake in Frederick Faki Inc. What the press release did not mention was that Caterton was backed in part by L Brands. In fact, both the L Brands executive and a former Fakai executive said Wexner had considered buying the hair product company outright. Oh, yeah. You know, out of all the companies, huh, this is the one you didn't want to buy Vidal Sassoon or Paul Mitchell or insert product. Here it was just Frederick Fakai's brand. Huh? Okay. Just a coincidence. L Brands did not have a direct investment, but did participate in a private equity fund which had stakes in a number of companies, including a controlling interest in Fichai. A spokesperson for Fakai Brands told the Daily Beast, L Brands never wound up buying Fakai's company. Instead, the company was purchased in 2005 by Procter Gamble for a reported 440 million. The company, known for producing drugstore standbys like Pantene and Herbal Essence and tried and failed to introduce Fakai's product line to a mass market audience, dropping its price point as well as its prestige. Look, man, I don't. I never understand these kinds of moves. When you have store brands like Herbal Essence and Pantene, their parent company dives in and tries to buy a luxury product. Why not just stick with the niche market that you've worked with for so long and you've excelled in? You don't see Hyundai trying to buy a Bentley Bentley or a Rolls Royce division, do you? No, they do what they know how to do. P and G eventually sold the company to designer Parfumes and Luxe brands at an estimated 390 million dollar loss. Yikes. Talk about a bad business decision. A lawsuit filed by Fakai employees this year claimed the Luxe brands had mismanaged the company and degraded the brand, turning its flagship location into a mall salon that does not offer the same luxurious environment that the clients had grown accustomed to. So Fakai made his dough, took a cash grab, dipped out, and according to employees, the place went from a unique, top of the line salon to your typical, you know, Walmart mall style hair stylist joint. Fakai's three changes of ownership in 10 years and two changes of ownership in only three years, among other things, have made it difficult for plaintiffs to feel comfortable having a long term future at facai, the plaintiffs wrote. The lawsuit was settled out of court. I don't know too much about that, so I won't even try and dig deeper there. Last winter, Fakai bought his company back from designer Parfumes and Luxe Brands for an undisclosed sum, something he had reportedly been hoping to do for some time. In an interview with Womenswear Daily, Faki said he was eager to be in the driver's seat and expand his brand internationally and online. The brand needs a leader, he said. Someone who knows what they're doing, who the team can respect. Well, you could start gaining that respect by speaking to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein. You know, that's one way to do it. You know, I wonder if the FBI has even tried to have a sit down with this guy yet. Those are all the things that could be happening behind the scenes that we don't know anything about, or none of it could be happening. As the trial gets closer and we move into a different phase of this investigation and this case, hopefully that will start to provide some more clarity. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U C c I@protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter Bobby Cap? Ucci. All of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box.