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‘Epstein client list' doesn't exist, feds say, despite Musk's claim that Trump is on it
Jeffrey Epstein had no 'client list', according to a new memo from the Department of Justice and FBI, just a month after Elon Musk accused President Donald Trump of being on it. The convicted pedophile died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in August 2019, the new two-page memo confirmed, after conspiracy theories swirled about his death for years. 'This systematic review revealed no incriminating 'client list,'' the memo read. 'There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.' The agencies also released hours of surveillance footage from the Manhattan prison where Epstein spent his final days in the hope of definitively establishing that no one else was involved in his death. 'The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is further supported by video footage from the common area of the Special Housing Unit where Epstein was housed at the time of his death,' the memo, first reported by Axios, said. 'As DOJ's Inspector General explained in 2023, anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage.' Epstein has long been the subject of conspiracy theories that he kept a secret list of wealthy and well-known public figures to whom he trafficked underage girls for sex. There has also been long-standing speculation that he was assassinated under the orders of someone powerful to stop him from revealing details of their crimes. Before they were brought into the Trump administration, FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino were some of the strongest voices in MAGA world questioning how the disgraced financier died. Last month, during a bitter war of words with the president on social media, former ally Musk alleged that the reason there had been no update in the Epstein investigation was because Trump's name was mentioned in the files. 'Time to drop the really big bomb,' Musk posted on X. '@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!' He followed up shortly after: 'Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.' Trump denied being on the list and later shared a statement from former Epstein lawyer David Schoen that said the president wasn't implicated. 'I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively, that [Epstein] had no information to hurt President Trump,' said Schoen, who also represented Trump in his first impeachment trial. This weekend, Trump reignited his feud with the world's richest man, saying Musk had gone 'off the rails', to which Musk responded by posting a meme of a digital display set to zero to serve as 'The Official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter.' jo@
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Shaikin: LAX won't say who designed its iconic murals, but the Dodgers will. Why?
Janet Marie Smith, the Dodgers' executive vice president of planning and development, was part of a team that conceived and executed the redesign of the hallway leading to the Dodgers clubhouse. It's an ode to the iconic LAX mosaic murals installed in 1961. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) What would a baseball team in Los Angeles want from a retired artist and designer in New York? Janet Bennett wasn't sure. Generations of Angelenos are familiar with her signature project. You probably have walked right past it. Those colorful tile mosaics that decorate the long corridors toward baggage claim in five terminals at Los Angeles International Airport? She designed them. Advertisement You might have seen them in the movies or on television: "Airplane!," "Mad Men" and "The Graduate," just for starters. You might have memorized the trivia: When you passed the red tiles, you were halfway down the corridor. 'Red means halfway' was shorthand for locals in the know, just like 'E Ticket' or 'the #19 sandwich.' 'It just says L.A. in so many ways,' said Janet Marie Smith, the Dodgers' executive vice president of planning and development. For the clubhouse walkway, Dodgers executive vice president of planning and development Janet Marie Smith and architect Brenda Levin opted for multiple shades of blue tiles. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The Dodgers wanted to get in touch with Bennett because they were about to install a similar tile wall at Dodger Stadium. Smith could not find Bennett, but she reached out to someone who had liked an article about Bennett that had been posted on LinkedIn. Same last name, same spelling. Smith crossed her fingers. Advertisement Turned out to be a relative of Bennett. The Dodgers sent some sketches of their project and asked Bennett for her thoughts. 'I was a little disappointed I didn't work the project,' Bennett said over the telephone, chuckling, 'but I don't think I could have done it at this stage.' "Once we got tile in our head, how could you not think of the LAX walls?" said Janet Marie Smith, the Dodgers' executive vice president of planning and development. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Bennett is 96, happily living one block from Central Park. The LAX project was completed in 1961 — the year before Dodger Stadium opened. What the Dodgers really were offering was the recognition denied to Bennett six decades ago. 'I realized they just wanted my blessing,' Bennett said. 'They wanted the connection. And that was very satisfying.' Advertisement And, yes, she had some thoughts for the Dodgers. She wrote them a letter by hand, the old-fashioned way. The letter got lost in the old-fashioned mail, but Bennett's daughter had thought to take a picture of the letter, and she sent it to the Dodgers via email. Bennett's advice for the colors of the tiles? 'Don't limit it,' she wrote, 'to the Dodger blue.' On game days, Dodgers players take an elevator to the lowest level of Dodger Stadium. As they exit, they look to their right to see the Dodgers' World Series championship trophies and most valuable player awards, to their left to see the Gold Glove awards. Advertisement When they turn toward the clubhouse, they see Cy Young and Silver Slugger and manager of the year awards on the right, rookie of the year awards and then the Dodgers' retired numbers on the left. 'It's meant to be uplifting and motivating, and a reminder to everyone — our players included, who take that path — of what a storied franchise this is,' Smith said. Read more: Plaschke: There are 3,000 reasons Clayton Kershaw is the greatest pitcher in Dodger history The fans in the fanciest seats, the ones you see on television right behind home plate, can take that path too — but only until they reach the double doors, the ones with 'DODGERS CLUBHOUSE' painted above them. Advertisement Pass through those doors, and you used to see a gray wall decorated with signage pulled from storage — signs from events held at Dodger Stadium long ago, and others commemorating milestone seasons. As part of the clubhouse renovations last winter, Smith and her team imagined how to freshen up that walkway. 'We wanted to try to get it out of its funk of just being a concrete wall,' she said. 'And, once we got tile in our head, how could you not think of the LAX walls?' Tile mosaic wall designs line departure halls in various LAX terminals. Tile mosaic wall designs line departure halls in various LAX terminals. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The Dodgers' clubhouse features a tile wall 'in the hydrotherapy area,' Smith said. The tiles there are all Dodger blue. For the clubhouse walkway, Smith and architect Brenda Levin opted for multiple shades of blue tiles, interspersed with white tiles — a decision reinforced when they received Bennett's suggestion to go beyond Dodger blue. The wall includes more than 714,000 individual tiles, Smith said. Advertisement 'I think they did an excellent job,' Bennett said. 'They got the rhythm of vertical stripes, which has a very athletic look.' To Smith, a fierce advocate of sports venues reflecting their host cities, the tile wall reflects home. 'In many ways, that is a symbol: not just of L.A., but of 'Welcome to L.A.' ' she said. 'That felt right to us. 'It's not screaming at you. But, if you know, you know. We've always wanted that area to feel like a 'Welcome to L.A.' to our players.' Read more: Hernández: The Dodgers have the best record in baseball. Why they still have room to improve If you know, you know, but the players may not know. Dave Roberts, the Dodgers' manager, said he did not know the story behind the wall until Smith explained it to him. Advertisement 'It's a great little touch,' Roberts said. Smith said players and team executives have asked about the wall. Many of them did not know about the LAX walls, but she understood why. 'They don't fly commercial,' she said. If you merit an obituary in the newspaper, the first sentence generally includes your claim to fame. In 2007, The Times published an obituary with this first sentence: 'Charles D. Kratka, an interior designer and graphic artist whose Modernist projects included the mosaic walls in tunnels at Los Angeles International Airport, has died.' Said Bennett: 'I just about freaked out.' After Bennett had finished the LAX mosaics, she left town. By the time the airport unveiled them, she said, she was in Latin America. Until she saw that Times obituary, it had not occurred to her that anyone else might have gotten the credit for the LAX project. Advertisement In the obituary, the airport historian credited Kratka with the design, and so did the director of volunteers at the airport museum. In 2017, so did an official LAX document: 'Completed in 1961, Charles Kratka's mosaic murals have become iconic symbols of Los Angeles International Airport.' At the start of the Jet Age, when airplane travel was a glamorous affair and even passengers in the cheaper seats enjoyed in-flight meals served with silverware, Bennett said the murals were designed to evoke the wonder of a cross-country trip: blue for the ocean at each end of the corridor, and in between green for the forests, and yellows, oranges and browns for farmland, prairies and deserts. Tile mosaic wall designs line departure halls in various LAX terminals. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Bennett freely admits that Kratka was involved in the project. The city hired Pereira and Luckman as architects for the LAX expansion, and Kratka was the firm's head of interior design. Advertisement 'He was my boss,' Bennett said. Bennett said the mosaic design was hers, although she said she did not recall whether she had chosen to use glass for the tiles. 'Everything from that point on was mine,' she said. Bennett and her family have pushed for LAX to recognize her as the designer. Airport officials acknowledge Bennett's participation in the project but, amid a search for records from six decades ago and without Kratka to provide his version of events, they believe a conclusive determination would be difficult. And, back in the day, credit was more commonly attributed to a firm rather than to an individual designer. Advertisement When I asked for a statement saying whom LAX currently credits with the design, an airport spokeswoman said, 'LAX has no official comment.' Read more: Plaschke: Rob Pelinka and JJ Redick should be safe under Dodgers regime … for now In 2017, Design Observer investigated and ultimately supported Bennett's claims, citing two primary findings: one, an acclaimed designer of the same era 'vividly recalls Bennett doing the murals,' and, two, Bennett installed similar tile murals for two Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations in San Francisco. That was good enough for Smith and the Dodgers. At LAX, there is no sign crediting anyone — not Bennett, not Kratka, not Pereira and Luckman, not anyone else — for the murals. However, the Dodgers have given Bennett her due at Dodger Stadium, on a sign directly across from their tile wall. Advertisement 'This mosaic wall draws inspiration from architect Janet Bennett's iconic mosaic murals at Los Angeles International Airport,' the text begins, 'that transformed a transit space into a work of art.' Sign up for more Dodgers news with Dodgers Dugout. Delivered at the start of each series. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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Sid Wilson: The musician who proposed to Kelly Osbourne at Black Sabbath's final show
American musician Sid Wilson has risen to fame in recent years as a result of his romance with reality star Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne. The DJ, 48, started dating the Prince of Darkness' daughter in 2022, after being good friends for a number of years – and on Saturday (5 July), it was announced that Wilson and Osbourne got engaged at Black Sabbath's farewell show. Born in Iowa to English parents, Wilson, who shares son Sidney with Kelly, started his musical career with Sound Proof Coalition, a group of DJ's from Des Moines. In 1998, Wilson joined the heavy metal band Slipknot as a keyboardist and turntablist, featuring on the band's debut, self-titled album, which was released in 1999. Within Slipknot, who use numerical stage names, ranging from 0 to 8, Wilson is known as #0, producing sound effects and background noises for the group's music. In 2008, during Slipknot's All Hope is Gone tour, Wilson shattered both his heels after diving off the stage while performing in Washington. The musician is also known as the designer for some of Slipknot's original face masks, which are worn during their live performances to complement the eeriness of the band's music. Variations of gas masks have become synonymous with Wilson, who first wore an altered British Civil Duty gas mask in 1999. Since the 2000s, Wilson has also toured as a jungle musician under the name DJ Starscream, which derives from the Transformers character of the same name. The musician is currently signed to N20 Records, a US-Japanese label. On Saturday, Osbourne, 40, shared a video on Instagram of the DJ popping the question backstage at her father Ozzy's final show. In the clip, Wilson took his partner's hand and said: 'Kelly, you know I love you more than anything in the world.' Ozzy comedically interjected with: 'F*** off, you're not marrying my daughter.' Wilson continued: 'Nothing would make me happier than to spend the rest of my life with you. 'So, in front of your family and all of our friends, Kelly, will you marry me?' Wilson then pulled a ring box out of his fanny pack and got down on one knee. Osbourne nodded her head to say yes to the proposal, before Wilson put the ring on her finger and hugged her. The couple's family and friends were seen cheering and clapping about the news, including Kelly's parents. She celebrated the special moment in the caption of her Instagram post, writing: 'Oh and this happened yesterday!' In February 2022, Kelly publicly revealed she and Wilson were dating, after being close friends for more than two decades. The news of Wilson's engagement to Kelly came after Ozzy and Black Sabbath's other original members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, took to the stage for one final time at Villa Park in their home city of Birmingham. The concert, titled Back to the Beginning, also featured performances from bands including Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Slayer, and Tool.
