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29 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I am thrilled to be announcing today the launch of an exciting new venture: my @SubstackInc newsletter entitled “Vicky Ward Investigates.” I hope you will join me by signing up.
vickyward.substack.com/p/welcome-to-v…
I’ve long been searching for an outlet with the editorial freedom @SubstackInc offers, and I am so excited about the access, immediacy, and transparency that Substack affords writers.
You can expect breaking news as I share from-the-ground items from my reporting. You’ll hear new stories about boldface names you think you know. From NYC real estate to Silicon Valley to the Beltway and beyond, I will provide the inside info that gets you behind the headlines.
Expect in coming days to be taken with me as I cover the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell and head to South Carolina to unfurl the winding story of the fallen dynasty of the Murdaugh family.

There is so much yet to come, and I hope you will join me for this new and exciting ride.
Sign up for “Vicky Ward Investigates” today, and you’ll find my first column—about the Maxwell trial—in your inbox tomorrow. vickyward.substack.com/p/welcome-to-v…

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22 Nov
Whatever you think you may know of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell is the key to a story that is deeper and darker than you can imagine.

My new docuseries “Chasing Ghislaine” (executive produced by @JP_Books) premieres on @discoveryplus today: links.discoveryplus.com/WZh8WLwp3kb
"Chasing Ghislaine" includes interviews I did with thirty former friends and employees of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, as well as journalists and biographers, in order to tease apart the dense web of secrets and lies Jeffrey Epstein had spun.
The series contains re-enactments of the 450 pages of transcripts of my deeply unpleasant conversations with Epstein that occurred almost daily over several months in 2002.
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16 Nov
People sometimes forget that Steve Bannon has a background in Hollywood. But that informs everything he does. Bannon is now producing, writing, directing, and starring in his own movie, and we are going to see scenes right out of the Roger Stone playbook.
What we are watching is the self-canonization of Steve Bannon for the MAGA crowd. There’s not going to be a court appearance or a moment in public where Bannon will miss an opportunity to deliver rhetoric rallying the war cry to the millions of people who follow him.
From my reporting and the times I’ve spoken with him, I know full well that perception is reality in Bannon's world. Bannon is basically resurrecting himself even if he goes to jail—especially if he goes to jail—as the leader of the populist right.
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15 Nov
This morning in court, Ghislaine Maxwell looked anything but unhealthy. She was glowing and relaxed. I was prepared for a shock, but the shock I got was different from the one I’d expected.
Maxwell wasn’t wearing prison garb or handcuffs, but instead a black turtleneck sweater and gray pants. Her hair was completely black and shoulder-length—the same style she wore when her father Robert Maxwell died thirty years ago.
Maxwell smiled when she walked into the courtroom. She chatted amiably with her attorneys. At one point, one of her attorneys, Jeffrey Pagliuca, reached out and brushed her bangs off her forehead. Bobbi Sternheim, another of her lawyers, rubbed her shoulder.
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12 Oct
Donald Trump’s family company is reportedly in advanced discussions to sell the rights to its Washington, D.C., hotel in a deal worth more than $370 million, per @CraigKarmin @bykowicz. wsj.com/articles/trump…
As a reminder: According to federal documents released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Friday, the hotel lost more than $70 million while Trump was in office despite reaping millions in payments from foreign governments. washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
Trump’s company had earlier tried to sell the lease in 2019 but pulled the hotel off the market when the pandemic struck. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
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10 Aug
Two years ago today, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in New York. Many people remain unconvinced by the coroner’s suicide ruling. To this day, there remain questions about the circumstances surrounding his death.
The guards on duty the night Epstein died were supposed to check inmates twice an hour. But footage shows them at their desks, browsing the Internet, and sleeping for more than two hours of their shifts. npr.org/2021/05/22/999…
The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt was accidentally destroyed, allegedly due to “clerical error.” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…
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10 Aug
The Epstein/Maxwell story has, in a sense, always boiled down to Prince Andrew & Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Very few people outside of Palm Beach had heard of Epstein before that infamous photo—taken in March 2001 of a then-17yo Giuffre—first appeared in a British tabloid in 2011.
The picture was reportedly taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home.
There is Andrew, in a white button-down shirt, top button undone, with his arm around the bare midriff of the 17-year-old Giuffre. Smiling proudly off to the side, like some sort of triumphant mama hen, is Ghislaine Maxwell. And Epstein? He’s said to have taken the photo.
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